wayne freedman, abc7 news. >>> teammates of a cal rugby player paralyzed in game promised to be there him for recovery. he had to be taken off the field on a stretcher. doctors performed emergency surgery and paralyzed from the waste down with limited motion in arms. team won the game but it's bitter sweet. >> tough for all of us, casts a shadow on the victory. it's not right. >> there will be a prayer service on campus thursday night. >>> a man who helped define the fight for lgbt rights will now always have a home in san francisco. gilbert baker created iconic gay flag in 1978. died this past march at home in new york at age of 65. today supervisor jeff xi hi posted this photo saying he spread his ashes into the bay. calls baker a hero. >>> good evening everyone. get ready for big changes ahead. live doppler 7 is previewing what is coming. already starting to see the fog starting to close in along the coastline, san mateo and santa kruse coast. ocean temperatures right now, the buoys in the upper 40s, when the wind switches direction tomorrow it's out of the west southwest. and brin

wayne freedman, abc7 news. >>> teammates of a cal rugby player paralyzed in game promised to be thereecovery. he had to be taken off the field on a stretcher. doctors performed emergency surgery and paralyzed from the waste down with limited motion in arms. team won the game but it's bitter sweet. >> tough for all of us, casts a shadow on the victory. it's not right. >> there will be a prayer service on campus thursday night. >>> a man who helped define the fight for lgbt rights will now always have a home in san francisco. gilbert baker created iconic gay flag in 1978. died this past march at home in new york at age of 65. today supervisor jeff xi hi posted this photo saying he spread his ashes into the bay. calls baker a hero. >>> good evening everyone. get ready for big changes ahead. live doppler 7 is previewing what is coming. already starting to see the fog starting to close in along the coastline, san mateo and santa kruse coast. ocean temperatures right now, the buoys in the upper 40s, when the wind switches direction tomorrow it's out of the west southwest. and bring the cool

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thank you to investor david freedman and mrs. freedman for joining us along with a number of close friends who have come from our country to yours as we reaffirm the unshakable bond between the united states of america and israel. thank you. [applause] i would like to begin my remarks by sending the thoughts and prayers of the entire american people to the victims of the terrorist attack in manchester. you've all been watching a horrible thing going on. i want to send our condolences to the many families who lost their loved ones. it was a horrific injuries and dozens of innocent people, beautiful young children, savagely murdered in this heinous attack upon humanity. i repeat again, we must drive out the terrorists and the extremists from our midst. : all terrorism that threatens the world and crushing the hateful ideology that drives it so hard and seems to be driving it so fast. it is a privilege to stand here in this national museum in the ancient city of jerusalem to address the israeli people and all people in the middle ea

as the civil war was ending, howard was tapped to head the freedman's bureau. this bold new experiment in governing. at root, the agency's task, howard's task because to give concrete meaning to liberty and equality. liberty and equality. these were boldly pronounced but never defined in the emancipation proclamation and 13th and 14th amend: a historian once described the central question of this moment, a moment right after the civil war, as how free is free? and the bureau's role, howard's role, was undeniably crucial to answering that. hisries of reconstruction have cast oliver otis howard as a flawed hero and in many ways he embodied the limitations of the federal government's effort to remake the rebel south. a historian gave howard almost 50 years ago an ominous term the yankee stepfather. and i am sure there are nice yankee stepfathers but it doesn't sound grade. howard was a champion of civil rights. during the war, he was meeting men and women who crossed lines searching for freedom and every encounter convinced him ever n more of the crucial fact of a

abc7 news reporter wayne freedman is live with the details. wayne?: well, budget cuts always have a sense of being political, especially when we're talking about city government or county government. that's the case in sonoma county where the board of supervisors is asking every department for a cut of between 3 and 6% as you said. that includes the sheriffs department, and this is where things get interesting. it began with an item on the board of supervisors agenda which they didn't expect or maybe did expect a possible budget cuts of $6.5 million by reducing supervisors and some substations, cutting back on graffiti removal, perhaps also cutting back on detective investigations or dispatch. there are some 19 cuts in all at least proposed. the department does not want to cut service, but the president of the police union is worried about that as well. >> we're at bare minimums now. any time somebody calls in sick, we have to call other people in from work or home, other locations, have them work extra hours. they're working 12 hour shifts already a

from the mission district, wayne freedman, "abc 7 news." >>> now that is finding some real treasure inids. that is a great idea. anything to motivate them, get them fired up about learning. >> we're getting fired up about the weather, or heating up anyway. >> wind seems to be calming down a little bit meteorologist sandhya patel is here with the forecast. >> that's right. the winds are easing. look at live doppler 7. we have clouds beginning to gather as the winds stopped blowing so strong. you will notice they're gusting still at sfo out of the southwest to 26. same thing with fairfield but earlier we had over 40 mile an hour wind gusts will temperatures right now in the 50s exempt los gatos, 44 degrees. here is a picture from ore emeryville camera. clouds will increase overnight, a few showers possible tomorrow and heating up by the end of the week. tomorrow morning when you get going make sure to grab that jacket. it is going to start out breezy and cool. mid 40s to the low 50s. clouds will be gathering so it does start out pretty cloudy in the morning, and as you take a look at the

from the mission district, wayne freedman, "abc 7 news." >>> now that is finding some real treasure inids. that is a great idea. anything to motivate them, get them fired up about learning. >> we're getting fired up about the weather, or heating up anyway. >> wind seems to be calming down a little bit meteorologist sandhya patel is here with the forecast. >> that's right. the winds are easing. look at live doppler 7. we have clouds beginning to gather as the winds stopped blowing so strong. you will notice they're gusting still at sfo out of the southwest to 26. same thing with fairfield but earlier we had over 40 mile an hour wind gusts will temperatures right now in the 50s exempt los gatos, 44 degrees. here is a picture from ore emeryville camera. clouds will increase overnight, a few showers possible tomorrow and heating up by the end of the week. tomorrow morning when you get going make sure to grab that jacket. it is going to start out breezy and cool. mid 40s to the low 50s. clouds will be gathering so it does start out pretty cloudy in the morning, and as you take a look at the

abc 7 news reporter wayne freedman explains. >>. >> reporter: at the age of 18, he's sofa think he has a degree in pharmacology. >> i got pneumonia. >> reporter: his mother has had lyme disease for years and so has he. >> reporter: lyme comes from ticks. the spring grass is full of them. even in california where most of us recognize the telltale bites with the target around them but not the more subversive symptoms. that's where wendy adams comes in. >> we want to make lyme disease easy to diagnose and simple to cure. >> reporter: her bay area lyme foundation is creating a biobank of different strains from california. >> only 20% of researchers have the patient samples they need to do research into lyme disease. >> reporter: if you have a tick bite, the foundation may ask you to volunteer a few more vilesalf blood when being diagnosed. kathleen picked up lyme while gardening, nine years later she still suffers chronic symptoms. >> i never saw a tick on myself. never did. >> reporter: louis had it twice. the first time from a tick on his dog, the second while camping. the disease has sl

abc7 news's wayne freedman joins us live from the brand-new but very old alamo square park. wayne? >> reporter: they're going to have new bathrooms. they have new grass, new irrigation, they have new trees. what they really have that's back is that view over my head and the ability to lie down on the grass and take it all in. there are ribbon cuttings. >> 3, 2, 1, yea. >> reporter: we'll call this more of a re-ribbon cutting for san francisco's 164-year-old icon. after one year and $6 million, the city's alamo square park reopened. >> it went from the most water wasting park in our system to the most water efficient park in our system. >> reporter: the longer the process certainly had a draining effect on the local economy. >> we had less visitors, it's stressful. >> reporter: at the alamo square deli, the views that attracted hungry customers pretty much kept them away with the park closed and no one able to visit. here is a shot before they pulled the fences down. after today, though, no regrets. >> i'm pretty grateful for all they did with the landscaping. i think they did a gre

live in healdsburg, wayne freedman, abc7 news. >> wayne, thank you. a bomb shell in contra costa county, a civil grand jury is recommending the county's top law enforcement officer be removed from office. grand jury findings out tonight accused district attorney mark peterson, a willful or construct misconduct in office. in december peterson admitted having spent more than $66,000 in campaign funds on personal expenses. the superior court judge will now decide whether to hand the matter over to the d.a.'s or appoint a prosecutor. >>> two san francisco men, one of them a ucsf psychiatrist are charged with up loading child pornography. they were arrested on tuesday after allegedly finding more than 1200 files of child pornography on various devices inside their home on gwen a vista terrace. investigators say dr. lock heart seen here in a photo from ucsf website was using the university's wi-fi, internet to up load graphic images of children. ucsf says it placed dr. lock hot on leave and is fully cooperating with the investigation. >> a legal battle betw

abc7 news reporter wayne freedman is live in petaluma to explain. wayne?reporter: budget cuts have a tendency to be political especially when dealing with a government entity. in this case the sheriff's agency sheriff's department. some people think this discussion has begun prematurely. business as usual inside the sonoma county sheriffs department today, at least on the surface, but there's tension in the air. >> well, everybody year it costs more to do business. >> reporter: and now it's looking at a budget cut. the county is asking everybody department to describe what measures it would take to cut between 3 and 6% next year. it asked the sheriff's department for $6.5 million and somehow some way the department's early projections appeared on yesterday's board agenda. >> i don't know. i don't know how it got into the agenda. i assume that they wanted it to be public. >> reporter: the department's proposals include cutting back on staffing and outlying areas and reducing community services. they do not want to cut back on emergency calls. >> every cut h

nabs reporter wayne freedman explains this whole thing came from good intentions. >> reporter: safe to say that at jones and eddy in san francisco, the old hotel harold and its inhabitants have seen better days. especially after the scare that its 85 mostly disabled and non-english speaking residents endured early this afternoon. >> it was very difficult. >> reporter: that is tony who with the san francisco police and fire departments evacuated some seven floors worth of people all because of two artillery shells similar to this that the caretaker of an elderly veteran found at a nearby apartment. he put them in his car and drove them to the police station. >> he left them in his vehicle and came into the station, told us that he had these two rounds in his car seat in front. >> reporter: police responded by following protocol. they blocked the street, began evacuating buildings. residents had no time to grab anything, nor did they know why. >> well, it's across the street from a police station so anything is likely. >> reporter: slowly, patiently, police and firemen helped their elder

. >> abc7 news reporter wayne freedman live at the sheriff's office in santa rosa. wayne? >> reporter: well, we appear to have a solution to a case that made national news at the time and why not? a young couple very much in love sleeping on the beach seemingly alone. all of a sudden they're murdered. no one knew why or where or how. today deputy sheriff here at sonoma county thinks they did get their man. along the river road in forestville today, yellow tape as sheriff's investigators search for clues in a murder mystery. this is the booking vote oel of 38-year-old shawn gallon. today sonoma county steve freitas linked him to the murder of jason allen and 22-year-old lyndsay cut shaul on fish head beach. >> he had information about the killings that no other person could have known and we have located evidence that corroborates his statement. >> reporter: in quiet picturesque jenner where the russian refr meets the sea, the murders had been and remain disturbing. >> it was shocking, unusual, and then no one had any idea who it was. >> reporter: they had been christian co

. >> abc7 news reporter wayne freedman is live at the station. wayne, you said this all began with good intentions? >> reporter: it did start out with good intentions. a caretaker in an apartment is going through a closet, he finds two artillery shells. he says, i wonder if they're live. so, he brings them to the police station and that is how it all began. >> it was about 2 feet long, about maybe 4 inches in diameter. >> reporter: in fact, there were two artillery shells that looked very much like this. what had been a normal day in the tenderloin police station at jones and eddy changed quickly when the man who officers describe as a caretaker for an elderly man brought the shells downtown after finding them in an apartment. >> we left them in his vehicle and came into the station, told us that he had these two rounds in his car seat in front. >> police responded by following protocol. they blocked the street and began evacuating four elderly hotels, including the hotel harold home for some 85 mostly non-english speaking people. they went door

wayne freedman with a story that's new at 11:00. >> reporter: hard core fans living and dying with every play as if life-long dreams hang in the balance. for lonny, it's true. >> need them to win. >> for many reasons. >> reporter: moved back into mother's house, tranormed a back room into studio and creating signed prints of the warriors starters. novel idea. >> defying odds here. >> turned back on ten years in corporate america to make it happen. >> whenever there's a fork in the road in my life, comes back to my art. >> reporter: began with crayons and continues today with a few detours in the way. drives for uber and uses every square inch of the car for advertising space. guess who climbs into this back seat? >> klay thompson. >> reporter: who he is now drawing. >> told him you're next. >> reporter: got him into warriors practice. >> how many could you make if you had to right now? >> as many as they want. >> reporter: you understand with the nba playoffs he hangs on every basket. you would too if invested everything. >> i'm hoping. >> reporter: so does your mother. >> that's right.

wayne freedman has the story from vallejo. >> don't let the crowd mislead you, when the friends and family of pearl pinson gathered, it was hard and painful. >> i thought we would find her by then. >> reporter: the family did as well. but as a sign on this walkway reads, where is she? is she dead or alive. >> how do you deal with not knowing? >> it is [ inaudible ]. i don't know. >> reporter: one year ago today 15-year-old pearl was walking to school on this overpass when witnesses saw 19-year-old fernando rojas drag her away and he died in a shoot without with police and they never found more than traces of her blood on the car and no sign of a body. >> we don't know why he he even took her and the question is why. where is she at. >> we want to bring [ inaudible ]. >> reporter: one year later this overpass remains a memorial. it is impossible to miss when walking through, hard to ignore when driving beneath, and for family members, let's just hope that the rest of us never know such pain. >> i'll always have hope and i'll always [ inaudible ]. >> if she is watching this, anything to say

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wayne freedman with a story that's new at 11:00. >> reporter: hard core fans living and dying with everylay as if life-long dreams hang in the balance. for lonny, it's true. >> need them to win. >> for many reasons. >> reporter: moved back into mother's house, transformed a back room into studio and creating signed prints of the warriors starters. novel idea. >> defying odds here. >> turned back on ten years in corporate america to make it happen. >> whenever there's a fork in the road in my life, comes back to my art. >> reporter: began with crayons and continues today with a few detours in the way. drives for uber and uses every square inch of the car for advertising space. guess who climbs into this back seat? >> klay thompson. >> reporter: who he is now drawing. >> told him you're next. >> reporter: got him into warriors practice. >> how many could you make if you had to right now? >> as many as they want. >> reporter: you understand with the nba playoffs he hangs on every basket. you would too if invested everything. >> i'm hoping. >> reporter: so does your mother. >> that's right.

we are in the heart of times square because my special guest is the cio of nasdaq, adena freedman. >> the u.s. economy adding 211,000 jobs while the unemployment rate dropped to 4.4%. strong jobs numbers increasing odd for a interest rate hike. strong earnings for amazon and facebook, sending all three major markets into positive territory for the week. other headlines grabbing attention, a healthcare victory in the house. congressional republicans are one step closer to repealing and replacing obamacare. it barely made it, a vote of 217 to -- to 213. now it moves to the senate where it faces a whole new set of challenges. but the president says he's confident republicans can come together to get it done. the spending bill through september includes $15 billion more for the pentagon and $1.5 billion for emergency border security. but it does not include money for border construction. netflix and google all surging to all-time highs. revenue growing by 49% in the first quarter. apple hitting a record high despite a surprise earnings miss. iphone sales drew disappointing revenue. maria:

wayne freedman has the story from vallejo. >> don't let the crowd mislead you, when the friends and family of pearl pinson gathered, it was hard and painful. >> i thought we would find her by then. >> reporter: the family did as well. but as a sign on this walkway reads, where is she? is she dead or alive. >> how do you deal with not knowing? >> it is [ inaudible ]. i don't know. >> reporter: one year ago today 15-year-old pearl was walking to school on this overpass when witnesses saw 19-year-old fernando rojas drag her away and he died in a shoot without with police and they never found more than traces of her blood on the car and no sign of a body. >> we don't know why he he even took her and the question is why. where is she at. >> we want to bring [ inaudible ]. >> reporter: one year later this overpass remains a memorial. it is impossible to miss when walking through, hard to ignore when driving beneath, and for family members, let's just hope that the rest of us never know such pain. >> i'll always have hope and i'll always [ inaudible ]. >> if she is watching this, anything to say

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please come home. >> we haven't stopped looking for you. >> reporter: in vallejo, wayne freedman, abc7 news. >> san francisco police have launched a homicide investigation after a discovery in bernl heights. a jogger found the body of a stabbing victim around 5:30 in bernl heights park. the portion of the park where the body was found is closed as officers look for evidence. the entire park reopened just before 11:00. no arrests have been made. >>> sky 7 was over the may fair bart station at san leandro. police investigated the discovery of a body inside a pedestrian tunnel. a bart spokesperson tell us the person was most likely a transient. foul play is not suspected. >> homelessness in the east bay is skyrocketing. new numbers from the streetless head count defy some of the stereo types and increase the urgency to do something. >> abc7 news reporter leslie brinkley reports from oakland, the city most plagued by the homeless crisis. leslie. >> reporter: that's right. the homelessness counts confirmed what oaklanders already know, homelessness is expanding exponentially, is visible eve

i would like to introduce you to the rabbi of the free synagogue of jerusalem and freedman works for an important organization which is a legal services corporation for ethiopia. welcome. >> good to be here. >> let's ask you, what does this do? >> it means hue. it brings together leaders of different segments of the israeli society, people from the orthodox world. i am a reformed rabbi. people from a mid eastern background, european background, people from different sorb i can economical statuses. we are there in order to work together, in order to create a group that will deepen the pluralis tick nature of the society. >> in israel when we think of pluralism or pluralistic, what does that mean to you? >> as a person, it means to get to know others, others from the society, to be open minded and sigh there are different people around us which you don't meet every day. but we usually judge them by the way they look, way they think, way the they walk, what they are wearing, what language they're speaking. at the end of the day when you gather them into the room together and you find ou

here's abc7 news reporter wayne freedman. >> reporter: at the age of 18 louis is so familiar with thethink he has a degree in pharmacology. he knows them for all the wrong reasons. >> i got mono, walking pneumonia, bronchitis twice, stomach flu, a bunch of colds. >> reporter: such are a few of the die boll cli deceptive symptoms of lyme disease. his mother had it, too after going undiagnosed for years. >> you sound like a hypocondrak or need a specialist for those things. >> reporter: in kfrl where most of us recognize those tell tale bites with the target around them, but not the more subversi subversive symptoms. that's where wendy adams comes in. >> we want to make it easy to cure. >> reporter: partnering with medical groups around the region to kree a a biobank for strains. >> only 23% of doctors have the strain they need to do a test. >> reporter: you might be asked to volunteer a few more vials of blood. >> we're getting the same amount of fending as leprosy. >> reporter: she picked up lime while gardening. >> i never saw a tick on myself. >> reporter: louis had it twice. first

live in napa county, wayne freedman, abc7 news. >> all right, wayne, thank you. spirit airlines is expanding its operations out of oakland international airport. the discount carrier is adding two new destinations. a nonstop flight from oakland to baltimore/washington international airport. spirit offers seven nonstop destinations from oakland with 11 daily flights including chicago, dallas fort worth, houston and los angeles. >> keep your mind if sight-seeing, two parking lots at either end of the golden gate bridge closed for most of this long holiday weekend. the lots will be closed from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. through memorial day to prevent traffic from backing up onto the bridge. you can still reach the parking lots and viewpoints by bus, taxi, ride sharing service, biking or walking. and there will be closures on bart this weekend as well. oakland's lake merritt station will be shut down through the holiday weekend as part of ongoing maintenance work. this is video from bart of the project. buses will run instead of trains from fruitvale to west oakland an

in napa, wayne freedman, abc7 news. >> all right.while protesting the national anthem is heading to the smithsonian. they arranged to donate the jersey to the national museum of african-american history and culture. edwards believes his stance against police brutality continued a conversation that historically made americans uncomfortable. cap is a free agent and said he will not continue this type of protest if he plays next season. of the seattle sea hawks is interested in him as a back up quarterback. >> that will do it for abc7 news at 4:00. i'm alma daetz. >> i'm larry beil. abc7 news at 5:00 starts right now. >> we found out disturbing information regarding the father -- >> breaking news about a missing one-year-old. this image just released. we are live with the amber alert for the entire bay area. >> a bitter sweet day for contra costa county family. this afternoon the sentencing of a young man in the murder of a 9-year-old. >> today marks another milestone of more healing for my family. >> san jose family safely escapes from

argh, here's abc7 news reporter wayne freedman. >> reporter: it is one of the strangest stores? address and also the name of an establishment with buried treasure that serves as a purveyor for pirates, creative pirates, anyway. so, if i want this -- >> you have to give me a story, a song, a joke, a dance or a drawing. >> reporter: this is what happens when a nonprofit wants to open on an street zoned for retail. they invented the pirate motif as a hook in front while the real work happens in back when neighborhood kids show up every week day afternoon. >> i want to be a doctor. >> i want to be an author. >> reporter: just marjanovimagi nonprofit making homework, math, writing so much fun these kids want to be here. >> our goal is to transform relationship with writing really to help them build confidence in themselves as learners and as creative people and as owners and tellers of their own story. >> reporter: it's an environment with no computers or laptops, just paper, pencil and books and one on one tutors from kristen cosby who reads allowed wioud t >> week. >> i get the sat

from the mission district, wayne freedman, abc 7. >>> the signs are up and you are being warned. expect traffic in san francisco to be a bit of a mess for beta breakers. the race celebrates its 50th anniversary. runners will start at 8:00 a.m., they'll run seven miles west across the city finishing on the great highway by ocean beach. organizers expect 40,000 runners and 200,000 spectators on sunday. >> we were into that story very half empty. this is one of the best events in san francisco and we're like "traffic is going to be a mess." it's an awesome event so let's go with that. hi, mike. >> good thing for those who don't always follow the dress code. it will be warmer by the time we get to sunday look how fast those clouds are moving. today we'll have light showers that will keep us cooler than average, it's a different breeze, a warmy breeze and a drier breeze and the heat is on inland friday, saturday, and sunday. here's today's temperatures, mid to upper 50s from half moon by a into san francisco. 60 to 63 for the bay and about 64 to 67 inland. temperatures at least 10 deg

they created the freedman's bureau to redistribute the land and how people get paid in their jobs, school, hospitals, asylum, higher court systems. back to 1865 but by 1900 america was following up a different course. the entire purpose of government have shifted. the policymaking that had been free and equal was keeping the races separate the disenfranchisement, the role of the south and in formal role for much of the rest of the country. 1900, chinese immigrants were banned from the u.s. and places like ellis island countless places of entry and places of exclusion, the guarded and secured and maintained office excludes the racial purity of the voters. the nation was with san juan to manila. it's likely to be colonial subject so from 1865 to 1900, from emancipation to empire. in the pivot from one administration to another there are a lot of lessons we can draw a. these are individual americans. i wanted to show how real people and experienced these transformations in particular i focus on the important bit underappreciated americans, an army general named oliver howard who was the lead

abc7 news reporter wayne freedman live with more. wayne? >> reporter: good afternoon. less than one minute ago. until that point it was balkd up for an estimated three quarters of a mile north from here. all those cars just sitting still. but this point, the california highway patrol is trying to figure out what happened several hours ago, what happened and why. the chp tells us they received a report of the shooting approaching west side road on highway 101 just after 12:00 p.m., an unidentified vehicle pulled up alongside two victims, fired an unknown number of shots into the car. the chp says they're trying to figure out a motive at this time. they don't know whether this was targeted or whether it was random. shootings in sonoma county, especially on free ways, are not common which makes this even more unusual. >> yeah, you don't see that in sonoma county. so, it is disconcerting. we want the public to know we are doing our best to find out the reason behind it and the people that are suspected of doing it. so, yeah, it is worrying. we don't see that type of thing

we are in the heart of times square because my special guest is the cio of nasdaq, adena freedman. >>. economy adding 211,000 jobs while the unemployment rate dropped to 4.4%.

abc sandwich news reporter, wayne freedman is there live. >> reporter: botulism is formed from a toxin found in bacterial spores. we have a patient, a 37-year-old man from sacramento. his name is -- sorry, martin valendo, from the sacramento area and by all accounts battling a most severe case of a rare disease. roughly 110 cases a year in the united states, just 110 and we're having an outbreak in northern california. it is not an isolated case and they all appear to have come from here, the valley oak food and fuel gas station at walnut grove. as of this morning they had confirmed five cases with three other pobls and one suspected, a total of nine thus far all from tainted nachos cheese sauce served inside from april 22nd and may 5th. >> i've never seen my sister not have function of her body or be able to communicate. >> reporter: that's teresa kelly describing her 33-year-old sister who has spent three weeks in a sacramento intensive care ward. her symptoms began with slurred peach. >> basically she's saying, sister i need you here now. >> reporter: botulism can show up in many fo

wayne freedman ask live from the san marin point station in novato. >> reporter: it's been a bizarreks like a ghost station, nobody on the platform, trains arriving, trains leaving, nobody on the train, and apparently everything going according to schedule. in novato, amy and those who work in her office have grown used to claking, from the computer, but when the claking began outside of window, call it growing pains. >> it's almost like white nice for us. >> reporter: that clacking came after a simulated schedule it hopes to begin for paying passengers next month. the train ran 34 trips between sonoma and marin today. this is not just a matter of getting their schedule right, but that their schedule coordinates with other public transit agencies. >> we all have to coordinate our schedules so that when somebody arrives at our station, they have a bus to take them where they need to go. >> reporter: both novato and san rafael have began horns. >> it's loud, it's as if we're standing on the tracks. >> reporter: which would seem to be the point of those horns. >> it's the jurisdictions

abc sandwich news reporter, wayne freedman is there live. >> reporter: botulism is formed from a toxin found in bacterial spores. we have a patient, a 37-year-old man from sacramento. his name is -- sorry, martin valendo, from the sacramento area and by all accounts battling a most severe case of a rare disease. roughly 110 cases a year in the united states, just 110 and we're having an outbreak in northern california. it is not an isolated case and they all appear to have come from here, the valley oak food and fuel gas station at walnut grove. as of this morning they had confirmed five cases with three other pobls and one suspected, a total of nine thus far all from tainted nachos cheese sauce served inside from april 22nd and may 5th. >> i've never seen my sister not have function of her body or be able to communicate. >> reporter: that's teresa kelly describing her 33-year-old sister who has spent three weeks in a sacramento intensive care ward. her symptoms began with slurred peach. >> basically she's saying, sister i need you here now. >> reporter: botulism can show up in many fo

wayne freedman ask live from the san marin point station in novato. >> reporter: it's been a bizarre day, it looks like a ghost station, nobody on the platform, trains arriving, trains leaving, nobody on the train, and apparently everything going according to schedule. in novato, amy and those who work in her office have grown used to claking, from the computer, but when the claking began outside of window, call it growing pains. >> it's almost like white nice for us. >> reporter: that clacking came after a simulated schedule it hopes to begin for paying passengers next month. the train ran 34 trips between sonoma and marin today. this is not just a matter of getting their schedule right, but that their schedule coordinates with other public transit agencies. >> we all have to coordinate our schedules so that when somebody arrives at our station, they have a bus to take them where they need to go. >> reporter: both novato and san rafael have began banned warnin horns. >> it's loud, it's as if we're standing on the tracks. >> reporter: which would seem to be the point of those horns.

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embassador to israel freedman also there and you see there the president of israel and the prime minister netanyahu also. rob: after this trip the president continues on, he's doing a lot of work overseas on this trip. he will go to the vatican after this and spend time in italy and will talk to nato and brussels, belgium an organization that he's been critical of and trying to get the neighbor nations to defend the world and the right of good and to put 2 or 3%, pete, nato organizations, -- 2% are not meeting and not putting their fair share for defense and it ends of us being the the ones that bear the brunt of the cost. heather: a couple of key points that people will be looking at during trip to israel, we talked about whether or not he will follow through on a campaign promise and moving the u.s. embassy to jerusalem. also extensively we talked about the possibility of peace in the middle east, peace between the palestinians and israel. is that possible, will he talk about that as well and then, of course, everything that he spoke about in saudi arabia including the arms deal and how

wayne freedman. >> reporter: at the age of 18, louis is so familiar with these modern medications you has a degree in pharmacology. he knows them for all the wrong reasons. >> i got mono, walking pneumonia, stomach flu, a bunch of colds. >> reporter: a few of the i do bottically deceptive symptoms of lyme's disease, his mother has it, too and undiagnosed for years. >> you either sound like a hypochondriac or -- >> reporter: lyme is the bug we recognize with the telltale tail after them. >> we want to make it's easier to diagnose and simple to cure. >> reporter: creating a biobank of different strains in california. >> only 20% of researchers have the patient samples they need to search into lyme disease. >> reporter: if you have a tick bite they may ask you to give a few more violence of blood. >> we're getting the same amount of funding as leopracy. >> reporter: the picked it up gardening and nine years later suffers symptoms. >> i never saw a tick on myself. >> reporter: louis got it from his dog and then camping. the disease has sloane him so much high school has taken five years i