and did we mention, it really, really sticks? salonpas, it's good medicine. news and we get right to that breaking news happening right now in redwood city. firefighters continue to battle a fire at a metal scrap yard. the fire started about 90 minutes ago. it sent a huge plume of smoke over the redwood

city marina. >> this is happening at sims metal, which is on seaport boulevard. it's across the road from the salt marshes and near a google campus. >> we want to see if we can get you some live images right now from sky seven. there they are. firefighters. they've been able to control the fire. we do have a crew on site there. they're working to get more details on how this fire started and what damage has been caused so far. we'll bring it to you when we get it. thanks so much for joining us. i'm julian glover and i'm ama daetz. >> the other big story we're following tonight, the city of oakland sale of their share of the oakland of the coliseum land. >> it is a deal that's worth $105 million. abc seven news reporter ryan curry has the details and explains how this might help the city's budget. >> swinging for the fences on a project that could forever change the coliseum grounds, mayor shengtao announced the city will sell its share of the coliseum land. the buyer, the african american sports and entertainment group, this is a moment where east oakland is going to change. founder ray

bobbitt says his organization is ready to transform the land into something that can reshape not just east oakland, but the entire city. >> the coliseum site really represents an incredible opportunity to do to revitalize this community without displacing and without gentrification. >> at wednesday's announcement, students at castlemont high school showed their renderings of what could come a. she says they could build new housing, entertainment centers and new sports arenas, plus $105 million is money the city needs while facing a tight budget. >> it is good timing, but i would say it's not good timing. the sense they should have been happened decades ago, right? we're talking about a parcel in in a space where we have the highest amount of people who are on public assistance. >> this sale is the latest chapter surrounding the future of oakland sports after the baseball season. for the first time since the 1960s, no team will call the coliseum home. >> it's about the heart and mind and soul that sports fans of all generations have put into these teams in oakland, and that's

being ripped away from their grasp. >> the oakland roots and oakland ballers have both explored playing at the coliseum. however, both these teams play in minor league divisions much different than the three teams that used to play here. chris dobbins, who used to sit on the coliseum board, now runs save oakland sports. he believes oakland should not just be a minor league town, but after having been having, you know, professional football, professional basketball, winning a number of championships in oakland, to going back to just having minor league teams. >> no. >> so how do you get an nfl team to move back to oakland or an nba team to play at the arena again? dobbins says it's not easy. >> it takes people with money. and, you know, let's i hope that the african-american sports entertainment group can make that happen. >> but with this deal, it's possible the first steps towards achieving those goals are being taken in oakland. ryan curry, abc seven news. >> the coliseum sale is seen as a potential financial bridge that could help oakland through a rough economic period. the city has an estimated $170 million deficit. mayor shengtao

is expected to deliver her mid-year budget proposal to the city council this week. cuts to police academies and partial closures of at least four fire stations are being considered to save the city money. the oakland metropolitan chamber of commerce is calling for city leaders to prioritize public safety and attracting new business. >> a search of california highway patrol officers into the east bay has led to hundreds of arrests in stolen vehicles being recovered. that's all, according to the governor's office. newsom's office says the chp has helped to recover more than 700 stolen cars and made more than 350 arrests since february. that's when the state began tempoorary searches in alameda county. no word on how many people have been charged or convicted. the governor's office says the arrests are linked to organized crime, carjackings and other major felonies. >> a high school student was arrested in gilroy today for stabbing. another student happened at christopher high school. staff put the school on lockdown after a fight broke out between the students around lunchtime. we have some video

that was sent to abc seven by one of the students. you can see the knife on the floor of the boys locker room where the fight started. investigators say one student pulled out a knife and stabbed the other student. the victim was taken to a local hospital. the district is offering counseling for students. >> a class action lawsuit over rampant sexual assault at a recently closed east bay federal women's prison will go to trial in june of next year. the lawsuit was filed by a group of formerly incarcerated women against the federal bureau of prisons. attorneys discussed a possible settlement, but an offer had not been made. eight former correctional officers have been charged and convicted of abusing those female prisoners. >> there are new developments in the case against a man who broke into nancy pelosi's home and bludgeoned her husband, paul, with a hammer two years ago today, as jury selection continued for a state trial, san francisco's district attorney added two new felony charges against david depape, including threatening a family member of a public official. depape has already been found guilty of federal charges and will be

sentenced in the federal case next week. >> a coalition of california mayors is urging the governor and the legislature to maintain funding for a homeless housing grant program. it's known as hap , and the program provided $1 billion in the past year to pay for housing and shelter for people facing homelessness. the program has helped 42,000 people find long term housing in san francisco. hap helps fund the navigation centers and 950 of the city's shelter beds. locally our street homelessness has reached a ten year low, but our family homelessness has increased and we need all of the resources we can to address these issues off the streets and into interim housing. san jose mayor matt mehan joined the call for continued funding. he says hap helped 2500 people find housing in san jose, and another 6700 avoid falling into homelessness. >> these two historic seafood restaurants at san francisco's fisherman's wharf have filed suit against the city for millions. the owners of the now

closed fisherman's grotto and tarantino's restaurant say they are owed millions by the city, and renovation and maintenance costs. herringbone tavern also accuses san francisco of failing to maintain the character of the wharf. the lawsuit says the city's covid 19 lockdowns and the homelessness crisis impacted business in the south bay. >> a big push today from community leaders and organizations rallying against an act that addresses how tax increases are approved. opponents say it cuts funding to critical government services, but supporters say it gives taxpayer more power. abc7 news south bay reporter zach fuentes has more. >> what are we saying? vote no. >> a call to action by these community leaders and labor organizations. they're rallying against the taxpayer protection and government accountability act, which they also call the taxpayer deception act. it would raise the number of voters needed to approve state or local tax increases and redefine what's considered a fee or a tax. opponents say wealthy, real

estate developers and landlords are behind the push to get it. on the november ballot. >> a city cannot fully fund its services if it is required to go out to the voters every time these fees increase. >> if the act passes any state or local taxes approved after january of 2022 would also have to be approved by voters to stay in place. >> that would put at risk the ability for local governments to really control their own, funding their own destinies and take a lot of the democracy away from the voters of each of the local cities and jurisdictions. >> labor organizations like san jose firefighters local 230 say it would gut critical services and funds that support high call volume. >> if this were to pass, those funds are no longer. not only are they not going to be available in the future, they're going to be retroactively taken. >> but supporters of the act disagree. >> they can't point to one instance where eliminates or cuts a single tax. it does subject a handful of taxes less than ten that, passed by less than the constitutional requirement of two thirds vote would have to be resubmitted to

the voters. >> jon coupal, with the howard jarvis taxpayers association, says the taxpayer protection act is about accountability. >> it doesn't prohibit the imposition of any tax. it simply says you've got to involve the people who pay the tax. if you want to collect more money. >> right now, the california supreme court is looking into whether or not the act violates the state's constitution. if it finds the act does, it could be removed from the november ballot . for now, both supporters and opponents say they'll each continue to push their messaging in the south bay. zach fuentes, abc seven news. >> donald trump is coming to the bay area, according to a report from reuters. the republican presidential candidate will attend a fundraiser in san francisco june 6th. that's two weeks from tomorrow. it will be hosted by venture capitalist david sachs and chamath palihapitiya, reuters reports. vip tickets cost $50,000. >> coming up. cancer is the leading cause of death for this group of people. >> and now there's a new multi-million dollar grant to help fund a groundbreaking study

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will help fund a groundbreaking study from ucsf into cancer among asian americans. >> it's the first long term study of its kind, even though cancer is the leading cause of death among asian americans. >> abc7 news reporter suzanne fawn joins us live from the newsroom with a closer look at the study's impact. suzanne. ahmad, julian, ucsf researchers say this is a major historic study that they've been waiting for a long time. now with this huge grant, researchers believe they can better understand why so many asian americans are getting cancer. >> when my mom first got diagnosed, i really couldn't believe it. >> sarah wen of san francisco says what happened to her mother is still a big mystery. >> my mom was diagnosed with lung cancer when she was like 90, and she has never smoked in

their life. this year, wen's mother is 94 years old. >> she's been surviving with cancer for the past four years, thanks to a new $12.45 million grant from the national cancer institute. ucsf will launch a new study this fall to figure out what's driving cancer in asian americans. >> it really has the potential to set the stage and provide the opportunity for us to really make leaps and bounds in terms of our discoveries of what causes cancer in asian american populations. >> doctor scarlet lin gomez with ucsf is one of the three principal investigators. she says a lot of people don't know that cancer is the number one cause of death among asian americans. >> there is this, preconception that cancer is not a problem among asian american communities . >> doctor gomez also says surprisingly, many asian american women have lung cancer, and they do not smoke. >> there has been no study done to study this specifically in

the us, so we don't know what the factors are. >> a majority of the patients that i do see, although typically lung cancer, breast cancer at northeast medical services in chinatown, doctor justin kwok, an oncologist, sees about 20 to 30 asian american patients a day. about 40% of females that i see have cancer, that is lung cancer that is not associated with smoking. it's astronomical. >> doctors don't know why that's happening. >> speculation is that they are exposed to spouses that smoke, or maybe the way they cook their their foods using a wok. but that's all speculation. we really need hard evidence data to help us understand better how to prevent this cancer as well. >> i'm really glad actually it got the attention and also the resources to do research. >> as for sarah, when she says the new grant money for the ucsf study will hopefully bring answers, and maybe that could answer my questions like why do my mom got lung cancer? >> who was never a smoker at such an old age? >> and ucsf wants asian americans across the country to

get on board with this study this fall, ucsf will begin enrolling 20,000 people from every asian american group. they hope eventually to enroll as many as 50,000 participants live in the newsroom. suzanne vaughn, abc seven news. >> critically important work. thank you so much, suzanne. coming up, commute traffic. it's the daily annoyance that people all across the bay area try to avoid if you can. well, now, a new study on commute times examines the worst and best commutes. we'll show you

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to a spike in commuters, and three bay area cities are in the top 30 when it comes to who's worst, hayward was number 23, with the average person spending 245 hours commuting each year. oakland was 28th, with an average of 241 hours on the road, and san francisco was 29th with 240 hours. that's about ten

days each year. but there is some good news. abc7 news south bay reporter dustin dorsey has that part of the story. >> when it comes to one of the biggest issues plaguing bay area residents, one topic seems to always come up the traffic in the commute. >> it's just stop and go. traffic everywhere, accidents, people driving fast, people in a hurry, congested. >> definitely congested. stressful >> from the east bay to the south bay and up the peninsula to the north bay. it takes a while to get around people actually spend so much time stuck in traffic annually. it equates to ten days in cities like oakland and san francisco. but would you believe some commute times are actually decreasing in the bay area? >> who's saying it's a decrease? i'm really i'm really curious. >> that would be the us census bureau american community survey . while the nationwide average has increased by two minutes in the past decade, the bay area is showing progress. when you look at the top ten cities where commutes have decreased from 2012 to 2022, fremont is first in the nation, with drivers saving about 27 more hours per

year over the last decade, which means you're saving about six minutes per workday. at number six. san francisco, which saw a 17 hour dip rounding out the top ten is sunnyvale, where drivers shaved off nearly 14 hours in that span. residents we spoke with were slow to believe their time was actually being saved. >> i don't know if it's gotten worse over the last year, but it definitely has not gone down. not not even close. >> metropolitan transportation commission spokesperson john goodwin, however, was not surprised. >> a lot changed in the bay area between 2012 and 2022. the biggest thing, of course, was, the pandemic. and that introduced, the widespread acceptance of remote work, goodwin says. >> more express lanes and continued emphasis on public transportation likely contributed to lighter commutes as well. but drivers say there needs to be more solutions to make a truly noticeable impact. >> let us work remote. >> maybe some kind of like incentives for drivers. like if you like, take like 3 or 4

people, maybe they can give like some kind of like discounts for everything. >> goodwin says another solution comes down to solving a decades old problem of affordability and housing. if workers can live where they work, commuting would be almost nonexistent. until that time, we wait in traffic in the south bay. dustin dorsey, abc seven news not complaining about my traffic today. >> it was good. >> yeah, and luckily some pretty good weather. if you do have to sit in traffic, right. you know, open up the windows. absolutely. let the breeze come in. >> although a little hazy. sandhya. >> yeah, it has been hazy, no doubt about it. and julian and ama, it was a refreshing day with the breeze coming in. let me show you a live picture from our san jose camera. where the sun is out. a beautiful day, but certainly seeing a drop in the temperatures by 13 degrees in san carlos compared to 24 hours ago, running seven degrees cooler in san jose, down for oakland, nine degrees cooler in novato. the onshore breeze is certainly playing a role in the cooling gusts to 25 in san jose

right now. now if you are stepping out tonight, make sure you grab an extra layer because it's going to remain gusty right along the coast, 33 to 43 miles an hour. inland areas. breezy going into tomorrow morning. still going to be breezy near the coastline and then picking up across inland areas as well. so what's happening? high pressure is starting to take a back seat now. the cooling has started obviously. and it's going to continue with this trough deepening over the next couple of days. so on live doppler seven skies have cleared out, but we definitely had some fog around earlier this morning. temperatures right now, anywhere from the 50s at the coast all the way to the 80s inland. a live view from our emeryville camera. and here's a look at the forecast headlines tonight. tomorrow. breezy to gusty. the next few days cooling trend continues. and for your memorial day weekend below average to start the weekend. in terms of temperatures, we're not talking about below average for our graduates. coming up, redwood christian graduating tomorrow in san lorenzo. in the evening

it'll be partly cloudy, low 60s and then dropping off to the mid 50s. maybe some drizzle late at night, but overall looking good. so congratulations to the graduates 40s and 50s tomorrow morning. starting off cool tomorrow afternoon you're looking at highs in the 80s inland. not quite as high as today but still going to be pleasant. 50s coast side and breezy now bottlerock napa is taking place friday, saturday and sunday and it is going to be nice weather. clouds to sun on friday, 72 degrees turning a little cooler on saturday, but you will notice temperatures bouncing right back up on sunday with 70 showing up. so lovely weather for that as well. and the accuweather seven day forecast as you will notice, those temperatures continue to come down friday and saturday only in the 70s for our warmest locations, considering we were in the 80s today for our warmest areas, you're going to feel the difference. and then sunday and for memorial day, we'll bump up those temperatures for any outdoor plans. barbecues,

heading to the pool. mild spring weather will continue tuesday into wednesday. >> pearl jam at bottle rock, i hope. yes, weather okay, never seen pearl jam. i'm excited. ooh, it's gonna be fun. yeah. all right. thank you. sandy. all right. the world's biggest camera is making its way from its home at the slovak national accelerator lab in menlo park to a new mountaintop on the foothills of the andes in chile. the $168 million instrument could unlock a new part of the galaxy by giving us a glimpse at never before seen views of outer space. it left may 14th on a flatbed truck to sfo, where it was loaded onto a cargo jet bound for south america. still ahead. >> celebrating national public works week on the peninsula, we're going to show you the incredible display in san mateo county. >> this is abc 724 seven. >> in san francisco, live at levi's stadium in san jose. >> live in oakland. yeah. you're

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of national public works week, the county put this incredible display together dump trucks, cranes, paving equipment, you name it, they brought it out. and that includes one piece of equipment that you hope you never need in your neighborhood. the storm response unit. >> there are any areas that are flooded during big rain events. water can't be moved fast enough for whatever reason. we'll bring our storm response unit there so that we can put our pumps out there and evacuate water, move it from one location to another. >> the county board of supervisors declared this week public works week to recognize the department's invaluable service to the community. >> the city of santa clara celebrated the reopening of a city park. city officials were on hand to cut the ribbon to the

newly renovated montague park. the five acre site got a complete makeover. they got a new playground, a pathway that loops around the five acre park, and a new covered picnic area. it also has two new fitness stations and plenty of benches and rest areas. >> these are the places where we can socialize. we can do some exercise and come out and, do the physical exercise. part of it. >> the community center at montague park was also refurbished with a new roof, new lighting and new heating and air conditioning systems. the center can be rented out for private events too. >> all right, we still have much more news ahead. >> let's check in now with abc seven news anchor luz pena for a look at what's coming up at 530. hey, luce. >> hey, julian and umma. well, tonight we have a follow up to a story we first covered last month. reporter dan noyes with the i-team will speak about what he found as he dug deeper into complaints against a los gatos skincare shop. also, we are speaking to a local high school student who got accepted to 122.

university says he'll share how he did it and how his dad played a huge role. i hope you can join us for those stories and more at 530 on abc7 bay area streaming tv. julian and emma. >> all right, thank you, luce. and you can download the abc seven app or head to abc seven news.com and join luce in two minutes. >> and if you're watching us here on tv world news tonight with david muir is up next for sandhya patel. the entire abc seven news team. thanks for joining us. >> i'm julian glover and i'm ama daetz. we will see you again at 6:00.

news. the deadly tornado tearing through an entire community. multiple people dead. and tonight, the new risk at this hour from texas all the way to new york. also breaking here in the northeast, the deadly workplace shooting. police say a worker waiting to open fire. what we know so far. first tonight, this new