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president-elect donald trump's midwest victory ri tour, saving jobs at one midwest plant and saying this is just the beginning. >> companies are into the going to leave the united states any more without consequences. the viral photo of a boy's teddy bare made from his father's police uniform. this swim coach in fremont is facing sexual assault charges. police detailed the allegations this afternoon cory audiat was bonded out of jail this afternoon. has the teacher said anything
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about the charges or her behavior? >> reporter: we have been waiting outside of her house to ask her but nobody has come to the door. cory audiat bailed out of jail but it's unclear if she's in the city. police accused her of having a sexual relationship with a male student. it started as flirtation and ended up in a sexual relationship. the alameda district attorney added more charges today. cory audiat was a high school athlete and academic stand out. she started to teach in 2008. >> it's very unsettling to
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think that, you know, parents send their children to school and they were taken advantage of in such a horrible way, we send our kids, as parents, to school everyday and we think that those teachers are going to take care of our children to protect them. as parents, we do not accepted our kids to school thinking that this is going to happen. >> reporter: investigators said rumors were swirling about the relationship and it caught the attention to the principal. if convicted of the charges, cory audiat faces years behind bars and registration as a sex offender. they are not releasing the name
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of the student because he is a minor. i asked about the boy's parents and they said they want the case prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. >> thank you. san francisco police have announced an arrest in the death of a city employee shot and killed while cleaning graffiti yesterday. the arrest came hours after jermaine jackson was shot and killed at the corner of vermont street. the suspect, michael higginbotham is a rifle gang member to the gang that jackson belonged to years ago. but jackson had turned his life around. >> i heard all of the stuff on
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the radio. i had no idea they were talking about my friend. >> reporter: you mentored him? >> i tried hard, i did not do well enough. funeral arrangements are still pending. new information on the shooting in fruitvale yesterday. two people were driving east quhun someone in another car opened fire. the couple survived and an investigation is under way to find the shooter. this is the latest in a string of shootings in oakland. the last fugitive from the santa clara jail escape has been caught. now police are hunting for
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those that may have aided the escapees. >> reporter: the sheriffs office is looking for anyone that may have helped rogelio chavez while he was on the run, he is back in jil in maximum security. this is -- jail in maximum security. the swat team had been at a home for seven hours, at one point, they used tear gas to get him out. rogelio chavez was taken to the hospital because sheriffs officials said he was high on drugs. the sheriff thanked the fbi and the united states marshals office. >> i want to thank the people that have been working around the clock on this arrest. the fugitives were captured in
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a week. they left no stone unturned. >> reporter: a woman that lives at the home was arrested for obstructing an investigation. officials found a hand gun in the residence. the arrest comes a day after laron campbell was captured hiding in his sister's apartment. they escaped from the santa clara jail by sawing through the bars and using bed sheets to climb down. they are adding surveillance cameras to the section of the jail where the break out occurred. earlier today, governor brown announced he will nominate exaf bek bek -- xavier becerra to replace kamala
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harris as district attorney. he will be california's first latino attorney general, he has to be confirmed by the state senate and assembly. president-elect donald trump went to indiana to celebrate a deal to keep a major company from moving to mexico. the deal includes $7 million in state tax incentives, it will keep 1,000 jobs from being outsourced. he said it's the first of many business victories to come. >> i said, companies are not going to leave the united states any more without consequences. it's not going to happen. it's not going to help. i will tell you right now. >> president-elect donald trump
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then headed to ohio for a victory rally. president-elect donald trump is set to speak in an hour. he is also expected to hold rallies in other battleground states including pennsylvania, florida, north carolina and michigan in the coming weeks. coming up, more deaths reported after massive wild fires in tennessee. >> plus lawmakers with calling for changes when it comes to school bus safety. we will talk about the push to add seat belts to all buses, especially after that crash in tennessee. >> the bay area is in the clear today. lots of sunshine across the region. coming up we let you know if the sunny weather pattern lingers into the weekend. >> we have more coming up on ktvu news after the break
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like school buses and seat belts. >> since 2005, any bus is required to have three-point seat belts. that's the one with the shoulder harness as well. >> reporter: is that true for any bus 2005 or newer? >> i am not sure it applies to every bus but it applies to any school bus, we had the law in place in 2004 for smaller buses, now it applies to all school buses. >> reporter: if someone is driving a bus manufactured by 2005, can the bus be used to take children to and from school? >> yes. the buses that were manufactured before those dates are grandfathered in. some of them have seat belts.
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others have something called compartmentalization. but seat belts are the best option. >> reporter: is there any argument against installing or requiring that even the old school buses are retrofitted with more restraints? >> the biggest issue is the ability to do that. can you not install them in all of the older buses. now that we have the technology in the newer buses, they are required to be there. >> reporter: hopefully there will be change and we will get seat bullets in every bus. thank you shaun. we have more heart ache to tell you about in the state of
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tennessee. three more people have died in the wild fires that have record through the smoky national park in tennessee. >> reporter: the wild fires continue to pose a threat to residents in businesses in the -- and businesses in the great smoky mountains. >> do o not let the rainfall give us a sense of security. >> reporter: more than 17,000- acres have burned since the fires began and 700 properties have been damaged. 300 of those properties are in the resort town of gatlinburg. officials are reassuring residence and offering condolences. >> gatlinburg is the people, it's not the buildings or the stuff. it's the people. we are the strongest community
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that i have ever seen. all of us together that are working here extend our prayers and our thoughts to the families of those victims. it's certainly a distressing time for all of us. >> reporter: mandatory evacuation orders remain in effect for people in and around gatlinburg. the superintendent said that the first fires were human caused caused but then downed power lines caused the fires to spread. the weather in tennessee really helped them out in terms of the fire fighting effort but the damage was done. >> they had some beneficial rainfall. is quiet for that part of the state right now in terms of
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showers and thunderstorms. you can see the satellite and radar across the country. rainfall is confined to the north. for us, we locked in a dry weather pattern. we had a few rain showers yesterday. not the case for today. clear skies up and down the coast line. temperatures are beginning to trend up. that's after a cold start to the morning hours. 58 in santa rosa. san jose, 59, san francisco in the mid 50s. this is our live camera heading towards san francisco. we are setting the stage for what could be a nice sunset. we could have frost overnight. temperatures inland back down to the 30s. no frost advisory for us here but a chilly start to the
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morning. you want to grab the sweater or jacket for tomorrow morning. livermore in the upper 30s. san francisco, partly cloudy skies, temperatures in the 40s for tomorrow morning then into the afternoon hours lots of sunshine and temperatures on track to reach the upper 50s or 60s. we are free and clear for friday and into the weekend for the rain fail. we stalk-- talk about the weekend in a few minutes. a group of protestors in chicago with getting ready to face colin kaepernick. he has received widespread attention for his decision to kneel during the national anthem. saturday a group of veterans plan to hold a rally calling on
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colin kaepernick to find another way to ebbs press his views at soldier field. they said soldier field is a memorial for those that served their country. colin kaepernick still plans to continue his protest. a nasa space craft is gathering some amazing views of saturn. stick around. we are going to talk with a nasa scientist, next. >> we have more coming up on ktvu news after the break
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. the in aa space craft that has been capturing amazing images of saturn is in its final year of its life. joining us now is the deputy scientist on the project. the images are stunning. over the next few years we are going to see more? >> yes. it's been orbiting for 12 and a half years providing great discoveries much we are running out of fuel so the plan is to orbit saturn. it goes by the rings 20 times
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over the next five months. in april of nextey we start another set of orbits. 22 of them in all that take us between the rings and the planet. that will provide unique science. >> what are you going to be able to learn from the rings? >> there is a lot of structure in the rings. they look like a record player. there is a lot of waves in the ring system. they created by the moons of sat urn and the planet itself. there are tiny little moons that orbit within the rings. we are going to get a closeup of the rings and the moons that orbit the rings. look at these two moons that orbit the f ring.
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>> reporter: how thick are the rings? >> 30-meters thick. at the i -- edges of the rings, they are many miles high. >> reporter: can you learn anything from the ending of the craft? >> the ending occurs early in the morning on september 15th, 2017. during that time, we are going to have the radio antenna pointed to the earth sending back data about the atmosphere itself. this is our first dip into the
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atmosphere of the planet. >> reporter: what do you think will happen. >> it will start to melt. pieces will start to break off as the atmospheric pressure hits it. >> reporter: that's interesting. it's a long, fruitful mission. scott, thank you for joining us. >> thank you. all right, the husband of the abducted redding mom releasing more details about his wife's time in captivity. >> what was it that killed the three people and made 16 people sick following the thanksgiving dinner in antioch. our medical expert weighs in. >> we have more coming up on ktvu news after the break
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heavy, labored breathing heavy, labored breathing heavy, labored breathing coughing breathing through oxygen mask breathing through oxygen mask breathing through oxygen mask breathing through oxygen mask covered california. it's more than just health care. it's life care.
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. health officials in contra costa county are hoping that the cdc will help them identify that mystery illness that caused 16 people to get sick. so not only did the number of people sick increase but they have been able to rule out 21
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illnesses including e-coli and salmonella. what could it with? >> there is a ton of possibilities. they are going to through cultures and look at all of the samples. then you go to more uncommon things that you go to the cdc for. >> reporter: when i mentioned e- coli he were suspicious. >> i was suspicious of a type of e-coli. it's a nasty one. if you look back, there is a lot of outbreaks mainly with beef and hamburgers that are not cooked well. people with develop this serious syndrome that people die from, i thought that's what
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they found. three people died. it's one of the more serious nasty, aggressive bacteria. i am surprised to hear that has been ruled out. >> reporter: the fact that the food came from a lot of sirch -- different sources, some was made at the facility and some was precooked. that makes it difficult to identify the source. >> yes, it makes it more complicated. i could start with, what do we know in the er. the more people that get sick, we get more of an opportunity to test that stuff. people have died but there is a lot of living samples. when you get the organism, you figure out where it came from.
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>> reporter: all of those that died had similar intestinal abnormalities. >> that makes me think about the e-coli. but also there are toxins. one feature of this hemolytic characteristic shows the same findings. maybe they have the same kinds of lymphocytes with the cells. >> reporter: there are a lot of free meals offered during the holidays. christmas is coming up. what sort of safety precautions should the people serving the
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meals take? >> number one, cook the food thoroughly. do not offer new raw food. also the time to preparation. if you are going to prepare it, i do not know the regulations in terms of the day before or hours before. >> reporter: it's lenient when you are talking about a community event. >> just basic cleanliness stuff. wash your hands when you are preparing the food. it could be fecal/oral, someone gets sick when they are preparing the food. >> reporter: we are staying on top of this story. the health department is continuing to look for the cause. we have more information on our website, ktvu.com. we are hearing more about what happened to redding kidnap victim sherri papini during her
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days in captivity. her husband told abc news that before her captives freed her she had a chain around her waist and another around her left hand. she said the kidnappers cut the hand restraint and pushed her out. she said she never say her captives because they wore masks. she said they were two hispanic women. >> she did her best that she could in providing the descriptions but was not able to provide a detailed description due to the suspect's covering their faces. at times her head was covered. >> investigators are working on
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releasing screches based on the information that -- sketches based on the information that sherri papini gave them. two people were shot in tucson. an 11 hour standoff in washington ended with a dramatic rescue of two children and a gunman suspected of shooting an officer. the officer was shot in a home responding to a domestic violence call. the gunman was barricaded and holding two children inside of a home. the suspect was using the children as human shields. investigators said a deputy killed the man as the officers went in to rescue the children. >> we wept and took -- went and took one of the kids, he took
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the other. the officer felt that he had a shot and took it. >> the children were not harmed. the officer is reginald gutierrez. after the officer's death was announced, a procession of law enforcement officers escorted the body to the medical officer's office. a south san francisco officer remains in critical condition after being attacked by a suspect around with a skateboard. coming up, we explore the questions facing police officers. >> coming up, i will let you know if we have rain clouds in the forecast and a big change
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is coming as we head into the weekend. >> we have more coming up on ktvu news after the break heavy, labored breathing heavy, labored breathing heavy, labored breathing coughing breathing through oxygen mask breathing through oxygen mask breathing through oxygen mask breathing through oxygen mask covered california. it's more than just health care.
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assaulting a student. it does not matter if it's a female or male but in some people's mind there is a difference. >> really there is no different. if you think about young men, they are emotional less mature than a young girl at their age. you have a school teacher that is braking a fiduciary responsibility by going after a young man. she should be punished as much as if it was a male going after a female student. >> to be a 94 year old man accused of killing his wife. he is the person that stabbed her. he is in court. his defense attorney put him on the stand today even though he does not have an explanation
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for it. is that a good or bad move. >> it's a smart move. you have a jury listening to the evidence. they know that he perpetrated the killing. what do you have to lose. let him explain. i was unconscious and thinking, i do not know what possessed me to do that. i think that the jury is going to bring back a guilty verdict. at 94 its a life sentence. >> even if they convict him of a lesser charge. >> say it's involuntary manslaughter, the judge will not let him go, especially in light of what is going on in the east bay with the brock turner situation. juries and judges are being watched. >> next the story of the south
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san francisco police officer, robby chon who is still in the hospital. he was assaulted by an individual that had a skateboard. he said this is a prime example of police officers just do not know what they are going to encounter and a layman may think that a guy with a skateboard is not dangerous but this shows the difficulty of the police officer's job. >> they have a very difficult job. you have an officer chasing the man that has the skateboard. can you imagine what is going through his head. he is thinking, if i shoot him i get criticized. if i taser him, i get criticized. so he chases him and gets himself put into the hospital. you see cases all of the times,
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police tell the man to put down the gun, he does not, then he shoots him and gets criticized. when you think of these cases, remember that they are between a rock and a hard place. they are darned if they do and darned if they doesn't. >> imagine the criticism if he put that individual down armed with just a skateboard. >> yes. but where is he, coma in the hospital. i do not think we should be so critical of the police officers all of the time. lets send things over to mark for a look at what the rest of the week is shaping up to be like. >> the clouds have cleared out nicely. you see the camera looking towards san francisco. a fie high clouds adding a nice
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dimension to the sky. it's the first day of december. we have an active storm in the pacific. that's the storm track. it's not moving into the bay area any time soon because we have an area of high pressure sitting up in the pacific. remember yesterday at this time we had a couple of rain drops in the bay area, not the case for today. tonight it's cold, we have a frost advisory kicking up, it lasts until 9:00 a.m. friday morning. some areas are mild. napa, 63, san jose 59, oakland 58. san francisco, mid 50s. another camera looking out towards the golden gate bridge. look at the rainfall numbers.
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this is the rainfall map from july 1 through yesterday. it's early in the rainfall season but we have had above normal rainfall to the north. that's 209% in crescent city. that's 33 inches of rain since july 1. in the bay area we above 100% of rain for santa rosa. as we head to the south we see a big change towards los angeles. 70% of average. san diego, 56% of average. the bulk of the rainfall has been in northern california. in the pacific we have a big circulation that continues to build in. we have lots of sunshine for today and tomorrow but the change that will develop in the next few hours, we have a north easterly wind, gusting to 35
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miles per hour in the hills. a breeze closer to the surface, watch out for the winds as we head into late tonight, tomorrow morning and mid morning friday. clear skies tomorrow. same into saturday. sunday brings in a few extra clouds by mid to late afternoon. the rainfall is focused to the bay area. a chance of rainfall monday. the forecast models are backing off a bit on that probability. cooler temperatures for next week. after the cold start, lots of 60s for afternoon highs or santa rosa, hayward 52. san jose, 61. lots of sunshine tomorrow but the winds pickup. we have to keep an eye on fire danger in southern california.
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more sunshine sunday and look, no rain drops on the five-day forecast. the models are backing off on the showers chances for monday. >> november, we had so much rain, but we are paying for it now. >> we had a great start. things could change. we could have a shift in the jet stream and that could bring us some beneficial rain. thank you mark. coming up, a moving tribute, a world world war two veteran heading to pearl harbor to hash the anniversary of the attack
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president-elect donald
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trump is holding an event in sans nationally -- cincinnati to say thank you for his election night victory. >> i want to say thank you to ohio. we won the state by almost 10 points, which they say is unhead of. -- unheard of. at the beginning, they said you have to win ohio. they said is over and over. we started off even, then we were one up and two up. we did not have much help at the top levels, you know that. that turned out, it didn't matter but we had help with the people. that's what mattered. so he kept hearing, you must
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win ohio, you cannot win the presidency without ohio so we started even in ohio and then we had a couple of little troughs but with ohio it just kept getting better and better. the end result of incredible. i love you ohio. thank you. this is such a great place, i have so many friends here. history called and the people of this great state answered. you are going to be very happy. we are going to say right now, what are we going to do? we are going to make america great again, you watch. you wept out and you pounded the pavement. you organized your fellow
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citizen and propelled to victory a grass roots movement the likes of which this world has infer seen before. today on one of the networks they said, maybe andrew jackson, i said, when was that, 1838? someone else said, that was great but nothing like what happened here. it's been fun. more importantly, what happened in indiana, we are going to do it all over the country. thank you carrier. today we made history and now the real work begins. that is, the second reason that i am here today. i am going to discuss our action plan to make america great again. we are going to discuss it.
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although we did have a lot of fun fighting hillary clinton, didn't we? right? by the way, the people are continuing to come in. let them come in. we can wait a half an hour or an hour but we are not going to do that. let them come in. lets blame them for being late. just today i was in indiana to announce that they are saving the jobs at the carrier plant from going to mexico. 1,100 jobs. i am asking all companies to
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keep their jobs in america and we will work to make america a better environment for workers and businesses and we will crack down on all foreign trade abuses that undermine your amount and your company's ability to compete. those days are over where those companies are going to leave. we have so many problems to fix in our country. but i know that if we set aside our differences, and we do have differences, we are a very divide nation but we are not going to be divided for long. i have always brought people together. i know you find that hard to believe, but we are going to bring our country together. we are going to find common ground and we will get the job done properly.
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we will get it down properly. yes. so importantly, america will start winning again, big league -- bigly. we are going to win again. >> that was president-elect donald trump saying how we are going to win, bigly. >> he kicked off his victory tower today. he will be -- tour today. he will be going out again to thank supporters during this election campaign. we will be right back. >> we have more coming up on ktvu news after the break
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a heartbreaking and touching photo shows the face of the 62% increase in the shooting deaths of law enforcement this year. two-year-old malachi is hugging to teddy bears, they were mean from his dish made from his slain father's police uniform, blake's daughter of the st. louis police force was shot and killed by -- while responding to a call and his widow posted a call earlier this week and the suspect has been charged with murder in the officer's death. a special honor today for the survivor of the attack on pearl harbor. >> allie rasmussen was at san
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francisco airport is the 90 federal prepared to return to hawaii for the 75th commemoration of that fee full day -- fateful day. [applause] >>reporter: cheers and applause for world war ii veteran and pearl harbor survivor. they are on their way to honolulu to attend the ceremony next week for the anniversary of the bombing of pearl harbor, he is 95 years old and was the quartermaster on the uss arizona and vividly remembers of the morning december 7, 1941.>>reporter: he says it was through sheer luck that he survived, 1177 others on board the uss arizona did not. >> they call us the heroes and we are not the heroes, the heroes are the ones that gave their lives that day in they are still there and we came home and got married and had children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren. we're just lucky. >>reporter: also on board for
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ashes of another pearl harbor survivor who passed away earlier this year. >>reporter: bob was carrying his father is ashes so they could be buried at the uss memorial, his father had been looking forward to attending the ceremony but passed away in april. >> we have been counting the minutes and to make it all the way, we will continue on and go with his wishes. he is always the one to return back to arizona so that is what will happen. >>reporter: he said when his time comes he would like his ashes to be interred on the sunken ship that he worked aboard more than seven days ago -- seven decades ago. he is one of just 5 survivor still alive today, a reminder of a dark but important chapter in us history. in san francisco, ktvu news. ktvu news at 5 pm starts now.
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a female teacher in fremont accused of having a sexual relationship with a student, the gym teacher and swim coach is facing sexual assault charges, good evening everyone i am frank somervell. >> i am julie haner. the teacher is on administrative leave after being charged with sexual assault, she bailed out of the fremont jail a short time ago and jesse gary is live in fremont, was anyone aware of the crime before the police got wind of it? >>reporter: multiple adults knew about the sexual relationship between the teacher and the students and they remained silent possibly out of fear. police are checking to see if charges will be filed against those people. >> mandatory reporters may have been aware and did not report it are there been no charges filed but we are looking into that seriously.
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>>reporter: cory audiat faces several charges in the 32-year- old swimming instructor had been charged a week ago and was rearrested today and bailed out of the fremont detail at 2 pm this afternoon. investigator said the illicit relationship began in february as flirtation, it turned into a sexual relationship between the teacher and child and she was initially arrested on thanksgiving, made bail and then the alameda county da added five more charges tuesday. she was a former student athlete at washington high back in 2002, lettering and swimming, water polo and basketball. she was an academic standout who went on to competitive bodybuilding. she started teaching in the district in 2008 first at american high school into mission san jose high before going to washington in 2012. the school district sent out an email this morning noting the crime and in

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