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KGO ABC7 News 500PM October 9, 2014

Learning. Reporter hunt also knew how to relax. He was passionate about fly fishing, hiking and scuba diving. There were family barbecues. Yet there was always time to help his golfing buddy and neighbor. We drop anything in a heartbeat if you needed help or assistance. I know the last thing he helped me with was installing closet doors upstairs. Reporter hunt recently celebrated his 39th anniversary with his wife, sally. The couple met in college. A father, a teacher, an outdoorsman, a pilot. Craig hunt was 62 years old. He was my best friend. He was there for me every day. Any time. He was always there for me. Reporter in san jose, david louie, abc 7 news. Remarkable man. Fire crews are still working around the clock to get a handle on the dog rock fire near Yosemite National park. This fire is near the town of foresta. It burned 210 acres. No containment at this point. Highway 140 is closed at the Western Entrance of Yosemite National park. The fire started along the highway and spread very quickly. The rugged terrain and location of the fire is proving especially challenging for firefighters. The dog rock actually that the fire is named after is in an area called windy point. Its an extreme bend in the river canyon and its named windy point for a reason. We get very strong day time winds and very strong nighttime winds. 60 homes were evacuated when the flames broke out yesterday but a park spokesperson says the community is not in imminent danger tonight. A 50acre fire has forced the shutdown of interstate 80 near applegate. The fire started around 2 00 this afternoon. At least two witnesses have called 911 to say they saw car tires burning along the eastbound shoulder of i80. No word on when 80 will reopen. The victim of a brutal beating at saturdays niners game is now in Critical Condition with partial paralysis and swelling of the brain. The brothers suspected of assaulting him and another man were in court today. There they are, dario and amador rebollero. Both were charged with felony assault. Amador rebollero received an additional count of inducing paralysis. They were assigned lawyers and did not enter a plea. For the second time in two days, police say a man has flashed himself to a young girl in palo alto. Police released this sketch of the man, saying he exposed himself while driving next to a 10yearold walking her dog around 6 40 last night. On monday, police think the same guy did the same thing to a 14yearold about a half mile away. Police describe him as caucasian in his late 20s with brown hair. Even though he was driving a newer blue pickup in one incident and a white volvo in another, police think the two cases are related. Patrols are now being increased. A search is under way in fairfield today for a man accused of attacking a boy as he walked to school. It happened about 8 00 this morning at east tapper avenue and falcon drive near grange middle school. The 11yearold says the man threw him to the ground, then threatened him with a knife. The child managed to get away and run home. The attacker is described as a white man in his 60s, wearing a brown jacket with a fur collar. He may have short graying beard. Anybody with information about him is asked to please call the Fairfield Police department. A warning tonight for anyone who plans to watch the giants play in the championship series. Dont leave things in your car for crooks to steal. A breakin during last nights game ended in gunfire and death. Abc 7 News Reporter alan wong is live at the giants ballpark with the story tonight. Alan . Reporter this happened about two blocks away from here near bryant and second streets, where a lot of giants fans park their cars. Its also where auto burglars have been victimizing those fans for quite awhile. Last night, the San Francisco Police Department went out looking for them. Giants fans are becoming easy victims around at t park. When police confronted the suspects breaking into a car last night during a game, it ended in gunfire. When the primary officer approached the driver, he produced a gun. The officer called several times for him to drop the weapon. Reporter the 26yearold was killed. A second suspect was wounded in the back seat. A third got out and ran but was arrested. No shots were fired at the police. We have crime patterns that we try to Pay Attention to. We have deployed officers accordingly. Obviously they were correctly deployed last night because they caught somebody in the act. Reporter broken car windows around at t park are a sign of the patterns that take place, especially on game night. People are at the games so robbers have enough time to smash and grab anything that they want. Reporter this Security Guard says auto burglaries are an easy crime of opportunity but residents here say the fans, many of them from out of town, make it easier for the burglars. Most people are told by the police over and over again, dont leave anything in plain sight. They leave things in plain sight. Reporter police plan to view video of the incident that may have been captured on this surveillance camera on bryant street. Meanwhile, their crime suppression unit will be out patrolling again during the National League championship series when the st. Louis cardinals come to town. Alan wong, abc 7 news. A man is dead following a Carbon Monoxide scare at a San Francisco Apartment Building this morning. The gas set off alarms about 5 00. Firefighters evacuated the building after finding above normal levels of Carbon Monoxide. Residents admit the whole thing was pretty startling. I was just sleeping and got woken up by like six of s. F. s finest and was told i got to evacuate, its co2 in the building. Authorities say a man in his 90s went into cardiac arrest during the evacuation and then sadly died of a heart attack. Pg e has not located the source of the gas but believe the change in the wind direction might have blown the gas back down drainpipes and into the building. Babies and the elderly are the most vulnerable to carbon monoxi monoxide. You cant see it or smell it. State law requires all homes to now have working Carbon Monoxide detectors. Contra costa county is confirming its first case of enterovirus d68. Health Services Officials say the case involves a person under the age of 18 who was hospitalized but has since recovered. This is the sixth reported case of enterovirus d68 in the bay area. The first in contra costa k the respiratory illness has been reported in 43 states with one confirmed death. There are several developments in the ebola crisis tonight. 42yearold Thomas Eric Duncan died today in texas. He was the first person in the United States diagnosed with the virus. A sheriffs deputy who came into contact with duncan may have also been infected. Health officials are investigating whether a nurse contracted ebola when she touched her face with gloves after leeaving a quarantined area. Her dog was killed because of fear it could transmit the disease. Passengers from west africa will face additional screenings at five u. S. Airports. Those screenings will start this weekend. Airports in the bay area are not yet implementing that screening but they are consulting with the centers for Disease Control about the proper protocol. The u. S. Is set to deploy 4,000 Service Members to west africa but they will not be treating patients directly. The Surgeon General of the u. S. Navy who is in San Francisco for fleet week says the military will provide infrastructure support including diagnostic equipment. They need beds. They need clean water. They need all the rudiments for an Infectious Disease to make the environment as hygienic as possible. Thats what we help to provide. The vice admiral says the role of the u. S. Military will be limited and the chance of infection among Service Members will be slim. People burying ebola victims in sierra leone are back at work after walking off the job over contamination fears. While health staff in liberia are threatening to strike. The government there says ebola victims should be cremeated to prevent the disease from spreading. There are daily developments on the ebola crisis. You can get alert s on that and other breaking news with our abc 7 news app, its free to download. We also have more information at abc7news. Com apps. Busy day. Lot more to bring you. Dire words from the head of google. Eric schmidt says the government is teetering on the edge of catastrophe. What it needs to stop right now before it breaks the internet. Also ahead, big fines over bogus charges. The customers getting a refund from a major phone provider. A spin on being taken to the cleaners. How one shipping company will no longer leave you waiting at home. And and talk about school spirit. Whats behind it and why Governor Brown is even caught up in it. Thats next. Tonight, the executive chairman of google is issuing a dire warning about the affect of the nsa spying on the internet. We are going to end up breaking the internet. Eric schmidt joined other top executives and senator ron wyden at a forum today, talking about how the Surveillance Program is making it more difficult for them to deliver services. Schmidt says nsa spying on other nations will lead to a splintering of the internet where nations set up their own online world. The cost of that is huge in terms of knowledge, discovery, science, growth, jobs, et cetera. If we dont address it, we will lose something even more important still, i think, which is the ability to keep growing this industry, keep creating jobs, keep strengthening american competitiveness and keep building a world that is better connected. Telecommunications executives were also in court today pushing for more freedom to report when the u. S. Government demands user information. Right now they cannot report on many Data Requests because of a gag order. At a hearing in San Francisco today, the Justice Department said it needs anonymous access to that information for National Security reasons. The Tech Companies say it violates their free speech rights. A stanford scientist is sharing a nobel prize for making microscopes better. William mernor is pictured on the left. The work allows scientists to see molecules inside cells. The prize in physics has been awarded to three recipients. A local scientist is among them. They were rewarded for inventing a new Energy Efficient and environmentally friendly light source. Abc 7 News Reporter nick smith has the story from fremont. Reporter outside the headquarters, the professor, winner of the 2014 nobel physics prize, posed for pictures and signed autographs just like the rock star he is. Well deserved, well deserved award and thank you. Reporter the companys ceo flanked by the cofounder and Business Partner shared an intimate story about the nobel prize winner, telling the room how it was their shared idea over a theoretical Academic Research that would later give birth to sora. Focuses on l. E. D. Lighting products. This is the same Blue Technology that he has won the award for. Reporter the prize Winning Technology works like this. This blue l. E. D. Allows white light to be created in ways that is Energy Efficient and still soft enough to tone to be pleasing to the eye. The l. E. D. Bulbs are helping reduce energy use and lowering the cost of lighting worldwide. The l. E. D. Bulbs also contain no mercury. He talked about the predawn call from the nobel committee. They called me to my cell phone. I dont know how they could find my cell phone number. I dont know. Reporter for more than 30 years, scientists have been trying to create the blue diode used in the l. E. D. The work is considered transformational. Hes ready to roll up his sleeves and get back in the lab. No change. I have received many kinds of awards. This is highest award. Basically no change for my work. Reporter he will split a prize of 1. 1 million with the other winners for physics. Nick smith, abc 7 news. The Oakland Unified School district is trying to connect 10,000 families with kids in schools to the internet. Today the district called on private businesses and Community Organizations to help reach that goal. The idea is to provide every student with athome Internet Access and a computer or tablet to do homework or project research. Governor brown focused on fitness today when he visited an Excited Group of students in san jose. They sang their favorite College Fight Songs to welcome the governor and california schools chief to Katherine Smith elementary school. State officials were there to celebrate the opening of the schools new Fitness Center. When i was in school, the things i liked least was sitting down. What i liked most was running around. Lets not sit around anymore. Lets get out there and see the new Fitness Center. The Fitness Center already received a National Award for demonstrating new and innovative ways to get students more active. I think we could use that here. Very cool. Great idea. Consumer news now. At t agreed to pay more than 100 million for cramming extra charges on customers smartphone bills. 7 on your sides Michael Finney is here with this story. Thats a lot of money. Yeah, this is really huge. I have been fighting about this with these phone companies for decades literally. This means millions of at t smartphone customers may be in line for a refund. At t has agreed to pay 105 million to settle charges by the federal trade commission. It said the company was cramming cell phone bills with unauthorized charges. Those charges were for Services Like ring tones, flirting, horoscopes and celebrity gossip. Customers never ordered them. At t says the unauthorized charges came from third party companies. At t has now stopped billing for those companies. About 900,000 of the settlement will be used to repay california customers. The average refund will be around 10. I posted a link that you need to go to if you want to file a claim. Just check out abc7news. Com. Look under 7 on your side. The new study has found that restaurant chains are slimming down their menu items. Researchers found new menu items have an average of 60 fewer calories, about as many as in one oreo cookie. The study looked at new offerings at 66 fast food chains nationwide. Researchers said they seem to be getting ready for a new rule in the Affordable Care act that says restaurants will have to post calories next to their prices. One day soon you may be able to pick up your ups package at the same time you pick up your drycleaning. Ups is starting a new service that will deliver packages to local businesses like drycleaners, pharmacies and coffee shops. The service will reduce the number of stops ups drivers have to make. However, the company says the program is really designed for customers who work all day. If the recipient isnt home when the truck arrives, packages may be left on the doorstep and of course, thats when we see the video of the packages being stolen. Thank you. Outrageous video, too. Lets turn our attention to the weather forecast. Still nice and warm out there but it is cooling off a bit. Meteorologist sandhya patel joins us with a look at the weather. Yeah, you know, its not too often we have to say this but remember we talked about the cooling trend for today . Didnt quite happen. Its not an exact science, all right . It actually warmed up across most of the bay area but right now, it is cooling down. The sea breeze is back, blue skies behind me. Let me show you live doppler 7 hd. We will talk about when the temperatures will go back down again. Its just a temporary uptick in the numbers. Live doppler 7 hd showing you some patches of fog along the coast. I want to show you this beautiful view sent by christopher, Lunar Eclipse from the san jose vantage point. Absolutely gorgeous if you were up early enough to check out the total Lunar Eclipse. Right now, we are watching that fog coming back in towards the Golden Gate Bridge and here are your temperatures. 63 in San Francisco. 71 oakland. 82 san carlos. 80 in san jose. Half moon bay, you dropped to 59 degrees. Highs so far today, low 60s around half moon bay, pacifica but it got all the way up to 96 in livermore. 95 santa rosa. Definitely it got hot up there. Santa rosa area as well. San jose, sunny skies and here are your temperatures. Mid to upper 80s for the north bay and santa rosa, napa. Petaluma, 75. Currently 92 degrees in livermore. Beautiful view showing you some low clouds out there but blue skies up above. We are looking at foggy conditions at the coast and bay in the morning, cooler inland thursday

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