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sivertsen. now from ktvu fox 2, this is the 10:00 news. people using chain saws to clear debris and crews restoring power. it's the big craneup afternoon the first storm of 2015, just in time for storm no. 2. good evening i'm heather holmes. >> i'm ken wayne and we have live coverage. ktvu's debora villalon is live where pg&e crews are working to gets the power on. >> we want to start with our meteorologist mark tamayo. >> you know it's an active week when we start to number the storms. storm 2 rapidly approaching the bay area shoreline. as far as rainfall totals
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really adding up. the santa cruz mountains nearly 3.5" rainfall. santa rosa 2.6and livermore, nearly 1.5". san francisco nearly .75 inch, but everybody picking up more rain in the sunday forecast. on live stormtracker right now, heier few lingering rain and snow showers territories the east, towards the sawyer and towards cape mendocino. there is the circulation on the lift portion of your screen and that is our next storm. storm no. 2 for sunday will bring the chance of scattered thunderstorms and heavy rainfall with rainfall expectations 2-8.5" and another wind producer, winds gusting to 50 miles per hour. our forecast model at 6:00 heier.m., the rainband offshore, approaching our shoreline and look at what happens by 9:00 and 10:00? that rain basically expands over heier good portion of the
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bay area, packing moderate to heavy downpours. we'll continue to track the rain forecast as we head into the 10:35 update and talk more about the wind advisory. >> thank you, mark. ez stoke wind and rain brought down power lines and trees all over the bay area. in some areas they kept falling. in novato and power line fall and sparked this one-acre fire in the marsh. it's under control and no structures were threatened. the majority of the outages are still in it the north bay. ktvu's debora villalon is live in san rafael, where pg&e is staging trucks and crews for another onslaught tomorrow. >> reporter: it's turning into quite heier weekend for the utility and its customers. we have been watch agencies trucks roll back into the barn. you can see them off in the distance and some of them just returning from heier long night inlarkspur. >> her street lost power
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friday afternoon. >> there was heier big explosion and then everybody went dark. >> it was more than 24-hours before we saw repairman making the fix. >> it means very dim lights, very, very dim and it's hard to read by. we can't turn the computer on. can't cook. can't get warm. >> wife been going 24 hours since yesterday. it's been one thing after another. >> reporter: and tomorrow is another all- hands day, every crew work. the break in in the blustery weather will end with the arrival of more rain, more wind and inevitably more trees falling. ever wish there were less trees? >> no, the trees are great.
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job security? >> job security, exactly. >> reporter: around the corner an even bigger job heier downed tree and wires plus heier snapped power pole. residents waited for backedup crews to arrive. their homes with no power for more than 24 hours. >> you guys are doing -- heier great job. >> is it heier hardship. >> it's hard to explain sometime it's not just heier switch you flick. pg&e asks for patience as it tries to dispatch troubleshooters and linemen to all of the spots that pop up. many customers feel as she does, heading into round 2. >> fingers crossed. >> reporter: working on the bucket trucks are heier challenge in the strong winds, they can flim or the buckets can be pushed into the lines. with 60 miles per hour gusts pge ordered all the buckets to come down until the conditions eased for safety. now the utility also brought in
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extra crews from oregon and washington, but ken, i'm told that they are working up in shatheier and plumas county. >> new developments from pge, work crews are almost done restoring all the power from yesterday's storm and the unumprovident says friday's storm knocked out power to more than 93,000 customers and tonight, 99% of them have their power back. about 1200 outages do remain with most of them in the north bay. crews are coming in from washington and oregon to help out with the next storm. >> viewers have been sending us pictures of downed trees all over the bay area. want you to look at heier tree limbs that came crashing down when i large branch fell just behind this parked volkswagen. now so lucky for this red car, at the same time location.
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the branches completely covering that vehicle. firefighters say heier win- driven fire near the nevada border damaged or destroyed 40 homes and scorched 7,000 acres it's on the border of mono and inyo counties. it has forced heier few dozen people from two rural communities. this the picture of the fire burning overnight. tonight it's said to be 50% contained heier gofundme site has been set you up for victims. it has received pledges of more than $7,000. stay with kutv through the weekend and our team of the meteorologists is tracking this storm. strikers workers in martinnese marched on picket line today. >> stand up. >> dozen of members the united
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steelworkers protested as refinery trucks continue to come into the plant. police were called, but no arrest were observed. the local action expands the nationwide strike the first at u.s. oil refinecies since 1980. workers say their main sis safety. >> we want to get the contract and we want to get training for our employees. training that we're involved in, and we want safety. that is what we are here for. >> heier tanker crossed the picket line. take heier look. going pretty fast, but it didn't hit anyone. shell oil is leading negotiations for the refineries and says the strike is "not expected to disrupt operations." work has been disrupted at the port of oakland. the normally busy port looks like the ghost town today. >> getting to the point, heier breaking point where the system is really sort of collapsing
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under its own weight. we're experiencing significant delays and backlogs. >> they really need to get back to the bargaining table and get this thing settled because the consequences for americans and workers are too big. >> southern california workers showed up to protest the shut down. the ports are expected to re- open on monday, but for each day they are closed economists say the regional economy loses $1.2 billion. loud crowd took to the streets of oakland calling to governor brown to ban fracking in california. it makes climate change and the drought worse they say. ktvu's cristina rendon was there. >> reporter: from san diego to chico the passionate crowd gathered oakland with the message for governor jerry brown. >> we're bringing people from all over california to oakland
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to call on governor brown to ban fracking now. >> reporter: activists took to the interests of what they call heier march forreal climate leadership and say numerous studies show hydraulic fracturing or practing is say process of using water, sand all chemicals to blast underground rocks at high pressure in order to extract oil and gas. it's heier very dangerous process that pollute ours air and pollutes our fresh water at heier time we don't have water to waste. >> reporter: oakland 's mayor schaaf. >> we need to follow the lead of scientists, the state of new york and others throughout the nation who are recognizing that fracking endangers our drinking water and can even make outlooks even earthquakes worse. >> reporter: she says california is the
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third larceniest consumer off oil and gas in the world as it's produced under strict environmental standards set by the state. >> they are using fracking as heier trojan horse and really the end goal is to stop all fossil fuel production and with an economy of our scale it doesn't make sense to stop our use of fossil fuels overnight. >> reporter: she says an outright ban would increase our against on foreign oil, forcing it to be brought in by tanker ships and railcars. still they argue governor brown to end fracking and the use of renewable resources. we need heier tradition to put more people to work and need clean jobs and not dangerous temporary oil jobs. chp officers arrested the driver that killed heier little girl for murder. the crash in cupertino happened when heier jeep wrangler stuck an suv on the side of highway
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85. the 8-year-old violent died. authorities say the driver, the jeep driver had method methadone in his system. he faces murder and other charges. heier truck thief is in critical condition after he was shuttle multi political times by highway patrol officers in sacramento after heier 50-mile chase. the chase began in stockton and the suspect found himself in heier dead-end road. investigators say he did heier u-turn and started to driver towards the officers. that is what two officers opened fire. >> you know, those officers absolutely feared for their safety with the circumstances that the suspect already showed and the intent to flee and now you have that utility truck come back at the officers. >> chp officers say during the chase from stockton they tried twice to stop the driver with
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spike-strips. the strips did not cause severe tire damage, but the driver refused to stop. olympic gold medalist and realist star bruce jenner was involved in heier multi-vehicle crash in which heier woman was killed. jenner was not hurt, but several people suffered minor to moderate injuries. it happened on the park coast highway in malibu. law enforcement officials called the crash heier chain- reaction accident that apparently startd when heier preus slowed and was rear-ended by heier lexysus, and the lexus was then hit by jenner. >> it appears that bruce jenner was involved in the rear- ending the vehicle. however, he was the third car in heier multiple rear-end collision. >> jenner reportedly told investigators on the scene "he was being followed by several cars carrying several photographers." he is reported to said he was not trying to get away from pap
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raiseheier. >> dance traitsing heier the dog's thoughts into words. >> excuse me, i need your attention. >> tonight at 10:00 the high- tech technology giving dogs the voice and how it could be used to save live. >> after days of talk about his credibility, nbc news anchor brian williams makes heier incidence about his meet system. >> the captain of the queen elizabeth cruise ship says it's still the actually after decades and the economic boost of the queen's visit.
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a volcano eruption stopped all air traffic at the international airport the and ashes filled the air and poured on to nearby towns. so far evacuations have not been ordered and meth officials are encouraging people to stay inside, wear masks and cover water tank. nbc anchor man brian williams is stepping down from miz nightly newscast temporarily amid questions about his credibility. williams falsely said on the air and during interviews he was in a helicopter hit by a rocket-propelled grenade while covering the iraq war in 2003. he has since apologized. the note said that williams sent a note so to the staff that, "it has become painfully apparent that his absences have become too much part of the news."
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one flight engineer says he thinks williams' apology is enough. >> i don't understand what was the purpose -- who got the most out of that? >> the president of nbc news announced yesterday that the new york would do a fact- checking investigation on williams that would review the iraq incident. >> world leaders including vice president joe biden and secretary of state john kerry met to discuss the crisis in the ukraine. mr. biden said the u.s. will continue to support ukraine's defense while france and germany will continue to pursue diplomacy, but the vice president had a warning for the russian president. >> president putin has to make a simple stark choice, gets out of ukraine, or face continued isolationing and growing economic costs at home. ukraine's defense chief inspected his countries a weapons today and expressed hope that western powers will
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help ukraine. an estimated 5,000 people have died in the conflict. russian president vladimir putin says his nation doesn't want war, but won't let other countries interfere when he calls russia's development." the detroit free press ran a story about a michigan factory worker who walked miles to his job after his car broke down. those days are over for james robertson. a car dealership gave him a new candy-red ford taurus. a gofundme site raised more than $300 afternoon. i would like to thank all of the people who made the contributions. you know, you guys are the real heroes as far as i'm concern. >> robertson says whenever he steps into his new car will will remind him where he has been and where he is going. >> great story.
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the luxury crews linear queen mary is docked in the pier in san francisco. >> 35:00 we boarded the tugboat owe delta katherine" as they helped to guide the ship into the bay. the water perfectly king5. we're right next to the golden gate bridge and beyond us is the queen elizabeth. the ship you can see there with flashes light lighted that are passengers on board who have gotten up early and snapping photos as the ship prepares to pass underneath the golden gate bridge. the tugboat was there as a precaution and the ship's captain was able to pilot the boat with no problem. clark has been a captain for nearly four decades and says moments like the one this morning never lose their appeals. >> this is one of the iconic
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ports our world voyage and it's always a thrill to come under the bridge and come into the port. >> the queen elizabeth is in san francisco as part of 112- day crews. not all of the passengers are on board for the entire four- month trip, but san francisco is a port where some board, some depart and everyone is expected to spend a little money. >> we're trying to build so you can start and end your cruises in san francisco and that means that the ships have to be provisioned and we need room to bring on all the produce that needs to come on and some of the local wines or whatever the passengers might desire. >> san francisco port director says 80 cruise liners dock in san francisco every year, bringing an economic benefit of $60 million to the city. in city, allie rasmus, ktvu. a bay area candy company is recalling valentine's candy.
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sees conditioneddia says some of the heart-shaped boxes with assorted chocolates. people with allergies to coconut, almonds or pecans run the risk of a potentially dangerous reaction if they eat the candy j. radioshack is starting to shut down stores across the country. today the electronic's company ban to liquidate 700 stores with plans to close more. they filed bankruptcy after years of fighting off low sales. analysts say the texas-based company couldn't compete with electronics available at best buy, wal-mart and amazon. 9,000 mile as way, his death hit one bay area group very hard. >> honoring the jordanian pilot killed by isis and the hopes that this group has as the fight against the islamic state intensifies. a simple tug or wave of the
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your dog is your most loyal companion and now it may be able to talk back to you. developers at garbage tech have come up with a siri forfideoy and the improved communication may help to save lives. the story from atlanta. >> excuse me, i will need your attention. >> reporter: it's a remarkable new technology that gives voice to those who have none. a giant leap forward in communication between service dogs and their owners. >> they can nudge the person, they can bark. they can speak in dog language. but what we are trying to do is give them a way to communicate
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clearly with their handledler. dr. jackson and her team are developing wearable technology that makes it possible for a dog to talk by simply pulling on a-elastic activator or waving its nose in a sensor. the vests can be customized to help deaf or disabled people or hose who might suffer a medical emergency. >> excuse me, i need your attention. >> reporter: jackson is even designing a vest that can be worn by a bomb- sniffing dog. depending on what explosive the dog finds it could communicate that to the bomb squad. >> what they need is to know what kind of explosive has the dog found? the dog knows. dog knows is this tatp, which is really volatility? >> georgia tech police say it's easy to take a highly- trained dog and get them used to the new technology. >> we have replicated it, you know, as little as just a few seconds. it's just a matter of conditioning the dog for a special response. >> reporter:
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jackson is also working on a sort of remote control for dogs. a vest imbedded with tiny vibrating motors. depend on which motor buzzes it sends different commands to the dog. a way to work with dogs far way fromhir handlers or in situations requiring stealth. other technology jackson is experimenting is cell phone and gps for the vests. a dog call 911 or a search-and- rescue dog would activate a gps locator with a missing person and stay with them until rescuers arrive. tomorrow a satellite will be launched to put an early- warning system into space that will watch out for solar storms. the storms on the sun can wreak havoc on earth. flares have knocked out communications, computers and entire power grids. researchers from noaa say that deep space climate observatory should help to prevent disasters. >> if we can get the extra
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warning time, the 15-60 minutes warning time allows to us provide information to decision- makers. >> if all goods well the observatory will be propelled about a million miles into space, giving researchers a full hemispheric view of earth. >> it might be the happy auction on earth. a huge collection of disneyland history went on display at a gallery southern california and it's all for sale. the collection includes mickey mouse costumes and drawings of the park and personal items that belonged to walt disney himself. the germany owner says the collector wants to share his treasures with the world. >> this is an amazing collection that one collector acquired over 30 years and spanneds the history of disneyland. it's incredible. he collected the entire park. >> germany owner estimates the collection is worth about $$1
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million. the auction takes place february 28th and march 1st. no one knew him, but they tell us it still felt like a personal attack. jordanian-americans in the bay area honoring a pilot killed by isis and their call to the u.s. for help. we're really, really lucky. because the dogs and i were just outside. >> high winds brings down a massive free and the upcoming debate to ban this type of tree in one bay area city.
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the united arab emirates is ordering a squadron to help with the strikes. they say it's only the beginning of it's retaliation for the death of that pilot. the pain and heartache over that pilot's death continues ktvu's christien kafton was in san francisco where people expressed their grief and anger at the terrorists behind the brutal killing. jordanian-americans lit up the night, pushing back against the darkness sharing the flames. ♪[ music ]♪ singsongs and remembering lt. mu'ath al-kaseasbeh and the other victims of the isis. >> it's a candlelight vigil to honor notice only the jordan pilot, but the japanese hostages and the bright and americans and last american from arizona. >> reporter: te didn't know him, but still feels like a personal attack.
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>> even though this tragedy happen & 9,000 miles away, we feel like he is right here with us, even though he is not physically with us. his spirit will remain with us. >> reporter: those say that the motivation behind the execution was to intimidate jordannians from participating in a coalition against isis, it backfired. >> we're more determined than ever and i'm pretty sure this whole world is determined to put isis down. >> reporter: jordan has already struck back way series of air strikes on suspected isis strongholds. as they march through south san francisco, jordanian-americans said their former homeland has taken a lead role in stamping out the terrorist organization and hopes that america follows suit and commits to eliminating the threat that isis presents. we still need help from the western countries, obviously the united states and we need the united states to take
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decisive action. >> reporter: in south san francisco, kliten kafton, ktvu fox 2 news. isis claims the recent air strikes killed an american, who was held hostage for months. in arizona, police cars blocked the home of the parents of that 26-year-old aid worker who was kidnapped by islamic state militant. they sade that kayla mueller was killed in a jordanain air strike, but so far that claim has not been verified and mueller's parents are holding uthope she is still alived. friends described her as a young woman committed to helping poem those in need. >> one of those folks who looks for the good in everything and in that vein, she goes on ahead and tries to look for that with the way she
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acts and that is what put her in this position. >> muehler was kidnapped in aleppo in august of 2013 after she left a hospital operated by doctors without boards. >> we have developing news of a crash? foreman that put three pedestrians in the hospital. it happened at 14th street and south van ness avenue not far from the highway 101 free entrance. according to san francisco police two vehicles collided at intersection. one of them continued to roll and struck three people walking in a crosswalk. the victim were taken to san francisco general hospital with life-threatening injuries. police have not made any rests at this point. the storm that hit the bay area last night caused some damage and katie utehs was in berkeley. >> reporter: a day of clean-up following a night with little sleep in the berkeley hills. >> we're really, really lucky.
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>> reporter: howling windy toppled this massive pine planted in her backyard. unfortunately when it fell she was vacuuming in her home. >> ways pretty shocked simpyouply because simply because i was just outside with the dogs. >> reporter: it punch a hole in the house two residents down. >> nobody got hurt and that is the important thing. >> reporter: sandy slept less comfortably. >> every time there was a gust of wind i got the heebie- jeebies. it's pretty scary. >> reporter: property owner tells me he has his trees inspected every year and this one was just trimmed. however, it's nearly 50 years old, nearly the end of its life and monterey pines are
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notorious for finding. tree removal crews estimated clean-up taking half the day and in the meantime, sandy will be walking her dogs on leash. >> the fences are do you mean and they are a little confused this that they don't have their yard anymore, but we'll deal with it. >> and the berkeley city council is considering a ban on certain types of trees including the monterey pines. there are several options up to debate from ho' hibitting several species on public and private property. city council is expected to review the proposal tess its meeting on tuesday. when storms hit the bay area, skiers and snowboarders start checking out the snow forecast. we have details about the resort that could get' of snow by monday. plus we're notice done here, our meteorologist mark tamayo is following the latest path of the storm coming up next
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. skiers and snowboarders found some fresh powder at mammoth today offer the last day 7-12" fell with more snow come and expect to top 3' at elevations above 8,000'. >> in livermore, the rainbow arced across the sky. >> look at that. >> hear we saw one end all the way to the other side. mark tamayo in the weather center and mark you have been warning us tomorrow will be wet and windy. >> yes, remember just a few days ago we were talking about record heat and dry conditions. finally, this change out developing. right now we're in between storms. just clouds, mostly cloudy skies and our live doppler
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sweeps showing you not much, partly cloudy skies. there is a chance we could have a pop-up shower in the short- term, but with the rain up to cape mendocino and lingering rain showers and snow showers in the sierras. you see sugar bowl reporting 10" and they do have a winter weather advisory coming up for later tomorrow and into monday. snow levels still way up there, probably starting out about 8 afternoon' and come down to 7,000' early monday morning, but the winter weather advisory in place for the sierra primarily for the higher terrain. storm 2 approaches the winds do pick up once again. first thing tomorrow morning a wind advisory for the entire bay area, those wins clocking in out of the south to southeast first thing tomorrow morning. in terms of rainfall we're going to add them up once again. coastal hills and north bay 3",
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but you can see the range .75" to 2" for parts of the north bay. so this is nought just a few hundredth of the bay area picking up michael jordan to heavy rainfall moderate to heavy rainfall. there is developing offshore a very well-defined circulation and good sign it's a strong one. the forecast for tomorrow, sunday rain, the chance of thunderstorms. i think the heavy rain is for the morning hours and winds picking up 40-50 miles per hour, increasing throughout the morning hours and into the afternoon. here is our forecast model, 6:00, the first bands rain beginning to approach our shoreline and look at what happens by 8:00, 9:00. they be into the afternoon hours get the yellows and reds, the signature of some pop-up thunderstorms. so throughout the day tomorrow, all day long you might hear thunder and see lightning as
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well as we have an unstable air mass over the bay area all day sunday. then into monday, we're going to hold on to the chance of a few pop-up showers especially for the morning hours. still, can't go completely dry on monday. fanfest for tomorrow for the oakland a says, you can count on rainfall at 10:00 a.m. and then throughout the afternoon hours. sun-cloud mix and still some scattered showers. temperaturestor former temperature for tomorrow. santa cruz 69 degrees. there is storm no. 2 pushing into the region, showers likely into monday, primarily for the morning hours. looks like a warm weather pattern talking about the low 70s by wednesday and thursday. second storm tomorrow. >> it's going to be busy. >> thank you, mark. well, coming up next, it is upset saturday across college basketball, including in berkeley. >> and the warriors continue their road-trip as they take on the knicks in new york.
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. good evening everyone and welcome to this saturday night edition of sportswrap of the a grueling five-day stretch has ended with a pretty good result fiscal quarterriers, three wins in four games in there time. phil jackson running things in new york these days and steve kerr has to be thankful he guided to coach golden state rather than the knicks. draymond green on the wait to a 20-point night. warriors needed production and got from andre iguodala. 6 warriors in double figures in
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this one. and they went to the locker room with some momentum. steph curry with the 3 in the final five seconds and curry on the way to a 22-point night, golden state by 16 at halftime. a pretty pray in the 3rd quarter, thompson to bogut. the warriors didn't score a point just short of 6.5 minutes when green threw the ball away here. and larkin went in for the point. the knicks cut the deficit to just 5. the warriors went 7.5 minute in between field goals. the warriors were back up by 8 and then curry hit back-to-back 3-pointer owns successive possessions. they bounce back from their loss in atlanta and find their legs late and take care of the knicks 106-92
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