ith 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 cisco's mission district was supposed to make things safer for cyclists. but many say it's literally killing small businesses along valencia street. and now more devastating news for them. an in-depth study into how it's working has been postponed, owned until next year . >> there's no customers. there's

no tourism. a lot of our business friends are going out of business is because of the lack of parking and customers. >> they are worried. good evening. thank you for joining us. i'm dan ashley. >> and i'm karina nova. so as we wait for the city's official update next year. abc seven did its own checking of its source. >> and in a casual survey, we found that many business owners say they're near the breaking point. abc seven news reporter luz pena has that story. a month ago we introduced you to iad and rafiq to business owners on valencia street who've been struggling to survive. >> they blame the center bike lane for the decline in business . we caught up with them today. we chatted a month ago. what's happening today? >> today, as of today, i decided to close today. just today, not permanently. no reservations whatsoever. zero business. so i'd rather close today than having to pay staff at a loss. >> how are things going now?

horrible >> really, really bad. business is keep going down. customers keep complaining about the bike lane. >> yard is falling behind on personal bills to be able to pay his staff. >> we're really struggling right now. we're paying our pockets. >> the valencia street bike lane was approved in april of this year as a 12 month pilot program leading to the removal of 70 parking spots. that lack of parking is what some say is killing their business. the sfmta was expected to release an evaluation of the bike lane by the end of this year, but last week the director announced we'll continue to make small adjustments while we do our larger and more formal evaluation that will be coming to you with in early 2024 and said that that is my director's report. >> we followed up with sfmta and over email they said the data gathering started later than anticipated, so we'll have to start early 2024 in order to have three months of reliable

data. >> it's been seven months and sustainable transportation advocate luke bornheimer says even cyclists at this point are reporting the need for a new design. >> all the signs are very clear that this bikeway design is not working. >> it's bad for safety. i mean people are sandwiched between driving cars and trucks. we see the condition of some of these plastic posts here. most of them have been hit, run over or destroyed. the latest survey by the valencia street merchants association found that almost 64% of people hate the bike lane and who said they loved it? >> i think i lost about 20% of revenue due to parking. in the meantime, these business owners are protesting the bike lane with these posters on their windows while keeping their doors open. as long as they can. >> every week, a restaurant shut down, a business shuts down. here it is this week, ama daetz bar on valencia and 21st closed doors in san francisco. >> luz pena abc seven news. >> and getting more police

officers on the streets of san francisco will soon be up to voters after a controversial measure passed by a narrow margin. the plan would fill the department's 300 open jobs within five years time by offering hiring bonuses and improving recruitment efforts. but the contra tsay around how to pay for it persists. abc seven news reporter suzanne fawn is in the newsroom with a closer look at the issues here suzanne. >> so dan, everyone at city hall seems to agree that san francisco needs a lot more police officers, but they disagree strongly on how to get the money to hire them. it's so contentious that the supervisor who originally introduced the plan ended up voting against it. supervisor matt dorsey says he first introduced a measure to boost the number of police officers in san francisco. >> make sure that we're delivering on the promise of a fully staffed police department and that we were doing it right out of the gate. we would have been solving this problem in the next budget cycle. >> but then supervisor asha sapphire introduced an amendment to dorsey's measure. >> currently, the proposal, as

it was anticipate noted, didn't have a funding source. so going into an $800 million deficit, which we are facing in our city, the question was how are we going to pay for a recruit fund and to increase our minimum police staffing through that recruitment fund. >> this was as a poison pill amendment that came in at the last minute that said, we're going to adopt this, but only if voters enact a new tax that creates additional revenue for it. >> city leaders weighed in. >> this measure is messy and it doesn't do anything to immediately fund and hire police. >> this is the worst written piece of legislation i think i've seen in my 15 years on this board. >> there has been some misinformation promoted, ed, about this measure. >> the board of supervisors approved, adding the measure to the march 2024 ballot, super visor. dorsey says his original measure was and has since become

a tax hike or a tax hike scheme. but supervisor sapphire says that people are getting the wrong idea and is proposed amendment does not involve new tax hikes. >> right now, no one will be voting on a tax. it says we can go back in the future and we can modify an existing tax. we can go and say we're going to repurpose some of the money that we have, some of the previous taxes, and we can apply it to this new concept of an aggressive recruitment strategy. we could look at the ceo tax has just gone into effect. it's 160 to $190 million a year. >> instead of just focusing on hiring more police, the amended measure would also include more deputies, firefighters and 911 operators. what asahi believes is true public safety reform. >> we want to have a comprehensive public safety package, but we have to have a way to fund that and be fiscally responsible in this economic crisis that we're in. >> and mayor london breed says we should not tie police staffing to raising taxes, as in

a letter to supervisor dorsey earlier this month, the mayor stated, quote, we should not require our residents and businesses to pay more taxes to provide the police officers they rightly expect to see on our streets. back to you. >> all right, suzanne, thank you. in the south bay, a dog and its owner are recovering after a road rage incident nearly blinded the animal and it was all captured on camera. abc7 news south bay reporter zach fuentes spoke to the victim and joins us live with a warning from police. zach. yeah, karina, an arrest was made in this incident and police are giving a lot of credit to that video that was shot by a nearby driver. >> but right now police are hopeful that this situation highlights what you can avoid if you find yourself in a road rage incident. this is bambi, a maltipoo who's more than a year old. he's recovering after being nearly blinded in a road rage incident. >> it's still like left him, like very like disabled in a way . >> san jose police say it happened on november 11th in the

area of capital expressway and tully road. a driver in the area shot this video. two people were already outside of the silver bmw. they were driving in confronting the driver of the car. bambi was in shortly after another driver jumped out of a different car, walked over and jumped on the back window, smashing it. >> the window just shattered all over the backseat, all over the front seat, glass covered bambi's body and got into his eyes. >> james was with him and did not want to show his face on camera out of fear. he says he believes the drivers were mad at him for not driving past the speed limit. >> like he started like waving like middle fingers and like hand signs. and i kind of just rolled down the window. i asked him like, hey, what's up? is there something wrong? did i do something wrong to you? and i guess he got really, like, agitated and mad with that. >> james tried driving away, but says that the car followed him. things got violent when they came to a stop. >> first person who was following me got out of his car with his friend, started punching me through the window. >> shortly after is when the person in the other car smashed the window. james says he didn't know any of the suspects prior

to the incident. san jose police say the people in the two cars that approached james are all connected. the suspect who jumped on the back window was arrested and faces felony vandalism, battery and animal abuse really jeopardize not only the driver, the occupants and the dogs, but the people around them. san jose pd tells us they don't track road rage incidents, but our abc7 data team did analyze chp numbers of crashes involving some of the common factors leading to road rage incidents. factors like unsafe speed following too closely and unsafe lane changes were tracked , unsafe speed led, the factors trending up this year after a low in 2020. police say if you find yourself in a potential road rage incident, don't engage. >> i think it's important to always take a step back. i'm not saying that road rage is justifiable, but you never know where someone is coming from with that said, everyone is responsible for following the rules of the road. >> police say the suspect act, the man who jumped on that window and smashed it is the primary suspect in this case, but they are still working to identify the other two who were in that second car right now live in san jose, zach fuentes, abc7 news. >> okay, zach, thanks very much.

a man is now charged in the crash that killed a cycling champion in san francisco's presidio. the suspect, arnold lowe faces multiple federal charges for the april collision, including driving under the influence of alcohol. it's not clear if he's in custody. ethan boys died after he was struck while riding on arguello boulevard. now, the reason this is a federal case and not a state case is because the park is owned by the federal government. >> new developments now from general motors, which says it will slash hundreds of millions in funding to its self-driving car unit, bay area based cruise. that's likely to lead to layoffs . gm ceo mary barra says the cutback will happen sometime next year. it's the latest bout of turbulence for cruise, which saw its dmv operating permit pulled after a woman in san francisco was knocked into the path of a self-driving cruise car and dragged by the vehicle. earlier this month, the company's ceo and co-founder resigned. cruise has cut headcount here in the bay area, too, as a result of the turmoil.

>> okta says its largest hack was far worse than previously thought. the identity management company is based in san francisco. it initially reported the september incident only affected less than 1% of its customers support. sister users. but it turns out hackers stole data on all of the company's 18,000 users. okta officials are not sure if the names and email addresses stolen are actively being used by hackers. they also don't know who was behind this breach. >> after the break, the effort continues to extend the cease fire between israel and hamas. as we learn more about the latest hostage is released, abc seven news at five. we'll

it expired just a few hours ago,

but now us secretary of state antony blinken is heading to israel, hoping to find a way to extend that truce. laura aguirre has more. as the families of those still in captivity wait to see if their loved ones will come home. >> it is going in in a positive environment, and that is what led to the extension of this, hopefully to another extension. qatari negotiators say they're optimistic day six of the truce won't be the last. >> so far, dozens of hamas held hostages have been freed, mostly women and children. scenes of joyful reunions held against a backdrop of rising fears for those still in hamas control. >> there are still many hostages that haven't been released and are not home with their loved ones believed to be still held in gaza. >> are members of the bibas family, which includes the youngest israeli hostage, a ten month old boy and his four year old brother. we don't even know if that family is even alive. >> i wake up and that's when my nightmare starts. >> the israel defense forces are assessing hamas claims made

without evidence wednesday that the mother and two young sons were killed in an israeli airstrike. the status of their father unknown. idf forces were also on the move this week. their tanks rolling into a palestinian refugee camp on the occupied west bank tuesday conducting, they say, counter-terrorism activities in the area. with the truce ever fragile, many hostage families say they continue to focus on two things peace and freedom. >> it gives us hope to see that this framework is working. we really hope to continue seeing people coming home to their loved ones where they belong. >> i'm laura aguirre for abc7 news. >> among those still not accounted for is a berkeley native, hirsch goldberg poland, who was kidnaped from a musical festival in israel during hamas's attack in october. the 23 year old was born in berkeley before moving to israel with his family. abc news reporter matt gutman spoke with his parents. >> we don't question in the will

of the us to get something done to release the hostages us. but when it comes to do they have information that they're providing us? no. i don't know if it's because they don't have it or they have it and they've made a decision to not share it in detail. but we are not getting any concrete information. >> you can see more of the interview coming up at 530 on world news tonight. >> and still ahead, gary payton, the second was seen limping during the third quarter of last night's game in sacramento. and now we're learning about the extent of his injury

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talk to your eye doctor about ga and learn more at gawontwait.com sir joe samedi and officially announced his candidacy for the district 16 seat. samedi has been a supervisor since 2012 and also served in both the state senate and assembly. his announcement comes one week after issues really surprising

announcement that she will not seek reelection. south bay assembly member evan lowe and former san jose mayor sam liccardo are also considering entering the race. >> a major effort is underway in san jose to clean up areas of blight. it's part of the clean gateway idea aimed specifically at high traffic locations near the entrances or gateways to the downtown area. abc7 news south bay reporter dustin dorsey has more on the campaign to beautify sj. >> first impressions matter and that first look for many in the city of san jose, like downtown resident patricia anderson has not been as great as they would hope. >> i walk a lot and we've just seen a lot of homeless encampments. we've seen trash torn fences that are cleaned up and they all look great. but then it comes back and here in the shadow of the sap center, where thousands of locals and visitors are offered that impression, this is not what city leaders want to see. >> how the city looks and feels

impacts people's perceptions of the direction our city is going in. >> and we have a choice to make. we can get back to basics, focus on safety and cleanliness, and create a virtuous cycle where people want to spend more time here and invest more here and grow here or not. tuesday, along the guadalupe river, mayor matt mehan put those words to action. >> this is the site of the city's first gateway cleanup program. what once looked like this has now turned into an area that is clear from trash, has boulders to help facilitate a no encampment zone and has flowers and trees planted to help beautify the area. >> the first thing they see is hopefully not graffiti. the first thing they see is not an encampment, but the first thing they see are beautiful, new, newly planted trees, new new, new plants. but most of all, clean gateways. councilmember omar torres says the small businesses downtown have struggled to survive due to the poor impressions of the city and with work done to clean up the

city. >> since he and mayor mehan took office, san jose has the fastest downtown recovery in california since the pandemic. to continue that formula, ten more of these gateway cleanup projects will happen to help create a city residents can be proud of. >> this particular attempt looks really good and it just makes such a more pleasant experience to walk to whole foods and feel like i really love this city, as opposed to wishing it would get better. the 11 clean gateways will be completed in the next year in san jose. >> dustin dorsey, abc7 news. >> all right, let's turn our attention to the weather forecast. another gorgeous day. nice and cool after that rain. >> so let's check in with abc seven news meteorologist sandhya patel with the forecast. sandhya yeah, karina and dan, we had some good downpours between last night and this morning and of course, this was welcome rain. so let me show you satellite and radar live doppler seven tracking what came through here. and if you were caught under one of these downpours, you know exactly what i'm talking about. it all started last night. things are quieter now. but this morning's commute did include some heavier rain. so let's take

a look at the rainfall totals, 4000/800 of an inch in san francisco. so got close to that in richmond, kentfield, over 6/10 of an inch. 3000/300 in napa, 2000, two hundredths. in concord, san jose, six hundredths and livermore, you didn't get passed up, you got nine hundredths of an inch of rain. so definitely some welcome rain around this time of year. and now here's a look at what is ahead. so as far as we're concerned, it's going to be chilly overnight. there will be some areas of fog forming, particularly in some of our valleys. spotty showers and gusty winds. the next two days. and we are looking at a milder weather pattern that will set up for next week in case it's too cold for you. so let's check out this live view from our mount tam cam. and the city by the bay is just sparkling tonight. winds are calm. that's going to be changing. exploratorium camera showing you a nice view of san francisco tonight. and here's a look at those temperatures. fairly uniform in the upper 50s from san francisco to oakland, san jose, palo alto and half

moon bay in the mid 50s. and a lovely post sunset view from our emeryville camera. mainly clear conditions right now. temperatures is 59 in santa rosa and concord 54 for you in novato mid 50s. concord and liver or livermore excuse me. as we look at the hour by hour forecast, i want to take you through time over the next couple of days. it's not complete, totally dry, but it's not completely wet either. it's a disturbance and then another disturbance that come through here. and so tomorrow morning, mostly clouds and fog. there might be an isolated shower up around mendocino county tomorrow afternoon. there could be a few showers coming through here between two and 4 p.m. and you will notice there very spotty in nature as we head into 8 p.m, mainly in the northern part of our viewing area. we go into friday afternoon and another round of isolated showers coming through friday night. so here's a look at the next two days. we're looking at anywhere from nothing measurable to about a 10th of an inch. we're not expecting heavy rainfall by any

stretch of the imagination, but there will be snow in the sierra, which is obviously great to hear. kirkwood picking up up to a foot of snow by friday night, seven inches at donner, five inches at kyburz. if you do have travel plans, keep that in mind and carry your chains. third is 30s to 50s tomorrow morning so it is going to get chilly fog and clouds tomorrow afternoon. you're looking at seconds 60s similar to today. keep the umbrellas handy. it will get breezy though. so just in case you need the umbrellas, look at the accuweather seven day forecast. spotty afternoon showers thursday and then again friday. going into early saturday. a slight chance after that we're going to go with a dry milder pattern. you will notice mid to upper 60s even a 70 degree, 70 degree popping up there between monday and wednesday. so, dan and karina really going to change the pattern up. but until then, we'll take any little rain chances we get. >> yeah, that little bit. it's not too bad. yeah. and it's not too cold. >> exactly. and it helps out. >> yeah, we'll take it.

>> all right. warriors, guard gary payton. the second is expected to miss a number of games. unfortunately, according to the athletic, payton tore his right calf in last night's game against the kings. the injury happened in the third quarter. you could see clearly he was hurt as he hopped back to the locker room. chris paul also left the game because of an injury so far, there are no updates on his status. we'll be right back

person walking in the tube. of course, this is the evening commute, so it's a terrible time for this. all service on the red, blue, green and yellow lines in both directions is delayed. this is the tweet that bart sent out just a few minutes ago. we'll continue to monitor this situation, give you updates as we get them in. >> and here's a look at the stories we have coming up at 530 tonight. we're going to dig into the latest in solano county, where the sierra club is now voicing strong opposition to plans to build a new city there. abc seven's i-team reporter stephanie sierra joins me to explain why the group calls the plan a hostile takeover. plus, the san francisco mission street 90 day ban on street vending went into effect this week. reporter luz pena has been covering this story for months

and will be here to discuss the impact of the ban in its first few days. you can join us for those stories and more at 530 on abc7 bay area streaming tv. >> and if you're watching us here on tv, world news tonight with david muir is next for sandyha patel and all of us here. i'm dan ashley. we appreciate your time. >> and i'm karina nova. we'll see you in two minutes on the live stream.

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, 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

tonight, breaking news. the images of the hostages coming in now. an american mother of three with ties to philadelphia and new york among those released tonight. 16 more hostages released. among them, that 49-year-old american mother. where is her husband? and the other americans still being held captive. and hamas tonight on the hostages they now say are dead. matt gutman with late reporting from israel. the images from the west bank tonight.