>> mental health, substance use, homelessness. three major issues all wrapped up in the one and only proposition. that's on everyone's ballot. good evening. i'm ama daetz and i'm dan ashley. >> thanks for joining us. california's march primary is less than a month away, and you might have already received, in fact, your ballot in the mail. today, san francisco began to open up ballots. ballots are being scanned, but results are not being tallied yet. >> even though we scan, we don't we don't tabulate. we don't actually add up the votes until after election, after the polls close on election day. so if people see us scanning ballot to hear about us scanning ballots, we're not counting any votes. we're just collecting the votes on those cards and storing them in the database. waiting for election night when we'll actually release the results of the election. >> why do they do this? well, opening ballots now and scanning them helps eliminate a bottleneck later. about half of ballots are turned in on election day. so it gets very, very busy. well, voters have just one statewide measure to

decide that's proper one for a local perspective. >> abc seven news reporter luz pena looked into how it would impact san francisco. and she's here live for us. loose. >> that's right. well proposition one would use more than $6 billion in bonds to provide housing for 11,000 people with mental health needs across the state. but some say this is not the solution to homelessness. this, on a given night, there are over 4000 people experiencing homelessness in san francisco. doctor larry kwan with saint anthony's foundation sees the need up close every day in the city's tenderloin. >> i see people with mental illness every day who can't find a provider. that to take care of them, he believes more funding is key to help cities like san francisco tackle the homeless and mental health crisis. there's not enough psychiatrists and counselors to take care of them. i mean, on some level, even the staffing isn't quite there yet. taking care of people's mental health and recovery needs cost money at

city hall, san francisco supervisor rafael mandelman is in support of proposition one and the 11,000 people with mental health needs. >> it aims to help statewide add $6.5 billion for places for people with severe mental illness to be, and that could be bored and care facilities. >> it could be independent. living with support right now, san francisco has budgeted over $1.3 billion over two years to address homelessness. >> despite this, number, supervisor mandelman says more funding is needed. >> we have drug treatment programs. we do have placements in county and out of county for people who need to be conserved, but we just don't have nearly enough to meet the need. it's the most significant thing i think we've done about the needs of this population. since the hospitals started to being closed in the 60s and 70s, california has an estimated 21,000 psychiatric beds. >> if approved, this bond would add an estimated 6800 beds for people needing mental health

care or addiction treatment, and over 4000 homeless housing units. >> it's actually going to build housing for people who desperately need that kind of care. it's going to provide the services that we've been lacking, but not everyone agrees. >> proposition one is the best approach. >> it's a proposition that will take money away from community based. mental health programs and put it into residential beds. >> the senior and disability action nonprofit is concerned proposition one will force treatment. >> it means locking people up or it means coercing them into staying, and that treatment doesn't work. if people aren't ready for it. >> and in 2023, uc san francisco performed what is known as the biggest survey of homeless californians in decades. they found that two thirds of people they surveyed said they were experiencing mental health symptoms. that gives us an idea of the need across the state, luz pena, abc seven news. >> all right, luz, thank you. now, each registered voter in california automatically

receives a vote by mail ballot thanks to a post pandemic law signed in 2021. california's primary again is march 5th. the last day to register to vote is february 20th. but you can do same day voter registration and your vote will still count after your information is verified. >> all right. we are getting the week off to a dry start, but it's not going to end that way, not by a long shot. >> it sounds like abc seven news meteorologist sanjay patel is tracking the next storm. sandy. >> yeah, and it's going to get here before you know it. on valentine's day. dan and anna, let's take a look at live doppler seven. and as you check out live doppler seven, you will notice a system that is developing just to our west. that's what's going to bring us rain right now ahead of it. we're seeing a lot of high clouds. and as we go, hour by hour, wednesday morning, the showers begin in the north bay. light to moderate rain starts to move southward and eastward in the early afternoon and evening. there will be some brief downpours as the front comes through. it is a level one system for wednesday into thursday morning. light to

moderate rain, high as totals in the north bay, and it will be breezy at times here is a hint of what's to come. you will pretty much notice that our rain chances are elevated. most of this week going into next week as well. i'll be back with a closer look coming right up. dan. >> all right sandy, thanks very much. san mateo police are investigating the deaths of four people, including two children, sadly found inside a home this morning. the bodies were found at a house on alameda de las pulgas, near 41st avenue. that's in the sugarloaf neighborhood of san mateo. police found the bodies while responding to a welfare check. officers had to break a window to get into the house. among the dead are a man, a woman, and four year old twin boys. >> officers didn't locate any forced entry to the home or anything like that. so as they're continuing to investigate everything at this time, there's no evidence to say that it wasn't an isolated incident at the san mateo police say there is no danger to the public at large. >> they have not revealed the

causes of these deaths in the east bay. >> pleasant hill police say they've assigned all of their investigative team to solving a murder that happened at pleasant hill park over the weekend. abc seven news reporter leslie brinkly has the very latest from a city that has had very little violent crime until this homicide in the last five years, there have only been three murders in peaceful pleasant hill. >> solving this homicide and arresting the person or persons responsible for this is a top priority for our department. >> late friday night, a pleasant hill park janitor, 37 year old santiago jacobo of pittsburg, didn't return home as expected. his worried wife drove to the park just after 4:30 a.m. saturday. >> she went to the park to check on him, and in fact, she was our 911 caller. unfortunately, she found him down, unconscious and unresponsive in the parking lot. >> the parking lot faces out onto busy gregory lane across the street is pleasant hill city hall and lots of businesses.

>> part of the investigation is canvasing for any and all video cameras and video evidence associated. so yes, our detectives are gathered uh- video footage and studying the footage. at this time, jacobo's coworkers and family and friends are being interviewed and evidence is being processed. >> according to police, a small shrine to jacobo has popped up in the park with flowers and candles and notes of condolence. >> s it sounds like a premeditate murder. obviously. i don't think it would be a random uh- person person doing that. um and that's a little frightening to know that it happened. >> you're in shock. so it's not like i'm in some city with high crime and danger and people are being robbed and mugged, so no, you got to wonder. >> it's so sad. it's very sad. but uh, they just hope is, you know, it doesn't happen again. >> police still don't have a suspect or suspects, but expect to have more information on solving the murder later this

week in pleasant hill. i'm leslie brinkly, abc seven news. >> new details. mayor london breed is weighing in on the attack that left a waymo car burned and destroyed. her statement reads in part, quote. it was an unacceptable act that has no place in our city and we will work to hold those who committed it account able. it happened saturday night in chinatown and no one was inside the self-driving car, which ended up surrounded by people who smashed windows, shattered the windshield and set off a firework inside the car. waymo sent us an updated statement today about what happened, saying, quote, our vehicle was navigating the area along with other human driven cars. a pop up street show held up all traffic at which point a crowd of folks rushed the waymo. the san francisco police department says it's investigating. so far, no suspects in the north bay. >> a major operation is underway to free a large fishing boat that's been stuck on a remote stretch of beach near bodega bay, the coast guard says the

vessel ran aground during rough seas friday night. abc seven news reporter cornell bernard explains why the refloating mission is becoming urgent by air. >> land and sea. there's a major operation happening on this beach. dozens of people working to get the 58 foot aleutian storm back into the pacific. trouble is, she's stuck in several feet of sand. >> she does weigh about 57 tons. and so everything we have has to be a pretty heavy lift. and so it definitely has been challenging. but she is a steel hulled vessel, which is actually beneficial to her because she's not breaking up in the surf. >> lieutenant kenney says the crab fishing boat ran aground friday night at sonoma coast state park during rough seas. its four crew members made it to safety friday night. >> there was a bit of weather that was coming through and so, um, as you know, when storms happen, things can change rather quickly. >> but there are now pollution concerns surrounding all the fuel, which could leak from tanks. >> it definitely does have fuel

on board. he was on his way to bodega to refuel, so not his max load, but there was an estimated about 1500 gallons of diesel on board. heavy machinery is being used to remove sand to help free aleutian storm, but more help is needed right now. >> the coast guard says the plan is to attach a tow line to the aleutian storm and a tug boat offshore, and pull her off the beach when the tide comes in. >> today, our efforts are to refloat the vessel, which is going to be pulling it off the beach, gary sachs from sebastopol is watching the effort and taking pictures. >> wild sight here, isn't it? it is. it really is. >> yeah, yeah, just unusual to see that. i'm glad that nobody got hurt. >> the coast guard says monday's rescue attempt was not successful after the tow line broke. the same thing happened on sunday. now the plan is to offload the fuel to lighten the vessel. officials say the fishing boats owners insurance will help pay for this major operation. >> i'm hoping for the best with

this. um we want it off of here. just as bad as he does on the sonoma coast. >> cornell. bernard. abc seven news coming up next, the winter of love, a look back 20 years after this historic moment in legalizing same sex marriage, plus moving forward. >> finally, some relief in the south bay months after this fire on christmas day two very different visions for california. steve garvey, the leading republican, is too conservative for california.

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were then mayor gavin newsom in san francisco, defied the federal same sex marriage ban and allowed same sex couples to get married in san francisco. it was only the beginning of the fight for the right to marry. abc seven news anchor diane lim is here with a look back at where we are now. diane. yeah, dan. >> joyous doesn't even begin to describe the feeling for those who got married at city hall that day in 2004. i sat down with one of the first couples to say i do, and they describe how momentous yet fragile that history making day was. the time was 1145. the morning of february 12th, 2004. it was a moment in time. john lewis and stuart gaffney never thought would come.

>> it was the most urgent wedding proposal you've ever heard. and it was john screaming into the phone. it's history. we can get married, get to city hall now. >> john was attending a freedom to marry day rally when the news broke. then mayor gavin newsom ordered the city to begin issuing marriage licenses to same sex couples in what became known as the winter of love. >> and at that moment, as we got married after 17 years together, then, um, it was the first time in our lives that we felt that we were equal human beings in the eyes of the law. >> john and stuart became one of the first couples in the state to be married, but knew their relation could be taken away in an instant. we didn't know if an hour later the marriages might stop. >> it felt very historic on the one hand, but it also felt fragile. >> more than 4000 same sex couples married that month on the steps of city hall. but as predicted one month later, the decision was challenged by the

california supreme court. all of those licenses were deemed null and void. >> it was so interesting to be an activist and also to be a lawyer and. then to be just a citizen in san francisco in the middle of this most engaged and electrifying moment. >> kate kendall is the former executive director for the national center for lesbian rights and was one of the lead attorneys fighting for marriage equality. so we ultimately won that case that we filed. >> but justice is a little slower, and it took four years before we finally won marriage in california. and then of course, we had prop eight that took it away. and then that went to the supreme court. 2015 is when it all got settled and resolved, and the us supreme court ruled in favor of. marriage rights for same sex couples. >> as john and stuart continue to celebrate, there is also a sense of urgency again, as the rights of the lgbt community come under attack across our

city and our government standing up for us and for all of us just some of us, but for all of us. >> that's the way it should be. and these marriages remind us that that is a dream worth fighting for, a dream worth fighting for. >> now. currently, the aclu is tracking 417 anti-lgbtq bills in the u.s. in almost every state in this country. by the way, i asked john and stuart how they'd be celebrating their anniversary , and they said they'd be hosting a group from japan showing them the city hall and helping them fight for marriage equality in asia. they are a remarkable couple. >> they are indeed remarkable story. thank you. dion. well. abc seven news reporter lyanne melendez covered some of those weddings 20 years ago and on abc seven news at four. we asked her about what she remembers. >> this is what i really, really will always remember in my heart is that the fact that people were so excited and i would, you know, come up to people and say,

hey, you know, somebody who i knew, who i didn't know was gay and suddenly they're like, yeah, hi. this is my partner. we're getting married today, and we never knew. it was as if they were something lifted, something wonderful lifted. and, you know, and they were saying, yeah, this is who we are, and we're going to get married and we're proud of it and deal with it. >> it was really such a magical i know several people. we all do that got married during that period of time in san francisco. it was just joyful. >> yeah, certainly. okay our weather is quite joyful today, but maybe not for long. >> it's tilting in a different direction as we go forward. meteorologist sandhya patel is here. sandhya. >> yeah, it's tilting in the direction of wet. but, you know, dan and ama have some people like the rain. it is going to be beneficial midweek and then later on in the week it could become a little bit problematic. i'll explain in just a moment. right now, let's take a look at live doppler seven. good evening to all of you. we have a system

that is developing just off the coast that's going to bring us rain on valentine's day. there are more storms that are lined up in the pacific. this one in particular is stronger than the wednesday system. and it does have a moisture tap stretching across the pacific. so there will be heavier rain at times for the long holiday weekend. let's check out our local view right now. just some high clouds passing through a lovely view from our golden gate bridge camera uh- temperatures right now in the mid to upper 50s from san francisco to oakland 58 in hayward, san jose 55. half moon bay 54 degrees. look at this gorgeous view from our santa cruz camera. it is 50 in petaluma, 54 in santa rosa, mid 50s around fairfield, 57 in concord and oakland airport. camera just showing you a few wispy clouds overnight tonight. increasing clouds and even some patchy fog. valentine's day rain arrives and the holiday weekend will feature a wet, windy pattern, but it is not going to be wet and windy the entire time. we're going to give you an idea here in just a moment, but first, let me show you what's going to happen overnight. the clouds increase. there will be a

little fog and some mist and drizzle. spotty tomorrow morning for the commute. but generally speaking, tomorrow is dry. tomorrow night rain is just off the coastline and it will arrive here as we head towards wednesday morning. so temperatures tomorrow morning, 30s, 40s. certainly mostly cloudy to start the day tomorrow afternoon. you are looking at temperatures that range from the upper 50s to the low 60s, partly to mostly cloudy skies. then a level one system comes in wednesday, going into thursday morning. light to moderate rain. highest totals in the north bay. breezy at times. we're going to go hour by hour. midnight on wednesday. you notice mendocino county is where the rain line is. as we head towards wednesday at 8 a.m, commute is getting underway and it starts to get wet in the north bay. really, the rain stays or the showers stay in the north bay at 11 a.m. it is not until the afternoon that we start to notice wet pavement moving across the east bay, san francisco and then eventually the peninsula and parts of the south bay. by the evening hours, there will be some pockets of moderate rain at times, so be aware of that,

especially for that afternoon evening commute. and this continues into thursday morning. before this system moves on out. and we have a short break before the next series of storms come in. so rainfall estimates with the wednesday going into early thursday morning over an inch in ukiah, you're going to get under a 10th of an inch in the southern part of our viewing area. this does turn to snow if you are heading up to the mountains for this long holiday weekend. we're talking about 36in by presidents day at kirkwood, 29in at donner. here's a look at the accuweather seven day forecast and what we are featuring is tomorrow will be pretty much dry, other than a mist and drizzle mix of sun and clouds, valentine's day rain, breezy level one a level one for thursday morning. you get that break the rest of thursday into friday and then a one for saturday. sunday monday. now keep in mind we may need to bump that weekend storm from the series to a two on the dan as we get closer, but right now it's looking like heavier rain at times and windy conditions. all right. >> thanks, andy.

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traffic is moving smoothly once again. >> i'm happy that el camino is back open so we can actually back across now it's less traffic and it's more productive . >> we're not having it closed down. it was just a little nuisance. >> this shopping center has been surrounded by fences since the fire, but the road closures are now gone as happy as many are to see the street open, the walkways are still blocked off. >> i see a lot of people walking here that can't get around going like i'm having to do around the whole building. i've seen people in wheelchairs and older people and they're i've actually seen them swearing because the area is not open for them to even get by. >> you can understand their frustration. it's been almost two months since the fire. the detours for walking, biking and driving have been challenging for businesses and residents alike. >> they started assembling it slowly and when they were doing that, they were hauling the trucks out here. a lot of racket and they were just tearing it down. and they just did a piece by piece. but they i think they

could have done a little bit quicker and more efficient. >> a look inside the fences shows the area where this building once stood. now it's a giant hole and a pile of rubble. demolition is in its final stages, and the road opening came ahead of schedule. the city hopes the bike lanes and sidewalks will reopen soon as well. >> we understand that it did cause some inconveniences, but we're glad that county fire was able to conduct their investigation in a safe manner. we're going to continue working efficiently and safely to be able to get those open for the community. >> as far as what caused the fire in the first place, that's still a mystery in los altos. dustin dawsey abc seven news new images tonight of israeli forces launching a daring operation to rescue two hostages from hamas. >> the two men were helicoptered to a hospital in the middle of the night. after more than four months in captivity, israel defense forces stormed a heavily armed building in rafah in the middle of the night, finding the two men held at gunpoint. on the

second floor. massive airstrikes took place across the area. during the operation, president biden and other world leaders are warning against the idf, pushing further into the region. >> many people there have been displaced and displaced multiple times, fleeing the violence to the north, and now they're packed into rafah, exposed and vulnerable. they need to be protected. >> the population of rafah is now six times the size it was when the war began. more than a million people who now face the prospect israel could launch a ground attack. >> we're learning more about what happened inside that texas church sunday, when a woman armed with an assaultrillionifle opened fire before an afternoon service. her seven year old son was with her. he was shot and is in critical condition. reporter laura aguirre has more on what witnesses are saying and a possible clue to the motive that was written on the shooter's gun when he started screaming, there's a shooter, there's a shooter. >> terrifying moments described

by those who were inside celebrity pastor joel osteen's lakewood church in houston, texas, sunday. >> we weren't scared. and then we went to the chairs to try to protect us from guns. >> shots rang out just ahead of the afternoon. spanish service. police say the armed suspect was a 36 year old woman with a prior criminal history, and with her her seven year old son. >> the shooting began almost instantaneously upon her entering the building. >> after that, there's a few minute gun battle they're exchanging gunfire and she is down. >> two off duty law enforcement officers working security at the church are credited with quickly stopping the threat. the seven year old and a male bystander in his 50s were also hit by gunfire during a press conference monday , the police revealed that one of the suspect's guns, an ar 15, had a sticker bearing the word palestine. >> we do have some anti-semitic writings that we have uncovered

during this process. >> indications that mental health played a role in an early investigation. >> it's way too early to determine a motive for the shooter's actions. >> pastor joel osteen told reporters. the outcome could have been much more tragic had the church not been between services. >> we're going to keep going strong and just, uh, you know, doing what god's called us to do lift people up and give hope to the world. >> i'm laura aguirre, reporting. >> a federal grand jury has handed down an indictment against a bay area man accused of taking part in an international fencing operation involving high end bicycles. the indictment says the bikes were stolen in redwood city and san francisco. the man indicted, ed victoriano romero, owns an automotive shop, and there that's where the bikes were reportedly taken apart so they could be shipped to mexico, where a coconspirator put them back together and sold them on facebook marketplace. we're talking about bikes worth between 3000 and $9000 each. romero is charged with conspiracy and the transportation of stolen goods.

he is currently out on bond and due back in court in april. >> san jose police arrested two men for holding up latino bakeries called panaderias and think there might be more victims out there. here's a picture shared of one of the crimes as it happened. they say the suspects went into these panaderias armed with guns, stole money, sometimes taking the whole cash register like you see here. business has lost thousands of dollars. this happened over the last two months. now the suspects were arrested last week. detectives want anyone else who has been victimized to come forward immediately. and we want to make sure you have the full picture of crime where you live with the abc seven neighborhood safety tracker. it shows you a wide range of statistics on public safety over the years for san francisco, oakland and san jose. you'll find that on abc seven news.com. >> coming up next, how looking inside while the animals could help them survive outside, especially when it comes to endangered species and their changing environment

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because of how humans have altered the earth, more than 20% of the 1200 species in the report are listed as threatened. the most alarming population declines are with migratory fish , where 97% are threatened with extinction. the list also includes whales, sharks, elephants, wildcats, raptors, birds and insects. researchers are trying to give endangered species a better chance of survival in the wild, not just by understanding the environment around them, but the environment inside them. >> yeah, we're talking about microbiome, says abc7 news anchor karina nova has a look at how this work can help build a

better bay area reporter when it comes to saving endangered species, researcher carly molecules just has a gut feeling , especially when she focuses on the tummies of creatures like the north american red wolf, trying to understand what's going on inside an environment known as an animal's gut microbiome. >> time to utilize microbiomes and think about, you know, what type of environmental exposures can we do to them when they're in captivity. so they do much better when we put them out in the wild. >> carly and her colleagues at the smithsonian's zoo prepare a variety of animals, many of them endangered, to survive reintroduction back into their natural habitats. in a recent study, they describe how microbes that benefit animals in the wild could help smooth that transition. >> any other animals in our environment that, um, are impacted by these microbes and we do have this potential to either use fecal microbiome transplant or probiotics to help

us and have supplements like probiotic. >> sound familiar? it could be because of the exploding interest in the human world. after scientists began focusing on our own microbiome, san francisco's gladstone institute was a pioneer in mapping the bacteria and microbes that work in our human digestive system. while the science is complicated and still evolving, researcher byron smith says he wouldn't be surprised to see it benefit animal research. >> like if we know the microbes that have co-evolved with those species is potentially endangered, species, that could give us a really good idea of exactly what nutritional profile they need to survive in captivity or potentially in the wild. >> back at the smithsonian, carly and her colleagues are also working to optimize other types of animal biomes, including the microbes that create a defensive toxin on the skin of harlequin frogs being reintroduced in central america. ultimately, she's hoping for a day when animals raised in captivity can bolster threatened populations around the world and

reenter those habitats, backed up by an invisible army of microbes so that those animals are as healthy as they can be. in san francisco. karina nova abc seven news. >> just fascinating and important work. and of all the populations under threat, the red wolf is one of the most critical. it's now the focus of a new reintroduction program after being first declared extinct in the wild several decades ago. >> tomorrow, we should find out how much longer the pacifica pier will remain closed. massive waves damaged the historic pier in late december, forcing it to close for repairs. city officials originally said about half of the pier would be reopened by valentine's day. we asked them about it today and we were told to expect an update tomorrow. with the city's decision coming up next. >> get a look ahead to the weather for the rest of the week. most of us will see rain for many days. meteorologist sandyha patel has the forecast. >> the abc seven storm impact scale. >> it's going to be a two moderate storm from 1 to 5,

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they've known for a long time, maybe are meeting for the first time or reunions of sorts. i know that ryan gosling and emma stone saw each other again today from la la land. now each nominated for their own movies, poor things for emma, barbie for ryan gosling, and also the stars. then at this particular luncheon, get to all be together at one time on the stage. it's one of those once in a lifetime moments, and it's always a good photo because one by one, each nominee for the 2024 oscars is called up to the stage. here's a nice round of applause and then stands for a class picture, where they do every single nominee, which is always great. the last one called today was robert downey jr, and then they all posed for this terrific class picture here in los angeles. george pennacchio, abc seven news. the oscars are four weeks away on sunday, march 10th. >> right here on abc seven. that is a pretty remarkable picture.

it is. >> all right, let's update the weather forecast because it is changing. yes. >> let's find out when we're getting more rain. sandhya, this week in the middle of this week. >> ama and dan. let's take a look at live doppler seven. and right now we are dry. just a few clouds coming through the bay area. level one system is heading in our direction that will bring us beneficial rain. as early as valentine day. so we show you the timeline here 8:00 in the morning. some showers begin. the wet weather continues to slide south and east by 3 p.m. just keep the umbrellas handy. i think it will be just fine. 7 p.m. there will be some pockets of moderate to heavy rain, but it will be brief. and this goes on through late night and into early thursday. your high temperatures tomorrow 50s, 60s, partly to mostly cloudy skies. we're going to fast forward and show you when our next system gets in here. it's early saturday day. it is going to be raining windy as well. and then another one coming in sunday night. and this one looks to bring snow to the sierra as well. and this continues into presidents day. so rainfall projections this is still days away but in the 1 to 3 plus inch

category as we check out the accuweather seven day forecast, that one for valentine's thursday morning. short break friday and then presidents day weekend. we do have a one. those may need to go to a two dan, but the series of storms not expected to be like earlier this month where they were so damaging. >> okay. thanks, sandhya. >> all right. well last night's super bowl was of course not the outcome that all of us in the bay area were hoping for. >> yeah, our sports team recaps the gut wrenching loss from las vegas. why? the team is hurting twice as much. coming up next a doctor or an engineer. those are good careers! but i chose a different path. first, as mayor and then in the legislature.

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larry biel, chris alvarez, and allegiant stadium, putting a wrap on the 40 niners loss in super bowl 58. 2522, in overtime to the chiefs just to get to the

super bowl is so, so hard to get to the big game and then lose is pure agony. and part of the reason for that is because this 53 man roster for the red and gold, as we know it, it's going to change. not everybody's coming back. all the players know it. in fact, some of the niners were in tears just talking about the loss of linebacker dre greenlaw. >> yeah dre greenlaw a real freak injury. he was running onto the field and he tore his achilles. you ever see that? i've never seen never seen that kyle shanahan confirmed the awful news after the game. and just you saw the replays of what happened and you didn't think it was good. but when the cart came out larry we knew was probably bad news. greenlaw provides an intensity and energy to that 40 niners defense, and the niners certainly could have used that in overtime against patrick mahomes. what the game would have been. we'll never really know. and achilles injury can take a year to heal. we know klay thompson has dealt with something like that. greenlaw's teammates extremely emotional seeing one of their brothers go down. i'm sick to my stomach. >> i'm still sick. uh- you know, i'm i see him at halftime and

i'm just i'm crying because i just so hurt for him. and obviously wanted to win this for him. and sickening. dre is obviously an amazing player, one of the best players on our team, one of the best linebackers in the nfl. >> so he's he's our enforcer and our tone setter. um not having him is a huge loss, but definitely proud of the way the guys stepped up. >> trey is a heartbeat of our defense. >> him and fred in there. i know they feed off each other and i think, uh, ob and flynn stepped in. they think they did a really good job. but when you lose a guy like dre, it just, uh, it's tough and he's just such a fantastic football player. he's everything that the niners stand for. so to lose him, i just it really, really sucks for him. >> the 40 niners have a roster built to contend for championships for years to come. but what nobody knows is how long that championship window will really stay open. >> and a lot of this, as you've

seen in the nfl over the last couple of years, maybe a decade, as you'd like to have a quarterback on a rookie deal that's what you have brock purdy on now. try to take advantage of it. we obviously don't know what's going to happen to dre greenlaw, but the players that are here, fred warner's of the world kittle uh arms. those guys have been here for a long time. they've been through these battles and now they just have a huge chip on their shoulder. and if you're looking at the bright side, a lot of those core guys can come in back. draftkings already sets the odds. they say the niners are the favorite to win the super bowl. for anyone that's into those kind of things. >> yeah, yeah, what a shock. vegas is already ready to take your money for next year. uh we were we were planning on a parade. well, that's all the confetti i could scoop up. that's all we got. that's it. uh, abc seven sports, brought to you by your northern california honda dealers. let's head back to san francisco. >> not quite the confetti display. no. that's heartbreaking. >> all right. tonight on abc seven eight, it's the bachelor at ten. bad romance a special edition of 2020. then stay with

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