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. complete bay area news coverage starts right now. this is the 10:00 news on ktvu channel 2. moments for people who jump into the frigid waters to escape a raging fire. good evening, i'm ken wayne, heather holmes is off tonight. a day of fun in the sun on san francisco bay almost turned to tragedy as people had to don their life jackets. we have more information on the dramatic rescue and cara liu is in san francisco. we have seen salvage crews pull boat out of water and lift it and put it onto this barge that you see behind me.
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it's been a very difficult task taking about 3.5 hours to this point. firefighters telling us there was so much damage to the boat it was starting to fall apart. a salvage crew spent hours trying to pull the burned boat out of arm near the army corps of engineers dock in sausalito. on the bay near tiburon and you could see it from your home in san rafael. >> i saw black smoke, big plume of black smoke, rising just above the hill out that way-eight people adults and kids were on the boat when it started to get smoky and unbearably hot. the coast guard says they told them to put on their life jackets and jump into the water and link their arms to stay together. >> before they went into the water they were able to get the attention of a neighboring boat. the neighboring boated came
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over and picked them up. so they were only in the water for a short period of time. >> firefighters arrives moments later to tend to the victims and put out the fire, rescue series estimate that they were in the ought 5-10 minutes. >> it's a terrifying day on the bay, but fortunately they had all the right equipment with them and it has a happy ending are the. >> reporter: these photos show how much damage there was to the watercraft and can't tell yet where or how the fire started. live in sausalito, cara liu, ktvu channel 2 news. right now bay area rescue crews are still working to rescue a family stranded on a sailboat about 900 miles off the coast of mexico. at 10:15 we'll latest is op their attempts to rescue that little girl and her family and
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the equipment that they say will help bring them to safety. now to the warm weather across the bay area. it's been a big change from all of that rain we saw earlier in the week. as you can see from these pictures people were outside enjoying it. on the left we found several people in lake merritt this afternoon and on the right people got to spend some time at the beach near berkeley. meteorologist mark tamayo in the weather center. >> ken, right around 70 degrees and the rain clouds have moved out of town. rapid clearing into the afternoon hours and we started to warm up for your saturday, temperatures ranging from the upper 50s in pacifica and low 70s towards santa rosa and antioch. san josi the high was 67 degrees. the satellite over the past few hours some patchy fog developing offshore that will gradually work its way closer
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to the area overnight, but right now for the most part we have mostly clear skies across most of the bay area. temperatures warping and that trend will continue into sunday. look at the temperature trend for sunday into monday? we're going to warm things back up, especially for the inland spots coming up we'll take a closer look at numbers and highlight the areas hitting the 80-degree mark and the two warmest days of week all coming up at 10:35. thank you, mar a remind to follow mark and the rest of the ktvu weather team for the latest conditions posting updates to twitter and facebook even when we are not on air. oakland police say a woman whose body was found near lake merritt was the victim of a homicide. "bicycleicle a billist called police and said the woman appeared to have suffered head trauma. police have not released her identity and so far no arrests have been made. berkeley police have
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identified the violent of a pedestrian accident who was a well-known bay area psychologist and professor. 9-year-old joseph luft taught at foreman university and was a professor at stanford university. he and a colleague created the johari window a way to explain personality. luft's family says he was on his daily walk at bancroft way when as we hit just a few yards from his home the driver is cooperating with police. new developments on a pair of robberies in part of the east bay that is not known for violent crime. tonight we learned those two crimes were likely relate. as ktvu's john sasaki reports one was an armed robbery and another an attempted robbery. >> reporter: downtown walnut creek is known for nordstrom, neiman marcus and nightlife, but last night a brazen crime may have weakened the feeling secret that many have at broadway plaza. >> there was a woman at the
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corner tavern who was robbed at gunpoint of her purse. >> reporter: the woman left the restaurant and walked to her directly outside when the armed man demand her purse and pulledded it from here. >> the victim saw what appeared to be a black handgun. >> reporter: the robber got in a small red getway car driven by another man and sped away. the victim was unhurt. across from the movie theater in pleasant hill police say there was an tempted robbery inside the parking structure. the robbery was unsuccessful and victims have since told investigators that the robber armed with a black handgun got into a red honda accord and took off. >> we always tell people safety in numbers and don't walk your car by yourself, always be vigilant. >> police say there was a robbery outside of walnut creek
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creek's yogurt land. these crimes have many people being careful. >> you just have to be aware of what is around and not spending your time look at your phone and just be aware your surroundings. >> reporter: with the same description of the robber and the car and even the gun, police believe that the two crimes were committed by the same people. in walnut creek i'm john sasaki, ktvu channel 2 news. at 10:30 caught on-camera, a bay area store clerk turns the gun on the man trying to rob him. what the clerk didn't know about that gun and why he says he probably shouldn't have done it. police many modesto are investigating a stabbing at a young girl's slumber party. police say a 13-year-old girl stabbed her 11-year-old sister and 13-year-old friend this morning before turning the knife on herself. their mother called 911 after hearing screams. two of the girls are in critical condition and the girl suspected of the stabbing is in
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serious, but stable condition. >> the 11-year-old playing out here and to find out later on that she is one of the ones stabbed it's just like i just saw her out playing yesterday. >> neighbors say she may have special needs. investigators won't confirm that, but they did say they are not sure if she will face charges. new developments in the search for malaysia airlines flight 370, a chinese ship is reporting that it picked up a ping that may be from the missing plane's black box, but that has not been confirmed. this report could be another false lead in the mystery, but it could lead to finding out what really happened to flight 370. reporter marley henneberger tells us what they found and the questions of how the chinese governmentry veiled its findings are c. china state-run media is saying that the chinese ship deployed to a black box detector into the water in the southern indian ocean and picked up a pulse signal.
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a ping. at 37.5 kilhertz. that is the same frequency that pings are emitted from the flight data recorders. chinese say one of their air force planes spotted white floating objects in that search area. malaysian authorities say they are trying to verify this report. but there is say healthy dose of skepticism about this ping, in part because it came from chinese media reports and not from international coordinator of the search, chief marshall houston who said he was advised of the chinese reports, but so far there is no confirration that the ping and floating objects are related to the missing malaysian jet. one fox military analyst says that the chinese should have gone through the proper channels with this new information. >> it should have been reported to air chief marshall houston. he should have sent out people to look at and see if they got the ping again. they should have done more due diligence because now they have enthuse the whole world and
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clearly the relatives of the survivors and we're in a position where if it doesn't -- it's going to have a great impact i believe on the credibility of the search. >> the batteries on the flight daut recorders or black boxes are supposed to last for about a month. the plane disappeared march 8th today is april 5th so time is of the essence for those searching for malaysia flight 370. a sick baby a thousand miles from land and the rescue effort hits a critical stage. tonight what the rescuers found that surprised them when they parachuted to the stranded sailboat?. then at 10:30 a warning from health officials at uc berkeley after another student contracts a contagious disease. the precautions taken today to keep others from getting sick. but first a close encounter of the feathered kind leaves a woman calling herself "lucky." the 10:00 news continues in 90 seconds.
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. developing news now off the coast of mexico where crews from the bay area are taking part in a dramatic rescue mission. in involveds a sick 1-year-old girl and her family stranded on a sailboat. late tonight a u.s. navy ship is expected to reach that san diego family. ktvu's debora valleylon is live
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at moffett base. >> ken those monitoring here at moffett say the baby is in stable condition and the naval vessel should arrive late tonight or early tomorrow morning adding to the effort already underway. four rescue meb do what they have done hundreds of times before, jump perfect an airplane into the ocean with bags of medical equipment strapped to them. this time after a six-hour flight to get to the distress call. >> that is the moment we test the patient is when work starts to everything leading up to that was just getting to work. this is a real treat to be able to do a parachute jump into the ocean to save a life. >> reporter: splashing down carrying a mini trauma unit the team found the 36-year-old vessel adrift and taking on water. >> we have high seas and winds and we have a 1-year-old that is injured and now we have a sinking boat. >> reporter:
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that 1-year-old lyra kaufman is apparently suffering an infection picked newspaper mexico before her family set off on its voyage to the south pacific. relatives in san diego are watching and worried. >> i can't believe this, like really? i mean, what where is the baby going and why was she so-so sick. >> reporter: most likely they go next to the navy frigate vandegrift using a litter to hoist them into the helicopter could only be necessary if the baby takes a turn for the worst. >> so we have to anticipate that. we have got ivs. >> reporter: on the rebel heart are medicine, monitors and oxygen. >> we have so understand that we can't bring everything. >> reporter: make sure to take care for the smallest patients. >> you can see how small this is going to cover a face. >> well, thanks to
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our ben friends. >> they are of a vidsailors and this will all make great material once it's over, but it's certainly not the story line that they expected. reporting live in mountain view, debora villalon ktvu channel 2 news. marib county authorities with helps from volunteers will renew a search for a missing woman on mount tam palis. she lives in menlo park and left a message saying she was going hiking. rangers in the herd abandoned vehicle yesterday in a parking lot near the campground. sheriff officials released this
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picture from security video of her near that parking lot. foreman police took almost 200 guns off the streets conducting a buyback program, collecting handguns, rifles and assault rifles. those turning in guns received gift cards up to $200 for each weapon. >> we're very busy and we haven't stopped since we started. we have two lines working. we have to get additional people out because we're so busy. >> a man turning in a gun told us it had been in the house for year and he didn't know how to operate it. last year san francisco police collected more than 500 guns through this program. grateful civilians and fellow veterans near sacramento gave a disabled vet something very special today they broke ground in loomis on i new home for corporal hotaling. the corporal lost both of his legs while stepping on an improvised explosive device in afghanistan. hotaling was moved by that gift as well as an escort by the
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guard riders. >> they are taking their saturday out to help a fellow veteran is extremely toughing. >> the home will be built to accommodate hotaling's disabilities a group called homes for our troops provided the funds. a mountain lion sighting in san mateo county has people on high alert. officials say the sighting is a good reminder to people to pay attention to their surroundings. anyone who sees a mountain lion is told not to approach it. the start of the recreational salmon fishing is coming with a warning. fishermen are told to watch out for sea otters and saying 35 endangered sea otters have been killed by boat strikes in last decade. advocates are asking fishermen to obey speed limits. salmon season ends april 30th. there will many hazards on
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the road, but drivers don't usually expect what happened to a denver motorist. she was driving on a freeway around 50 miles per hour when a goose smashed her windshield. fortunately she was able to pull over. goose did not sufand jergensen's injuries might have been more serious. >> i didn't know how much glass was on me until i got home and seine all of this was just full of glass. when i took my hair down you could hear the glass falling. >> jergensen got a few scratches and while calling it a freak accident she has to convince herself to get back behind the wheel. a would-be robber pulls a gun on a store clerk and what happened next is caught on- camera and why he says he probably shunt have done what he did. facebook providing insight on the fort hood shooting suspect and what he posted about another mass shooting. the bay area is in the clear right now. coming up how much of a temperature jump you can expect for our sunday and i will let
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. ukrainian authorities say an armed underground group was planning an attack on the kieve. russia has tens of thousands of troops on oregon side of the border and russia says it has no plans to invade, but many ukrainians are fearful. >> in afghanistan, millions of afghans turn out to vote in defiance of a threat of violence from the taliban. they were electing a new president to succeed hamid karzai as well as provincial councils. all said she would sign a long- term security agreement with the united states, something is that president karzai has refused to do new details are
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emerging about the suspected fort hood gunman sergeant lopez. on his facebook page lopez vented about the sandy hook elementary school shooting and said he felt paralyzed seeing a huge explosion in iraq and then waiting to be the next target. he also wrote about the suffering of the families of those killed. inner-city teens from san francisco returned home from the trip of a lifetime. it's all part of operation genesis. the teens spent a week in the african african nation of guana and understanding the sacrifices made by their african ancestors. >> it humbled me. we think we have it bad, they have it worse out there and they are happy about it. >> everybody is a family and everybody works together and everybody is happy.
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it has nothing that i had experienced before. >> the group spent nine days in guana and met with youth there and talked about the difference in life in the bay area district and life in west africa. >> finding inspiration in the way pope francis lives the atlanta archbishop gregory moved into a multi-million dollar mansion a few months ago, but the archbishop released a statement saying that he has decided to sell the property. >> i'm disappointed in myself and i don't intend to do that mistake again. >> archbishop says he will use the money he gets from the sale of his home to invest in the needs of the catholic community. after decades of pleading from fans of the 1985 film "goonize," a sequel is apparently in the works.
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remember that goonie's director richard dorian add he is talks with the film's original cast including josh brolin, martha plimpton and sean astin, but this isn't the first time this has all been mentioned don he said in the past he would like to create goonies at musical for broadway and so far that hasn't happened. a bay area store clerk turned the gun on the man trying to rob him. >> adrenalin kicks in and you don't think about it, but you just react. >> after the break the quick actions caught on-camera and what the clerk later learned about that gun. plus a battle brewing between a transgender student and his university. why he says he is not being allowed to live anyway dorm with his friends.
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quick actions caught on-camera a man trying to rob the store pulls out a gun. that store clerk says adrenalin drove him to take the gun from the would-be robber's hand and chase him out of the store. cristina rendon talked to the clerk who says in hindsight he probably shouldn't have done that. >> the clerks foiled the crime at san leandro convenience store, one of them is named mark. >> i saw the guy coming around the corner and thought he was going to use the sink and when i saw him pass up the sink and i turned and saw the gun. mark is confronted behind the count, by the masked man demanding money and waving the gun back and forth. he says he made a split-second decision to fight back. >> i saw an opportunity and i grabbed it from both ends and yanked it out of his hands. >> reporter: you can see
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now he is the one holding the gun. >> adrenalin just kiked in kicked in. >> reporter: san leandro police determined that the gun was not loaded. we don't advocate that the regular person does. it's extremely dangerous. but at the same time, in this case it worked out. >> reporter: with several cameras around the store, investigators are using the surveillance to track the suspect, mark doesn't consider himself a hero. >> when you look back on it, i'm a family man. i have got to think about my family. >> reporter: for him it was just another day on the job, a job he has only had for three months. >> some people say hero, some people say brave and others say stupid. it's a little bit of both, out of all three, actually, i don't know if it was the right thing, but got a gun off the streets.
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>> police believe this guy may be from owe out of town. he is described as a latinor or white man in 20s, 6' tall. if you have any information you are asked to call police. the highway patrol arrested three people after a wild case in marin county around 3:00 this morning. the officers began the chas when they spotted the toyota solara going north in sausalito at more than 100 miles per hour. the vehicle went off the road. they arrested the suspected drunk driver and passengers. drugs were found in the car and the car was reported student. a second uc berkeley student has come down with the measles and now health officials are trying to get the word out to those who were exposed. >> allie rasmus explains are a microscopic pathogen that makes
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patients misrab. >> sometimes the fever is as high as 1404 and that is followed by the typical measles rash. >> reporter: health officials say the measles virus is making a comeback in carriage and the latest case coming to the attention of uc berkeley officials. a student took bart and attended classes on the uc berkeley campuses april 1-3rd, troubling, but not surprising for some students. it's notn commune people come to class sick-measles is highly contagious. >> someone in the infectious period in a room like had this or coughs or talks or sings or cries, the virus is suspended in the air. >> reporter: this is a single dose of measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine. if you get vaccinated within 72 hours of being exposed to the virus you can be
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-- it's the second time that aka berkeley dealt with measles. another student exposed an unknown number of bart passengers. officials say the two cases are not related, but statewide there has been an increase in the number of measles cases 51 so far this year compared to four for the same period last year. most are related to international travel. >> we know that there is more measleses in other parts of world than there is in the united states. newly this year we're seeing more cases related to an rout break that we know is ongoing in the philippines due to the displacement of people from. >> a shot in the arm and you wouldn't get the measles anymore, sounds commonsense rip a commonsense step that could save he yourselves and other as a lot of discomfort. more details now as allie said there have been 51 confirm measles cases so far in california this year. orange county has most with 21. there are 11 in the bay area. and again at this time last
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year, there were only four measles cases throughout the state. education experts are concerned that not enough california students are getting ready for college. in 2012 just 38% of high school students met the minimum entrance requirements to enter the uc or cal state systems. and when dropouts are not counted ucla says the proposition of college-ready graduates is about 30% for the whole state. 20% for latinos the and just 18% for african-americans. the public policy institute estimates that by 2025 california will have 1 million fewer college graduates than it needs. a transgender student has filed a federal complaint against his christian university for not let him live in an all-male dorm jayce is a freshman at the university and living in a female dorm as he transitions to a male. they said he could have a room
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of his own or life off-campus. students willing to talk about the situation think that the university is wrong. >> it's just ridiculous. it's completely discriminatory. i do not agree with it at all. >> he identifies with males and he should be with other males because that is what he is comfortable with. jayce issued a statement saying, "that the university's decision-makes him feel rejected misunderstood and rejected for something that he cannot change." google is set to unveil its latest firefighter in android tv is meant to to be a simpler version of google tv released in 2010. that device was heavily criticized for being too difficult to navigate. this time around the mount rue- based company has reportedly made the program for user- friendly. according to a cnet report users can scroll through and pick movies, shows, apps and games. >> twitter isn't tweeting the
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news, but insiders say that the social media platform is about to introduce 15 new products for advertisers and is beta- testing at least one more mobile downloads. . 21st century technology helped a terminal ill man and his new bride create the wedding of their dreams. >> you are husband and wife together. >> elizabeth weissman and vince ryan met and vinny has a very rare and addressiv form of cancer that spread through his body didn't stop either of them. two were married because their families could make it to philadelphia for ceremony and that is where skype came in. >> i om hope one day that i can love like she casz. >> family members watched as
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the two tied the knot making it a day that they will never forget. up next california's drought is making one river cleaner. we'll explain. plus, nasa captures a solar flare. how it may have an impact here on earth? plus warm today warmer tomorrow, meteorologist mark tamayo shows us how high temperatures will get
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for volunteers to get around and pick up all the debris. organizers estimate they le moved more than 10,000 pounds trash area debris, scattered along a 23-mile stretch of the river. and with the warm temperatures the snow pack in the sierra will begin to melt over next few days at least that process will begin and it's an important water supply for a good portion -- basically for the entire state. for today, mostly clear skies. right now patchy fog making a comeback and i think that will bump up into the overnight hours. right now we're in the clear. as you can see with basically dry conditions out there as well. if you are heading to the coast, just be extra careful we have stronger rip currents developing. the swell is not giant. you can see the buoy reports 6- ', but the wow water is moving around and be careful tomorrow, monday and
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into tuesday. current temperatures right now it's 57 degrees in santa rosa, oakland right now 58, concord 57 and, in fact, here is the forecast for tomorrow. in san josi starting out with mostly clear skies. temperatures a nice recovery into the afternoon, back up into the mid-70s, for your sunday00. tonight we do have mostly clear skies, wind speeds there is a bit of a breeze out there. looking out towards the oakland estuary. tomorrow mostly sunny and warm. and a bit of a dropoff in temperatures by midweek. overnight lows to start our sunday will be in the 40s with patchy fog near parts of the coastline and we could have patches develop in the inland valleys especially up in the north bay. pasty morning fog and key
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headlines temperatures up 8-10 degrees. here is the eventual temperature trend sunday into monday. the two warmest days of the week will be monday and tuesday. that means inland we're thinking lower 80s, 83 probably 84 degrees by that timeframe. here is your forecast model showing you this tomorrow morning, some patchy fog offshore, close enough to warrant a few patches near the immediate coastline and into the north bay valleys. in the afternoon, increasing sunshine and temperatures ranging from the upper 60s for the beaches and widespread 80s for the bay area and the warmest locations flirting with the 80-degree mark. the warming trend continues. santa rosa 79, vacaville 80. gilroy at 80 and san francisco will go with lower 70s tomorrow afternoon. here is a look ahead your five- day forecast with your weekend
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always in view. there is our thinking with the warming for monday. and into tuesday. the coastline could be right around 70 degrees by monday. and then we'll gradually shave a few degrees by wednesday and thursday. tomorrow is the day to do it ken, whatever you want do it will be beautiful for sunday. >> thank you, mark. a spectacular show on the sun. nasa just released these images of a solar flare. an observatory captured the eruption. there is no sign had that this mid-level flare caused my problems on earth although it might have brightened the northern and southern lights on earn. the ncaa championship is set and we'll tell you with who is in and the giants are off to their hottest start in years. the bat explodes as they take
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. good evening everyone and welcome to this saturday night edition of sportswrap. it would be be hard to ask the giants to do more than they have done in the first six days of the season. madison bumgarner getting his second start of the season and sharer than he was in the season-opener. hamey ramirez can't pull the trigger and bumgarner struck out ten. bumgarner picks
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picks another player off. 1-1 when the giants went long ball on paul maholm. then in the 5th first pablo sandoval and then buster posey finding the seats for the second time this year. giants with 11 hits on the day with a 7-1 lead into the 7th inning. in the 7th the dodgers chased bumgarner. ethier drills a base hit, but hunter pence with the throw on the money and ellis is cut down trying to score. that ends the inning and the play was reviewed and the call was upheld on replay. giants win it 7-2. they have one five of
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