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A shooting in Oakland Saturday afternoon left two people with non-life-threatening injuries, police Sunday this morning.

The shooting was reported at 3:25 p.m. Saturday in the 4500 block of Market Street, Officer Kevin McDonald said.

Police said two people were struck by the gunfire and taken to a nearby hospital to be treated. Both are expected to survive.

No suspects have been located in connection with the shooting.

A shooting in Oakland Saturday afternoon left two people with non-life-threatening injuries, police said this morning.

The shooting was reported at 3:25 p.m. Saturday in the 4500 block of Market Street, Officer Kevin McDonald said.

Police said two people were struck by the gunfire and taken to a nearby hospital to be treated. Both are expected to survive.

No suspects have been located in connection with the shooting.

Police and U.S. Coast Guard officers rescued four boaters in a small, disabled boat just outside of the Golden Gate Bridge Saturday afternoon, police said.

Officers aboard the Sausalito Police Department's patrol boat, Marine One, got a report of a disabled dinghy under the Golden Gate Bridge just after 4:20 p.m. Saturday, police said.

Police said high winds were pushing the small boat farther and farther out into the ocean.

The Marine One crew - Sausalito police Officer Brandon Rodgers and Coast Guard Petty Officer Cory Demery arrived on the scene in about five minutes.

The dinghy had drifted about 200 yards west of the bridge into rough seas, police said.

The officers transferred the boaters - an adult, a four-year-old child and two senior citizens - onto the patrol boat and took them to the Golden Gate Coast Guard station.

No injuries were reported.

The USS Iowa was slated to be towed out of San Francisco Bay on Sunday and taken to San Pedro in Southern California, but the trip has been postoned due to a weather system impacting Southern California. 

When the WWII battleship does finally leave and reach its resting spot in San Pedro it will be turned into a museum later this year.

The historic vessel was launched in 1942 and served in the  U.S. Navy until 1990. A number of events scheduled for Sunday to send of the ship were postponed.

Among the many notable historical events that Iowa took part in over its storied tenure was the transportation of Roosevelt to the Tehran Conference in 1943, and the ship was present in Tokyo Harbor when Japan  surrendered to the U.S. in 1945.

"You can't honor a ship like that enough-I am flattered in being involved in saluting her, in anyway that I can. It's a salute to the people  that helped win World War II," said Buttner, a San Rafael resident who spent  40 years working in the maritime industry.

"It's a once in a lifetime opportunity-even if you're not a military buff, it is so unique to see a ship like that underway."