plenty of surfers in the water here at cowell's beach.ew a swell was coming in and they said they don't care. they're not worried about sharks. signs are up telling the public not to enter the water within a mile of steamer's lane. that includes the main beach at the boardwalk and cowells beach. this is after a shark took a bite out of a kayak on tuesday morning. surfers are ignoring the ban. they started showing up at 5:00 this morning. >> i'm not seeing any dorsal fins. as he said, it's like stepping in a rattlesnake's back if you're in the southwest, you're the one who wasn't looking. all it can do is use its teeth to protect itself. it's going to do what it has to do. so i'm going to have a good morning and i know this man is too. >> authorities say violators risk getting a fine of $200. the ban is affecting nearby businesses that depend on the beach traffic, but things should get back to normal by saturday morning because that's when the ban is lifted. reporting live from santa cruz, abc 7 news. back to you. >> thank you. >>> mont ar

no one is allowed in the water within a mile of steamer's lane, including the main beach and cowell'sys been in the water and fear is not a factor. some came as early as 5:00 a.m. >> if you're always focused on that, you're going to spend a lot of time on your couch finding reasons not to do what you love to do. but i don't think either of us is doing anything except honoring the animals in there, the grizzly bears of the sea, and i'm not seeing any dorsal fins. >> reporter: some tourists are staying away. there's less customers and cowell's surf shop said business was down 30% yesterday and at nearby restaurants employees are noticing a downturn. >> it's been increased by a half and now that we're going into the weekend it may pick up but may not. >> reporter: some tourists came into town not knowing they weren't allowed into the water until they saw the warning signs. >> it scared me a little bit but after i went in the water. >> reporter: you just dipped your feet in or what? >> yeah, pretty much. >> reporter: anyone violating the ban risks getting a $200 fine. the ban is in effect

that covers santa cruz's main beach and cowell beach. >>> new at 11:00, donald trump jr. is responding on camera for the first time tonight after the revelation he met with a lawyer connected to the russian government. trump junior appeared on fox news channel and insisted to sean hannity he did not try to collude with russia to try to damage hillary clinton during the election. >> it was such a nothing. there was nothing to tell. i wouldn't have remembered it until you start scouring through the stuff. it was just a wasted 20 minutes. >> trump did the interview hours after he tweeted an e-mail chain in which he said he would love to receive damaging information about clinton from that kremlin-corrected lawyer. . the future of a bay area park brought out a standing-room only crowd tonight. people were lining up to get in the meeting. >>> water just got more expensive for 1 million households. >>> the all woman's school refusing to admit men and the drastic step it is taking as a result. >>> first a look at what is come up on "jimmy kimmel live." >> look at this. >> i thin

that covers santa cruz's main beach and cowell beach. >>> new at 11:00, donald trump jr.ng on camera for the first time tonight after the revelation he met with a lawyer connected to the russian government. trump junior appeared on fox news channel and insisted to sean hannity he did not try to collude with russia to try to damage hillary clinton during the election. >> it was such a nothing. there was nothing to tell. i wouldn't have remembered it until you start scouring through the stuff. it was just a wasted 20 minutes. >> trump did the interview hours after he tweeted an e-mail chain in which he said he would love to receive damaging information about clinton from that kremlin-corrected lawyer. . the future of a bay area park brought out a standing-room only crowd tonight. people were lining up to get in the meeting. >>> water just got more expensive for 1 million households. >>> the all woman's school refusing to admit men and the drastic step it is taking as a result. >>> first a look at what is com" >> look at this. >> i think one thing about football -- it's the

that includes the main beach at the boardwalk and cowells beach. this was prompted after a shark took a bite out of a chi ache near steamers lain. the kayaker is okay, but authorities don't want people in the water as a safety precaution. many surfers are ignoring the ban and heading out to surf breaks in and around the area. they're riving getting a fine of $200. it's affecting nearby businesses that depend on beach traffic, but things should get back to normal on saturday morning because that's when the ban will be lifted. you'll hear from one of those surfers in the next hour on why he's still coming out here. reporting live from santa cruz, a brk c 7 news. >> thank you. >>> new details in a lawsuit against san francisco city attorney dennis herrera. they say taxpayers are now on the hook for nearly $20 million connected to a case investigating him. earlier this month, a jury found joann helper was wrongfully fired from her job in his office. she exposed a skewer scam that cost taxpayers more than $10 million. herrera paid another $5 million in

. >> here comes simon cowell, wildlife aid foundation. this poor thing stuck between the garden the shed. simon believes it got separated from its parents. but just as simon's doing his best back and forth from one side of the shed to the other, this thing is pretty wily and manages to climb over the six foot fence into the neighbor's yard. so now he's go to go over there and chase this thing around. once simon manages to get it out from behind the shed, now he's at least got a fighting chance. he's got the loop there. running through the yard. thinks he got it once here. has it around the waist. and -- >> lost him. >> nope. wiggles free. >> not back in the gap. >> nope. still has another shot at it. right here. simon pulls in, bam. got him. puts him into that crate. simon does a bit of research, finds out where the badgers hang out in this neighborhood. that's a thing. and it was only about a half mile away. the badger was uninjured. he opens up the crate and gone. not typical to see badgers in the daylight. not typical to see this eithe

steamers lane being officially closed but not really closed because people are still in the water, cowels beach and the main santa cruz beach have also been closed until saturday morning. and that comes right here in the middle of summer with thousands of people planning to come for their vacations to this area. but as the movie said it may not be safe to go in the water at this point. ken? >> thank you. >>> water rates are going up for a lot of people around the bay area. that news from east bay m.u.d. just within the past hour. kpix 5's juliette goodrich was at the packed meeting this afternoon, where customers tried to fight this hike. juliette. >> reporter: you know, people taking this so seriously, took a day off work to show up to this public meeting to voice their concerns. and just in the last hour, the vote turned out to be 6-1 in favor of the close to 19% rate hike over the next two years. a lot of ratepayers are not happy. >> anytime i get a increase in my water bills, electricity bill, it affects me. >> that's quite a slap. i mean, hell, people can't afford to live in the bay

those are the tones of simon cowell of wildlife aid in the uk. he's gotten a call from a family out in the country. they said they've got a fox in the house. there you see the first look at the fox. the fox not exactly scared of humans. and so simon says the best thing for them to do is to call him and get that thing out of there. >> there's a lot of hiding places in the house. obviously it's going to make it a lot harder for him. >> finally the fox hides in the corner behind a stack of stuff. the fox is like, i don't want to go. i don't want to go. >> that poor fox looks like he's trying to blend into the stuff in the corner. >> go for the stuffed toys and just freeze. >> even though it's found a really good hiding place, simon knows where it is and simon eventually is able to finally get that fox under control. >> simon's pretty gentle about everything too. he's not running around causing this fox any more stress. he's composed the whole time. >> all right, fella. let's get you home. give you some dinner. >> he puts a fox in a crate and notices

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that covers santa cruz's main beach as well as cowell beach. a life long santa cruz surfer said shark sightings are on the rise. >> warmer 's warm -- water's warmer. and they're a little bit more prolific. but they're always out there. >> the restrictions are expected to end saturday morning, assuming there's no more shark siting or incident. >>> a plane clipped the runway. it was just taking off when one of the twin propellors made contact with the runway. the four-member crew immediately aborted the flight. you can see the plane on the bottom of your screen there. the coast guard says the c 27 plane was on a logistics flight out of sacramento. we have an update on what could have been a catastrophic flight. it was preparing to land on a taxiway instead of the runway. it drops as low as 175 feet before throttling the engines. a pilot in one of them told the tower the air canada jet flew directly over him. the faa and ntsb are now investigating. >>> an atf national response team has gone in for what's left at an oakland construction site. they

main beach and cowell beach are also being closed off because of this shark attack.guards are going to be monitoring the waters as well. kron 4 has a crew on the way to santa cruz. we will bring you an update on this shark attack tonight on kron 4 news at 8. (steve) a live look outside right now... (catherine) let's get our first look at the weather with chief meteorologist brittney shipp. weather conditions more typical of mid july are likely through midweek as onshore flow and the marine layer influences the region. a gradual warming trend is then likely late in the week and into the upcoming weekend as high pressure builds back toward the west coast. thus, inland temperatures will again warm into the 90s to around 100 degrees during the afternoon hours this weekend. conditions then look to cool back to near seasonal averages early next week. ( steve ) a big story tonight: an email chain reveals that president trump's son agreed to meet with a russian attorney set up by an acquaintance-- who was said to have incriminating information about hillary clinton. the sour

more than 1,000 firefighters are trying to keep the fire away from home, but wind gusts cowell push the flames towards them. >> just getting ready in case they need to do any kind of burping operations should the fire come out of the hills into the front country. >> it's been a week since the whittier fire began. officials have told 2700 people to evacuate. >>> new detail on a grass fire in belmont. a 14-year-old boy playing with fireworks was responsible for setting yesterday's fire. it burned at least one acre near hastings drive. firefighters took three hours to put it out, but were ib unable to keep the flames away from nearby homes and a school. place say the teen confessed. it's unclear if charges will be filed. fireworks are illegal in the city. >>> a man very familiar to north bay police is in jail this morning accused of choking a young boy. police arrested 49-year-old eric wayne conroy thursday and as cornell bernard found out, cop conroy has had nearly 100 run ins with the law. >> neighbors sounding off about an incident that happened at walnut park on thursday. two teenage b

first of all, if i could point out that my simon cowell-like t-shirt, i just got off the river fishingce over to the studio, i don't have time to change, so i apologize for that. the fish were biting, so i don't apologize for that. the issue with this meeting, there are several aspects. one is that every campaign, and he campaign out there, local, state, federal, it doesn't matter. any campaign that says they wouldn't entertain a meeting with someone who contacts them and says they have a derogatory information for the other side, they're lying. >> eric: what about a hostile adversary to the united states for america? >> let's not forget that the democratic opposition was busy working with a company called gps fusion, which was busy -- go gps fusion denied that there was any involvement with this woman and this meeting. >> i'm not making a connection. what i'm saying is the democratic opposition was working specifically to gather information. neither side has clean hands here when it comes to going outside of the border's look for opposition research. >> eric: will make it to the email

dorothy stein says she has sunk her teeth into katy perry, adam levine, simon cowell, and kanye west.his more than anyone? and immediately my aunt chippy's name came to mind. so we booked an appointment with dr. dot. we told my aunt she was going to get a massage which she likes to go do. we did forget to mention the biting thing but we figured she'd figure that out soon enough. here now is my aunt chippy enjoying a very unusual massage. ♪ >> hi. i'm dr. dot. >> i'm sal. how are you doing? >> nice to meet you. >> guillermo: i'm guillermo. nice meeting you. >> i'm dr. dot. they call me the celebrity masseuse. >> she's rude. she didn't introduce herself. >> that's fine. i can roll. >> i'm very excited because it's a real spa, not like one of those fake front [ bleep ] things and my nephews are actually going to be nice to me. i think it will work out very nicely. maybe she'll make me really feel good. >> all right. let's do this. >> let's go. >> all right. >> guillermo: you're going to feel great. you're going to feel amazing. that's what she said. >> i don't think aunt chippy's going t

. >> reporter: santa cruz officials closed down other nearby beaches including cowels beach and the main beach at the boardwalk in the middle of summer until saturday morning. surfers say for whatever reason, shark sightings are now happening all the time. >> they are probably cruising through the bay all the time. they are going there all the time. and they are sighting them -- this year's been way more shark sightings than ever. >> reporter: now, the kayaker, mr. lawson, is an experienced paddler. he had his marine radio with him and as soon as that shark threw him into the water, he was able to radio in his distress call and get picked up by the coast guard. reporting live in santa cruz, len ramirez, kpix 5. >>> thousands of sexual assault victims left frustrate. ♪[ music ] >> their untested rape kits sitting on a shelf. the last push for a bill that could bring them justice. >> an old school way to buy fish. local fishermen fight for the chance to sell their catch straight off the boat. >> and fast and furious, this electric car just clocked 235 miles an hour. we toured the bay area

still remain in the south berkley neighborhood near cowell campus. more than two weeks after someone went on a spray painting spree according to police. nearly 35 incidents were reported. >> 17 vehicles had tires slashed. f the police. anarchy symbols. f white people. spray-painted on people's cars. >> one of my friends has not replaced his tires because insurance doesn't cover it. >> reporter: investigators say the graffiti and burbage used classifies as a hate crime. officers wouldn't say what led them to the suspect. but thursday night they took him into custody. >> we made an arrest in this case. 21-year-old ishmael was arrested by our detectives at his apartment in san francisco. >> reporter: ktvu located his facebook page. he claims to be a student at uc berkeley where he studies public-health. police say this isn't the first run-in they've had with him. now that he's behind bars, one victim says he will rest easier. >> out of the blue. we didn't do anything to this person. and he came and vandalized our property. i'm happy they are off the str

there were few, if any swimmers in the water off nearby cowell beach although i did seea few people on kayacks and lots of surfers there too. as gave his board a fresh wax job, kevin maclean admitted he might be just a bit more on guard now.kevin maclean/surfer"...theres a lot of people out there so everybody is looking out for each other and if we something weird we're going to let everybody know about it..." signs like this are posted along the water. a few merchants say business is off some. and while the shark attack has created a bit of a buzz among the spectators here, it's little more than a distraction for surfers, who just want to catch a break. matt kurvin/surfer"....the thing is, if you think about it when you're out there, you might as well not be out there because you're just going to worry about it and you won't have a good time...." (rob live) a few surfers told me they think the water ban is a bit of an over reaction but the city is just doing it's due diligence. you can imagine the consequences if they did nothing and then there was another attack. so far, no tickets h

well many outer loop 95 to georgia avenue at this point by coleville road you can see we're at a cowell down. 50 inbound inside the beltway in maryland from 202 to 295 super parked up with congestion. outbound side looks good to bow weevil metro on time. keep it to fox5 news morning. 8:00 o'clock hour. it's wednesday morning. we'll be right back. fios is not cable. we're a 100% fiber optic network. and with the new fios gigabit connection... you get our fastest internet ever. with download speeds up to 940 megs - 20 times faster than most people have. switch to fios gigabit connection with tv and phone for $79.99 a month online for the first year. plus hbo for one year and multi-room dvr service for two years, all with a two-year agreement. and switching has never been easier. get out of you contract with up to a $500 credit to help cover your early termination fee. go to fiosgigabit.com >> this is fox5 n

we have also seen this music single put together by simon cowell and other musicians, which has raisedetting through to those who need it? this is where it gets complicated. again, we re is where it gets complicated. again, were talking about charity donations only, not government donations. a family who have been hospitalised in some way, a single payment of £10,000. £20,000 to a family who have lost a family member and £10,000 as a fresh start grant after housing has been sorted out. so how do people get this money? they have to apply through something called the london emergency trust. we understand it has only had four applications for that so far. no cash has yet been paid out through that route. let me stop you for a moment. there is so much information here. so the london emergency trust is what you have to apply to to get money? that's right. and they have received four applications. they said that is partly because people may have other priorities at the moment, or they may be in hospital. or they have no idea because they have never heard of this trust. this is the problem, s

. >> unless simon cowell i driving the banana car. i'm sitting in the back of the car.d in the police car. he was going so fast around the corner. i'm not doing this. >> yeah. i like to go slower in my banana car. >> amazing people on the show. >> don't you have a confession to make? i walked out. and i said, your dress is so cute. i love the outfit. and you made a confession. >> i made it a little shorter. >> she said it wasn't the right length for her. >> i like everything a little shorter. >> you must love me. >> not at all. >> you are a pretty tough judge. you have not yet pressed the golden buzzer. for those who don't know, sends a contestant straight to the live show. why are you being stingy with the golden buzz center. >> it's tuesday. "america's got talent" is i might hit it tonight. >> how much do you know about the contestants before they come out on stage? >> nothing at all. we see 60 or 70 people a day. the next, the next. i could have pushed the golden buzzer so many times because there's amazing people. but today, i'm pushing it. >> oh. you can feel it. >