. >> researchers at uc davis have come up with, get this, a sweat-proof fabric. tony lopez shows us how it works. >> we lift and we glide and we sweat. >> i get extremely soak and had then i have all these thing sdmrs the more you sweat, the more distracting it is. >> what if i told you this tiny piece of cloth is being designed to soak up that distraction. >> it'd be great. >> uc davis grad student and professor are now 6 to 12 months away from manufacturing a ground-breaking new fabric. the material works like human skin. sweat doesn't absorb into your body. it's funneled through chambers in the fabric. >> you can look closely. you isle see there are three spot sfls those spots attract a sweat merging one droplet into one big droplet which is then rolled away from your skin. >> it's a surface and doesn't stay there. >> because it doesn't stay there, it won't weigh you down during a tough workout. >> it definitely will help you stay in a much drier and comfortable state. >> and comfort during cardio could help you burn more calories. staying dry near the dumbbel

. >> uc davis's honey pee expert agrees. >> don't just look at the gross number that comes across.h, we did lose 31%, but it was to accommodation of all the other things that aren't going right. >> he says only a quarter of the nation's beekeepers are having continuous problems. >> i imagine if they took a closer look at their bees, they would find out there are some things they would be able to straighten out. >> you're talking about piss poor bee keeping. i have been doing this all of my life. i feel i'm a good steward of my bees. this is how we get our queens shipped to us. >> he has no might problem and says may be tow tg pesticide industry line for a reason. >> major pesticide manufacturers do a lot of funding to the university and you can't bite the hand that feeds you. >> uc davis does get millions of dollars research has led to better pesticides. >> they are basically limited to the plant in which they've been applied so it really isn't contaminating the rest of the environment. >> and if some bees are dying. >> they're collateral damage, i think is what the military would

researchers at uc-davis have come up with a sweatproof fabric.ony lopez showses how it works. >>> reporter: we lift and we glide and we sweat. >> i get soaked and then i have all these stains. >> the more you soak the more distracting it is. >> reporter: what if i told you this tiny piece of cloth is being designed to soak up that distraction in a professor and grad student are now six to 12 months away from manufacturing a groundbreaking new fabric. it works like human skin. sweat doesn't absorb into your body. it's funneled into chambers in your fabric. >> you can see the spots. >> reporter: those spots attract a sweat merging small droplets into one big droplet which is then rolled away from your skin. >> see how it bounces off the surface and doesn't stay there. >> reporter: because it doesn't stay there, it won't weigh you down during a tough workout. >> it definitely will help you stay drier and comfortable. >> reporter: and comfort during cardio could help you burn more calories. staying dry near the dumbbells could build even more muscles

similar walkouts have taken place in uc davis and three other uc medical centers. >> again we'll update that fire at 6:00 but carolyn johnson is live with more on what we'll have then. >> we'll take a look the a company envisioning future of shopping with leaving your wallet at home. it's a story only on abc 7 news, also. a rare look at crisis situation buzz is this too much is in the i team investigates coming up tonight at 6:00. >> super bowl may have stolen headlines today, right? but we have not forgot again about warrior autos that is right. a fan rally going to kick off at 6:00. >> admission will be free. you can meet players and tour the >>> this is "world news." tonight, direct hit, twister outbreak. we have new pictures, proving the epic size of the tornado in oklahoma. powerful, deafening, 600 times the strength of an atomic bomb, flattening that elementary school with children taking shelter inside. and tonight families show us how they emerged from underground shelters to see their homes simply erased. >> the lord giveth, and the lord taketh away. >> the frantic search for s

and grace (inaudible) science and technology will attend uc davis. >> thomas from mission will attend alabama aand m >> and and they will attend the college (inaudible) and city college of san francisco. thank you so much. >> i am going to back to the filipino educaters who are here now and do you have any students with you? >> i am not sthur. good evening to all of you,ed audience and the commissioners, and the superintendent and the other staff members, good evening. i am not sure but i did call them to see if they can make it and if they can't we still honor them. i do have the draft, actually of the program. so just pass it down. >> the filipino educators presented the high school seniors awards from recognition night last may 15th, 2013 at the manila town center at the international (inaudible) so we had actually 23 recipients scholarships but this is actually based on 152 high school seniors who are graduating with a gpa average, b and above, or a b. or a b plus and above. and beyond 4.0 and above. so, out of that 23 rerecipients we have daina, (inaudible) catriana (inaudible) a

researchers at uc-davis have come up with a sweatproof fabric of all things.erial works just like human skin. sweat doesn't absorb into your body, it's funneled through chambers inside the fabric. gym buffs love the idea. >> to have a fabric that didn't show any sweat marks would be awesome. >> if this cloth is cheaper and keeps sweat out, yeah, i mean, i think anyone would buy it. >> the uc-davis grad student and professor who came up with the material are now about a year away from manufacturing a groundbreaking new fabric. [ laughter ] >>> you might not need the sweatproof outfit for this exercise. >> i can't get over this. it's called "prancercise." and apparently, it's the new rage. check it out. >> it's ridiculous. ♪[ music ] >> go ahead. you get to read it. >> a 60-year-old florida woman, this woman, invented -- [ laughter ] >> -- invented "prancercise." her video has gone viral online. the workout is described as -- i mean, do we really have to describe it? just watch it. >> springing rhythmic dorky movements, that's it. >> so this reminds me of someth

i grew up in the california area, ended up at uc-davis. i made my way out to san francisco in 1984 when i was a college student. i remember growing up on clement street. i have always lived around in richmond area, just being around a unique area of the richmond, discovering san francisco in the 1980's. >> i am hoping we can not support small businesses like this because they are the unique character that makes neighborhoods like this so rich and lively to live in. >> i have also been active as a community organizer. i worked at the chinese progressive association. i also worked at the mental health center in the richmond district. i have always been passionate about civil rights, equality for everyone. i have a 10-year-old daughter, so having a girl has made me much more sensitive to gender equality issues. i guess i have always been vocal about my politics, bu as a supervisor, i have to listen to other perspectives and making decisions. >> very soon there will be of much more seniors in that area. we are trying to focus on whether a stop

at uc davis, it was a great friendly bike town and i think san francisco has to do more in terms of safety and roads. i realize that sometimes, under our general transportation process, you know, we are not working more collaboratively together and this is probably a great way to collaborate but i just look at the cost, i look at there has been to be something else more effective that this money could be spent on and i just take issue with spending this much money on a bike sharing program. >> i see no other people from this committee speaking. i will just say that in reading through the mta and strategic sharing the mode an using this as a pilot and even just as the users making short trips connecting with cal trains, it's a well thought out process. it's not any of the district but in that concentrated area, the core that we talked about this meeting and really well thought out about how it maximizes the number of bicycle trips but reduce congestion on our transit system as well. i will say i hadn't read through much of the planning but i think it's well thought out, i think i would supp

. >> professor ken giles teaches at uc davis.uses this remote control aircraft to spray crops in hard-to-reach hillside vineyards. right now he's only spraying water to test the drones. even his testing requires an faa permit, something a private citizen with their own drone is not required to have. >> at this point we're a public agency looking tat technology and conducting research but there's a commercial industry that's right behind us. your neighbor next door with a go pro camera on their drone, that's a different concern. >> a huge privacy concern to some, especially if your neighbor decides to fly near or over your property and decides to turn the drone's camera into your house. >> well, by 2015, the faa is going to be opening up the skies to commercial drones. that means everybody from google to news corp could be flying a drone, and by that time we really need to have some regulations in place on how organizations should be flying drones. >> lynch says immediate privacy protection should come from the state. >> i think k

she is 83 years old, a profess sos at uc davis. ken. >> that's gross. . >> yeah. it's going to cost a lot of money, $330,000. that's just not for the removal. alts, for doing the research looking at an art expert and legal expert to see if they can do this without getting into legal trouble. >> keep us updated. >>> gentleman hoo will now offer 16 weeks paid leave to new moms and up to 8 weeks to new dads. another new perk, 500 bucks to put toward grocerys and baby clothes. yahoo's ceo gave birth nine weeks ago. . >>> a lot of things could go wrong with wetting. you can have bad weather, naughty guests. there's the, you know, crazy people who show up. that's what happened. one bay area woman, she says that her plans went wrong. >> yeah. days before she said i do, and the bride tells julie watts, it's all san jose's fault. >> it was supposed to be the best day of their life, but less than two weeks before the big day, dream wegd turned into a nightmare. >> i was in panic mode. we thought woildn't have any food at the wedding. >> a wedding for over 300 people they've

sacramento, a live look where police are involved in a standoff situation in the oak park area, south of uc davisal center. shortly after 7:00 tonight they saw a man in his 50s outside with a gun. the police received a report of a shot fired but nobody was hurt. police say the man went back into a home and now the swat team has been called out to help. sacramentoolice say they believe the man is inside the house by himself. we will continue to monitor this and keep you posted. >>> firefighters were worry about responding to homes without smoke detectors. so this is what they did. >> reporter: getting a knock on the door by firefighters usually is followed up by a scary time. but today the knock was about a free detector. >> i was amazed. it showed they cared. >> i will probably sleep better. >> reporter: in the past month three people have been killed in structure fires in san jose. and it's under investigation if a lack of smoke detectors was an issue. >> it's tough to swallow sometimes when you see an entire family is killed because they didn't have a smoke detector. >> reporter: yesterday abou

ended up in uc-davis. made my way out to san francisco when i was a college student, and i sat in the class is in san francisco state as well, and i remember growing up at that time around clement street. we call the richmond district the new chinatown in the 1980's at that time. just being around the tremendous unique neighborhood, and discovering san francisco in the 1980's as i grew up, but i also have been very active as a community organizer. i worked in chinatown, and some first jobs also at the mental health center in the richmond area multi services in the 1980's, and i was also a staff are at the chinatown youth center -- i was also a staffer. a lot of my work has been supporting community empowerment, especially in an immigrant and people of color communities. most recently, i have been teaching at san francisco state. i ran the immigrant rights coalition in the city in the 1990's for several years. i'm also an immigration attorney, and a lot of my passion is supporting in power met for immigrant

. >>> uc davis was recently ranked notch 1 in thewold for teaching and research in agriculture and forestryq-s world university rankings were released this week. they are prepared by a british firmed considered to be one of the most influential ranging provides are q-s uses four measures to rank universities including the number of research papers published and the number of times that those papers have been cited by oregon researchers. >>> here we go, truly off the wall many uptown oakland today. the acroy bats of bandaloop parented to the music of stray cats on the side of a building none the great wall of oakland. this is all part of the internet cat video festival. cats and kitten were up for adoption and after dark viral cat videos were projected on the wall. organizes are said they were impressed by the turnout. >> cat people, because cats stay inside dote really get to meet other cat people and this is one of the only opportunity for that to happen. >> cat people unite. proceeds from the feline festival benefit the east bay spca. >>> causing an uproar and even death threats. the unus

researchers from uc davis say the animals have been infected by seabirds. elephant seals show sign of the disease. the study was published in the journal pillas one. >>> you already know home prices are expensive in san francisco, but they are now scaling rare heights median sales price of at home in the city hit the $1 million mark last month. that is up more than 31% from a year-ago. the san francisco association of realtors says the median price hasn't been so high since the real estate boom peaked in 2007. the median price for a condo in san francisco $850,000. >>> just another reason why i needed to win the powerball lottery of. >> it's a longshot to win the powerball. how long? you have a better chance of being hit by lightning and much more. we'll break down the numbers for you. >>> warm weather is returning to the bay area and meteorologist mark tamayo is next with what runners can expect for the bay to breakers. the weekend is off to a nice start and if you like the warmer temperatures you i this you will like the forecast. lower 60s in pacifica an

similar one out taking place at uc davis and 3 other uc medical centers. >> effort to help business ownerhead may move forward tonight. city council is considering a a partnership with make row lending outfit and arrangement that supports hope will lift the local economy. nick smith with the story. >> i'm in oakland and it's important to me to be part of the community if some way. >> loretta is living out her dreechlt owning operating her own business. macking it add up to sizable profit hasn't been easy. >> i use my credit card and of course i wracked up a lot of debt and nasty to be able to consolidate the debt. lower interest rate on them an also able to expand my labor force. >> exactly the type of business owner oakland city council member libby is trying to reach. she and city attorney parker are hoping the oakland city council will approve the push to team up with san francisco base non-profit organization by providing capitol to those who don't have access to traditional leensz of credit. >> this becomes revolving fund so once any one of the businesses pace off that initial loan,

similar walkouts have taken place at uc davis and other medical centers. >> now the forecast. >> you were talking about the wins and amie called it a bad hair day? >> yes if you have hair. >> mike? >> okay...i am just happy to have a hair day. >> some of us are happy to have hair. >> 5:09. live doppler 7 hd shows no rain so there is no frizz factor. in the south by, mountain view is 50, the warm spot. everyone else is in the 40's, cupertino and sunnyvale and campbell and san jose at 49. alum rock, 48. the hills, los gatos, 42 degrees right now. we are 50 in richmond district and redwood city and newark and warmer in alameda at 52 but everyone else is 46 in san ramon. lafayette is 45 and same for novato. the next 12 hours, we will be around 44 to 50 degrees through 7:00 and breezy at noon and 54 to 65 and below average everywhere and 55 at the coast and 70 inland and total sunshine today other than a passing cloud or two. the next three days we are the same, winds will subside on friday and you can see the low clouds in the morning and saturday, a warming trend begins >> as we take it

similar walkouts have taken place at uc davis and three other centers. >> if we think to amy hollyfield we saw how chilly and windy it is. >> they said they should have collected with me before canceling the wind adviseory. >> good morning, much, live doppler 7 hd shows it is dry. we will talk about cool conditions, and forest hill area of san francisco, 45 degrees and glen park 48 and portrero hill and mission district is 49 and inelse from ocean beach to downtown is 50 degrees. most of us in the 40's and only 37 in american canyon. san leandro is warmest at 50. today, the big story is the breezes and, also, the fact that temperatures will drop a little bit especially inland around concord and santa rosa at another three or four degrees and the east bay sure we may drop. temperatures will remain at average to below average today, tomorrow, friday, and when the breezes subside friday into saturday we will see the warming trend for the weekend. we will talk about traffic right now and here is leyla gulen with the latest. >> we had an earlier police activity in oakland. involveing bart. t

david green mall chief of staff at burns at uc davis hospital. >> very simple.ple l driving who don't have any sensation in their lower body, those people should not have car seat heaters. >> record compiled by the consumer advocate group safety research strategy show there have been 12 07 complaint about seat heater malfunction in 19 years to the national highway traffic safety administration. dr. green hall has seen a handful of such cases. >> we know that if you could 900 degrees fahrenheit if they get up to 120, 130, 140, they can tlmy burn relatively quick. >> test results conducted made visible to us by the attorney showed the seat heater reached temperature hovering at 150 degrees. he didn't know what burped him until his wife experienced it herself. >> the just kept getting hotte hotter. she pull over to the side of the road and jump out. >>reporter: car legaler say pall motor ins st. louis and manufacturer of the seat heate heater. they deny any fault in the accident. gm not sued because it was under the protection of the bankruptcy court at the time.

. >> eric mussen is a bee expert at uc davis.an't blame one thing for the collapse of bee colonies, parasites, maybe pesticides, the midwest drought. a lot of beekeepers say they're starving to death as urbanization replaces bee food. >> we've converted some of the lands that used to have nice food for bees to places where they can't find food anymore. they're just plain short on food. >> reporter: what are people trying to do about it they're trying to plant flowers and bee food. europe is considering banning pest cites harmful to bees bottom lines colonies will rebuild, food will get pollenated, it just will take longer and cost more. >> yeah, it will cost a lot more. thank you, janie, very much. >>> last night was the annual robin hood gala. "power lunch" was there. see what the biggest names on wall street were talking about over dinner. >>> you're not going to believe how some tour ises are trying to get ahead at disney world. we're back in two minutes' time. with the new staples rewards program you get 5% back, on everythin

researchers at uc davis say some elephant seals contracted that h1n1 var russ virus three years ago. this is the first time a human pandemic strain has been found in marine mammals. it started a worldwide influenza outbreak killing as many as half a million people worldwide. >>> san francisco police are warning residents of a scam involving fake utility representatives. they pose as representatives of pg&e or the san francisco water department. they call people on the phone, claiming their bills are overdue and their service will be shut off it if they don't pay immediately. the scammers then tell the victims to call another phone number and pay using a money pack. neither pg&e or the san francisco water department uses that payment method. if you receive a call, call police immediately >>> today is the deadline for san francisco pride leaders to choose a new grand martial for this year's parade. members originally announced army private bradley manning had been elected as grand marshal. he is a gay soldier facing treason charges for releasing confidential documents to wikileaks. the

but uc-davis professor jay lund says there's a reason more growers aren't doing it. >> if you want to business you want to have things be predictable. and irrigation gives you a lot more predictability in your crop yields and in your operation than not irrigating. >> reporter: dr. lund says california agriculture long ago embraced irrigation and he doesn't expect dry farming will ever make much of a comeback. but williams believes there was wisdom if the old ways and that modern doesn't always mean better. >> everyone wants to think outside the box. but sometimes you have to look back and say, i wonder why that box was there? >> reporter: in napa valley, kpix 5. >> and one more thing to consider in a dry year. dry farming 200 acres of vines, he saves nearly 13 million gallons of water a year. so eat your peas. >> good for you, good for the soil. >>> we hate using the "d" word. but unfortunately, we're in a drought. >> something happened last week that the government scientists look at soil moisture which we just saw that story, look at rainfall that's happened, rainfall that's forecas

. >> reporter: a professor teaches at uc-davis and uses this remote-controlled aircraft to spry crops in hard-to-reach hillside vineyards. right now he is only using water but eventually he hopes to spray pesticides but even his testing requires an faa permit something a private citizen with his own drone is not required to have. >> at this point we're a public agency looking at the technology and cunning research. but there is a commercial right behind us. your neighbor next door with a go pro camera on their drone is a different concern. >> reporter: a huge privacy concern to some especially if your neighbor decides to fly near or over your property and decides to turn the drone's camera into your house. >> by 2015, the faa is going to be opening up the skies to commercial drones. that means everybody from google to news corp could be flying a drone and by then we need regulations on how organizations should be flying drones. >> reporter: lynch says immediate privacy protection should come from the state. >> any kind of voyeurism statute on the state or federal level would apply to

i get injured very lightly and go to the medical facility, uc davis and was probably there for no morehan an hour and a half. it turned out my medical situation was not severe. i had a light ended up costing me $21,000, which i cannot afford. as i tell the medical profession, i want to pay my bills and pay my bills honestly, but when you go from making 10,000, $15,000 a year, and your pay scale goes up, and i am having to change my profession and be away from home to make these payments and be a better husband, father and taxpayer -- i mean, i do not get the help that everybody speaks of. i am not getting it, and i know a lot of people in my situation that are out here on the road and in other professions not getting the help. still i hear republicans and democrats alike -- everybody wants the same thing, but instead of blaming people, why doesn't everybody truly work together and show the public that we are here for you? stop talking about being here for us. host: caller, thank you. , i can just picture you driving along the road, and as you do, and everybody does, you worry about if

uc davis had a similar program for decades. >>> all right. 7:55. i think sal might be interested in going back to the alma matter -- alma mater. let's go to sal now. how is contra costa county? >> it looks good in some areas, but not in others. we have had some slow traffic. highway 4 in baypoint is slow coming up to the willow pass grade. a lot of the people stuck in traffic in antioch are getting on the road and they are going to be moving up to the baypoint area. so the whole thing is slow from antioch all the way up to interstate 680 and then it gets better e the morning commute will be slow at the bay bridge toll plaza, we had an earlier stalled vehicle and also an earlier accident. that means that the traffic here is backed up big time. and on 80 westbound between pinole and richmond, we have slow traffic as well. there's a lot of slow traffic approaching the richmond san rafael bridge. we've had some slow traffic. this time it stretches all the way back into richmond. so it's slower than it normally is. let's go to steve. >>> cloudy to mostl

. >> uc davis has had a craft brewing program like this for decades.d america's finest cities. organizers say these programs are the academics way of keeping up. >> there are so many jobs popping up in this industry. the realization is that people need this training. >> 9:41 a.m. and we'll leave back with more in a couple of minutes. a live look outside at the san mateo bridge. we will be right back. ♪ ♪ so you can make easy, no-fee reloads with cash and checks... and know you're not on your own. so you can get the reloadable card that keeps up with you. chase liquid. so you can. >> the midwest is squarely in the bull's eye again today for strong tornadoes, large hail and damaging winds. it is the latest round of severe weather to settle over america's heartland as warm gulf moisture saturates the area. >> i understand you're chasing a tornado right now, what is going on. >> this is my first interview while looking at a tornado. we are hoping it was going to come on our road and we went right up to the southern half. >> this is video from smithtown to

i go to the medical facility there in sacramento at uc-davis and was there probably no more than an hour and a half kidding it turns out that my medical situation turned out to be not severe, just had a little white ammonia but it ended up costing $21,000, which i definitely cannot afford to get and as i told the medical professionals, look, believe me, i want to pay my bills and i want to pay it earnestly. but when you go from making probably ten to $15,000 a year and then your pay scale goes up because of the needs changing, my profession which i happen to be away from home to make these medical -- you know, now to be a better husband, a better father, utter taxpayer. i don't get the help that everybody speaks of giving it i'm not getting it and i know a lot of people in my situation now here on the road and other professions that are not getting the help. but yet, still we are hearing republicans, democrats alike. everybody wants the same thing. but instead of blaming people, why don't everybody truly work together and show the public that we are here for you. stop talking about being

guest: there is a researcher at the uc -- university of california at at davis. thele are so excited about discoveries and the incredible implications that they are promising all kinds of things. they are promising that microbes can prevent croke -- can prevent stroke or cure autism or do any number of things. really all we have now or -- are correlations. we have these interesting connections between changes of micro biome and changes in a person's health, but that does not mean that x causes y. x get to that point of causing why takes a lot of scientific work, and to get to the point where we can take that scientific work and apply it, that is a big step and it will take a while. host: what about the probiotic industry? you write that it is up 22% over last year. what is it, and what are they promising? guest: probiotics contain live bacteria, and people have taken probiotics pretty much forever. they are generally harmless. people also tend now to think that because the micro biome is good and you want to have a rich, diverse microbial community, that takingyo

there is a researcher at the uc -- university of .alifornia at at davis people are so excited about theveries and the incredible implications that they are promising all kinds of things. they are promising that microbes can prevent croke -- can prevent stroke or cure autism or do any number of things. really all we have now or -- are correlations. we have these interesting connections between changes of micro biome and changes in a person's health, but that does not mean that x causes y. to get to that point of x causing why takes a lot of scientific work, and to get to the point where we can take that ,cientific work and apply it that is a big step and it will take a while. host: what about the probiotic industry? you write that it is up 22% over last year. what is it, and what are they promising? live: probiotics contain bacteria, and people have taken probiotics pretty much forever. they are generally harmless. people also tend now to think that because the micro biome is good and you want to have a rich, diverse microbial community, that taking probiotics is going to be the answer t