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The San Francisco Bay Area marks July 4 with fireworks, picnics, concerts and family fun. Here is a list of all the things to do in the San Francisco Bay Area to celebrate Independence Day:

Official fire, law enforcement and school departments have compiled a list of places in Los Angeles county where Independence Day fireworks shows are taking place.

The top after-market NYSE gainers on Wednesday are: USANA Health Sciences, Visa, Celestica, Lithia Motors, Ion Geophysical, AOL, Mastercard, Office Depot, Carnival Corp and Arrow Electronics.

The companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trade on Monday are: CF Industries Holdings, Peabody Energy, CONSOL Energy, Sprint Nextel, PNC Financial Services, Nabors Industries, Akamai Technologies, Carnival Corp, Nike and Sandisk Corp.

The lunar eclipse on June 15 put all skygazers on awe and wonder as they have witnessed an event of their lifetime.

Skygazers on June 15 were treated with an event of their lifetime, In what, astronomers term as a spectacular show, the white moon turned blood red as the longest lunar eclipse in a decade unfolded Wednesday night.

The companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trade on Wednesday are: Netapp, Finisar, Owens-Illinois, E-Commerce China, Carnival, J.C. Penney, Sprint Nextel, United States Steel, Baker Hughes and Southwest Airlines.

The companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trade on Thursday are: Macy's, J M Smucker, Motorola Solutions, Sprint Nextel, Sealed Air Corp, Carnival, JPMorgan Chase, Chesapeake Energy, Sunoco, Spectra Energy Partners and Urban Outfitters.

The companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trade on Tuesday are: Temple-Inland, Synovus Financial, Expedia, Meadwestvaco, Verizon Communications, Weyerhaeuser, Carnival Corp, Pep Boys-Manny, Cliffs Natural Resources, Sprint Nextel and Citrix Systems Inc.

An 11-year-old girl died on Friday as she fell down from a Ferris wheel, while on a school trip to the popular shore resort at Wildwood, New Jersey.

The companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trade on Tuesday are: Analog Devices, Endeavour Silver, Hartford Financial, Ferro Corp, Dow Chemical, Gamestop Corp, MEMC Electronic Materials, Nvidia Corp, Anadarko Petroleum Corp, Carnival Corp and Mosaic Co.

The 33rd annual Carnaval parade and street festival was celebrated, Sunday, May 29, in San Francisco by tens of thousands of people, who danced and shook their hips to the rhythm of Latin, Caribbean and African music.

The 33rd edition of Carnaval, the annual spring festival that celebrates the rebirth of life, brightened up the streets of San Francisco this weekend, with tens of thousands of people taking part in the colorful Grand Parade, May 29.

The companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trade on Monday are: Sequans Communications, Krispy Kreme Doughnuts , AK Steel Holding, Valero Energy Corp, Sony Corp, Carnival Corp, Hess Corp, Freeport-McMoRan, Deere & Co and Halliburton Co.

The companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trade on Tuesday are: VF Corp, Domino's, Saks, Cliffs Natural Resources, Carnival, Diamond Offshore Drilling, Douglas Dynamics, Hewlett-Packard, Western Refining and Phoenix New Media Ltd.

The companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trade on Monday are: Ford Motor, Caterpillar, Sandisk, NYSE Euronext, Lowes Companies, Advanced Micro Devices, Peabody Energy and Carnival Corp.

The companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trade on Wednesday are: Capital Trust, Macy's, Rosetta Stone, Netapp, Carnival, Magic Software Enterprises, Aircastle, Walt Disney and Molycorp.

The companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trade on Tuesday are: Dean Foods, InterContinental Hotels Group, Carnival Corp, Xerox Corp, Advanced Micro Devices, Medtronic, Barclays, Thompson Creek Metals, Dice Holdings and Archer Daniels Midland.

President Obama released his birth certificate and the issue surrounding it.

The following is a transcript of remarks by President Barack Obama on April 27, 2011 as delivered to reporters at the White House on the issue of his birth place, which he called a distraction from more important issues facing the nation. On Thursday, the White House released the long-form birth certificate obtained from State of Hawaii. A certification of live birth, which provided less information, was released in 2008, ahead of the election that year.

President Barack Obama on Wednesday called for an end to distractions over his place of birth and released a long-form birth certificate which provides more detailed information about his birth.