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the city of san francisco. already struggling with shuttering businesses. >> might be old. it might be given up on. but it is the grand jewel, the essence of san francisco. it's the essence of this country that we can always bring it back stronger, better than ever before. i think the best time of san francisco is yet to come. >> we have team coverage today on the sale of anchor brewing, and what it means for san francisco. >> we begin our coverage with abc seven news reporter cornell bernard cornell. >> yeah, kristen and larry, it is the marriage of beer and yogurt. just not together. of course. city leaders, of course, calling this a very big deal for san francisco uh- the taproom and the factory you see behind me will be taken over by a billionaire who wants to make a very big investment here. >> the beer is just excellent. and i'm glad it's coming back. >> anchor brewing, home of anchor steam beer, could soon be back on tap. >> i think that's great. it's the oldest craft beer. so in the
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united states and, you know, craft beer is big right now. and i think san francisco needs it. >> since 1896, anchor was a san francisco original until its former owner, sapporo brewing, decided to close last july. >> can't wait to get back to work on my part with anchor brewery. >> hamdi ulukaya, billionaire founder and ceo of chobani yogurt, making it official on instagram. he's branching out into the beer business as anchor's new owner. >> let's do this. >> the news that anchors brewery and taproom will reopen on deharo street is an economic godsend to san francisco. supervisor shaman walton is already sporting his anchor brewing swag. >> this is big for san francisco as a whole. as you know, we've had a lot of businesses shut down anchor steam being one of them. so it's exciting for the city. it's extremely exciting for district ten mayor london breed posting on x. >> this is not just an investment in san francisco. it's a recognition of what makes our city truly special. our
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history, our institutions and our people. anchor brewing has always been a beloved part of san francisco, and thanks to hamdi ulukaya, it will be a part of san francisco for years to come. >> i'm bummed we didn't get it. >> of course, mike walsh and his investment partners made a bid for anchor despite losing out. he's encouraged about new ownership pretty consistently said that my objective is to drink good beer, drink steam, and for it to be made in san francisco and for the employees who want to continue to work there, to work there. >> so, you know, it sounds like it's probably in good hands with hamdi, so that makes me happy. >> and i'm told by ulukaya team that billionaire is interested in reconnected with former employees, offering them their jobs back. folks who actually know the inner workings of this factory and who can help get it up and running. beer lovers may have to wait a while to raise a glass. it could take months to secure the necessary licenses
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and get this place up and running. live in san francisco. cornell, bernard. abc seven news. >> i think they'll have the patience. thanks, cornell. now to abc seven news reporter suzanne fawn. >> yeah. here. now, with more on the billionaire who bought anchor brewing and what's in store for the company right now. suzanne. >> so, larry, chris and i talked to a former employee in several beer writers today. they all have high hopes that the new owner will embrace the company's long history and maintain a firm commitment to the community. >> when i heard the news this morning, i started tearing up. >> blake dahlstrom is really excited for this next chapter for anchor brewing. she used to supervise anchors, taproom and help create its workers union. >> i have always known that anchor steam was a phoenix. it's died and been resurrected many times. >> the ceo and founder of chobani yogurt, hamdi ulukaya, is taking over anchor brewing. he explained why on instagram that i'd like to be part of bringing this company. >> anchor beer, this dream back to life. it's the essence of san
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francisco. it's the essence of this country that we can always bring it back stronger, better than ever before. >> that love and appreciation of san francisco and its iconic brewery is something dahlstrom cherishes. it's not just a beer company, it's a culture. >> and it sounds like he is willing to really embrace that. >> ulukaya was raised in a dairy farming family in a small village in eastern turkey. >> according to what we know now , eastern turkey is where beer originated about 12,000 years ago. >> randy mosher has written several books about beer that have become an industry standard. he says anchor's ownership transition comes during a tough time for the industry. >> the younger generation is drinking less, drinking less beer, drinking more other things besides beer, mosher says. >> it'll take a lot for anchor brewing to succeed. it's going to be a difficult challenge, but clearly that you know that guy has the marketing chops and, created a huge brand out of nothing. beer writer gail ann williams is optimistic about the resurgence of anchor brewing.
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>> it's an interesting company because it has been rescued before when fritz maytag came in and famously bought the company out of just what looked like sheer, demise, and he restored it so it certainly could happen again. >> dahlstrom has high hopes for what ulukaya can do for anchor brewing. >> i have hope that he will follow through with those words and really embrace the community , the beer community, the neighborhood of san francisco and former employee blake dahlstrom is really glad to know that ulukaya plans to bring back the old labels she says ulukaya will preserve what anchor brewing is currently. >> she also says she has a better idea of ulukaya. s vision for anchor's future. back to you. >> all right, suzanne, thank you. did it once with chobani. hopefully it works again with anchor brewing. we're following the trial of david depape as paul pelosi faces his attacker in court. this is trial number two. depape now facing state charges including attempted
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murder, assault with a deadly weapon and elder abuse for the attack on the husband of then house speaker nancy pelosi in 2022. in testimony today, pelosi said he went into panic mode when depape broke into his home. pelosi told the jury he tried to lead to pap downstairs, where police might be able to get to them faster. depape was already sentenced to 30 years in prison after his conviction on federal charges. santa clara county judge has denied a motion to overturn the conviction of richard allen davis, who was sentenced to death for killing then 12 year old polly klaas back in 1993. attorneys for davis argued the death penalty conviction should be recalled because of california's moratorium on executions. in a statement, polly's father says to resentence richard allen davis is to deny justice for polly klaas, polly and her family deserve the closure that will only come when davis is put to death. remember, you can check out our streaming documentary. it's called struck by justice the impact of polly
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klaas, available on our abc7 news streaming app. it's about the tough crime laws that followed the murder of polly klaas. >> four people were hurt when several vehicles, including a bus, crashed this morning on highway 17. now, this happened in the northbound direction just south of los gatos, near the cats restaurant. the california highway patrol says the driver of a highway 17 express bus came upon stop traffic, but was not able to stop in time. the bus crashed into several vehicles. as you can see in the shot here, the driver and four bus passengers were taken to the hospital. you can see the other side was super jammed as well as because of the rubberneckers. the road has since been reopened and. arrest in connection with retail crime across the state. that resulted in more than $1.5 million in losses. california attorney general rob bonta joined law enforcement members
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from several different departments to announce the arrests. bonta says the suspects are members of an organized crime ring responsible for more than 20 robberies and burglaries, similar to those captured on video here in the bay area. they're charged with stealing merchandise from high end jewelry stores in san diego, orange, riverside and kern counties >> going into stores when members of the public were present and engaging with the retail employees and removing and stealing and grabbing, smashing and grabbing at times jewelry and fleeing the store, of course, without paying for it. >> bonta says the arrests are the result of an investigation that started more than a year ago. >> now onto those college protests on campus. we've been following these for weeks, and today more than 80 demonstrators
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were arrested at uc santa cruz after a standoff between demonstrators and law enforcement. both sides held their ground for hours until law enforcement cleared the scene just over an hour ago. abc seven news reporter zach fuentes has a look at exactly how things unfolded. we've been given a legal dispersal order, warnings from police at uc santa cruz before many pro-palestinian demonstrators were arrested. >> starting late thursday night, police in riot gear surrounded demonstrators on the south side of campus. the encampment started on may 1st. by friday morning, it was gone, dismantled while demonstrators and police faced off destroying the encampment. >> they were destroying tents tables. >> also gone were barricades set up this week that blocked the main entrance of campus. it was that move that the university said led it to take action. in a statement friday, it said, quote, following the continued intentional and dangerous blockade of campus entrances, uc santa cruz took action to remove the barricades and disband the unlawful encampment. those actions started early this morning. the statement went on to say, quote, they were
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notified that their actions were unlawful and unsafe, and this morning they were also given multiple warnings by law enforcement to leave the area and disperse to avoid arrest. unfortunately, many refused to follow this directive and many individuals are being arrested. student demonstrators are criticizing the large response from law enforcement. there's a lot of students here bruised up. >> i know there's a few that are in the e.r. right now, who have been brutalized by these police officers, even though the crowd out here is made up of student demonstrators, those students have also been getting the support of many faculty members. >> i don't know how much this is. this is costing. who's paying that? you know, when we have graduate students that can't make ends meet. >> in its statement, the university said it had to restore full access to campus and was impossible to do that without law enforcement intervention, saying, quote, those actions could have been avoided if the encampment participants heeded the many previous directives that were given by campus officials, fire marshals and law enforcement. end quote, demonstrators on scene told us they had no plans on backing down until the
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university met their divestment demands in santa cruz. zach fuentes, abc seven news. >> president biden today laid out a new proposal by israel for what he calls an enduring cease fire. >> for months, people all over the world have called for cease fire. now it's time to raise your voices and demand that hamas come to the table and agrees to this deal and end this war that they began. >> the proposal includes three phases. the first would be a six week cease fire when israeli troops would withdraw from gaza. some hostages, including americans, would be released. phase two would allow for the release of all remaining hostages, while both sides negotiate for a permanent cease fire. phase three is a plan to reconstruct gaza, including homes and schools. there's no indication whether hamas will accept israel's deal. in his address today, biden also said former president donald trump's conviction on 34 felony counts shows no one is above the law.
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biden criticized trump and others, claiming the verdict was rigged. >> it's reckless. it's dangerous . it's irresponsible for anyone to say this was rigged just because they don't like the verdict. >> yesterday, a jury in new york found donald trump guilty of all 34 counts of falsifying business records. he's due to be sentenced in july. the first former president convicted of a crime. >> coming up on abc seven news at 4:00, cleaning up san francisco. hundreds of thousands spent to find the perfect trash can. so why haven't we seen any on the streets? the parade of planets. getting a lot of talk. but it might not be everything that you're hearing. and kicking off pride month next. >> i'm meteorologist sandhya patel. get ready for a cooler and breezy to gusty weekend. i'll hav
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ask your eczema specialist about dupixent. it began with oakland mayor shengtao raising a huge lgbtq flag at city hall. this is the first pride month in which oakland has an lgbtq cultural district approved back in november, so now we need to grow together and make it a international community so everybody can know and they can come here and be safe and feel like there is a place that they can call home from. the lgbtq cultural district is on
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lakeshore avenue, east of interstate 580, near the oakland lgbtq plus community center, and a pride flag also went up today at the old courthouse square in santa rosa. it kicks off a series of activities all weekend, beginning with a pride movie night featuring the movie crush. that's a hulu production, and tomorrow there's a parade at 11, followed by a festival in san francisco. >> pride month kicks off tomorrow with the new purple pride block party. the party goes from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on market street, with activities set up along waller street. celebrate pride with abc seven all june and watch our exclusive live coverage of the 54th annual san francisco pride parade live on june 30th. streaming everywhere you watch abc seven. meet some of the amazing people who make up the lgbtq plus community. watch our america. who i'm meant to be this sunday at 3 p.m. right here on abc seven. or watch it now, wherever you stream abc seven. >> a jazz festival in the east
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bay is expected to draw thousands of people to hayward tomorrow. >> a bay area legend of latin rock will be there. abc7 news reporter gloria rodriguez has the details. reporter he's played with the legendary band malo and with carlos santana. >> and now leo rosales is part of a new group, momotombo sf. the ten piece band is made up of mostly former members of santana and malo, and they're playing at this weekend's annual latin jazz festival in downtown hayward, where they played before. >> the reaction was really exciting. people just were dancing our whole set. it's an honor to be invited again. the 70 year old grew up in san francisco. >> he remembers being inspired to play latin rock after seeing the band santana at the fillmore when he was a teen drummer. >> it was like i had a moment of clarity. i was like, this is incredible music. and this is what i'm supposed to do. >> little did he know, he'd eventually play with carlos santana. a full circle moment.
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>> i think that that is one of many highlights in the career. playing carnegie hall central park, uh, american bandstand, rolling on the river with kenny rogers. those are, you know, playing at the fillmore, playing at winterland. now rosales and the rest of momotombo sf are bringing their own flair to the jazz festival. what we're trying to do is to keep the legacy alive of latin rock music, the jazz festival in downtown hayward goes on saturday from noon until 7 p.m. >> motombo will be playing at 2 p.m. so go check him out. gloria rodriguez abc seven news. >> and the stage is going up at san francisco civic center plaza for tomorrow's huge rave. 25,000 fans expected for an electronic music concert by fred again and skrillex. can you believe tickets sold out in one hour after the announced it was it that fast? >> uh.huh wow, i know and it kind of came out of nowhere. like people didn't know about it
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and suddenly it dropped. so interesting. the weather should be nice. >> yes. sandhya patel here with our weekend forecast. hi, sandhya. >> hi, there. yeah, larry and kristen. it's not going to be quite as warm as today, but it will be lovely for that event. for any events that you might have, let me show you a live picture. it is not going to look like this, which is very hazy from our emeryville camera. we have high pressure overhead that brought the heat, that brought the haze as we have a lid on the atmosphere. so we do have parts of the bay area dealing with moderate air quality, indicated by the yellow from san francisco to oakland to san jose, even san rafael and santa cruz. as we take a look at a live picture from our sfo camera, the breeze is picking up 78 right now in santa rosa. already started to cool in the 90s still, though, fairfield, concord and livermore . petaluma. you're at 77 degrees. blue skies from our golden gate bridge camera, and it is a pleasant 66 in the city, 67 in oakland, 80s for san jose and redwood city. temperature drop for some cities already starting. as you will notice,
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down seven degrees in oakland and hayward. onshore breezes picking up, gusting to 35. in oakland. that wind is going to remain with us as we head into the weekend. so a live view from our exploratorium camera and overnight tonight. areas of fog and drizzle. tomorrow is going to be breezy to gusty and cooler and the middle of next week. oh boy, wait till you see those temperatures. summer like sizzle is coming your way. so for the time being, enjoy this fog, the southerly surge that is making its way up. it's already reached parts of the coastline around the monterey bay and some patchy fog is there around sfo. excessive heat watch has been issued for tuesday morning until thursday night for solano county and also lake county, as they're expecting dangerous heat that will bring a significant increase in heat related illnesses. let's talk about the temperatures for now. nothing excessive. this evening at 520, you're going to see still 70s and 80s inland. if you have friday night plans. it's a slow cooling for inland areas, but
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along the coast, make sure you have a jacket because it's not only fog, but it's going to be pretty cool as well. 920 in the evening still mild inland, and then tomorrow morning we begin with some areas of fog. a cooler start to the day later in the afternoon you will notice the temperatures are not quite as high as today, but very pleasant weather. and in the evening we'll start to notice the drop off in the temperatures. so the winds are breezy first thing tomorrow morning along the coast, but then the winds start to pick up in our inland areas as well, getting stronger into the evening hours 35 to 41 miles an hour. morning temperatures will be in the 50s for most of you. a few 40s in places like santa cruz tomorrow afternoon. it's a narrower range of temperatures, upper 50s to the mid 80 s. here's a look at the accuweather seven day forecast as we head into june. we're featuring cooler weather and gusty saturday next week. temperatures will bottom out on monday, and then you will notice that heat is on 90s to 100 inland. it's going to sizzle.
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what? kristin and larry. yeah, well above average. yeah. >> thank you. >> sandia wednesday is going to feel like we're on the surface of the sun. well maybe that's a little much, but a solar phenomenon is set to happen this weekend. six planets will appear to align in the sky in what astronomers are calling a planet parade. only mars, saturn and jupiter will be visible to the naked eye. best time to see this would be sunday, about half an hour before sunrise. as experts say, planets aligning actually is not that rare, but the planets aren't often visible without binoculars or a telescope. >> still ahead, we're talking trash about san francisco, but not in the way you might think. we'll have all that dirt and the young art mike's feeling like himself again. but even though time has passed, his risk of a second attack hasn't. mike is still living in the red. with a very high risk of another heart attack or stroke.
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these are seven originals. bay area 2050. we look at the impact of climate change, and you really don't have to look farther than our coastline to see the damage from more intense storms and warming ocean temperatures. >> california has 1100 miles of coast. the whole coastline is pretty much eroding. there's absolutely nothing we can do over the long run. the whole back of the pacific ocean. we don't battle with mother nature. >> and when we're up against
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forces that are certainly more powerful than we are along west cliff drive here, waves and tides beat the hell out of this coast. >> took out the road. the bike path. we lost 20 or 30ft in one day. and i've been here 55 years. i've never seen anything happen before. >> approximately. i lived there 45 years. we would lose a half an inch of foot at the most every couple of years until around 2010. big chunks of earth would fall into the ocean. at the shortest point. we're ten feet from the ocean. >> erosion is always a balance between the strength of the materials, the rock of its granite or sandstone, and the forces acting on it. so whether it's rainfall, whether it's waves, whether we're cutting a slope to steep, once we exceed the strength of the materials, it's going to fail. so it's basically sort of the external
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forces dominating over the strength of the material and the long term sea level is rising. we're going to have at least another foot of sea level rise, maybe more, by 2050. so the higher the ocean is, the more frequently the waves will attack the cliffs or the bluffs, and the higher the sea level gets, the more erosion and the faster the erosion will occur accelerating. how much faster it goes up? we don't know the other. that's going to be more problematic. up to 2050 and probably beyond are what we could call short term extreme events. a hurricane, a typhoon, a tsunami. those are going to get us in the short term. >> watch the abc seven originals presentation. bay area 2050 now streaming everywhere you watch
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hides the beast that is city bureaucracy. >> the shot is fantastic. building a better bay area means balancing those two. and abc seven news reporter lyanne melendez is here. you're talking trash. you're talking trash again, lyanne melendez. >> only kindness and the truth, larry. well, listen, late last year, we learned through a report that it takes longer and it costs more to build homes in san francisco than anywhere else in california. the homes aren't the only thing we're slow at now . sure, blame it on the pandemic, but does it take several years to cover the city with trash cans? apparently so. for a major city, san francisco has a fairly good number of
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trash cans. but we have a problem. trash tends to find its way onto city streets, tarnishing san francisco's image even further, like right here they cleaned today, and two minutes later, somebody will trash it. it's been found that the more people litter, the more it becomes a habit. there desensitized. why can't we just have a nice can out in san francisco, a nice wire basket like they have in some other cities? we tried that in our pilot program and we saw that it didn't work. we're slobs. i don't know if it's slobs. it's really it's behavior issues. the city then realized they needed some kind of human resistant trash can without compromising esthetics. but this is san francisco, so it has to be different, right? they settled on a sleek new design. that was two years ago. here's part of the reason for the delay. rather than pick any design, public works decided to go the democratic route, asking residents to select a favorite from a few prototypes. those special trash cans became yet
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another city pilot program, costing $550,000. that's a lot of money. $550,000. yeah, it's a lot. it's a lot of money. the garbage cans, certainly, once they're into full mass production, aren't going to cost that much. we're hoping they'll cost about $3,000. this is the model that could cost $3,000, called slim silhouette. there's one along the embarcadero across from the ferry building. as seen in this photo. one was placed in the tenderloin, but that's now gone. the sexy new cans are supposedly resistant and hard to tamper with, and we've noticed that it's been tampered with. >> it looks cute. pretty. that's it. you went from spaceship to come back and get it. >> public works says there will be some design changes and improvements made, like being able to fit a used pizza box. right now the opening isn't large enough. they also want to
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make sure that people can't get into the recycled portion, so that this kind of rummaging doesn't happen. i'm sounding sort of like my mom. what happened? what's wrong with the old ones? okay, so the problem with the old cans is we see, we get a lot of problems with people being able to go into the cans, rummage through them, and pull the garbage out. we want to have it so people just can't pull off the doors and smash the locks as easily as they do now. and finally, we want to have something that's a little bit esthetically pleasing. mind you, public works has yet to find a company that will mass produce them. so at the earliest, the cans will start to roll out by the summer of 2025. the city wants to purchase 3000 trash cans, so do the math. that's $9 million. to clarify, ratepayer funding previously collected by recology has already been set aside by public works to cover the costs of the cans. board president aaron peskin, who is running against the incumbent
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mayor, has been critical of the costs and delays. >> i expressed these concerns years ago. i said that we just needed an off the shelf product. they wanted to have something special, regardless of cost. we still don't have the cans right now. >> public works has a more immediate problem, like how to quickly replace the 15 big belly smart trash cans like this one removed overnight from the north beach neighborhood. after the north beach citizens, the local nonprofit, terminated their contract with the company that provided them big belly. >> big belly has fallen down on the job. they're not servicing the cans well, they're not taking care of them. they're not maintaining them. >> a dark mark left on the pavement is proof they were once here. the office of economic and workforce development expressed its disappointment with big belly, stating that such action would require a lot of coordination on the city side. for now, it appears there will be no cans for the upcoming
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north beach festival. attendees could carry their trash home, but of course, there is always the street. hopefully not now. tomorrow is the sf fest italiana and the north beach street fair is from june 15th through the 16th. now we reached out to big belly several days ago and they never responded. and in the words of larry biel, you can't make this stuff up. >> it's so frustrating just to watch this. it's like, is this that hard? >> i mean, not to me or do they make it hard? >> yes. i mean, is it me or is it them? no. me or is it them? >> well, you always get in trouble, i think when you start asking everybody's opinion. >> that's right. >> okay. because there's going to be thousands of opinions and delays, delays, delays. >> that's right. some issues. you have to do that but not every issues. >> not everyone. as i've been told, there's only one opinion that matters. and it's christmas . >> amen. >> get along so well. >> that's why we get along. >> yes. that's why i'm still
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alive. all right. thank you.
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luxury. and the answer, apparently, is a resounding yes, according to a new study from lendingtree. 78% 78 say it's now a luxury because of the cost,
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and 62% say they're eating less of it because of the expense. i mean, it seems like we're stuck, dan. i mean, if mcdonald's is too expensive, you know, go into the supermarket to make it yourself. there's no bargain there either. >> no, i know you're funny. we i was having a conversation with a colleague just yesterday about this. i don't go to fast food very often anymore, but i did about three weeks ago, running errands all day on a saturday. did not have time for lunch. i was starving, so i ran in, drove through, and i got some nuggets, some a large fries and a large soda. it was almost $15. i hadn't been in a while. i couldn't believe it. you know, that used to be five bucks, right then. six or 7 or 8. so it is becoming a luxury. yeah, i don't think i'll go back for 15 bucks for that. >> remember the dollar menu. >> oh right. yeah. >> that they had them. >> that became the $5 menu. >> that's really 15 bucks. almost >> all right. well airlineratings.com just released a list of the world's best airlines, and not one us based
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carrier makes the top ten. topping the list are qatar airways. korean air is in second. cathay pacific airways takes the third spot, followed by air new zealand and emirates at number five. the highest ranked us carrier is larry. you'll be very proud here. hawaiian airlines, which comes in at number 17, which i think does have better service than most major us carriers. >> it's still down right list. >> yeah. the question here is like the airlines in this country, do they not think we're important enough to provide this kind of service you get on international flights? sandy i mean obviously it's all profit driven. >> yeah. i mean, i'm thinking, you know, the international flights are a lot longer and maybe they're catering to people because people are stuck on the planes for so long. but maybe here in the us they just think, oh, you know, they're not that long, when you're going across the. >> but american carriers fly those long flights overseas. that's true. i mean, they take i've never been i've never been on any of those top ten airlines
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actually. and well, you fly private. >> so yeah, there's that. >> but that's really i mean that we're not represented at all in the top ten is very telling. >> i also think it's reflective of just how we're not as into the service culture as some other parts of the world. that's true. >> yeah. a toddler has set the guinness world record as the youngest professional male artist. >> check out little ace liam ankrah at work in ghana, created his first painting at six months old by crawling over paint and canvas. as he is not going to be two until july. get this he's already sold nine paintings, which is nine more than the four of us have sold. >> that's unbelievable. all those on the wall. presumably this is all his work. that's actually pretty good stuff. yeah. that's amazing. that's really remarkable. >> i so talented. >> look at that pink one. yeah like the other ones. i was like, oh, that looks like some of the
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abstract stuff in museums. you splash a lot of things onto canvas and you hang it up there. it is. it's art. but that one, the pink wave one, shows me he's got talent there. >> he's a little prodigy. maybe. i had a friend one time who ended up going to medical school, but his plan was to be an artist, and in college he put in all this big art installations. we're talking about modern art one day, and i was looking at some sort of twisted piece of metal that was art. and i said, now, heath, that's his name. i said, heath, i mean, i could have done that. and he had a great line. he said, but you didn't. yeah that's true. >> all right. well, movies and popcorn are one of the greatest combos of all time. turns out it's popularity has a lot to do with nostalgia. the tradition dates back more than 90 years and get this the nation's largest movie chain, amc theaters, pops enough popcorn to fill 222 olympic sized swimming pools every year. so i guess we eat a lot of popcorn, especially at movie theaters. >> you have to have popcorn, kristen. you can't just go to the movies.
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>> yeah, i'm i'm not a popcorn fan. >> not that's my favorite snack. probably that kind of stuff. i'm with you, sandhya. you know, if i'm not going to have popcorn, i'm not going to the movies. wow >> no, it's really part of the experience. like from the second that you walk in the actual theater and you smell it, it just hits you. and it's like, even if you don't really want it, it's like, i have to. i must get that. >> what are you going to just sit there and watch the movie, though? who would do that? that's right. >> yes. well, i will eat some candy bars. oh, okay. >> like reese's or something like that. >> okay. yeah something for everybody. >> i'll do that after the popcorn. yeah mix them together. >> it's actually fantastic mixing them together. >> all right, now you're sounding like an artist, larry. >> yeah. i'll just splash a little here and splash a little ther and i'll be a two year
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food service program have opened at places where kids are already spending their summers. this includes churches, summer camps, rec centers and community centers across the area. program manager michael okonji says this comes at a time when 35,000 kids already rely on free or reduced lunches. in oakland alone during the school year, i witnessed it up close. >> i've seen the several food deserts and the lack of accessibility to fresh nutrition . >> that's why their goal is to serve more than 120,000 meals over the next few months. >> that hot lunch is what families depend on during the school year because of the, you know, what's going on, the inflation prices are going up. it's hard to pay bills now. >> daniella spends her weekdays racing between at least a dozen sites a day to make sure no child goes hungry. >> they cannot function without food and i'm going to do all that i can and the rest of my
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team, all that we can to help provide these meals for these kids and these meals already come individually wrapped so students can grab and go or eat right here on site. >> we try to make the food tasty and culturally accessible, which is not just a chance for them to meet their nutritional requirements, but for them to, like, learn about new cultures or try new foods. expand their palates. >> the oakland unified school district has a summer food service program available on school sites to. the only difference is these meals are supplemented by the city's sugar sweetened beverage tax that was passed by voters in 2016 by as much as $2 per meal, for the lunches. so this ensures a guarantees larger and more nutritious portions. >> program wraps up the second week of august, when kids head back to school in oakland. lena howland, abc seven news. >> costco's new chief financial officer has a reassuring message for customers. he says don't
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worry about the dollar 50 hot dog soda combo. the price is not going up. gary millerchip made the announcement on an earnings call with analysts with costco's leadership change, some have speculated the combo price might increase as well. it's remained the same since 1985. it's what they call loss leader. >> i was just going to say that, yeah, you took the words right out of my mouth and so many people. my brother, if he goes to costco, got to get the got to get the hot dog. >> that and like the popcorn i will get. >> okay. all right, all right. we agree on something there, i think we'd also agree it's going to be a nice weekend. >> yeah. sandia. just how nice it's going to be. beautiful. how about a nice range of temperatures from the 50s coast side to the 80s inland? >> kristin and larry, let me show you why it's going to be cooling off. fog has already rolled in. it is hovering near monterey. we have some patches along our coast and it will make its way up the coastline later on tonight. going into tomorrow, you're looking at 58 and half moon bay all the way to about 84. in fairfield, a lot of sun
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away from the coastline should be a breezy to windy one. now enjoy that break from the heat because look what happens tuesday. this computer model is really starting to crank the heat, but most areas inland will be in the 90s. by wednesday. we're talking triple digits inland, and on thursday it is still going to get hot. so be aware of that. as we look at the accuweather seven day forecast brief break from the heat. it's cooling off over the weekend. continuing on monday. so sunday comes back and then monday drops off. and then the 90s and the one hundreds showing up. the sizzle will be here before you know it larry kristin. >> all right. thank you. sandia pier 39 has so many sea lions. they're actually breaking records a live look right here from our pier 39 camera. >> the group has gotten bigger with a new all time record of more than 2000 sea lions. the pier. and that is the most in 30 years. >> it's like standing room only there or lying down room only there. pier employees say the sea lions gather to feast on anchovies in the area. a fun fact. you ready? a group of sea
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lions in the water is called a raft, but on land they're called a colony. oh, okay. and now you know. >> what about when they're just lying on a i did that. >> i'll have to look it up. okay i'll check. perplexity. wow. i all right. >> still ahead, the volunteer helping people grow older gracefully. >> we're just so lucky to have this center. hopefully the center will still be around for me and my friends. >> meet this month's ally in when your child has moderate—to—severe eczema, it's okay for them to show off.
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then stay with us for abc seven news at 11. today wraps up our celebration of asian american and pacific islander heritage month. we're ending the month in style at community center that's been serving the japanese american community for 50 years. meet today's allies in action. an employee who returned after retirement as a volunteer. >> one of the questions that they asked when i interviewed for the job is, if you got this job, what kind of activities would you plan? and i said, well, if they're anything like my parents, they like to gamble. and the executive director at that time said, right my name is julie hubbard, and i've been a volunteer here at uhi for about five years, and i was actually an employee here for 16 years. i was at an aerospace company and i'll never forget, i was having dinner with
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my brother, and he's a special ed teacher down south and i could hear this fulfillment in his voice about his job and what he did. and i remember leaving and telling my husband, i never felt that at my job. i went back to school. san jose state graduated in 2003. one of the girls that i went to school with, i became friends with her mother because we were closer in age, and a week after graduation, i got a call and she asked if i would be interested in applying for a job here as the activities director, you know, for our mission statement is serving seniors, right? >> the seniors in our community, we want to keep them healthy, active, mentally stimulated and to keep them at their homes, in their homes as long as possible. we have activities as a senior daycare. we have social services
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, we have a caregiver support group and a grief support group. we serve 2000 seniors and their family members. we're actually offering socialization uh- getting them to be mobile, getting them to exercise, getting them to use their mind. >> i planned indian casino trips. we went to reno overnight at least four times a year and, and, and then also some day trips. we went up to san francisco a lot to the asian art museum. we would have lunch at kimochi, and i realized early on that in order for this organization to flourish and continue, we really depend on our volunteers. so when i retired, i knew i would come back. so right now i do the lunch program. we are one of the few centers that still make food in-house, and we're also one of the few centers that still provide asian type meals.
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everything that i've had here is good. when i serve at the lunch program, they all seem so appreciative and they always say thank you every single one. and they say thank you for the milk. they say thank you for the salad. we're just so lucky to have this center. hopefully as i get older that this center will still be around for me and my friends when i leave here. i know that i've done something good and also that i feel that i'm being fulfilled just as much as they are. >> i think there's so many volunteers here that have so much heart, and they all give back in in such great ways and just, i mean, generous with their time, with their skills and, and, you know, here's julie, who used to work for uhi and look at her, she can't stay away, you know, and how lucky for us.
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>> now, if you know someone who's making a difference in their community, tell us about them at abc seven news.com/take action. they could be our next ally in action that we profile. that's going to do it for abc seven news at four i'm kristen sze abc seven news at five with dan and umma is coming your way
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and describing the lingering effects of a violent attack more than a year and a half ago today, the husband of house speaker nancy pelosi took the stand in the state trial against the man who assaulted him. good evening. i'm ama daetz and i'm dan ashley. >> thanks for joining us. while paul pelosi's testimony today was similar to the testimony he gave during the federal trial, he did reveal the toll the ta

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