as wayne freedman explains anywhere else shlgs either. along broadway you'll find no shortage of promise or pleasure. >> strip club? >> it's local color. people expect it. been this way forever. right? and maybe you've heard how one establishment began pushing the envelope. not only did the sign for the club flash, it went mobile. how mobile is too mobile? >> we just want it out of our neighborhood. >> and whoever drove would it park it not far from a library just up the street from a school. try explaining that to your child. >> what do you tell your kids about that? >> look the other way. >> what is that? >> what would you tell her? >> whoo did i say to you? do you remember? >> there is good news but that offending truck disappeared without a place. we inquired about the whereabouts. their desire for publicity muted today. >> a comment would be good. >> they've received a warning he intends to prevent it and so police will move in for another reason. >> they need to have seat belts on for one thing. some for protection of people and wor

as wayne freedman shows us they are getting more support than they ever have ima >> you are looking oneof the best times in life. the innocence of youth, the passion of an organized sport like racing. he loves it more than anything else in life which is quite revealing about 7-year-old luca moore, 345 24 hours earlier he was awaiting two chemotherapy injections in a different kind of battle. >> he came all of a sudden. >> for the father and mother, there are no easy answers to the question of why. >> initially, shock, heartbreak. >> reporter: replaced by determination to endure the treatment. now, they are getting support of all places... the very same say luke's lemon's.org.them atg event. >> because i have a friend who is 12. you think about my son and happy that my son is healthy. >> it's a series of five races to raise money which contributes not to his case but a to cancer research in general at lucille packard. it has galvanized the community. >> if not for luke, they may have one-third of the people here. >> behind the white line please. >> it's aggressive sport, not for the fain

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wayne freedman is there live tonight. take me out to the ballpark, wayne. >> we had an appearance by kbrin stow injured last year on opening day. and we had large clouds and a loud crowd also had airplanes, here is the story. if not for uniforms here is the field. we had a suspension. >> with that the commander revealed the time our fashional anthem was finished today. why would that matter? we'll get to that on this, symbolishic of holidays. >> it's opening day. our happy new year. >> there are many traditions on stake. and he begins his 14th season. >> how do you know they've been here before? >> i'm assuming. >> and now enterert stadium. >> then this comes back to you. beginning with the first sensory overload. green grass, are you beginning to feel sentimental? >> this is like my home. it's this green. >> this is what filled it. an american flag as national anthem began. >> on the dot. on the dot. >> with that two f 18s with a piece of music running one minute and 40 seconds. planes use computers to turn at just the r

that is where wayne freedman is for her tonight. wayne? >> there is a strange link to be talking about an accident in sailing and to go from that to baseball but that is the case tonight and if you knew alexis bush. the first girl to be at that at bat boy. to get a better sense of her let's go back to april, twun and barry bonds 500th home run. >> watch here as barry bonds reaches home plate. he high fives a bat girl. that is alexis bush, who wasn't just any bat girl. the first in all of major league baseball. she did have connections three her father, cory bush, an executive vice president with the club. her friends told us alexis loved baseball and was a catcher in california womens' baseball league and she lobbied for women to continue playing baseball. let's listen to her coach who told us she had all of the qualification autos she knew the game. she can talk to players and wasn't star struck by players maybe because of her father's position with giants. she knew the guys. she could talk to the guys fchl you're going to -- she knew the

wayne freedman abc 7 news. >> that is disturbing. thank you, wayne. san francisco officials need help identifying a man hit and killed by a muni bus. take a look at the sketch of the man the examiner says he's his opinionic, late 30s to early 40s. and hit in the western edition. witnesses say the man stepped into traffic from between two parked cars. the driver placed on non-driving status pending an investigation that, is standard procedure. >> the man accused of killing three members of a san francisco family told a jury today his mother never loved him. edwin ramos made that statement as part of his dramatic testimony. >> he's winding down testimony as we speak. his mannerism seems odd on the stand. he smilz a lot. he smiles every time he answers a question. his lawyer is concerned about that because at one point he asked why he smiles a lot. he says he i smile a lot because i'm nervous. it's been an extraordinary trial. a horrible crime that nearly wiped out a family. the prosecution called 100 witnesses producing 500 pieces evidence. potential ju

wayne freedman is near the parking lot where this took place. wayne? >> this is where the story that's just gets to you. it happened behind me on april 4th. micky is 92 years old a world war ii veteran a survivor of the attack on pearl harbor. parking his car on the lot, and when he came back, stuff was gone from it. stuff he used to tell people about the war with. he is devastated. >> it, you can't replace it. this is so meaningful. i survived. >> micky is a tough 92-year-old man. tonight he's tested. the attack took 23 of his friends now, this attack on his personal property has taken a slice of his heart. met yalz, a hat, and a text he uses to teach children were in a car in this parking lot. police have little to go on. he gave so much to this country in world war ii only has a little hope. >> and there is a message for the people. >> don't throw ate way. boy like to have it back. please give it back to me. >> he is hoping whoever took those items is watching tonight he hopes that that person has a shred of decency. he just wants the items back. wa

wayne freedman, "abc 7 news". >> dan: one teenager and two public safety dispatchers were honored aseroes. 14-year-old girl who help her mom. >> yeah she couldn't breathe. >> how old are you? >> 14. >> she was honored along with a dispatcher. both were praise forward their calm demeanor in the emergency. san francisco department of emergency management receives one million 911 calls a year. >> 70% of all those calls are received from cellphones. so if you think you can't dial from it, you can. you have a cellphone, dial 911 we will get you the help you need. >> dan: public safety dispatcher there was honored also. they posted this awards presentation 911 kids presentation. >> it should have been prevented and could have been prevented. ahead, findings released by a task force investigating the pepper spraying of student protestors at u.c. davis. developing news the world is watching. north korea waiting for any sign that the country is launching a long range rocket. how much you might save if you were taxed like a millionaire. another half-hour of news begins here in a moment. bay ar

as wayne freedman reminds us, the iconic golden gate bridge was built in even more difficult economicmstances. >> reporter: a sight we sometimes take for granted. the golden gate bridge. at almost 75 it is older than most of us. it has become part of the landscape. >> we look at the finished artifact and don't realize all that went into it. >> reporter: follow deep into the archives of the california historical society and per use decades of documents and newspaper clippings and you will begin to get a sense of the work that she and her staff have put into this exhibit that celebrates the bridge's 75th birthday and the trivia she picked up along the way like why the paint disappeared from the section of suspension cable visible from the museum on mission street. >> when they took the historic cable off because it was so tense the minute the tension was released the paint started to 30 pop off. >> over here there are more drawings of how the tool booth would look. >> imagine the traffic plan trf this design passed or if the army succeeded in having the bridge painted in black andiel lo

wayne freedman explains. >> beware of the appearance of peace and tranquility above the stanford campus the shallows beneath, a controversy runs deep. >> it's like a ticking time bomb. >> beyond that, there is not a lot of agreement between the doctor that runs the dam and number one critic. he is an extreme ecologist that views the dam and lake and biological preserve as a glich on the environment. >> its biological preserve, right now they have an artificial reservoir and, he non-native fish. >> when i first arrived here, i said remove the dam but it's not that simple. >> the dam dates back to 1892. it was to provide drinking water to the city of san francisco. one problem with that -- the water turned out to be undrinkable. >> as old pictures show for 80 years the lake served as a source of family fun and recreation. it has irrigated much of the golf course and campus. it still does. and there is a research center. in the 1970s they closed it to the public because too many people wandered through and ruined too many experiments. >> this is california in the future. >> here is simulat

wayne freedman is here to update the story. >> the story touched a nerve. and there is a the 92-year-old pearl harbor survivor, we received many, many e mails. >> last time he sat in the waiting room of the police department his prospects were bleak. >> i was devastated. >> have you ever seen him this upset before? >> not rally. april 4th in the parking lot he had returned to his car and found it broken noo. someone took his brief case with medals and his hat and more. >> of everything lost what has been the hardest to replace? the same he had aboard uss pennsylvania. and the he used to teach kids in school. it linked him with the history, gone. we met with him this month, he was distraught. >> it's so meaningful. don't throw it awaichl i would like to have it back. please give it back to me. >> that interview and this crime disturbed a stranger. michael santos who did not sit by in waiting for the thief to return the items. >> this man or woman doesn't deserve to be breathing air. >> today, michael santos made it right. >> this looks familiar. i had a box

wayne freedman where one of the victims is about to be remembered and our laura anthony at the yachtb where that race began. let's begin with you, laura. >> hi

and wayne freedman i hope will be joining us live with more on the operation. wayne? >> behind me the coast guard cutter, on board two circling the world ranges. the cutter just arrived here about 15 years ago. they were 400 miles out in the storm when a wave crashed over them this weekend disabling the boat. i spoke with assistant race director who z.we asked him what happened. >> this skipper told me awave came out of a direction he didn't anticipate. he came over the back of the boat. and the force of the water has carried away the steering wheel and so this is of course if you but putt that in the way they're going to get damaged, too. >> so now we're waiting for an ambulance to arrive. this is now just pull nchlgt we've been waiting and this, we're told will be taking two people to san francisco general hospital. but we have to wait for that to happen this, is a round the world race and this leg was from china they left there march 3. there were 13 people on the boat. 11 remain. the boat is still out there and suspects to get here between 1:00 and 3:00 a.m. race

wayne freedman joins us live. what is the reason for the department's transparency on something sure to raise concerns? >> there is we all know oakland can be a tough town. on friday night there is one of the nights receiving 125 calls between 6:30 and 10:00 p.m. and that admission they did not have enough officers. today both police and citizens took honesty to new extremes. >> when he call, you hope they show up today, member as agreed with it. we have a public safety crisis. and don't have enough police officers for the city. >> the department admits it paid a price 13 out of 35 beats went under staffed. meaning some residents never received service. >> if you call the police we're going to get to you. it may not be in a time frame that you may expect but will come and take that report. >> that oakland released information may have been a calculated move. three months ago the department had 150 more officers than it does now and there is friday night, the department came up short and adapted. >> would have that

wayne freedman explains it's a matter of what was stolen and from whom. it's almost a petty break in. some old stuff taken from a car in a restaurant parking lot. police don't have much to work with. >> when returning back to his vehicle, he noticed that his door was ajar. >> circumstances make this case interesting. the victim was a 92-year-old man. and a pearl harbor survivor. what they took? his medal autos medals and pins and badges. and my pearl harbor hat with all of the pins on it there. >> more than seven decades after pearl harbor he is a national treasure and he does talk about it to kids to schools and anyone who will listen. but the items he would use to show them, including his these, disappeared after the break in. he is devastated. >> this -- you can't replace it. it's so meaningful. it's, that i can do it and i survived. >> when the japanese attacked pearl harbor he lost ship mates. he remained in the navy until 1960 surviving korea, atopic testing and likes to teach because history books can never have the same impact as stories told firs

there is wayne freedman asking that question but received no comment. supervisor mar issued a couple warnings saying he intends to draft a new policy preventing the trucks from parking in suburban neighborhood. >> a mystery tonight at marine mammal center, under nourished baby seals showing up in huge numbers thchl is trudy, having trouble learning how to ee. he's separated from his mother. and there are other pups just like him. right now workers at the center are treating twice as many baby seals and are not sure what is going on. >> some animals are actually impacted by human actions. so... here we're able to provide care they need and give them that chance back in the ocean. >> there is probably going to need more this year, also more medicine and volunteers. >> tonight another update on the whale in southern california with a rescue boat in tow. stay with us to see if they're making progress. >> whoo do you have planned for your children? a campaign to prevent a student brain draib drain. >> a decision puts pressure on pg&e not to cutoff power. sta