david louie reports. >> homeland security admits the technology deployed along stretches of the border has been undependable. this is u.s. border custom video. >> right now, there is no good way how the technology performs in and of itself within the system. so this technology will allow them to decide that. >> this touch screen has been developed by san did have yia. it's part video game and analytical tool. it has tremendous potential to change the kind of technology we have at the border. everything from the low-tech chain link fence to the sensors they put in the ground to detect somebody walking on foot. >> reporter: the goal is to promote collaboration among teams to see problems from different perspectives. >> it's kind of like a football game. they are attempting to get to the goal line and they make decisions about when to hide and when to flee and run back. >> you can see how helicopters interact and how border agents interact and how officers actually at the entry. they are working at the scene how best protect the border. >> they were able to develop this in nine months and

in san jose david louie. abc 7 news. >> and san jose police union said it did what it needed to by signing a tentative contract agreement with the city. the city faces a budget deficit and 270 police jobs are on the line. today's agreement calls for a reduction and even with that they stand to lose 122 positions come july. >> it is bitter sweet in a sense. no one wants to take a 10 percent cut in pay and neither do the police officers. >> the deal needs to be approved by rank and file and city council. >> the state of california could face a lawsuit if the comp troller does dock the lawmakers pay. legal action is possible because technically a budget was signed by governor brawn brown in march. that didn't balance the budget and under proposition 25 passed by the voters he can with hold pay and perdium if a deal is not reach. lawmakers stand by the threat and some are optmistec a deal will get done. >> with the increase in revenues to the state we have to balance the budget and funding schools and not raising

david louie explains. >> i am very happy. >> valerie owns tickle bees on san jose lincoln avenue. she's out -- happy that out of state retailers may have to start collecting taxes. >> they are hiring in their communitis and paying taxs and then a business out there in the atmosphere and not putting anything back in the state of california. >> the requirement would impact sites that have an instate affiliate. that is a deals plus in san jose that sales through overstock and ama zon. >> this appears to be a victory for brick and mortar stores it poses a problem for retailers that sell on line. >> they will cut operations with deals plus. overstock's president talked to us via skype. >> we'll terminate them unless one or two things happen. the bill is not put in law and that looks like we would have a have tho by governor brown or they have to move. >> deals plus will lose money it can't replace. >> we can't. we don't know where else we can . so that's lost profit. >> that means not expanding staffine though they are about to move to larger space. rob small e-bayes is caught in the m

louie louie. just so. pleased. to. see. the headlines here on our t.v. and the classified documents reveal the u.k. was happy to hand over terror suspects to the u.s. with little regard to what would be waiting for them in secret prisons once under washington's jurisdiction hundreds ended up being tortured and abused without a trial. fighting for its financial life and the e.u. office the pressure on greece to tighten its strings ahead of the next bail out but some experts say it's too late as the euro already has both feet on the ground. and the former prime minister of ukraine goes on try. for abuse of power that's true of the cost to our country millions thought it was going to go to michelle freezes up to ten years behind bars. or go more world news in about fifteen minutes time that's right after the sports. thank you ari this is the sports update thanks for watching our top story as. well as russian media reports full regions are set to lose the right to host matches athletes wait see eighteen tournaments. moving on up the defending champion serena

the show is called "louie," watch it thursdays at 10:30 on fx.to louis c.k. [ cheers and applause ] very good to see you. nice to see you. >> really good. >> jimmy: it's been a while. >> it has been a long time. you're a much thinner fellow than you were before. >> jimmy: don't get used to it. >> no? >> jimmy: you -- now, you live in new york. >> yes. >> jimmy: you've got two little girls. >> yeah, two kids. >> jimmy: do they come on trips with you? >> no, no, whii would not do th to them. they're at home with their mom sleeping right now. >> jimmy: they are, yeah. >> you got to know where your kids are now. didn't used to know -- you know what i mean, when we were kids, did your parents know where you were? >> jimmy: no. even that thing on the news, do you know where your kids are? the answer was no. >> now, it's kind of -- chain of custody that's never broken, you know? now can account for every second of your kid's lives. you go on play dates. it's an arranged thing. you drop them off. you take them to soccer games. empowering, yeah. you take

i'm familiar with dave marsh's take on louie louie, but this has to be an unusual premise for a new book. i don't think there are very many. i think there's a book about amazing grace, and i'm told there's a book in the works about we shall overcome. but i think there really aren't many songs that you could write entire books about. this is one of the few. and this was not a tough sell to a publisher because they saw your piece in vanity fair. they saw the piece in vanity fair, and they thought that it could be expanded upon into a book. and it certainly works very well. for a generation of americans who are not familiar with the song-- and it's been conspicuously absent-- how would you describe the song and its impact? well, the song was a song about lynching. you know, it was a song about black bodies hanging on southern trees, and it was a song that came out in 1939 at a time when people simply weren't talking about this kind of thing. you know, it was before jackie robinson. it was before martin luther king. it was before the armed forces were integrated. it was before rosa parks. it

david louie reports. >> nearly hundred people stood in silence in a hayward park to show support for family and friends. le's cousin from san diego spoke directly to her. >> we know you are out there. we're going to find you and we'll bring you home. >> even though police say evidence from le's car lead them to call it a homicide. they are distributing t-shirts and asking volunteers to post flyers across the bay area. her brother understands that investigators may not be able to disclose every detail they know. >> this is a missing person's case because they believe it's a homicide case now. they don't want to trace the investigation. >> it remains mystery when she left the hospital to get something from her car. the car was found a short distance away. her disappearance bother people that live and work in oakland. police say they will distribute flyers around the neighborhood. >> because it happened here in hayward, it's all about to make sure that we do our part. to send a message that we won't tolerate this. >> reporter: we contacted police for an update on a case but our call was

identify those who want to stay here, who want to help to grow those company cs. >> in milpitas, david louie well grasshopper tacos are now off the menu of a popular mission street restaurant in san francisco. the little critters had been a big hit attracting customers from all over the city and the country. the san francisco health department forced the owner to take them off the menu because they are not fda approved or raised in the u.s. >> they are raised on every street corner. >> but the grasshoppers are known for carrying high levels of lead. the owner says he is disappointed, but he is trying to work out a deal with the health department. if no deal can be reached, he might start raising his own grasshoppers. >>> dramatic new surveillance video to show you from last week's tornado that swept through springfield massachusetts. this was recorded from the top of a car wash blowing debris and even moving some of the cars. owner says he knelt down next to a vault and hung on. he credits his father who designed the building for his survival. wow. remarkable images. quite a different story

in san francisco david louie, abc sevennews. >> pretty soon just continuing. >> and it is close to that now>> we'll talk about the weather now. >> sandhya patel is here. >> temperatures came up everywhere. we are in the mid-90s inland and low 60s on the coast. 30 degrees spread between coast and inland. giving you a early taste of the summer. here is a live picture from the high definition camera as we look at the golden gate bridge. hazy skies and weaker sea breeze allowed the temperatures to come up. looking at the satellite picture this afternoon. what little fog we had on the coast vanished. burned off and this is what the temperatures look like. 94 degrees in concord and livermore and 93 degrees in antioch and that's where you felt the heat. mid80 in san jose and got up to scen degrees in half moon bay . 70 in san francisco and san rafael at 90 degrees . oakland at 76 and we'll hold temperatures very similar conditions are expected as we head into tomorrow. numbers right now in the 90s . most of the bay area has start to notice the temperatures coming down in the cents and 80s rang

david louie has more. >> getting the vehicle can involve a wait. >> it was a year and some month. >> it is worth it. >> on line discussion board indicates that others have seen the delivery date pushed back. march tsunami in japan are to blame. so are technical glitches. after using the air conditioner the car will not start. this is the man in the hot seat. nissan ceo who is in town to give a speech for the policy research. >> you launch technology like this. you need to lin to the customers and intervene quickly. >> the leaf is his pet project. electric vehicles face an uphill battle. they help automakers plan and design the new vehicles and talked to us via skype. >> the batteries hold back and they are not ready for prime time at least in the vehicles and they don't look like they will be for 10 or 20 years. >> range and cost are major factors. the leaf and other vehicles are facing another vehicle. they will look in a possible fire hazard that the lithium ion batteries use. >> they have a battery production in tennessee . when it opens. it will speed up delivery and production o

in san jose, david louie, abc7 news. >>> the fire engines were called out at sfo. what forced a boeing 757 to make an emergency landing. and a chemical used to make the styrofoam cup is added to a list of possible cancer causing substances. and lunch with lauren buffet. what the winner agreed to pay in the auction. >> i'm jew jew >> i'm juju chang. facebook is under fire for using facial rec -- recognition on your photos. and summer is a time for movies to go big. that means sequels and stars and maybe some surprises. [ female announcer ] what's so great about jcp cash? no exclusions! with jcp cash, earn $10 when you spend just 25... ...storewide! and, unlike other stores,... we don't make you come back to save. get $10 off with no exclusions! we make style affordable. you make it yours. jcpenney. [ female announcer ] what's so great about jcp cash? no exclusions! with jcp cash, earn $10 when you spend just 25... ...storewide! and, unlike other stores,... we don't make you come back to save. get $10 off with no exclusions! we make style affordable. you make it your

david louie reports from what has been bethany university. >>> kristine contreras is saying goodbye to school where she has been studying for three years. she is a junior at bethany university but has no idea where she will go in the fall. bethany is closing. >> it was a heart ache the first time i heard it i did cry but i mean i cried a lot. i still cry. >> reporter: the 92-year-old christian school ran into financial problems asen rollment fell from 500 to 400 students. it operated on an $8.5 million budget. tuition costs $26,000 a year. negotiations with a group of private investors fail sod all classes have been canceled. >> many of the faculties are helping us out so it is like they are not leaving us empty handed. >> reporter: there was hope bethany might get rees rescued. the athletic program signed six new volleyball players. we found john showing his daughters and son where he graduated in 1986. he is a pastor at coastlands church in half moon bay. an example of the alumni who devote their lives to the spiritual needs of other. >> there are leaders living in sri lanka and othe

in san francisco, david louie, abc7 news. >> i bet a lot of dads are getting all sorts of gadgets forher's day today. >> yeah. and you know behind us it was really foggy there. >> it's getting better. >> yeah, it's getting better. and your voice. everything is shaping up. if you like it warmer, we will bring you warmer weather. here's the beach. santa cruz still louddy. we will bring on the sun a little later. moderate warming at the coast and major warming inland. i'll explain next. >> and also ahead it is being called the best whitewater season in years but the great conditions could also make it the most dangerous. >> with this season's high snow, it will be one of the best whitewater seasons in decades. it can also be dangerous. we go for a ride between river 140. >> this is one of the best seasons in a decade. >> the guide, skylar, has been rafting the merset river for nearly ten years and he's never seen it like in this early in the season. >> they say there's two type of rafters, those who have never swam and those that will. thanks to the record snowpack in the high sierra, al

david louie is blogging right now go to abc7news.com or catch his report later. on >> amy hollyfield, "abc 7 news." >>> overseas, five u.s. troops were killed today in iraq. it's the single largest loss of life for the u.s. military in the last two years. a barrage of three rockets hit an iraqi base in eastern baghdad. the troops were serving as advisors to security police. they ended the combat operations in last august and currently has an estimated 46,000 troops in the country. >> robert gates says the number of troops in afghanistan will be based on strategic need. he is in afghanistan for the final time as defense secretary. he retires at the end of this month. he told diane sawyer, commanders should leave combat in power intact. >> it is important to have a strategy behind the numbers, not just to pluck a single number out and say, okay, that's the number. >> the u.s. has been fighting wart in afghanistan for ten years. gates and the obama administration are under pressure from some members of congress to end the war that is costing the u.s. ten billion a m

in santa clara, david louie, abc 7 news. >>> all right. it's back. not just spencer. the warmth. >> and going to get even warmer as we approach the 4th of july which is probably good news. a live view from the high definition sutro camera looking towards the north northwest. although the sun has set it has left a nice afterglow in the sky. the western sky is bright. skies mawnly clear around the bay area. this afternoon a few clouds along the coast. they broke up and it got rather sunny in most spots. high temperatures climbed up a bit today over yesterday's levels. 15 degrees warmer in cloiver dale today. 11 degrees warmer in napa. 13 degrees in fairfield. a couple of locations, morgan hill a couple degrees cooler than yesterday. the trend is upward. upward. right now looking at temperatures generally in the 60s inland and mainly 50s near the coast. san rafael is only 59 degrees right now. low fogs and clouds push inland tonight. sunny and warmer tomorrow and much warmer for the fourth of july holiday weekend. with the presence of some low clouds tonight, low tempera

david louie reports. first wates cal springs reservoir from the sierra 77 years ago but the age and fact that vital facilities sit above or near the san andreus fault is always a worry the. >> the goal within 24 hours within a major earthquake we will have water fliog. >> a new pipeline going up to san francisco will replace one built in the 1930s. there will be improvements to a water treatment plant and to the transmission system. >> without these projects a major earthquake could put large portions of the area out of the water for 30 to 60 days. our communities won't survive for 30 to 60 days. >> the crystal from springs dam is safe according to engineer but it, too, will have work done to the spillway. >> we need hydraulic improvements to allow safely contain a spill in the spillway. >> two-thirds of customers live outside san francisco so they will pay two-thirds of construction costs. a typical peninsula residents pays $54 monthly for water. by 2015, projected water bills will be $91 a month with 52

abc7's david louie has details. >> reporter: no mistaking the desperation on their faces.omes but the recession impacted their jobs or income. the lenders keep saying no to a loan modification. jeff ruben of novato can count the rejections. >> three times over the last like i said about three years or so. always turn down. >> always a turn down, or they lose the paperwork. it just never works out. >> neighborhood assistance corporation of america, naca, is here to break the pattern. if armed with the paperwork, troubled homeowners get a chance to sit across from their banker. >> every time we sit down with the paperwork for the loan modification has always been denied. so we're having a very hard time communicating with them. >> naca has negotiated deals with lenders to help curb rate of foreclosures. non-profit offers the service for free, thanks to government grants and fees charged to the banks. the naca ceo says the banks can be good guys and tax-supported agencies can be hard-nosed. >> if you have a chase, wells fargo or wells mortgage, we can get a principal reductio

abc sevendavid louie with apple's answer thou. send it to the cloud. [applause] >> welcome.it was more than a welcome to 5000 developers for the annual apple meeting. steve jobs took a break from medical leave to usher in a new era. how to make it easier to sync the medioand devices. >> it is keeping us crazy. >> the answer he said on icloud. such as the new facility in north carolina. >> that is a powerful new method for keeping things in sync and content across all of your devices and always up to date. >> icloud will deliver or push it to all of the devices and it is free. it is mobile devices and os 10 lion. >> we are ready, we think for our customers to start using icloud and we can't wait to get it in their hand. >> to make the cloud work on mobile devices and computers their operating systems will get a major overhaul. they will need to scramble it in for new applications and that could mean working around the clock. >> it is compeel we'll sink our teeth into it . we lose track of time. >> the bottom line, apple is getting everyone to stop thinking of a computer as th

in san jose, david louie, ab a7 news. >>> hayward police have interviewed someone they call a personinterest in the disappearance of nursing student michelle lee. but u they still have few leads five daysvanished five tays ago. she disappeared friday night after attending a nursing mentoring program. the person of interest happens to be a former friend of michelle's. the two women attended high school together in san diego and at one point apparently even had the same boyfriend. >> we can speculate all day long but the reality is until we have hard evidence which we are continuing to try to garner it is very difficult to make a determination about michelle's current situation. >> detectives hope surveillance video from kaiser's parking garage will show whether michelle even got into her car or if someone else drove it away. the honda turned up a few blocks away from the hospital. >>> san raphael police hope you can help them capture a man who robbed a subway sandwich shop at gun point. it happened last friday afternoon about 4:45. the robber had just ordered two sandwiches, he then p

david louie has details. >> there is no mistaking the desperation on their faces. they want to keep their homes but the recession impacted their jobs or income. the lenders keep saying no to a loan modification. jeff ruben of novato can count the rejections. >> three times over the last, like i said, about three years or so. always a turn-down. always a turn-down. always they lose the paperwork. always it just never works out. >> naca, neighborhood aanalysis tance cooperation of -- assistance corporation of america is here to break the pattern. the troubled homeowners can sit down across from the banker. >> they have always been denied. we're having a hard time communicating with them. >> naca has negotiated deals with lenders to curb the rate of foreclosures. a non-profit that offers the service for free. thanks to government grants and fees charmed to the banks -- charged to the bank. naca ceo says the banks can be good guys while tax supported agencies can be hard-nosed. >> if you have a chase, bank of america or wells fargo you can get a principal reduction. bu

david louie is blogging right now go to abc7news.com or catch his report later. on >> amy hollyfield, "abc 7 news." >>> overseas five u.s. troops were killed today in iraq. it's the single largest loss of life for the u.s. military in the last two years. a barrage of three rockets hit an iraqi base in eastern baghdad. the troops were serving as advisors to security police. they ended the combat operations in last august and currently has an estimated 46,000 troops in the country. >> robert gates says the number of troops in afghanistan will be based on strategic need. he is in afghanistan for the final time as defense secretary. he retires at the end of this month. he told diane sawyer commanders should leave combat in power intact. >> it is important to have a strategy behind the numbers not just to pluck a single number out and say okay, that's the number. >> the u.s. has been fighting wart in afghanistan for ten years. gates and the obama administration are under pressure from some members of congress to end the war that is costing the u.s. ten billion a month

newman, louie n. wong. they review the city and county's proposed annual budget. they analyze and report on all fiscal matters and legislation, they conduct audits as required. there is existing language in the contract which states should the board of supervise ors choose to exercise the two-year ongs. the board may also determine that time to initiate an option of living adjustment prior to executing the option. and finally should the board determine not to exercise this two-year option, i would notify the consultant by august 1st, 2011 that the contract would end december 31st, 2011. there's a motion in your packet today to exercise the final options set forth in the agreement thereby extending the contract for an additional two years from january 1st, 2012 to december 3 1st, 2013. that concludes my presentation. thank you very much. >> thank you very much, ms. calvillo and thank you for all your work with the support of the board. we appreciate that. mr. rose? >> page 116 of our report. we recommend a total of $33,583. that's a 100% general fund reduction. it

david louie explains what is going on. >> satellite based navigation or gps has become a big tool forpads. but a new wireless network is being built. >> after ten miles or so they see jamming of the satellite signals and at around three or four miles a complete loss of fix so you don't know where you are anymore. >> a letter documenting these problems have been submitted to government regulate laytors. private pilot kevin morris said a jammed or lost signal could have serious consequences. >> it can be a matter of seconds before you are into a dangerous situation where you may end up hitting terrain or some type of obstruction. >> engineers say the interference may be due to the gps and the cell networks operating on adjacent frequencies. this is part after working group studying the problem and working on a a solution. it can't be solved simply by moving the cell networks to a different frequency. >> the radio spectrum is actually the most expensive, the most limited commodity. and it's not easy to find another location for these new services to operate in. >> they said interference

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in san jose david - david louie abc 7 news. >> enough is enough. >> and all of the attack on me. >> it is not your fault. i know you don't want to hear this. we have more wet days in the 7-day forecast than dry. we are heading in the first week of june and it is unusually wet. we do get rain in june, but not this wet. here is a live picture from the high definition south beach camera. you can see the clouds around as we look toward the bay. we have areas of spotty showers right now . we'll show you a live picture from the henly camera. it snowed over the weekend and looking out over the lake tahoe area and getting more no up there as we head in to tomorrow. first day of june. we'll have a few showers here. right around the bay, light showers . napa area . also down to the san ramon valley and livermore getting light returns right now . east of san jose hamilton getting showers. rainfall has varied. trace in san jose . san francisco, over two-10ths in santa rosa . same thing for fairfield. 24-hour rainfall totals. number in the 50s and 60s. showers overnight and more showers for wednesd

in san jose david louie abc 7 news. >> we are learning more about a las vegas man charged with 29 felony counts of mortgage fraud in alameda county. michael fenny first broke the story in february and here with the newest development. >> alen faces two years initate prison for real state fraud. he has a long f.b.i. rap sheet. >> he winked at a friend as he stood before the judge in handcuff. he was held since feb. the court documents so tico has a criminal history in five states and district of columbia. convictions are disorderly conduct and felony autotheft. >> he has no verifiable ties to the communicate . he has an extensive criminal record in california in five different states. >> tico can't post bail unless it was obtained legally. the attorney asked the judge to redo the order and reduce the bail. >> i am not inclined to go below given the fact that i do believe he is a flight risk. >> he's not a flight risk and in fact he offered not only to surrender passport but be put on gps. >> tico talked to distressed homeowner to give thousands of dollars and he would refinance the mortga

david louie is live at that event. >> how is it going in >> the cavern is filled with troubled homeowners and some of them may have lost one or both incomes and unable to make house payments. their home loan amount is greater than the value of the home. here they may get the relief they seek. others came after others came. they am sit down with a lender and negotiate a reduction in interest. will clayton was behind and owed $3000. >> they got that reduced to $2000 a month and my interest rate went to two percent and the term of my loan was extended. >> you must be happy? >> i am esstatic. >> napa takes the event on the road and hopes to help homeowners in a six-day stop in san jose. napa gets federal funding and charges fees to lenders. most people will get help. there are investors covering the mortages. >> each person arrives with a story of frustration multiple turn downs . kevin volunteers after he got help. the difference is sitting down with the lender. >> now, instead of being a number or a loan package that they sent, now you are a person. that stands for neighborhoodacious cystan

you'd like to see better i know you know you know medicare party everybody i've got my choices deal louie gohmert the only person who got crazy michele bachmann daniel helper heather ceremonies thank you both very much thanks thank you always was great after the break transformers may be a fiction movie but a storyline is playing a very real role corporate america. let's not forget that we had an apartheid regime right. i think. either one well. we never got the that says they're going to say get ready for freedom. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so silly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture. it's the good the bad or literary very indifferent he got really ugly the good the hour wal-mart organization after decades of successfully squashing unions wal-mart is up against a new threat a non union organization and groups a group of our wal-mart is organizing one our workers with the head of united. so that they can demand better wag

david louie. abc 7 news. >>? alameda, the city council changed the policy on water rescues after getting an earful from the residents last night. >> it is frustrating. >> that is the mother of the suicidal man. >> the council voted to reinstate the training and programs that was cut two years ago to save money. >> what were they thinking when they did nothing? this strikes me not as a problem with funding but the problem with the culture of what is going on in our city. >> the council grade to certify 16 city firefighters to perform land based water rescues. >> the southern california woman accused of kidnapping the four month old grand daughter and claiming that the child was hers appeared in the courtroom. she was convicted of kidnapping and residential burglary . she sneaked in her son's house and abducted rammy from the crib. the grandmother was arrested in southern california with the baby who was not hurt. the grandmother is held on five million dollars bail. five-days in the disappearance of an east bay nu

david louie is joining us live from a video store in san jose. >> the high court says that it's parents who must do the policing of the kids. and that laws such as the one in california should not be the burden of the video games store to police those kids. the popular ones are the one wtz m ratings. the law imposed a $1,000 fine. and the supreme court says video games share the same first amendment protection as movies, skbookz music. the justice dz not buy the argument it can influence similar behavior in children or teens. there is a reaction from the southors but first, a parent who now has to monitor what kids buy. >> i just don't think parents are active in knowing what around for kids. >> is there a lot of games out there they're not family with? >> true. i'm not. >> the u.s. supreme court decided it's going to side with corporate america and wall mart against our children. >> we're standing on our own two feet tr. tl is a high sense of appreciation and enforcement of our immediate yaf entertainment to be on par with motion pictures, books and music. >> there are some store was a

david louie was there and now here with us. >> steve jobs, and our mobile devices to store music photos and mail and documents. if he is right, it will make our digital life a lot simpler. >> you have to sync them to move them from one device to the other. >> and now everything is in sync with me not thinking about it. i don't have to be near my mac or pc. >> they share storage on the servers instead of on an ipod or iphone. >> that is a powerful new method for keeping things in sync and content across all of your devices and always up to date. >> it launches a new way of thinking of the mobile devices. as long as they are conflected by wi-fi it is a process that is invisible. >> not on the computer and sitting on your desk. if you replaced those devices, boom, you download from the cloud, everything is updated. >> the icloud service is free. apple will make money by selling on the itunes store. apple will scan your library and match it against 18 million songs on the servers. >> clearly apple sees an opportunity there and generate referee for thims and their customers and if that happe

david louie has details. >> there is no mistaking the dedication operation on their faces. they want to keep their homes the lenders keep saying no to a loan modification. jeff can terl counted the rejections. >> three times over the last three years or so. >> and always turned down? >> always turned down. they lose the paperwork. it just never worked out. >> naca is here to break that pattern. if armed with all the paperwork troubled homeowners get a chance to sit across from their banker. >> it cost more money. so we're having a very hard time communicating with them. >> naca has negotiated deals to help curb the rate of foreclosures. it's a nonprofit. the ceo says the bank can be good guys. >> if you have a chase, bank of america wells fargo we can get a hundred thousand dollars. but fha they refuse to do a printable reduction. >> half of the homeowners lead with a modified loan. 80% will get relief within 30 days. kevin volunteers for naca after he got help. he lost his job as a pilot. his wife was furloughed from a state job. >> what is the interest rate went down to 2

david louie, "abc 7 news." >>> warm weather, now coupled with a huge winter snow pack means many communitiesracing for possible flooding. a closed sign visits to eastern fresno county. other campgrounds remain open but snow remains on the ground almost midway through june. >> we're in the tent area and they had closed theirs down so we had to call to make sure it's still only op. >> in yosemite many will be gazing raging water falls but further down the stream, merced river may overflow the banks. talk about crazy. we're talking about a rain in june and records. >> already warming up. 77 in yosemite today. so flood watch is in effect until further notice. san jose, looking partly cloudy, kind of cool right now. but on your way to 70 degrees. i'll have the forecast, talk about some minor fluctuations coming up. >> also ahead, bay area veterans who have found a safe haven at >>> about 20 minutes to 9:00 and you are looking at the golden gate bridge. got some clouds and blue. wind mixed in there, as well. before this week is over, next week is over, we're going to be having real summer-like tem

david louie shows us the problem and how the cleanup might changes lives. >> reporter: trash lined lionote creek for miles. much of it generated by the hundreds of homeless that camp out here. environmental protection agency plans to hire the homeless to do the cleanup. jim kenny has lived here for four years. prospect of a job and cleaner environment i intrigues him. >> it will help a lot of people get off their petunias and say hey, this is where i live. this program is going to help me get back in the swing of things. >> one of agencies involved destination home believes the approach will foster help among the homeless. >> it's an opportunity to reconnect with them and offer a partnership in terms of restoring the environment and helping them find help. >> almost one million in funding is coming from public and private sources. a long time homeless advocate says the program holds promise. >> a job gives hope. so it's good for their psychological well-being so you give them the empowerment. housing is the ultimate solution but a job temporarily is a good start. >> jim who used to work

in san francisco, david louie, abc7 news. >>> summer officially starts tuesday but it already feels that way here. >> we have some 50s out there. not much in the way of fog and it will further pull away from our coast as the northerly winds take over. the westerly winds, what a blustery day yesterday. this morning you see the marine layer there. we will talk about much, much warmer weather straight ahead. >> thank you, lisa. also ahead, it's being called the best whitewater season in years. but those great condition could >> with this season's high snow, it will be one of the best whitewater seasons in decades. it can also be dangerous. we go for a ride between river 140. >> this is one of the best seasons in a decade. >> guide, skylar, has been rafting the merset river for nearly ten years and he's never seen it like in this early in the season. >> they say there's two type of rafters, those who have never swam and those that will. thanks to the record snowpack in the high sierra, all california rivers are running high this spring and the season is just beginning. >> coming up is road r

msnbc's richard louie joins us with the hot spots. >> chris, if we look back, you have to go back thatas not been that long. israel is saying it's a distraction. >> this could not be happening without the acquiescence of the syrian regime. it has taken a decision to increase tension on the frontier to divert attention from the very real problems they face at home. >> chris, that is that statement regarding your question. when protesters reached a french area, they were fired upon. that's a video we have been watching. forces shouting warnings to stay away from barbed wire fences, deep inside syria we are hearing the reports of 20 policemen being killed. forces continue to clash with protesters and over 1332 people dead since violence began. the un discusses syria's lealged nuclear program. another hot spot is yemen. the president left the country and we are hearing a report who said he will return in a few days. the ambassador with the vice president who took the spot for now. after the town was hit by rockets in the situation, he went to saudi arabia to undergo chest surgery. they rem

louie, good to see you. we thought who could we talk to to give better perspective, and we wanted to go to you. and as we mentioned, some of the images in canada are even so disturbing we can't even show them here on cnn. they're just that graphic. as i mentioned, your country's been doing this for ten years, sir. how effective has this beencurb? >> well, since 2001, as you mentioned, canada has had graphic health warning messages on its tobacco packages at 50%, which is as of today, by the way, the law of the land. we are, as you mentioned, trying to move to 75%. we're seeking concurrence of our house of commons right now. in terms of the effectiveness of health warning messages, i'd just like to say that prevalence of canadian smoking 15 years or older has dropped from 24% in 2000 to 18% today. now, it's not all attributable to obviously labeling on packages. there are other factors, other measures that have been put in place that have helped that along. but definitely, health warning messages have played

in san jose, david louie abc7 news. >>> speaking of money.ady gaga is making plenty of it thanks largely to the amazon deal. she sold more than $1.1 million on her new album "born this way" last week. billboard this morning announced the album captured highest sales in one week since 2005. 60% were digital. it slowed down their retailer website with all the traffic from little monsters. hoping to see gaga in the video but since we didn't you have to reenact the act. >> you're more suited for that. >> i'll take on the challenge. >> i'd be a background dancer. >> stay in the background with the forecast you have. >> hiding out. 5:17. good morning. roof cam to the east. you can see the vertically developing storm out there. we'll see more as the afternoon unfolds, especially as the sun comes up and starts to heat the ground. we start to get a lift in the atmosphere. this is why we have showers. thunderstorm and small hail is possible today. look at what is going on as far as the temperatures. because we have breaks in the clouds, we're in the mi

in san jose, david louie, abc7 news. >>> the next phase of an $80 million widening project of the roadin as expected next week. there's a temporary restraining order stopping the project for now. an environmental group filed suit this week saying the project would dallas mavericks the alameda creek and dallas mavericks the environment. the temporary restraining order will remain in place until a court hearing on june 23rd. >>> warm weather now, coupled with a huge winter snowpack, means many communities in radio broadcast are bracing for possible flooding. a closed sign greets campers here. it is threatened by the rushing waters of nearby dinky creek. the campground remains open but you you may see the snow on the ground almost through mid-june. >> we had friends in a tent area and they closed theirs down so we made sure this was still only. >> yosemite, many people will gaze at raging water falls, but downstream they worry about the river overflowing its banks. dinky creek isn't kinky anymore. >> you wouldn't let that go by. >> can't have a big creek named dinky. >> in about four or f

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in san francisc francisco, david louie 7 news. >>> investors seemed to notice how much thinner jobs looked today. apple stock was trending up before he appeared at today's news conference then it dropped. it closed down one and a half percent. >>> not to be out done microsoft today announced it's bringing you tube and live television to the x box 3 skichlt already down load movies and pre-recorded tv sho shows to the x box. this will be the first time a leif signal would be available in the united states. microsoft said it will offer international and domestic programming but gave nourth details. >> there is much more ahead this monday night. coming up. bay area city putting camera on the crime beat. technology gives new meaning to neighborhood watch. >> and east bay winery with military motif. how it has become a safe haven for local veteran. >> accu-weather forecast center. we have unusual weather coming our way. something called mostly sunny. i have details in my something called mostly sunny. i have details in my accu-weather forecast coming u >> i haven't told the truth. >>reporter: t

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