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laura anthony joins us tonight with the details. laura? >> reporter: hi, cheryl. police credit tv news and social media for helping them crack this case so quickly. it also didn't hurt that the suspect showed up at a local 7-eleven across the street from one of the big box stores. wearing the exact same clothes we saw in all the surveillance videos. san leandro police say they now have a name, and a person in custody as the man who boldly assaulted two young girls inside two busy stores monday night. investigators say the man wearing the same clothes was spotted this morning at a san leandro 7-eleven, by an off-duty berkeley community service officer. >> she saw a man there dressed in a black dress shirt and black slacks, and black shoes, as we reported last night. she immediately took cell phone pictures of that man, and his car. called the san leandro police department. by the time the officers got there, the suspect had already fled. >> reporter: police arrested the suspect, a 21-year-old parking attendant a couple hours later at his place of work on the penins
laura anthony joins us tonight with the details. laura? >> reporter: hi, cheryl. police credit tv news and social media for helping them crack this case so quickly. it also didn't hurt that the suspect showed up at a local 7-eleven across the street from one of the big box stores. wearing the exact same clothes we saw in all the surveillance videos. san leandro police say they now have a name, and a person in custody as the man who boldly assaulted two young girls inside two busy stores...
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abc 7 news reporter laura anthony joins us live with that story in berkeley. laura? >> reporter: well, the nurses say no hospital in the bay area, not one in california for that matter, is currently prepared for an ebola patient. they went straight to the governor this morning asking him to order greater protections and they say the time to do that is now. >> we want the governor to issue a mandate. >> reporter: california nurses want their state to be a model for the rest of the country when it comes to ebola protocol. after a closed door meeting with governor jerry brown, they now hope they are well on their way to doing just that. >> we know what we need. we have been saying the whole time what we need. it's very clear, we want haz/mat suits that do not allow for viral or blood penetration. >> reporter: leaders of the california nurses association and national nurses united want state regulators to formally adopt what they are calling optimal safety standards as demonstrated by nurses at stanford medical center. those would include the required use of haz/mat suit
abc 7 news reporter laura anthony joins us live with that story in berkeley. laura? >> reporter: well, the nurses say no hospital in the bay area, not one in california for that matter, is currently prepared for an ebola patient. they went straight to the governor this morning asking him to order greater protections and they say the time to do that is now. >> we want the governor to issue a mandate. >> reporter: california nurses want their state to be a model for the rest of...
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laura? >> reporter: the district attorney's office told us this afternoon they will now make a charging decision in this case next week. in the meantime, there are indications that other law enforcement officers may have been involved, if not criminally liable. >> she's tremendously distrau t distraught. >> reporter: the attorney claims his client has been traumatized by his invasion of her privacy. >> we don't know at this point, although we're gratified by the extent of the investigation from the district attorney's office. the extent to which they've been transmitted. either to other individuals, perhaps other law enforcement officers. >> reporter: the attorney says the incident happened in august after the 23-year-old woman was pulled over on interstate 680. she was taken into custody for suspected dui and transported to the main jail in martinez. it's there that she alleged officer harrington transmitted news photos of the woman from her phone to his. >> he asked for her password in ord
laura? >> reporter: the district attorney's office told us this afternoon they will now make a charging decision in this case next week. in the meantime, there are indications that other law enforcement officers may have been involved, if not criminally liable. >> she's tremendously distrau t distraught. >> reporter: the attorney claims his client has been traumatized by his invasion of her privacy. >> we don't know at this point, although we're gratified by the extent...
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. >> reporter: laura and john, when they passed through the neighborhood this morning, had history on their mind. and no place in kansas city has more of it than the negro league's baseball museum. ask the man who runs it. >> this is america at her worst but also america at her triumphant best. >> reporter: in the years before the game integrated, negro leagues offered an alternate baseball universe. visitors can find it here in multiple dimensions. the bats, the balls. the uniforms. >> it touches a special place when i get to see it and put hands on it. >> reporter: that's michael carr from ft. worth, texas, who coached brandon finnigan of the royals in high school. black or white, doesn't matter anymore. >> you can say the glass is half empty or half full. segregation represents the worst time in american history but also represents the best time. >> reporter: if you are looking for historical context you will find it here. the first colored world series. they called it that. it took place in kansas city 90 years ago this month. the hilldale daisies versus the kansas city monarchs.
. >> reporter: laura and john, when they passed through the neighborhood this morning, had history on their mind. and no place in kansas city has more of it than the negro league's baseball museum. ask the man who runs it. >> this is america at her worst but also america at her triumphant best. >> reporter: in the years before the game integrated, negro leagues offered an alternate baseball universe. visitors can find it here in multiple dimensions. the bats, the balls. the...
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abc 7 news reporter laura anthony is live at the state capitol. laura? >> reporter: well, the state oes director told lawmakers today the fact his office had virtually no connectivity, no communication with vast portions of napa and solano county was their first clue this was a major disaster. as for the recovery, state and local officials say for much of it they are still waiting on the federal government. >> it's very difficult to even see the damage from the street. >> reporter: eight weeks after a 6.0 earthquake shook napa to its core, the process of finding all that was damaged or destroyed is still ongoing. >> crumbling foundations. we found ceiling beams that were cracked. we found many issues. we think over many, many months to come we are going to find more and more homes that are seriously damaged. >> reporter: napa city manager told an assembly committee in sacramento damage numbers from the napa quake are going up by the day. as inspectors are just now getting inside some of the city's buildings and homes. >> response is a day, maybe three da
abc 7 news reporter laura anthony is live at the state capitol. laura? >> reporter: well, the state oes director told lawmakers today the fact his office had virtually no connectivity, no communication with vast portions of napa and solano county was their first clue this was a major disaster. as for the recovery, state and local officials say for much of it they are still waiting on the federal government. >> it's very difficult to even see the damage from the street. >>...
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abc 7 news reporter laura anthony joins us in napa as the community recovers after the quake. laura? >> reporter: i'm standing on the bridge that suffered the most damage during the earthquake. it goes over the napa river and is just ten years old. six weeks after the earthquake, cal trans is back to make all the repairs necessary for this bridge to withstand the next quake. the emola avenue bridge and the others in town have been deemed safe for the public but the minor to moderate damage can be repaired while the structure is open. in some cases the damage is actually an indication of how well the bridge performed in the august quake. >> these are heavily reinforced deep foundation bridges. they are allowed to move. >> reporter: immediately after the quake we saw more obvious damage to roadways in the napa area. those kinds of things buckle blacktop and cracks in the pavement were fixed within days of the quake. what's happening now on this bridge or rather, underneath it and ten others in the area, are more subtle repairs. the ones that don't necessarily affect the everyday
abc 7 news reporter laura anthony joins us in napa as the community recovers after the quake. laura? >> reporter: i'm standing on the bridge that suffered the most damage during the earthquake. it goes over the napa river and is just ten years old. six weeks after the earthquake, cal trans is back to make all the repairs necessary for this bridge to withstand the next quake. the emola avenue bridge and the others in town have been deemed safe for the public but the minor to moderate...
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abc 7 news reporter laura anthony is live from antioch with the story. explain how this happened. >> reporter: well, let me show you. there are actually shards of glass still out here. these are some of the shards that were involved in this incident on saturday afternoon. kyla graham told us she was about to get off this trampoline and let another little girl take her turn when one of the last jumps sent her in the wrong direction and through this window behind me. >> i was jumping and then i was trying to jump the other way. >> reporter: instead of going to school or getting ready for halloween, 10-year-old kyla graham is lying in her bed nursing her many wounds after a freak accident at the four stars gymnastics academy that sent her flying through a large glass window. >> i jumped and i flew the other way so i put my hands on my face so i could protect my face and i like flew up the window and landed on the ground. it was just like hurting a lot. >> everywhere, huh? >> it was like some of my skin was off. >> reporter: it happened when she and her frie
abc 7 news reporter laura anthony is live from antioch with the story. explain how this happened. >> reporter: well, let me show you. there are actually shards of glass still out here. these are some of the shards that were involved in this incident on saturday afternoon. kyla graham told us she was about to get off this trampoline and let another little girl take her turn when one of the last jumps sent her in the wrong direction and through this window behind me. >> i was jumping...
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abc 7 news reporter laura anthony is live near the school where parents are picking up their children. >> reporter: we are just right across the street from irvington high school. as we speak, there are buses leaving with some of the kids, being taken to the district office, but others are being allowed to walk across the street at some point. so far, police have not located a suspicious person and there have been no injuries reported. now, this is what it looked like from sky 7 hd a short time ago, as police surrounded the school. some of them even taking positions on the roof as students and staff were on lockdown inside the classrooms. at one point, police even went from classroom to classroom, checking for a suspect. this all started at about 12:45 today, after reports that an adult possibly armed was on campus. police have not confirmed what many parents here have heard, that the person was in some way connected to a burglary off campus. now, besides irvington, three other schools were also placed on lockdown for a time, including hirsch elementary. >> we were on lockdown for alm
abc 7 news reporter laura anthony is live near the school where parents are picking up their children. >> reporter: we are just right across the street from irvington high school. as we speak, there are buses leaving with some of the kids, being taken to the district office, but others are being allowed to walk across the street at some point. so far, police have not located a suspicious person and there have been no injuries reported. now, this is what it looked like from sky 7 hd a...
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laura? >> reporter: hi, larry. this is just a small sample of all the work that was done here today on this hillside. all of the brush, the dry brush, the dead trees, that were removed from this hillside just below hiller highlands. this work was done just in time. it may be october but the battle to beat back all the dry brush in the oakland hills is still in full force. in this case, it's a coalition of forces from cal trans, city of oakland and volunteers all working on this slope owned by cal trans just below the homes in hiller highlands. >> we are one of about 3600 homes that was destroyed by fire in the 1991 fire storm. >> reporter: gordon piper began organizing efforts like this soon after he and his wife lost their home to the massive hills fire in october 1991. >> we have vegetation management project that's removing the grass and brush to expand defensible space. we are also treating it so hopefully it won't come back. >> reporter: those who live just above are especially pleased to see this hillside cle
laura? >> reporter: hi, larry. this is just a small sample of all the work that was done here today on this hillside. all of the brush, the dry brush, the dead trees, that were removed from this hillside just below hiller highlands. this work was done just in time. it may be october but the battle to beat back all the dry brush in the oakland hills is still in full force. in this case, it's a coalition of forces from cal trans, city of oakland and volunteers all working on this slope...
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laura anthony is live with the resignation. and reaction to it. >> reporter: that's right, dan. peavy's last day will be september 31st. among those gratified by the announcement, those most affected by the san bruno explosion here at ground zero, one of those survivors told us today, he wanted peavy gone long before there were revelations about the e-mails. san bruno blast survivor joe gomez said he's been waiting for this day for four years. michael peavy's departure. gomez lost his girlfriend and was badly burned in the explosion of the pipeline in september of 2010. >> it's a victory for all the victims, for san bruno and california really. it should make the streets safer. the infrastructure safer. >> i'm really pleased and excited about it. >> reporter: state senator jerry hill also expressed his satisfaction that the embattled president of the california public utilities commission will step down. >> i believe the most important part is the california public utilities commission can now become the institution that it was originally designed, and created for, and that it w
laura anthony is live with the resignation. and reaction to it. >> reporter: that's right, dan. peavy's last day will be september 31st. among those gratified by the announcement, those most affected by the san bruno explosion here at ground zero, one of those survivors told us today, he wanted peavy gone long before there were revelations about the e-mails. san bruno blast survivor joe gomez said he's been waiting for this day for four years. michael peavy's departure. gomez lost his...
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laura anthony, abc 7 news. >>> thank you so much for joining us for abc 7 news at 4:00. i'm ama daetz. >> i'm larry beil. abc 7 news at 5:00 begins now with dan and cheryl. >>> ebola crackdown, where a stanford surgeon is sequestered and the state's new quarantine for travelers, next. >>> plus, burgled in the east bay. where are the bicycles? >>> and after a night of orange and black and blue -- >> we expect a close game. >> you're ready? >> yes. >> the giants are ready to play. we are live at kansas city with all the pregame action. >>> great weather for the game. i'm abc 7 news meteorologist sandhya patel. october is going out on a wet note. details on your halloween storm coming up. >>> essentially 21 days incubation for our men and women who would be returning from west africa. >> a quarantine is ordered for u.s. troops to make sure they do not have ebola. same day california issues its own quarantine. thanks for joining us. i'm cheryl jennings. >> i'm dan ashley. one of those now under modified quarantine on the peninsula, a stanford surgeon who recently traveled to
laura anthony, abc 7 news. >>> thank you so much for joining us for abc 7 news at 4:00. i'm ama daetz. >> i'm larry beil. abc 7 news at 5:00 begins now with dan and cheryl. >>> ebola crackdown, where a stanford surgeon is sequestered and the state's new quarantine for travelers, next. >>> plus, burgled in the east bay. where are the bicycles? >>> and after a night of orange and black and blue -- >> we expect a close game. >> you're ready?...
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>> reporter: laura anthony, abc 7 news. >>> despite all that's happening in the world, polls show the economy is still the most important issue on the minds of americans. today there was a report on hiring we haven't seen in the u.s. in years. the labor department says the economy created 248,000 jobs in september. those new jobs helped lower the unemployment rate to 5.9%, the lowest since july of 2008. in a further sign of strength, 69,000 more jobs were created in july and august than previously estimated. president obama hailed the report during an appearance at an indiana manufacturing plant. he says america is on pace for the strongest job growth since the 1990s and that's not all. >> over the past 55 months, our businesses have now created 10.3 million new jobs. now, that happens to be the longest uninterrupted stretch of job growth in the private sector in american history. >> the president says the u.s. has created more jobs than all of europe, japan and all advanced economies combined. >>> the unemployment data was generally stronger than wall street analysts anticipated. the
>> reporter: laura anthony, abc 7 news. >>> despite all that's happening in the world, polls show the economy is still the most important issue on the minds of americans. today there was a report on hiring we haven't seen in the u.s. in years. the labor department says the economy created 248,000 jobs in september. those new jobs helped lower the unemployment rate to 5.9%, the lowest since july of 2008. in a further sign of strength, 69,000 more jobs were created in july and...
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abc 7 news reporter laura anthony is live in oakland with more. >> reporter: there are 15 candidates running for the next oakland mayor's seat. five top contenders were here today and those there were some awkward moments, when it comes to measure z, they were united in one message. >> one thing we can all say is we all agree on measure z. >> reporter: the oakland mayor and four of her rivals in the campaign to become the city's next mayor stood shoulder to shoulder for a time this morning to show their combined support for measure z. >> i want to encourage everyone to please vote yes on measure z on your november ballot. it will guarantee that we will have officers assigned to neighborhoods. a vote against measure z means you want to roll back public safety resources. >> reporter: measure z is basically an extension of the current parcel tax to provide funding for public safety programs, including 50 police officers. candidate joe tueman supports the measure but thinks it doesn't go far enough. >> it's regrettable unfortunately that there was not a commitment by the city to a larger
abc 7 news reporter laura anthony is live in oakland with more. >> reporter: there are 15 candidates running for the next oakland mayor's seat. five top contenders were here today and those there were some awkward moments, when it comes to measure z, they were united in one message. >> one thing we can all say is we all agree on measure z. >> reporter: the oakland mayor and four of her rivals in the campaign to become the city's next mayor stood shoulder to shoulder for a time...
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abc 7 news reporter laura anthony joins us now from san francisco with more. laura? >> reporter: we just learned the name of the suspect in this case, the man who apparently shot himself here this morning. his name is cedric young, jr. we do not yet know the identity of the woman who is fighting for her life, his ex-girlfriend. in the meantime, police told us as well that young had a prior arrest two years ago for domestic violence, but that that charge was dropped by the d.a. and that the officers who responded here several times overnight didn't know about that. >> we were actually called out to this residence multiple times in the last several hours. >> reporter: san francisco police confirmed they received four 911 calls from this apartment before a final call at 5:00 a.m. reporting shots fired. >> his roommate has been shot. i believe he was hiding in the closet. >> reporter: a young woman suffered a critical chest wound and her ex-boyfriend was dead apparently from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. >> had he made threats, was she afraid of him? >> based on the in
abc 7 news reporter laura anthony joins us now from san francisco with more. laura? >> reporter: we just learned the name of the suspect in this case, the man who apparently shot himself here this morning. his name is cedric young, jr. we do not yet know the identity of the woman who is fighting for her life, his ex-girlfriend. in the meantime, police told us as well that young had a prior arrest two years ago for domestic violence, but that that charge was dropped by the d.a. and that...
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abc 7 news reporter laura anthony is live in fremont with the details. >> reporter: well, according to the u.s. department of labor, the activity happened here in fremont. the time frame we are talking about is between september and december 2013 as efi was moving its headquarters from foster city to this location. the workers were employed helping to install a network and server here in fremont. the accusation is that the company brought eight workers from india in september of 2013 temporarily. they were already employees of efi in that country. the problem is efi continued to pay them their wage in indian rupees, an amount much lower than the u.s. federal minimum wage. some worked as many as 122 hours in a week. >> once we converted the salary from rupees into u.s. dollars, we determined that the employees were being paid $1.21 per hour. >> reporter: now, here's a comment from beverly rubin with efi. she says quote, during this assignment, those employees continued to be paid the regular pay in india as well as special bonus for their efforts on this project. during this process, we
abc 7 news reporter laura anthony is live in fremont with the details. >> reporter: well, according to the u.s. department of labor, the activity happened here in fremont. the time frame we are talking about is between september and december 2013 as efi was moving its headquarters from foster city to this location. the workers were employed helping to install a network and server here in fremont. the accusation is that the company brought eight workers from india in september of 2013...
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. >> laura anthony is at bat first with our live coverage tonight. >> reporter: as fast as it went up, it's coming down here at civic center plaza. it's amazing how quickly they put the celebration up and now they are taking it down as we speak. the weather really didn't hamper the celebration. in fact, folks were lined up hundreds deep, giants fans, to see their triumphant team. let's show you what it looked like. this was basically a who's who of san francisco's biggest names in politics, in sports, in life, including the likes of nancy pelosi, charles schultz, lieutenant governor gaven newsome. the biggest names were those who came with baseball credentials. they are the former giants willie mccovey, willie mays, barry bonds, they all gathered not to be the center of attention but to celebrate the baseball team that has now
. >> laura anthony is at bat first with our live coverage tonight. >> reporter: as fast as it went up, it's coming down here at civic center plaza. it's amazing how quickly they put the celebration up and now they are taking it down as we speak. the weather really didn't hamper the celebration. in fact, folks were lined up hundreds deep, giants fans, to see their triumphant team. let's show you what it looked like. this was basically a who's who of san francisco's biggest names in...