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this weekend? also, the bay area lawmaker weighing in on the political fight over tiktok. why? he says banning the social media app is not the answer to national security concerns leaping leprechauns at saint patrick's day celebrations underway from the south bay to ireland. abc seven news starts now. >> always live abc seven news starts right now. >> a growing memorial now sits where a san francisco bus shelter once stood, a tribute to the victims of a terrible crash. tonight, we're learning more about the collision that has now claimed the lives of three people, including a small child. thank you for joining us. i'm j.r. stone. police say a fourth family member, another child is still in critical condition tonight. the crash happened saturday when the driver of an suv slammed into a bus shelter
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on yulo street. abc news reporter cornell bernard spoke with family friends who say the victims were all related. >> i want an outpouring of grief in san francisco's west portal neighborhood, where a muni bus shelter once stood. anna and her friends, overcome with emotion as they left flowers at the scene for people they knew. >> we were friends from san francisco. really close friends. like very good people. like very full of life. >> she's portuguese and then he's brazilian. like they're living here. >> family, friends say the couple and their two kids, a toddler and a baby, were waiting at the bus stop saturday for a trip to the zoo when the driver of an suv crashed into them. rosario falero says the father and toddler were killed. the sfpd confirms a woman died from her injuries on sunday. rosario says she was wife and mom. >> a lot of things that we knew about, like love, was then, you know, like they were like amazing couple, like they had, like, no issues with anything. they were just like love, love, love and taking care of their,
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their kids, you know, like then they were like going to the zoo, you know, like to have a nice day at the park. >> police say the baby survived the crash, listed in critical condition sunday. vilma franco brought her daughter to the growing memorial for the victims. her husband witnessed the crash and tried to help. >> obviously, i have my child, i have a kid, and i. i don't want to imagine what the family feel in this moment. how heartbroken is for all the community. >> it's devastating. >> jody medeiros from walk san francisco, a nonprofit advocating pedestrian safety, is heartbroken by the crash. her group planning a vigil here monday afternoon. >> nobody should die this way. we shouldn't. our community shouldn't be losing members of our community this way. uh- it's absolutely devastating. >> medeiros points to vision zero san francisco's goal to eliminate traffic related deaths and injuries. >> that we're not there means we need to be doing more. the city
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needs to be doing better. >> our goal is to make sure that we're doing everything we can to ensure the safety of the people in this city, and it may mean changes, but we would need to wait until the investigation is complete. >> investigators still don't know why the driver crashed into the bus shelter. >> we don't know if the driver had a medical emergency. that is all under investigation. >> that driver is still in the hospital while a community mourns in san francisco. cornell, bernard abc seven news. >> just heartbreaking images there. the desperate situation in haiti is deterior getting further now. there are fears roughly a million people are at risk of starvation that alarming estimate is being made by the world food program and comes amid a political crisis in the country. gangs have attacked key institutions and shut down the main airport. they're calling for a quick transition of power after forcing the prime minister to resign today, there was some progress on that front. >> we do see the political
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process moving forward. there was a terrific meeting in jamaica. secretary blinken represented the united states, where haitian led haitian groups came together and decided on this transitional presidential council to appoint an interim prime minister. so that's a good thing. >> hundreds of american citizens are trapped in haiti. the us government says it will organize a charter flight for them from a more stable area in the north of the country, but getting there could be difficult, with gangs also controlling the single highway to that region. bay area representative ro khanna is weighing in on the political battle that could get tiktok banned here in the united states , a bill that would require bytedance to divest itself or the video app or sell it passed the house last week. bytedance is the china based parent company of tiktok. this morning, khanna appeared on abc's this week. he voted against the bill and says it unfairly targets tiktok when the real concern should be protecting data in general.
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>> two national security issues that proponents of the bill have cited. both are legitimate. one will the data get to a foreign government in this case the chinese communist party? two will the chinese communist party have an influence on algorithms? we can deal with both with a narrowly tailored law. let's ban any data going to a foreign country and protect american data. second, let's ban any foreign interference in a social media app, whether that's tiktok or another app. and by the way, those laws would also cover data brokers which are selling data to chinese companies. so this bill is not actually addressing the issues. >> it's still unclear if or when the senate might take up the bill. but president biden has said if it passes and they pass it, that is, he will sign it. if it makes it to his desk. saint patrick's day celebrations are in full swing, and the south bay celebrated the holiday with a high flying tradition. a saint patty's skydive capped the
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festivities at the hiller aviation museum in san carlos. yep, that's a leprechaun leaping out of a helicopter and parachuting through the air. he landed at san carlos airport. just outside of the museum. there was face painting planes painted green, and more leprechauns hidden throughout its exhibits. no pinches for children who forgot their green. just prizes for kids wearing the festive colors is home of the holiday. thousands of people lined the streets of the irish capital to celebrate. organizers say this was their largest ever saint patrick's day parade, with half a million spectators. saint patrick's day observes the death of the patron saint of ireland, but it's evolved into a celebration of irish irish culture around the world. and at the white house, the fountains were flowing green for saint patrick's day. inside, the president was hosting a brunch for catholic leaders. president biden thanked them for their
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work around the world and praised the resilience of the irish spirit. >> that belief inspired generations of irish women and men to keep going, even in the face of enormous setbacks, and it convinced millions of irish immigrants, including my ancestors and many of you here who are here today, to leave their beloved homeland and began a new life in america. >> biden is america's second catholic president. it was a beautiful day for a run. thousands of runners in oakland thought so, too, when they set out for the 15th oakland marathon this morning. 8000 entrants hailing from 40 states and 15 countries, powered their way through a winding course that went through the town. 26 year old simon richie, from san francisco, was the fastest runner, finishing in two hours, 28 minutes and the women's category. 27 year old sarah bagnell, from san francisco, finished in 257. and we have to give a big shout out, you see
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right here to our abc seven news at 6 p.m. producer kate eby, who finished today's half marathon in under two hours. way to go, kate. target is making a change that will force customers to get in line in more ways than one. what's different at self-checkout starting today, and why thieves are being blamed for the switch and another departure from san francisco's union square, the final day of a business at north face. >> and we have blue skies over the bay area. it's just been another gorgeous day tomorrow, so it's going to be even warmer before a chance of rain returns to the forecast. and i'll show you that
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and starting today, the retailer is limiting customers to ten items or less in the self-service lines. target began relying on self-checkout as a contactless option during the pandemic, but that created a different kind of problem. >> this yields quite a few challenges, but one of them is this funny little notion called a partial shrink, which is when a shopper, perhaps either accidentally or intentionally, doesn't scan all of the items in their order. so some of the stuff goes out the door without having been paid for. >> target has tested the self-checkout change at some stores and said in a statement, we did see a reduction of theft in our test stores, but the program wasn't directed and targeting theft, even though we did see it was reduced. other retailers like walmart and dollar general are currently in
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the process of changing their self-checkout procedures. some stores eliminating it completely, others limiting it to certain customers. it's the last day for another longtime business in san francisco's union square. the north face will close for the final time in about an hour. the outdoor retailer traces its origins to san francisco's north beach. it has no other stores in the city. the company was purchased by the vf corporation in 2000, which owns other brands like timberland and dickies. we've put together a map showing the notable store closures in san francisco since 2020. each blue pin indicates a store that is closed or has announced it has plans to close. if you click on the pin, it will give you the business name, the address, and the closure date. there's also a link in each one that goes into greater detail. why the store decided to close its doors 30 years ago, california adopted the three strikes law, but our longer prison sentences the
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answer to recent spikes in crime. a new abc seven originals video tackles that question. >> you can just say, let's just lock them up, but it doesn't work. >> our prisons aren't overcrowded added, but our streets sure are. >> struck by justice looks back at the kidnaping and murder of petaluma's polly klaas and the so-called tough on crime era that followed. did it make us safer, and at what cost? struck by justice, the impact of polly klaas is now streaming on the abc7 news app. you can have two shots of becoming a multi millionaire this week. when we come back, how much cash will be up for grabs in a pair of lottery drawings? >> and it's been another gorgeous day for the end of our weekend. we have several more dry days as we look outside from sutro, but then the winter weather and the wet weather returns in the accuweather
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two massive jackpots are up for grabs in the next few days. mega millions is estimated to be a whopping $875 million for tuesday night's drawing. it's been weeks since anyone matched all of the numbers. 875 million would be the sixth largest mega millions jackpot ever, and could be even larger by the time we get to tuesday night's drawing. if you miss out on that one, saturday night's powerball jackpot is estimated to be about $600 million. joining me right now, meteorologist francis, i hear your forecast is $1 million forecast, right? >> it is if you like blue skies, sunshine. >> that's that's as good as 600 million. >> right above average warm. yes
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does that add a little bit more okay a little bit yeah. yes so we had another gorgeous day. and as we show you live doppler seven the satellite radar image, we have the clouds off well off our coast. and that's because of high pressure. so here around the bay area, just a few low coastal clouds. that's where we've had partly cloudy conditions, but lots of blue skies elsewhere. as we look for mount tam towards the south and san francisco, the winds have picked up a little bit so it has been cooler, especially by the coast. san francisco's only 57 right now. hayward 60. hey word 64, oakland 62. there we go. san jose 69, san mateo 64. and half moon bay cooler at 57. and that's where you see the beaches. and now from the east bay hills, we are looking out west in santa rosa. 67, petaluma 59. but we're still in the low 70s in some spots, like fairfield, concord and livermore. so it did get a little bit cooler for most locations, especially along the
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beaches and around the bay. a few degrees cooler. but notice some areas came up a degree. now tomorrow it is going to be even warmer. would help cool things down. is the sea breeze. you notice the winds are coming from the northwest, 26 mile per hour winds in san francisco and at sfo, gusting to 29mph from sutro. we're looking down toward san francisco. so tonight we're going to see low clouds and patchy fog once again. and then tomorrow it's actually going to be sunny and warmer. temperatures will come up into the mid 70s for some of our warmest neighborhoods. but the rain returns to the forecast at the end of the week, and it looks like it might be coming a little bit sooner than we originally thought. so here's a futurecast monday. tomorrow morning you notice we'll see some clouds spilling into the bay. we could see some patchy fog and some of the valleys once again, and then we'll get mostly sunny skies before the clouds return again overnight into monday. in monday night into tuesday morning, lows tonight will be generally in the upper
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40s to near 50. san francisco 50, oakland and san jose 49. but some of the valleys like santa rosa, napa and livermore will drop into the mid 40s. and then tomorrow look for plenty of sunshine, except that the beaches will see partly cloudy conditions, but will still be mild. half moon bay 62, san francisco 67. lots of 70s around the bay. oakland 70, san jose even getting up to 76 and lots of mid 70s in santa rosa, napa. so here's the rain chance notice thursday night starts to go up. the rain is moving in friday and into the weekend. some of our forecast shows it starting in the north bay earlier on friday and then moving through the weekend. and then we have another system dropping in on sunday, bringing us some chilly weather. here's the accuweather seven day forecast. so it's just going to be a nicer, even warmer day if temperatures rebound some mid 70s from our warmest locations. spring starts on tuesday and it will feel like spring with the above average
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warmth, but then towards the end of the week it's going to feel more like winter when our storm impact scale. it's a level one, so get ready for the wet weather again. >> frances. i hype up the weather to be $1 million weather forecast and then all that rain in there. >> it's for today. >> okay, okay. thank you so much. well the bay area's brand new women's soccer team just kicked off its first season. bay fc is about 45 minutes into the match against angel fc down in los angeles, and they are up one to nil. the team is in the buzziest of the new national women's soccer league expansion clubs, with a slate of high profile international players signed on. bay fc is the bay area's first professional women's soccer team in more than a decade. they'll play their home opener in less than two weeks at paypal park, the club's expecting a sellout. and speaking of sports, we are joined right now by chris alvarez. talk a little bit more about what's, you know, anytime we're talking soccer, it's a good day. >> obviously a great day to talk about the beautiful game and then some other beautiful games.
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. run the gaels earn the five seed in the west region, where they'll take on 12th seeded grand canyon in spokane, washington. friday if they win, they'll play the alabama charleston winner sunday. they're ready to get started and happy playing on the west coast. >> i love it, i wish they would have came a little earlier. you know, they had us waiting for a little bit. but it's a nice feeling to know that you're in and, you know, just trust our work and we'll be good. but yeah, definitely ecstatic to see that being in the west is nice. >> real nice. you don't have to change time zones. i was hoping they weren't calling us for brooklyn or pittsburgh or any of those. so yeah, it's and our fans can get out there. that'll make a difference. we'll have we'll have good support out there. >> it is also selection sunday for the women's bracket and the stanford women's team doesn't know what's happening quite yet. the women's selection show happening right now on our sister network espn. they have
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not revealed stanford's matchup at last. check the cardinal or at last check that is, the cardinal won the last pac 12 regular season championship, expected to be a number one seed. we do know the host games at maples pavilion this weekend. we'll have that answer at six. now. earlier today, the second half of the atlantic ten tournament had just started between duquesne and vcu, and somebody hit the wrong button. here goes the confetti. i mean, this is just after halftime. there's 18 minutes left in the second half. they had to stop and play and clean the court, reset the confetti fans have on both sides, on both sides. excuse me yelling that means we won. and duquesne actually did win the game. they clinched their first ncaa tournament 47 years. i've never, ever seen that stephon curry return for the warriors last night after missing three games with an ankle sprain. i look good right there with the little karate kick chop uh- he was held scoreless in the first quarter against lakers, then finished with 31. you can't hold steph down long leading the warriors to a win in la. they're not percentage points ahead of the lakers for ninth in the western conference, but curry's personal
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highlight might have come after the game greeting current world tennis number one novak djokovic afterwards, who was many of the celebrities courtside in la last night. the jokers won a record 24 grand slam. signed a racket for steph, gave it to him. curry then gave his game worn jersey to novak. signed that. i asked steph what it was like to see all the celebs courtside to watch him. >> same way like you go to different events, different sports and see their marquee events. uh- i'm a fan just like they are, and it's pretty cool to know that people come in here and love watching us play, and whether it's them or their kids or whatever the case is, that ey they're here for a reason.
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here's a look at the newly named lily, who is clearly doing much better. the new video of her shows she's learning about her own kind. watching a documentary from a laptop. yes, tigers and documentaries. she was rescued from a private facility in bad shape. and i reported on this earlier this year. so great to see this. lily had several bone fractures and trouble moving around. she will move to a facility that specializes in caring for tigers once she makes a full recovery. uh- you know she's still hanging out, but she had a lot of bbones. y stories as we come on the air. former president trump doubling down on his controvel
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