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live now at five. interstate 780 in solano county is back open after being shut down all night. suspects fired multiple shots at officers during an attempted traffic stop. >> did somebody fail to blow something uh- which would have been a human factors uh- that it was empty? or do we have a situation here that was somehow in maintenance? uh- those questions will all have to be answered. >> another mishap for united airlines, a boeing plane flying into oregon from sfo, loses a panel. experts weigh in about the safety of flying following weeks of troubling incidents. good morning. it's saturday, march 16th. i'm stephanie sierra. we'll have more on that story in just a moment. but first, the sun will be out again. >> yes, it's been beautiful and we have another nice day. some minor changes with sea breeze coming back to the shoreline as we look at live doppler seven right now, that pesky area of low pressure that brought southern california rain yesterday, it still is influencing our weather, and we'll be looking at that sea
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breeze as it pulls away a little bit. that area of low preure 50 san rafael, 41. in santa rosa. it is 43. in danville. you probably noticing it much cooler. the winds have dialed back. and so we're anywhere from 11 degrees cooler in san jose. but of course, you see that 21 degree cooldown in santa rosa. so the calm winds, the clear sky, and the slow warm up today with 50s at 9:00 and then by noontime low to mid 60s. the coast will have a sea breeze and then the fog eventually comes back into play overnight. we've got the parade to talk about today, saint patrick's day downtown and the actual saint patrick's day tomorrow, along with rain returning to the seven day outlook coming up. stephanie. >> all right, lisa, thank you. right now, 780 in benicia is back. open this morning after a shooting closed a portion of the highway overnight. benicia police say they tried to pull a car over when they received an alert from their automated license plate readers. it happened after nine last night. that's when officers say two suspect started shooting and
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police fired back at. the two suspects are now in custody. chp says the military west on and off ramps are still closed. a person who was walking on highway two, 80, in san jose, died after being hit by a car. it happened between byrd avenue and vine street, right near the highway 87 junction. when officers arrived, they reportedly saw the victim on the ground and the driver stayed on scene. the southbound on and off ramps that is are back open this morning, developing news now. a plane that took off from sfo lost a panel mid-flight. it is the sixth incident involving a united flight since monday of last week. no one noticed the panel was missing until after the plane had already landed. it took off from san francisco with nearly 150 people on board, and made it to medford, oregon, without any issues, but nonetheless, this is alarming. abc seven news reporter tara campbell has intel from an aviation expert.
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>> friday. another problem for a united airlines flight involving a boeing plane, this time a flight from sfo losing an external panel. >> well, heavy things fall off. jetliners is not our favorite methodology. it is in any way, form or fashion, rare and troublesome. >> john nance is an abc news aviation analyst, and he's referring to united flight 433, the plane taking off just before 1030 this morning, landing in medford, oregon, just before noon. it's there where crews discovered the missing panel. >> did somebody fail to close something which would have been a human factors uh- that it was a fatigue or or do we have a situation here that was somehow in maintenance? those questions will all have to be answered. >> in a statement, united says it will thoroughly examine the plane and perform repairs and conduct an investigation to know how the damage occurred. boeing saying in an email it's deferring comment to united about the carrier's fleet operation, also including some information about the boeing 737
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800, which has been in operation for 25 years. >> you know, one of the questions i've been asked so many times over the years is how long can a jetliner stay in service indefinitely? we've got b-52s now that are older literally than any aircraft commander flying them and the air force as for the 139 passengers and six crew members on board, they likely weren't at any risk. i don't think we had any real danger here in the air. we had danger of anybody who something might fall on. they came off an aircraft. that's always a big concern. the big concern for the faa as well as all of us. >> the incident comes on the heels of a handful of mishaps with united flights in the last few weeks, including a wheel falling off a flight departing from sfo. but the experts say would be passengers shouldn't be worried. >> it's not only safe to fly, it's so much safer than even driving to and from the airport. and that's not just statistically true. it really is true. >> tara campbell, abc seven news. >> happening now, a large
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stretch of interstate 680 is shut down for the weekend. the closure started just a couple of hours ago. caltrans has closed the southbound lanes of 680 from the 580 junction down to koopman road. that's about nine miles of roadway. caltrans is repaving and says the work should be done before the monday morning commute. a massive redwood tree fell on top of a house in forestville. take a look at this. it happened friday afternoon. while it was really windy in sonoma county. the house is on river road, right near scenic drive. thankfully, no one was home at the time. the owner took it all in stride. >> at first we got an alert that the power was out, and then uh- got a phone call from our son saying that he had some bad news and he came over and to the house and told us that the tree had fallen on the cabin and i'm like, yeah, we've been waiting for this for years. so wow. >> the house sustained major damage, forcing the city's building inspector to red tag it
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and deem the structure uninhabitable. drivers in the santa cruz mountains are still having problems getting to a critical road. major storms led to a partial closure of mountain charley road. two weeks ago, and residents tell abc seven the slide is affecting the whole neighborhood. >> both of our cars are on the other side of the slide. we've already had a couple vehicles get stuck, trying and trying to make it up there. >> we have to walk a good quarter mile, you know, carrying, you know, dog food and groceries. >> there's only one way in and out. internet and water lines are threatened by the slide, and propane is in limited supply. santa cruz county officials say there's no repair date in sight, and they would need state and federal emergency funds to pay for it. in the east bay. now, an update on a story we brought you earlier on abc seven news. alameda rescue workers have recovered the body of a man who
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was last seen struggling in the water. this was over by bellina bay. the alameda fire department's divers attempted to rescue the man, but were unable to get to him before he went under the accomplice in the fatal shooting of a federal building security guard will spend the rest of his life in prison. a judge sentenced robert justice to life without the possibility of parole. justice drove codefendant stephen carrillo to oakland during protests over george floyd's murder. both were followers of an anti-government group. carrillo opened fire on two guards, killing one as justice drove off. the killing set off a weeklong search that ended with carrillo killing a santa cruz county deputy. carrillo pleaded guilty two years ago and is now serving a 41 year prison sentence. new developments within the federal women's prison in dublin. a judge is taking an unprecedented step in bringing in outside oversight. fbi agents raided the place this
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week. a special master will oversee the facility as part of a lawsuit over ongoing claims of sexual abuse. the bureau of prisons has never faced this level of scrutiny before. the prison is at the center of a years long investigation into sexual abuse and misconduct by staff at least eight employees have been charged with abusing inmates. the fbi would not share details about monday's search. they did say, however, they were conducting court authorized activity on the peninsula farm workers are taking matters into their own hands this weekend. we've reported extensively on the poor conditions they often live in, and that's something they'll address at a convention in san mateo county. here's abc seven news reporter lauren martinez. >> hola somos el comité de plantation de la convencion de campesinos. >> these organizers are spreading the word about a first of its kind farm worker convention. the event was planned by farm workers for farm workers, levantar la voz. rogelio martinez, a farm worker in pescadero, says the
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convention this sunday is to make the workforce known and to raise their voices. the host organizations, puente and coastside hope, are expecting hundreds of farm workers from half moon bay, pescadero down to watsonville to attend. >> so it's really the union of an entire region coming together to learn, but also to share about their stories and their lives. >> there is pride in the farming community and problems. primero es martinez listed decent housing for farm workers as the number one problem. farmers living in shipping containers surfaced during the half moon bay mass shooting in january of 2023. last september, this property in pah'-huh-roe in monterey county was cited several times by code enforcement. lack of heating roach infestation, lack of ventilation, missing smoke and monoxide alarms are just some of the violations. >> we were able to see both the
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very gross gross neglect. >> raymond cancino was the ceo of community bridges, a multi-service agency. he says the 17 unit converter apartment complex housed farm workers and their families. many, if not all, were undocumented. one unit was redtagged days later, cancino says the property owner decided to evict everyone around thanksgiving and christmas. >> it completely undermines and destroys people's kind of sense of groundedness, cancino says. >> some of those tenants are seeking civil litigation against the landlord. >> until we have legislation at the statewide level that mandates a certain percentage of agricultural, farm worker housing be created on farm worker land, i don't see a solve for this. and so i hope that more of these gatherings across sectors, across people of color are uplifted, are created. and, and i hope that we improve the well-being of those around us in the south bay. >> lauren martinez, abc seven
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news. all right. let's check in with lisa. how's it looking out there? >> you know what? it's pretty mild in san francisco. not as mild as it was yesterday, but 54 degrees. the warmest location right here in the city. elsewhere we're in the low 40s. so a big cool down this morning. this afternoon. pretty much as nice as yesterday. maybe not as many. widespread 70s. a few caveats near the coast. i'll have the details with my accuweather seven day forecast next. >> lisa, thank you. also ahead, a security guard suspended over what, two young men call racial profiling. that incident caught on camera and an abc seven news i-team exclusive. and a reminder thes face the lakers tonight. it's a big game. and steph curry is expected to play tip off is at 530 and you can watch
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year. that's as many as there were all of last year. to put it in perspective, however, there were 121 cases in 2022. in 2019, there were more than 1200 cases. that was the biggest spike since 1992. a security guard at san francisco's embarcadero center shopping plaza has been suspended because of an incident caught on video. it happened on wednesday. the guard told two young men not to go into a store because he supposedly knew they were going to steal. i-team reporter dan noyes has been digging into this incident and has some exclusive information. >> 24 year old nicholas kincade and 22 year old amir ali work at a high fashion boutique near the embarcadero center. during a break, nicholas wanted to pick up some supplies from the sephora there. >> we just wanted to, you know, i wanted to get a scalp scrubber for myself. we were talking about beauty products all day, pretty much just discussing like what we needed. >> they first tried the inside door. it was blocked, so they walked around to the street side
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entrance where a security guard told them not to enter the store. >> this is private property. >> okay, okay. and what have i done so far? do you want to let me know? what have i done? you. you're going to go in and steal? how do you know that, how do you know that? i've been around a long time. you have no answer. you have no answer at all. >> i've been around a long time. >> i spoke to the two of them today. the first time he says, don't go in there because i know you're going to steal what goes through your mind. >> i know what time it is. i know what's going on. i mean, we've heard about this a billion times, so i immediately just start firing back and trying to get anything out of him to prove that he has something to stand on. because i know my heart of hearts is absolutely nothing there, they tell me. >> they questioned whether the guard even worked at the embarcadero. they thought he might be a vigilante. why do you even work at this? >> pardon me? do you work at this property? yeah >> can i see like, security? >> can i see, like, any documentation that you work here? i see, like, any documentation that you work here. >> well, i can show you. i can
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show you this while it's just off camera. >> you can see the guard lift his jacket a bit. the two shoppers say he revealed his sidearm. that is visible a few seconds later, and then he lifts his shirt and shows me a glock and i'm like, well, that doesn't really. >> yeah, that doesn't really help the situation right now. i don't need to see a weapon now. i just feel threatened. >> i can show you this. my id and the guard briefly showed a badge. >> a retired lieutenant inspector shield from the san francisco district attorney's office. starting there, i called law enforcement sources who identified the guard as 72 year old mike koppel. he worked for the marin county sheriff's department and then retired from the san francisco da's office in 2007. her staff says. district attorney brooke jenkins would not comment on the incident because this matter is under investigation by the special prosecutions unit of our office. the person seen in this video is not a current employee. the owner of the embarcadero complex, boston properties, emailed me that they are working with the third party security partner to conduct a full investigation into the incident. in the meantime, the security
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officer has been removed from our property pending the results of the investigation. koppel did not return my calls, texts and emails for comment. ali and kincade tell me they went shopping in sephora anyway. >> okay, so we're going to go inside now because you have no reason to stop us. >> all right. you go in, you shield. >> and they came out to find an sfpd officer waiting at the door, but they just walked by and returned to work. both say they never saw mike koppel before that altercation. i spoke with several people in law enforcement and security guard training, and they said what happened could be a real problem for mike koppel. we'll tell you when the investigation is over and what it concludes for the i-team. dan noyes, abc seven news in the north bay. >> new video captures the chaos as a man fired on deputies in santa rosa. now, the shootout ended with deputies hurt and the suspect dead. a warning the video is graphic and may be disturbing to watch over me. i'm going for my rifle. body cameras
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show the nonstop gunfire back on march 4th. you can hear it here. sonoma county sheriff's deputies stopped jose luis villasenor cervantes after they say he showed a weapon outside a nightclub. the sheriff's office says cervantes shot at. one deputy then appeared to leave when other deputies showed up. cervantes started shooting again . several deputies ended up hurt by shrapnel. >> anyone who is willing to fire upon deputies or police officers is willing to fire and shoot and kill anyone. >> police say cervantes led deputies on a chase, crashing into a sheriff's car and through a fence. they think cervantes died in the crash. a deputy is still in the hospital after another deputy accidentally ran him over. now to the severe weather aftermath in the midwest, three people are dead after tornadoes tore through multiple states on thursday, and more than a half dozen tornadoes were reported across seven states. an indiana and ohio. the weather service says there were
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two ef three tornadoes, one of the hardest hit areas was logan county, ohio, just outside of columbus. more than two dozen people are being treated for broken bones and other injuries. back here at home, though, we get a break from the rain this weekend, we get another beautiful day of sunshine in store. how's it looking, lisa? yeah, we have a great weekend. >> slightly cooler at the coast. we're going to see a return to those breezy onshore winds, and we've had offshore winds yesterday. at this time, temperatures were in the 60s so the winds have slackened off. no advisories. but we are looking at temperatures not in the low 70s at half moon bay like we had yesterday, but still pleasant in the 60s. and even san francisco. coming down a bit, here's a look at live doppler seven, where high pressure deflecting the storm track well to the north, and that low pressure area still wobbling about in southern california. we'll see a wind shift today. and that will bring up the fog tonight. 48 in fremont. it is 50 in hayward
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with 49 in oakland. good morning. looking at temperatures in the mid 50s for you in san francisco with 41 in santa rosa, 43 in sonoma there's emeryville. and as we look outside, they're still dark, sunny and cooler at the coast today. tomorrow we'll have that milder weather around the bay and inland. so the coastal fog will start the day. and then by next tuesday, spring arrives march 19th, and that will allow for a nice afternoon. but temperatures cooling off, clouds increasing, and we're going to see a return to the rain by the end of the workweek. there's a look at the southerly flow, and that's going to allow for not only the sea breeze to kick in throughout the day, but eventually the fog overnight. so the winds much lighter out there. but you can see along the coast up to some 20 miles an hour. and then inside the bay here, a little breezy, more like a typical pattern though. no offshore winds. so those gusty winds like we had yesterday. so there is the leprechaun for the parade today. upper 50s, san francisco, 2:00. it's mild. the
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winds are light in the mid 60s. and then by 6:00, festivities ending low 60s and a cool night ahead with temperatures in the city dropping off into the 50s. as we take a look at the nice day on monday, temperatures are going to rebound from the 60s to the 70s again, so a bit of a bump up before we do a reversal and we see tuesday's temperatures still nice coming down. we'll see more sunshine into wednesday though. the trend continues for the cooler weather will eventually add in more cloud cover. and it looks like we will have that rain returning . and not only for friday looking like next weekend as well. so upper 60s today for you in oakland. look for 70 in palo alto. so that's a nice day. mid 70s in san jose it has been pretty mild. these are all well above average low to mid 60s. are the actual average high temperatures for this time of year. sunny and a little cooler at the coast today the accuweather seven day forecast a pot of gold there tomorrow with the cooler day at the shoreline. so that continues each and every
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>> sunny weekend can you believe it? we do have a little bit of cooling at the coast. we had widespread 70s yesterday starting out with cooler temperatures, lighter winds, and you can see those low 40s up in the north bay, 42 in napa, 41 santa rosa. it is 44 in danville and 49 in oakland. so compared to yesterday, yeah, you definitely need the jacket 8 to 21 degrees cooler with no wind and clear sky. there's no fog yet, but we'll begin to see some patchy fog arrive and into your sunday, that is. then we'll be looking at sunny conditions. temperatures will be cooler at the shoreline, but we're still looking at numbers coming up into the 70s in our inland valleys today. we'll detail that forecast for you into the week ahead, which includes some bigger changes and our storm impact scale. stephanie >> lisa, thank you to developing news now in separate cases involving former president donald trump, a georgia judge ruled the district attorney can stay on his election interference case if one condition is met. and in new
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york, a major update in trump's hush money trial. abc news reporter johny fernandez has more. the lead prosecutor in the georgia election interference case against former president trump resigned friday. >> nathan wade's resignation came hours after judge scott mcafee's ruling. mcafee ruled that fulton county district attorney fani willis can stay on the case if her or wade step aside. the ruling, due to a significant appearance of impropriety stemming from a romantic relationship between willis and wade. mcafee stating the defendants failed to meet their burden of proving that the district attorney acquired an actual conflict of interest, and georgia law does not permit the finding of an actual conflict for simply making bad choices, even repeatedly. willis keeping her case against the former president. but judge mcafee admonished her lapse in judgment and her credibility on the witness stand, stating an odor of mendacity remains. >> these people are on trial for
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trying to steal an election in 2020. i'm not on trial. no matter how hard you try to put me on trial. >> separately, a judge in new york overseeing former president trump's hush money case, delaying the start of the trial from its original march 25th start date. the judge allowing the defense more time to review thousands of pages of potential evidence recently disclosed by the justice department. johny fernandez, abc news new york. >> now to your voice, your vote in the race to replace congresswoman anna eshoo, whose district includes the south bay and peninsula. there's another lead change. the top two candidates from last week's primary advance to november's general election former san jose mayor sam liccardo will definitely be one of those candidates. but check out the battle for second place santa clara county supervisor joe simitian took the lead back from assemblyman evan low. low edged ahead on wednesday, but now it's simitian ahead by 44 votes, and it's looking more and more likely that prop one will pass.
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it would use billions in bonds to provide housing for the homeless and mentally ill. currently, it's got 50.2% support with 23,000 more yes votes than no votes. you can find local race results from california's primary election over on our website abc7 news.com. more than 50,000 extra signatures. that's how many. the campaign to recall alameda county district attorney pamela price submitted to call for a special election. the registrar's office says it will take time to verify all of those signatures. a group called safe stands for save alameda for everyone, and it's leading this recall effort saying price is too soft on crime. safe tells us they've submitted 123,000 signatures in total. >> if we didn't have at least 90, it would 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
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election of the first black district attorney in the history of alameda county has failed. its first critical benchmark has been shown down 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. >> the group, protect the win stands in support of d.a. price. it also suggests a special election could cost taxpayers upwards of $10 million. now to the latest in the war between israel and hamas, an israeli strike in central gaza last night killed 37 people. that's according to gaza's hamas run health ministry. sources say residents only got 15 minutes to evacuate. meanwhile israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu's office says he has approved plans for action into rafah. the white house says it has not received those plans right now. 1.4 million people are displaced. palestinians are currently in rafah, a doctor from the south bay is back home this morning. it's after he helped injured civilians in gaza
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for over a month now. doctor muhammad subhi says life in gaza was like being in an apocalyptic horror movie with mass casualty incidents daily. we really worked with very scarce resources to be able to save lives, save limbs. >> half of the patients that i saw were children, many of whom lost their parents, family and friends. >> greeted sub at san francisco international airport. he spent the last five weeks treating injured civilians with minimal supplies and staff. he says the hospital was built to take a few dozen patients a day. this week. they helped nearly 1000 people daily. >> it's magnitudes more than what i expected, and so, still trying to process what that means for all of us as, as a global community. >> we subhi says. going to gaza was a no brainer, and he feels
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guilty about leaving. he hopes to go back and continue his work there today. multiple cities, including san francisco, will honor the victims of the atlanta spa shootings that happened three years ago. the shooting left eight people dead. six of those were of asian descent. and today, asian american communities and allies in new york city, la and atlanta will host events called stand together remembering 316. it will feature asian american leaders, activists and artists addressing anti-asian hate. the event will happen in japantowns hotel kabuki today from 2 to 5. still ahead on abc seven mornings, mission street and san francisco is now cleaner. the new report coming from officials months after the street vending ban. and here's a live look atop our roof camera looking at the bay bridge this morning. it
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i think it's moving along nicely. it's 539 to consumer news now a settlement could bring down the cost of buying and selling homes. the national association of realtors agreed to settle a series of lawsuits over excessive fees. this puts an end to the typical 6% commission most agents charge after being accused of keeping costs artificially high as per the agreement, they'll pay $418 million in damages and eliminate the commission guidelines. >> the settlement might spur some activity in the market because sellers have been sort of hesitant lately, but now with a little bit of extra money in their pockets, that might be a good thing. >> bay area experts argue not much will change here with the consistently high demand, but some argue that realtor fees could drop by 30, or that this could give rise to online brokers offering discounted realtor services. the federal trade commission is looking into
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the social news site reddit for its plans to use its users content to train artificial intelligence. the company says it plans to license user generated content to train ai models before its initial public offering. reddit disclosed the investigation in an sec filing on friday. the letter also revealed that 9% of reddit is currently owned by openai ceo sam altman. new details about the ongoing battle over street vendors in san francisco's mission district. new data from the city's public works department shows a drop in requests for street cleaning. abc seven news reporter luz pena has been following this story. it's been over three months since street vending was banned on mission streets, 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
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with san francisco police officers, are patrolling the area seven days 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? >> just 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 cuatro. her group represents street
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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 the 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 it like this. we sell and that's the space they stay eight hours. why not stay eight hours and we sell over there. we had. we had a permit. legal permit? >> that was luz pena reporting
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the ban is not perfect. we're told residents report seeing vendors selling what appears to be stolen items on the sidewalks after inspectors leave at 8 p.m. public works says it is aware and will continue to gather more data before extending or changing their schedule. how's it looking, lisa? >> well, you know what? yesterday, 73 degrees, san francisco and oakland, 75, in san jose. right now it is 54 right here, 55 at the airport. we will be cooler in the city and at the shoreline, but elsewhere, more 70s returns. stay tuned. my accuweather seven-
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crypto.com arena. tip off is at 530. then stick around for our sports show after the game at eight. here's larry beil with what's expected and what's at stake. >> good morning everybody. with 17 games to go, time is really running out for the warriors to try to move up the western conference standings. so the expected return of steph curry against the lakers tonight it is huge. steph missed three games after spraining his ankle last thursday. rejoined the warriors in los angeles for a workout yesterday. coach steve kerr said steph will likely be a game time decision, but if he feels good in warmups as they expect curry will play against a lakers team that the dubs trail by one game. >> that's the plan. everything goes well with, with practice today and rehab tonight and all that, but i'm working hard all week to try to get back as soon as possible. so it's nice to be back with the team for a good energy going on. >> steph, his staff, so we need him, this is a big game tomorrow. obviously they're all big, but particularly the ones
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against the teams, you know ahead of us and teams that we, are on the heels of. so so, i'm, thrilled to get steph back. and we've got, a whole team tomorrow . hopefully we can stay whole now for the remainder of the season, we've got the warriors and lakers. hopefully steph versus lebron tonight tip off at 5:30 p.m. followed by after the game around 8:00. giants and a's in arizona with also rain and lightning. bring your cardboard to the yard for those situations. they played only a few innings. have no fear. yaz is here diving and robbing, ryan noted. but the game was called in the third, with the giants ahead to one j.d. davis moving across the bay. signed by the a's for $2.5 million, the veteran third baseman, he actually won his arbitration case with the giants for 6.9 mil. then they cut him. that doesn't seem fair at all. and stop me if you've heard this one before, the giants they are. they're in on blake snell, the cy young winner who's looking
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for a new team through a simulated game in seattle with giants scouts on hand, supposedly looked good. the second round of the players championship scottie scheffler world number one had some neck issues. so he's six back of this man. your leader wyndham clark started on the back nine. the birdie there on the famed 17th island green. and then clark with a wedge shot here. this thing almost went slammed again. the reigning us open champ shot a 65 leads by four heading to the weekend. and to the delight of quarterbacks everywhere, aaron donald is retiring after a decade of dominance. the three time defensive player of the year with the rams, who wrecked game plans forever, hangs up his pads at 32 and x niners qb jimmy garoppolo coming back to the nfc west, signing with the rams to back up matthew stafford. that's a wrap on morning sports. don't forget warriors. lakers right here at 530. have a great weekend everybody i'm larry beil . >> the bay area's newest professional soccer franchise. bay football club or bay fc will play its inaugural game this weekend. bay fc is the 14th and
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newest soccer team to join the national women's soccer league. bay fc defender emily menges spoke to reporters about the club's preparations for their very first game. >> for any team, i think the first game of the season is always kind of yeah, kind of just a not a crapshoot. we're more prepared than that. but every every team is not as prepared as they will be later on. but, but yeah, we're feeling good. we're we're getting ourselves. like i said, we're ironing out the final details tactically and. yeah. ready to play angel city. >> got to get that first one in the game. kicks off tomorrow afternoon against angel city in los angeles bay fc's first home match is on march 30th, and had it been a home game today, it would have been great weather for it too. let's check in with lisa. good morning. >> yeah. good morning to you. we have not only a great day today, but how about a sunny weekend for a change, we're looking at live doppler seven, where this area of low pressure here still
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influencing the weather in southern california. it's going to provide a wind shift for us later on today and into the second half of the weekend. 55 sfo it is 50 in palo alto, so temperatures have dropped off. the winds are about five miles an hour or even less. 41 in santa rosa, 42 in napa. and our current headlines feature the sunshine today. cooler by the coast. we'll see a return to some breezy onshore winds and then we'll be looking at the low clouds and fog returning overnight tonight. so waking up to some of the patchy fog into your sunday, but still mild around the bay. we'll see those 70s for today and tomorrow. and then spring arrives. march 19th on tuesday. after that we begin to see more dramatic changes in our forecast. so as we look at our winds, they were offshore for the past several days, dry, low dew points. and we're looking at a wind shift from the winds coming up from the south and then eventually moving in from the west, and that will allow for that sea breeze right inside the bay throughout the afternoon at about 15 to 20 miles an hour. so that initiates
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the cool down into the low to mid 60s at the coast. we're going to get into a slight rebound into monday where temperatures will see some mid 70s again as high pressure temporarily builds in, and then we'll look for things to cool off, especially at the coast on tuesday into wednesday. still pleasant out there. we're dry. we're partly cloudy to mostly sunny throughout the middle of the week, and then we'll be looking at a couple areas of low pressure that want to visit us. so here we are. back to the outlook that shows rain returning. this is wednesday. and then as early as thursday into friday. this system looks like it wants to bring rain to much of california mountain snow and even into next saturday. so looking unsettled. spring showers back in the forecast as we get towards the end of the week. 69 today in oakland. look for low 70s for livermore. nice afternoon there. mid 70s in san jose and 60s in santa cruz. so right around the shoreline that's where we're going to be cooler uh- temperatures there just in the low to mid 60s. the
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accuweather seven day forecast. today's highs will be in the mid 70s once again. south bay inland valleys, low 70s, bay shore, low 60s at the coast and then for the parade today looking nice with mid 60s saint patrick's day tomorrow, the official day for a cooler afternoon there with low 60s at the coast. but starting out with the gray sky into monday, temperatures will rebound just a bit. tuesday spring arrives and then wednesday and thursday we'll be looking at rainfall potential and accumulated rainfall, which could be anywhere from a half inch to maybe an inch up in the north bay. so way too soon to pinpoint that. that would be a level one on friday, maybe as soon as thursday. all right, well, we'll enjoy this nice weather while we have it. >> yeah, absolutely. a reminder that you can watch all our newscasts live and on demand through the abc seven bay area connected tv app. it's available for apple tv, google tv, amazon fire tv and roku. you can download the app now and start streaming. we'll be right back.
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that's a promise. not a promo. last year, the surgeon general called it a public health crisis . and 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. on friday, he announced the launch of the are you lonely campaign and a call for the county to help fund it. >> 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. >> right now, the campaign has partners in ucsf and local nonprofits on the peninsula.
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happening today, saint patrick's day is sunday, but san francisco's big celebration is happening today. the 173rd annual saint patrick's day parade and celebration steps off downtown, starting 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. well, no one hit the mega millions jackpot, so it climbs from 815 to $875 it's creeping up to the billion dollar mark again making it the sixth largest in mega millions history. the last winner to take home the jackpot was in early december. let's take a look at tonight's winning numbers. 13 2550, 5166. and that mega number is six. the next drawing is on tuesday. coming up next on abc. seven mornings at 6 a.m. another airplane mishap and the response from boeing after a panel was
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