Oakland Police Department stepping up patrols. The will talk 20 officers to see what drivers can expect. 100 days until the us olympic trials for womens gymnastics. They are live with very lucrative. Special treat for oakland as fans in the right place at the right time. Handing out the game tickets to lucky writers. Happy 54th. Speaking of flashy dancers. The Golden State Warriors talked up another win. As for the other oakland team, there is stop her. And life picture in oakland. Stopper is handing out Opening Night tickets. Randomly. Good morning stopper. They are taking on the white sox monday and i. We can tell you how you can get your hands on those free tickets. Thats cool. You pulled out the legit to quit that have happened because the. Hammer with younger than i was. 54. He looks good. Pedestrian safety. Oakland police kicked off an effort to promote pedestrian safety. A live picture at 24th and broadway where the oakland pedestrian project is underway. Theyre focusing on troubled traffic spots. They will ticket drivers and pedestrians violating traffic laws. It will target those driving recklessly, speeding, making reckless turns in failing to yield. A number of car crashes have killed pedestrians in the last three years. Local police have investigated 176 deadly and injury collisions nationwide in 2013 crashes kill 32,000 people 4700 involved pedestrians 14 of all collisions. Survey joining us is dave carmen, the oakland Police Department sgt. San francisco has a problem. As some of that coming across the bay because we know they have had a big problem with it. Are you say more about happening here . More are living in oakland. Folks are Walking Around in different modes of transportation so were saying pedestrian involved collisions. I put the net story my facebook page. I had to slam on my arm in front of my daughter before. There is a green light in this car is waiting to make a left turn. No cars are coming so they make a left turn and they almost hit people crossing the street and i have people talking about earbuds in drivers and pedestrians also wearing them. What is the most common dangerous action someone is taking . We have an increase in people looking at texts, listening to music on the telephone. We are writing a lot of citations. It distracts folks. Pedestrians do a whole lot of damage. Where looking at a live picture. What drives you . The other thing i was quieter ask you, a lot of cyclists in San Francisco, they do not stop at stop signs. I see them breaking traffic rules. For some reason they feel because they are on a bicycle, they are just like a car, back to obey the signs and signals and they feel like they are not a danger to anyone but they are when they hit someone going at a high rated speed on the road. When you see a driver do what you have a pedestrian do what . Pedestrians cross submitted the block and against the light and some of that causes danger to themselves. Some a jaywalking is against the law. You cite people for that . Have you ever been cited for jaywalking . When you start to do these campaigns you find that this works as a deterrent . People think i might be popped for this, im not going to do it anymore. These other laws. You would have to obey those. We have at international area. The whole area. A lot of people visiting internationally for they have moved here from somewhere else. They might not have the same. The other states, they dont have the right of way. Cars dont think they have to stop. Most rules are the same. A lot of this is education. Your all over the city today . Three locations. West and north oakland. 10 more pedestrian operations going this year and additional drop drunk driving checkpoints and other actions are part of the grant throughout the city. Are you a motor officer . I am. You drive a harley . I do. Is a good education point. Brian floris is in San Francisco with a new service being offered. Reporter one of the busiest stretches of freeways between highway 101 and between San Francisco and silicon valley. There is a new option by Rideshare Company lyft the started yesterday. This left carpal. You could download the app and this patient with a commuter or driver. This is typically one of the busier commutes but unlike uber you pick up one computer instead of different pairs heading in the same direction that you can make or pay for 10 a trip depending on how far the destination is. We would still need some convincing. I usually use it uber that i go for lyft if i think that uber is more expensive. Sometimes i go with lyft. If uber is not that good i got to lyft. Reporter and lyft hopes the service eases congestion plans go well they will extend the service to different cities. And the carpooling is to be utilized and they tell the examiner 10 of commuters carpal in the bay area. Semidog owners continue to voice disapproval with the plants are certain regards those dogs can run off leash. They delve into San Francisco last my. Dog owners held a paper plates and protest route some reading leash and ds. There are some people that support the plan say is a reasonable compromise. Most of the time people are walking their dogs. They are responsible. Everything is fine but every now and then it is uncontrollable and they have to use energy to move around and it disrupts the environment. The park service will limit dogs running off leash in some areas including ocean each baker beach and they are Holding Another Meeting tonight and specific pacifica tomorrow but stood before the santa clara area are asked to express feelings to how to provide housing for Homeless People. There will be a Community Meeting tonight on a proposal for modular homes. They can house 170 people. The temporary homes is a 6 acre site on avidly in san jose in the gardens neighborhood. Area has been used for boats and rb storage in san jose calculator say this will be a village, not a homeless camp at the Community Meeting will be at the scottish right center in san jose. It starts at the process of 3 pm smile the 20 17th of august 25 expensive zip codes right here california. Property shark compiled the ranking of all the United States neighborhood and have you say that . Ive never been there. The hamptons. Of never been married there. Ive been to atherton. 94027 zip code is offensive. I have found that there was a seat in front of the site . 5 million of the top 25 posted. Burlington had the most 415 transaction with a price of over 2. 25. A good burger joint, the judge is by atherton. A good spot. I like that place. It may be present you had to rio for the summer olympics in a few months. Mary lou retinas going to join us live here on the 9 and we are going to ask you what is the favorite summer Olympic Event or something you cant stand, to beat us only talk to mary lou resident. Is synchronized swimming one of those events . It always makes me laugh. The winter games, with the sweeping. Someone will tell us. Curling. Are producer watches a lot of olympics. Coming back on the 9 questions on the integrity of evidence at the Santa Clara County crime lab. Recent failures that could end up costing taxpayers. New evidence that the santa clara crime labs after two recent failures. A broken refrigerator storing blood samples any notification system the failed to warn anyone about the problem. Some of this could end up costing taxpayers because they could pay for their own testing which is more expensive than using the crime lab. Assuming these are a concern obviously. The director of the independent defense Counsel Office. She has reacted to this alert from the das office the back on sunday, march 6 around 4 am the crime lab, pick and then throw one of the three refrigerators fail causing temperatures to soar to 170 degrees, 2000 blood samples from this alcohol crimes were inside the fridge. This raises the issue of integrity of evidence. How much of that will be validated and cooperated later on, we dont know that yet. 15 at the samples had not been tested and were taken to working refrigerators. The office is confident the broken refrigerator did not negatively affect the vials. Given the preservatives when tested, the results were normal. There is not and a scientific reason we can think of as to why this shortterm breach in the refrigeration would cause a significant change. For example, its not going to cause and at that ami to appear in a system that was not there before. The bigger issue, they did not discover the problem until the next day when workers arrived and heard the alarm. The email system is supposed to automatically notify officials when problems arise. Were supposed to have a failsafe when an alarm is triggered and we are immediately notified pursuant to a text message or email. The email got trapped in the outbox with others. Besides replacing all three crime Lab Refrigerators and 7000 apiece, its working with this Technology Departments on a new warning system. Independence Counsel Office said this failure will prompt attorneys and clients to double check the samples. Sadly this will mean greater cost to the county. We will incur extra expenses to double check the results. 9 17 am time to check headlines. Lets go to dave clark in the studio. Sonoma county supervisors approved a new law that sets a minimum price for cigarettes sold in the county. In 2018 all packs of cigarettes have to be sold for seven dollars and businesses will also have to buy tobacco retail licenses every year to make a harder for young people to buy tobacco products. Sonoma county is the only government to enact this law for cigarettes. Players are joining the fight against north carolinas new antilgb t lopps ceos of facebook apple and google are among 80 leaders who want that a lot repealed. The mayors of seattle, new york city and the governor of new york during the same forcemac in response to a law signed by carolinas governor that eliminates antidiscrimination protection for lesbian, gary, bisexual and transgendered people. Forcemac boeing was to eliminate 4000 jobs by june. The plan is to get rid of 10 of its workforce in washington state. 8000 jobs. Boeing recently said commercial airplane jobs would be eliminated as part of the cost cutting effort. Those are a few of your morning headlines. I will send it back to you. Did el nino packet have to punt to put california out of the drought . The Critical Survey that provides answers today. Announcements from obama he is commuting a sentence for drug offenders. 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It will burn the back but it will persist inland temperatures will be warmer. Not much change in the weekend. Topping it out next week for the oakland as on monday and the giants on thursday. I think we are okay. We could use us now because today is. . Snowpack. We will get an idea on if el nino has helped californias drought. The most significant snow survey will take place this morning. Snowpack reaches its peak in spring and measurements are indicators of how much Water California will get from the melting snowpack and if conservation efforts should be modified. Jerry brown standing in an empty field he ordered cities and towns to cut water use by 25 . That was the first set of mandatory draft restrictions. Officials in Northern California hope to hear water restrictions will be relaxed. Conditions have improved in the past few months. There are 200 sensors that continuously show levels. They are reporting improved conditions from last year. Most major cities had average rainfall but the water board is scheduled to decide if water rationing should continue through next summer. They encourage us to continue to conserve and do what you can to conserve water. Dont waste it because we have had rain. Snow that survey will take place off highway 50. We will have the latest information coming up that name. A new study said a twitter based Intervention Program could be twice as effective in helping people quit smoking. Interacting on social media affects people who are trying to quit smoking and avoid relapses. 40 of people who use the program to eat to quit quit smoking and 60 days and 20 quit smoking using traditional methods. Tweet to quit establishes small support groups whose participants receive daily automated messages urging them to contribute to the online discussion. And users can upload videos for 60 seconds to instagram. If you are a driver who does not see well i might. 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Wishing them the best of luck. One of the bestteams in the country. My sons my friend son got a scholarship to yell. Is it any good . Or have been reports. If you want to interact the best way to do it is to your tweet with the tran01 the 9 the olympic gold medal Mary Lou Rhetton is going to kick off the celebration. She joins us live paycheck for mary lou good morning i hope you said gymnastics was your favorite. Of force. I saw you last nine. Are you a diehard fouryear span . It isnt. That place was rocking. So much fun. They are so good. I am starstruck. I was thinking back. I saw you in the gold in 1984. You are the First American woman and gymnastics was in other countries export it did you realize that at the time . I cant imagine but did you realize the significance of that moment . I didnt. I was 16 years old and barefoot in a leotard. Socialization was not one of my priorities at that time. I was busy that summer day training. We paved that road and the grade usa say you dont have to be a russian or a romanian. It could be born in this country and i am prejudice but those olympics were magical. It was magical for me in this bay area doing the any needed a 10. I know you have probably told the story but id love to hear it. Mentally, what were you thinking as she took the first steps towards of the vault . I knew i had to be perfect on the vault and my coach of course comes up to me, the First Time Ever of all years with companies that dont worry about the scores, i will do that. Just worry about what you go out there and do adhesive screaming at me, mary lou, you need a 10 he is brilliant. He knew how to push my buttons and almost gave me a chip on my shoulder. The romanian was supposed to win. She is not. I can do this. I scored a 10 before and i remember thinking, i have two vaults and i want to do it on the first want to get over with. I remember that. In 84 we did not have facebook and twitter but it seems like you were viral anyway because after that, you were all over the place. You are on a cereal box. All over the country. People still come up to you today. Yes. They do. It blows me away. 32 years. I have not grown any. I am still 49. Its quite an honor. People have wonderful things to say, like what you have shared. I remember where i was in the summer of 1984. You inspired my daughter thats what we are doing and san jose. We have some of the best gymnasts in the world. Not just in the country. They just cant from our country on the glove for san jose and the olympic trials. Were kicking off 100 days to the olympic trials at the sap center we have a countdown clock. Most people wont have an opportunity to get to brazil but you can come to san jose and see the best gymnasts of the world. Use bird a huge gymnastic movement. Not everyone gets to go to the olympics but what you think kids get out of gymnastics . What is the best thing that they get out of it . So embarrassed so much. I love this sport. Its woven into every fabric of my life. Three of my daughters are competitive gymnasts and one is a competitive cheerleader. We live it and we breathe it. If they continue with gymnastics or not, is an incredible foundation for any kind of sports or athleticism. It creates sacrifice, determination. Teamwork. It builds selfconfidence. There are statistics for young girls were on the competition floor and how much confidence it builds. How would you say gymnastics are today compared to 30 years ago . Forcemac we are so far ahead of the rest of the world, its crazy. America could come home with gold silver and bronze. We have that much depth. If an honor to talk to you. Congratulations in life and as a mother. Its been a pleasure to talk to you. Have a great event in san jose. Obama commuting prison sentences of 61 drug offenders to overhaul us criminal justice system. 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