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her really outside the mainstream. they are publicly funded. forget this is where the free speech movement started. the amount of money they get from the state and the federal government. but all of the people who should have been standing up for the first amendment here all ran away with their tails between their legs. >> the school tonight is canceling her speech. a news release says it did not cancel the coulter event and has never prohibited ms. coulter from coming on campus. >> despite the coulter no-show alameda county sheriff ray kelly says the alameda sheriff's office will be on standby just in case they are needed for crowd control. >> berkeley police say they are needed as well. abc 7 news reporter melanie woodruff has more. >> reporter: berkeley college republicans gathered near sprou plaza to announce conservative commentator ann coulter won be speaking on campus thursday. >> the university and ucpd are at fault. >> reporter: university officials say there is no secure venue for coulter to speak on campus tomorrow. she rejected the university's may 2nd alternative.
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>> in nobody's memory here has so much time been spent with a single student group trying to make a single event work. >> reporter: yesterday young mesh's foundation, one of the organizations that invited coulter, said it would not jeopardize the safety of its staff or students. coulter tweeting today, "i'm so sorry berkeley canceled my speech. i'm so sorry yaf acquiesced in the cancellation. and i'm so sorry for free speech crushed by thugs." >> she has a right to her opinions but it is uc berkeley that canceled the speech. >> reporter: attorney harmit dylan is representing berkeley college republicans and young america's foundation. >> the lawsuit is not about ann coulter. ann coulter was simply the catalyst and the straw that broke the camel's back on free speech here at uc berkeley. >> reporter: today the founder and co-president of the a third non-partisan group that invited koultder said things had gone sour between his group, bridge usa, and berkeley college republicans. >> there's an immediate divide between us and the conservative groups organizing this because while we wanted the facilitation
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of dialogue they wanted provocation. >> i don't believe freedom of speech is a partisan issue. >> reporter: still both bridge usa and berkeley college republicans say they welcome coulter's visit in the future. >> if ann coulter is willing to come to uc berkeley, the invitation is open. >> all eyes are not us right now. if she comes back all eyes are going on on uc berkeley. >> uc berkeley says the sole reason it couldn't accommodate coulter is because credible security threats made finding a suitable venue impossible. the school is still preparing for potential disruptions tomorrow. abc news reporter laura anthony. >> staffing is going to be significantly different than wat we had for milo. >> reporter: this time officials at uc berkeley say they'll be ready, more proactive, should there be protests thursday after the cancellation of ann coulter's speech. >> you will see a high number and highly visible presence of law enforcement. i will also say this. tomorrow we're going to have a
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very, very low tolerance for any sort of violence. >> reporter: on february 1st a planned speech by milo yiannopoulos was canceled too but only after this violent protest began. we were on the ground at sprow plaza when an otherwise he peaceful demonstration took a violent turn minutes after a group of armed masked protesters marched in. that night uc police were mostly inside the student union and on a balcony overhead, rarely venturing into the crowd. since then in the city of berkeley extreme groups have squared off twice in a downtown park, exchanging punches. and though there were to arrests last time, some claim riot-clad berkeley officers di't do enough. >> while have tl have been moments where police have been present and they appear to be doing nothing, we're responsible for every bit of force that's used. that's a very complex situation for us to be involved in, and we will continue to work on the
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situation with deliberation and caution. >> reporter: one big question, are uc officials expecting protests to be less or more violent now that coulter won't appear? >> that's a hypothetical question. we don't know it yet. >> reporter: in berkeley laura anthony, abc 7 news. >> the free speech movement began at cal more than 50 years ago. it started with a protest on october 1st, 1964, when students sat down at sprow plaza demanding the university lift its ban against political activism. these iconic images helped the movement become a flash-point of the 1960s. the university eventually gave in, lifting the been on all political activity and fund-raising on campus. and as news develops on this story, you can be the first to know with the abc 7 news app, download it and enable push alerts. there is more fallout tonight with the scandal involving wells fargo and how it brought in new business. wells fargo is denying claims that it tarkted undocumented immigrants to open accounts as bank employees tried to meet aggressive sales goals and that
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wells fargo employees even paid immigrants to open these new accounts. the bank fired back saying, "these assertions are offensive because they run counter to the expectations of wells fargo and would be a violation of policies we have in place to safeguard against abuses." some artists have been kicked out of their homes in san francisco. it's one of the first court-ordered evacuations since the warehouse fire in oakland. the warehouse on peralta avenue was called the bernal house. abc 7 news reporter lea melendez has more. >> reporter: nathan cotham packed some of his belongings knowing that sheriff deputies would soon show up to evict him and seven others living in this warehouse called the bernal house. the occupants, mostly artists, have known the space was intended for commercial use only. >> it is a commercial lease. but like i said, people have been living here since 2004. there's been no commercial activity taking place here since at least 2007. >> reporter: he claims the owner, ron ericsson, also knew. just days after the ghost ship
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warehouse fire in oakland, ericsson notified the san francisco fire and building departments. the occupants quickly tried to make structural changes to ensure they'd be safe in the event of a fire. still become it's not zoned for residential use they were told they could not stay. in late february they were ordered by the court to leave the warehouse. >> how many more landmarks are going to take this as a go-ahead to evict? how many artists are we going to lose? are we talking hundreds of people are going to be evicted? >> reporter: today at noon sheriff deputies showed up. the locks were changed and the owner sent a representative who was upset to find they had not moved out. >> let me get in my pocket here. >> reporter: the owner never returned our request for an interview. christian bowie says the warehouse served a purpose. >> makes it possible to not have to work so much to pay rent and to have the space to create. >> reporter: they now have 15
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days to remove the rest of their belongings with the owner's prmission. in san francisco, leann melendez, abc 7 news. 15 survivors of a deadly apartment fire last month in west oakland are suing because of the tragedy. the lawsuit seeks damages caused by the march 27th fire that killed four people, injured six, and displaced nearly 100 others. the suit also accuses the landlord of failing to keep up the building, conditions the tenant's lawyers describe as slum-like. >> lack of reasonable care or proper management at the property, which allowed these conditions and this tragedy to occur. >> also named in the suit are three non-profits that ran the building. an attorney for the minority owner of the group that owns the psaying he has not seen the sui. new details tonight in last weekend's mob robbery on b.a.r.t. police confirmed they have surveillance video from inside that train car and they've been
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able to identify several suspects. no one has been arrested yet. anywhere from 40 to maybe 60 young people jumped the fare gates at the oakland coliseum station saturday night, ran onto a dublin-bound train, punched and robbed passengers. just last night a similar situation may have been avoided. >> train 511, hold lake merit. >> okay. >> with your doors closed. >> a much smaller teenage group was spotted at the lake merit station last night about 7:00 entering without paying and heading for the platform. now, trains went through the station without opening their doors. the suspects realized they'd been spotted, and they ran out. police searched, but they didn't find them. four teenagers punched and robbed a man of his camera at stow lake in golden gate park, meantime. police say he was at the lake around 6:30 tuesday night when four 16-year-olds pulled up next to him in a car, got out, and then they attacked him. now, that man's okay. the teenagers, though, are still
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on the loose. body cameras capture a mentally ill man who was agitated and aggressive. >> yeah. later police fire their weapons. now a judge is stepping in partly because of what this video you're watching shows. also, the drought is over. so why are some water restrictions staying in place? the new orders next. meteorologist drew tuma is here with our forecast. >> and dan, we're coming off of a gray day, but tonight the clouds are thinning and tomorrow we're tracking warmer and brighter weather. the numbers ahead in the accuweather forecast. and a popular clothing maker is
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new details in the case of a san francisco man accused of assaulting police officers before they shot him. all but two charges against the man were dismissed by a judge, but the public defender wants the d.a. to drop all of the charges. the scuffle in january was recorded by san francisco police body cameras. officers say that shawn moore attacked him, they then shot him several times. moore went to the hospital, then to jail. abc 7 news reporter vic lee explains what it would take for moore to walk out a free man. >> mr. moore was within his rights and demanding that the police officers get off his steps and leave him alone. >> reporter: shawn moore, the man standing at the top of the
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stairs in this body cam video from one of two officers. they were responding to a neighbor's complaint in early january that moore was acting aggressively to a neighbor. the confrontation with the officers ended when he was shot several times after a scuffle on the top of the stairs. moore was charged with numerous felonies including assault on a police officer. his mother says he had several surgeries before being transported to jail. >> we have not had a lot of contact withwn because -- i'm sorry. he stayed in the hospital for quite some time. >> reporter: the judge dismissed all but two of the eight charges. battery causing injury and a misdemeanor violation of a stay-away order on his neighbor. >> it demonstrates that the majority of these charges, nearly all of them, were completely unfounded. >> reporter: public defender jeff adachi says the judge's
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ruling means the officers were trespassing on moore's property once he said this to them. >> get off my stairs. >> we're not. >> you are. get off my stairs. >> the d.a.'s office tells abc 7 news they'll review the judge's transcripts before making a decision on the case. vic lee, abc 7 news. a man accused of attempting to kidnap a woman in san francisco is adamant that he's not guilty of the charges. darren bravo appeared in a san francisco court today. cameras were not allowed inside. prosecutors say witnesses are key in this indication. >> there were witnesses who were there. the victim was able to escape. and everyone was doing their part to ensure that this incident transpired in a way where no one was seriously hurt. >> bravo is accused of grabbing a woman last saturday in pacific heights and trying to force her into his truck. a man passing by intervened and scared the attacker away. police used witness descriptions and arrested bravo the next day
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in petaluma after a short chase. outdoor clothing maker patagonia is threatening to sue the trump administration over national monuments. the order, signed by president trump today, calls for a review of more than two dozen national monuments proclaimed by the last three presidents. that includes giant sequioa national monument, bar yesa snow mountain, and the mojave trails. >> let's be clear. this executive order does not remove any monuments. and this executive order does not weaken any environmental protections on any public lands. some sonoma county's two congressmen says berryessa snow mountain is not in danger because it was created with local support. patagonia says it's prepared to take legal action to defend those monuments. california's water managers are dropping many of the mandatory water restrictions that were imposed during the drought. but they're keeping others. now that the governor has declared an end to the drought state of emergency, the
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california water resources control board says it will now make water conservation a way of life. that means wasting water will not be tolerated. watering 48 hours after it rains is out. hosing down a sidewalk instead of using a broom is still prohibited. and you can't overwater to the point where water is running onto a sidewalk or into a gutter. water suppliers will be required to plan for droughts last be five or more years. >> like the one we just had. common sense measures. waste not want be with water, right? well, we have a change in the forecast coming up. >> we certainly do. meteorologist drew tuma is here with the latest. drew. >> ama and dan, the drizzle of today is out of here and what is moving in, a nice warming trend over the next seven days. san jose, for example, tomorrow just slightly below that normal of 7 12k347 2. get ready for it feel like summer all of a sudden.
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live doppler 7 was tracking the drizzle. tonight is a quiet picture. outside we go, live look from our emeryville camera showing you the beautiful bay area. you look right along the horizon, you can still see we have some thick coastal cloud cover, but that will deteriorate overnight tonight in the next 12 hours. so the forecast, going to call for that warming trend. that will start tomorrow around here, but also tomorrow afternoon and really friday the winds are going to pick up. that's going to help to clear the clouds up but also warm us up to bring us even warmer air starting saturday and into much of next week. out there right now it's comfortable in terms of our numbers. currently 60 in oakland, the same in san jose. 61 in antioch, 55 in san francisco and half moon bay with the cloud cover. 57 novato and right now hayward checking in at 55 degrees. live doppler 7 alongh satellite showing we had a lot of cloud cover over us today but tonight you're starting to see the cloud cover breaking down and that's going to be the theme over the next 12 hours. so the call overnight tonight,
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clouds early on. they're breaking down as we speak. and that will lead to clearer skies tomorrow morning. numbers you see not falling too far from where we are right now. pretty much hovering in the low to mid 50s across the majority of the reason. your day planner looking bright, looking beautiful on your thursday. a few clouds early on but by noon into the afternoon it's just beautiful day. tons of sunshine. really comfortable afternoon temperatures in the 60s and 70s. however, it will start to turn breezy especially right along the coastline. we get warmer and dryer and breezy weather. the pollen is certainly going to act up right now. tree pollen and grass pollen, moderate levels. i do expect those two levels to rise over the coming days as we tend to see no moisture to help cleanse the atmosphere. your major offenders right now in trees are cedar, juniper, oak and pine. future tracker wind gusts we'll show you as we get you into your thursday evening the winds are going to pick up. along the coast you can see winds gusting over 30 miles per hour, even over 20 miles per hour around the immediate bay area. however, friday evening they
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pick up even more, and i think areawide we'll likely see winds gusting 20 to 40 miles per hour to round out the week. but that wind will usher in even warmer air over the weekend. futuretracker temperature shows you by saturday tons of sunshine out there, most spots going into the 70s and 80s, and those numbers will just continue to climb sunday into much of next week. so the accuweather seven-day forecast planning the next seven days for you. going to show you tomorrow some early morning clouds. tons of sunshine in the afternoon, it's bright but it's breezy. windier on friday. that's going to bring in those warmer temperatures. saturday and sunday -- it feels like summer around here and even warmer monday into tuesday. and by wednesday little change to the forecast. tons of sunshine and numbers well above normal for this time of year. >> thanks, drew. >> sure. careful. he might hear you. >> why baby humpback whales whisper. that's next.
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animals of all sizes hide or try to stay quiet to avoid predators. and the biggest mammal on our planet is no different. a new study found newborn humpback whales and their mothers whisper to each other to escape potential predators. whales are known for their loud calls, but this new research from australia is the first time scientists have observed the unique intimate form of communication between humpback mothers and calves. health item tonight. the jolt that you get from those energy drinks can lead to problems with your heart and blood pressure. researcher at travis air force base scuddied 18 volunteers at the base to look at the effects of the drinks. she found that the blend of caffeine, sugar and herbal stimulants can cause dangerous changes in heart rhythm that don't occur in other caffeinated beverages. despite the small size of her
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study, she recommends moderate consumption of energy drinks, especially among people with pre-existing heart disease or hypertension. the next generation alexa is coming. the echo look is part camera, part alexa and part fashion analyst. you can take full-body photos of your outfits and the echo look will tell you which one to wear. the echo look will sell for $200. if you want to get one, you'll have to first request an invitation. we have a lifrk with more information on abc7news.com/7onyourside. stay with us. the white house announces a sweeping plan to lower tax rates. they're calling it the biggest tax cut ever. how it might affect you and american business. also, close encounter in the persian gulf. what happened when an iranian ship got a little too close to this american ship. and how el
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good evening once again. we'll begin this half hour with the president's tax cut plan. >> the white house is calling it's biggest tax cut in american history. president trump wants to slash taxes on corporations by more than half from 35% to 15%. >> and he wants to cut taxes for many americans too. but many of the tax breaks for individual americans could go away. >> here's abc's chief white house correspondent jonathan karl. >> reporter: it's a big ticket item released just before day 100. a plan, or really an outline of a plan for what the president says will be the biggest tax cut ever. >> it's a great plan. put people back to work. >> reporter: he talked about it over and over again during the campaign. >> you don't mind having lower taxes, do you, everybody? >> reporter: the outline rolled out today by the treasury secretary and the president's top economic adviser would cut the corporate tax rate from 35%
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to 15%. and that new lower rate would also apply to business that's now pay through the owner's personal taxes. companies like the trump organization. >> one, two, three. it would also cut tax rates for individuals and simplify the system, reducing the number of tax brackets from seven to just three. it would eliminate estate taxes and double the standard deduction. so for a married couple the first $24,000 of income would be income tax-free. there would still be deductions for home mortgage interest and charitable contributions. but all other personal deductions would be eliminated. he outline was just a single page, double-spaced, with few specifics. >> it's just one page. obviously, tax reform would be much more complicated. when will we see the details? when will we see the actual
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plan? >> we are moving as quickly as we can. >> reporter: for now the most basic questions are unanswered. like how would it affect the typical family? >> a family of four, median income $60,000, what does it mean for them? >> it's going to mean a tax cut. >> how much? >> it's going to mean a tax cut. we will let you know the specific details at the promote moment. >> reporter: what's totally unclear, how to pay for all these tax cuts without ballooning the deficit. one bipartisan analysis estimates that trump's plan could cost anywhere between 3 and 7 trillion dollars in lost revenue over ten years. also a mystery, how would the plan affect the president and his family's business. unknowable because he hasn't released his tax returns. >> will the president release his tax returns so that -- >> the president has no intention. the president has released plenty of information and i think has given more financial
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disclosure than anybody else. i think the american population has plenty of information -- >> but don't the american -- excuse me. don't the american people have a right to know how it will affect him personally? >> reporter: a few minutes later cecilia vega tried again. >> so your response to those critics who say a you've presented here today could save the president or benefit his own businesses. >> again, let me just comment. what this is about is creating jobs and creating economic growth. >> and that was jonathan karl reporting. now to the intensifying showdown with north korea tonight. in a rare meeting late today, all 100 senators were invited to the white house for a briefing. here's abc's senior white house crrespondent cecilia vega. >> reporter: today a field trip to the white house. one by one, nearly every senator on capitol hill loading up on bus buses, heading to that classified briefing on north korea and its nuclear threat.
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[ siren ] inside the bus, connecticut senator chris murphy tweeting, "on board to the 100 days photo op slash north korea briefing." that briefing came at the request of senate majority leader mitch mcconnell. the president offering up his top national security advisers for the task and the white house for the meeting space. the senators all just arrived here on the white house. we can't see them. they're being kept pretty far away from us. this is where you can see all the photographers trying to get that shot. those cameras catching the president stopping by. an hour and 20 minutes later the senators emerged. >> after what you've heard in there today, what's your characterization of the threat level right now? >> north korea has nuclear weapons. they've tested them several times. north korea has advanced missile capability and they are making determined significant investments in advancing their missile capability. >> the military is obviously planning for a number of contingencies, a number of options. as well they should. it is of course the hope of the administration, the hope of
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congress that military action does not prove necessary. >> reporter: north korea had a response to the briefing before it even began, saying in a statement, "there is a statement that those who are fond of playing with fire are destined to perish in the flames. the same can be said of the u.s." so the big question, what did those senators learn inside that meeting here? well, it was classified. we're not getting very many details. but some senators did today say they didn't learn anything new. the white house, however, is suggesting that the next move against north korea could be new sanctions. cecilia vega, abc news, the white house. a u.s. guided missile destroyer fired a warning flare at an iranian revolutionary guard ship this week. it happened monday in international waters in the persian gulf. the navy says the "uss mahan," which you see here, tried to put some distance between the two ships. when that didn't work, the "mahan" made several attempts to contact the iranian vessel by radio. the ship's whistle and finally a warning flare.
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the iranian's leader turned and sailed away. texas senator ted cruz says he has found a way to pay for president trump's border wall. let el chapo pay for it. the conservative texas senator thinks the $14 billion in assets the u.s. government to trying to get from the reputed drug lord would make a nice down payment. el chapo, whose real name is joaquin guzman, is accused of rung one of the world's largest drug trafficking rings. estimates for building the wall range from 12 billion to almost 22 billion dollars. a group of more than 800 tech start-ups is urging the federal communications commission chairman not to go forward with his plan to dismantle net neutrality. ajit pay wants to throw out the rules which prohibit internet service providers from favoring or discriminating against web traffic to certain sites. in a letter to him the start-ups, seen on the screen here, say net neutrality is needed to help new companies compete online. a vote to begin a possible change of the process is scheduled for may 18th.
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it was a very special day in berkeley for a very special group of japanese americans. abc 7 news was at berkeley's first congregational church as a bus pulled up coming in from topaz, utah. on it world war ii internees with family and friends. they just returned from a visit to the internment camp where they spent the war with their families imprisoned. that's more remarkable -- what is more remarkable, i should say, is it was 75 years ago on this very day that they and their families voluntarily reported to that berkeley church to be processed and sent away. >> i do remember standing on the sidewalk with luggage and my parents and brother and sister. i was so confused as a child. >> and look at this. a carving made of the camp using wood found and barbed wire. it and other artifacts were on
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display tonight at the church where the group is holding a commemoration. that church, by the way, opposed the government's internment order. up next, the oldest americans. >> the discovery that
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at crowne plaza we know business travel isn't just business. there's this. 'a bit of this. why not? your hotel should make it easy to do all the things you do. which is what we do. crowne plaza. we're all business, mostly. you may have heard about rats building nests in cars and chewing on the wiring. but the abc 7 news i-team is investigating what may be a new trend. some question whether organic materials now being used in car parts are more appetizing to rats. the i-team interviewed drivers whose cars suffered thousands of dollars in damage. and he looks into what sort of organic materials may be in the car you drive. that's tomorrow night at 11:00 on abc 7 news over on channel 7. >> don't miss that. researchers say they've uncovered evidence that humans
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lived 130,000 years ago. and that evidence was found near san diego. if true, it would be the oldest sign of humans in america ever discovered. here's abc 7 news reporter colleen sullivan. >> reporter: paleontologists getting closer to pinpointing when humans first roamed north america. specifically southern california. >> how did we get here and who are our ancestors. this is a piece of our puzzle. >> reporter: helping to piece it all together are these fossils and primitive tools found 25 years ago. they suggest the first known americans arrived much, much earlier than scientists thought. more than 100,000 years ago. and maybe they were nae neanderthals. >> what is that? >> reporter: the bones, and tusks of an elephant-like mastodon unveiled today show evidence of human-like behavior. >> used that one as a hammer, used that one as an anvil. >> reporter: scientists seeing evidence the fossils were hit with tools mean humans were
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around at the same time. for curious kids and adults findings are appreciated. >> cool to see something we normally wouldn't be able to see. >> rewriting the history of when humans reached the new world. the report now appears in the journal nature. colleen sullivan, abc 7 news. meteorologist drew tuma will be back with an update on the forecast next. plus -- >> holy cow. oh, my god! >> oh, holy cow is right.
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a little damp but a good day for a run today in golden gate park. >> you guys ready to start? [ cheers and applause ] all right.
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>> okay. how cute is that? hundreds of fourth-graders were off and running today in the san francisco unified school district's annual 5k run. the event is part of the district's physical education program that helps decrease the risk of heart disease and diabetes. students train all year for today's race while also preparing for the fitness testing they will do in the fifth grade. this next story underscores that no one is ever disabled. when given an opportunity they can show off their ability. >> absolutely. a group of young people in redwood city earned gold medals last month at the special olympics in austria. >> abc 7 news reporter david lui shows us how they did it. >> reporter: to look at them you'd never know this group of young people started dancing only five months ago. home and training center which serves people who are developmentally disabled. last month they were invited to austria to perform at the winter international special olympics. their confidence, energy, and
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performance earned them gold medals. >> their performance was just off the charts. it really showed exactly how our clients can express themselves, can push themselves to perform at the highest level possible. >> reporter: it all came about because of this man, louis van amstel. you may recognize him from abc's "dancing with the stars." he's also a special olympics ambassador. he choreographed the dance moves that wowed the panel of judges. flying to austria was a first for julie. >> my first time doing it. >> what did you think? >> i liked it. the airplane was bumpy. >> did that scare you? >> a little bit. >> reporter: julia's dance partner was amazed by her dancing ability. >> she caught on and she actually loved it. i could see that she could go a lot farther. this was just like the beginning for her. >> julie even attempted to teach this clumsy reporter some of her dance moves. nothing like learning from the best. but there's no doubt now that with practice everyone can achieve greatness.
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>> reporter: how does it feel to have that gold medal? >> oh, yeah. it makes me happy. to wear the gold. >> reporter: in redwood city, david lui, abc 7 news. >> isn't that wonderful? all right. from inspirational to intimidating, a giant landslide was caught on camera overnight in mendocino county. it started with just a few rocks falling and then the whole thing suddenly goes. take a look. >> run. run. oh, my god! holy cow! oh, my god! are you kidding me? whoa! >> yeah, whoa is right. no one was hurt when the hillside came down, but the area just can't catch a break. it was closed for a week after a different landslide. it had been open for just 24 hours when this happened. leggett is about halfway between
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ukia and eureka. 101 is the main lifeline between the small towns in this part of mendocino county, and right now it's closed from leggett to almost garberville. it's time to get one last check on the weather. >> warming up considerably soon. meteorologist drew tuma is back with the forecast. >> really going to feel like summer as we head into the weekend. we're going to say good-bye to the wet weather for the time being and hello to the sunshine. live doppler 7 along with the satellite. what we had for much of the day today, gray skies and a veil of cloud cover overhead. that tonight is breaking down. overnight tonight we will have clearing skies. temperatures falling into the 40s and 50s. your starting temperatures as you get out the door tomorrow morning will be on the mild side. however, we will be dry. we won't have that drizzle like we had this morning. into the afternoon we go. it is a bright day. lots of sunshine. and the numbers continue to climb from our highs today. tomorrow 71 for san jose, 65 san francisco, 68 oakland 72 santa rosa and concord. up to 74 degrees. however, you notice it will get
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breezy as we head into the afternoon and evening. wind gusts will show you as you go throughout the day thursday the winds really along the coast are very breezy. even along the bay we'll likely see frequent wind gusts 15 to 25 miles per hour and those winds will even continue and strengthen as we get into friday. but that wind will help to usher in warmer weather. accuweather seven-day forecast, bright and breezy on your thursday. friday it's a bit windier. saturday and sunday it's feeling like summer and those numbers even go higher as we go into early next week. >> they do.hank you, drew. on to sports. >> larry's here with the latest. >> good game at at&t park. giants searching for offense against the dodgers and an old friend would help out in their cause. plus the
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the cdc recommends all baby boomers get tested. if you have hep c, it can be cured. for us it's time to get tested. ask your healthcare provider for the simple blood test. it's the only way to know for sure.
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good evening. desperate for offense, the giants called up the hero from their 2014 championship team. michael morse, was not in the line-up tonight against the dodgers, and runs were scarce once again.
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catch of the night, look at this guy in the stands here. barehanded. exactly 28 years to the day after kevin mitchell made his famous catch. you remember that. cory seager. nobody catching that. dodgers would build a 3-0 lead. bottom of the sixth new giant stubbs' first hit of the night off alex wood. tok some time to get a base knock but he was stranded there. top seven stephen okert in relief. stubbs with the defense laying out for a diving catch. bottom seven, the rookie christian arroyo jumps on a slider. high, deep. giants pull within a run. fantastic. bottom eight, welcome back mr. morse. crushed off of pedro baez. his first at-bat returning to the giants is a pinch hit bomb to tie the game at three. and that's where we are right now in the ninth inning. look at the smile on his face. tied at three apiece. a's and angels.
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pitching coach curt young working on his bubble gum there. a's get it going early. top of the first alonso bases loaded single. 2-0 athletics. sean minaya short night. bottom of the second, danny espinoza flying to right, matt joyce laid out but couldn't make the play, andrelton simmons scored. angels down 2-1. they would tie it before martin maldonado with a drive, that is deep to right center. jeff.comer, he laid out but likewise he couldn't make the catch. 3-2 angels. minaya would leave the the game early with shoulder tightness. right now they're in the seventh and the angels lead by a score of 4-3. the wait is over. marshawn lynch officially a member of the raiders. signing a two-year contract worth a reported $9 million plus incentives. oakland will send a 2018 fifth-round pick to seattle to complete that deal and seattle sending back a sixth-rounder. this is video posted by the raiders. check out the expression on marshawn lynch. smiling ear to ear.
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almost glowing after becoming a member of his hometown team. lynch got his helmet and once he put it on he wouldn't take it off. he might have left the building with it. walking around downtown oakland with that silver and black helmet on. the former oakland tech and cal star kind of down in 2015, he was ham ferd by images and then he retired. earlier in the day we caught up with espn insider field yates and asked if lynch will be able to activate beast mode after having a whole year off. >> for marshawn lynch his last season in seattle was 2015. he averaged less than four yards per carry. he was banged up. now he's been out of football for a full year, but i do believe that going to his hometown, playing in front of what is currently the raiders' home fan base, will be an electric atmosphere unlike anything else he's perhaps ever experienced. the offensive line is great in oakland. there's a chance for marshawn lynch to be a big-time factor and rekindle that beast mode that was so dominant for so long. >> man, how much fun would that be? and after signing the deal
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marshawn issued this statement saying in part, "12th man i'm thankful." talking about all the fans in seattle. "but bleep just got real." i can't really deliver the lines with the style that marshawn would, but needless to say he is really, really happy. the warriors, they returned to practice today athey await their second-round opponent, either the jazz or the clippers. they'll have a minimum of five days off before they start round 2. kind of walking a fine line between rest and rust. also benefiting from the rest, our own mike shumann, who was with the warriors in portland. >> the beauty of sweeping your first-round opponent su you get a little extra time before round 2 to get healthy and work on some things in practice. >> with this group here the continuity that the nucleus has and how intelligent the guys are and the big-time veterans that we've brought in, we feel that rest for their body and mental preparation is more important than coming in here and having practice on a daily basis. >> the bad thing about winning when you're supposed to is when
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you get a break it could be a bad thing. but we look at it as handling business that was in front of us. >> if you could sweep every series it had to be perfect because you need to play well and then you'll worry about the rest afterwards. that's the situation. we've got a lot of guys banged up. it's good to have a few days to get your bodies right and your mind right and get back to the drawing board as far as individual work, teamwork. we're excited to be moving on and glad we got a few days off. >> reporting in oakland, mike shumann, abc 7 sports. >> noticeably absent from practice today was head coach steve kerr, recovering from complications from a 2015 back surgery. he's got chronic headaches. kerr is going to be seeing experts at stanford, hoping to return to the bench at some point this postseason. he spoke with the media last sunday, will not be available for comment till he's back to full health. concern for kerr really putting things into perspective for the warriors. >> stuff doesn't matter, man. we want him healthy for the rest
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of his life. that's what our main concern is. we're not trying to get him %-p. we want him healthy so he can live everyday life. looking forward to him getting better. positive and optimistic that he'll get better. looking forward to his return as well. >> hopefully they can figure it out. abc 7 sports brought to you by toyota. >> all right. thank you, larry. coming up tonight on abc 7 news at 11:00, just how far did wells fargo go to get people to open bank accounts? the new allegations the bank is facing tonight. and the discovery on a bay area trail that is shocking dog lovers tonight. be sure to join us for abc 7 news at 11:00 over on channel 7. >> we'll see you then. but that is our report for now. i'm dan ashley. we appreciate your time. >> i'm ama daetz. for drew, larry, everyone, we appreciate you joining us. we'll see you again at 11:00 on
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narrator: today on corrupt crimes, kay porter ricks is a 63-year-old vietnam veteran, father of three and grandfather of six, well respected and loved within his community. one afternoon, he leaves for work and simply vanishes.

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