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clause in the 14th amendment, claiming trump incited the january 6th attack on the capitol. the court stayed its decision until january fourth, or until the us supreme court rules on the case. trump's campaign spokesman issued a statement saying, quote, unsurprisingly, the all democrat appointed colorado supreme court has ruled against president trump supporting a soros funded left wing groups scheme to interfere in an election on behalf of crooked joe biden. good evening. >> i'm ama daetz and i'm dan ashley. thanks for joining us. now on to storm watch because we're still getting rain in the bay area. here's live doppler seven. today's storm ranks level one on the exclusive abc seven news storm impact scale. let's get right now to abc seven news meteorologist sandhya patel, showing us what's on live doppler seven right now. >> sandhya. yeah, it's gentle showers right now, but it's going to get rough as we head towards tomorrow. >> dan and omar, let's take a look at live doppler seven. while the showers are light in intensity and very spotty right
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now, rainfall will intensify as we head towards tomorrow. we're going to get you into street level radars. san rafael marinwood highway 101. as you will notice, heading into novato south nato boulevard, we are seeing the steady lightrillionain. we are also seeing some showers right around the south bay and san jose west heading street park. more moderate rain there and as we widen the picture here, coastal flood advisory begins at 3 a.m. tomorrow, runs until 7 a.m. low lying areas could see flooding. here's why the rain is coming in a peak. high tide is expected to be almost close to six feet there in san francio. so just before 6 a.m. and so the combination of the two will lead to that flooding. so keep that in mind while those showers remain spotty and pretty much light to moderate in nature, the rainfall will pick up as we head towards the morning commute. 5 a.m. tomorrow, you will notice the coast is getting hit hard with some heavy rain. at times. there may be some thunder as well and that continues off and on through the afternoon and the evening hours. the winds are
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also going to pick up while it is breezy right now, it gets gustier by midnight. we're looking at about 35 to 40 mile an hour winds, so keep that in mind in case you do have decorations that need to be secured. it's a light level one storm tonight through early thursday. brief heavy rain, gusty winds, thunder chance and minor flooding on the roadways. the potential is there for those small streams and creeks as they are rising rapidly as we head towards tomorrow. ama all right, thank you sandhya. >> we'll check back with you. despite the storm, few power outages in the bay area are shown right now. this is a look at p-g-and-e's map of current outages. you can see a lot of green there, so it's not too bad. it is snowing up in the sierra and chains are required right now on highway 50 between twin bridges and myers. this is from earlier in the day. you can see they were checking vehicles. their chain controls on 8-80 were dropped this afternoon. >> and in san francisco, cleanup is underway from the past two days of downpours. abc seven news reporter luz pena looks at how the city is gearing up to respond to even more rain.
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>> today. san francisco woke up to the aftermath of the latest rainfall with at least 20 potholes surfacing, clogged storm drains and multiple floods throughout the city. >> we had about a dozen spots mid midday yesterday, a larger one near civic center on franklin and golden gate ahead of more days of rain. >> the city continues to distribute sandbags at least 400 have been given out on valencia street. flooded storm drains led to water coming inches from storefronts, linda yee said it was like a river from my window. >> i could see the flow of the water, the rain going that way and the leaves are on there and it was really moving. >> and on 18th and folsom streets, many of these businesses have layers of water barriers with sandbags outside of many of these stores, and then also metal and wooden panels blocking the storefronts. and none of this works. many of these businesses also have sandbags inside.
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>> it's a low lying area, so the public utilities commission for san francisco puts out flood barriers. >> larry russo was ready with sandbags as we're always used to the water coming down from the twin peaks area. >> we always put out the sandbags, bags and, you know, we're lucky. >> uh- yesterday, others were not as lucky. raul escobar was on the phone with his insurance company while public works employees worked around his car. so what happened today? the tree fell on top of my truck. >> so talk to myself. >> well, i won't be able to move my car now. a trabajar ahorita and i can't go back to work. the city's department of emergency services says they're ready. >> we have held a coordination call earlier today because we received a very thorough briefing from the national weather service on what to expect in terms of duration of the next storm and intensity of the next storm in the meantime, residents and businesses in low areas are continuing to add more
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flood barriers. >> we expect it to. so we're, you know, whatever hopes we have, we're always going to be prepared in san francisco. >> luz pena, abc seven news. and don't forget, you can check out the abc seven bay area app for the latest on weather conditions and to access the same doppler seven radar that sandhya and our weather team use every day. >> search abc seven bay area in your device's app store to download it now. >> california forever, the company that's planning to build a new city in solano county, released the results of its latest survey exclusively to the abc seven news i-team. >> that's right. i-team reporter stephanie sierra spoke with the ceo about the feedback and is here to explain exactly what he had to say. stephanie >> and he's confident that this city will become a reality. and these surveys show the support and concerns about it from roughly 10,000 people. and while the ceo, jan sramek, believes this new city will move forward, a substantial numberpee still ua forever's newly released survey is shedding light on what the
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people of solano county want to see in a new city, according to the online results, 80% of people supported the idea of new, good paying local jobs and safe, walkable neighborhoods, as well as protecting the suisun marsh and delta. whereas 60% of people express strong support for renewable energy and the plans to build one of the largest solar farms in california, residents liked energy efficient homes with no p-g-and-e's bills. when did you first reach out to travis air force base? >> um, after we've announced basically immediately after we announced the plans publicly, schrameck told the i-team in september he did not notify travis air force base of his plans beforehand, but this week, he says the survey results give him confidence this new city can draw on the connections to the military base by creating jobs that will support the base and keep people in california, he says. >> there's high demand for new jobs in advanced manufacturing, and so it's defense, aerospace, advanced manufacture. >> it's kind of, um, mix of all the new economy jobs that people
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really want to see here. and we think we can actually bring them more than 78% of online respondents want to see major infrastructure improvements made to highway 12. >> that's often referred as blood alley, as well as upgrades to the local water supply. schrameck says he has enough water rights to support the city from both the aquifer and the sacramento river, but the solano county water agency disagrees. a brand new city of up to 100,000 residents. >> that's a significant amount of water that doesn't currently exist. >> the water rights in california, and especially in solano county, they're already accounted for. >> california forever has hosted a number of recent town halls, where residents have voiced many of these concerns, including a simple yet common one. how will this all work? >> well, my. will my kids be able to walk to school? what does it mean? does it mean i can walk to the office? schrameck says those questions will be answered when the plans are finalized and released in mid january. >> in the meantime, he says, the survey shows a great deal of excitement among small business owners and young people who are
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struggling to buy a home. among online respondents, more than 76% of people say affordable homes and family friendly parks and recreation areas are most important to them. but some city officials say there's concerns over zoning restrictions. >> i think that if zoning were not an issue for them, they would have gone the traditional route of creating a city, which is through lafco. but instead they've hired the most expensive , the most prestigious teams throughout the state. many of them close to big name politicians like governor newsom . >> but all of this has to make it on the ballot first. and schrameck says the percent of people still undecided. >> it's a it's a substantial number. >> now, if that ballot measure passes, schrameck says, this new city will be much farther away from travis air force base than current developments in suisun city and fairfield and depending on how this all plays out, there could even be a huge green belt that separates this new city from the surrounding cities. about 60% of people supported
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that in this survey, so all eyes now are on mid-january when we actually can see these plants. okay we'll have to wait and see. >> thank you so much, stephanie. >> well, coming up next from the abc seven news i-team, the lawsuit against a calistoga resort and spa from a client who says she was sexually assaulted during a massage. >> also ahead, a historic decision that could bolster the state's water supply. and christmas day is also game day on abc seven. it all starts with the warriors visiting denver at 11 a.m, then the celtics at lakers at five. it's football. 40 niners take on the ravens, then after the game, we'll wrap it all up
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despite prior sexual harassment allegations by several employees and a settlement with no admission of wrongdoing by the massage therapist remained employed by solange in calistoga until the client's allegations. >> right before we go, any further, let's warn you here. this report does involve sexual content and may not be appropriate for children. >> abc7 news i-team reporter melanie woodrow is live in the newsroom. melanie ama and dan, the calistoga police department, tells me there's an open investigation. >> the spa client says she believes the sexual assault could have been prevented, and she wants to know why the massage therapist wasn't fired sooner. alicia eastwood and her family were regulars at salon part of the auberge resorts collection in calistoga. >> it was always a place that was very safe. um, prior to this incident, according to her lawsuit, in september, while staying at salon, eastwood says massage therapist elliot ferrer, seen here in a deposition for a
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prior sexual harassment in the workplace lawsuit, sexually assaulted her during a massage. it was unreal. i couldn't believe it. i couldn't believe what was happening. >> as detailed in her lawsuit as he was massaging my back, um, i felt like his hands were going too far down onto my bottom. >> um, when he was stretching me , the top part of my body was exposed, and. and he took my right arm and pulled it back and pulled my shoulder, um, which was face down onto the table, up off the table so that my right breast was exposed. >> and once she turned over, eastwood says, the massage became more uncomfortable to the point of, um, later going to the police. in her lawsuit, eastwood details how ferrer allegedly touched her, and at the very end of working on the right side of my body, he put his hand, um, on top of my, um, on top of my breast, including my nipple, and held it there for a few seconds and then. walked around and
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completed the massage in the same way. >> on the other side of my body. >> according to her complaint. outside the room, she says ferrer repeatedly offered her his phone number so that he could work on her at her home. when she refused, he demanded my phone number. eastwood says she told him she was uncomfortable with that and went into the women's locker room. >> it was my body, but i didn't want to be in it, she says. >> she reported the incident to a spa manager, who allegedly said she wouldn't have to pay for the massage. she also says she spoke with the resort manager at the front desk. >> they never asked if i was okay. they never asked if i wanted to file a report, if i wanted to speak to the police. >> she left the resort a day early and filed a police report with calistoga pd. she also filed a civil lawsuit against salon, auberge resorts and elliot ferrer on november 20th by email. a police spokesperson tells the i-team the case is currently in open investigation. quote once our investigation is complete, the case will be forwarded to the napa county
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district attorney's office if appropriate. in a letter, the auberge resorts area vice president sent eastwood. he writes, quote, we have been fully cooperating with the police and their investigation. he also writes that after eastwood's allegations, ferrer was taken off the schedule and is now no longer working at salon. also, that eastwood stay at salon had been fully refunded in a second letter he sent to eastwood, he wrote that ferrer denied all the allegations, but that they did not find his denials credible and found her allegations credible. also that they plan to implement some of her suggestions around crisis response training. eastwood later learned she wasn't the first to report ferrer to salon. in april, four former employees settled a lawsuit with salon with no admission of wrongdoing, accusing ferrer of sexual harassment in the workplace, including allegedly speaking to them in a sexual manner, stalking them, giving them gifts and unwelcomed hugs, and getting angry when his advances were rebuffed. leila miller was one of the four former salon employees who claims ferrer sexually harassed her. >> i think it gradually just got more uncomfortable for me when
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he would go to hug me and i would pull away or be uncomfortable. he would. he would get visibly angry with me. >> and its answer to the complaint salon denied all allegations, as did ferrer in his deposition. despite the settlement, which included no admission of wrongdoing, salon did not fire ferrer. eastwood believes her sexual assault could have been prevented. i will live with this, you know, and. so and it didn't have to happen. >> they knew what type of person that he was, and we told them. all of us told them how he was and they didn't listen. they had the opportunity to fire him and they continued to let him work there. >> attorney john weiner represents the four former employees and is also now representing alicia eastwood. >> alicia's case to me, represents, um, a company not taking responsible plea. um for what it needed to do. he just goes on his merry way. according to the california massage
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therapy council, ferrer's license expired in may of 2022. >> in october, ferrer started working at health spa napa valley, but was let go this month, helped by napa valley tells the i-team there was no incident or complaint involving ferrer while he worked there, but that after learning about eastwood's allegations, he is no longer employed by health spa napa valley. the i-team's attempts to reach ferrer went unanswered, and salon auberge resorts, the attorney and pr company representing them, have not yet responded to our emails or phone calls requesting a comment. eastwood says she's sharing her story out of concerns for others. >> i don't want this to happen to anybody else. >> since. her settled lawsuit, the other woman i interviewed, lee eileen muller, is no longer working as a massage therapist. she decided to become a nurse in the newsroom for the i-team. melanie woodrow abc seven news. all right, melanie, thank you very much. >> well, we got a little bit of a break from the rain today. >> it was nice to see. oh, i did see a rainbow. >> oh. you did? no kidding.
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that's always nice. we had snow in the sierra some rain here. let's talk to a meteorologist, sandyha patel. with what we can expect going forward, we're going to see a lot more of the rain, that's for sure. >> especially near the coastline. >> dan and anna and more snow coming to the sierra. >> although it has been mixing in with rain. let me show you live doppler seven and we'll talk about what is happening so right now we just have some really spotty lightrillionain, but just northeast of rio vista, we have seen a few thunderstorms developing. they have issued a flood advisory for parts of solano county, and that is until about 915 tonight. as the heavy rain in that vicinity could lead to some flooding issues. so keep that in mind right around the north bay. woodacre lagunitas, fairfax, san anselmo. we're seeing some spotty lightrillioneturns and in the south bay lightrillionain falling right now in san jose, where it is 61 degrees. i mean, really mild. this is a mild storm. as of right now. we're looking at that warm air still 8-80 heading into center roads still dealing with those showers. so let's widen the picture here. over the last 12
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hours we've seen snow falling in the sierra as low as 7000ft. by the way, right now, state route four and 88 are requiring chains . thunderstorms have been firing up, not here in the bay area, but to our northeast right now. as you can see. but really, it has been a wet weather maker for much of california, and southern california is getting hit next as we head towards the next couple of days. rainfall since sunday. these totals are quite impressive over 4.4.9 four inches to be precise. in ben lomond, almost five inches of rain and we're still counting kentfield close to three over three in santa rosa, 1.84 in san francisco, exactly an inch in oakland. napa nearing two inches. you'll notice livermore concord over an inch of rain. san jose 9/10 9000/300 in redwood city. so looking good. we need more rain and it's coming, but it's not going to come in an intense matter in tomorrow. so the flooding is a concern. low 60s from san francisco to oakland hayward 61, san jose, 57, and half moon bay
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a live view from our sutro tower camera and it looks calm right now. mid to upper 50 from santa rosa to napa right now. 61, in concord and 59 in livermore. here's a look at the highlights tonight. scattered showers tomorrow. downpours thunder chance this weekend we are looking at cold mornings with some patchy frost. so winter starts on thursday and it's going to start to feel like it this weekend. on our exclusive abc seven news storm impact scale. tonight through early thursday. it's a level one. what we're expecting, particularly tomorrow morning and tomorrow evening, is brief, heavy rain, gusty winds, thunder chance. this is when that best possibility comes in minor flooding for tomorrow, especially now. showers ahead of it tonight and early thursday morning. so let's go. time it out for you 7:00 tonight. you'll notice some showers as we head into 10 p.m. still very scattered and very spotty and light in nature, but by 5 a.m, you start to see some downpours tailing the coastline as that storm parallels the coast
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heading down towards southern california. now, at noontime, some of this starts to move inland a little bit. look what happens in the evening, late afternoon evening commute could be dicey as well, as we see some more periods of heavy rain. and this continues through the early part of thursday. before this system winds down. there's thursday, 9 a.m. we still have wraparound moisture coming right back into the bay area. so rainfall estimates the numbers have gone down a bit, but the coastal areas i think are going to pick up 1 to 2in. for the rest of you, you're looking at lower totals, your morning temperatures 40s and 50 soquel's. don't leave home without your rain gear and give yourself that extra time. you are going to need it tomorrow afternoon. you're looking at 50s and 60s with still the wet weather around. and here's a look at the accuweather seven day forecast. it's a one for tomorrow downpours at times. thunderstorm possibility early thursday morning. showers winter arrives at 727 thursday evening. and let me tell you, we're going to notice it. not so much.
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friday where we see the morning fog and then sunshine, but saturday and sunday, some cold mornings uh- near freezing for some spots with some frost and cooler days only in the 50s, but by christmas it's going to feel like it. 50s and 60s ama and dan a lot of cloud cover on christmas, and then as we head towards tuesday. possibility of rain. okay, thanks, andy. >> coming up next, president biden's eulogy for the first female justice to serve on the supreme court, sandra day o'connor (♪) (♪)
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s&p added 28 points, inching closer to its record high. the streak of gains comes off of last week's federal reserve meeting, where officials said they will keep interest rates where they are after nearly two years of rate hikes. the fed is signaling it might cut rates at least three times next year. >> the first woman to serve on the u.s. supreme court, former justice sandra day o'connor, was laid to rest today. >> she held firm to the highest ideals of her religion and her country. >> o'connor was a stanford graduate and got her start in san mateo county today in washington, chief justice john roberts, o'connor's son jay, and president biden all delivered eulogies at her funeral. >> equal justice under law is a noble. as the noblest aspiration
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of humankind, and the aspiration of sandra day o'connor, one that she pursued her whole life. >> o'connor was appointed by president reagan in 1981 and served for two decades on the high court. she twice joined the majority to uphold roe v wade, reaffirming a woman's right to an abortion. o'connor retired in 2006. she once said that she hoped her tombstone would read, here lies a good judge. she was 93 years old. >> still to come on abc seven news at six. the uncertainty surrounding the two year-old shooting of a tv security guard hear from his widow about the changes the alameda county da could make to the case. >> plus, the decision to file no charges against the police officer who shot sean monterrosa . how his family found out the news today. >> stay with us. the abc seven storm impact scale. today's storm is level one. that means light rain. so keep an umbrella handy and drive safely. track today's storm anytime on the
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an eye on live doppler seven as it tracks today's storm, which ranks a level one on the exclusive. abc seven news storm impact scale you can access this anytime on the abc seven bay area app. download it for your phone or your smart tv as well. >> and now to the east bay, where the widow of security guard kevin nishida came to court, planning to hear new charges against the man accused of killing her husband two years ago. >> he was guarding a tv news crew in oakland when he was killed. but instead of the new charges, the judge moved the date. >> and now, as abc seven news reporter anser hassan explains, nishida's widow is worried that the embattled district attorney may lessen the charges as the. widow of kevin nishida was hoping to leave the hall of justice in dublin tuesday morning with a full understanding of the charges against the suspects in her husband's murder case. >> it is complicated because the charges that were set by the o'malley administration in 2022
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are still standing at this time, virginia nishida says there are now concerns that the current alameda county district attorney, pamela price, may drop the special. circumstance some enhancements. which could have kept the suspects locked up for life. >> but she says those charges still haven't officially been submitted through the court system. >> so that's what i'm worried about, that they're not being held accountable and they need to be, especially for murder. >> monday evening, da price issued a statement ahead of tuesday's hearing saying that two of the suspects should mitchell and herschel hale, will both be charged with first degree murder, plus arming enhancements they face 25 years to life. these are very serious charges, and they reflect my office's commitment to punishing those who come to alameda county to inflict harm on people in our community, da price said. but it did not address if the initial enhancements are being dropped. >> getting rid of the special circumstances, getting rid of the enhancements will enable
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them to be out on the streets sooner. um at the end of, you know, their sentencing, you know, and that's where the safety issue comes in at some suggest that there may be changes to the charges because the third suspect, lauren gilbert, may be the man who actually shot nishida. >> da price says gilbert is still at large. in an email to abc seven news, the alameda county public defender's office, which represents mitchell, says it. supports dropping enhancements since they say mitchell did not pull the trigger and it blames the oakland police department for errors in the case. investigators including oakland police detective john tran, tried to cover up their incompetence by skewing the case to make it seem like our client was the shooter, writes alameda county public defender brendan woods. >> where i'm hanging in here and i'll be here at every court date in dublin, anser hassan abc seven news new developments the vallejo police officer who shot and killed sean monterrosa will not face criminal charges. >> a state department of justice
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report released today finds there's insufficient evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that officer jared tan did not act in self defense. tan fired a shot from the back seat of an unmarked police car, killing monterrosa. in 2020, the monterrosa family learned of the doj's decision today during a meeting with attorney general rob bonta. >> it is extremely disappointing that they've decided not to move forward with criminal charges. we believe that there is more than sufficient evidence, uh, not only in our civil case that runs along parallel lines, but enough evidence to bring criminal charges against jared tan and, uh, we're looking forward, uh, to do a review at the federal level. >> officer tan was terminated in 2021, only to be reinstated in august of this year. the san francisco police department and its commanders are being hit with a class action. >> federal lawsuit after arrests were made at a skateboarding event last summer, attorneys for the 113 people arrested or cited during july's dolores hill skate bomb claim officers corralled
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and trapped attendees without giving them notice, warning of any kind or an opportunity to disperse. s 83 of those detained were juveniles. >> i had guns pointed in my face simply for trying to walk home. i was kept on the street until two in the morning, only to be walked to a police station a block away by the department claims bottles and fireworks were thrown at officers, muni busses and city vehicles were vandalized. >> chief bill scott says the department deployed in advance and barricaded streets following major injuries, and even one death in years past >> smash and grab burglars made a mess of things at two oakland businesses today. the burglars used an suv to ram through the front of this lululemon store on broadway at 25th street around seven this morning. it had major damage. as you see, the front door was crushed. employees say the robbers got away with a lot of legs. was also hit. today, benner automotive around the corner on 25th street. i went on my inside camera.
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>> it showed one guy coming in, one guy crawling out. uh they destroyed both of my doors. that's probably $4,000, right there. they didn't take one thing inside. they opened the filing cabinets and the desks. there's nothing in there. our tool boxes are all locked. mike benner says he's owned the shop for 58 years. >> and this is the third time in the last three months that someone has tried to break in. >> all right. coming up next, a clean start for people who spent time in prison. they're making soap bars. and oakland nonprofits aim for a big investment in building a better bay area. we'll have that great story coming up
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to liguria bakery, which shut down in august because of a fire. the north beach landmark has been around since 1911 and is famous for its focaccia. >> 65 i've been coming here since i was probably five with grandma tradition. every holiday , every birthday, special event. i don't even live in the city anymore. i was an hour away on business and i drove up because i knew today was the first day they were opening. how great is that? >> the owners, the scirocco family, says they're grateful to be opening their doors once again. >> east oakland nonprofits are trying to raise $50 million to reinvest in the community. they plan to use the money to help former incarcerated people settle back home. abc seven news reporter ryan curry spoke with one man who's benefiting from their programs. clocking in and cutting down, we're cutting the soap bars to perfect bars and discarding the imperfect bars.
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>> antonio jones pays close attention. each bar of soap gets the utmost care. >> this would probably be like the third, maybe the fourth step. because because it's a meticulous process when you're dealing with soap, some times it is razor thin. >> one step at a time is how jones approaches his job. at 34 years old, this is the first 9 to 5 he has ever had. >> this is like my first time actually doing what i feel like i'm supposed to be doing. >> jones was in prison for five years during that time, he didn't know what his future held. >> not only do i have a job, but i also have other support resources that i need to, you know, just to better myself in other areas. >> nonprofits in oakland want to help more people like him. rise east, a project focused on helping east oakland families, hopes to raise $50 million if they do that. blue meridian partners, a national philanthropic group, will match it. >> until we have raised the full 50, we cannot unlock that $50
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million match. and so this is why this is really a key opportunity. and frankly, an urgent call of action, a call for anyone locally to contribute. >> they have already raised 26 million. that money will expand and create new programs like the ones helping jones. >> we can see more projects just like this. so that we can build an ecosystem of support. so that all of our strategies are integral. and we're working in partnership. >> if you ask jones or his coworkers, it isn't just about making and selling soap. it's a job used to better their lives. >> if you really, really, really want to better yourself, and if you really want to find that help, like it's right here in front of you. >> he hopes others can benefit from it in oakland. ryan curry, abc seven news great stuff. >> all right. there is more rain in the forecast. sandhya will
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the volcanic activity could last weeks, maybe even months. jessica ball, a volcanologist with the usgs california volcano observatory, talked with us at 3 p.m. for a program getting answers about why this eruption differs from a series of volcanic events here in 2010. what you had there was gassy magma, but the magma itself was to sticky to flow like this. >> so instead of flowing, it exploded out of the volcano and created all of that ash here. what you're seeing is actually, um, gas escaping the magma much more easily. and so because it's able to do that, you get lava flows instead of lava explosions . >> less pressure evidently. well, today, the lava flow diminished to one quarter its original size from just yesterday. well how do you feel about drinking tap water? >> that used to be waste water. a historic decision was made today that could bolster the state's water supply. abc seven news reporter zach fuentes has more on why experts say the
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process that gives some people pause is actually safe. >> tuesday, california became the second state in the country after colorado, to approve regulations for recycling. wastewater and bringing it through taps at homes, businesses and schools. a common analogy has been from toilet to tap, but officials say direct potable reuse, as it's called, is not that simplistic. >> we're getting a lot of headlines right now that imply that, you know, basically wastewater will be served to the public and nothing is further from the truth. >> kirsten, true, with the santa clara valley water district says the decision made by the california water resources control board is historic. >> this will be some of the cleanest water that will be out there, clean water that will be critical to our water supply. >> though it's been a wet year in california, struve says the next drought could be just around the corner. for more than a decade, experts have been looking to wastewater as a solution. the item is adopted. >> the vote is unanimous. >> the newly approved rules give agencies like valley water more flexibility for reusing wastewater for drinking water. state regulators say reusing it is nothing new. >> reality is that anyone out
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there on the mississippi river, anyone out there on the colorado river, anywhere out there taking drinking water downstream from a wastewater treatment plant discharge, which i promise you you're all doing, is already drinking toilet to tap locally. >> the silicon valley advanced water purification center already purifies recycled water. water that's later used on things like landscapes and cooling towers. with the regulations in place, agencies like valley water can add technology to recycle wastewater faster, making it drinkable. the rules state that the technology has to treat the water for all pathogens and viruses. >> the purification process uses smaller and smaller filters and other methods to remove biological and chemical contaminants that might be in the water that some of these filters are there. holes are so small that only a water molecule can pass through, so they it becomes really clean, almost like distilled water. >> officials are projecting the regulations to be effective starting april first. the regulations require that water agencies let customers know
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before they start recycling the wastewater. here in the south bay, zach fuentes, abc seven news. >> i'm sure it's safe. yeah, but they got to rebrand and toilet to tap water is just not going to make it. it's a not so appetizing description. >> yeah. no all right. let's get a check on our weather meteorologist sanjay patel is back. >> sandia. >> yeah. hard pass on that one. i don't blame you to ama and dan . let's take a look at the live picture right now from zephyr cove, where it is looking so pretty. they are getting some snow now, mixing in with the rain. and that is going to be the case through this evening. the snow level for tonight, about 7000 to 7500ft. here is live doppler seven. tracking that mixed precipitation. as i mentioned, chains are required on some roads leading up to tahoe. local we do have some spotty light showers as we're going to get you into street level radar where we're seeing that rain around la honda, pescadero road, pescadero creek road as we head towards tomorrow. things are really going to ramp up. heavier rain is coming our way at times, and in southern california there are already prepping flood watches
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going up from san luis obispo, heading down towards southern california. if you're traveling, winter storm warning from tioga pass, moving southward into the southern sierra until thursday morning. so these could be some travel issues. area of low pressure off the coastline is going to slide parallel to the coast. here's a quick animation. that's why we're going to get the rainfall. the coast will have the heaviest rain tomorrow. and then tomorrow really going through friday is when southern california is getting hit with that heavy rain. they're looking at anywhere from 4 to 8in, possibly more level one system for us. so tomorrow morning at 530, you're going to see those downpours, especially near the coast. and then by 1230 starting to shift inland. moderate to heavy rain at times. at 230 in the afternoon, chance of thunder. those showers are going to continue well into the evening and linger into thursday. so umbrellas extra time to get you where you need to go tomorrow afternoon. 50s. 60s. here's a look at that accuweather seven day forecast. it's a level one for tomorrow. a
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one for early thursday winter begins thursday evening. we bring in some fog on friday, appropriately so. and then this weekend it's colder nights. cooler days. it's going to feel like christmas on monday. santa is going to have no problems. i mean, a little drizzle doesn't hurt anybody. but tuesday there's a chance of rain late going into wednesday. >> dan okay. all right. >> thanks, andy. >> all right larry beals here a lot going on christmas day too. >> that's true christmas it's going to be huge. >> we've got the warriors and the 40 niners here on abc seven. and tonight speaking of the warriors they host the celtics. that is a rematch of the nba finals only a couple of years ago. trace jackson davis. he was a junior at indiana. he's in college back then earning more and more minutes for a team that is desperate for his size.
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in the nba finals. dubs were hoping to remain championship contenders, but they dropped off last season. meanwhile, boston comes into chase center tonight tied for the best record in the league 20 wins, only five losses. warriors they're 12 and 14, but coming off a back to back w's klay thompson started slowly, beginning to heat up and andrew wiggins finally came to life on sunday 25 off the bench. but he and chris paul both under the weather. so unclear about their minutes tonight with draymond green suspended indefinitely, the warriors desperately need somebody with some size rookie trace jackson-davis terrific against the blazers 14 points eight
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boards in 18 minutes. he's going to get more time on the court i mean it's just it just shows that we got other pieces on the team. >> um 30s done a lot of heavy lifting um, the first half of the season. so having guys step up and just contributing, contributing, being ready to play, it's great. and we just got to have more of that and continue it through the rest of the season. >> the 49 ers host lamar jackson and the ravens christmas nightrillionight here on abc seven. that's going to be a blast battle between arguably the two best teams in the nfl. both at 11 and three. epic clash. the schedule makers are giving us a gift on monday night. ravens come in with the best rushing attack in the nfl. and the night they got to be better than they were against arizona on sunday. they have 234 yards on the ground. can't have that happening. uh- niners success leading to a lot of media requests. so deebo samuel on fanduel and george kittle on the rich eisen show, both pumped about christmas night. >> i mean, monday night football . yeah. levi's stadium. yep
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christmas day. niners ravens. wow. you're telling me that that's going to get some hype going up here man. it's going to be really fun man i can't wait for it. you know what? uh, we haven't played the ravens since 2019. and it's a different team. but a lot of the same guys. so i you know i'm looking forward to it. >> lamar is a guy like he he he has everything that that you look for and like just looking at him like week in and week out. like he always doing some amazing. it's just like shows how good he is with the, uh, how good he is at the game. >> and we're as excited as kittle is. we have the ravens and niners right here on abc seven right around 515, followed by toyota after the game. and don't forget earlier in the morning, warriors and nuggets tip time there at 11:30 a.m. to the surprise of absolutely nobody aaron rodgers decided not to try to come back the season after tearing his achilles in the season opener. former cal star would have been making medical history, coming back from an injury like that normally takes a year to recover . it never made any sense. the jets are terrible. they're not going anywhere. why risk
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re-injuring. yourself? roger should be 100% by training camp next summer. mls major league soccer superdraft today. the quakes landed defender jamaar rickets with the 13th overall pick. i love the celebration here. this is, i believe, cartwheel into back handspring sticks. the landing. they also picked up a couple of local players uh- drafting bo leroux out of san jose state and riley lynch from saint mary's. so future quakes right there. how long do you think i would be hospitalized if i did the cartwheel to the backhand spring permanently? yeah, permanently. >> yeah. wow. ouch. wow. we would be carried off the field for sure. >> no respect for the athleticism. no it's not that. >> we haven't seen the athleticism. yeah. oh it's a high sandia. >> my friends this holiday season merry christmas. yeah exactly. thanks. yeah. you're not an athlete. >> it's a christmas celebration tonight on abc at eight.
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disney's prep and landing. it's really cute by the way. that's a great show. followed by disney's prep and landing naughty versus nice at nine. the finale of the great christmas light fight. then stay with us for abc seven news at 11. lot of holiday programing. and remember abc seven news is streaming 24 over seven. get the abc seven bay area app. so you can join us whenever you want, wherever you are. all right, that's it for this edition of abc seven news. i'm ama daetz and i'm dan ashley for sandyha patel and larry decathlon beale. >> all of us. we appreciate your time. have a great evening. se at 11. >> how about naughty and nice down there? >> both. nice yes. >> that's funny
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from the alex trebek stage at sony pictures studios, this is... please welcome our first group of second chance contestants-- a meat cutter originally from derry, new hampshire... an attorney from brooklyn, new york... and a stand-up comic from santa rosa valley, california... and now here is the host of "jeopardy!"-- ken jennings. [applause] thank you, johnny gilbert. and welcome, everyone,
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