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graduating police academy and the rescue underway right now as the coast guard rushs to save a little girl on a sailboat. good afternoon, everybody, i am in for tori campbell. a fund raiser that has ensnared those people. in the past hour we got an update, a grand jury has returned an indictment against all of them, including leland yeah, this document essentially summarizes the charges we have been telling you about and here are some of the charges, leland yee accused of conspiring to import arms and those people are charged with those crimes
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among others and we will go through it in more detail and have more tonight. one of his colleagues was released from jail on bond, he had been in jail since wednesday facing drug and weapons charges, he had been at his mother's house, however, there is one condition to his release, he is banned from contacting his brother brandon, who is a co-defendant. >> that is temporary at least as the judge said, we can come in and change that. we will see how it goes. >> jackson was one of his top money raisers and now he is a
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co-defendant. now he is facing a trial for money laundering charges. he has already faced those charges and he will have a hearing later. well the city of oakland now has new police officers. that was the scene and tara moriarty was there for the graduating class and she explains why it is so special. good afternoon to you. >> good afternoon to you, many of them are hitting the streets tomorrow, 47 in all, the largest class in opd history. >> that was role call and you could feel the electricity here
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in the room, because the feeling was awesome in this room, and there were 47 of them and that was just one step. >> this is a good thing, it is always a good thing but to actually get up and pin badges on new cops, that is a great feeling. >> this is also one of the more diverse classes, most of them speak another language, from spanish to chinese to other languages and he said it is something they needed, now, if you wonder what they make per year, the starting salary is 70,000 dollars. back to you. >> thank you very much. now to a story we brought you yesterday, a concord police officer has been charged, we
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fold you matthew switser is under investigation for fraudulently obtaining drugs from the elderly and he has been arrested and is held on 400,000 dollars bail in the contra costa county jail, he is being arraigned this afternoon and we will have details on that at 5:00. well, it is shaping up to be a nice day, you can see there the conditions at emeryville but the conditions were different this morning when i came in to work around 3:00, as you can see from a viewer driving in this morning and 9:00. and rosemary orosco has your forecast for today. >> yes, the showers will remain
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for the rest of the day. let's get in there at the north bay where it looks like drizzle is falling around highway 101 and ronna park may be in there as well and we will continue with this system as we move through the afternoon into the late evening hours and we have showers between those areas, you can see some green on the screen, how about we head to the south bay where we have have a few sprinkles, mountain view, you may have a few sprinkles and it looks like cupertino, you may have a few as well, it looks like it will linger and meanwhile i will have a look if it will affected
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you evening drive home and they had rain in most of the areas over the north hills but all in all not to bad and i have a dry out to talk about when i come back later. back to you. >> thank you rosemary. well, a man was hit by a car while he was trying to cross the road this morning. police say he has serious life- threatening injuries but his name is not known. and witnesses said the man ran a red light and then left the scene but later was arrested by police. we have this report on that, they got ready to help the coast guard as they got ready to take off to help a
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family in the pacific ocean. >> reporter: they helped them get ready for their trip to help the family on a sailboat stranded in the ocean and they f got ready the minute they heard there was a child on board. >> the minute we heard there was a child on board that was hurting we immediately got ready to go. >> they will support another aircraft that will rescue the people on board. >> we backed up the other vessel that was able to get on board and rescue the family.
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>> we located a blog on line that we think came from the family. we are sailing around the world and having fun and our next step is to sail to new zealand. >> we are not sure if that is the family or not but we think it is and meantime they will be recovering there. >> yeah, it is a tough job and we are glad for them. >> right now they are being let there until they get better. >> right now we are learning about an accident where a man was hit and killed, it happened
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near fremont and there and a memorial continues to grow at that enter section, the funeral is being held there. a hearing is being held there for a 40-year-old man accused of sexually assaulting a boy. his family tells us he was a good friend and they were shocked when they learned he was a child predator. >> it is really sad because me was a friend and then took advantage of us.
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who knew the gunman and his victims, we have new information on the rampage that has left fort hood reeling. 5 people released from the shooting. we are expecting more to be released today and while we are learning more about the injured, we are also learning more about the suspect. investigators are going through his life, wondering why he went on a rampage, killing himself and 3 others. >> he might have had a verbal altercation before the attack, that seemed to precipitate it.
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>> he was a loner to his neighbors. >> no one knew him, he stayed to himself. >> and after the shooting experts said that we need to do that and this is what experts said. >> after that shooting we said a lot needs to be done but not a lot of it was accomplished. >> and after the shooting we spoke to his mother, who lost a son. >> after the shooting i tried to call him but no one answered the phone and i said oh, god, not him. >> and we new him and we always got along with him. >> now governor perry held a press conference today on the shooting there and afterwards
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he called it a senseless act and said the state of texas will help in anyway it can. back here at home a gun buy- back is being sponsored by the city of san francisco and several church groups and scheduled to take place at the bayshore grocery on bayshore boulevard, 100 dollars and 200 dollars will be paid for the guns and they have to be unloaded and in good working condition. two people are behind bars accused of trafficking hundreds of thousands of dollars of drugs in the bay. detectives arrested those 2, they are at the center of an investigation over the past months. they said they were found driving a vehicle with over 37
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pounds of meth inside, its street value is well over 700,000 dollars. the fire department put out a fire at the oakland children's hospital this morning. they got it put out soon but investigators think someone started it because it started outside on the roof and there is nothing there to start it. it is used for administrative staffing. >> we will bring them here until they repair the. >> they estimate the damage at 150,000 dollars. well the toll on the bridge is scheduled to go up monday. right now it is 5 dollars and
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fast track is 6 dollars but they both increase by a dollar next week and by a dollar every year until 2016 and that may not seem like much but some people who drive it after day say it will affect them. >> well, it may not seem like much but i have other expenses as well. >> the officials say they expect it to raise about 138 million dollars. well drivers in oakland are being told to plan ahead if they are near the oakland coliseum, sal castaneda explains why.
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>> the coliseum and that are expecting to be rocking as the mariner and oakland it's at 7:05 and tip off between the warriors and that team are 7:30. already they have been sending out warning to their fans to plan ahead and leave early. they want their fans to take bart or other public transportation and they are going to play again on sunday, put the warriors game is at 1:00 and they open the parking lot there at 6:00 a.m. sal castaneda, ktvu channel 2 news. >> sunday is going to be beautiful, you may even need sun block as you get out and
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about but today is a different story, we continue to have that system that continues to bring us unsettled weather city at this hour, i still have rain in those areas and el cerrito and sunol seeing sprinkles at this time and maybe over along highway 4 and 680 along the walnut creek area, shifting south rain hover the southern peninsula down into the south bay, saratoga, south hill looks like you may have rain falling, the peninsula mostly dry for the moment. let me back up and show you this precipitation making its way southeast over the course of the day so we are not going
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to do away with them but they will get into the forecast as we get into the afternoon and we always worry about the commute in the afternoon so they continue to pull out of the area for the rest of the afternoon and today and noon sunny and scattered showers remain but then, wow, what a difference, we have temperatures climbing back into the 70s for sunday and a warm up for some but again a nice warm up for your bay area, temperatures 59 santa rosa and napa, mid-50s oakland and 55 san jose and for the afternoon today 60s in the forecast, 63 hayward, 62 san rafael, 66 san jose, your extended forecast with your bay area always in view so today is the coolest day and wettest day of the next several. take a look at that forecast,
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mostly sunny skies on saturday and even warmer on sunday and it looks like we may actually hit 80 degrees looking at that forecast on tuesday. >> did you say 80 degrees. >> 80 degrees. >> wow, i am going to have for used to that. >> all right. >> thank you rosemary. >> you are welcome. >> all right, well what one bay area company is doing and why they have to get used to it.
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are lower in mid-afternoon trading this afternoon, all to a slump in the tech sector, google, microsoft and those each fell about a half% this afternoons afternoon as we take a look at the big board, they were down a little bit. well employers actually hired more workers last month than the month before but unemployment remained at 7% and analysts say people are more optimistic about finding a job and more are looking for jobs. well experts say the new technology can identify
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people's faces, even from the side by this new technology. it is right 90% of the time, the spokesperson said it is not clear when or how they will use it but right now it is in the testing phase. well the mtc is looking to launch its program even further. they launched the program there last year there and the program lets people rent a bike and leave it there. well, we are going through the documents on leland yee and others and also that story, those developments coming up tonight at 5:00.
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