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thousands of internet users have dodged a cyber bullet at least for now. a 9:00 p.m. deadline has come and gone for a malware that has infected computers around the world. ktvu's patti lee is in berkeley and has looked into the steps taken to protect internet users. we are just starting to see the impact of this so called internet black out. here at the internet cafe, this group tells us they still do have internet access, but in the last hour service providers like at&t and verizon says they are ramping up for a gluten of computer users. >> reporter: at 9:00 p.m. tonight, the end of internet service for thousands. >> there will be people who can't get on the internet. they are estimates nationwide it's 50 or 60,000. >> reporter: for months, facebook, google and the fbi have warned computer users to
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check for malware that for years had redistricted web users to a site. >> by sending you to that look alike site, the hackers made money. >> reporter: the fbi took down the hackers that created the malware last year. tonight the agency took down the safety net it created to keep malware victims from suddenly losing internet access. >> i must have been living in a cave here. >> reporter: khurana had not heard the warning until tonight. it took just a moment to find out if his website was infected with malware it wasn't. relief caused him to blast his
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friends a last minute warning. service providers may find ways to keep the internetworking even on infected computers which means the malware is still on those computers and could cause problems later on. patti lee, ktvu news. leader internet providers say they have taken steps to make sure their customers don't lose internet service. comcast says it has called and e-mailed customers that they believe has infected computers. at&t says it will redirect infected computers so that they have no service interrupt. and verizon says they have technicians on on stand by to help those who may lose internet connection. firefighters stumped out a agriculture fire before it got near any homes. the district got the call of a
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fire near cherry road. they arrived to find a wind driven fire moving across the remains of a wheat field after they had been harvested. >> it is very, very dry, it has a lot of oil in it. it's very dark because it has so much oil in it it's like eucalyptus. it burns very hot. >> the fire burned about 2 acres. but local firefighters kept the fire from crossing the road. fire officials say two railroad ties caught fire on the trestle that returns next to the cardena bridge. firefighters got a tough time geting to that fire but they got it out in about 90 minutes. it was out by 6:00 p.m. delays ran 45 minutes to an hour for one westbound and one
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eastbound train. the benecia fire chief says the fire may have been created bid train brakes. a five car pile up happened near east pablo avenue in san mateo. debra villalon has the train reaction crash. >> reporter: one of the victims is in serious condition here in this hospital. he's from argentina. he's in the u.s. for work, as were his two buddies in the car. i spoke to his family and they say everyone is still trying to grasp this crash. a 29-year-old man died in the backside of this mangled mazda. the car was cruising along the fast lane when it slammed into a truck stopped in the lane, no
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hazards. skid marks suggest some braking, but investigators say those marks could have been from another three cars piled into the wreck. the truck was abandoned, inoperable because the driver had sideswipeed the wall, leaving it without calling it in. >> it may have been that they fell asleep or was impaired. they collided with the wall and they fled the scene. >> reporter: within minutes before the highway patrol could respond the mazda came along. the owner of the toyota has resurfaced and gave a statement. he could face charges of hit- and-run leaving the scene of a minor accident that became mayor for the mazda's flee occupants. >> they appear to be from argentina. temporarily in the u.s., they
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were all 29 and 30 years old. >> reporter: the passenger killed in the backseat is identified as mariano ortega. a front seat passenger bruno storniolo was hurt. and fernando martin, the driver is in the hospital. chp wants witnesses. anyone who saw the minor truck accident or the chain reaction that followed. we're live in palo alto, debra villalon. san francisco general hospital is asking for the help of the public to identify a critically ill patient. the man was admitted to the hospital after falling from an overpass. the hospital says he appears to be latino in his late teens or early 20s. 5'4" tall and 145 pounds. he is suffering from severe head trauma and other injuries. the fbi is investigating the disappearance of more than $17 million from elderly trust funds in the south bay. the san jose mercury news
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reports that the money disappeared from 35 funds under the management of back house fiduciary services. the owner says she just discussed the loss and blames her ex-boyfriend for embezzling that money. investigators say a fire this morning that injured an oakland firefighters appears to be suspicious. the fire inside a three story brick building on webster street near 15th street was called in just before 9:20 this morning. the battalion chief said the fire was difficult to fight because the building had a complicated lay out with an auditorium in the back. neighbors we spoke with said this isn't the first time they smelled smoke coming from that building. >> it's kind of alarming because you can see the fire burning again because i don't want it to hit our building. it's just disturbing because i don't want -- it would be a
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safety issue for the surrounding buildings. >> the firefighter that was injured was treated at the hospital for minor burns. a man is recovering tonight after he was shot in the parking lot of an oakland liquor store. at about 11:30 last night a man leaving the store near tenth street was shot in the foot. he told police he was heading to his car when he was hit. he managed to drive himself to the hospital. so far no arrests haven been made. on this final day of the alameda county fair, the horse races went on as scheduled with one change. the fourth race of the day was dedicated to jorge herr era. a jockey who died from the injuries he sustained on this track just a few days ago. allie rasmus takes us to the start. >> reporter: eight hours race on this track. after the memorial race, a crowd and friends of jose herr era posed with his picture in tribute. >> he was a good guy and we're
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all going to miss him. >> reporter: this was the sport herr era dedicated himself to. he had raced more than 1,000 times. he had 55 wins under his belt. it was on these tracks thursday night that herr era fell off his horse. he later died from his head injuries. race officials determined that it was an accident and no one was to blame. >> these horses are moving at 35, 40 miles per hour. and it's a very dangerous situation. >> we are who are left behind mourn. >> reporter: this morning the race community hung their heads in prayer for herr era. >> a great jockey, a good friend to many of us here. but more than that a great person. >> reporter: but this afternoon it was back to the races. >> we're sad, we're mourning and we think about him. we talk about it but when we're out on the track, gates open it's do your job. race right and enjoy what we do. >> reporter: jockeys say the there is little time to reflect
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on the perils of the job they love. in pleasanton, allie rasmus. the california horse racing board says it will conduct a thorough investigation into the accident. the body of jorge herr era will be taken to mexico where most of his family lives. the racetrack and fair colleagues have donated to help return his body home. crews have been working on a rail replacement project and took the railcars out of service back on friday night. muni has been providing weekend shuttle service for passengers on that line. but railcar service should be back up and running by 5:00 a.m. tomorrow. caltrain will begin testing a new system for predicting train arrival time more accurately. the system will use realtime information from gps equipment on trains and feed that information from stations as much as an hour ahead of time. it'll be posted and announced
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at stations. passengers can also get that information by e-mail and text messages. an attorney for suspended san francisco sheriff ross mirkarimi hopes to prove mayor ed lee purgerred himself. mirkarimi's attorney claims that former supervisor aaron peskin made a job offer on lee's behalf. he also wants phone conversations on conversations about quote, what they should do about the sheriff. the public is mourning the death of ernest borgnine. that was a scene from his
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series. he portrayed a scheming navy officer in mchale's navy. the 95-year-old borgnine died at sinai with his family by his side. they were once hungry now content. how brown pelicans and their search for food is bringing their close to people. >> it's a plan that could be headed to voters, what supporters of a proposal to drain a reservoir is doing tomorrow to move that plan one step closer. >> also san francisco is sinking. in tonight's special report, hear the startling statement made by an engineer and his prediction about the impact of a big earthquake. the 10:00 news continues in just 90 second. i hate getting less. but i love getting more.
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>> firefighters are battling several fire fights in calusa county this evening. so far firefighters say 2,500 acres have burned. the flames came dangerously close to several homes but crews were able to put out the flames before any buildings caught fire. in all firefighters say there were five grass fires today. three were contained and two others burned into one fire. that fire tonight is just 10% contained. concerns tonight about problems plaguing pelicans up
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and down the california coast. ktvu's ken pritchett asked experts about what might be causing the big bird to act so peculiar. >> reporter: it's common to see pelicans flying and diving into the water. but this pelican did something that no pelican has done before. it dove into this woman's car and ended up hurting itself. some of the birds arrive injured but most are immaceuated juveniles. >> if people are offering them food and getting them closer the pelicans will do whatever they can to get fed. >> reporter: there could be a lack of food or a natural die
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off of a growing population. brown pelicans were listed as endangered just a few years ago. if someone sees a pelican that simply looks hungry it should be left alone at first rather than rescued. >> we want to see if they can eventually start forging on their own and get the idea that they need to do it on their own. >> reporter: these once immaceuated birds are healthy now and soon will be released. last year they also saw a problem with hungry pelicans but not to the numbers we are seeing now. in fairfield, ken pritchett, ktvu channel 2 news. the oppressive heat wave across much of the country is beginning to subside. the high temperatures and severe weather are blamed for more than 35 deaths. all time high temperature records were set or tied in almost 300 cities. cooler weather and rain is expected in the midwest and east coast tomorrow. there is a concern however that the incoming weather could bring severe thunderstorms to
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the region. several earthquakes rattled nerves in southern california. a 3.1 quake also struck near the geysers about the same time. officials with the department of energy say the quakes near the geysers are related to geo thermal activity. police in the central valley are investigating a possible connection to a bizarre homicide last night in tracy to another one in stockton. police arrested 25-year-old stephen carreiro at the hacienda after numerous calls that a naked man was attacking a woman in the hotel office. the victim the 62-year-old owner of the hotel was pronounced dead at the hospital. stockton police are now investigating if carreiro also killed 84-year-old hazel dingman. both were older, possibly
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sexually assaulted and attacked in the afternoon. in election 2012 news it's back to campaigning after the holiday. president obama returned to the white house today after vacationing at camp david. he travels to the swing state of iowa on tuesday with events closer to dc later on in the week. mr.obama is reportedly coming to the bay area on july 23rd for some fundraiser here. the current almost exclusive focus of his campaign right now is jobs and the economy. today the obama campaign called for mitt romney to release a series of tax returns while blasting his foreign business dealings. >> we've got a guy who believes and has been a pioneer in outsources jobs. he offshores most of his investments presumably to shield them from taxes. >> reporter: romney's campaign called today's comments by robert gibbs quote disgusting and countered that romney has released two years of tax
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returns. the presumptive gop is concentrating on fundraisers including one in the hamptons. and later in colorado and wyoming. >> by any measure his policies have been a failure. the president said give us three years if we can't turn this around this will be a one term proposition, president clinton went to ohio two years ago, said give us two years if we can't turn this around throw us out of office. >> reporter: bobby jindal along with others blamed the economy on failed promises of the obama administration. those behind a ballot initiative to drain the hetch hetchy said they intend to turn in 16,000 signatures tomorrow to the san francisco department of elections. the measure calls for the city to increase water recycling efforts and spend up to $8
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million to study sustainable water alternativeless. it supplies water to 2 million people here in the san francisco bay area and it's estimated it would cost two to 3 million. we've learned five people have been shot in san francisco near a movie theaters. plus some tense moments and it's all happening on live television. what prompted a man to pull out a gun during a televised event in jordan? an investigation after a flash flood killed 400 people. what people said did not happen that could have saved their lives. a bit of a cooldown in most of our bay area. the temperature change you can expect for tomorrow. and when triple digit heat returns to our forecast. ask me how i've never slept better.
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a heated debate on live television in jordan begame more than a war of words. one politician tossed his shoe at the other. but his anger keeps rises so he reaches in his waist and pulls out a gun. the tv host jumped in between the two men, no one was hurt but a criminal complaint was lodged against the member of parliament who pulled out that gun. six american soldiers died today when a roadside bomb exploded in eastern afghanistan. few details of that incident are being made public. including today's casualties more than 30 service members have died in afghanistan this year. in other news of the world tonight in libya vote counting is under way after yesterday's historic parliamentary election. it looks like an historic win
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could be in the making. early results show a political scientists appears to be beating islamic parties. in neighbors egypt and tenisia protests gave way to islamic power. final results are not expected for several days. in egypt a week after he took office, egypt's new islamic president mosli is calling for the islamic parliament to reconvene. some observers fear morsi could push the country into a new phase of instability. and in syria, large scale military exercises are under way. the exercises are an apparent warning to other countries not to intervene in the uprising against assa d. some have asked for western powers to step in
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to stop the bloodshed. human rights groups say many died at the hands of militias militias loyal to president assad and his military. the flood waters hit the dahar region when many people were sleeping. people there want to know why they were not alerted to the danger. >> we heard the screams from neighbors. they started breaking the window, the house started drowning. >> reporter: meteorologists say up to a foot of rain fell in less than 24 hours. but there is also speculation that an automatic discharge from a near by reservoir compounded the problems. federal investigators insist the release did not cause the flooding. breaking news out of oakland as we told you police are investigating the shooting of five people. >> plus -- >> most landowners don't want
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ago by filling marshes, creeks and parts of the bay with sand and debris. it presents a constant challenge to engineers. >> in fact, you dig out a lot of places south of market where the pavement segment on the street is 2 feet thick, and so it's 2 feet thick because the ground continued to settle and they kept putting new asphalt. >> reporter: at b.a.r.t.'s street station trains cross the now submerged hayes river. b.a.r.t. pumps 2-1/2 million gallons of that water each week. there's nothing to shield areas of downtown san francisco that sit on old bay mud. engineers say is settling. >> most landowners don't want to see their building settle toward china. >> reporter: he points out that parts of selma along the embarcadero are still slowly sinking and sections of the
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former mission bay have settled 9 feet. some high rises along the former shoreline sunk over the years including the former pg & e headquarters and standard oil building. the new transbay terminal project at third and fremont is also on bay mud. before crews could even begin building they must shore out tons of mud and shore up water. frank willow gets a daily report of any movement of buildings. >> is that movement going to be detrimental to the building. >> reporter: and? >> it's not. >> reporter: we spoke to those who were in the tower that struck the bay area in march.
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>> we sway feels like two or three inches. >> you can also feel the iron, the metal kind of moving. >> reporter: frank willow says those high rises are sa and will support it but one place you wouldn't want is to be standing during a quake is right here. this entire area was one giant sink hole in 1906. >> i wouldn't want to be standing in that area. >> reporter: huge chunks of the mission district are former marsh land. this animation shows a victorian home on 17th and howard. during the earthquake when the ground shakes it becomes saturated with water. the landfill liquifies and the house tilts. and liquid faction will happen again. >> we know we saw up to 13 feet of movement in 1906. >> reporter: the usgs says areas of san francisco that
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will liquify in a quake are also those that will continue to sink. while most high rises have finished settling or have less than a foot to go. in san francisco, tara moriarty, ktvu news. occupy the farm protesters say they intend to show up at a meeting about development on a plot of land. occupy the farm protesters returned to the tract to harvest crops they planted in a protest last spring. the protesters want the land which is owned by uc berkeley to be transformed into a public farm. uc berkeley plans to build a whole foods store and senior housing complex on a portion of that tract. it is a one of a kind piece of real estate right here in the bay area and it could be yours that is if you've got a couple of millions sitting around. red rock is up for sale for just over $5 million. you may have seen it, it's a piece of undeveloped land right
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in the middle of bay on the south side of the richmond bridge. the views are stunning and you're actually getting a bargain considering that the asking price was just 22 million just last year. a sight like none other. imagines from nasa. what they show and why nasa is thrilled to be getting these pictures. >> also triple digit heat around the corner. our meteorologist mark tamayo is up next with when you can expect a significant warm up.
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everyone more exciting for nasa is that opportunity has lasted through five martian winters since it landed in 2004. back then nasa was hoping it would last three months on mars. >> some pretty cool pictures there. all right can't really talk about anything cool happening here in the bay area. in fact, it's actually going to warm up quite a bit. let's check in now with mark tamayo. >> heather and ken, we could be tracking triple digit heat over the next few days. get ready for temperature changes as we head into tuesday and wednesday. dense fog moving into the bay, oakland and the hayward area. because we still have this, a bit on an on shore breeze with winds gusting to 25 miles per hour right up the golden gate bridge. as far as temperatures from today, you can see the range and most areas actually cooled off a bit from yesterday's highs. we cooled off about five to 10 degrees from the saturday readings but still a few 80s
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and a few low 90s inland. antioch topped off at 92 degrees this afternoon. forecast headlines for tonight, we do have partly cloudies and areas of fog tomorrow we begin our warming trend and watch what happens. we call it warm and hot inland right around 100 degrees. overnight lows tomorrow, we will have the highs concentrated coast side and around the bay. most areas starting out monday in the low to mid-50s. this area of high pressure big news over the past few days responsible for the warm up across parts of the country. triple digit heat. this is working it's way out to the west and this will be the source of the warmer temperatures for us. but we will have options here with our microclimates really resurfacing with the 60s coast side, warmest locations inland in the upper 90s to right around 100 degrees. that is set to move in for tuesday, looks like wednesday will be the hottest day of the week then we gradually cool things off just a little bit beginning thursday.
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here's our forecast model showing us fog once again. first thing tomorrow morning coast side and sneaking into some of the inland valleys and right around the bay itself. but then clearing out to near the shoreline. this red contour this links up with the 90s so we will have warmer temperatures for your monday forecast. here is a look at the numbers santa rosa right around 86, 90s out toward san helena and fairfield. out toward antioch and brentwood right around the bay, just nice out there. oakland tops out mid-70s. san jose 80s and morgan hill around 80 degrees. clearing to near the shoreline in the afternoon a forecast high of 68. here is a look ahead. your five day forecast and those temperatures continue to go up tuesday and also into wednesday. we gradually cool things off for thursday and friday with your weekend in view. looks like a bit of a cooling trend but what's neat heather and ken we will have a big temperature range. if you're not a fan of course my line is just take a drive out to the coast. temperatures only in the 60s
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there. >> all right, big difference. thank you mark. breaking news now we've been telling you about in oakland. five people were shot outside a movie theater in jack london square. patti lee is live at the scene with the latest, patti. >> reporter: we had a chance to talk to sergeant ming here at the scene. the jack london theater has been evacuated, washington blocked off while police try to figure out what happened. you can see little cones everywhere where shells have been found. we're told that five people were injured. please believe these are probably teenagers because three of them drove themselves to children's hospital and two were transported by ambulance to other hospitals in the area. police right now are actually working on exactly who went where and what injuries have been sustained here.
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now witnesses told us earlier that it was chaos. >> a lot of scattering, a lot of yelling. actually the door was so congested people were getting trampled and it was terrible. >> reporter: police say no one is in custody. we asked about the suspects anything that may have led up to the shooting and they have not really had a chance to speak to anyone involved. they have been talking to witnesses. we have also heard from and sergeant ming tells us that when he has more information he will get back to us and we will have the latest for you. in the meantime we'll be staying here at the scene. reporting live in oakland, patti lee, ktvu news. >> thank you, patti for that update. we will be right back with sports wrap.
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good evening everyone and welcome to this late sunday night edition of sports wrap. the a's put on a long and fruitful day at the office and ended it in a way that leads all of baseball. pacific day at the coliseum oakland oaks against the raniers. for just a moment later, cespedes was finished for the day. bartolo colon was masterful for the day. colon went 8-2/3 innings. just 13 of his pitches
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