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KGO ABC7 News 900AM August 17, 2014

Good sunday morning and thanks for joining us. Im matt keller in for carolyn tyler. Lets start with a quick first look at the weather with meteorologist lisa argen. Good morning, lisa. Hi, malt. Its greatening up in the east bay valleys. Sunshine at the airport despite 38 minute delays on arriving flights. The camera shows very pretty pictures. Numbers from the upper 50s Half Moon Bay, San Francisco to 52 in san jose. Visibility is impacted in the north bay, 2 1 2 miles santa rosa and napa, and while cloudy skies and better visibility at the coast. The visible picture shows the cloud cover beginning to peel back from the inland valleys and that means sunshine and mild temperatures are on the way today. We will take a look at it in detail about the week ahead. A little bit of cooling out there. And the problem with the cooling in a few minutes. Matt. Thank you, lisa. Game one for the 49ers at leave ice stadium starts in a few hours. Real obstacle for fans may be the traffic. Heres a live look from the city of San Francisco camera close to the stadium. You see traffic looks pretty good right now. Thats got news. We are live by the stadium let the tailgating begin, huh, cornell . How will chips and salsa and sausages for breakfast, matt. Tailgating has begun at the brand new levis stadium. These guys got here super early. You are the firstever tailgater. How excited are you for the day . Really excited. Inaugural game for the stadium . This is awesome. We gathered at 6 00 a. M. They jumped in the suburban to get down here and fire up the grill. Its been awesome. We cant wait. Thank you very much. Lets get to the countdown. Its definitely on. 70,000 fans will be converging on the stadium in a preseason game against the broncos. Niners and officials at Santa Clara County, they say they are ready. They dont expect a repeat of the earthquakes game two weeks ago that created traffic nightmare. Theres been throttle of tweaking and extra turn lanes added and Traffic Signals have been synchronized we have some 32,000 Parking Spaces and candlestick as 19,000. Im not hopeful. They have got people coming in and people coming out. And the last time was three hours. Neighbors have their doubts. There was a minor glitch when a vta train clipped a planter placing a little too close to the track. No damage or delays because of it. So far we havent seen any traffic delays getting here but the day is young. There will be some delays. Take public transportation, if you can. Enjoy the game. Give yourself plenty of time to get here. Lots of food going on, lots of tailgating. It will be a great day. Live in santa clara, Cornell Barnard, abc7 news. See you again at 9s 30. If you are going to the game check out the live Traffic Cameras from the city of santa clara. We have a link along with our realtime maps with alternative routes on the traffic page. To help aleve the traffic and park problems, californias Great America and santa clara next door will be closed today. In fact the theme park website said it will be closed every time the niners have a home game. This morning relatives of a twoyearold killed in a San Francisco hitandrun are asking the driver to surrender to police and spare them any more agony. Police say the driver of the white toyota or lexus sedan hit the child and kept going. Abc7 News Reporter Sergio Quintana has the latest. Reporter a small bouquet of flowers, a con dolens card and a single candle. This is a small memorial for 2yearold miyana gregory. She was killed friday night in the nearby crosswalk. Miyana gregorys aunt says the twoyearold and her mother were walking across the street from a theater when the driver of a white fourdoor sedan whizzed by. She was hit by a driver in drag, and thats pretty much it and the car kept going. This is a series that was taken from the Mission Street parking garage. You see the front of the white car, the rear of the car and then the whole car. [sirens] throughout the afternoon and evening, San Francisco motorcycle officers have been handing out citation after citation on this very short stretch of Mission Street. The San Francisco Police Department is on heavy enforcement due to the tragedy that occurred with the twoyearold child and a white vehicle that was involved in a hit run and. These are pictures of the scene just after the hitandrun that wesley shot. He said this is a busy area, especially on a friday night. Little evidence markers. It looked like a shooting or something and then we asked what happened and we found out about what happened. Miyana gregorys family said they are in shock and the search for the driver in the hitandrun isnt helping. We shouldnt have to go through pictures and cameras to find you. You turn yourself in. You know what you did. Investigators are hoping anyone who can identify the car can give them a call. In San Francisco, Sergio Quintana, abc7 news. The bay area woman known as the serial stowaway is out of jail after serves just three days. Last wednesday A Los Angeles judge sentenced 62yearold Marilyn Hartman to 177 days in jail for violating an order to stay away from l. A. X. Without a valid ticket. But she was released yesterday because of overcrowding. Earlier this month she snuck on to a plane without a ticket and flew from san jose to l. A. X. Shes already banned from sfo, where shes been arrested six times. One person is dead and another injured after a private plane crashed in Eldorado County. The Eldorado County Sheriffs Department said it happened just before 7 00 last night at the airport in placerville. Two men were in a plane. One taken to the hospital and other died at the scene. The plane is registered in san jose. The plane reportedly circled the airport before disappearing. Now to the latest in the small Missouri Town of ferguson. The attorney general is calling for a federal autopsy for the body of Michael Brown in response to a request from the 18yearolds family. The teens death led to more violence last night after police tried to enforce a curfew, leaving one person in Critical Condition. We have in ferguson with the developing story. Another standoff between demonstrators and police. You must continue disbursing immediately or you will be subject to arrest. Just after the midnight curfew went into effect, the state Highway Patrol said they heard reports of people with guns on the roof of a restaurant and responded. They say officers were meant by a protester pointing a gun and a crowd that refused to leave. The s. W. A. T. Team moved in and they are firing teargas at those protesters. I was hit full in the face with teargas. I have no protection of any sort. Highway patrol explaining they took those extreme measures only after learning someone in the crowd had been shot. We have a shooting victim thats in Critical Condition that may lose their life. We had a subject standing in the middle of the road with a happened gun. We had a police car shot at tonight. Yes, i think that was the proper response tonight. To maintain officer safety and public safety. The curfew outside of st. Louis put in place after nearly a week of violence following the shooting death of an unarmed teenager by an unarmed officer. Today they will rally again pushing for answers in the case and much needed peace in the community. Marcy gonzales, abc news, ferguson, missouri. Business owners in the east bay spent yesterday cleaning up after a polar in support of Michael Brown got out of control. The group marched through downtown oakland into berkeley friday night denouncing Police Violence affeldt the shooting in ferguson. Businesses were spray painted and vandals Wearing Masks we had nothing to do with it. We are thousands of miles away from what happened, and now i have to pay 700 to have a window replaced. I understand the anger and everything, but i dont know if this was particularly the right way to express it. Oakland Police Say One officer was assaulted by demonstrators and one was peppersprayed. Two protesters airplane rested. In santa rosa there was a protest after they let a deputy return to the streets this week. Last october the officer shot and killed andy lopez. Teen was carrying an air soft gun made to look like an ak47. Last month they cleared the officer of any wrongdoing. Yesterday protesters outside of the departments headquarters said they want justice for lopez. Disrespectful to the community to put the man who killed the child back on their streets to patrol the streets. I do not think he should be returning to work in this county. If anything, he should be working elsewhere. A lot of people arent happy he will be on the streets after this happened. Protesters say the shooting and protests that followed highlighted tensions between Law Enforcement and the Latino Community in sonoma people protested the arrival of an isreali cargo ship at the port of oakland yesterday. Several groups marched. Its where they unload cargo every saturday. Event organizers asked dockworkers to show their support by not going to the work. Those on the other side of the conflict said israel must be able to defend itself against attacks by hamas militants. Turning to weather, we have the nice summer spread, right . Yes. Heres a look at it. The marine layer is beginning to dissipate across the bay 678 we will see the fog stay at the coast. That will mean a cool day there but very seasonal numbers. I will explain when we return. Crews continue to battle on a 12,000acre wildfire in the county. The reason they believe they will have it contain later this week. And a bay area Football Teams touching ice bucket challenge tribute. Why this one is about so much more than just dumping ice foster farms chicken gets to the store in 48 hours or less. But its 4 days to california. Theres got to be another way. That could be any number of items, quite frankly. You know if this flight is less than 48 hours . I surwhat . E so. . Foster farms. Celebrating 75 years. Always natural. Always fresh. Join the celebration at take75. Com diverted to minneapolis. I think my giblets are frozen. This is abc7 news. Good morning. Heres a live look at Great America parkway and old glory in santa clara. Good news for anybody heading to the stadium right now. You wont hit any traffic. Looks like the tailgating is getting started, as well. Enjoy the food, enjoy the peace of mind that you are already at the stadium if you decide that you want to head there early. A judge ruled theres enough evidence for a former High School Security guard to stand trial for attacking a student in a wheelchair. The Security Camera shows him punching and dumping the boy, who has cerebral palsy, out of his chair at an oakland high school. A district spokesman said mitchell was pushing martinez to class when martinez spit him in his face. Another guard stopped the attack and mitchell was stopped and fired that day. He will return to court for arraignment and have a trial date set. Four people, including a child are resting comfortably this morning after being rescued from their burning boat in Southern California. A brand new 40foot yacht caught fire saturday evening off the coast of malibu. A man on shore took this video of the smoke on the water. Three adults and a child managed to get on the life raft before the coast guard arrive. The yacht sank, which put out the fire. No word on how the fire start the. Cal fire hopes to have a large fire burning in Mendocino County fully contained by wednesday. Higher humidity, calm winds and lower temperatures are helping them get the lodge fire under control. Its burn more than 12,000 acres since it broke out 2 1 2 weeks ago. Its about 75 contained right now. Last week 8 firefighters were hospitalized with serious injuries, including three from Santa Clara County. To date the cost of fighting the fire stands at 35 million. Nearly a week after his death, fans are still honoring robin today glide Memorial Church with honor rob sin williams. Williams helped raise money for the Robin Williams death not only sent shockwaves through the world of entertainment. It also shed light on a battle millions wage against depression. Abc67 fuse anchor talk with williams fellow comedians, about how they face many ups and downs. Copeland himself suffers with depression. Copeland deals with it. Im on the back end. Most severe episode of depression ive ever had. Had lasted three months and ill be honest, there were times i will not make it through it. I thought, you know, maybe this is a teachable moment. We hope you will join Cheryl Jennings for beyond the headlines today at 10 00 a. M. Right here on abc7. Weve seen the ice bucket challenge grow on the internet, especially over the last week. People challenges others to dump cold water on their head and donate money to a. L. S. Charities. This team has extra motivation. The Football Team in moraga. They are doing it to help a former teammates father who is fighting a. L. S. [cheers and applause] hes saying gentlemen, thank you very much. This means a lot to him. [applause] love the tshirt never give up. Cal high sports shot the video to air at a later time. A. L. S. Association has received more than 11 million in donations. More information on how you can make a donation to help a. L. S. Charities, we have a link on our website, abc7news. Com. And they will be needing a lot of ice buckets to cool off today. I guess it will warm up nicely and it will be pleasant there . Thats the keyword, about afternoon. Maybe a few 09s like yesterday. As we head outside, you can see some of the cloud cover banked up from the south bay, the Central Coast where the clouds will be hugging the shoreline once again today. It will be cool and relatively cloudy from Half Moon Bay and pacifica. But you get away from the coast and it will be mild. Inland on the warm side. So weve been enjoying the view from the east bay hills camera all morning long. Temperatures have been in the upper 350s in the city. 57 gilroy and Half Moon Bay. Still a few airport delays but we are beginning to see some sunshine at sfo. 61 san carlos and san jose at 62. So San Francisco, great skies. Novato 59. Fog beginning to lower creating visibility problems in santa rosa and napa 62. Concord 63. Heres a look at san jose where we are looking at mostly cloudy skies. Sunny and breezy conditions around the bay. The pattern remains fairly unchanged throughout the week ahead. We will get into a little bit of cooling today, more so tomorrow and tuesday in the inland valleys due to an area of low pressure that will drop to the south of us. Right now we are still look at pretty much the same old same old but the steady sea breeze this afternoon. West winds about 10 to 15 miles an hour then a little bit of an on shore push will strengthen tomorrow and that allows for the temperatures to come down around 3 to 5 degrees in the inland valleys. Today just a couple degrees. We are very near average. We should see about 87, 88 in livermore for a high today. Forecasting a high about 91. Tomorrow comes a minor cool down right on through wednesday. Then we begin to see the temperatures get back to near average. So the difference is you may not even notice today. 89 in morgan hill. 90 today in gilroy. A little warmer in the mid90s there. And santa cruz coming in at 74 today. 79 redwood city. 75 San Francisco. Today 67, your average high is 68 up in the north bay. Notice some of the yellows here. A little cool for petaluma. 78. 82 santa rosa. 83 calistoga. Near east bay nearly an identical day today with low 70s for berkeley and oakland today. 78 should do it in union city. You head inland. Heres where we have the warmth. Typical summertime afternoon. Nice day in livermore. 89 in pleasanton and brentwood 90 degrees. Accuweather sevenday forecast shows that the temperatures will be nearly average today. A few degrees of cooling tomorrow and tuesday. Not much change for the middle of the week. Then we will slowly gain a few degrees. We will let you know how warm it will take my bicycle your community by keeping track of bay area weather on twitter livedoppler7hd. Big question was, of course, santa clara, low 80s, a Beautiful Day today. Hopefully we will see a niners win, as well. Thanks, lisa. Next, a become tries to hold off labor to help her a child. What she was trying to do before she gave birth. A dramatic arrival for a baby in texas. Vanessa said she was already in labor last thursday when she went to a school to register her fouryearold son for a prek program. It was the only way to see he was signed up for class. She planned to drop off the paperwork and go to the hospital, but the baby had other plans instead and was born in the nurses offices. Im trying to get on my gloves and i look and the baby is crowning. So i threw the box down, i got it here and i see the baby. And i had no choice but, you know, she said pull the baby out. The nurse wrapped the healthy baby boy in tshirts and sent him and his brother off to

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