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>> i'm ama daetz and i'm dan ashley. this drug could be on the streets in san francisco, but how will we know? yes. >> last year was the deadliest year on record for the drug deaths in the city. more than 800 people died of a drug overdose. it's nearly double the pre-pandemic number. >> now, a supervisor is asking the city to test for a new opioid that is leading to hundreds of overdoses in north america. abc seven news reporter lucy pena went to the san francisco medical examiner's office to see the process that detects these drugs loose. >> yes, emma and dan, the san francisco medical examiner's office is testing for over 200 drugs. in every case, the concern is that every year, new drugs are synthesized and combined with other drugs, making them stronger and more deadly. fentanyl took the lives of over 600 people in san francisco in 2023. now, experts say fentanyl is being laced with a new drug that could lead to an even greater toll that the city of chicago, philadelphia, indianapolis and also toronto
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and vancouver are seeing. >> medetomidine adulterating the fentanyl drug supply. now, this is a very potent and dangerous animal tranquilizer. >> san francisco supervisor matt dorsey sent this letter to the city's health department and the medical examiner's office asking for the animal tranquilizer to be added to the hundreds of drugs tested every year, giving san francisco a chance to respond. >> i wanted to make sure that san francisco is ready for this, i know that in philadelphia, just in the last month, over the course of just 3 or 4 days, there were more than 600 people who were hospitalized from medetomidine because it was laced into the fentanyl drug supply. >> ucsf's doctor ciccarone has been studying drugs for decades. >> the concern is that because it's sedating that that could go, in the wrong direction. when you're already on a sedating opioid like fentanyl. and now
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you have two sedating drugs or sort of a double downer combination, we could call it uh. and that would raise the risk for overdose. >> we got a rare look inside the san francisco medical examiner's toxicology lab, where they test over 200 drugs per case. san francisco's chief forensic toxicologist said they're constantly detecting different types of drugs. >> in the last several years, we've noticed drugs such as xylazine, but also bromazepam, both designer drugs, or drugs that were previously used in other areas of our industry, such as veterinary drugs, also been found in decedents, of an accidental overdose. >> now they have a new drug to add. medetomidine. >> we periodically update our testing regime when feasible and that is certainly a substance that we would add to our list of testing regime. >> the medical examiner's office said there are 50 to 100 drugs synthesized every year. now they're having to add an animal
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tranquilizer to that list. luz pena, abc seven news gary. >> all right, luce, thanks very much. and as you heard lou say, more than 600 people died of fentanyl overdoses last year. that's 81% of the total 806 overdose deaths. california is one step closer to passing a first in the nation law aimed at stopping drug overdose deaths. now, a bill requiring narcan, an to be added to the first aid kits, has advanced to the state senate. narcan is a nasal spray that can reverse an opioid overdose. all california businesses are currently required to have a first aid kit in the break room, or some common area, so this bill would make narcan more widely accessible. and we want to make sure that, you know, if you or someone close to you is struggling with substance abuse issues, there is help. a lot of it we've put together a list of local resources at abc seven news.com/take action. >> we're learning new details about a deadly shooting in the south bay that killed one woman,
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injured a man and caused a standoff with police that laste for hours. it all started about 24 hours ago in san jose. it marks the city's third homicide in just a three day span. abc seven news reporter zach fuentes talked with police and has the latest on the investigation. >> a frightening memorial day for neighbors on this stretch of north 20th street in san jose, something we just don't ever see here. >> it's straight out of the movies. >> san jose police say they were called to the scene just after 6 p.m. monday. neighbors reported hearing several gunshots. edwin rodriguez thought it was fireworks. >> the holiday. you know, people were celebrating. so that's what we thought at first. until you know, we saw and heard the patrol cars coming through. then after that, we saw swat coming, helicopters, drones and all that. >> police say it didn't take long to make a preliminary assessment of the scene. >> upon arrival, officers discovered an adult female victim suffering from extensive physical trauma. they also identified a male suspect, an adult male suspect who retreated into the residence and self barricaded.
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>> they said. the suspect eventually surrendered after 2.5 hours and was arrested. police say that adult female was not the only victim. >> the adult female victim suffered from physical trauma and was pronounced deceased on scene. but during the investigation, we did discover that he did brandish a firearm and shoot an additional adult male victim who was there at the incident, and he was treated at a local hospital for minor injuries. >> investigators say they're still looking into the relationship between the suspect and the victims, but did confirm that they knew each other. >> we're still trying to go through the entire investigation to determine, you know, what occurred, in what order, that's again, part of the puzzle that we're trying to put together. we just know that was one lost life that we didn't need. >> this most recent homicide marks the city of san jose's 16th. that number trending higher than last year at this time when there were 11 in san jose. zach fuentes, abc seven news in the east bay, the pittsburg police department is facing a new lawsuit from a man shot by an officer during a
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mental health crisis. >> the shooting happened when ashton porter left his hotel room with a knife, but the lawsuit claims it never should have gotten to that point. abc seven news reporter ryan curry talked with porter and his family. >> a family's call for help ends in violence. >> they abandoned their training. they abandoned the trust that the community has placed in them, and instead employed escalation, deadly force and essentially terrorized the man and his family. >> a bay area man is suing the pittsburg police department and several officers for allegedly violating his civil rights during an encounter in 2022, ashton porter had locked himself in a hampton inn hotel room during a mental health crisis. >> i was going through a really tough time. >> porter's family asked the police to check in on him, but it turned into a standoff when he refused to leave the room on tuesday, his attorney shared police body camera video that shows the incident. at first, a county crisis response worker
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spoke with porter. >> does it sounds like you don't feel safe right now? >> i don't when that didn't work, pittsburg police officers stepped in. >> we're going to make sure that you come out and everything's safe and i can make you a lot more comfortable. but the longer you don't listen to me, the worse it's going to get for you. you understand? >> video shows officers using a battering ram to break down the hotel room door, then deploying pepper spray and tear gas to get porter to come out. when porter left the room holding a knife, he was shot multiple times. >> i called out for help. i explained to him that i really didn't understand what was going on at the time, and i just wanted time to get some sleep, try to clear my mind in whatever way i could. >> the contra costa district attorney's office charged porter with several counts of assaulting an officer and one count of trespassing and refusing to leave, but they say the court diverted him to mental health treatment. >> a mentally i've been going through therapy and so, yeah,
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it's just been a it's been a rough two years for all of us. >> we also reached out to the pittsburg police department, and we're waiting to hear back. ashton's family thought they were going to lose him. >> i felt like it was our fault that we called the police and we shouldn't have. i'm just grateful that he is here. i just wish that. who do we call on when the police is not doing the right thing? >> his family and attorney hopes this leads to a positive change with the police department in the east bay. ryan curry, abc seven news. >> the man convicted of assaulting the husband of speaker emerita nancy pelosi after breaking into the couple's san francisco home, was resentenced today in federal court to 30 years in prison. it's the same sentence david depape received two weeks ago at his original sentencing hearing, but he didn't get a chance to speak at that hearing, which is his legal right. neither the defense nor prosecution raised the issue today. the judge took the blame, depape apologized today, saying, quote, i'm sorry for what i did, especially what i did to paul pelosi. i should have just left the house when i
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realized nancy pelosi wasn't home. end quote. depape still faces state charges for the october 20th, 2022, attack. that trial is set to begin tomorrow. >> a doctor from the south bay is back home tonight after getting stuck in gaza. now, she knew the risks when she took on a volunteer medical mission to the war zone. when israel closed the rafah border weeks ago, she was trapped. abc seven news reporter anser hassan spoke to the doctor about her long journey home. >> this weekend's homecoming was bittersweet, says doctor haley sheikholeslami. at one point, she wasn't sure how she would get home. >> i'm glad to be home. i'm glad to be with family, but there's a lot of people i had left behind. they're not just patients, but also, you know, colleagues, coworkers who have not been able to evacuate yet. >> sheikholeslami is a physician at sutter health in san carlos. she went to gaza on a volunteer medical mission. it was her
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first time in a war zone treating up to 40 patients a day with limited medical supplies at the al-aqsa mosque in southern gaza, people living in tents, coming in with skin issues and chronic care that really needed to be addressed as well, you know, refilling their medications for blood pressure, diabetes. >> she was only supposed to be gone two weeks to rafah with more than 1 million palestinians have fled since the start of the war. >> but while she was there, the israeli military invaded and shut down the rafah border. she was stuck. >> things just got worse where medical ran out, there was no new medication coming in because the closure of the rafah border. so, it was kind of working with your hands tied behind your back. she says her team struggled for the next few days, limited where they could go with destruction all around, poor air quality and israeli military drones monitoring the area. >> but they decided to keep working. >> you never knew what could happen. you did hear bombs. they
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were at a distance. you know, you kind of became on a survival mode yourself. that al-aqsa hospital that i told you about. they ran out of fuel. >> her family and local muslim organizations worked with the us state department to get her home. her mission to rafah was to help, but now that she's home and reunited with her family, she isn't ruling out going back. but perhaps once the situation improves, mission is never accomplished. >> the mission is ongoing. i don't think mission is accomplished until the war is over. the cease fire there is end to the blockade that the aid can't get in. we do whatever we can in our part. we can't remain silent in the south bay. >> anser hassan abc seven news. >> goodness, she's home less than a month left in the quarter and academic workers are on strike. how university of california students at several campuses are coping with this. >> also ahead, i have the part of speech. can you say the word again? sacroiliac? can i please have the language of origin? i'm
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sorry. >> from the bay to the b, the national spelling bee. see how three local students are doing? i'm meteorologist sandhya patel. we're in a gusty pattern right now. >> i'll let you know how long it's going to last. and when summer-like heat shows up. when
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>> around 200 of ucla's academic workers went out on strike this morning, joining other ucs throughout the state. these are the grad students who teach, do research and support the faculty. they're represented by the united auto workers union. they're striking over how ucla and the other university of california campuses handled the recent protests. and dismantling of the pro-palestinian encampments. here's what they want. >> if there is no amnesty for the students and the student workers that we're peacefully protesting in our campus and because of that are not facing charges and all the way to eviction from the university. there is you know, that's just the bare minimum that we're asking for. >> with less than a month left in the quarter, the faculty have said they will support the striking academic workers. >> we will honor the strike. >> we will not cross the picket lines. we will not pick up any struck labor. we're here today to stand with our graduate students. >> students share with us how they feel about the strike interfering with their classes so close to the end of this quarter. >> i'm frustrated, but i mean, i
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have to kind of like go on with the class and i have to kind of like, you know, moving on, like, kind of like from all the kind of like problem and then, you know, just go that, go to the kind of like the finals and then kind of like, you know, do it as it should. >> a lot of the professors have been very accommodating or very kind of, friendly about it that they're a little more lenient on grades and they kind of recognize that it also has been a really hard quarter for a lot of people, because of, you know, all the protests and a bunch of other stuff. >> and a statement from ucla, it says, in part, that the focus is doing whatever they can to support the students. they're paying tuition and fees to learn. and we're dismayed by deliberate outside disruptions that get in the way of that. students want to hear their professors teach not piercing sounds of trumpets, drums and slogans being shouted right outside their classroom windows. the strike is authorized through the end of june. this is what the couple of weeks left in the quarter. reporting from ucla.
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i'm sid garcia, abc seven news. >> a tense fight over funding for california schools seems to be settled tonight. governor newsom and the state's largest teachers union reached a deal today to solve the budget beef, providing billions in future funding for schools. it comes just days after the california teachers association paid for a tv ad blasting more than $12 billion in proposed cuts. >> california classrooms face a monumental crisis tens of billions of dollars in cuts to public education over the next three years. >> the new deal reached today promises an extra five and a half dollars billion for schools in the future. the union told politico it plans to keep running the ads as it lobbies lawmakers, who will have to approve one part of the agreement. >> all right, three bay area middle school students are on the trip of a lifetime. they're competing this week in the scripps national spelling bee in maryland, with 242 other students. >> abc7 news reporter leslie brinkley caught up with their
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supporters today as they faced off in the preliminary round. >> sacroiliac s a c r c sacroiliac. that is correct. thank you. >> rashmirathi is a 14 year old eighth grader from basis independent silicon valley upper school who tied for third place last year and has returned this year with high hopes of winning it all. her classmates are buzzing with excitement. >> she's an excellent student overall, so, in all of her classes, she is also one of the kindest people, very humble student. despite all of her achievements, it requires a lot of work, a lot of sacrifice for these middle school students, and their parents to get this far. >> it's not just spelling, it's also a love of language and vocabulary. the three bay area students are competing this week all sponsored by the san ramon valley rotary club. >> they are well prepared and they went there this week. and
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they are they are going through the preliminaries today and tomorrow is, semi, quarterfinals and semifinals and finals is on thursday. so we are keenly watching be oh you i that is correct. >> amani sharon is an eighth grader at shibuya middle school in san jose. she sailed on into tomorrow's rounds, as did 12 year old aaron lee. a seventh grader from helios school in sunnyvale. >> i have the part of speech noun decoys d a c q decoys. that is correct. >> we are hoping that one of them will bring the, scripps championship to the bay area. hello doctor bailey, i'm leslie brinkly, abc7 news.
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>> good luck. fun to watch. >> absolutely awesome. all right, let's get to our weather. pretty nice a little bit windy. yeah. >> that's true. meteorologist cindy patel is here with the forecast as we hit midweek. sandy. >> yeah. and you know what. enjoy this comfortable weather that we have dan and ummah because it is going to get hot in our inland areas before you know it. so after tomorrow you're going to start to feel the heat right now the sea lions are putting on a show at pier 39. they are just packed in there. uh- nice for the visitors to see here in san francisco. blue skies. as you will notice, temperatures are running higher than where they were yesterday. for most areas by 14 degrees in santa rosa, up three, san francisco, oakland, six degrees warmer there in san jose. and we're going to continue with that trend over the next couple of days. but this evening, if you are stepping out at 7:00 inland, it's still in the mid 70s, dropping off to the 60s later tonight around the bay, bright skies 63 degrees and then eventually down to the 50s. and along the coast, we're looking at a few passing clouds, mid
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50s, breezy certainly, and then cooling to the low 50s. the wind is definitely up. there is a system passing to our north and that has set the stage for some gusty winds this afternoon and evening. so right now they're 26 miles an hour at sfo, 28 at novato. it's an onshore breeze and that wind is going to continue tonight before it drops off tomorrow morning. and then picks back up again tomorrow afternoon and evening. right now sunshine on the golden gate bridge. it is 60 in the city, 62 in oakland. you're in the 70s from san jose to redwood city, but 57 in half moon bay from our east bay hills. camera we're looking at vollmer peak there, 83 degrees in santa rosa, mount diablo, excuse me, 83. right now in santa rosa from vollmer peak, we're looking at mount diablo 75, in napa, 82, vacaville, 71 in livermore, and exploratorium. camera showing you a lovely view right now of san francisco tomorrow you're going to see more of this sunny and warmer weather thursday and friday we have summer-like heat coming
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your way. weekend outlook. it is a cooler start to june, but still going to be very nice. so tonight patchy fog right along the coastline. it's going to really be limited tomorrow morning. starting off near parts of the coast in the bay. and then it's gone quickly before the lunch hour. so those temperatures will respond as a result. 40s and 50s out the door tomorrow morning. you may need that extra layer. and then later in the afternoon i think you could get away with short sleeve weather in the south bay. 79 in san jose, 80. in gilroy on the peninsula, mid 70s around redwood city, palo alto 59 and half moon bay, downtown san francisco 68 degrees. you're going to notice the warming in the north bay mid 80s around santa rosa, sonoma 80 in san rafael in the east bay 75 oakland 77 castro valley head inland and it's going to be warm. 88 in fairfield, 85 in concord. here's your accuweather seven day forecast. temperatures will continue to climb into a summer like mode by thursday and friday. 90s inland, 60s coast. we bring in june and we bring on
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217 points in the s&p was mainly unchanged, but the nasdaq closed at a record high, topping 17,000 for the first time. a big announcement from t-mobile of $4.4 billion deal to take over us cellular's wireless operations. that means 4 million new customers for t-mobile, the company is expected to finalize the deal next year after regulatory approval. >> openai is taking a new step to make artificial intelligence use safer and more secure. the san francisco company announced a new committee today to focus on those concerns. it comes just days after openai dissolved its former safety group and the recent departure of several employees, who cited their concerns about safety. two board members and openai ceo, ceo sam altman will lead this committee. and meantime, altman and his husband have become the newest billionaires to sign the giving pledge. that's a charity that encourages the ultra rich to donate the majority of their wealth. the couple made the announcement today in a letter,
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saying they feel immense gratitude and a commitment to pay it forward. bloomberg reports that altman is worth at least $2 billion. >> tomorrow, the jury will begin deliberations in donald trump's historic criminal trial. tonight the closing arguments both sides made also ahead two of my relatively brand new detectives figure all this out all on their own, you know, and so i'm very proud of them. >> an arrest in a sexual assault case from more than 20 years ago. new at six. how oakley poli
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more than 20 years after the crime in the east bay police finally made an arrest. dna technology led investigators in oakley all the way to idaho, where they arrested a suspect. >> after all this time, abc seven news reporter lena howland talked with investigators about how they kept this case alive. >> it was 22 years ago when oakley police say a teenage girl was out walking her dog on a trail near what is now laurel road and main street. she was approached by a man who got out
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of a car, pointed a gun at her and ordered her into the back seat. >> the man drove her away to another park here in oakley, and i'm not sure where that was, but when they got there, he ordered her at gunpoint to perform sexual acts. >> oakley police chief paul beard says she escaped, ran to a nearby house and called police. investigators took a dna swab from the victim. the results were uploaded to a national database of other dna profiles called codis, with no hits. for decades, these profiles lie. >> i would say they lie dormant or just waiting for something to be matched up to them. >> two decades passed without any leads. then detectives learned of a possible dna match two years ago that led them to 49 year old eric ferguson of northern idaho, the kootenai county sheriff's office says they got his dna swab when he was arrested for a dui. >> it kind of gave him the tip, but we needed to get it directly under a search warrant from his body, and so it really got the investigation going again for
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them. >> beard says two years later, two of his newer detectives got a search warrant to do their own dna swab to confirm the match. they hopped on a plane and with the help of three other agencies , they got a fresh dna sample from ferguson. they flew it back to california and confirmed a match. they notified us, and we, assembled our joint, task force, swat team with the city of coeur d'alene police, and we executed that warrant for his arrest. >> he surrendered right away, charging documents from the contra costa county district attorney's office show the victim was under the age of 14 at the time of the rape. >> her age allows prosecutors to charge the suspect with a sentencing enhancement that removes the statute of limitations and makes ferguson eligible for life in prison if he is convicted. >> i'm very hopeful that this development provides some resolve for our victim, i can't imagine going through life with without having that kind of
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resolve. so i'm hoping that we can get that for her. >> ferguson is expected to be arraigned in court in contra costa county on june 6th in oakley. lena howland abc seven news. >> a fugitive on the run for 16 years was captured today here in the bay area, a man dubbed the bad breath rapist fled massachusetts in september of 2007. twin kit lee was on trial for the kidnaping and rape of a young woman in 2005, danville police got involved after several leads that lee was staying in the area. today, the u.s. marshals service arrested him. >> alameda county district attorney pamela price raised some eyebrows over a scheduled announcement that was canceled today. her office said she was going to announce her chinese name in honor of aapi heritage month, but that didn't happen. when we asked her office why the event was canceled, no reason was given. price has been accused by some of having a rocky past with the asian community. the news about her canceled plan got mixed reactions, kind of at this point
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that it didn't go through. >> i was hoping that she will have an opportunity to reach out to at least the asian american community in chinatown to be able to publicly announce that she has now a name that we can identify her. >> i think it is ridiculous. it's cultural appropriation and pandering at the highest level across the bay area, it's not uncommon for candidates to use a chinese name, vice president kamala harris was one of the first to do it when she was running for da of san francisco in 2003. >> the jury is about to begin deliberations in the historic criminal trial of former president donald trump. both the prosecution and defense made their closing arguments today. abc news reporter reena roy was has the latest now from outside the courthouse in the lower manhattan. >> the prosecution and defense getting their final chance to try and sway the jury in their favor in the hush money payment trial against former president donald trump. in their closing argument, prosecutors attempting
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to convince all 12 jurors to convict trump on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records when he ordered his former attorney, michael cohen, pay off adult film actress stormy daniels in exchange for her silence about their alleged sexual encounter. but defense attorney todd blanch telling the jury trump is innocent, calling prosecutors theory of the case absurd and the testimony from their witnesses irrelevant. over the course of a month, the prosecution calling 20 witnesses to the stand, including cohen and daniels, arguing that trump tried to hide damaging information from voters ahead of the 2016 election and then hiding that effort to influence the election by labeling cohen's reimbursement as a legal expense. >> they have another win is here. being stormy daniels that they're arguing is trying to extort the former president. the credibility of both these witnesses amount to how big this story was and why they needed to suppress it. and also the mechanics of how they did that. so attacking these two witnesses, i think, are beneficial for the defense. >> the defense calling cohen the
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human embodiment of reasonable doubt, even calling him the gloat or the greatest liar of all time. they also tried to distance trump from those invoices and vouchers at the heart of the case, and insisted trump was too busy to look at the checks he was signing. blanche even going as far to say you cannot send someone to prison, based upon the words of michael cohen, prosecutors saying the defense focused on cohen as a deflection, adding that trump chose cohen as his fixer, saying he got the jobs the defendant wanted to keep quiet. trump denying that sexual encounter with daniels and pleading not guilty. >> this is a dark day in america. we have a rigged court case that should have never been brought, and trump had more support today in court from his family, including from his children, eric donald trump jr and his daughter tiffany. >> reena roy abc news, new york. >> coming up next, a life changing story how one act of kindness was magnified by a tiktok influence. >> plus, measuring the earth from top to bottom what local researchers are learning from the north and south poles that
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thanks to the generosity of a stranger toward a homeless woman and tiktok reporter david gonzalez from our sister station in los angeles has the story. >> excuse me, ma'am. >> sorry, i'm really hungry. do you have any food i could get her? >> it's the way linda king reacts to jimmy darts asking for food in a now viral tiktok video that's transformed her life forever. >> my life is completely changed. there's nothing hardly anything left from the old life. >> the 75 year old was homeless and was living in a tent, but gave away the little food she had on her to help someone she thought was in need. >> i have been enormously blessed when i helped somebody. when i give somebody food, i'm blessed. and this this time in a major way. >> and the cool thing about linda is when she helped me, it wasn't the very first time she decided to help someone. these people have been living a lifestyle of kindness, and just in that one moment, they get caught in the act and they become the hero of the video.
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>> i have $1,000 for you. >> for her generosity, jimmy surprised her with $1,000. >> i just know there's amazing people out there that have just kind of been handed the bad deck of cards. >> he then turned to his millions of followers on social media and helped raise more than 44,000 through a gofundme page. >> finding those people with those kind hearts that are out there in a struggling situation and being able to help them out of it, is the biggest dream i have. and meeting linda was exactly that again today. >> linda has put the money to good use. she found a place to live. she also bought a van that will help get her back on her feet. both jimmy and linda agree a simple act of kindness can have a long lasting impact on those who least expect it. >> i'm on this earth for such a short time. i want to do whatever i can to bring heaven to earth and change people's lives. >> i feel so blessed, so blessed and grateful. >> linda and jimmy say moving forward, they're bonded forever. linda now wants to help other
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homeless people in any way she can. reporting in costa mesa, david gonzalez abc seven news. >> sweet. >> yeah, that's nice, isn't it? is very good. all right, well, climate change is affecting where we live. we all know that building a better bay area means understanding what's happening now and in the future. by the year 2050, rising tides will flood our coastline, exposing entire neighborhoods to hazardous waste. >> so we know that there are very important contaminants that would cause cancer in people in the mud. here and those have concentrated and flowed down in the ground water, because those contaminants are buried right in water and hidden hazards. >> one of the many impacts of sea level rise. what do experts say will happen in the future? well, for more on that, watch the abc seven originals bay area 2050 now streaming everywhere that you watch abc seven. >> we are looking ahead to some warm weather this week. sandhya
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successfully took off today from cape canaveral, florida. the rocket carried 23 starlink internet satellites into orbit over the holiday weekend. >> nasa launched the first of two tiny satellites that could have a huge impact on the understanding of our weather, climate change and sea level rise right here in the bay area. >> abc seven news meteorologist drew tuma has an inside look. turns out if you want to understand the future of earth's climate, you need to measure it top to bottom. >> that's why nasa researchers are about to zero in on the north and south poles, trying to understand how much heat is flowing through the earth's basement and attic regions that are warming even more quickly than the rest of the planet. brian druin is a principal investigator with the nasa jet propulsion lab in pasadena. brian why are we studying the poles? why is that so important in regards to the rest of the earth? >> there's a tremendous amount of ice uh- which, when it melts, it goes into the oceans and
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spreads around the whole planet and causes the sea level to rise . >> first, it helps to understand that hotter air from the tropics typically churns around the planet with a significant portion being released into space at the polar regions. but what if increasing greenhouse gases changed that pattern to learn the answer, nasa is launching two shoebox sized satellites in a mission called pre-fire. they'll orbit both the arctic and antarctica, measuring the radiant energy being released and that area where the heat is emitted. >> it's not well studied and it's changing. it's changing fast due to the warming climate. >> and the consequences could be lasting. researchers have already documented a decades long pattern of global sea level rise, but fellow nasa jpl researcher josh willis also studies how that ocean warming is melting glaciers from underneath, and that includes massive areas from greenland to the so-called doomsday glacier in antarctica, measuring 80
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miles across, glaciers in antarctica are the elephant in the room. >> they're they're huge, they have the potential to disappear very quickly. and they're really being driven by ocean warming understanding the changes at the poles could be key to predicting the changes that the bay area will see in the coming decades. >> everything from erosion along our coastline to rising sea levels that could threaten the shores of san francisco bay. >> the rise we saw in the early 90s was less than half of the rate of rise that we see now, but what can we expect and how much time we have to prepare are still critical questions. >> questions nasa hopes to answer, in part with the help of two shoe boxes in space, collecting critical data about our planet. drew tuma, abc seven news and just to underscore the urgency of the mission, a newly released study has provided evidence that the so-called doomsday glacier in antarctica is melting from underneath at a
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much faster rate than previously known, which is, of course, unnerving. >> yes. all right, let's turn our attention to the forecast as we move into midweek. nice out there a little breezy. >> that's right. let's get to sandhya patel. we don't want any caps flying away at graduations. can we. can we hold the wind a bit? >> okay, you know what? i tell you what, it's still going to be breezy tomorrow, ama and dan. but i don't know if i can hold the wind that much tomorrow in walnut creek. it shouldn't be that windy. when northgate high school graduates. graduates at 7 p.m. we're talking about upper 70s. it's going to be sunny and warm. beautiful weather in san jose for gunderson high school's graduation at 4 p.m. once again, it shouldn't be too windy, but upper 70s dropping off eventually to the 60s as we check out live doppler seven. right now, just some passing high clouds. we don't have a whole lot going on at this hour. tomorrow afternoon we're going to warm it up for you. upper 80s in our warmest inland valleys along the coastline in the upper 50s, and it will be another breezy one. the accuweather seven day forecast. it's warmer
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as well. summer like weather is coming our way. we'll have quite the spread from the 60s to the 90s, thursday and friday, but as we enter a new month, we are talking about a cooler pattern. it's still going to be really nice over the weekend, but mid 80s inland, upper 50s coast side and then the temperatures will bounce back early next week. >> dan and sandy, thank you. >> all right chris alvarez is here with sports and our baseball tonight. >> yeah i was looking at the calendar there i can't believe it's june i know it's coming up. >> where do we go? >> where it's time to go. all right. giants homestand continues tonight against the best team in baseball. the phillies are in town. and the injury bug strikes again. how long lamonte wade might
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tonight, the first of three in tampa bay and a's fans in tampa bay. and i think this baby said, sell the team, sell the. casey gave me that joke. all right, mitch spence got the start and he was solid here in the third. jose caballero is swinging down goes richie palacios to end the inning. five and a third four strikeouts. no earned run. carried a no hitter into the sixth. actually in the sixth. scoreless two on for miguel andujar. drives to the left and it stays fair. his first of the year. it's three nothing. a's and in the ninth. what time is it? miller time rays bring the tying run to the plate, but the
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strikeout ends. it his 11th save of the year. a's win three nothing. giants the phillies just getting underway at oracle park. san francisco will be without lamonte wade jr for likely a month after he hurt his hamstring in yesterday's win. officially placed on the ten day il with a grade two hamstring strain, wade's hitting 333 two homers, 17 rbi in 52 games this season. hopefully he can make a speedy recovery. one month from today, the san jose sharks will make the first pick in the 2024 nhl draft from the sphere in las vegas. it's going to be a great thing all signs point to the team taking macklin, celebrating his dad, rick is the warriors vp of player health and performance, so no need to get a new place. stay with dad, right? today the team signed a 19 year old center, will smith, to a standard entry level contract. he was taken fourth overall in last year's draft and was named the sharks top prospect of the year after just finishing his freshman season at boston college, where he led the nation 71 points and scored 25 goals in 41 games. >> a little bit of rebuild right now, but i think with all the draft picks and already guys who
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are drafted in the team that's there now, it could be, a pretty, a pretty fun and special future, obviously trying to get back to winning more games and, obviously the crowd, the crowds and fans there, seem to be awesome, so i can't wait. >> the youth movement is on for team tio. last night, the boston celtics clinched their spot in the nba finals with a win tonight over the t-wolves. dallas will punch their ticket to the finals in the west. game four highlights tonight at 11 in oakland. basketball never stops. the warriors basketball academy is celebrating their 25 year anniversary in the camps, and lessons are offered year round in gyms across the bay area. i was in the oakland facility today, senior director of youth basketball jeff addiego has been there since the very beginning. he's seen actually a few nba players walk through those doors. >> we've had three kids go on to the nba is super special. you know, wilcherry was our first one back in 2014. he played eight games with the cavaliers that year, very shortly after will made his debut, tyler johnson made his nba debut.
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another former camper of ours, tyler, ended up making 50 plus million dollars in the nba. so definitely a success story there. and then probably the one that means the most to me is juan toscano-anderson. so he obviously a former camper, but he was the first former camper to play for the warriors and win a championship. so super special. >> love that jta dunk. hey, did you see this another day? just another magazine cover for steph curry appeared on the latest cover of golf digest. the article details steph's goals to make golf blacker and browner while raising his game as well. steph's a little busy these days as fourth baby boy come earlier this month he released that on social media, so i don't know how he's the time for anything really, but he seems to do it and uh- cool golf story golf, golf digest and he does everything well. >> that's what's so remarkable, right? yeah. he does everything so good, so good. >> so you know, who knows what he's going to do post basketball career. he's obviously got some time left in the warriors. have a lot to many options. >> he has such a positive influence on so many levels. >> yeah. and real cool story
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about the warriors basketball academy. i was there today this afternoon in oakland. we're working on some stories for after the games for the nba finals. so that's one of them 25 years, a quarter of a century. they've just really built this thing up. and three guys that have been campers have gone on the nba. so i think that's pretty cool, including including juan toscano-anderson. >> that's pretty good. >> all right. look forward to your pieces. thanks very much, chris. >> all right. tonight on abc seven at eight celebrity wheel of fortune, followed by celebrity jeopardy. then at ten, catch the $100,000 pyramid and stay with us for abc seven news at 11. remember, the abc seven news is streaming 24 over seven. get the abc seven bay area app so you can join us whenever you want, wherever you are. all right, that is it for this edition of abc seven news. thanks for joining us. >> i'm ama daetz and i'm dan ashley for sandyha patel. chris alvarez, all of us. we appreciate your time. hope you have a nice evening and that we see you again at 11.
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