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safety risk that necessitates him being in custody. >> while this case is open. >> he offered free fentanyl for new users at his encampment across from a san francisco school and today a judge takes rare action against a registered sex offender he dubbed a public nuisance. good evening. thank you for joining us. i'm dan ashley. >> and i'm karina nova. today, the judge did something he normally doesn't do in cases like this. he placed the man into custody. >> i-team reporter dan noyes first interviewed him two weeks ago. as you may recall, and dan is back from court with the very latest on what happened. >> dan? karina, veteran defense attorneys tell me it's very unusual for an unhoused person to be jailed for causing a public nuisance, but that's what happened in court today in san francisco superior court. 46 year old joseph adam moore gave our camera an extended one finger greeting he's facing charges of obstructing free and comfortable use of liberty and property or being a public nuisance. the convicted child molester set up camp across the
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street from a catholic grade school in the richmond district more than a year ago. and recently posted a sign free fentanyl for new users. his attorney tells me that sign is why moore came to the attention of authorities. there is a first amendment issue to this science. >> it's not like anybody actually saw him giving mass or fentanyl to anybody. he doesn't. he didn't have any meth or fentanyl on him. >> were you giving away fentanyl or was that just a joke? >> no, i, i it's not a joke. >> moore told me two weeks ago that unhoused people sometimes gave him fentanyl in exchange for blankets or food, and that he passed the drugs on to other homeless who wanted them. moore recently had a confrontation with the parent from the school and now faces a misdemeanor battery charge for that. he is also under probation after firefighters and station 31 got a restraining order against him. the prosecution asked the court to keep moore in custody while his case moves forward. >> we are dealing with an individual who obviously is a registered sex offender who has
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now violate the law in multiple ways and is really causing an issue near a school with young children. and so we want to be very mindful of the surround things of where his conduct occurred and make sure that we are keeping the community safe. >> judge vaiyapuri granted the request, saying while the city is xtraordinary be empathetic to its unhoused, we offer untold amounts of services. there is a limit. so when there's a public nuisance issue, this court has to take it seriously. moore's attorney tells me the two charges he faces are normally cite and release and that nothing would have happened if moore had set up camp and posted his signs in the tenderloin. >> and this guy is annoying because he moves around this particular area a lot and he's annoyed quite a few people. and i feel like because of that reason, because it's sort of an isolated area of san francisco that he's being treated differently. moore has a bail hearing next week where his
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attorney will try to make the case that he should be released while his case moves through the courts. >> dan karina. all right. we know you're going to stay on top of this, so we'll see what happens. thanks, dan. well federal law enforcement is now joining the fight against fentanyl abuse on the streets of san francisco this afternoon, representatives from the department of justice took the lead in announcing the launch of all hands on deck. >> this operation will include federal charges brought against street dealers, arrested for selling fentanyl. the dealers aren't the only targets. federal investigators say the new operation also focuses on following the illegal drug money. >> my office has identified patterns of money flow. we are tracking down suppliers and we are holding accountable money services. who turned a blind eye to drug transactions on their networks. my office is using targeted wiretaps, arrest and searches throughout the bay area to stem the flow of drugs and dealers coming into san francisco from nearby counties. >> officials say they've already bought federal brought federal charges against more than 30
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suspected fentanyl dealers in the last four months. >> now to a story you'll see only on seven. the moment caught on camera when first responders used the life saving nasal spray. narcan on someone in distress. >> yes, it was intense, as you can imagine. it happened at the civic center in san francisco and abc7 news reporter tara campbell captured it as it happened. she's in the newsroom with the story. tara >> yeah. dan and karina. i spent a lot of time in the tenderloin and that surrounding area and i'm always ready to pull out my phone to record video. but on this particular day i was able to capture something that we so often only hear about one of those life saving moments in san francisco. >> superior court. 46 year old joseph adam moore gave our camera an extended one finger greeting. he's facing charges of obstructing free and comfortable use of liberty and property or being a public nuisance. the convicted child molester set up camp across the street from a catholic grade school in the
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richmond district. more than a year ago and recently posted a sign free fentanyl for new. and karina. >> we're going to go back to you. that was the wrong package that was just airing there. >> all right. we'll get you that story here shortly. we apologize. that was the incorrect story. but we'll check back in with tara for her exclusive story here shortly. in other news in san francisco, one man is making it his mission to ensure life saving defibrillators are always available when they're needed. that's after staff inside the de young museum didn't share theirs while a man was having a medical emergency outside abc seven news reporter suzanne fan has the story. it was a sunday filled with music and swing dancing at golden gate park. >> gary hobish was there like he was every sunday for the lindy in the park event. friends say he suddenly collapsed and hit his head. that's when tim o'brien ran for help. >> i ran to the de young museum,
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which was the closest building nearby, and tried to see if they had an aed. >> o'brien says the museum was just feet away. >> about 100ft away. i closed the distance in about 30s. >> o'brien says. he got to the front counter and asked for an aed. the staff member didn't know what that was. o'brien asked a security guard and was directed to the basement. he asked a staff member there to borrow the defib later. >> as soon as he hesitated and handed it to me, i said, here's my phone, here's my watch. here's everything from my pockets. you can have it all. >> that employee called a supervisor as o'brien worried about his friend and his medical emergency. >> i was like, well, he's dying. he's just collapsed. collapse. we're doing cpr at the moment. we have nurse on staff or we have nurse here already attending to him. we needed immediately. can we can you run? and then he's like, i need to check in. and he got the no. >> o'brien said. paramedics arrived the same time he did and tried to save hobeish, but he died. bonnie levinson was there and is heartbroken at the turn of events. >> he was very lovable and he
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was very talented. he was very dear to my heart and i'm still in shock. everybody knew him in the lindy hop scene and everybody knew him in the this the bay area progressive rock fans as well as actually, you know, the country. >> levinson didn't realize all that o'brien tried to do to secure that aed. >> it's horrible it's just really unbelievable. i mean, it's and i don't know if it would have made a difference, but of course it might have. and just that is heartbreaking. >> this afternoon, the de young museum spokesperson released this statement saying in part, quote, when asked for help after mr. habash collapsed, staff at the de young museum tried to determine the best response they could make within museum policy as they understood it, running out to the park to assess what was happening. when they reached the scene within five minutes of the initial request that they found that an ambulance was already at the scene, which they informed the individual who had
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made the request first. and o'brien believes that defibrillator there could have saved his friend's life. he says businesses should reevaluate their policies if the devices are not allowed off the premises and he believes they should train staff better. live in the newsroom. suzanne fan, abc seven news. suzanne thanks very much. >> let's go back now to tara campbell's report. we want to bring you because it was remarkable all caught on camera at the civic center in san francisco as paramedics responded to someone in distress and used the nasal spray. narcan you'll see it as it happens. and the effectiveness. here's tara's report. >> sheriff's deputies on the scene of a potential overdose at san francisco's civic center. he's got a good heartbeat. deputy barry bloom trying to decide whether to give a woman narcan when the life saving nasal spray that can reverse an opioid overdose. >> there's no need to give her narcan because she is speaking and breathing. so we're probably going to call her in an ambulance just to make sure she's okay. and i was with her. >> she's my she. and maybe offer
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services if she can be alert and get up in something like that. >> i'm i don't want to arrest her or anything. i'm not i'm just concerned for her safety. >> but as he continues to assess the situation, the deputy decides it's best to give her narcan. >> i think i'm just going to give her some narcan just to be on the safe side. >> that's probably a good idea. >> well, thank you for looking out for her. yeah hey, we're going to give you some narcan. hello >> hello? hello hold on. >> can i give you this? >> and a couple of minutes later, the woman responds. all right, here we go. >> hi. look at that. but one dose may not be enough. >> yeah, i mean, just to be on the safe side, i might give her a minute. >> that's deputy bloom decides to give her another. >> there we go. beautiful 700 people over there you go. and the woman you hear clapping, that's the security officer who called for help. >> so you called the sheriff?
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>> i called into the security office. and then they had them to come up because they're stationed here to help us in the library. >> what did you think when you saw her wake up? >> that she's okay now? she's because she wasn't responding at all at first. even the guy over there, he rubbed her sternal. she moved a little bit, but she just wouldn't get up at all breathing. >> and san francisco's department of public health says scenes like this show just how simple and safe it is to administer naloxone spray. >> people are often surprised by by the fact that it's a very simple process. it's a very simple, um, training to go through, to learn how to save a life. >> and so far this year, the city's handed out more than 70,000 doses of naloxone spray, more than double last year's number. and it's upping up efforts to train more people. >> it was several years ago that we trained the sheriff's department, but that's also an ongoing. um, today
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i am doing a training with the staff at the federal building. >> meanwhile, back at civic center, the paramedics arrive. >> sure you don't want to go to the hospital? >> they offer the woman's services, but she walks away. >> if you want any social services. >> yeah. and what we just saw at the end there, the woman walks away. it's such a big challenge in this crisis. i spoke with the paramedics on scene there and they say as much as they try, when somebody does refuse services like that, there's really little they can do to force them to get the help that they need. dan and karina, just remarkable. >> tara, thank you for that. well, still to come here, they can't build them fast enough. coming up, the urgent effort to build housing exclusively for teachers and why san francisco leaders actually blocked a similar effort decades ago. plus . later, the search now underway for the nonchalant thief who casually shattered a storefront window for just four books.
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entire bay area is behind. >> it's sort of like, you know, when you have a project that needs attention and suddenly you realize, gosh, i should have addressed this two years ago. that's where we're at. you know, there was a time when teachers could afford to live here. now, some have been forced to become super commuters, and that is not sustainable. now, another problem is that without affordable housing, you just can't attract teachers. so san francisco has three projects in the works and more are needed. the affordability crunch is all too common for many teachers in the bay area. >> i have not been able to just be a teacher. i also have to pick up side jobs. >> that's because a large number of educator households in cities like san francisco spend nearly half of their salaries on rent. that's a problem when trying to retain them. >> the school districts have seen that when educators don't feel like they can afford to live in the communities that they teach, that it's difficult for them to be attracted to new
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jobs and to keep them in the jobs that they already have. >> i feel like all teachers that live in their school area like benefit from being so close, not only from like getting to know the community at like a very personal level, but also to be able to represent the community. but not so long ago, some local community kids and teachers themselves rejected any proposals to build teacher housing. >> take dianne feinstein elementary in the sunset district when it was built in 2005. the plans included a 45 unit building for teachers and staff. the us department of housing and urban development, hud was ready to provide some funds, but the community and then supervisor lee lin yi opposed it. and it was never built. >> they said, oh, it's a public housing project, never let hud get involved. you know, it will be a slum. >> now, san francisco is trying desperately to catch up. the old francis scott key annex in the outer sunset district will now be the shirley chisholm village. 135 units lottery applications
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for teachers and district staff will be available early next year. it was supposed to be completed by 2022, but the pandemic set them back and is now set to open in late 2024. teachers will be able to stay in their units as long as they are employed by san francisco unified. thank you for your mom in the mission district street vendors stand in front of what may be a once in a lifetime opportunity for teachers to finally own property. this old abandoned building on mission and 18th streets was once an appliance store until the mission economic development agency made the purchase aced it. >> we see a lot of folks displaced, like having to move out and at the end of the day, we don't get quality teachers like, you know, being in saying in san francisco, the mayor's office of housing and community development has now set aside $12 million to begin converting the building into 63 units comprise of two and three
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bedroom below market rate. >> condo fees for teachers to be completed by 2025, 2026. >> so for aa3 person family making, say, $99,000 a year, that would equate to about 359,000 for a two bedroom condo going forward, the intention is for these condos to always be affordable for teachers. >> so that means there will be restrictions on the resale price of each condo. there are plans to build more housing on this parking lot on franklin street, a block from the school district . it will be another rental property for teachers and staff. the land was previously owned by the state, the same nonprofit developing the shirley chisholm village will manage the construction of 75 affordable rental units to qualify, the household income must be. between 42,000 and $160,000 a year. >> we are the pillars of change that help other folks become
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pillars of change. i was born here in san francisco. i'm a native. i grew up here. these this is my home and i am not able to live here. affordable housing would be so helpful and she deserves to stay here. >> now, other cities in the bay area are confronted with the same issue. mountain view, for example, passed a bond measure to build 123 units, which will be ready in 2024. now the salaries in that district range from 75,000 to 134,000 a year, but keep in mind that in mountain view, silicon valley, the medium home sale price is $1.9 million. they just can't buy. and many times can't rent. so and unless this is an opportunity for things like this are done, they'll never be able to buy it right? >> pace correct. yeah. we need to help our teachers, right? yeah. >> and you don't want them traveling because that's 1 hour or 2 hours spent in the morning. two hours in the afternoon time away from the kids. thank you. >> yeah. and they're not
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ingrained in that city. that community as much, right? >> exactly. in the community. the roots. yeah. >> we'll see how this continues to go. thanks, liane, very much. all right. >> let's get a check on the weather now with sandhya. >> it's getting darker and darker and it's going to change big time here soon. >> sandhya absolutely. as that time changes. but before we get to that, though, let's talk about how beautiful it is right now. dan and karina, look at this. this is just absolutely gorgeous. all the colors you can imagine, those high, thin, wispy clouds made up of ice crystals giving us that extra boost of color tonight from mount tam. we are watching on live doppler seven, some moisture moving into the north bay associated with a cold front that has been bringing rain up to our north. now not all of this is reaching the ground because the layers are so dry. but there might be a few sprinkles in there between geyserville and healdsburg around healdsburg avenue. don't be surprised if you are in the north bay. if you see something as that front is going through. but the pacific northwest has going to be the focus of the energy has been, i should say.
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and there's another storm that's coming that's going to focus on the pacific northwest over the next several days. they're looking at some areas up there, up to a half a foot of rain by early next week. for us, we're going to get the leftovers over the weekend. and so we may have some showers around here as we look at a live picture from our exploratorium camera. lots of high clouds in san francisco, upper 60s, san francisco, oakland, 71. in san jose, you got up into the low 80s. today, 68 in palo alto. our high temperatures today, 60s to 80s and a lovely view from our oakland airport camera as we're seeing the post sunset glow there. 73 in santa rosa 60 novato napa fairfield still mild in concord and livermore. and from our san jose camera you are seeing those clouds continuing to filter our sky high clouds tonight. fog is back in the morning cooler this weekend with a chance of showers and daylight saving time ends on sunday. we fall back sunday morning. don't forget to check your smoke detectors and carbon monoxide detectors as we go hour by hour.
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7:00 tonight. 60s on those temperatures. a few sprinkles still not out of the question in the north bay. numbers remain on the mild side through this evening and going into tomorrow morning. starting out with 50s. the fog is back at the coast afternoon highs will be primarily in the 70s and 80s except along the coastline where you will notice those numbers are in the 60s. so first thing tomorrow morning, watch out for the fog near the coast. 50s for your temperatures. so comfortable weather tomorrow afternoon. we are looking at mild conditions around the bay area away from the coastline, mostly 70s and 80s with a mix of sun and high clouds. now i want to fast forward to the weekend because this is our first opportunity for rain. 5:00 saturday evening. it's up around mendocino county. that rain line shifts into the north bay saturday night as we head into sunday. there is the potential for some of those showers to drift south and eastward. but this is just one computer model. not all computer models are in agreement. i would keep the umbrella handy because this one
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is showing the opportunity for a few hundredths of an inch of rain, not measuring everywhere. mainly the north bay initially, and then could spread accuweather seven day forecast mild to warm for your friday a chance of some showers in the north bay saturday night. that's when you'll want to fall back one hour as daylight saving time ends. level one system for sunday bringing us a chance of rain and certainly cooler weather for karina. and dan, you notice those temperatures just sliding back to reality in the 60s. reality is hitting us next week. sandhya, thank you. >> well, coming up next on abc seven news at six, the health warning going out for anyone who's visited an east bay casino in theas five years. we'll explain
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confirmed cases of tb linked to the california grand casino in pacheco and as abc seven news reporter dustin dorsey explains, there might be more. >> if you visited the california grand casino in pacheco over the last five years, the odds are greater that you may have been exposed to tuberculosis. this through an investigation that started in 2021. contra costa health has identified 11 confirmed tb cases among people who have spent time in the casino from 2018 to 2023. >> we are using this opportunity
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to spread information to those who might have been exposed. so that they are able to access resources for testing and know what to do for the next steps to keep themselves healthy. >> cch has not identified a current or ongoing source of transmission at the casino and says the casino is not at fault for the at least 300 people who may have been exposed to people with active tb cases. tb can live in the air for two hours and the disease is spread by breathing, talking or coughing while contagious. county testing confirms ten of the 11 cases are genetically linked and the majority of those positive have been associate with staff or customers at the casino. >> overall risk in the community is low, but in appropriate settings such as an indoor setting, it does become easier for them to spread it to others symptoms can include a persistent or bloody cough fever, unexpected weight loss, night sweats and fatigue. >> but it could be months, even years, before someone shows symptoms. the casino is working with the health department on testing for staff and health officials want anyone who has
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visited the casino, even if they're not showing symptoms to test as well. >> early detection of tb is very beneficial. a latent tb infection is easier to treat and takes less time compared to active tb disease in contra costa county. >> dustin dawsey, abc seven news just ahead here, the games israel says it is making as its troops push ever deeper into gaza. >> plus, the progress being made to get civilians, including americans, out of harm's way. >> also, the landmark settlement that will force uber and lyft to pay millions of dollars in back pay to their drivers. and that's
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troops encircle gaza city, fighting face to face with hamas militants. the intense fighting comes as us and arab leaders step up pressure on israel to ease its siege at least briefly, to allow much needed aid into gaza for civilians. >> that call comes as hundreds of palestinians with foreign
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passports and dozens of wounded left gaza again today. also in the group of roughly 70 americans now out of harm's way. >> abc news reporter ines de la cuetara has the story from jerusalem. today, foreign nationals hoping to leave gaza after being trapped by the war are slowly making their way out of the enclave. >> those whose names appeared on an approved list getting to cross into egypt. americans like susan bseiso, who came to gaza to visit family departing. >> right now, i'm between ice and fire. i don't know if i'm ever going to be able to see the family that i love behind. >> two american doctors volunteering in gaza were among the first to leave yesterday. ramona nakamura and barbara zind. the 68 year old zind from colorado described the conditions facing those she left behind. >> uh- they really have no. no water, no electricity. we, you know, are living on barely anything. and in egypt, some critically injured palestinians have begun getting medical treatment while more ambulances
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carrying 21 injured and their families crossed the border today. >> doctors without borders says there are over 20,000 injured people still trapped in gaza as the death toll there continues to rise. more than 9000 killed, according to the hamas run gaza health ministry. meanwhile, israeli forces pushing ever deeper into gaza, releasing new video they say shows their forces on the ground claiming they've confronted several terrorist cells and killed dozens. prime minister benjamin netanyahu, who posed with troops, said israeli soldiers are now operating in gaza city in circling it from several directions. an and in israel, more demonstrations demanding the release of the more than 200 hostages. the families want to know why only a few have been released, whether there are any negotiations for their freedom. and if israel's bombardment of the gaza strip has put their loved ones in danger. and hamas says it would release the other hostages in exchange for the thousands of palestinian prisoners held by israel. israeli officials have dismissed that offer. ines de la cuetara.
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abc news, jerusalem. senate democrats say a $14.5 billion military aid package for israel passed by the house today is dead on arrival. >> the gop backed measure does not include humanitarian assistance for gaza and no money for ukraine. president biden has called for $106 billion aid package for israel. ukraine. gaza. us border security and other needs. >> developing news now out of new york, where a jury convicted founder sam bankman-fried on all counts in his fraud trial. his conviction conviction caps a dramatic downfall that rocked the cryptocurrency industry. bankman-fried was accused of misleading investors and funneling billions of dollars as his company collapsed. he faces more than 100 years in prison and is scheduled to be sentenced at the end of march. his parents, who teach at stanford's law school, were in court for the proceedings. they've been named in a civil lawsuit. >> two of former president
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trump's sons testified today during his fraud trial in new york. donald junior concluded his testimony and then it was eric trump's turn to take the stand. things did get tense when he was quizzed about some of his father's financial statements. when asked if he was aware of a statement from august 2013, he replied, quote, it appears that way, yes. the former president and daughter ivanka trump are scheduled to testify next week. >> also in new york today. uber and lyft agreed to pay a combined $328 million to settle wage theft claims. and new york's attorney general accused the san francisco rideshare companies of wrongfully deducting certain taxes and fees from driver payments between 2014 and 2017. ag letitia james issued a statement saying for years, uber and lyft systematically cheated their drivers out of hundreds of millions of dollars in pay and benefits while they worked long hours and challenging conditions
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. uber will pay $290 million. lyft $38 million drivers will now get back pay, along with mandatory paid sick leave. uber denies all wrongdoing. lyft calls the settlement a win for drivers means time, the first hearing for a nationwide civil lawsuit filed on behalf of uber sexual assault victims will happen in district court in san francisco tomorrow. >> last month, a judge granted an order canceled dating pretrial proceedings for 22 victims, spanning 11 states to the federal court in san % victims says uber failed to take safety precautions after becoming aware that a subset of drivers were performing acts of sexual misconduct and assaulting passengers. >> we think the big problem with this with uber and its system is they are not removing driver from their system when they have evidence that there are sexual misconduct occurring on their system. >> in an emailed statement, an uber spokesperson tells abc seven news sexual assault is a horrific crime and we take every
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report of this nature very seriously. while we cannot comment on pending litigation, we are deeply committed to the safety of all users on the uber platform. i'm the attorney for the victims, says one of the goals of this litigation is for uber to make changes that will increase rider safety on the platform. if you read or watch the news every day, it does seem like americans agree on very little. >> but a newly released book argues that we actually agree on quite a lot, which is interesting. >> seven on your side's. michael finney has interviewed the co author and is here with the story. >> michael yeah, this is pretty interesting. it is easy to get pretty negative about our future and certainly about our ability to pull together as americans. but a new book written by the leaders of the consumer group public citizen says we agree on a lot and can change things if we want people have lost sight of a couple of really important things. >> one is that for all the divisions in the country, we
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agree on an enormous amount. >> robert weissman is president of the consumer group public citizen. it's known for taking on the embed and moneyed interest of wall street, powerful corporate america and entrenched politicians. he has coauthored a new book, the corporate sabotage of america future and what we can do about it. >> if you ask people do they want to deal with high drug prices, 90, yes. do you want to raise the minimum wage overwhelmingly, yes. do you want to deal with climate change? yes. if you wanted to call attention to all that, we do agree on and the progressive populist agenda that people support, then focus in on the real obstacle to winning those policies, which is the problem of corporate, political, economic and social power punches are not being pulled, making the book sometimes uncomfortable reading like this segment on tech that hits close to home here in the bay area, colonizing our minds and plunder and pillage big tech's corporate welfare to the book is a call to
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action. >> and towards the end offers talking points for its readers. these are over whelming and compelling facts that people can get their heads around and they can share in conversation with other people. >> and you know you want to win the argument at the dinner table with someone. we're giving you the tools to do it. >> and there's a reason right there. look, the book is widely available and coauthored by the founder of public citizen, joan claybrook. very good. >> all right. thank you very much, michael. interesting >> up next, the questions being raised after concrete barriers suddenly go up along a san jose street that's become a parking area for rvs cancer is a journey you don't take alone. you did it! our cancer care team works together to care for all that is you. we are grocery outlet and we are your bargain bliss market. what's bargain bliss? you know that feeling you get
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in a well dressed suspect caught on camera smashing the window of marcus books near macarthur bart. the thief used a 10 pound piece of asphalt to break the window. the store's owner says all that was taken just four books out. the window was $1,200. >> the books were about 80. i don't know. i don't think he was on drugs. i don't think he was drunk. he was black. so
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hopefully he's not a hater. >> the thief also damaged a piece of art and a stained glass panel. marcus books is a beloved oakland business. it was one of the first bay area bookstores to feature the works of black authors in the south bay. >> a group of business owners came together to install concrete blocks on their street. they say it was done to block unhoused people from parking rvs in front of their buildings. abc seven news reporter zach fuentes has the story. >> a large concrete blocks line both sides of jury court in san jose. it was the tenants that kind of came together and put these up, right? yeah >> the building owners and the owners of the companies around here, they say they installed the blocks to replace lines of rvs that were parked outside of their businesses. >> despite no parking signs, they say some have stayed in the same spots for months or longer. sean cartwright, an advocate for the unhoused, says the businesses are wrong to install the blocks. >> shame on the people in this city that decided that this was a good way to treat unhoused people like people aren't out here thinking, you know, it'd be
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cool, it'd be cool to be unhoused, but the businesses say their move is not just about esthetics. >> they attribute a series of growing issues to many of the people living in those rvs. >> we've had like break ins in certain buildings. we've had fights like verbal arguments, though the businesses felt like they found a sort of solution. >> the city said the blocks could be a danger to drivers and have to go. >> we think it's kind of unfair to arbitrarily enforce that, but not enforce the other rules that say you can't park a trailer that's all dilapidated and leave it for months on end. >> san jose mayor matt mehan said he doesn't blame the businesses for their frustration. >> tenants and residents should not have to take matters into their own hands. we've put our community in that position through years of neglect and failing to anticipate date that this problem has been getting worse, he says the city has focused on new solutions. >> as a south san jose safe parking site opened earlier this year and another one in the berryessa area is set to open next year. but mehan admits
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solutions aren't coming fast enough. >> we've got to build out these alternatives to encampments and lived in vehicles and we've got to do it faster. we've got to do it more cost effectively. >> mehan said he's worked on a shelter crisis declaration to get things moving faster, but for now, the businesses who now have to move their concrete blocks say they want what's best for everyone. >> well, you know, you want to balance having a heart and trying to help people out. but by also protecting your own business, your own employees. >> in san jose, zach fuentes, abc seven news. just ahead, the frightening early morning wake up call for residents of a small bay area co
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the fire destroyed a home off redwood highway in the small east bay community of canyon. it broke out at 2:00 this morning. a frightening wake up call certainly for neighbors who heard an explosion. >> and then a few minutes later, we heard fire trucks. and i went out onto the deck and we saw a house completely engulfed in flames. firefight say overgrown brush combined with gusty winds caused the fire to spread very quickly. >> they also say it's a good reminder for all of us to create at least 100ft of defensible
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space around our homes. smoke filled the sky today in parts of the bay area and in marin county and san francisco. >> specific. the reason officials say it came from a controlled burn at a china camp in marin county and it drifted south. firefighters are supposed to wrap up the burn today, but there's another one planned for tomorrow in big rock ridge. that's in northern marin county. >> all right. well, let's turn our attention to the weather for a quick update. >> yes, the cold weather is coming, but before that, some rain we're going to have to deal with. yeah, and let's talk about the air quality as well, karina and dan, so because of that control burn, there were some localized smoke impacts. right now, air quality is good to moderate. this is from the official reporting site. but when you look at purple air has more sensors, not an official reporting agency. there are some localized impacts continuing around marin county where the smoke has been impacting their air. if you smell smoke, see smoke, obviously stay inside
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with your doors and windows closed on live doppler seven. we're tracking just a cold front that is passing to our north, but we are seeing a few sprinkles. not all of this is reaching the ground in the north bay. most of it evaporating. it's too dry fog tomorrow morning, tomorrow afternoon as well. high clouds and sunshine for your friday. a mild to warm day for most of you. and then as we fast forward showing you where the energy from the storms are going to go into the pacific northwest and northern california, looking at inches of rain for us through early tuesday, could see a few hundredths. and the walk to end alzheimer's is tomorrow in san francisco or saturday. i should say. reggie aqui will be hosting that upper 50s to the mid 60s. good walking weather. the accuweather seven day forecast cooler over the weekend. set your clocks back one hour. daylight saving time ends sunday morning. dan and karina. >> all right, thanks very much, sandy. let's go to sports director larry beil. >> hey, larry, what's going on in the sports department? >> oh, i was just thinking about losing an hour. and i know, i know. it's devastating to me. a
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personal problem. the warriors have a whole new vibe this season. it's obvious if you watch them on the court coming off a last second win. what is the secret to this early season success? that's next in but his vision dimmed with age. he had amd. i didn't know it then, but it can progress to ga, an advanced form of the disease. his struggle with vision loss from amd made me want to help you see warning signs of ga. like straight lines that seem wavy, blurry,
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or missing visual spots that make it hard to see faces like this one, or trouble with low light that makes driving at night a real challenge. if you've been diagnosed with amd and notice vision changes, don't wait. ga is irreversible. it's important to catch it early. talk to your eye doctor about ga and learn more at gawontwait.com
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of jordan poole has completely changed the vibe game winning jumpers also helps steph curry double teamed in the final
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seconds against the kings. draymond green feeds klay for a step back jumper that went down with 2/10 of a second left last night as the dubs beat the kings 102 to 101. draymond green first there to congratulate klay. warriors off to a four and one start and teammates who actually like to be together hang out with each other as part of that success last year was hard to come to work. >> not fun. you know. and so this year you see the joy. on guys face when they come in the building. you got guys like staying over two and three hours after just sitting around talking, getting here two and three hours early, just to be here. you know, it's like you start to see that and you're like, okay, this is a group that likes being together. >> unspoken. there is that draymond green punching jordan poole in the face in training camp messed up the chemistry from the jump and while we're talking about chemistry the world series champion texas rangers will tell you the biggest difference between this year and last year is simple.
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the arrival of ex giants manager bruce bochy, old school skipper who manages with his gut, not this devout devotion to analytics. i must consult the math. what a great shot of bosh on the team playing with a championship trophy next to him. his fourth world series title after three with the giants. and first off the plane, bay area native and former a marcus siemian a guy john fisher did not want to pay. they paid him in texas. flashback to last night. bochy joining scott van pelt admitting that some beverages were being consumed. oh i slightly i'm not quite there yet, but i'm on my way. >> i have to be honest. oh thank you. it's going to be good to get after it tonight. i i'm going to have some fun with these boys. i'll keep up with them. >> look, coach, we're going to get after it with a world series over the a's and major league baseball's relocated committee are on the clock today. the oakland city council announcing a resolution affirming that the team belongs in oakland. so the
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plan here is to hold a vote next tuesday in an effort to send a message that the mayor city council, along with the port of oakland, are all on the same page. now. we'll see how major league baseball responds. okay, back to the warriors. you know, klay thompson loves to sail a paper airplane out into the group of media members after his news conferences. so now this has become a contest. >> anybody think it's going to fly? y'all all right? oh, terrible engineer. >> look at that. that's how you fly a plane. >> clay's the expert. happy birthday to jimmy g. yes one day after the raiders announced the benching of jimmy garoppolo and shortly after they fired their gm head coach that brought him in, they sent jimmy a happy birthday message on social media. this would be organizational dysfunction at its very finest. happy birthday, jimmy g. he's 32 years old. i know he's bummed about being
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benched, but i have a feeling jimmy garoppolo on his birthday night in las vegas, somewhere on the strip, can find some friends to hang out with. >> i'm sure. i think that's for sure. thanks, larry, very much. >> all right. coming up tonight on abc seven at eight, it's the golden bachelor, followed by bachelor in paradise at nine. then stay with us for abc seven news at 11. and that's it for this edition of abc seven news. i'm karina nova. >> and i'm dan ashley for sandhya patel larry biel. all of us, we appreciate your time. hope you have a great evening and that we see you again for abc seven news at 11.
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