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KTVU KTVU FOX 2 News At Noon July 28, 2017

750,000. Now Defense Attorneys argued it was unfair for the da to multiplely the amount for manslaughter times 36 for each the victims. They say it was tragic but the fire was a single event. Defense attorneys want harris out of jail. Under most circumstances this would be a success. We got the bail lowered 250,000. A quarter Million Dollars shows a lot of good faith on the part of the court. Whats unjust is that max is a young man and artist who is with rapists and people who have hunted people down and killed people, people that have robbed banks. Its unjust to have him subject to any bail amount at all. Reporter the other defendant in the case expected to make a similar bail motion for his alleged role in the case. Live in oakland. Henry lee. Thank you for the update. We are following a developing story overseas in north korea. The pentagon said north korea fired another icbm. Officials say that missile landed in the waters off japans coast this morning. This is video from a previous test. It comes just three weeks after north korea said it tested its first icbm. Japan said the missile flew for about 45 minutes which is longer than that first launch. Congress just passed legislation to impose new sanctions on north korea for its tests. A ill baby boy at the center of a legal battle in the uk has died. The parents of charlie gard said that our beautiful little boy is gone. We are so proud of you charlie. His parents fought for the right to bring him to the United States for therapy but his doctors objected saying that the treatment wouldnt help and may cause him to suffer. The dispute ended in court and while charlies parents eventually resigned to moving him to hospice they couldnt agree with the hospital on how charlie would be cared for once he got there. Yesterday a judge ruled that charlie would be moved to hospic experience taken off life support. He would have been one next friday. The majority leader said its time to move on after the latest Health Care Plan was defeated in the senate. That vote capped a wild 24 hours in washington within fighting at the white house breaking out in the open and Jeff Sessions speaking out. Reporter the president was keeping a close eye on the senates votes last night and early this morning said that three republicans and every democrat had failed the American People and that it was now time to let obama care fail. So this is, you know, clearly a disappointing moment. Reporter after seven years of promises to roll back obama care and three failed votes this week Senate Majority leader threw in the towel. The amendment isnt agreed too. Reporter the early friday morning vote was 4951 after hours spent trying to win over skeptical republicans like john mccain who in the end voted no. Lets turn the page and Work Together to improve our health care system. Reporter apart from health care the president has his hands full with his own administration. Its hurtful but the president of the United States is a strong leader. Reporter the attorney general spoke to Tucker Carlson in el salvador about his week in the president s cross hairs. I serve at the pleasure of the president. He wants to make a change he can certainly do so and i would be glad to yield in that circumstance. No doubt about it. Reporter the president s new Communications Director is in a very public power struggle with the chief of staff. He is making headlines for his tirade with a reporter over leaks the white house. He has passion and may let it get the better of him. Maybe that happened. He used colorful language. Reporter its worth note that during the briefing at the white house the president secretary wouldnt say if the president continues to have confidence in his chief of staff. The last time that happened was with james comey who was fired not to long after. In washington. Senator Diane Feinstein took to twitter last night and said tonight we celebrate, tomorrow we get back to work to improve the Affordable Care act for all americans. Thousands and thousands of california calls and emails led the way to defeating this terrible bill, thank you. Arizona senator john mccain said this on twitter. Skinny repeal fell short because it fell short of our promise to repeal and replace obama care with meaningful reform. There are more developments to share in the president s plan to bar Transgender Americans from military service. The pentagon said they will be allowed to remain until the secretary of defense gets more clarity. The entire force, the chain of command will, always has, will today and tomorrow and always should treat every single soldier with respect for their service in the cloth of our nation. Reporter the announcement stirred up outrage and protests. Five of six defendants held in connection with the beating death of a woman appeared in a san jose courtroom this morning. Prosecutors say all five played a role in the death of flo douglas. Johnny brown and zackery quin broke in to the victims home last september as part of a robbery and burglary. They beat and assaulted the 88 yearold. They are both charged with murder. Another is charged with hiding evidence, browns mother is being held for harboring a fugitive and the suspects friend willie king is accused of being an accessory to the crime. Its important to try all of the defendants at the same time. We have to prove this case and their roles together and the evidence really affects all the defendants equally. Its important, i think, for the community in order to speed up and make sure that justice is found for this family and for the community. The five defendants in court today are scheduled to enter pleas on september 8th. A 6th person charged in the case, Jennifer Jimenez is being tried separately. Authorities arrested two young men and two teenagers suspected of breaking in to 50 vehicles in one night. They are arrested John Robertson and brian randolph. Two others were also taken in to custody but their identities arent being released because of their age. The four are accused of breaking into 17 cars in the parking lot of a brentwood hampton inn last friday and stealing one of those cars. Investigators say they then broke into another 36 vehicles a few hours later in livermore. Two shooting suspects in custody after a manhunt last night. One that had a neighborhood on lockdown. An Armed Robbery was reported about 2 30 yesterday afternoon near david street and douglas drive. The gun men fired in to an occupied car and then took off. Police ordered a shelter in place. Then at about 8 30 police said they had taken the two into custody and they canceled the shelter in place order. A 13yearold died after being hit by a car. This happened just about 12 15 yesterday afternoon on fremont. Police say a witness flagged down the officer after the girl was struck. The driver stayed at the scene and is cooperating the investigation. The girl later died at the hospital. Police say that drug ands alcohol dont appear to be factors. A new report shows traffic on local bridges is starting earlier than ever. According to the metropolitan Transportation Commission the number of drivers crossing the bay bridge at 4 00 a. M. Has gone up 36 over the past couple years. On the san mateo bridge researchers found traffic increased 31 . The dunbar ton bridge has seen a 39 spike. Early in the morning now. Around five its really backed up. Its getting backed up, backed um. Before, used to out here at 5 30 and it was clear. Now its five and backed up already. Hard enough to pinpoint why more people are going out earlier but researchers say the growing economy is a big factor. On the bay bridge of course this jumps up from 4 to 5 at five so maybe more people get out earlier to save money. Save that money. Good idea. Still to come three suspicious fires in the east bay. Why investigators say they are the work of an arson ist. Its warm and will be hot. Mark is here to help detail your bay area forecast. And also more than other people hurt in a commuter train crash in spain. How passengers are describing the scary ordeal. If you like cinnamon toast crunch then youll love strawberry. French toast. And new Apple Cinnamon toast crunch. From our crazy delicious family to yours. Crave those crazy squares what should i watch . Show me sports. Its so fluffy look at that fluffy unicorn hes so fluffy im gonna die your voice is awesome. The x1 voice remote. Xfinity. The future of awesome. The family of a student killed in a november 2015 paris terrorist attack said companies should be held responsible. Lawyers for the parents were in a courtroom yesterday. They said that youtube was partly at fault because it allowed isis and supporters to post videos, sometimes with paid ads. Google is now relying on a 21 yearold law saying websites cannot be held responsible for content provided by others. Just this morning on the nine a law professor joined us to say similar cases against Tech Companies havent been successful. I think that google and the others have a very Strong Defense under the first amendment. Its not the kind of targeting of a particular individual that would be required before you would have a chance at a lawsuit. These are going to get swatted away just as the other cases were. Lawyers for the family argue that youtube should be held responsible for providing isis a platform to encourage terror attacks. Dozens of passengers were hurt today when a commuter train crashed into a barrier at a station in spain. 56 were hurt. One suffered serious injuries. When the train pulled in and the conductor braked there was a strange noise. All the passengers were thrown to the floor. There was damage to the front of the train and the first and second rail cars. Russia is hitting back at the United States after new sanctions were approved. Russia did something very similar just last year. Reporter moscow is pushing back against sanctions on russia, ordering america to reduce its diplomats and shutting down a United States retreat. We are measured in our reaction ands patient. At some point we will have to respond. Reporter the move comes a day after the Senate Approved a new package of sanctions on the country as well as iran and north korea. Its meant as punishment for russia interfering in the election as well as syria. Its after putin by hitting alleged corrupt officials, weapon sales and energy exports. United states of America Needs to send a strong message to putin and any other aggressor that we will not tolerate attacks on our government. Any further attempts to degrade our democracy will meet further sanctions and actions. Reporter late last year the president expelled 35 russian diplom ats and shut down two russian estates here in the United States. The eu is watching any possible Economic Impacts on europe. In milan. Amy kellogg. Police in texas are pulling 400 ford explorers from its fleet over concerns that Carbon Monoxide is seeping into the suvs. The Police Department said that 20 officers have tested positive for Carbon Monoxide since the problem was first reported in february. The police chief said that a sergeant nearly passed out behind the wheel in march and at least three officers are still off duty because of Carbon Monoxide exposure. The Department Plans to switch out the suvs this weekend. They plan to use cars other departments including some that will be unmarked. Officers will double up in vehicles instead of riding alone. In response to the failure of the orrville dam california ordering 93 dams to be inspected. The department of Water Resources released a list of the dams including some here in the bay area. That includes an andreas. Operators have been told to check the facilities and determine how well each spillway will hold up during heavy rain. A neighborhood up in sonoma turned hot pink after a plane accidentally dropped retardant on homes. You will see what happened. We popped this picture up. According to the press democrat a cal fire tanker leaving a grass fire accidentally released the retardant as it approached the airport yesterday. Firefighters came in and cleaned it up, washed down the street and cars. Its harmless. Lets check in with mark. The weekend knocking on the door. How we looking . Weekend almost here. We are talking about still some hot temperatures inland. The coast we have some fog to talk about. Two different weather worlds as we would expect for late july. That will be happening for today and into the weekend. Current numbers will check in on those. We have santa rosa 79, fremont 74. San jose mid70s. Downtown closer to 61 degrees. Here is that fog bank still out there. Out toward the marin head lands, down toward half moon bay. We will expand the view out in the pacific and widespread fog from point arena down toward the bay, down toward Southern California as well. Our friends in los angeles and san diego. They have some fog near the coastline. Here is the deal for today. Mild to hot. Away from this fog bank. Here is the live camera. That will have a billing impact on temperatures for friday. Low 60s for the coast. Around the bay on either side of 80 degrees and inland in the mid to upper 90s for your friday afternoon. We will talk about this big area of High Pressure for today and into the weekend. Itll stick around. At least for today. Cool temperatures coast side. Here is what happens in to next week. In to the weekend and into next week. Even beyond tuesday. We will have a stretch of hot temperatures inland. A good range around 95 to 100 degrees and possibly topping 100 degrees beyond tuesday. That will be the deal but the beaches, we will have that on shore breeze. At least for today temperatures kind of like yesterdays readings. Vacaville 98, san rafael upper 80s and around the bay, actually pleasant in oakland, haywood, head inland. Lue find the temperatures around 95 to 96 to 97. In the south bay san jose 88. Gilroy mid90s. They have the garlic festival taking place and right in to the weekend. Itll be hot down in gilroy and San Francisco. 66. The coast, definitely need the sweater or jacket. Its a good breeze as well. Temperatures a stretch of 90s inland through tuesday. We have added 100 degrees on tuesday. Around the bay warming up but not as much. Around mainly the mid to upper 80s on the coast. That will be the relief area. That will be where you want to cool off with the air out there with temperatures in the 60s. Nice to have that optionf. We were to extend beyond tuesday we may add 102, possibly 103. Yeah, itll be an extended period of hot temperatures. Like what we had at the beginning of the summer in mid june. As far as length wise. Maybe not as hot but still pretty hot. Around 98, 102. Thank you. Today the Golden Gate Bridge district is expected to give final approval to a plan that remodels part of the Golden Gate Bridge toll plaza. The project calls for a redesigned toll gantry. The red structure that hangs there over each lane of the toll plaza. It was built for the toll takers but these days tolls taken electronicly. New designs dont have booths between each lane so there is more room for cars and the risk is lower for toll plaza crashes. Coming up a new approach in san jose. What city leaders considering a crack down on groups that feed the homeless. 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Yesterday on the 4 on 2 a tech report fresh the wall street journal said who the first 30 will be. Hasnt identified them but has said that the first customer also be tesla employees who put their orders in. He wants to test the early additions with people that work for him so they can work out the final bugs. Also today he is expected to outline his grand vision for the future of the company. Starbucks plans to shut down its teavana stores. They will shut them down due to under preforming sales and 3,000 worker also be affected. Despite that starbucks wants to expand and will add thousands of jobs worldwide over the next fiveyears. Air b and b is being sued by a woman who said she was sexually assaulted by a host. She said the website didnt screen the host. According to the San Francisco chronicle she booked a room inside the mans home for a month. The lawsuit claims that she left after three days when the man allegedly locked her in a room, forced her to kiss him and exposed himself. Air b and b said that the behavior described has no place in our community and we will not tolerate it. They also said that the company preformed yearly background checks on all hosts. Homeless activists claiming victory offer the city of san jose back away from a crack down on people feeding the homeless in a downtown park. We first reported

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