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marie medina can kpix5. >> he vetoed three bills flying drones. >>> no sight of a missing cargo ship that may have been a casualty of hurricane joaquin. the ship's last known location was thursday near crooked island in the bahamas. that's the same area where ship debris was found on saturday. the possible clues to its fate. >>reporter: this coast guard video shows a helicopter crew recovering a life ring in the bermuda triangle. a weekend long search has found a 225 square mile debris field and in it more life rings a container, life vests, wood cargo styrofoam and oil sheen. but the cargo ship's owner said in a statement today there has been no sighting of the el fher 0 or any lifeboats. >> out there looking for anything that may give us indication where the ship may be. >>reporter: on tuesday morning the 790-foot cargo ship heavily loaded with containers set out for san juan from jacksonville. joaquin was then a tropical storm. by thursday at 7:20 a.m. the ship radioed a distress call. it was now near the eye of a category 4 hurricane's 130 miles per hour winds and 30- foot swells
marie medina can kpix5. >> he vetoed three bills flying drones. >>> no sight of a missing cargo ship that may have been a casualty of hurricane joaquin. the ship's last known location was thursday near crooked island in the bahamas. that's the same area where ship debris was found on saturday. the possible clues to its fate. >>reporter: this coast guard video shows a helicopter crew recovering a life ring in the bermuda triangle. a weekend long search has found a 225 square...
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live in livermore marie medina. >>> emergency crews respond to a hang glider who slammed into a hillside at the ed listen county park in milpitas. >>> a number of great white sharks spotted off the coast of pacifica is piqueing the interest of bay area scientists. why they getting so close. that's the question. >>reporter: it may be the warm water but the scientists are still not clear. but what they are saying is more people are sighting them more pictures being taken of great white sharks closer to shore in the bay area. two coast guard helicopter crews snapped these photos. they spotted about 20 white sharks all between 10 and 18 feet in length within a hundred yards from shore. the sites took place on a 12- mile stretch of shoreline between pacifica and ocean beach a week ago. around that same time there was another white shark sighting inside the bay off the island of alcatraz a tourist shot this video of a shark devowing a seal. >> it's unusual to see so many sharks offshore. >>reporter: a conservation group wants to point out the sharks spotted by the coast guard were not cluttere
live in livermore marie medina. >>> emergency crews respond to a hang glider who slammed into a hillside at the ed listen county park in milpitas. >>> a number of great white sharks spotted off the coast of pacifica is piqueing the interest of bay area scientists. why they getting so close. that's the question. >>reporter: it may be the warm water but the scientists are still not clear. but what they are saying is more people are sighting them more pictures being taken...
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live in livermore marie medina kpix5. >> police in santa clara are looking for a killer officers werealled to a house on glade drive. they found a 22-year-old man shot to death in the backyard. investigators say there was a parties at the house earlier in the evening but they have no suspects. >>> an suv from san jose was one of two cars involved in a deadly head-on wreck in the sierra foothills. the cars collided highway 120 near grove land last night. a look at the aftermath gives you an idea how violent the impact was. the 22-year-old driver of the other car was killed along with 4 people in the suv. their names have not been released. >>> the sole survivor in the suv is identified as john sue yang of saratoga she was airlifted to a hospital in modesto. >>> a rescue mission underway tonight after a whale watching boat capsized and sank off the coast of vancouver island. 5 of 27 confirmed dead. it's not clear how many are still missing. people who live nearby say they have never seen anything like it. >> this doesn't usually happen the company i was with was the people that stared w
live in livermore marie medina kpix5. >> police in santa clara are looking for a killer officers werealled to a house on glade drive. they found a 22-year-old man shot to death in the backyard. investigators say there was a parties at the house earlier in the evening but they have no suspects. >>> an suv from san jose was one of two cars involved in a deadly head-on wreck in the sierra foothills. the cars collided highway 120 near grove land last night. a look at the aftermath...
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maria medina live on closing the loophole that allows some ivory to be bought and sold legally. marie i can't. >> reporter: betty, the law allows you to bay and sell old ivory but now this new law changes that. here in chinatown it wasn't difficult finding stores that sell is ivory night. think it's a great thing. there's way too much poaching going on. >> reporter: in san francisco's chinatown we found several is stores selling ivory. the owners say they're selling it legally because it was made before the 1989 global ban on elephant ivory imports. >> and where is that ivory from? >> reporter: an investigation found san francisco is the second largest market in the country for ivory trinkets. >> it should have been stopped a long time ago. >> reporter: today jerry brown closed that loophole. the new law will jut law the purchase or sale of elephant ivory rhinoceros horn in the state after july 1st. the owner of this store told us she will continue selling is ivory despite the law because she's retiring and will shut her doors soon. >> i'm just kind of short- sighted. and are they rea
maria medina live on closing the loophole that allows some ivory to be bought and sold legally. marie i can't. >> reporter: betty, the law allows you to bay and sell old ivory but now this new law changes that. here in chinatown it wasn't difficult finding stores that sell is ivory night. think it's a great thing. there's way too much poaching going on. >> reporter: in san francisco's chinatown we found several is stores selling ivory. the owners say they're selling it legally...