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Transcripts For KGO ABC7 News 600AM 20160515

Of cling to the san mateo coast for the next couple of hours. Then we will be looking at full sunshine. Still that sea breeze intact. So its going to be a rather gusty day at the coast. But check out mt. Tam. A beautiful shot. 55 San Francisco and Half Moon Bay with 56 mountain view, 57 in morgan hill. And from this Vantage Point you can see not zoo bad in the city. We will talk about our warming trend coming up. Carolyn. Lisa, thank you. Happening now, thousands of runners are getting ready to take part in the bay to breakers race in San Francisco. Its the longest running annual footrace in the world. Lets get right to abc7 News Reporter Cornell Barnard who is live at the starting line. Good morning, cornell. Good morning to you, carolyn. Welcome back, by the way. Can you feel it . Of the the energy certainly building out here for this years bay to breakers race. Lots of preparation going on at maine and howard. The official starting line. This is where up to 40,000 runners, probably more, will line up for the worlds most wacky race. This is video from last years race, by the way. Its part footrace, part street party free for all. Police say have fun but leave the booze at home. They will be cracking down. No floats or anything with wheels on it allowed on the track either. Kevin carpenter said he would never miss it. Its a lot of fun. If you are a runner or walker or just out to have fun this, is the place to do it. Get a little crazy too, right . It gets a little crazy. Now, crazy is right. Nudity is discouraged on the racecourse but every year will be tolerated by the city. If you are coming to the race this year to run, walk or take in the sights, leaf your car at home if you can. Public transportation is your best bet on a day like this. We are live in strange, Cornell Barnard, abc7 news. Thank you, cornell. Also no bags this year. And we will stream live aerials just before the start of the race at 8 00 a. M. You can watch it through the abc7 news app and enable push be alerts to get race information as it happens. Workers are hoping africanized bees in a concord neighborhood will be gone later this morning. They are being blamed for the deaths of two dogs and attacks on several people. Lisa amin gulezian has the story. This is the man tasked with containing and removing all of these aggressive bees. They took over a honey beehive in his backyard. They were quite aggressive yesterday. I got stung, my wife got stung and my son got stung through his bee suit. His son is an amateur beekeeper, yesterday when he tried to collect honey, a swarm of bees that took over the hive escaped and attacked. The bees went to the neighbors house. Unfortunately, they were nice little dogs and they were killed by beestings. The dogs were killed. Then the bees started stinging people in the street, including the mail carrier. She was shaking violently and said they are on me. They were soup he were aggressive. They were following us and going after us and banging on the windows. It was freaky, it was like a horror movie. This is cell phone video is a she took from her kitchen window. The Bee Association sent a member to investigate. This is the worst action ive heard of in our area. Experts arent sure how the africanized bees got here, but once they do its only a matter of days before they can overtake and repopulate a honey beehive. Did you get attacked from the bees . No. You didnt see them down there . No. They issued an alert, warning people to stay inside. In concord, abc7 news. Developing news out of the south bay this morning. A man is recovering after his car went over an embankment off highway 9 in saratoga. It happened just after 1 00 this morning near Heather Heights road. When rescue crews arrived, that car was 150 feet over the cliff. The driver was trapped inside. No one else was in the car when it crashed. The driver has been taken to the hospital. His condition is not known. In the north bay chp officers rescued a oneyearold and a fiveyearold girl from a burning car. These are pictures from the firefighters Facebook Page showing the fire on highway 101. It happened friday night. The children were not hurt. The press democrat reports their mother, laura jones, was speeding and refused to pull over for officers. They used spike strips to slow her down and sparks from the car rims then started that fire. The chf believes jones, the mother, was high on meth. In sacramento an armed man was arrested after are a tense standoff yesterday. He surrendered after officers had a house surrounded for nearly six hours. When officers arrived they say a man pointed a weapon and also threw a pipe bomb at them. Fortunately no one was hurt. Four people were inside the home. Police believe they are friends of the suspect. Its unclear what set that man off. Police are looking for a man who sexually assaulted a teenage girl near the el~cerrito bart station thursday night. The man shoved the girl to the ground and attacked her. She fought back. The man ran away on the green way toward the bart station. Hes described as a hispanic man in his 30s. He might have scratch marks on his face and neck because the victim fought back. Disturbing video has a bay area family accusing Hayward Police of using excessive force. Our iteam recorded this video of what happened after a traffic stop. What are you doing . Now this mans family is raising questions about how police should handle and restrain a suspect. Its a story you will see only on abc7 tonight at 11 00 after quantico. With the nationwide debate with rights for transgender people, equal rights supporters gathered in the south bay yesterday, urging state lawmakers to take a stand. Abc7 news was at San Jose City hall for the rally organized by the Group Transform california. Members of calling on state leaders to sign a pledge opposing discrimination against transgender people. South bay congressman pledged his support. His 8yearold granddaughter is transgender. It takes a lot of patience and love on our part to make sure they move through this journey in a way thats going to be positive so our young people dont have to go through this fear last week president obama directed School Districts nationwide to allow transgender to use bathrooms that matches their gender identity, not their birth certificate. Santa claras mayor has this message for the 49ers. Pay the city back. Our media partner, the mercury news, reports the mayor lisa gilmore has ordered a 200,000 audit to find out what the team owes for police and firefighter staffing at levis stadium. Some costs were paid by the citys general fund. The 49ers have an agreement to cover safety and security costs at all nfl games and special events. This morning pg e crews will begin work in Castro Valley above i580 to make improvements to electric towers and powerlines. From 6 00 to 9 00 this morning workers will use helicopters to install a safety net above the freeway between crow canyon road and eden canyon road. Two lanes in both directions of 580 will be closed between those exits. If you are driving that way, you should expect brief delays or plan to take a different route. Lisa argen here now talking about what would you say, you call it moderate temperatures for today . Yeah, a clear sky in the north bay. A little cooler there. But check out the trade off with the cooler conditions. You have the clear sky and a beautiful sunrise. Sun up at 5 59. We will look for temperatures to respond away from the shoreline with warmer afternoon readings. This is just the beginning of a warming trend. Ill have all the details and look at some 90s coming to some neighborhoods next. And also next, go inside sfmu for a first look inhe side for the incredible transformation. You will be defined not just by what you achieved, but for how you survived. Hear facebook executive Cheryl Sandbergs deeply hey i think the internet just went down. Huh, why dont you give it a sec, itll come back. Something just happened in the world and we have no idea what it was. Get high Speed Internet from at t with 99. 9 reliability for just 30 a month. Keep calm, your internets on. A newly proposed bill would ban members of the commission from meeting privately with lobbyists, developers and environmentalists. This legislation came after the committee quietly fired their executive director back in february. Supporters of the bill told la times the firing was an attempt to make the agency more friendly to Devil Developers of the last thursday the Commission Vote today support the bill. My hope for you is that you will find that gratitude, not just on the easy days like today. But on the hard days when you will need it. Thats Facebook Cheryl sandberg delivering a deeply moving commencement speech at yesterdays Graduation Ceremony at u. C. Berkeley. Sandberg spoke about the suddendeath of her husband just over a year ago. She urged graduates to show resilliance and gratitude, even in the most difficult times. In her speech she said her husbands death taught her to be more thankful of the simple things in life. The family of an oakland man killed in a crash has received a College Degree in his honor. This video from Lincoln University in missouri, where the family of darryl blackman, received an Honorary Degree in sociology yesterday morning. Back in 2014 the football star was on his way home after working three jobs when his car slammed into a guardrail on highway 101 in mill valley. The abc News Eye Team reported a flaw in the guardrails design may have led to his death. Police in san bruno are keeping a close eye out for drunk drivers and educating teenagers at the same time. Abc7 news was in one of the police cars for a special dui saturation patrol ride along last night. San bruno police have a program called you deter that allows students to sit shotgun and see how officers spot impaired drivers and what happens on a dui traffic stop. The program is designed to stop teens from driving drunk. It also helps inspire those who hope to join the force one day. I want to be, in the near future, a Police Officer myself, and i want to get a real feel of how this whole things work. Having some experience knowing about all of this, and i can tell my friends and family members how its just not safe to drive under the influence. For more information on the you deter program, head to our website abc7news. Com. After years of transformation thousands celebrate the the reopening of the museum of modern art. The architect designed the sfmoma to reflect the bay area. Including a wall of living green plants and the exterior white walls to resemble the fog. Visitors took it all in during the grand reopening. Its such an open space. Its very inviting. The floor to ceiling windows and the lighting. It looks a lot different. It used to be more close up. When you first enter the building, theres a lot more like. I kind of like it. It looks more welcoming. The New York Times calls sfmoma the new standard for museums. And heres some more details on the new museum. It closed back in 2013 for the expansion. The project has tripled the amount of gallery space. The museum now features 33,000 works of art. The new sfmoma also fills 45,00c place, all free to see. No ticket required. We have an inside look at the new museum on the home page of our website abc7news. Com. Just look for the red sfmoma image a bigname hollywood actress is set to star in a movie about one of san joses biggest tourist attractions. Its helen muirin. She will play helen winchester, the millionaire mystery harris who built the house. Filming is expected to begin at the home next year. Today is the start of the first stage of the amgen tour of california. Its the 11th annual cycling race. The demanding 8day course coveres hundreds of scenic miles throughout the state. Cyclists start in san diego today and they will make their way up to santa rosa next saturday for the seventh stage. Santa rosa will be the only bay area host city this year. The tour will also feature a fourday, four way womens race for the first time and that thats thursday, may 19th. And they will maybe just avoid that big bumpup in temperatures. I was just thinking that. You are paying attention. Thats good. A sharp cooldown by the 19th on thursday. Live doppler 7hd showing cloud cover and pockets. Low clouds around the bay. The upper levels of the atmosphere have cooled, and thats why we are looking at pockets of clear sky in the north bay. Also some patchy fog right at the surface. Quarter mile visibility santa rosa with a mile and a third visibility petaluma. Six miles at the coast. Where we have the inversion we have the low clouds. From our sutro tower camera you see how it is patchy, but its out there. We call it partly to mostly cloudy, 56 mountain view, 55 San Francisco and Half Moon Bay with 59 san jose. The clouds there. 57 morgan hill and oakland checking in at 567. Heres emeryville. It should be a sunnier day today. The winds will be with us, that see breeze, it will be a little breezy around the bay but it will feel better than yesterday. 50 napa, novato. Southwest wind 56 concord. Livermore is at 57 degrees. So we will have the sea breeze today and its going to back off a little bit each and every day. And we will continue to see the cooler temperatures at the shoreline. But a big warmup is in store. So numbers this morning with the holes in the overcast five to seven degrees cooler than where we were yesterday. With the cloud cover intact, the inversion, we are three to five degrees warmer in san jose. Speaking of san jose, heres the cloud cover. A gray start for you. With the clouds this morning we will see temperatures cooler in the north bay and then sunny skies for everyone. The wind is kicking up in the afternoon 20 to 30 miles an hour. And the warmup getting underway really more significantly tomorrow. So today, starting out with partly to mostly cloudy skies 7 00. 57 degrees. Then we are up to 06 with more sun. Low to mid60s throughout the afternoon. So it should be pretty nice in San Francisco. So here is the fog forecast. It pretty much disappears. It will be out to sea, but we will get the sunshine locally. But down around monterey i think you will have the clouds there. So partial sun there. Upper 60s santa cruz. Sunny skies. Should be sunny all up and down from bodega bay. From tuesday look at the dramatic jump in temperatures with 90s arriving in concord, upper 70s in oakland. Still pleasant Half Moon Bay. 73 San Francisco and wednesday a slight cool down and things really get cool on thursday. 72 san jose. Look at 69 in milpitas. Peninsula numbers midand upper 60s. Pretty nice day with the sea breeze. San francisco mid60s. About 66 in the city and up in the north bay you will see a couple areas managing the mid70s from sonoma to napa, santa rosa and the east bay shoreline. About 70 union city and Castro Valley. Inland we have a couple numbers near 80 toward antioch. The accuweather sevenday forecast, today away from the coast nice, warmer tomorrow and then some 90s inland. Tuesday and wednesday, and cooler thursday. By friday and saturday, dont know if anyone is going to see the 70 mark with maybe some showers in the north bay. Its interesting, the sharp variations that we are going to have this week. Yeah, we keep seeing some of the lows travel pretty far south so hopefully some rain with it. All right, thank you, lisa. Up next, found in a field, the couple that hopes to get more than 100 love letters back to the family of a california couple. I got the discounts that you need safe driver accidentfree everybody put your flaps in the air for me you could start seeing a lot less graffiti in oakland. Abc7 news was in chinatown yesterday as more than 830 volunteers painted over what vandals left behind. Its part of a new program encouraging anyone who lives in oakland to adopt a building or a block and then make an effort to clean up the tagging yearround. Business owners say graffiti is getting worse in the city. A sixyearold boy in vacaville is making a small, but mighty effort to cure cancer. Ethan put up a Lemonade Stand in front. His school at nut tree plaza yesterday to raise money for two of his classmates who are going through chemotherapy. This is video of him getting ready on friday. One classmate is a fouryearold boy diagnosed with cancer last fall whose father is also undergoing cancer treatment. The other is a nineyearold girl battling brain cancer. It goes to help kids. Yesterdays event also included a raffle he, Face Painting and massages. Would you ride on an overnight bus from San Francisco to l. A. If you had your own bed . A stanford dropout recently started sleep bus. You crash in a private bunk while the bus drives overnight from San Francisco to had had ross. You will get free wifi and all the coffee and tea you want. It picks up passengers from the caltrain station and drops you off at the santa monica pier, the price, 48. This morning an oregon couple is trying to find the solve a mystery of a pair of californian lovers separated more than half a century ago. They recently found more than 100 glove letters dating back to the 1940s in the middle of a field. After reading through some of them, they concluded they lived in san diego and they were separated because they were in the service. They are hoping to somehow get the letters back to their families. Much more more ahead on the sunday morning news. 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