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up without her dad now. it happened again for the third time in less than a week a mural depicted gay latinos was vandalized in the mission district. this time police may have some evidence to help them catch those responsible. >> well this marks the third time now that this mural depicting lgbt themes has been vandalized and this time police have surveillance video. >> many people stopping by this mural in san francisco mission's district say they have sad and disgusted to see it vandalized with spray paint once again. >> just really makes he mad people put their heart into it. >> the mural coincides with san francisco's up coming gay pride celebration.
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on paper and glued to the wall and replaced it with an identical mural last thursday. then around midnight saturday, two days later it, it happened again only this time with black paint. the gallery also seifing home phobic messages so insulting we won't show them. >> with we still have a lot to talk about. >> reporter: the first wave of vandalism the gallery repaired the security cameras which captured the latest incident. it shows two people committing the vandalism and that the face of at least one of them is plane arkansas plain to see. within. >> we're supposed to be a city of color on top of that. so when you see that it
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actually is frustrating and i don't see the tolerance, honestly. >> reporter: hoping to replace the mural by the end of the week but also wants to sponsor a community forum where people can express their views face to face. >> so what are police doing to catch those responsible. and they have the surveillance video. why aren't they releasing it at this time? >> reporter: they say the video as some evident revalue to it. adon't want to put it out to the public just yet. but also plan to increase their patrols especially at night in this area to try to deter what's been going on here. >> three times in less than a week. thank you. now to the death of the foreman: er san francisco giants center fielder darrel hamilton. it appears he was the victim of a murder-suicide. saying hamilton was found shot to death inside his home along with his girlfriend who died of an self-inflected
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gunshot. hamilton was 50 years old and his girlfriend was 44. he played major league baseball for 13 years. the san francisco giants issued a statement saying they were shocked and saddened to learn about passing of daryl yesterday. he was there from 1997. 9198. we extend our deppest sympathies to his family and friends. a clue was revealed today about two convicted killers. authorities found the prisoner's dna in an abandoned cabin and now refoesed -- focused their search nearby. >> reporter: officials calling off a search for two escaped murders there. combing the allegany area after men were seen near train tracks on saturday. >> the description provided by the witness was similar to the description of our escapees. we have declared that area
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clear. >> reporter: this seen very different in franklin county roughly 25-miles west of the prison where hundreds of officer from aviation and k9 teams have converged setting up roadblocks and searching homes in the woods. conclusive evidence was recovered in a hunting cabin. dna matching both david sweat and richard matt. >> we have recovered specific items from that cabin and forwarded them to the appropriate laboratories. we are not prepared to release that evidence at this time so with do not jeopardize the continue newty of the investigation. >> reporter: sweat and matt have been on the rub since june 6th. state police say more than 2,000 leads have been developed in the case and asking people in the area around the prison to continue to report anything suspicious. >> this is especially true of seasonal camp owners that now that the summer season is here if you return to your camp and anything is out of place call 911 immediately. >> reporter: accused accomplice
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joyce mitchell remains behind bars and claiming his client knew nothing about the escape. fox news. an update now on a shooting that occurred at the same time as last friday's parade for the warriors in oakland. three people shot were not linked to the parade or the rally for the team. the shooting happened about 5 blocks from the celebration on lake shore avenue. all three of the victims are men and all are in stable condition. they also say no one has been arrested. a widening project along highway 4 may cause some coreconsider their commute. it will be shut down each night this week. the effected area includes 160 connect or ramp and laurel road. it's scheduled to run from midnight until 5:00 a.m. the project will also require some lane closures at other times. quite a sight in san francisco today. dozens of police officers and
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others running through the streets the city carrying the torch for the special olympics and raising $15,000 in funds. >> reporter: on a chilly morning in san francisco dozens of aspiring police officers filed into union square for a special viewing. >> i enjoy helping out the special olympics. >> reporter: two academy classes volunteered for the torch run. >> it's a great honor to be apart of this recruit process. and to be helping out with a cause like this it makes you feel really good. [ singing national anthem ] opening with the national anthem and then it was time to
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start run. today we're okay. we have a biggest court from the san francisco police department. >> reporter: after working with special olympics for the past 20 years i was invited to lead the first leg. >> we're all in with special olympics. all right, here we go. first we headed west and then south on jones and through the tinder loin. >> through the run we had people join in. it's just a great feel good san francisco thing. >> reporter: a good san francisco thing that helps with the cause allowing athletes to compete year round. >> i won 42 gold medals in the previous years. >> it's an honor and we like the benefit. it's helping the special olympics bring attention to their cause. >> reporter: running alongside these inspirational athletes they weave their way through 10- miles up back to union square. >> they're keeping up just as
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good as we can. >> reporter: truth be told i ran just half a mile before i had enough. some recruits didn't run the whole time either but they have lots more police training ahead. >> it's very taxing. so i want to make sure i preserve my energy for the rest of the week. we have a long week ahead of us. >> reporter: the torch will move it's way this week. in san francisco, ktvu fox 2 news. some people tell us a fire hydrant has been leaking for nearly a year and hasn't been fixed. a dispute between the city and a neighbor that's getting in the way of repairs. a wildfire south of lake tahoe still out of control tonight. now burned nearly 14 square miles. the latest on road closures and a town now on standby to evacuate. and bad ole borders up close and personal with a shark just off the coast of southern
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president obama used the n- word in a podcast that was released today to make a point about the history of slavery and segregation being apart of this country's dna. he said the country is not cured of raisism. the president said, quote, and it's not just a matter of it not being polite to say the n- word in public." he also said that's not the pressure whether raise imstill exists. the white house says the president wasn't trying to be provacuumtive he was trying to make a point and he does not regret using that word. >> the president made clear it's not possible to juke the nation's progress on race issues based solely on an evaluation of our country's manners. >> the prose recorded the
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podcast during his visit to california on friday. attitudes have improved significantly but the president says the legacy of slavery still casts a long shadow. a wild fire is burning out of control at this hour south of lake tahoe. it has grown now to nearly 14 square miles about 9,000 acres. the fire is about 10 miles south of mart markleeville. hotter ally wolf has the latest on the fire fight. >> reporter: in the forest just a couple of miles outside of markleeville and the flames have burned this while side over here and over in the distance you can see the large plumes of smoke and that is causing a lot of concern for people in nearby camp sites and nearby towns. fueled by wind and dry vegetation, flames quickly spread in the sierra. this three days the fire has charred close to 10,000 acres south of lake tahoe.
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>> it's sad. you see the glow of the fire through the clouds. >> reporter: four miles away massive plumes of smoke and fire are visible from the small down of markleeville. debbie is seeing the wildfire up close for the first time. >> you feel mother nature and you feel the power of fire and how devastating it can be. a little helicopters or planes flying over tryen to drop water on it and it's so huge. >> reporter: firefighters working from the air and from the ground to get ahandle on the fast moving flames. fartherspout the smoke plume is visible from sorenson's resort. they're concerned about their view. mark is from hawaii. >> plenty of trees here and wind direction can change very quickly. i'm keeping my fingers crossed, praying, drinking beer and hoping that helps. >> reporter: as ourtists hope for the best firefighters work to protect nearby communities
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and camp sites. multiple agencies from both california and nevada are working to calm the flames but the dry vegetation out here is making it difficult. >> and the chief of public information for the fire tweeted about busy start for the fire season. saying fire activity in california has been high. nearly 275 new wildfires battled last week alone. this year cal fire has responded to nearly 2500. state water managers say farmers cutting back on water use has missed a deadline to come fin -- confirm they've stopped pumping from rivers and streams. records show fewer than a third of senior claim holders have responded to an order from the state water resources control board to stop pumping. they include farms, cities and water districts. several irrigation districts serving farms are challenging the board's order in court. we have some new video tonight of a paddle border and
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his encounter with sharks. you can see here he puts the camera under water and look at that. wow. sharks right there under the surface. he writes in his post that these are great white sharks and he's near sunset beach just north of huntington beach. he said he filmed this last friday. >> he is one brave paddle boarder. he's on a paddle board. >> you've got me on that one. >> time to check the weather weather now. going over to bill in the weather center. warming all week is our trend. >> what's happening now with stand up boards because you're standing up you can see better. is people are seeing more sharks. >> but what if you lose your balance? >> there's more sharks than we think is the idea. they're everywhere. and they're using drones now. you might have seen this. do to go over the water so you
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can see more clearly. there's sharks. >> it's a lot safer than going on two-pro. >> but don't you worry about them coming up and taking a bite out of your board? >> they're everywhere and they don't bite people. it's rare to have a shark attack. they're scary but i think they're everywhere. i've been surfing for 35 years and they've been around me. i think what's most intensing we thought we had all of the sharks up here southern california has a lot of sharks. they see them all the time down there with the go pros and standups. it is interesting outside. it's a beautiful day. temperatures came up a few degrees. there's the sunshine. that's oakland. a beautiful shot. good air quality so far. starting to look like summer with little bit of a haze out there. here's what's happening. the jet stream as the days get longer we just passed the solstice and as the days get
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longer it gets warmer in the northern hemisphere. and so the jet stream which divides the cold air from the warm air, the warm air down here. that's a w and that's a c and has the jet stream gets warmer the jet stream reseeds further north. so that's the story. so here is the computer model checking here. we've got fog along the coast right now. we're going to see more fog as we go into the next couple of hours where it will start to fill into the areas. and we're going into a warming trend what we talked about. here are the current numbers and it's warmer out there in some places. warmer tomorrow and it's going to continue to warm right through the bay area. so 81 in fairfield right now. but tomorrow night this time fairfield will be probably 88, maybe 89 at this hour. and two or three nights from now upper 90s, mid90s as this hour. fire danger comes up. we already have the fire burning in south lake tahoe.
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the winds blowing if theirfield that's typical. last year this time of year having a good sized fire in fairfield. they've got a lot of funneling winds out there. even though it's moisture and cooler the humidity is higher. the sea breeze and the winds funnel through back into the area and they can really spread things. here is what the fog does in the morning. there it is. the fog printout and daytime highs warm up those are the 90s. that's the temperature foot fingerprint for tomorrow. on wednesday and thursday we're going to see an increase in temperatures by wednesday afternoon into thursday and friday it's just down right hot. 90 in clear lake. 85 in fairfield. 87 in brownwood. upper 80s in the inland valleys. and then much warmer as we head into wednesday, thursday and into friday as weapon.
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something we have to start thinking about just a little bit. 5-day forecast. we didn't know, i didn't know there was so many sharks. i just assumed they went by once in awhile. but now with the go pros especially and everyone has a camera phone. they're everywhere. >> if i saw sharks in the water like that i would freak out. >> makes me tonight stick to the swimming pool. the drought is starting to have a major impact on summer outings now at follow some lake. boaters that went to the marina had to remove them this weekend. in normal years the boats can stay docked well into september. but the water level has drop sod much that owner can no longer leave the boats in the water. >> i'm going to really miss coming out and taking the kids and wake boarding and enjoying the afternoons and i guess it's -- i will have to find another hobby for the rest of the summer. >> reporter: once the water level false below 400 feet the
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speed limit will drop to only 5 miles per hour. >> just another sign of the unprecedented drought. a man held up on a crane nine stories tall. why police think he was up there and what we know about him now that he has finally come down. and coming up tonight at 6 the effort to keep professional sports teams in oakland. the key report just handed over to city officials on oakland's options. >> do you feel like you're running out of time? >> we have run out of time. we're on our last breath. why the issue is now turning from a proposed plan to what's take so long.
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in san jose police today were finally able to coax a man down from a 90-foot tall crane. he'd been sitting inside the crane's working box for about 14 hours. he finally climbed down about 10:00 this morning and taken away by paramedics to be checked poupt it's at a construction sight near city hall. it's not clear where the man scaled the crane but he appeared to be intoxicated. >> he's respondent. at times incohasn't. says sobriety is in question. that's what basically we know at this point. >> the man has been identified at 39-year-old alam scandar. he appears to be a transient from outside the area. he will be booked on suspension of trespassing. a drive in the north bay
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lost control of his suv today hitting parks cared and then running into a business. near pacific avenue. the suv slammed into the new york pizza express restaurant and kept going through a beauty salon and final think awe a chinese restaurant. no reports of injuries to anyone in the businesses. authorities say the driver may have lost control because of a medical condition. he was taken to a hospital for evaluation. taylor swift has a message for apple and apple heard it loud and clear. in a blog post saying she wouldn't allow her music to be put on a streaming service when artists wouldn't be paid while being on the three month trial period. apple had a swift response. >> reporter: the world's most valuable company has caved to the queen of pop paying recording artists during it's
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three month trial. posting this critique on her tumbler saying i'm not sure you know apple music will not be paying writers, producers or artists for those three months. i find it to be shocking, and unlike this company. she also pulled her best selling 1989 album from apple music. less than 24 hours later apple senior vice president of internet software and services called swift himself and announced on twitter apple music will pay artists for streaming even during the free trial period. we hear you taylor swift and artists love apple. >> steve jobs you've got to love the guy. i don't think he would have turned around as quickly. i think this is a tim cook moment where he makes a decision and we're going to admit apple was wrong. he didn't see steve jobs admitting he was wrong ever. >> reporter: apple launches on june 30th. no word if she will make her
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1989 album available. find fox business using the channel finder on fox business.com. amazon is changing the online customer review system. saying it will cut down on phoney feignful reviews. the company has filed lawsuits against businesses that it says try to profit from selling bogus reviews. amazon says it will get mu more weight now to newer reviews. still ahead a leaking fire hydrant wasting water during the drought. and some people say it's been broken for about a year. why city leaders aren't fixing it. plus general mills changing some of their most recognizable serials. and a car crashes into a home but it posed another dangerrer that's harder to see. why some nearby homes had to be
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700-gallons of water a day. that's the estimate on how much water is being wasted from a leaky fire hydrant. alley rasmus is here now to explain why officials say there's only so much they can do about it. >> reporter: it's because there's a disagreement between the city and the property owner ore who hones hydrant and who
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should pay to fix it. the water pours out at a constant steady trickle. it may sound like a fountain but it's a fire hydrant in this industrial park. some of the truckers who pass by say they first noticed it a couple of months ago. others told us it's been at least a year. >> i keep thinking one day when i walk by it will be fixed but it's not. >> reporter: invest not the clear how long the hydrant has been leaking but enough to corrode the paint and soak the gravel around it. green weeds growing out of the water. some reported the leak a month ago. their estimate of how much is being wasted? >> roughly 700-gallons a day. >> reporter: but there's no time line to fix it. >> there's a disagreement on who's responsibility it is to fix it. >> reporter: a representative telling me the fire hydrant is the city's responsibility not there ares. saying according to to county parcel and utility maps that's
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not true. they say the hydrant is on private property and they want them to they the $2-$5,000 to fix it. >> how difficult is it to shut it off? does it matter who owns it? >> most fire hydrants will have a valve to turn it off. this one doesn't have it. >> reporter: the only way to stop the leak is to shut off the main connected to it. that would turn off water to all buildings buildings nearby. the hydrant is not connected to a meter so the property owners aren't even paying for the extra wasted water. if they can't come to an agreement the next stem is to shut off the water to the entire property. seven students who survived when that balcony collapsed in berkeley last week are still hospitalized tonight. the student the were on the balcony that snapped off the building during a birthday party last tuesday.
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five 21-year-old students from ire land and a 22-year-old woman from the bay area died. the contractor that worked on that building had to rebuild other properties on the peninsula. a water proofing subcontractor were sued in 2012 after balconies at a complex in millbrae were destroyed by dry rot just three years after construction. according to the paper segway settled out of court for $3.5 million. the governor of south carolina today called for the removal of the confederate flag from the capitol. keba arnold joins us now and more on what is the change of mind from south carolina's governor. >> reporter: this is certainly a reversal with governor nikki haley calling the flag of white
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prep si. if it doesn't deal with the issue before it goes into summer recess she will call them back for a special session. >> today we are here in a moment of unity in our state without ill will to say it's time to move the flag from the capitol grounds. [ cheers and applause ] >> reporter: governor haley says south carolina has been through a difficult time and stared elf in the air. saying it is time to heal by standing together and honoring those who were lost. meantime the white house says president obama long made his position clear on the confederate flag. >> the president did talk about this as long as six or seven years ago where he shared his view that the confederate flag should be taken down and placed in a museum where it belongs. >> reporter: over the weekend there were protests in south carolina calling for the stars and bars flag to be removed from the capitol grounds. but there are some people who
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argue that it is a symbol of south carolina's history and they believe it should stay. the white house announced president obama will travel to charleston on friday. he will deliver the eulogy for the pastor of the emmanuel ame church. the press and first lady got to know reverend clement pink any during his company. firefighters worked against the heat and wind to put out a fire sparked by a homeowner. it started this afternoon in livermore. saying the homeowner marked the fire while working outside. the flames then spread from the grass to nearby car and then onto homes. saying it was firefighter the fire was stopped quickly. parents unhappy about proposed staffing changes. planning a rally tonight. nearly all of the teachers at west valley elementary school in sunny veil are being transferred to other schools in
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the district. originally west valley teachers have been told that they would have to reaffly for their jobs after what was described as tension in the school. they decided that would be up fair so now the plan is to transfer nearly all of the teachers to other schools. the rally is planned for 6:00 tonight. a car slammed into the house in south bay. why it could have caused an explosion. also new information on where the tar balls are washed on the shores and beaches came from. and remarkable new video of the moment a pilot discovers he had a stowaway. look at that. a cat clinging on for deer life on his flight. -- dear life on miss flight.
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part of a san jose neighborhood was quartered off today after a car hit a natural gas line at a home. it happened around 2:20 this afternoon on garden drive. emergency officials say the car lost control, flipped over and then hit the house sheering off the gas line. a san jose fire department spokesperson says there wasn't a big risk of an explosion but even sew travel through the area was shut down as a precaution. >> we did evacuate about a
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black raids you especially downwind just to be safe. we didn't want anyone overcome by fumes. pg and e was called to fix the gas lain. fire officials say the driver suffered only minor injuries and the one person inside the home at the time wasn't hurt. the murder case of a former fire chief killing of his girlfriend is now in the hands after sacramento jury. 56-year-old or value flemming charged of stabbing sarah doug lace in their home. attorneys argued it was manslaughter because the victim provoked him. perfect perfects say it was bush prosecutes say it was murder per. failure to act on climate change could -- the report out today says slowing the rate of climate change could also save the united states more than $3 billion in costs from ricing oceans and storm surges.
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and $34 billion in air- conditioning and electricity costs could be avoided. the obama administration is calling that report a wake up call. general mills today announced plans to accident artificial colors from breakfast cereals. plans to use spice extracts along with fruit and vegetable juices. responding to people who don't want artificial ingredients in their cereal. they say cats have nine lives. that's a good thing for one cat that hitched a ride on a high flying glider. take a look at this. the flight starts out just like any other. you see the my lot and his passenger enjoying the view and all of a sudden the pilot notices a little black and white cat hanging on. the shocked pilot the quickly defeater verticals the glider back to the landing strip.
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the cat wasn't hurt. can you imagine. and the pilot and his passenger walked away with kuwait a tail to -- quite a tail to tell. >> it looked up and whoa, what's that. can you imagine that. >> good thing that cat hung on. >> exactly. all right, ahead a fight brewing over one of tahoe's famous ski reports. pushing back against the plan for squaw valley. a big week here in san francisco. they're getting ready for five celebrations and many here hoping they will be sell britting a supreme court ruling about gay marriage. and tracking the warm up. a fire in south bay earlier today. going to continue to see some increased fire conditions this week. checking now on the monday night commute this is highway 680. the traffic coming toward the camera is northbound looking pretty good in this area right now at this hour.
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district. >> reporter: pride weekend is always a party but things could get a little emotional this weekend. there is hope here the supreme court ruling will go the way of the tide that has allowed same sex couples to be married and recognized as married in most states. >> slopping paint on here. >> reporter: big ideas. >> i think it's pretty special. >> reporter: starts with powerful words. >> they're going to bow out community and respect. >> reporter: words to live by. >> you can live anywhere and do anything so long as you have a community that sports and respects you. >> reporter: the float being built at pier 54. >> can you please primer the top part. >> reporter: a community for san francisco's pride week. >> did you guys get that rainbow bolted down? this is the biggest pride i've before been part of building. >> reporter: the pride parade growth has support in the community. >> we directly see the impact
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of the enthusiasm behind the decisions being made. >> reporter: eight years ago there were 8 floats in the pride parade. this year nearly 30. gloss there's been a plateau but it's not happening any time soon i think. >> reporter:s in castro they're getting ready for a celebration. >> it's a big deal for the whole community. it's crazy. i'm excited. >> reporter: that's because this week the supreme court could make a ruling about same sex marriage nationwide just as pride events in san francisco get underway. >> it makes you believe maybe there's a hand of director brandon finty evolved. >> reporter: for the current marriage case before the court. >> and now i believe the court is poised to definitively answer the question on marriage, close the carpet and have us live in a nation where everyone gets to marry the person that they love. >> reporter: finally smelling it out. >> community and respect. >> reporter: in black and
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white. >> cover it in glitter and rainbows. >> now thursday is the earliest the u.s. supreme court could announce its ruling. but it may be as late as next monday which would save one of the biggest decisions for the court's last day. speaking of those other decisions there are a number of other rulings as well. one is the on affordable health care act which could eliminate subsidies for more than 6 million people in 34 states. also a chang to the president's environmental rules. and another deals with oklahoma's protocalls for lethal injection. again, those next decisions are expected beginning this thursday. there is word tonight more than 10% of the largest wild salmon population in the central valley died recently after pg and e shut off the flow of cold water into a creek. it happened on the section north r sacramento. the utility stopped the flow to make repairs in a canal carrying water to a
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hydroelectric plant. weather and lack of water left fish to die. fish and game officials say as the drought continues it will continue to worsen. we have a shout out to a mother at yesterday's oakland a's game at the anaheim angels. the a's fan caught a foul ball bare handed while she was holding her toddler son. the ball actually bounced off of other fans and then she made a clean catch. major league baseball is identified her as a woman from gill roy. she got the ball and some high- fives from fellow fans as well. wow. >> and the little boy took the ball. >> give me that, mom. let's go back to bill in the weather center. >> weather is warming up around here as we head into the next couple of days. fire danger comes up and back up into the upper 90s when we get towards the middle of the end of the week here. enjoy it while it lasts.
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yesterday was nice too but it's warming pup there is oakland. it looks good to me. the fog is in yet but it's not out at the beach. it will be oakland in the next few hours. the fog is right offshore. trying to form up here and that fog will push in tonight. i think you see it here we have fog. the satellite is not picking it up right now. but we have fog here at gate. and see some clouds in there. right now current temperatures 81 in fairfield. tomorrow at this time fairfield you're going to go probably at 85 and then the next night probably closer to 95. so as we go into the microclimates tomorrow mid-80s, upper 80s out towards the inland and value lease. talking about some low 90s. and the microclimates are setting up. you're noticing that. we have passed the summer
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solstice. days are getting shorter now. the air is warming up. we continue to warm up too. there's a lag time between, you think the solstice would be the hattest time; right? but it's not. -- the hottest time is in august. so 91 degrees in the hot spots tomorrow and the graphic lays it out for you. tuesday, wednesday and thursday the temperatures continue to trend up. the heat is really going to be on thursday and into friday as well. you will notice it. 98 in clear lake tomorrow. nice looking day tomorrow. throughout the bay area air sexual is still okay. fire dangers is always bad. historically unprecedented since we've been around couple of hundreds years or so. but it is definitely making danger now. even when not in a drought it's
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about fire. san francisco has burned down like seven times. but in the old case they burned all the time. fires are the way of life around here. but with this situation the dryness and the drought fire danger goes off. as we get into the end of the week upper 90s and low 100s back doing brush fire stories and a fire already around lake tahoe. >> we will see you again at 6, thanks, bill. new details after balls of tar wash ashore in southern california. why they came from and why taxpayers didn't have to pay to find out. coming up on the news at 6 ailment house in oakland could be yours for just $20,000. but there's a catch. oakland city officials speak very honestly about their plans to keep open three professional sports teams from leaving the city. this as way wait far proposal that's now overdue.
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life's our old family recipe, and a kitchen with just as many layers. the effects of the santa barbara oil spill are being felt. a tar ball has been traced to the spill. the finding is the first confirmation that tar from southern california beaches came from the pipeline that dumped more than 100,000 gal lobs of crude oil off the santa barbara coast on may 19th. the company responsible for the original spill paid for the
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cleanup. no public money was used. tar balls began washing up about a week after the spill. federal regulators are investigating what caused the corroded pipe to rupture. the battle between san francisco taxi drivers and éber takes center stage today. taxi drives had a special message for other cities and their mayors who were in town for the mayor's conference. tom joins us now. >> reporter: indeed the cab byes say they're fighting for their economic lives may just be too late unless things change drastically. [ horns honking ] >> reporter: san francisco taxi drivers rallied a the market sweet headquarters this afternoon. a steady procession of cabs circled the rally as well. their goal every mayor every
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attending not no tour éber headquarters. >> we thought we should warn the leaders of the communities to warn them. >> reporter: cars that are necessarily pollute the air. also aid that ride sharing companies are not equipped to pick up the disabled or transport their service animals for free. taxi drivers looking for higher licensing, insurance policy, tax and other laws than ride sharing firms. >> they do not serve all the community they serve just part of the community. >> reporter: when the mayors arrived they were greeted by years and criants of shame on you. >> we've been able to show the mayor here in all the cities that we're in. is that we bring positive impacts to cities where éber is. >> reporter: reached by phone
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madison, wisconsin's mar you calls it a source for the elite not for people getting to the medical appointments or grocery store. >> éber is there to cherry pick. really the bread and butter of the industry in most cities. >> reporter: but it's true many taxi drivers would like éber. why they're not making enough money right now. so they're looking for other jobs. >> reporter: in fact after leaving the mayors went right across the street to twitter. reporting live ktvu fox 2 news. a group of u.s. senators is accusing the company behind the huge bare recall of putting profit ahead of safety. when inflated the air bags could send out metal fragments. the senators say takata shows
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they were stopped between 2009 and 2011 because of financial reasons. that recall is for nearly 34 million vehicles. the senate commerce committee has a hearing scheduled for tomorrow on those takata air bags. an environmental group putting up stiff opposition to major expanse plan for the saw valley ski report. seeking approval to build a year round indoor recreation center as well as a large hotel condo complex on an 80-acre parcel of land. but saying the proposal would have a negative impact on traffic and mountain scenery. a public hearing on the matter is planned for thursday. crowds return to delorenzo us park this afternoon after an extensive renovation on the north side. new tennis courts, restrooms and dog parks. we did see a few online complaints of not being enough new trash and recycling bins.
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ktvu fox 2 news at 6 starts now. a on the awaited report on the projects is waiting on officials. will it keep professional sport teams from leaving town? >> there are a lot of emotions tied to all three of oakland's pro sports teams and all three have threatened to leave the city and still no clear play to get them stay. >> coming from the developer hired to explore the city's options. going to swy hall cadillacing for answer. >> reporter: what is still not leer wright now if keeping the three teams is even an option. this report is about financials. it's basically a real estate deal. we know it's been submitted to the city but we don't know what it says because no one has seen it today. one council member told me we
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are on our last breath. the report is done. we know that. >> i haven't had a chance to take a look at it. >> reporter: no one at the city or county has apparently seen the report from the developer hoping to see it today in closed session. >> i'm looking for it and i'm not seeing it. >> oh, maybe it's not on today. maybe it's not until tomorrow. i was under the impression it was going to be today. but i'm looking at the agenda and it may not be until tomorrow. >> reporter: but according to the substantiate city administrator it won't be tomorrow either. >> i would like to do that next week. it's not going to be soon. some thought we would look at it today or maybe tomorrow. they're not going to see it until next week. >> i'm not sure when they will see it because i'm trying to coordinate that with the county. >> we should have seen it today. >>
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