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most of them left on their own. officers arrested two because they wouldn't leave when told to. a district spokesperson said administrators want to close the school to consolidate resources. they moved in this afternoon and reoccupied the steps, they say they disagree and say the school should stay open. >> we will continue to protest with our presence and be have also done a lot of outreach where we will start unifying. we are promoting the moran friday for one of young blank student that was murdered. >> they say they will continue to teach what they call the people's school. a summer program they run. they say they will run it across the street. they cyathea are still deciding whether to reoccupy this site. coming back out to the live shot you can see the protest has spilled off the stairs of the school are occupying two lanes of grand avenue here in
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oakland. we have a team on site here. they are monitoring the activity here and will monitor the march later and bring you the latest at ten. for now we are live in oakland. >> the oakland city council is vote. they will consider a resolution to declare a local health emergency when it comes to medical marijuana. it asks authorities to stop action that keep patient from getting access to it. >> a 62-year-old recovering life threatening injuries after being shot in the stomach during a home invasion. john is live where he learned that these kinds of crimes are a growing concern. >> reporter: there is a major struggle and a shooting in that home last night. now the mother is at the hospital in stable condition with a gun shot wound. the home is filled with evidence of the nightmare.
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a broken table. a bullet hole in the wall and lots of blood. >> i heard my mom moaning in the house. i just ran back and she was clutching herself. >> reporter: she was in the front yard when three men approached and forced her in the home and started ransack the place. >> just looking in every room and -- found the safe. >> reporter: they were wearing dark hoodies. the biggest one -- they felt they had no choice but to fight back. >> it can't be happening and my adrenaline became night. >> reporter: he was pistol whipped in the process. >> they said that she is doing
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fine. they said she is breathing on her own. >> reporter: there was another take over on the city in sunday but it was not related. home invasions up recently, three last year, two the year before, four so far this year. >> we are concerned with the ray don nature of violent crime. it can happen in any community but we take it seriously. >> reporter: after the shooting here they ran away taking just cell phones and i-pods. live in union city. two people are in custody after a four alarm fire. crews responded to the home around three. think said the video shows one being taken in to custody. >> this was the city with a -- wish they did something to stop
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this from happening again. three homes were damaged and ten people are displaced. city officials say they may sue the owner. >> a crew lifted an injured hiker after he spent the night in a park in napa. the 53-year-old was reported lost in the park. a helicopter saw him, problem is the ground crew couldn't get him out. . fish and game searches say dogs have picked up the trail of a mountain lion that attacked a camper. they are searching a it ten to 12 miles radius. the man was in his sleeping bag on saturday night when the kata tacked him. the sleeping bag and the victim's torn and bloody clothing were collected.
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>> reporter: he was scratched badly. . >> the mountain lion ran away. the man drove himself to the hospital. at 4:30 this morning crews started searching for the animal and today a lion was seen by a hiker and rangers say they will kill it if they find it. berkeley said its reached a settlement with a reporter arrested while covering a protest. he was taking photographs outside the campus home of the chancellor when he was arrested. proactivityers broke lights and overturned smashed planters in that protest. berkeley will pay $162,000 and said it'll update its policies. fireworks may be a 4th of july tradition but authorities in some cities say doing it'll
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put you in trouble. with isn't the day with officers tracking down on illegal fireworks. >> reporter: right now we are here at fire station three and these are all the f police have taken in recent days, hundreds of them here of all different types, a couple boxes of roman candles. they are happy these are off the streets. >> ultima italy what we want to do is make sure that -- nobody gets hurt or anything catches on fire. >> reporter: during the ride along with the sergeant officers were alerted to illegal fireworks in front of city hall. >> by time they going scene the people responsible were gone. >> fireworks, set off and -- in the area. >> reporter: he drove by a number of parks and corner stores looking for illegal fireworks. >> you go by some of the alcohol stores, you see some of
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people hanging out. the last call was a vehicle selling. you get most of the foot traffic there. >> reporter: fireworks are illegal in oakland but the city has had a problem with them for years. lighting up the sky each independence day. six fire stations allowing residents to turn them in, no questions asked. >> the grass this year is very dry. potential for starting wild land fire or a house fire is very high. >> reporter: police plan to have extra team across the city tomorrow. targeting illegal fireworks and gun fire. >> that's obviously one of our main goals is to identity where gun fire is happening in the city and then applying the resources to that specific area. >> reporter: police say every july 4th holiday they handle about 250 calls just for illegal fireworks and gun fire. that is what they expect tomorrow. live in oakland.
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>> and experts say tomorrow's holiday won't do much for the travel industry and this time it's not because of gas prices, coming up in nine minutes the reason why fewer people are heading out of town. >> a gravel spill caused major delays on 880 today. the chp said that spill happened about 10:20 when a truck lost it's load just north of broadway as you can see here from news chopper 2, traffic was backed up for miles. all lanes were reopened just before noon. >> the flip of a switch marked the end of a long awaited freeway improvement project. >> ready, set, go. hey. >> reporter: a congresswoman joined others in a traffic lighting ceremony in san jose today. the expressway project started last september. it added exit lanes to north and southbound lane. traffic officials say that
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should help the conguested area. >> help give us the ability we need so that they will be able to clear the traffic light in one cycle rather than going two or three. . >> reporter: the project includes new sound wall, efficient lying pedestrian improvement. >> a new teen fad is drawing crowds to the internet. why doctors are telling parents to take a look. >> and it's a south bay mansion that was the most expensive home sold in the united states. tonight the new numbers that show its value has taken a real nose dive. >> and enjoyable weather across the bay for most of today with another to follow for the 4th of july. a look at the numbers coming up. [ male announcer ] now at your neighborhood subway: dinner...is...served. tonight, take it easy and enjoy your favorite soup, salad and hot, hearty sub.
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. new its a dangerous trend involving two things you can probably tipped right now in your kitchen. patty lee is live in san francisco to explain how ice and salt are leaving impressionable kid was serious injury. patty. >> reporter: kids push each other here at this skate park kids are daring each other to try new tricks but here the consequences are obvious. this is different because this is taking hold on the internet where the outcome is not always obvious. they delight in challenging each a. >> always who can climb higher, who can run faster. >> reporter: pushing limit social security part of growing up. >> today we are going to -- do the challenge. >> reporter: the game called salt and ice challenge, gaining popularity may be going to far.
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just look at the photograph of this 12-year-old boy with second degree burns on his back from ice and salt exposure. videos explain the point of the challenge to see how long a person can stand it. drinking purell but this is my first time hearing about this. >> reporter: the photograph is popping up all effort internet today. experts hope the exposure will be a tederrant but also worry it could make it worse. >> in one sense the best possible outcome. this kid is famous so i hesitate to talk about it because it's making the outcome worse. >> reporter: laura davies said parents need to be aware. >> what we try to do is stay involved know what they are doing and watching and explaining to them. >> reporter: there are nine thousand salt and ice challenges on youtube and the parents of the boy pushed
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burned in pennsylvania want family across the country to know the consequences and just how dangerous this game can be. reporting live in san francisco, patty lee. >> a key vote expected this week on california's high speed rail project. the governor wants state lawmakers to authorize $2.7 billion in state bonds to start construction in the central valley. democratic leaders say republicans and democrats oppose the project and say that the vote could be very close. 3 byte $3 billion in federal grant money could be in danger if state lawmakers fail to approve the bond. >> the battle is back on in sacramento putting the state controller against others. he is a pealing a judge's ruling that prevents him from not paying lawmakers if they don't pass a balanced budget only time that. was part of proper 25 that voters passed two years ago. >> our feeling that the judge's ruling was in the face of voters. we are hearing from voters
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today. getting e-mailed saying please pursue that. >> reporter: he withheld play of legislators for 12 days last year. democratic leaders filed suit saying the controller went to far. a judge ruled only lawmakers can stay if a budget is bodilied. the governor is asking lawmakers for more time to negotiate changes to pensions as a legislature gets ready for its bead back. they want to raise the retirement age for new hires but public safety workers. it would require workers to pay more for their pension and retirement health care. >> a home that made headlines for being the most expensive in the united states may have turned out to be a bad buy. the russian billionaire paid $100 million for this mansion. now the fair market value is just over 50 million. that means instead of
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collecting $1.2 million in property taxes from him the town will get $600,000. >> intell hoping to avoid paying a record fine. he this were fined $1.3 billion back in 2009 for illegal sales tactics. the eu claims they were paid to use its chips instead of chips rival companies. they argued regulator don't have enough evidence in the case. apple could be looking to give google glass a run for its money. they were granted a patent for wearing -- a wearable device that lets a image be put on a head mound displayt. was filed in 2006, according to the description the glasses would get and process data to generate images on the display mounted in front of the user's eyes foot reminder now you can watch the newscast any time, anywhere, even if you are away
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from the tv. down load the app on the smart phone. >> the typical independence day travel is likely to fizzle out this year. >> wednesday is a -- people can take a three day weekend, a four day weekend. they can't take a five-day so it's really cut in to the number one expense for consumers offer the 4th of july which is normally travel expenses. hotel, cars, gas and so on. >> the average bay area resident is expected to spend $200 on fireworks and goods like barbecues and decorations. >> the coast guard wants to make sure boaters keep their dissance after the fireworks over the bay. they have two safety zones in san francisco. voters aren't allowed to enter the waters with in a hundred foot road yourself and tomorrow night that zone will expand to a thousand feet radius before the show starts at 9:30 p.m.
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loud noises and bright lights the fireworks can scare pets and cause them to panic and run away. sf animal care and control wants to remind people opaque sure your pet has identity tags. it's always a good idea to have the pet chipped. >> a warm up felt around the bay area, mostly sunny skies from the coast to the valley. we have a northerly -- along the coast in a really help to eat away the fog and low cloud deck. take a look at the gusts off the coast, northwesterly, 22 miles an hour off the coast of the pacifica there, off the coast of the bay, gusting close to 38 miles an hour and farther -- toward santa cruz, northwesterly -- gusting through 29. it's westerly in this direction, right here it's coming in this direction and
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again that is really helping to push away that fog and we are looking at mostly sunny skies, highs today from three to six degrees warmer than yesterday around the bay. five to ten inland. 87, santa rosa today, concord, 87 livermore, 80's arraigns the bay. mid60's where we topped out for half moon basement we continue with the same pattern, ridge of high pressure that managed to build west just a little bit. into the east. we have a second one approaches n is going to be with us by tomorrow night and into thursday. that will weaken that northerly flow. we are expecting the fog to return tomorrow night and it'll be critical as to when it gets back in because of course we are looking forward to the fireworks. mostly clear skies, start off tomorrow morning. we have fog along the coast. maybe a few patches inside the bay. 50s as we start the morning and an, repeat of what you saw
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today. forecast, there it is. a few patch around the bay. by the afternoon it's back off the coast and we are looking at mostly sunny skies for the 4th of july. by seven, eight here it is on its way back in. by nine again, it's really going do be probably just a few hours or so, that change over between if it'll impair the fireworks or not. we are going to track that. mostly clear sky around the area. we start tomorrow morning, numbers will be a lot like this morning, 53 san francisco, mid50s in oakland. upper 50s to near areas concord, livermore, antioch, fairfield, afternoon highs for tomorrow. another noise day. 83 san rafael. 83napa. little more closer to the bay, nice and mild to warm 74 haywood, 82 redwood. afternoon for the city. the extended forecast there. we have the nights holiday forecast and then as we move into thursday -- ever will
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slightly back in to the weekend. nudge our way and drive the numbers up but good air quality, could be worse. >> we will keep track of the fog on the coast. >> thank you. >> coming up, on tv36 an over flow crowd remembers a victim in a homicide. police call this case especially tragic. mourners say he had everything going door him. and twitter takes a page from the google play book. the plan to work with the government. we hope you join us for these and more at seven on tv36. still to come, raiders fans mourn the loss of a football great. >> and competitive eater and san jose's joey jaws chestnut ready to start the big hot dog eating contest.
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. san jose's joey chestnut expected to defend his title tomorrow in new york city. chest news plan -- chestnut plans to compete in the hot dog eating contest. how do they do that? this year is he set to go
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against matt megatoad tony. he is hoping to break the record of 68 hot dogs in ten minutes which he set back in 2009. >> not only how but why. >> mark is here now. much darker, sadder note, sad news for all raider faps. >> i had the opportunity to interview ben davis during by career and quite a man. if you dropped a description of a player and a man who was the renegade, devil may care of a real raider he fits the mold perfectly. winning meant everybody. be neat the outside, the voice, a caring and easy man to talk with. ben died yesterday of cancer. his best years as a defensive end in the late 60's when he was a three time all-star with
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oakland. he was retired and living in san diego at the time of his death. he was 72. a short and anything but sweet appearance by tim tonight back in washington dc. i mean feel free to go back and start worrying about what happened to the one time ace and former cy young award winner, his worst performance ever, already down. andy -- just misses the home run with two out. he winds up with the rbi double in the beat down was on. >> desmond the next hitter, just blasts one. no doubt about her. two run shot, this guy is nine for 11 lifetime. three and a third career. serena a winner back at wimbledon today as a's hosting the red sox tonight. that is the sporting life for right now. more highlights tonight. it's 8-2 giants trailing in a
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rain delay. >> 7th inning. >> you were right about davidson. that was him. the old raiders. >> thank you. >> coming up tonight on the 10:00 news officials in san francisco prepare for tomorrow's big 4th of july fireworks show and we have a live report on what to expect from this year's celebration. >> thank you for trusting us. we will see you the next time news breaks. i'll have the $4 everyday value slam with... bacon.
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