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Andrea Fabrega is an artist with a huge fascination for tiny things. Today in her Menlo Park studio, she showed us the process behind the art she spins off her wheel of pottery.Attention to detail is critical to her work because Andrea works in miniatures.We talked today in an NBC11.com Web Video behind the scenes extra about what inspired her to think big, while working small.Watch VideoAndrea's tiny pottery and that of nearly 200 other artists will be on display this weekend at the Palo Alto Clay and Glass Festival.For more information on the Palo Alto Clay And Glass Festival: Click on this link.To see the work of "Tiny Pots Artist" Andrea Fabrega: Click on this link.
Police Impersonators
Posted by Damian Trujillo at 2:55 p.m.
Mountain View Police are warning people to watch out for a couple of police impostors. Investigators are looking for a man and a woman driving a newer model, light colored SUV. The SUV also has a flashing light, similar to the one used in undercover police cars.
The man, in his 50s, wears a hat with the word "police" embroidered on it. He asks pedestrians for their ID. In one case, the victim handed over his wallet, only to have it returned to him with no money left. Police fear there may be many more victims, but since the suspects seem to be targeting Latinos, the fear is recent immigration raids are making undocumented immigrants fearful of coming forward.I'll have a live report tonight at 5 and 6 p.m.
All Star Fan Fest
Posted by Cheryl Hurd at 2:05PM
HAVING TOO MUCH FUN TODAY.Spending my day at the 2007 All star fan fest. I got a chance to meet greats like Vida Blue and Gaylord Perry.Both nice guys. Blue told me some of the great moments he remembers about All Star Games he participated in the past. One was the time he had to pitch to Willie Mays.Folks are having a great time. There's a lot to do if you have kids and if you are a kid at heart you will be happy as well.Check out my stories tonight at 5 and 6. THANK YOU.
Global Warming Wars
Posted by Mike Luery at 1:30 p.m.
Sparks flew at the State Capitol today, where Democrats are accusing Governor Schwarzenegger of letting polluters off the hook by not enforcing the "Global Warming Solutions Act" he signed last year.In state hearings today, the Dems blasted the Gov for firing Robert Sawyer, the scientist who ran the Air Resources Board until last week. But today, Sawyer fired back at the Governor saying he was testifying, "...to express my concern and displeasure with both the problem of mixed messages and the level of interference that your staff was exerting on the Air Resources Board."Sawyer blamed the Governor's Chief of Staff, Susan Kennedy, for not letting the Board aggressively enforce the global warming measure. The Dems wanted Kennedy to appear today, but she did not, just as the Gov promised earlier this week when he said, "My friend, Speaker Nunez, is always welcome to come down to our tent and ask a question that he has, he knows the doors are open and he's always welcome."The Governor was referring to his smoking tent, where he and the Speaker frequently meet. But today the Speaker was lit up over comments from a former environmental official who called the allegations of interference as fiction, more than fact.The Speaker responded by saying "They didn't bring their 'A' team today", while the Governor's Communications Chief Adam Mendelsohn said this about the political charges: "I do think it's less about fact and more about theatre."Catch the drama for yourself tonight at six!
AllStar FanFest
Posted by Bob Redell at 1:01 PM
We just got back from the AllStar FanFest that opened this morning at Moscone South in San Francisco. It's three floors of what some might call the ultimate baseball experience. There are virtual bullpens and batting cages that allow you to "play" against a virtual version of your favorite ballplayer.Cooperstown brought a lot of their artifacts. And on Monday, we'll be visiting with an auction house that will be selling lots of sports memorabilia during fan fest. You can even bring in your old baseball cards or autographed balls for an appraisal.More:Read Complete Report
All-Star Mess
Posted by Traci Grant at 10:36 a.m.
A lot of information has been disseminated to baseball fans heading to Major League All-Star Baseball events this weekend about parking, security and traffic. But what about the people who live near there? Whether they have any interest in baseball or not they will be impacted by the long list of street closures which includes I-280.Traffic will be diverted off I-280 Northbound at 6th Street on Sunday, July 8, Monday, July 9 and Tuesday, July 10 from approximately 10:00 a.m. until midnight each day. Another major thoroughfare for residents is King Street which will also close starting tomorrow for at least 12 hours each day. We plan to talk to the people who might just have to forget about trips to the grocery store or even moving their cars for the next four days.
Rowing against the current
Posted by Joe Rosato at 9:45 a.m.
There are a pair of strip malls just off of Sir Francis Drake in Marin County. There is a Peet's coffee, a market and a liquor store.After a dose of latte-driven enthusiasm, one might feel inclined to explore this area a bit. Or maybe it's simply a wrong turn that would send you down a road -- no more than a driveway -- that's cuts through the mall past an office complex and up to a curious gray two-story building straddling an inlet of water extending from the Bay.It's here in this unremarkably forgotten patch of Marin that a Bay Area woman is making a remarkable effort to overcome a cruel sentence. There are no offices inside the two-story building. No commerce taking place. Instead the hollowed-out hull of this building holds shelves of long-sleek boats, designed to cut through water with graceful speed. Aerial Gilbert is one of the dozens of rowers who show up here several mornings a week just as the sun is rising, raking San Quentin prison with a thick orange light.It never occurs to you that Gilbert is different than any other rower here until you consider her dark sunglasses and her ever present German Shepherd. That's when it crosses your mind that she's blind. But then she grabs a hose and begins washing down one of the boats and you're sure you were mistaken. In another life Gilbert worked as a nurse at Marin General. When she wasn't working, she loved to row. She took up competitive rowing at Mills College in Oakland and never quit. She was fiercely competitive and found escape cutting through the water of Sausalito with its mountain of tiny houses looking down as if you were rowing through an arena. As rich as Marin County is in wealth -- Herb Caen once said BMW stands for "Basic Marin Wheels" -- it is also famously blessed with nature, endless groves of trees, its share of the Bay and it's spectacular view of San Francisco. Here Gilbert was in her glory. There is no way to make sense of what happened to Gilbert. It's as if someone threw a dart at a map and she's the one it hit. After working at Marin General one night in 1988 she was on her way home. Her eyes felt dry so she popped into the drugstore to grab some eye drops. When she got home she dropped the liquid into each eye, not knowing some disgruntled employee at a factory back East had filled the bottle with Lye. Gilbert's sight was snatched from her. Gilbert gave up. She retreated into her blindness. She felt there was no future for her until a friend showed up at the door and made her come rowing. "You don't need to see to row," the friend said. And she was right. Tonight at 6 p.m. I have a story that shows what Aerial has achieved in the years since that friend lodged her from her darkness. Aerial has become a champion rower, guiding her strokes by the sound of the oars, and the shifting of her teammates in their seats. And now she's about to achieve something she never imagined possible when her life first slipped off the pavement and into the gravel. In back of that strip mall down the curious road and past the odd building, she's taking the helm of her life and heading forward.
Serial Rape Suspect Arrested
Written by Ethan Harp at 9:11 p.m.
In our news section of this site, you'll see a photo of Victor Lamar Davis, Jr. of Vacaville. Police are hoping you'll take a good look at it, after a series of attacks on women in Vacaville and San Rafael. Investigators say they are certain he is the suspect in all 9 attacks -- 8 sexual assaults and a sexual battery -- and that DNA tests have already come back with a match in most of the cases. Police say he struck in Vacaville between February 2004 and this past December.They had a profile but no idea who the suspect was until San Rafael police found Davis' car near the scene of an attack June 22nd, in which two female roomates were tied up at gunpoint. That's when Vacaville investigators say they were able to piece the two investigations together. Davis was arrested in San Diego, and is expected back in northern California in the coming days. The prosecutor assigned to the case told me she does plan to file charges.More: Read Complete Report View Mug Shot
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Watch VideoAndrea's tiny pottery and that of nearly 200 other artists will be on display this weekend at the Palo Alto Clay and Glass Festival.For more information on the Palo Alto Clay And Glass Festival: Click on this link.To see the work of "Tiny Pots Artist" Andrea Fabrega: Click on this link.
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