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jeff: it's all you. and that, my friends, is what it's all about. island next on abc seven news, a passenger aboard the alaska airlines plane describes the moment a door flew off. >> the action now by federal investigators, and how it's affecting flights here in the bay area. plus, turf war. an update on uc berkeley's efforts to take control of people's park as protesters try to prevent construction of student housing there. and at today's 40 niners game, fans were cheering for a
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woman from the north bay. we'll tell you why. abc seven news starts right now. >> building a better bay area moving forward, finding solutions. this is abc seven news tonight at a search for answers and a part of a plane that blew off mid-air during a flight heading to california. >> good evening, and thanks for joining us. i'm dionne lim, developing news tonight on the incident involving an alaska airlines jet. bay area airports are seeing delays and cancellations after the faa grounded boeing 737 max nine planes. the model involved in friday's emergency. abc seven news reporter cornell bernard is at sfo with details and cornell, you are hearing from some pretty frustrated passengers. >> yeah, diane, definitely some unhappy travelers here at the airport tonight as those cancellations continue to mount. it's been a very busy day here at sfo and the grounding of those boeing planes creating a
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lot of confusion. >> very, very, very frustrating. >> patience from dallas was feeling no patience at sfo sunday after alaska airlines canceled. she and her husband's 1:30 p.m. flight home. the faa grounding the airline's fleet of boeing 737 max nine planes following this scary incident on board an alaska flight friday night. >> i'm hearing this for the first time. i didn't know that they have a problem. >> on friday, i got a call that the flight is canceled. i said, i've already checked out of the hotel. what are they going to do? >> stunning video on board the boeing 737 max nine plane shows a gaping hole in the side. friday's flight, initially headed for ontario, returned to the portland, oregon international airport for an emergency landing ten minutes after takeoff. there were no serious injuries, but the loss of the mid cabin door plug is raising questions and concerns. we are very, very fortunate here that this didn't end up in
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something more tragic. >> no one was seated in 26 a and b where that door plug is. >> the faa saying its first priority is keeping the flying public safe. we have grounded the effect of airplanes, and they will remain grounded until the faa is satisfied that they are safe. we saw several alaska airlines, 737 max nines parked on this sfo tarmac away from terminals. a ground crew was looking at the planes. the grounding canceling dozens of alaska and united airlines flights sunday on a busy day when sfo was seeing lots of post holiday travelers come and go, i received a text at 2 a.m. that the flight had been canceled, and they were good enough to book me on a different flight. >> about four hours later, alaska airlines posting on x. >> we are deeply sorry for the disruption. the 737 nine max grounding has caused our guests. we expect the disruption to last through at least midweek for patients in cleatus. it's not
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the way they wanted their bay area vacation to end. >> it's going to be their responsibility to arrange for transfer to another airline. >> yeah, we are told the airline was able to get cletus and his wife patients on another flight home tonight to dallas. we asked other travelers how they were feeling about delays and cancellations. one man telling us a short time ago, if it's about safety in the sky, he doesn't mind waiting. we're live at sfo. cornell bernard, abc seven news. >> number one priority that safety all right cornell thank you. now here is where that investigation stands right now ntsb investigators are still trying to locate the door plug that went flying off the aircraft in mid-air. they believe it may have landed in a neighborhood near portland where that flight was returning for an emergency landing. this particular aircraft is certified . for 189 passengers. that is fewer than required for a plane to need proper emergency exit doors. that is the reason for
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that. door plug planes with 215 or more passengers must have exit doors. also, there were no serious injuries, likely because the seats closest to the door plug were empty. now, some background on boeing's max jetliners. there are four variants in total, about 215 of the airplanes are in service globally, reports the new york times. united airlines flies 79, the most of any airline, and alaska has 65. they are the only two us carriers flying that plane in 2018 and 19. the crashes of two 737 eight max jets in less than six months killed all 346 people and led to a grounding of the planes. the faa announced in november of 2020 that it had cleared the 737 max to fly again after boeing made changes to an automated flight control system implicated in the crashes. now, you can hear more from the ntsb and get an update on the investigation.
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next, on abc's world news tonight with david muir. that is right here on abc seven, right after this newscast. well moving on, house and senate leaders have announced a spending deal for government funding in 2024. it's the first step to averting a partial shutdown that was set to begin later this month. that deal would set spending at $1.59 trillion for fiscal year 2024. more than $880 billion will go toward defense spending. $704 billion for non-defense spending. and there is also a $69 billion side deal that good could go toward additional domestic spending. that agreement reduces the chances of a shutdown. but congress will still have to approve stopgap funding bills before it is finalized and voted on in well, taking a live look outside now, yet another cold night following that frost warning that expired this morning and as temperatures dip, summer winds nursery in novato recommends residents take
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steps to protect sensitive plants. among the things you can do is use frost cloths or wilt stop spray on products. >> third thing you can do to help your plants to actually sounds counterproductive, but make sure that they're wet plants that are wet will actually tolerate the frost better than plants that are dry, because the dry is already stressing them and then you add the stress of the frost. that's a double stress. that's not a good thing for your plants. >> so will we see temperatures plunging into the 30s once again in some areas? let's get to spencer with more on that answer. spencer okay. >> dion. well, the short answer is yes. we have a frost advisory in effect again tonight starting at midnight until 10 a.m. for almost all of the bay area except the immediate bay shoreline and the coastline. so that includes the north bay. the entire interior, east bay, inland east bay, all of the santa clara valley, and the santa cruz mountains. overnight, low temperatures will drop down to about 30 degrees, and some of the coldest spots. in fact, generally between 34 and about 30 degrees. but some locations
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will see low temperatures dropping into the upper 20s. very cold. here's a look at our projected lows. now these are areas that will generally in our inland areas, drop down to have temperatures dropping down to between 32 and 34 degrees. but once again in the santa cruz mountains and some of the isolated areas of the inland east bay, the inland north bay, it's easy to see temperatures dropping down to about 28 or 29 degrees. and again, this is an effect this frost advisory until 10 a.m. tomorrow, i'll have the full accuweather seven day forecast a little bit later. dion >> all right. sounds good spencer. thanks gun violence in oakland this weekend claimed three lives. three separate shootings killed a woman and two men. the mostrillionecent happened just before eight this morning. a man died near 89th avenue and plymouth street in east oakland. a man was shot near a store on linden and 30th street in west oakland around eight last night. police say by the time they showed up, the victim had already been taken to the hospital where he died. and earlier in the evening, officers found a woman shot at san
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leandro street and seminary avenue. no arrests have been announced in any of the cases. two developing news now workers are close to finishing a barrier of double stacked shipping containers around berkeley's people's park. that task was supposed to be completed last night, but was delayed by heavy rain yesterday. there are some still road closures still in the area as the work continues. you see plans to build student housing on that land, but protesters want the historic space preserved. once given the go ahead construction is expected to last two and a half years and cost just over $300 million. >> so this project will preserve about two thirds of the site as public park space. and on the other third, we're going to be building two buildings, one of permanent supportive housing with 100 apartments for extremely low income persons and recently unhoused persons. and in the other building, 100 units of student housing. >> construction at the site cannot begin until a lawsuit over the park's future is
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settled by the state supreme court, a landmark in space exploration is set to happen in just a matter of hours. we'll get details on nasa's latest mission to return to the moon. some 50 years after the last lunar landing, and ed brock purdy among the many niners not playing in the last game of the regular season. chris alvarez with the highlights from levi's stadium a little later in
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there. you hear it. astronaut nicole mann was honored during today's game. mann is from petaluma. she worked aboard the international space station and last year became the first native american woman in space before becoming an astronaut. mann served in iraq and afghanistan as a combat fighter pilot. happening tomorrow a new milestone mission to the moon. as the first private company in america is set to launch a lander to the moon's surface. here's abc news reporter gio benitez with a look. >> 50 years after we landed on the moon, whole apollo program is really the true beginning of what's to come in the future. another potential giant leap for humankind as nasa funds advanced missions back to the moon by commercial operators, the peregrine lunar lander, built by astrobotic, is set to launch on the maiden flight of ula's vulcan rocket from the kennedy space center. but landing on the
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moon is tricky. they ask us as a company, to buy a launch vehicle and to build a lander that can deliver their payloads, in this case, science payloads to the surface of the moon 2024 is shaping up to be the year of the lunar lander, with five us spacecraft and at least one japanese lander heading to the south pole of the moon. >> it is a quarter million miles away. it is in the vacuum of space. um, you are controlling a vehicle that you can't use joystick with from here on earth . >> these missions are critical. before nasa can land artemis three on the lunar south pole, operating under harsh conditions , peregrine won't make it to the moon until february and has friendly competition from another company, intuitive machines, which is launching after peregrine but hopes to land just one day earlier on the moon. >> that was gio benitez reporting. now, nasa says the sweet payloads aboard peregrine one will aim to locate water molecules on the moon, measure
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radiation and gases around the lander and evaluate the thin layer of gases on the moon's surface as well. coming up, it is a slow go to the snow in tahoe. they have finally got some much needed snow and we will find out just how much and what travelers are saying about the drive. there >> i'm spencer christian, no snow here in the bay area, but we have a cold and frosty morning coming our way. i'll have the accuweatherorast coming up when abc seven news at then we are looking for you. we are the peace corps. with volunteers in more than 60 countries. living together. working together. transforming lives. together. join us.
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days ago. the resort says it received seven 18in of fresh powder over the last 24 hours. it is, as you can imagine, attracting skiers and boarders to the mountain. but many say it has been a challenging drive, with variants coming up here and there was a lot of snow. >> we've seen maybe 3 or 4 accidents as well. we were trying to make it to tahoe donner, but we underestimate how long it was going to take. there in the snowy conditions. >> it's not always the case. we underestimate these things. the berkeley snow lab recorded 30% of the average snowpack before the start of the weekend. that is compared to the 185% from the year before. how could we forget that? i feel like every single day last year we were showing a camera and talking about the snowpack. >> just about every day. it was a phenomenal year, a record one, as a matter of fact, and we have time to really catch up a little bit. it's early, yes, very early in the season. here's a look at what's happening right here in
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the bay area right now. going to live doppler seven quiet conditions. we've had a clear sunny day, a chilly one uh. no precipitation. but there is some insight as you look at the satellite radar looping composite image, you can see a rather significant storm building up to our northwest is moving in our direction, and later in the week, in fact, not too late into the week, we'll see some rain coming into the bay area, but right now we're looking at very calm conditions under clear skies, winds are generally under ten miles per hour, except half moon bay, where we have 17 mile per hour winds. and although we've got that strong flow in the upper atmosphere, bringing in that next system, it's pretty mild here at the surface. here at the surface, we've got only about a 1 or 2 degree temperature difference from yesterday at this time. just slightly cooler. so on we go to a live view looking out over san francisco from sutro tower, 53 degrees here in the city right now 51 to 52 degrees at every other location listed here oakland, hayward, san jose, san mateo, and half moon bay. a nice post sunset view looking at the western sky from emeryville. we
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have other temperature readings right now in the mid to upper 40s. for the most part. and these are our forecast headlines overnight and early tomorrow. another frost advisory will be in effect on tuesday. our next storm arrives and on wednesday we expect to see some lingering lightrillionain and showers. so more wet active weather is on the way. but for tonight, we're talking cold. another frost advisory in effect for virtually all of the bay area, with the exception of the bay shoreline and the coastline. temperatures will drop as low as about 30 degrees, and the coldest areas, in fact, probably below 30 in some remote areas. and this advisory advisory is in effect from midnight tonight until 10 a.m. tomorrow. and remember that frost can kill sensitive plants overnight lows generally will be in the low to mid 30s inland, upper 30s to about 40, closer to the bay and the coast. highs tomorrow, mainly in the mid 50s. not much variation, about 54 to 50 5 or 56 degrees across the entire region. and the forecast animation shows that next system coming in on tuesday and wednesday. a little bit of a
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break on thursday, followed by yet another rainmaker late friday into saturday, and perhaps even into next sunday. so as we look at the accuweather seven day forecast here, you can see we have level four level one storms on tuesday and wednesday, mostly sunny skies on thursday, chance of late showers on friday . so we're not giving this a ranking on the storm impact scale. but for saturday, we're talking about lightrillionain and showers. another level one storm. it's winter, it's cloudy, it's rainy for much of the week ahead. and now chris is live >> hi, spencer. all is dry out here outside the 40 niners locker room. the regular season finale against the rams. and with some regular stars sitting. how would the 40 niners do? looking for a 10th straight win against the rams in the regular season? we got
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one seed all locked up in the nfc. taking on the rams here in the regular season. the main key and goal today. get out of this game healthy before the playoffs. all right. so that means quarterback brock purdy george kittle christian mccaffrey among the stars. not playing today mccaffrey's backup elijah mitchell capping off the opening drive. his second touchdown in two weeks. seven nothing. 40 niners in a hurry nfl history here for rams rookie receiver puka nacua sets the all time rookie mark for receptions and yards. touchdown catch to tie it up and a big hug from mom on the sideline when he broke the record. sam darnold ran for a touchdown and threw one to ronnie bell. the niners led 20
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to 7 at one point, but the rams score 14 unanswered in the battle of backups. niners lose 2120 doesn't affect their playoff seeding, and everyone got out healthy. i mean, our goal was to get the number one seed. >> that was our first and foremost goal. we did. i loved how our year went. i mean, we set out to do this and, um, i was real happy with the number of guys. i thought guys got better throughout the year, but as our players have been saying, we still feel, um, our best football is forward now before kickoff, i caught up with longtime 40 niners offensive lineman, four time super bowl champ jesse sapolu, who played his entire 13 year nfl career with the niners. >> he knows from experience with the current team is dealing with. >> i remember the times i was the number one seed. it's more of a mental thing, you know, but you got to make sure you get your work in at practice because when you're the number one seed, especially now, it's almost two. and a half weeks before you actually go out there and game speed. so it's everything, but it's the thing that's necessary because we don't want anybody to
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get hurt out there. >> what have you thought about what kyle shanahan and john lynch have built here? i mean, because a lot of people forget what it started out out like, and now they're just perennial contenders. >> every year i tell people all the time, i got four super bowl rings. yeah, but i've had my heart broken four times in the nfc championship games. i'm a true believer. you need consistent tsay to keep taking your shots for you to start winning championships. if you look at kyle and john's history, we've gone to a lot of, you know, conference championships last year was very, very unfortunate. but i think the consistency of the standard that they've set, there's no doubt in my mind that it's looking good for us. >> thanks to jesse for his time now. the eagles needed to win today and have dallas lose to win the nfc east. everything going wrong for the eagles. not only did top wide receiver a.j. brown get hurt, but so did quarterback jalen hurts. the cowboys rolled the commanders, so the cowboys are the two seed, the host. the packers next week. basketball now espn reports warriors guard chris paul miss 4 to 6 weeks after he gets surgery on his broken left hand. he suffered friday the nba trade deadline early february, so that may affect the team's plans. if
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