injured. good afternoon. i'm kristen sze, i'm larry beil. >> thanks for joining us. body-worn police camera footage of last week's incident has just been released by the sheriff's department, showing a really chaotic situation and a deputy actually being run over by a fellow officer. >> abc seven news reporter cornell bernard has new details. but first, a warning the video is graphic and may be disturbing to some. he's. he's in his about to take off. >> body worn camera footage shows sonoma county sheriff's deputies making contact with suspect jose luis villasenor. cervantes minutes after he flashed a weapon outside a santa rosa nightclub on march 4th. investigators say cervantes fired on one deputy, then appears to leave the scene, taking off. >> westbound toward other deputies arrive and suspect cervantes fires on them. >> cover me. >> i'm going for my rifle. are

you hit? julius, hit. get a car up here now! >> that deputy suffered a shrapnel wound to her hand. santa rosa police are investigating the shooting. they say the suspect was armed with this ak 47 style rifle. >> the suspect shot more than 50 times using an ak 47 style rifle at the deputies. several deputies were injured from ricochets or from shrap metal associated with that gunfire as well. where's he at? >> following a chase, police say the suspect appeared to crash his car into a deputy's vehicle and through a fence while other deputies were responding. one of them accidentally runs over their fellow deputies nicholas dalia suffered severe head injuries and burns. he was rescued from underneath that sheriff's car. dalia remains in the hospital. this fundraiser page from a peace officer's association is collecting donations. police say cervantes

likely died from injuries in that car crash. the investigation continues. >> historically, we know that anyone who is willing to fire upon deputies or police officers is willing to fire and shoot and kill anyone in santa rosa. >> cornell, bernard abc seven news. >> the man convicted in the murder of a guard at the federal courthouse in oakland will spend the rest of his life in prison. a judge handed down the life sentence to robert alvin justice today at the same building where the killing happened back in may 2020, codefendant steven carrillo is accused of pulling the trigger. justice was driving the car. carrillo is serving a life sentence for the murder of santa cruz county deputy. one week after the guard was killed, we have more breaking news about yet another problem with a united airlines plane that was made by boeing. >> this one happened on a plane that left san francisco this morning when it landed safely and early in medford, oregon. crews noticed an external panel was missing and united doesn't

even know when the panel fell off. the pilots say they didn't even know anything was wrong. it's been a really rough few weeks for boeing and united. just last week, a wheel fell off of one united plane at sfo, another heading to sfo had to turn around for landing gear problems and another over texas had an engine fire in the east bay. >> organizers of the campaign to recall alameda county district attorney pamela price, say they have submitted 50,000 signatures. more than needed to have a special election, but it may take time to verify those signatures. abc7 news reporter anser hassan has a look at why the recall signatures have been submitted, but now there will be an extra step needed to verify them. >> we welcome the decision made by the registrar of voters, uh, because they can ensure the integrity of the, you know, of this process, but also help us to, you know, to eliminate the potential, legal challenges, as carl chan is with safe save alameda for everyone there

leading the recall campaign against alameda county district attorney pamela price saying she is soft on crime, safe tells us they've submitted 123,000 signatures, 50,000 more than the roughly 73,000 needed. >> but on thursday, the alameda county registrar of voters put out a statement saying the results of the random sampling are not sufficient to determine whether the signature threshold to call for a recall election has been met, as required by state law. the registrar of voters will now begin a manual count of the verified signatures submitted. brenda grisham, also at safe, believes they did submit a very high percentage of valid signatures or it wouldn't have even qualified for a manual count. >> it's still a plus for us, because if we didn't have at least 90, it would have not have passed at all. we wouldn't even got to this step. and with all of the things that have been going on, this is a good thing. >> the attempt to overturn the election of the first black district attorney in the history of alameda county has failed its first critical benchmark.

>> lance wilson is with the coalition known as protect the win. they support da price. they call this an unprecedented development, but it has been shown by the registrar that this is not a cakewalk and something had to go wrong for them to say they want to manually count them safe, says the registrar. voters has up to four weeks to verify the signatures. if verified, it would go to the county board of supervisors to set a special election date. safe wants a special election before june. >> time is of the essence. >> protect the wind suggests a special election could cost taxpayers upwards of $10 million in oakland, anser hassan, abc seven news. >> also in the east bay, crews still working on a fire that has been burning for hours in san lorenzo. this is at a wood pallet yard on worthley drive. trucks have been on the scene since around 1130 this morning. they're still there putting out the hot spots. alameda county fire says some equipment belonging to a mulch company was damaged, but no threat to nearby homes. >> right now, new details about the ongoing battle over street

vendors in san francisco's mission district. >> there's some new data out from san francisco's public works department showing a drop in street cleaning requests. since the street vending ban went into effect. >> abc7 news reporter luz pena is here now with the latest luz. that's right. >> sidewalks on mission street are definitely clean now. san francisco public works department is attributing this to the 90 day street vending ban that went into effect three months ago, and recently the city extended the ban for six more months. their data shows it's working. it's been over three months since street vending was banned on mission street, and the first report on cleanliness is out. >> we're seeing that the overall request for street cleaning that comes through the 3-1-1 customer service center is down about 21% overall in the mission district. >> we saw it. sidewalks are clean, and public works inspectors, along with san francisco police officers, are patrolling the a week until 8 p.m. on weekdays.

the city is saying their efforts are also leading to more than just clean sidewalks. >> we've also seen fewer police calls that are coming through for burglaries and assaults. >> the city implemented this ban to tackle vendors selling stolen items on sidewalks. we ran into a vendor that goes by the name shark. he was carrying several pounds of stolen meat, selling it on foot to avoid it getting confiscated. so do you do this often? >> i probably do it like ten times a day. i have to do that to feed myself. >> you don't want to be doing this? no, no. >> i just got fired from my job, though. that was the only thing i had. and i was only making $600 a month. >> he showed us inside his backpack. what do you have in here? >> beef tongue. it's one of these will feed a family for a week, a month. >> so how much was this meat inside the store? >> $150. >> susanna rojas is the executive director of venti quattro. her group represents street vendors. she agrees streets are cleaner now, but he's asking the city to think about the vendors who are selling merchandise that was

never stolen and have permits. >> there has been a lot of narrative out there to promote a permanent ban for our vendors, not only in the mission, but all over the san francisco, and we stand against it. the vendors have never been the issue. >> one of those vendors following the rules is manuel soltero. he is inside the location on 21st and 37 mission street, set up by the city for them. how's business here? >> very bad. >> manuel is glad. streets are clean, but said they never contributed to the mess. he wants the city to let them sell outside while the inspectors are out. >> i think why they are not doing like this? we sell and that's the space they are. stay eight hours. why not say eight hours? and we sell over there. we had. we had a permit. legal permit. >> but this ban is not perfect. after inspectors leave around 8 p.m, residents report seeing vendors selling what they think are stolen items on the sidewalks. again, something public works department is aware of, and said they will continue

to gather more data before extending or changing their schedule. luz pena abc seven news luis, thank you. >> some changes could be coming to exactly how you drive and maneuver in san francisco a week from today, the public will be asked to weigh in on a proposal to add no turn on red signs in parts of the city. >> n restrictions would be implemented in the downtown area, including streets uh, located on the north and south part of the market street that you can see there highlighted. >> abc seven news reporter lyanne melendez is here now to explain the reasons for the expansion. i'm already nervous about this. >> those are a lot of streets there, right? so this is coming directly from sfmta. four of the 18 pedestrians who were killed last year in 2023 were hit when a driver was making a right turn on green. so they know that's a problem, but is restricting drivers from turning on red the solution? so far, it hasn't been since 2021. san francisco's tenderloin district has had more

than 50 intersections with no turn on red restrictions. one year after it was implemented, the san francisco municipal transportation agency found that 92% of drivers were complying with the law. so the city thought, why not apply those restrictions in other neighborhoods? >> san francisco is not anti-car ricardo julia is with sfmta. >> here's what he told us two months ago on their expansion plans. >> we are in the process of expanding prohibitions on turns on red into pedestrian heavy areas such as downtown union square, and that that project will start this year. >> that plan has already started, and now they're considering expanding the no turn on red restrictions even further to include 200 more intersections north and south of market street, pending public hearings next week. how about the rest of the city? we will see citywide, like new york city. are we going to be new york city? no. >> the plan at this point is not

to make san francisco be like new york city. we're not at the point at which we say that every single intersection in san francisco should have a no turn on red. we want to have people understand. and when they're going to the tenderloin or downtown or a heavy commercial area. oh, the reason that this sign is there is because of pedestrian safety. >> traffic safety has been a huge challenge for san francisco. ten years ago, the city vowed to get to zero traffic deaths by 2024. and here we are. and so far this year, there have been seven traffic deaths, the last one on march 2nd, a pedestrian killed by a hit and run driver in the tenderloin. even though the speed limit there has now been reduced to 20 miles an hour and turns on red lights are not allowed. still, we caught a driver trying to make a left turn on red while i was crossing the street, and while we were doing that interview in january, we caught a series of violations and that person made a that person made a right turn on red. >> do you see that? yes yes. >> if there's no enforcement, you can change all the rules you want to and no one will take

them seriously. so we do need traffic enforcement and we need traffic enforcement of speeding, running red lights. >> we cruised around the tenderloin to see if police were actively stopping drivers for traffic violations. instead, what we found were police searching a car for possible firearms. >> they have other challenges. they're dealing with violent crime, and we're dealing with fentanyl sales. and there's a lot of challenges, challenges in the tenderloin. but the officers do a great job on traffic enforcement to the extent that they can. >> how many citations have been written? >> yeah, i don't have the exact number. but what i do know is that we're also very grateful for the highway patrol that have been really good partners with us for the last year. they've written a lot of citations as well, beginning last year, the california highway patrol agreed to assist sfpd by enforcing all traffic violations in the tenderloin and surrounding areas. >> and next year, the city will install 33 speeding cameras throughout the city in an effort to minimize the number of traffic deaths. so again, that's one of several tools to get to

zero deaths. now, other cities are having this problem as well. last year, pedestrian deaths reached a 40 year high across the country. and now places like chicago, l.a, denver, seattle and san francisco are considering banning this practice of, you know, making a right hand turn with the autobahn as people walking across the street looking at their phone like this, because that's a big problem. >> or have more enforcement of the rules we already have. >> yeah. and being from new york city, we're born knowing that you can't make a right hand turn right, right. >> you have that sense. thanks, liane. a large section of interstate 680 will be shut down for this weekend. the closure begins at 9:00 tonight. and that's when caltrans will close the southbound lanes of 680 for repaving the closure runs from the 580 junction down to koopman road. that's about nine miles of roadway. caltrans expects the work to be complete before the monday morning commute. >> coming up on abc seven news at four, a bay area community taking on the epidemic of loneliness. will he or won't he? what we know about steph curry

is that ankle. good to go in tomorrow night's primetime game against the lakers right here on abc seven. and it is tax chat time. we're answering your tax questions all night long. >> i'm meteorologist sandhya patel. gusty offshore winds bringing the warmth today i'll let you know if

steph curry is expected to play against the lakers tomorrow night. curry missed the last three games with an ankle injury. did practice with the team in l.a. this morning, coach steve kerr says whether curry plays or not will likely be a game time decision, but the expectation is that he will be good to go. so we may see curry against lebron here on abc seven. curry coverage begins at 5:00. tip off at 530. warriors and lakers the nba on abc seven followed by toyota after the game. this is also official here. now the oakland roots soccer team will play at the oakland coliseum next year. this morning, the executive board that oversees the stadium approved a license agreement that lets both the oakland roots and soul soccer teams play their 2025 2026 home games in the coliseum. the oakland a's lease at the coliseum ends this year, but the team is negotiating an extension while they try to finalize their move to las vegas. >> we are one month away from the tax deadline, and if you

still have questions, we can help. >> abc seven news anchor dan ashley live with our annual seven on your side tax. chad. hey, dan. hey, larry. kristen, we've been doing this for years, and i know a lot of people instinctively don't like to think about taxes or talk about taxes. >> the deadline gets them stressed out, but there's really not any reason for that. if you have some guidance and some help, there's nothing to be afraid of. we're here in the seven on your side production offices, where we have several experts assembled here to answer tax questions. and they've been taking questions all afternoon, and they will all evening. i'll tell you how to get your question answered in a moment. but first i want to introduce you to larry pond. larry. stand up, if you would. larry pond is a cpa with cal cpa. larry, thanks for doing this. very kind of you. thank you. you know, i want to talk a little bit about what's happened this past year. really, congress didn't get a whole lot accomplished. so there are no major changes to the tax code this year, correct? >> no changes to the tax law for 2023. >> but that's coming changing. >> however, there's a pending bill in congress right now. the house has passed a bill waiting for the senate. there are some

retroactive changes. okay. >> what's you know what the biggest changes will be? what things need to people need to be aware of. >> part of it is the refundability of the child tax credit. and for businesses, some some business provisions that are actually retroactive to 2022. >> oh, interesting. okay. question quickly about electric vehicles. a lot of people in california, certainly the bay area, have electric vehicles more getting them all the time in terms of taxes. what do people need to know? >> well, what they need to know is make sure that they can qualify the car qualifies for the credit, and the credit is up to $7,500. go to fueleconomy.gov to get the list of the most recent list of vehicles that qualify fueleconomy.gov. >> larry, thanks very much, larry pond. he's answering questions as so many of these experts are. all you have to do is go to our website, abc seven news.com/7 on your side. you'll see a form right there that you can fill out right now. and these folks are standing by to answer your tax questions. we have a month to go until the tax deadline. there's still time, but no time to waste. so take care of that. we'll be back here all afternoon and evening answering tax questions for folks, kristen? larry, we'll go

back to you. >> all right. thank you. dan. you bet. while i'm working on my taxes, do you think it'll be sunny, well, for that, you turn not to the tax help, but to the weather help. yeah. and that would be meteorologist sandhya patel. hey, sandhya. hi, there. yeah, it is actually going to be really nice tomorrow. kristen and larry, let me show you a live picture right now from pier 39. this is chamber of commerce weather. blue skies, really beautiful weather. the winds are starting to back off and the temperatures, they've come up as we expected mid 70s from oakland, hayward to san jose, san francisco. you're at 72 along with half moon bay. well above average as we look from our oakland airport camera towards mount tam. there you can see low to mid 70s from santa rosa to petaluma. napa 73, concord 71. in livermore. you know, it was gusty earlier today and it's still gusty in spots. but not nearly as windy 28 mile an hour winds right now. spring valley at the lower elevation. santa rosa gusting to 23. a wind advisory remains up for lake and solano counties until 5 p.m.

today. gusts 40 to 55. 40 to 45 miles an hour is still possible. last 24 hours. here are the peak wind gusts. mount diablo 72 over 50 oakland hills. big rock ridge , nicasio hills and 40 miles an hour. there in spring valley. high pressure still controlling our weather area of low pressure is over southern california, bringing them some precipitation. we will see those winds continuing to ease late tonight, but still gusty this evening for the weekend. sunny and mild, bay and inland and it's going to be a cooler forecast as fog makes a return for the coastline. tomorrow morning. we're going to go hour by hour. still a little breezy. 7 p.m. those winds really start to drop off and by 10 p.m. they're really light. but notice the switch in the wind direction instead of north northeast. it's coming out of the south southwest. and that's what's going to start to bring the fog back into the picture. that onshore breeze will be very noticeable as tomorrow morning. we start off with some fog at 10

a.m. and then heading into sunday, that fog continues to spread. so we will definitely notice those temperatures are not quite as high as they were today. morning numbers in the 40s and 50s. it's going to be a cooler start. fog along the coastline forming late morning and for the afternoon hours a nice day. sunshine around the bay and inland along the coast. we'll see some fog. 66 in the city, 74 in san jose, 69. oakland 72, santa rosa, 70. in vallejo, 72, in concord. so as we lose the offshore winds, the temperatures will not be as high as today as i mentioned, but still nice. accuweather seven day forecast. sunshine inland fog at the coast tomorrow. saint patrick's day weekend uh- really just nice for all the celebrations in dublin tomorrow in san francisco for the parade. cooler sunday temperatures rebound into the mid 70s for monday and the start of spring, which is tuesday. and guess what? showing up. we have a level one. yeah, larry and kristen. you know friday we have a chance of rain coming in right. all right. that's still a

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greenhouse gas. the new study zeroes in on methane, mainly released by oil and gas operations across the country. and here in california. the levels, on average, are triple government estimates, costing as much as $10 billion a year in both lost energy and health and environmental damage. but there are also some more encouraging findings. they say sophisticated airborne and space based technologies are now able to track many of the leaks, making it possible to make future repairs more quickly. >> p-g-and-e's is donating over ten acres of land in novato to build the largest affordable housing project in california. that land is located on redwood boulevard, near the days inn hotel at the base of mount burdell preserve. p-g-and-e's has been trying to sell this land since 2018, but they didn't have any buyers, so they decided, well, let's just donate it. the project will include 82, three and four bedroom homes. habitat for humanity will be in charge of building that complex.

>> so be standing here in this community where the average home price is $1.6 million, to be able to bring affordable home ownership to the community, to the county, to the city is just remarkable. >> the 13 acre housing complex will have trails connecting residents to parks and open space in novato. >> the cost of selling a home is likely to get cheaper for you soon. the national association of realtors has reached a deal to do away with the typical 6% agent commission. the agreement comes after a series of class action lawsuits over excessive fees in other countries. realtor commissions range between 1 and 3. the deal still needs to be approved by a judge. >> coming up, a possible new cure for the loneliness epidemic and the new supreme court ruling that could have public officials blocking their constituents on social media and. evening. abc seven news.com to submit

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surgeon general actually called this a public health crisis. nearly 1 in 4 adults report that they feel lonely, and it's 1 in 3. if you happen to be over the age of 45. san mateo county, at the forefront of this issue last month, declaring loneliness a public health emergency, and today, county leaders launched a new campaign for help. here's abc seven news reporter zach fuentes. >> loneliness isn't just a word. it's a real physical and mental health issue. >> and many don't have the social connection. experts say

can be vital to our overall health. taylor j and carolyn kelly say that social isolation is especially difficult for adults over 40. that's why they created this app called wiser friends so people can really connect when you get a little bit older, you might be an empty nester or retired or new to town, and we thought it would be fun and easy. launched in mid january, the app comes as the u.s. and governments around the world recognize the loneliness epidemic. the problem is so bad that last year, the surgeon general declared loneliness, a public health crisis. >> this is a problem that has been building for decades. in our country. covid certainly worsened it. it poured fuel on the fire, but that fire was burning before. >> in january, san mateo county became the first in the u.s. to recognize loneliness as a public health emergency. supervisor david canepa introduced the resolution that was voted on unanimously friday. he announced the launch of the are you lonely campaign and a call for the county to help fund it. >> we passed loneliness as being a public health crisis. words only mean so much. now we need

the investments in action. so whether it's you know, peer help, whether it's a social media campaign, canepa says he hopes the new data they get from the campaign could be used to bring to the state in hopes that it would establish an office of loneliness. give us two years and don't be surprised if we have an office in the state of california dealing with loneliness. >> right now, the campaign has partners like ucsf, local nonprofit peninsula family service and wiser friends, a collaboration they all hope leads to positive changes as more recognize the severity of this epidemic. >> we're always worried about our physical health, but never our mental health. and i'm hoping i'm hoping that we're able to make some severe changes and to change this paradigm of suffering and silence in san mateo county. >> zach fuentes, abc seven news public officials can now block people on social media, at least under certain circumstances. >> today's supreme court ruling

says it depends on what the public official is posting. if it's about family, then the supreme court says the posts are about their private lives and they can block hate messages. but if the post is about official business, then that should be considered part of the public forum. >> california's three strikes law was signed into law 30 years ago this month. >> a new abc seven news originals video, struck by justice, looks at how the kidnaping and murder of polly klaas brought about the three strikes law in an era of tough on crime policies. abc seven news anchor ama daetz has the story of one man whose life was upended by the original three strikes law. >> the three strikes law took away the majority of my life. >> sahaj shakur is the owner of falafel corner, a chain of mediterranean restaurants with more than 30 locations across the state. he's also a former three strikes prisoner. >> was in the gang getting in trouble, some robberies, gun

possessions, was involved in a big fight. got 25 to life for that one as a three striker and really just no prospects of ever getting out. >> when sahaj shakur was in prison, he began attending muslim services. he also started to educate himself. he got his high school diploma, then a bachelor's degree, and he began work on a master's. >> with that knowledge, i was able to figure out that, hey, there's something going on here in san quentin. these three strike guys that are here, they were seeing guys with murder have less time than they did for stealing a slice of bread, and their brains couldn't reconcile that. >> the idea of this class is to start with an introduction. with

the three strikes law in part because it's place that we found such incredible injustice. >> about the same time, stanford professor michael romano got his law students to represent people serving life sentences after committing minor crimes. >> my client is jeffrey. he's 60 years old. he's serving 34 to life. >> and i saw cases that came across our desk of a person who's got sentenced to life for aiding the sale of $5 worth of crack cocaine to an undercover police officer, or who got sentenced to life for forging a dmv exam, wasn't just one case or a dozen cases. there's hundreds of thousands of cases of people who have been sentenced to life for these extraordinarily minor crimes. >> back in san quentin state prison, shakur kept insisting on getting help for three strikes. inmates >> and i actually wrote the letter to the psychology department in san quentin saying, here's the symptoms that i see. and all these guys that

are three strikers. it was a psychosis. so eventually they sent a psych tech to work with us to create a group for the three strikers we always call hope for strikers. >> shakur helped run the hope for strikers group for three years. when stanford professor michael romano heard about them. he and other proponents of criminal justice reform went to visit the prisoners at san quentin to hear their stories. shakur had already served 16 years in prison when he met romano. during that visit. >> we have not given up going and seeing these people in person really sort of drove home the inhumanity of the three strikes law. >> the people who were sort of rotting behind bars and growing old did not need to be there. they were serving no interest in public safety. so there was an idea that really started here at stanford to change the whole law. and that's how prop 36 got started.

>> by 2012, 27 states had adopted some form of a three strikes law, but california was the only state to impose life sentences for a nonviolent third strike. proposition 36 would allow prisoners serving life sentences for nonviolent crimes to petition a court for release. proposition 36 won. it got 69% of the vote. it was the first statutory change in this state that was real criminal justice reform, and it was the beginning of changing laws in other states and moving away from harsh sentencing. >> they all want to empty the prisons now. and what's happening, what's going on now in our society, crime is on the rise

>> and you can learn more by watching struck by justice. the impact of polly klaas is now streaming on the abc7 bay area app. >> new developments now on the tight race for california's 16th congressional district. the second place spot has been going back and forth, back and forth. and now joe simitian is in the lead. he's up over assemblymember evan low by just 54 votes. yesterday, low was leading by 52 votes. whoever wins will compete against former san jose mayor sam liccardo in a november runoff. >> buyers are already lining up to get their hands on tiktok and the 90s fashion trend, making a big

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august. so who's playing here? lose. you know what? i think after your oscars trip, i think you need to win this. so you can have the kind of like outfits and lavish lifestyle those hollywood celebrities do, you know? oh my gosh. >> well, if i were to win something like that, i would honestly just help people. i would help people in need. i would help people who may not have a job and they need to learn a new skill. and i would help them be able to get, you know, any sort of skills they need so they can be successful in life. that's what i would do with the money. >> okay, then you should win. you should. yes. >> but i think it's kind of insane that there's been actually 27 drawings and there hasn't been a winner. that's pretty insane. do you guys buy lottery tickets? >> we used to, but yeah, not anymore. >> lose. would you help us? >> absolutely. i will send you to hawaii because i know you would love to hang out over there for a whole week. >> yeah, no longer than a week. >> well, i'm thinking, what am i going to do with all this money? i'd miss you guys so much. hum. sure. uh- from hawaii. yeah. i'll. >> yeah, you can call me, facetime me, it's world sleep

day. if you tend to put things off, you're probably putting off your sleep as well. researchers say if you're a procrastinator, you're probably not getting enough sleep. women tend to get less sleep than men, especially if they have kids on average, men sleep 30 minutes per night more than women. sandyha patel, you are a world class sleeper and so you should address this. >> all right, you know what i will say? i sleep like a rock, larry. and, you know, it's just never enough, during the week because of the shift, we work and i have kids, but on the weekends, i make up for lost time. i sleep, like, nine hours. wow. i even take a nap. so i recharge on the weekends and then come back, right? >> yeah. lose. i find that i can't sleep when my mind's active. right? thinking about a lot of stuff. which explains probably why women get less sound sleep. luis, what do you think? >> i you know, i agree with you. i actually try to get 7 to 8 hours every night. i mean, it doesn't happen all the time, but

seven hours. it makes me feel good. i wake up and i'm energized and more energized than, you know, ever. but talking about the oscars, i only got two hours of sleep when you were talking about the oscars. i got two hours of sleep. yeah. between that sunday to monday. and i was like, jumping to try to get myself. >> would you even sleep or can you not when you know you have to wake up in two hours. >> oh, that's a good question. i actually set up, like maybe four alarms to make sure that i'm going to wake up by the way, kristen, are you suggesting that men like myself don't have much to think about? >> so is that what i was? wow. that's sort of what they inference that i could be wrong. totally wrong. >> i see no other gal wanted to jump on that. but, you know, there's always, like, skinny jeans are out and the 90s are back. baggy pants are in again. the baggier the better. what do you think trend analysts say online searches for wide leg jeans are up 57% over the last year. skinny jeans still make up nearly a third of women's jeans sales, so they're not that out of style, i'm coming to you lose because i feel like you would look great in either skinny or

wide bottom like leg, you know? what do you like? what do you think? >> i like both of them. but i do have more skinny jeans. jeans? right now. i don't have the baggy ones yet. i don't like them too baggy. i like them to, you know, to be comfortable. i'm all about comfort, so if they're comfortable, yes, sign me up. but i don't have too many baggy ones. i think i maybe have two. do you have any sandy, you got a favorite style? >> you know what i'm kind of like in between the baggy and the skinny, but, you know, i'm. i'm like, lose. i just want comfort. yeah, yeah, i like bootcut. >> and i like, you know, how they have the faux jeans now where it looks like jeans, but actually it's just stretchy, stretchy stuff that's what i like. comfort. those are comfortable. >> what about for men? is there any concern about men's wear? >> not really not i mean for you you just want your surf shorts right? >> that's what makes you happy at a tank

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area and our annual seven on your side tax chat as well. underway from now until 7:00, and abc seven news anchor dan ashley is live with the experts answering your questions. >> what's the latest, dan? hey, larry. >> hi, kristen. the latest is a lot of people are reaching out to the seven on your side production offices to get their tax questions and tax questions answered. 30 days and counting until the tax deadline. united way, bay area sponsoring this tax day event for us. and we

have laura here, chris over there, larry uh. we have so many people here answering questions and all you have to do is email us, get in touch via our website. i'll tell you how to do that in just a moment. but we're answering tax questions because this is kind of a confusing time. nobody likes dealing with their taxes, but we all have to do it right, and it doesn't have to be a chore. if you get the right help. i want to introduce a kelly batson with united way bay area sponsoring this today, but also free tax help all over the bay area. tell me, kelly, how that works. yes. >> so we have over 90 locations across the bay area in eight counties where folks can come in and get their taxes done for free. we have certified volunteers waiting to help for free, for free, 100. >> how do you access that? >> so you can go to united ubba. org slash free tax help. or you can call 211 to find a location. >> really. and you have cpa standing by. you can bring your receipts in, bring all your information in and somebody will walk you through the filing process. yes. so some of our volunteers are cpas, but we have

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parade and celebration steps off downtown at 1130. the parade starts at market and second and ends at civic center plaza, where there will be live music, food and drinks all afternoon. >> and the question is what the weather is going to look like? >> yeah, i almost gave it away. i was going to say perfect. pretty close to perfect, right? >> well, let's see what sandhya says. >> absolutely perfect. all right , larry and kristen, let's take a look at a live picture from our sutro tower camera right now. >> this is a preview of what you're going to see tomorrow for the saint patrick's day parade. it gets underway at 1130 at 11 a.m. it's going to be perfect weather, bright skies at 1:00. you will notice those temperatures going from the low to the mid 60s. 4 p.m. mild weather 66 degrees. don't have to worry about the strong winds and then cooler at 6 p.m. and breezy, but just really nice weather. so if you're going, enjoy live doppler seven showing you clear skies right now. tomorrow it changes. fog rolls back in. it is cooler, especially noticeable at the coast, inland and around the

bay. you still see the sun, but temperatures will come down a few degrees. and here's the accuweather seven day forecast for saint patrick's day on sunday. the cooling continues and then a rebound on monday. we've got warmth for the start of spring on tuesday and a light level one system coming our way by friday, bringing us cooler weather and rain. kristen. larry. >> all right. thank you. sandhya. starting look good. you can join a mission to the moon right now. and here's the key. no space travel actually required. nasa is sending people's names to the moon on the agency's first robotic moon rover, run by scientists in mountain view. the viper rover, which is a very cool name, will be carrying a tiny microchip etched with people's names, so yours could be included if you sign up on nasa's website before 9:00 tonight. >> all right. a bay area actor is coming into his own in a new coming of age film. >> it's finally happening. >> it's a look at snack shack and how you can catch

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then stay with us for abc seven news at 11. a new coming of age movie is in theaters today, and it stars a local actor from the south bay. abc seven news reporter gloria rodriguez spoke with connor sherry about the film and a special screening happening on sunday. >> i'm really excited. we've been we've been waiting for it to come out and it's, it's

finally happening. >> 23 year old connor sherry stars in the coming of age film snack shack, about best friends who take over running the snack shack at their local pool, hoping to strike it rich. the film, with costar gabriel labelle, is set in 1991, in nebraska, where they filmed he got his start in acting at children's musical theater san jose when he was about eight years old, and continued acting at his high school during the pandemic. he did zoom auditions. connor is inviting actors from his high school and local theater to this weekend's special screening. >> it's going to be emotional for me because it's like all the people that you know did so much for me growing up and inspired me so much to get out here and pursue it. and the second part, it is an r-rated comedy, and i will be sitting with all of the people that, like i said, raised me and, you know, told me not to cuss. and i'll be just sitting there, you know, feeling a little bit of nervousness. but

overall it'll be it'll be very fun and hopefully very rewarding for me and everyone that supported me. i'm grounded. >> no more running free range all summer. >> and that special screening that connor will be at is sold out. but there's another screening on sunday at 4:15 p.m. at amc mercado 20, in san jose. and that is open to the public. you can buy tickets online. the theater is having extra screenings to support connor. abc seven news is streaming 24 seven. get the abc seven bay area streaming tv app and join us whenever you want, wherever you are. that's it for abc seven news at four. abc seven news at five with dan and ama is coming up next.

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