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KGO ABC7 News 600AM May 31, 2015

60 in the city. 63 over in oakland. Low 70s in san jose. So if you get that afternoon sun, it will be a mild day. Otherwise a cooling trend to start the week and the month. Details on that in a few minutes. Chris. Lisa, thank you. Theres renewed attention this morning on a constant problem in the east bay side street shows. One of the stunts happened again this weekend. Abc7 News Reporter Sergio Quintana has more. [screeching tires] the screaching tires on this street near interstate 880 were heard throughout the neighborhood. I heard it, it was pretty loud. This oakland resident tells me these side shows happen here much too often. Its frustrating, its scary, and unfortunately its part of our life now so we are used to it. Residents and Business Owners say that car spinouts like this happen here at least twice a month. Heres last november at the exact same spot. Oakland police and the Highway Patrol have tried to crack down on these side shows. They even mobilized a mass he have blockade at a large sideshow at the part back in november. But one hot rod owner i talked to tells me there still isnt much fear the police are going to break up these events. Do you ever worry the police will show up . Not really. The owner of this black Dodge Challenger said hes seen lofts side shows but hes only watched them in oakland. Some neighbors say they arent surprised by the side shows. Theres nothing to do in oakland right now. The kids are starting to make their own way and do their own thing and have their own fun. As far as the chp are concerned, the side shows are not only illegal and dangerous but they pull resources away from other duties. Two chp crews ergs were dispatched away from a fatality friday night to check on this sideshow. But the participants quickly sped off and officers issued no citations. Oakland police are looking for the driver of a car that hit and killed a pedestrian friday night deliberately. Police believe the pedestrian, a man in his 40s was targeted by the driver. Victim died at the scene. New this morning secretary of state john kerry is in a switzerland hospital after being involved in a bicycle crash. He hit a curb and fell while exercising and likely suffered a leg injury. He was airlifted to a hospital in geneva where he is listed in stable condition. The accident happened while he was on a fournation tour. Vice President Joe Biden is mourning the loss of his son beau. The former attorney general of delaware succumbed to brain cancer last night. Beau biden was diagnosed with the disease three years ago. Doctors said he was cancer free affeldt undergoing radiation and chemotherapy but the cancer returned earlier this year. Biden sought treatment at walter reed medical center. In a statement from the Vice President , joe biden writes in the words of the biden family beau biden was the finest manny of us have ever known. Beau biden was 46. 6 04 is our time. The the number of confirmed deaths from the flooding in texas and oklahoma are growing this morning. 31 confirmed fatalities and 11 are still missing. The city of houston was hit with 3 1 2 inches of rain last night. Minute maid park had some game issues. The game between the astros and the white sox was not postponed, but in other parts of texas evacuees are being sent away from their homes. Heres the story. Police went door to door with the bad news. Hello anybody in the house . Flash flood warnings. Pack up now and get out. These texas residents are on the move. Oh, my gosh, i didnt realize it was that high. Ashley was shocked to see what was a dry creekbed, now a rising tied headed for her house. Im leaving. Im out of here. In houston sewers overflowed with flooding and sent this manhole dance on a column of water. Flooding is the number one weatherrelated killer. 38 people dieing in 2014 alone. Flash flooding is dangerous and hard to predict. Small streams can become raging rapids in minutes. To protect yourself know if you are on a floodplain and the fastest way to get to Higher Ground and Pay Attention to weather warnings. Evacuees should pack up and go. You know, i packed up little items i need, my bible. Andrea depended on the helping hands of volunteers. They came to my rescue. I know god sent them to me because i had no idea how i would get this stuff out of here. Some could not outrun the waters. Thats the fence line and its probably five feet tall. The weather holds some relief, there should be three or four days of dry weather as the rain pushes off to the east. Chuck severson, abc news, new york. Back here in San Francisco the people in the Marina District are drying out after a person backed a car into a fire hydrant and shot water into the air for more than 10 minutes yesterday afternoon sending water on to the roof of a three story building. One tenant just moved in and almost had to cancel a housewarming party. We get a photo of the fire hydrant across the street that exploded and said i dont know if my living room is flooded right now or not. We may have to cancel the party but they came and drained the roof and they are doing a good job. Most of the water damaged a common area outside of the individual apartments. In the north bay shoppers scattered after a water main break at an upscale outdoor maul. The maul filled with water just after 4 30 yesterday afternoon. The good news nothing was damaged and all the stores were able to stay open. In san jose, young performers took to the stage last night to bring awareness to Cyber Bullying. Abc7 news was at san pedro square for the rock for a reason event. All the money goes to the audrey pott foundation, named after the 15yearold who committed suicide. She passed out at a party and was sexually assaulted. Pictures off the salt were posted online. Three teenage boys pled guilty to doing that. Audrey did reach out to a lot of her friends, and we feel it was a cry for help that went unanswered. Last year Governor Brown signed audreys law, increasing penalties for teenagers convicted in Cyber Bullying crimes. Tomorrow a big protest is planned outside of facebooks headquarters in menlo park. The drag queen sister roam ma is leading the march to change their privacy policies. Facebook closes accounts under fake names. They believe using the policy to target lgbt individuals. Turning to the warriors on the eve of the nba finals, theres been a shakeup in the dubs coaching staff. The top assistant alvin gentry has been named the head coach of the new orleans pelicans. Gentry is the top defensive mind with the warriors. The pelicans will be his fourth team as head coach. Steve kerr is happy for gentry and wishes him luck. He said he personally has been instrumental as my development as a coach. Our loss is new orleanss gain. Game one of the nba final tips off thursday evennening at 6 00. Join larry beil along with hall of famer nate thurmon and abc7 Sports Reporter mike shumann live from oracle arena in oakland. The days of rain you see here in marin are long past, so much so that residents have to start cutting back on water use starting tomorrow. Customers in the marin Water District have to cut use by 20 because of the drought in our state. They have passed ordinances on when and how long homeowners can do watering. Violators could have their Water Service turned off. You will start noticing a lot less grass in new homes, Office Buildings and schools. The state is forcing developers to put in morris droughtfriendly plants to comply with the governors order to cutback on water usage. The Water Commission passed the tighter building codes on friday to try to cut water use by 20 . A lot of suck cue plants out there. We have things green and more in the way of drizzle in the next day or so as a weak weather system heads to the north. Cool let you know who is going to see the moisture and how cool its going to get today. Thats all coming up. Thanks, lisa. Also ahead the search is on for a Silicon Valley woman who threw out an original Apple Computer worth 200,000. And the fine line between art and va the next story is kind of like your mom tossing out your old comic books and baseball cards. Company is looking for a woman that cleaned out her garage and dropped off an apple vintage 1 computer worth 200,000. This milpitas recycling company made a surprising discovery. Its like you won the lottery. Last month a woman dropped off several boxes of what she thought was junk. She brought in two or three boxes like you can see on the table with some stuff like wires, keyboards, old stuff. But inside one of the boxes was a vintage apple 1 desktop. One of only 200 models created in 1976. A firstgeneration model. Heres one on display in a museum in mountain view. One was sold to a private collector for 200,000. They are looking for the original owner who didnt leave a name. I said do you need a pickup receipt or tax receipt and she said no, no, im fine, i just garage. The Company Wants to honor the policy by giving her half the proceeds from the sale. Her husband just passed away like recently. The recycling company said all she needs to do is come down and pick up her check. In milpitas abc7 news. The worlds first solar flight across the pacific began yesterday. It took off from china and will arrive in hawaii about five days. The plane is flying around the World Without using a single drop of oil. Or a fuel. It has 1300 pounds of batteries on its wings. After hawaii it will continue to fly across the United States and wrapping up its trip in july. A marin county community so traditionally recluse theyve even the road into town has no sign to mark it. The way is looked recently, it looks like thats the only thing unmarked around here. Its shocking that its something this damaging. The graffiti on private property began showing up this week when shes signs appeared along the beach. They warn spray paint violates state law by polluting the environment. In salinas, that offends some residents who say that writing on beach walls is a right of citizenship. I love the art. I dont wish to see art when go down to the beach. He is particularly offended by this on the beach. Art mixed with personal signage put on the seawall by visitors to balinas. The catcher, that they do it in spray paint. Smell that. Thats toxic. He lives on the bluff above. He walks the beach frequently, continuously picking up paint chips and hes a moderate compared with others. Its going to get picked up in the food chain at the bottom, the microorganisms and it gets in the food chain and it will be in the food chain forever. He wants all murals removed including this one that walks to or that leads to the beach where they have painted for three decades. Its not logical. You cant allow one group to paint and one group not to. The normally harmoniously town is now polluted by division. Do you think artistic expression is something everybody could come together over. They planned a Public Meeting this weekend. If you are an outsider, good luck finding it. From balinas in marin county, Wayne Freedman abc7 news. Last night young and old came together at the Embassy Suites for a manswapping party. You can come to a party like this where everybody is single, everybody is looking to meet somebody so eats like shooting fish in a barrel. You cant miss. The Event Organizer said the concept is successful and one of the ways to get singles together at weekly dating events that he organizations throughout the area a paris landmark will no longer signify eternal love. All the love location fastened to the railing of a local bridge there will be removed tomorrow. Last year part of the bridge clamsed due to the weight of all of the locks and city officials had to prevent people from adding new locks. What can we expect for weather . We have some changes that could involve for moisture for more of the bay area except just the usual along the coast. We may spread some of the moisture across the bay tonight and into tomorrow. The weak weather system approaches and it will be weak and head to the north but it will impact the bay area. We are looking at some of the moisture offshore here. Plenty of low clouds this morning. Deck of low clouds is about 1500 feet deep. Theres the area of low pressure and the front. Its heading into Northern California and we will see the tail end of it. Mt. Tam there. 10 trees of warming today from where you are right now at the most. That should do it. And in san jose you are back to the low to mid70s. A cooler afternoon everywhere today. It hasnt been all this warm. Weve been a little below average and that continues. San jose cloudy skies, and you actually are kind of mild in midand upper 50s this morning. Its 55 with the clouds in livermore. In santa rosa, napa looking at visibility at about six or seven miles with the low clouds. Heres our east bay hills camera from vollmer peak. Partly cloudy and cooler today. Its a cool start to the work week tomorrow for june. We are going to keep that trend for the first half of the work week and bring a little more warmth ward the second half. More like next weekend. This system here affecting us today, tonight tomorrow with more low clouds and a cooling trend. As it heads up to the north it takes all that moisture with it, but we get a little more in the way of drizzle. Heres a look at this morning. 9 00 still cloudy out there. By 11 00 we are seeing more sun but its going to be on the cool side. 50s here and the 80s well out into the Sacramento Valley. So if you are looking at getting into sacramento its cooler today. 82. Even cooler from yosemite to fresno, though still pretty hot. Theres the moisture you see headed up into the northernmost part of the state. 74 in los angeles and we are look at much of the state cooling off in the next few days. We will take you into tomorrow night, 9 00. You can see the clouds back with us. And by midnight look at the coastal areas here. More mist and drizzle, and then maybe even a few spritzles into the east bay. Dropping into the mid70s throughout the week and looks like 80s by next weekend. 74 san jose, 72 around sunnyvale 69 redwood city and just 59 San Francisco and only 68 in santa rosa. So that tells you its going to be cool. 63 oakland. Over the east bay hills the orange pushed back into the valley. Cool day in pleasanton at 73. We will call it milder. A little cooler tomorrow for the sevenday. Steady pattern wednesday and theres the slow and modest warmup through next weekend mainly around the bay and inland. You can see what is showing up on live doppler 7 anytime with this app. Free on apples app store and google play and more information on our website. Its interesting because mist and drizzle into make an impact. Thats how we get the redwoods with the constant moisture. Thats what has been happening at the coast and that will continue. Im sure people have opinion enjoying that. Kind of. Yeah. Up next, a crisis in the east bay averted and how one of the cutest families you will ever see was reunited. First the time right any 6 22. In honor of Asian Pacific pacificAmerican Heritage month. We are honoring with bistro event in campbell. It features food infired by Asian Pacific American Heritage month. Theres more i this is not ice cream. This is not ice cream in an Ice Cream Cone. This is not ice cream in an Ice Cream Cone in the hand of a tall man. This is not ice cream in an Ice Cream Cone in the hand of a tall man in san fran. This is not san fran. This is not a tall man its pam and dan. This is not an Ice Cream Cone its a frozen custard cone. And this is not ice cream, its extra thick and creamy frozen custard. A different kind of delicious. New from dreyers. Nestle, good food, good life. Dont, dont, dont, dont stop the beat i cant, cant, cant, cant control my feet p p p people in the street cmon everybody and move your feet go everybody move your feet and feel united oh oh oh everybody move your feet and feel united i saw a commercial that said you can save 500 by switching to progressive. That was me, mom. [ laugh ] i thought you said that was me, mom. [ laughter ] firefighters to the rescue yesterday in Contra Costa County but the victims werent human. Firefighters plucked 8 ducklings out of a storm drain in concord. They carefully hoisted out each duckling and made sure they were okay. The crew tweeted these pictures showing a happy reunion between mother duck and her kids. Animal shelters around the bay area hope this will be the weekend you bring home a new friend. The annual maddys adoption event continues this morning. More than 80 shelter and rescues taking part in multiple locations. Much more ahead on the sunday morning news. Another democrat jumps into the race. The newest candidate for the president ial nomination. Also ahead, she investigates hate crimes, but music is the love of her life. How one bay [ ] im gettin out im gettin out im gettin out gonna have a look around now is the time i started flyin both feet off of the ground head in the sky eyes open wide happy to look around good sunday morning, im chris nguyen. Its a busy day for baseball in the area. As and giants both at home. Lets get a check of the baseball forecast with meteorologist lisa argen. Grab the jackets. Itit will be cool both locations. 60 San Francisco maybe 61 oakland with a few degrees of warming in the afternoon. Cant find any sun below the marine layer so we are above it. Mt. Tam. 6 from the east bay hills camera you see mt. Diablo. It looks really nice above the fog but a gray start. 52 in concord right now. Some of the clouds will stay with us through the 9 00 h

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