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it. >> the complex here is called downer estates and there are a total of 600 condos in the homes and the fire started in one of the lower units no word on when investigators might be able to determine a cause. one firefighter did suffer minor injuries. i ronically it is all just a block from east bay mud crews replacing that same aging pipe and the root of the water main troubles is the fault which is just a few yards away. john shows us the clean up. >> that's drinking water bubbling up from below harvard
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drive near oakland avenue. in a little over an hour a repair crew came in again the second time in six weeks on this block. >> we didn't know when we moved here three weeks ago we had no idea there were pipe problems on this street. >> pipe problems may be anunder statement. neighbors say in the last 12 years it has burst six times in six different places. >> not sinkholes per say but street collapsing. >> craig told us water mains east bay mud couldn't fix them for days. >> it's an convenience but they have been handling it as well as they can. >> we have aging infrastructure in an area with a lot of ground movement. >> that was john fowler reporting. crews are replacing this entire section of this 83-year-old pipe. they planned to replace this section two days from now. coming up at 6 the high cost of
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replacing this old pipe and even higher cost of not replacing it. the u.s. postal worker once awarded federal employee of the year accused of stealing mail. he's being held without bail and is considered a flight risk. he's facing several charges including mail theft possession of stolen mail and destruction of u.s. mail. he was caught on surveillance cameras. the items he's accused of stealing include cash prescription pills marijuana passports jewelry and. >> when i hear something like this it really makes me mad because mail is personal. people send it out and expect it to get to where it's supposed to go and when something like this happens it really makes me mad. >> howard is set to appear in court monday. he could face up to 20 years in
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prison. more details in the case against torres. charged? the disappearance and killing of morgan hill teenagers. he's pleaded not guilty and granted requests to unseal grand jury transcripts in this case. >> we are going to know a lot more about what occurred in the time they were together. we are going know more about the dna evidence associated with the case. >> the defense was against the release saying it could lead to a change of venue. the judge stayed the ruling to given the attorneys a chance to appeal. so no, ma'ama are looking for whoever fired shots just before 2:30 this morning saying they heard gunfire near mooreland avenue. when deputies arrived they found bullets had hit a nearby home on eddy drive. two rounds entered the house. no one was injured and nobody
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saw whiniard the shots. on the scene of a two alarm fire. they were getting the fire under control. we're told it started about 2:45 this afternoon. the garage was fully engulfed. we are working to get more information on how the fired started. new information on a crane accident that left a bay area man dead. a state official tells the crane certification had expired and should not have been used. glen richmond died when a basket held by the crane broke loose. they were on a crew working to build a new bridge. so far no citations have been issued. a massive bust lands three men behind bars. ktvu was the first to bring you the story and more details on
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the massive seizure. >> not just blow your hand off. this will kill you. it's like holding a again aide. >> 2500 pounds of illegal fireworks. >> these are not your normal fireworks or the kinds of things you want kids running around with. they are very dangerous and can hurt a lot of people. >> they were seized from two vehicles and a storage facility in pittsburgh. >> they are professional grade fireworks. >> so full on explosives. >> full on. >> investigators say this stash was bought between 6 and $8,000 but was sold here on the streets of pittsburgh for $100,000. they cowered the internet and found and through pittsburgh police set-up a meeting and arrested three men on fireworks charged. 22-year-old, 26-year-old ivan of oakly and 30-year-old from indiana. >> the sad part is that this is just a really small scratch. it's a drop in the bucket
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compared to what we think is out there. >> minutes after sellers began to crank their adds off gauge's list and that's what police want. >> we want to remind people it is going to be a bad fire season and fireworks cause those kinds of fires. >> now fireworks are only legal in a dozen bay area cities and we do have the link on ktvu.com. and tonight we are looking closer on what more authorities are doing to prepare for july. the new steps they are taking in hopes of preventing fires. jury deliberations in the giants fan badly bataan outside dodgers stadium. the jury deliberated before going home for the day. suing the dodgers and former team owner for $50 million to cover medical cost and damages.
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he blames louie sanchez and marvin the two men who are serving time for the assault on him. more than one million people are expected to celebrate pride weekend. nearly two dozen floats are getting ready. the floats creative director estimated 40 pounds of glitter 200 cans of paint 300 sheets and 200 boxes of staples to create the floats. color our world with pride. just about an hour from now the trance agenda jeremy morin march is the official start of the the weekend. paul you spoke with one of the year's grand marshalls who says life has really turned around recently. >> that is true but this is a free party. one of the attendants is the student you were talking about. 16-year-old jury room was a high school student who got
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into a fight with people who bullied her and faced battery charges which were dropped and is all behind her. >> with all of the negativity and everything it got switched around and got put into positive and now i'm on the top. >> riding on a new found fame she was voted one of this year's grand marshalls the teen who is identified as a female so she can't believe all the support she's getting. this will be her first time taking part in an event. she started the an annual tradition the gay victims who were killed in concentration camps. supporters say it's important to remember the past as they work for a better future. equality is it next. >> trance gender is the same thing that effected most gays 40 years ago. they face the most
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discrimination and most hostility and danger. >> now tomorrow morning 175 volunteers are scheduled to put the finishing touches and will take place at 615. live in san francisco i'm paul chambers ktvu channel 2 news. >> for more information go to our website and look under the hot topics section. the company behind the mobile app called monkey parking is refusing to ebye a sees partner. it allows drivers to auction off their parking spot but it's illegal to sell access to a public space. the ceo of monkey parking argues drive drivers are selling the information they are leaving and continue operation despite july 11 deadline ordering them to stop. arrested and accused of starting a fire.
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. the athletic director made it official she's leaving her post. sandy barbour spoke to reporters this afternoon. she started at the school ten years ago making heroin of the longest in the pack 12. it was the thousands of student athletes who made it all worthwhile. >> they are the reason we have smiles on our faces and come to work. they are the reasons we do what we do. >> barbour's last day is july
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15. she will work on the academic side in the a sport's management program. california attorney general took legal action to stop what she calls false advertising to potential college students. it plans to sell or close many of it's schools in the coming months to tell perspective students about the closure. the company released a statement saying the government appears to think students will be best served by causing immediate panic and destroying any chance the school has to sell it's campuses to buyers who operate them. unvailed totted near the 49ers new stadium. the new 18,000 square foot great america pavilion covers two acres and can be divided or
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used as one large auditorium. it will be the host facility for california great america so- called red zone rally. >> it will feature live entertainment, flat screens, a running rollercoaster, portable island bars, outstanding food options, cheerleaders and of course the convenience of being located directly ad janet to levi stadium. >> it will be available year round so silicon valley companies can use it to hold special events. the oakland as and coliseums joint power authority has been delayed due to lack of. they are upset with the proposed ten year lease extension even though others on the authority and the as have come to an agreement. >> i'm frustrated because the city counsel made a decision and voted not to have their colleagues come to this meeting
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today and that is very troubling. >> the board did hear some opposition to the deal. one fan expressed his concerns over what it would mean for his team. lawmakers are making lots of changes to the nation's post offices but ignoring the biggest problems. voting on naming post offices instead of working on ways to bring the troubled system out of deep debt. house speaker john about a enter. >> the power for a vote to come up rests with the speaker of the house and with this speaker wants to take a nap and not have any of these major issues come to the floor for a vote then all we are going to do. >> absurd and blamed democrats for the gridlock. >> we have some changes ahead and warmer weather. >> we head towards the weekend temperatures on the increase
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and fire danger on the increase as well. i got fog we had and it's thickened up and that indicates a warming trend. remember the high clouds and fog getting into the valley and patchy drizzle and light rain. now we are seeing and beautiful shot showing the inversion and as we look at the clouds it's clear on this live camera shot and you are going to see the few clouds work to the north and rain. still showers up in seattle and portland but those showers are starting to die out and the high pressure is going to build in rapidly. i got fog along the coast. i got fog right here you see it right at the mouth of the gate here. the going will fill in again tonight and won't go that far inland so when you don't get that big inland push you won't see as cool a day tomorrow. if you get a lot of fog slow to burn off and recover.
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tomorrow temperatures in the less fog are going to be a good five to eight degrees warmer and lots of low 80s. tomorrow mid 80s and by the end of the weekend upper 90s and low 100s. saturday warmer still the patchy fog remains right along the coast. the 90s are going to remain just east of the bay area tomorrow. on sunday the 90 ease work their way this way and temperatures are going to flee. sunday is the warmest day and as we head into monday it's going the weekend but a holiday week for many. look at the temperatures 97 in liver more so very warm to hot day and that increases fire danger which is typical for this time of the year which is not a good thing where fireworks become something people deal with so fire conditions throughout the state fire danger highs in the mid identities to low 100s. the fog along the coast will be
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cool. the big fire danger is in the inland valley and the north winds there are 20 miles per hour but not out of control 60 or 50 miles per hour winds so fire danger is elevated through sunday and monday. here's the fog footprint for saturday morning and there's a lot of it right around the bay. i don't know if we are going to see that much fog around liver more but it burns off very quickly. look for the reds the 90s and they are creeping west and that means the inland eastern liver moore valley you'll start to see some low 90s creeping in. 88 in and 85 in fairfield. here's the highs and sunday will be warmer and monday warmer still. the quality of air is going to take a hit because the fog caps it out and the matter and pollutants from the commute against caught so the air
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quality won't be as great sunday and monday. your bay area weekend in view sunday is the warmest day really hot owned fire danger on monday. bay area looks great. giants are in town all weekend. as are in miami and parade on saturday. we are heading out for the fair on saturday. thank goodness not sunday. >> it's still good but it's always hot. it's going to be toasty. definitely drink plenty of fluids. >> hot but not miserable. new at 5 new lanes are opening up on 680 in danville. the northbound lane opened this morning and runs along a two mile stretch. live in danville now with how it will help with more than just traffic. christina. >> the afternoon commute is well underway here on this portion of northbound 680. this lane opened this morning
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and it's aimed at not only making the commute better but aimed at keeping drivers safe. driving in heavy traffic is isn't how most commuters like to spend their morning or afternoon. >> there is always people trying to get ahead of others. >> new auxiliary lanes should help. >> i'm trying to beat this traffic because i live in a little town. >> the trends opened up a lane on northbound 680 this morning stretching about two miles. john stewart says he needed one of those lanes yesterday while merging onto the freeway because he almost crashed with an 18-wheeler. >> i hit the brakes to let him go by and pulled in behind him but it'll save a lot of those kind of near misses. >> they'll see an improvement even when they exit. >> they say this is the last
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part of the three phase programming that started eight years ago. they are meant to eliminate close calls for drivers. >> when people want to merge on an off ramp they need to have that extra space to do so and we hope this would allow congestion to ease somewhere. >> the $55.5 million project has already seen most of it. landscaping will follow but for now improving the flow of traffic is most important. >> i think any improvement is going to be break. >> and work is just wrapping up on the southbound portion that has the lane. that two mile stretch of road is set to open july 1 on tuesday. live in danville christina rendon ktvu news. new information of a 12- year-old boy missing for weeks and found in his basement. what's next for his parents. plus a major decision about a
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bay area land mark. >> if we can stop suede from the golden gate bridge we can fight to stop them globally. >> a suede barrier around the golden gate bridge. a push to change the way we charge criminals keeping petty offenders out of prison can help keep schools safe. plus making oakland a hot vacation destination. the big money and success one group is starting to see. these stories and much more coming up at 6.
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the father of a young man who killed six people near santa barbara says it's his duty to prevent. he's created a new website to help people recognize the warning signs the mental illness. it will have mental health illnesses and stories. his son showed several warning signs of mental illness. new questions in a disturbing case in detroit. a 12-year-old boy reported missing for 11 days as his father and stepmother are coming under scrutiny. >> i say no comment right now. i'm sorry. >> charlie faced reporters after his wife appeared in court on an unrelated weapons charge. he was being interviewed when his 12-year-old son was found
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alive on wednesday. he was in his family's basement that had been searched before. >> we found him barricaded in the basement behind boxes and a large five gallon drum. >> apvc pipe and bloody clothing were found. they are considering possible charges. >> for so many expensive dental care isn't an option but people got to go to the dentist for free. they held the free event to get help improving smiles by identity from the heart. patients were able to get x- rays cleans fills and expansions. children were given fluoride treatment. >> i wish more dentists would do this kind of event. >> since it was founded it has helped to improve more than 80,000 smiles around the world.
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is hundred million americans do not have dental insurance. >> a major change moves forward for a bay area land mark. >> there will be a suicide barrier on the bridge. the question is how many more suede until it's finally up. >> plus the plan to keep the as in oakland hits a road block. who is standing in the way of a ten year deal. and an elite runner from berkley is still racing even though she's eight months pregnant. >> it's not like i will be able to run the world record or anything like that. >> the response from her doctor. good morning nelly! woah.
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[applause] golden gate bridge officials approved a multiple million dollar plan to build a suicide barrier. it is a $76 million project to line the span of the bridge with a net. since the bridge opened more than 2,000 people have jumped to their deaths. tom joins us live. >> that decision a unanimous
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affirmation for a second chance. years since it was first wide open followed by those moments of personal contact that only a whole room of those who survived a common disasterrer before the vote some tried to explain it. >> how much trauma in this room and so much trauma related to suicide. >> i lost my 17-year-old daughter casey to the bridge. >> suicide is a destroyer for survivors. >> it is a heartbreak that never goes away. >> for more than three quarters of a century two souls a month have chose this place to end their lives. >> he drove back the other way
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and jumped to the west to take the pain away. >> some 2,000 known deaths the cost of the barrier comes out to $38,000 a victim. >> the true healing can only begin when the steady drip of bodies into the raging waters have stopped. >> to prevent future deaths to prevent future families going through what we are going through. >> after the vote the most relieved was kevin hinds because he survived his own jump into the ocean below. >> it's a renewed sense of hope that when this happened you realized that if we can do this we can do anything. and if we can stop suede on the golden gate bridge we can fight to stop is globally. >> the two to five years needed could cost yet another 100
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lives. reporting live tom channel 2 news. the federal government will cover $50 million of the total cost. the rest will come from state and local sources. police are searching for a gunman after a man was shot last night behind a liquor store near ashby. a 38-year-old man was shot and taken to the hospital with serious injuries. he is in stable condition. he's a family man who works and takes classes at a community college. >> i'm surprised he would get shot because he's not the type of person that's in a vialent life style. it was shocking to all of us around here. >> witnesses said there was an argument before the shooting and the victim stumbled into the store. police searched the neighborhood but no arrests have been made. a man charged made his first courts appearance today. david stevenson was there and learned of one possible connection to the arsonon site
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with the suspect. >> police originally booked andfully on six felony counts and tied to a fire at an apartment complex that we learned the suspect wrote about in his previous court filings. >> san francisco police say 47- year-old is the man seen in this june 19 surveillance tape charged with robbery and arson for a fire that destroyed a luxury car. >> any time you have surveillance video it's going to be helpful to the prosecution of the case. >> he was arrested a few feet from his apartment on 1st street. he pleaded not guilty. they may add another charge for a fire in the building but say the surveillance cameras don't show anything. >> there isn't a video that shows a fire being set. >> court documents indicate a
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former roommate alleged he physically harassed him and threatened to kill him. alleging they shot guns and arrows at him from a construction site at the building. police san diego today urged caution about other recent construction sites and trash can fires in the city market district. >> not all of those cases may be attributed to this current defendant. >> he's due back in directing your attention july 10. his bond was reduced yesterday to $450,000 today. the judge ordered him to stay 150 yards from the building if he manages to make bail. reporting live in san francisco david stevenson ktvu channel 2 news. about to get a big infusion of cash to restart some of the programs for children and families. mike thompson announced they'll receive a $1.2 million early
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head start grant. it will be used to provide services to 1800 children and their families throughout the county. the grant restores funding loss through the federal. team u.s.a. gearing up for the next game in the world cup. reaction from the player. and dangerously dry hills that could easily catch fire if fireworks go astray. precautions taken this year to make sure nothing goes up in flame. human remains in the back yard and other art facts with the remains that may explain how it got there. the president wants families to have more paid sick time and flexible hours. what he's done so far and what hurdles this plan may face.
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too many families are having to make difficult choices as president obama for example stay home with a sick child or go to work and get paid. now jacquelyn explains the president is giving a push to make the work place better. >> mike is forced to take a personal day off of work if his wife or daughter is sick. suzanne kline is lucky enough to stay at home but she's
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baffled america is one of the only advanced countries without sick leave. >> you need to be able to have your job to come back to if you have to take care of your children parents or you or your husband have an illness. >> the president aagrees. she's trying for access to affordable child care. >> we are fighting to make sure hard work pays off and making sure that women get paid the same as men for the same job and folks have flexibility to look after a sick child or parent. >> the president stab lisched six weeks paid family leave but can't do that without congressal action. >> some states create a paid leave program. kernel the 1993 family medical leave act provides most workers with 12 weeks of unpaid leave for family or medical reasons.
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in washington jacquelyn ktvu news. the president to expand flexible work hours possible. disease control. women who consume eight or more drinks a week fall into the heavy drinker classification and for men it's 14 or more. a drink is five ounces of wine 12-ounces of beer or one and a half of liquor. it's different for women because they are smaller than men and more alcohol am ends up in their blood extreme. team u.s.a. ends up in the world cup and it's win or go home. they still made it through to the knock out round as the second place finisher in their group. they'll play bell gum on tuesday but the u.s. is confident. >> we said we wanted to get to the next round and anything could happen so here we are now and i think we can get pretty
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far in this. >> although the games are being played in brazil we are seeing world cup fiver. here's the empire stadium lit up in red white and blue. >> here we are just days away from the fourth of july. tonight the extra step firefighters are taking this year to keep all of us safe. a u.s. berkley grad still quick on her feet in her final trimester of pregnancy. >> two minutes and 2030 seconds is a long way off. >> tonight what her doctor says about running a race six weeks before her due date. the fog is back along the coast but we are going to see very high temperatures to increase your fire danger. i'll let you know which day will be the hottest for the
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♪ sleep train ♪ your ticket to a better night's sleep ♪ the night skies of oakland lighting up with illegal fireworks. this was last fourth of july and fire officials hope they don't see a repeat. the concern is fireworks in the extremely dry conditions in the oakland hills but there is good news. live with what oakland fire has planned. rob? >> fire stations all over oakland expect to have their hands full over fourth of july
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but for the first time in two years all fire stations will be open. none of them will be closed or browned out this year. firefighters will be patrolling the streets beginning thursday the third of july. with the hills bone dry from are the drought they worry what simple sparks could do. >> last year right across the street from my house we had a fire. there was fireworks that were going on and when the fire department came by. >> the fire department will have all 24 gear stations open on july 1. two years ago two fire stations were closed or browned out because of budget cuts. last year one station was closed but it is restored just in time for the holiday did. >> we'll be able to get more people on the scene in a quicker manner. >> so-called safe and season fireworks beginning tomorrow
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but in oakland all fireworks are illegal and even though those caught every year fireworks go off on the fourth of july often in the city's flat lands. >> everyone is going to be out patrolling. hopefully it will act as a deterrent but we'll be able to spot something. >> it's so dry around here and the hills are brown and we really need to be aware of how problematic it could be. >> police tell us they also plan on increasing patrols. they are concerned about gunshots that seem to go off as well and in addition to fireworks causing fires they often cause serious injuries to those setting them off and bi- standers. reporting live in oakland rob roth ktvu news. a professional track star is making headlines for competing a race while eight
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months pregnant. alisa mont o. this is video from the track website. not only did she get the okay from the doctor but they even encouraged her to run. >> they recommend that whatever you were doing that you continue to do. mainly because of your chemical balance so it's actually a really good thing and especially coming from 1980s where they thought if a woman ran more than a mile their auto russ was going to foul out. >> she finished in two minutes 32 seconds six weeks away from the due date. she's a graduate of uc berkley. not a bad time considering. >> considering anything. good for her. this is nye normal this year. perfectly normal keep it up. >> bill i don't think you want to know what my normal is. >> think about the baby in there because the baby is going up and down a whole bunch twice
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around the track. it doesn't look healthy but the doctor says it's okay. but when you look at it it looks jarring. >> as we head outside we got plenty to talk about and it's going to stay mostly at the coast. i love this shot behind me. you are looking back at oakland hills. you can see emeryville over there the twin towers and if you look back you can see where the dad teach mathematics. >> no my mom teaches there now. >> does your dad teach? >> no i wish. >> i was wrong. it's right across the bay. beautiful shot with the fog. temperatures outside today 81 in napa, 81 in santa rosa, 85 in fairfield. i always thought it was your dad. what your dad do. >> he works out in liver more. >> i thought i knew you. that high pressure is going to pinch the fog right down and
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that's what we are seeing. it's not going to get that far inland the next couple of days not on sunday and monday and the fire danger and temperatures will come up. rain to the north of us the last few days. over an inch of rain great for the force up near the cascades. up around ashland so good news for a little rain this time of year is great for everybody. we just got a few drops. nothing to measure. current temperatures 82 in fairfield. kernel in san jose it's 76 degrees and clouds to the north. an jose you are going to get to the 80-degree reading tomorrow by sunday into the mid 80s so a nice looking day for the bay area saturday. sunday is the warmest day and monday will be warmer still. high pressure building and 90s in the valley but mostly in the
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central modesto and then those 90s creep our direction as we head into sunday the warmest day into monday. that's when the fire danger comes up. so the computer model lays out the fog for tomorrow morning into fremont. i think a little less they are pray aggressive with the fog but more 90s popping into the picture. this is the forecast for saturday, sunday these reds into here. the reds being 90 so it's warming up through the weekend. forecast tomorrow 80 in and 87. the inland bay values. air quality less than design probably as we head into sunday. so that's going to trap in the poll quite yans from the cars and you are going to notice a little but of poor air quality. as we head into sunday the pride parade in san francisco is going to start at 10:30 in the morning. 63 degrees. a lot of folks go out for this
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parade. you end up at the end of the day at 3:00 p.m. it's 71 degrees so a nice looking day for the weekend. five day forecast clearly in view. fire danger comes back onto the table late in the weekend early next week. >> bill thank you. a dog makes a bizarre discovery in a back yard. other art facts found with it that may shed some clues on who it may belong to. changings in the criminal justice system. why some say lighter sentences could mean safer communities. i'll tell you about the effort to rebrand oakland to bring tourists in and whether or not it's working. >> those stories and more coming up at 6.
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a dog makes an unexpected discovery, human remains in his backer. now working to determine the origin and age of the remains. the 14-year-old dog dug up the remains in the back yard yesterday. the items appear to be art facts possibly used as part of a caribbean religious tradition. new rules on how food trucks post their prices. the rules are meant to make things easier for customers and trucks alike. >> small businesses time is money. for popular food trucks it's
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all about eefficiency. menus are small. it's easier to get the food out fast plus when the lines are long and it's no secret why prices are in whole dollars it takes time to collect small change especially for operators who have to cook along with taking orderers. >> it makes a huge difference. >> once you fork over your dollars operators still have to give you back exact change after the sales tax is added. >> we are making exact change on odd numbers and it shows touchdown our lines quite a bit. >> come july 1 is t will allow to add the sales tax without having to post the sign. businesses can calculate the tax they ow later so change comes back in whole dollars. they help food trucks secretary seed. >> when they have a successful business california tax payers
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win too. >> give me an easy number and here you go. >> we only have a half hour for lunch so this is good for us. >> most food trucks also take credit and debt cards 70% of sales are still in cash. they hope to capture and please more customers after the rule change. >> that was wong reporting. according to one report california's 30,000 food trucks raked in more than $30 billion in oakland alone. going on 2014 november baltimore than 33,000 signatures were secured. if the proposal passes 48,000 workers would receive a raise and more than 63,000 workers would receive sick days. if the minimum wage was raised more than a quarter of the cities workers would get a raise. congress is healthed out on the july 4 break and elected
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officials don't have much time left to get things turf done. >> very few legitimative days left in the year. >> after the month of july congress will only be in session for a total of 12 days until the november election. lawmakers on break for all of august and most of september and october and then a lame duck congress and unlikely to tackle. even though they are not here in office they are still hard at work in their districts but time is running out for goals like comprehensive immigration reform as well as highway funding. >> we need more work getting feed back from constituents who don't want unsafe roads. >> the highway trust fund pays for road and bridge construction and repair nationwide. if congress doesn't act the fund will begin to run out of money this sum jeremy morin. >> a key water main break for the second time in six weeks.
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we'll tell you how aging infrastructure is costing you now and could cost you even more in the future. neighbors started knocking on doors to help others get out safely. a fast moving fire to tore through homes. public money that some hope will turn a profit for oakland. a key water main breaks sending a extreme of water down the street but the cost of aging infrastructure can grow from a extreme to a flood. good evening i'm ken pritchett. >> as we reported at five a large water main broke again today a second time in six weeks. it's the sixth break in the area in a decade. the pipeline is the green line west of highway 13 in oakland hills. breaks are caused by the shifting earth near the fault and a pipe that's 83 years old.
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john fowler shows us h it's costing you and how the cost is growing all the time. >> after neighbors noticed water spurting up in the street we discovered more than a decade of repeated water main failures. several places on this block of harvard drive i ronically a crew replacing the pipe with new is just a few yards away and a couple of more days would have changed out the section that failed today. it was first installed 83 years ago. >> they did not know the fault line ran through here. we didn't have a freeway that ran through the area. >> the green line is being replaced with 12,000 feet of steel pipe much of it in steep unstable soils. for some parts they might use flexible pipe inside it. they are spending $86 million
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