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>> multiple fires burning out of
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control. this morning here in the bay area, a grass fire moving right next to people's homes. the changes overnight on acreage and evacuations, and the largest wildfire in the state right now is growing fast. you're looking at new video of the park fire this morning. our local firefighter is heading up north to help put out those flames. plus, an east bay man facing charges related to fire bombing. how the attack was reportedly tied to pro-palestinian protests. we'll have that story in just a moment. good morning everybody. it's saturday, july 27th. lisa is back with us. great to have you back. thank you. and we were certainly using our wipers this morning. >> yes, lots of drizzle out there for sure. and the marine layer is quite expansive as we look at live doppler seven right now we are. you can see right up along the coast there looking at this flow here of the low cloud deck that is pushed inland. it is 57 in fremont, 58 in livermore. good morning, san francisco, 56 and mid 50s for
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you in santa rosa. so fairly uniform temperatures. it is about seven degrees cooler in livermore. and those winds are breezy. so although we're cooling down increasing our relative humidity, we'll continue to see the breezy winds only in the mid 70s inland. today that's another ten degrees of cooling. mid 60s bay shore, no clearing at the coast, maybe around 60 degrees. and we'll talk about more below average high temperatures for the second half of your weekend in a few minutes. stephanie. >> all right, lisa, thank you. developing news. now some east bay residents are back home this morning after a fire prompted evacuations last night. we're talking about the point fire burning in bay point. it started off of évora road, close to people's homes, and you can see some of the homes that threatened by the fire covered in retardant. the bay point fire has grown to over 460 acres and is now 20% contained. abc7 news reporter cornell bernard talked to people who had to evacuate.
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>> all in a sudden, when i'm in the restroom, i look in the window and i saw dark smoke coming from the house right in front of me, eleanor schwartz says. >> behind that smoke was a fast moving wall of flames marching toward her bay point neighborhood. friday afternoon, she grabbed her dog, sophie, and was ready to make a run for it. when she and her car got doused with retardant from a firefighting aircraft. >> policeman was out there and we all got drenched with that red stuff, and that's when i decided to leave. >> acres and acres of dry grass, creating the perfect recipe to fuel the fire. contra costa fire says it started near the shooting range off of évora road and quickly spread, carried by strong winds. >> fire got into some light, flashy fuels and the wind took it from there. the winds today were, i believe, right around 14mph out of the west uh. but up on the ridge tops and up on the hilltops, they seem to blow a lot harder than that. >> sky seven showed the
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firefight unfolding. you can see how close the flames came to this neighborhood near driftwood drive. how scary is this afternoon been? >> my heart right now is going 10,000 miles a minute. >> denise and robert tavares couldn't get back to their house due to the evacuation order, but kept a close eye on their place through a home security camera app. it was safe, but watching the fire move across the ridge was beyond stressful. i'm trying to do mindfulness, you know? >> i'm a psychotherapist. i teach all my clients. listen, don't worry, stay in the moment. and i'm trying to practice what i preach. >> we saw a long line of neighbors sitting in their cars near highway four, waiting for the green light to return home. >> the police said that we were not letting anyone up until they reopened the streets. we have no idea when that will be. >> cornell bernard abc seven news. >> now, if you live in that area, those evacuations have been downgraded to warnings, but emergency officials are telling residents to stay prepared in
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case that changes fire. authorities say the cause is still under investigation. also in alameda county, there's another fast moving fire in sunol. the creek fire has burned over 570 acres near welch creek and calaveras roads. it started around 4 p.m. yesterday and is currently 0% contained as of this morning. crews are working to knock down the flames and there are several evacuations in place at the sunol regional wilderness park. now to the largest wildfire burning in our state. this morning, the park fire has burned more than 307,000 acres in butte county and tehama county. it's near the same area where the camp fire burned back in 2018. that fire was the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in california history. this morning, the park fire is 0% contained. abc seven news reporter tim johns spoke to bay area fire crews who are helping battle the flames.
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>> new video friday showing the devastation caused by the park fire. the fire has exploded in size since beginning wednesday and is burning just outside chico, not far from where the camp fire burned just six years ago. the new blaze bringing back old fears from that time for local residents, many of whom are still recovering. >> we've got our home and we've been working on it a lot lately, fixing it up, and it's just we're at the verge of maybe losing all that. >> with containment still hovering near 0%, several fire departments here in the bay area have sent assistance up north. that includes the santa rosa fire department, who shared this video from the front lines up in that area. >> currently, you're having those 100 degree temperatures very low relative humidity. so very dry. hot, a lot of steep and rugged terrain. so getting access to some of those areas is very difficult. >> authorities believe the fire may have been set intentionally and a suspect is now in custody. >> whether it's intentional or unintentional or accidental or whatever it may be, we still attack it the same, our biggest concern, obviously, is uh- fire
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and life safety. >> in addition to santa rosa, the san francisco fire department tells me they too, are trying to help lieutenant mariano elias says in addition to resources sent up on thursday, the department deployed six more firefighters friday night with a long fight ahead of everyone. lieutenant elias says the fire is a good reminder for people to be prepared. >> if you do have to leave in an instance, do you have a full tank of gas in your vehicle, can you get out? what is the quickest way to get out from the area? >> and for those directly impacted by this growing fire, some say all they can do is hope for the best people. >> as a faith based person, just you pray a lot. you pray for other people, not just for yourself and what you need. >> tim jonze, abc seven news. >> to give you an idea of how quickly this fire is spreading, cal fire said yesterday it's expanding at a rate of about 4 to 5000 acres an hour, and take a look at this satellite video from sierra research at colorado state university shows the burn scar and the smoke plume from
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this park fire. you can track wildfires across the state as well as current air quality. with our interactive wildfire tracker. just head to our website abc seven news.com/fire map to the peninsula. now this morning, crews will continue their recovery efforts near highway one at devil's slide after a deadly crash yesterday. officers say two people were in a car when it went over a cliff and landed more than 300ft down an embankment. they say the victims were found dead inside the car near highway one between pacifica and montara. closures will be in place today from 830 this morning to noon. in that area today. crews will try to recover the body of the second victim. the cause of this crash is still under investigation. we're also following new developments in an arson case at uc berkeley. a federal grand jury has indicted an east bay man with firebombing a police car. the u.s. attorney's office shared these photos, accusing
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casey goonan of putting molotov cocktails underneath a uc berkeley patrol car. you see him here? it happened on june 1st amid pro-palestinian rallies on campus. the 34 year old pleaded not guilty, and the suspect's lawyer believes the investigation was political in nature. he told abc seven news last month he thinks investigators want to place blame on the suspect because of his opposition to the israel-hamas war. as we head to break now, let's check in with lisa. how's it looking outside? >> it's pretty cloudy out there. stephanie. we have plenty of drizzle at the coast. it's 56 downtown. you can see all the low clouds here and it's going to take a while to burn back. in fact, around oakland, hayward, san mateo could be pretty cloudy for the early afternoon. we'll talk about our cooldown that continues when we come back. >> lisa. thank you. also ahead, more calls for oakland to change its pursuit policy. the mayor now reacting to the governor's
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push for updated guidelines and a north bay wine giant files for bankruptcy. what experts say could be to
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oakland mayor xiang tao is backing governor newsom's request for the city to revise its police pursuit policy. newsom sent a letter to oakland city officials. he's urging them to update the policy, put into place back in 2014. now, the governor says chp officers who are now patrolling oakland's streets observed suspects are, quote, fleeing with impunity. that's because they know they won't be chased. mayor tao opted not to answer our questions, but did release a video statement calling on the police commission to take action. >> we must be in line with our policies, with other jurisdictions, so that we can ensure that our community is
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safe. >> under its current rules, oakland officers can only launch a pursuit if there's reasonable suspicion that a person has committed a violent forcible crime or a crime with a gun, or if there's probable cause that person has a gun. now, critics say there's no data showing that police pursuits do anything to stop crime or solve crimes, but they do increase the danger for people on the streets, as we've been seeing. now this comes as we're tracking new developments in the recall effort against mayor tao. a judge has recused herself from the case brought by the oakland public ethics commission. no reason was given. judge julius spain also vacated a ruling earlier this week in favor of oust the group backing the recall, the public ethics commission filed the suit in order to get oust and another group to comply with subpoenas. they're calling for a communications to be released between the two groups and some other individuals. new details about the items seized by the
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fbi during that june raid at mayor tao's oakland home, along with mayor tao's phone and computer. federal agents also took the phone belonging to her boyfriend, andre jones. that's according to the chronicle. jones stopped using his phone shortly after the raids and reportedly switched to a new number as previously reported, the raids may be linked to a campaign contribution laundering scheme no charges have been filed. tao has denied any wrongdoing. millbrae citizens voted to recall the city's vice mayor and a council member. some residents are fighting a plan to convert a la quinta inn into permanent supportive housing, the recall campaign claims. vice mayor maurice goodman and a city council member failed to properly represent their electorate when they supported the hotel conversion in the north bay. now one of the largest wine producers in the country, has filed for bankruptcy. santa rosa based
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vintage wine estates has over 30 wine and spirit brands. the news comes as a shock to the industry, experts say. wine sales could be impacted by a number of things. >> boomers are drinking less and i think that's probably the bigger effect. and we're seeing, you know, people that have been the main driver behind wine consumption and they are starting to pull back, whether it's because they have enough wine in their cellar or because they have health reasons, maybe, you know, in the wake of a very kind of shocking, you know, time for the world. people are reassessing how they're living and the way they're living. there's also a younger generation. i think that's still figuring out life and maybe hasn't discovered wine and wine culture for most of their products are in the 15 to $20 range. >> and we're told the lower priced wine market is struggling the most. industry leaders say more vineyards could file for bankruptcy in the south bay key stakeholders came together to talk about one of the biggest issues impacting all local communities. we're talking about affordable housing. abc seven news south bay reporter zach
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fuentes tells us the ideas being discussed. >> san jose is in the top ten, but it's on a list most would rather not see it on at all. >> san jose was ranked as the fourth least affordable metro area in the world, behind hong kong, sydney and vancouver. >> that's according to the annual demographia international housing affordability report. the lack of affordable housing isn't an issue. isolated to san jose. >> we all know what's happening in the south bay, and it's kind of a warning sound for the rest of the bay area. the rest of california. and you know what? my work in the united states congress, other members are feeling it, too. >> across the country, federal home loan, bank of san francisco, which said it devotes profits to affordable housing projects, hosted this roundtable meeting to talk affordable housing solutions. >> we get people to start thinking about it's not about passing a bill in congress. it's about what happens locally, what happens at the county or city level. and then maybe the state level as well on hand. >> government officials, local leaders and real estate and nonprofit organizations. so what
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are solutions look like? san jose city council member arjun batra says more mixed income housing instead of buildings with only affordable housing, is needed to build the market rate. >> properties have mixed use, mixed income properties give subsidy to any and everybody deserving the roundtable discussion comes after governor newsom issued an executive order requiring state agencies to prioritize clearing homeless encampments. >> it also puts pressure on local governments to do the same, batra said. having affordable housing solutions sooner than later will keep people from becoming or staying homeless. >> affordable housing requires too much money. it's too bureaucratic. it takes too long to develop at the federal level, congressman panetta says he's at work on legislation that uses the tax code to incentivize construction and development of affordable housing, along with tax credits for middle income home buyers and renters. >> all of us have to come together and have this type of conversation to see where we can play a role, and that's why
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we're here today in san jose. >> zach fuentes, abc seven news. >> new. this morning, south bay schools could be getting an upgrade if a new ballot measure is approved by voters, it would also provide employee housing. our media partners, the mercury news reports the decision came in a surprise special meeting. san jose unified school district's board of trustees unanimously approved placing a nearly $1.2 billion bond measure onto the november ballot. if passed, the money would go towards upgrading and repairing facilities across the south bay's largest public school district and to create affordable housing for both teachers and staff. now to this. golden gate park recently announced the new dates and line up for the next flower piano series. it was such a hit last year, they've extended the duration of this series for ten days. in september, you'll be able to see the san francisco botanical garden transformed into a concert hall with full service bars. opening night is september 13th and performances
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will run until the 22nd. well, the san francisco marathon is tomorrow. tens of thousands of runners are set to participate starting early in the morning. the 26 mile loop winds mostly through the northern part of the city, and they'll start at mission street and the embarcadero at 5:15 a.m. tomorrow, so you can expect those street closures in the area to be affecting traffic and public transit to also be rerouted, you can find a list of the service changes on muni's website. the runners will certainly escape the heat for this race as this cooling trend continues. how's the forecast shaping up? lisa? >> we have plenty of fog out there and we talked about the drizzle, our wipers for sure this morning, and it's going to take some time for that deep marine layer to pull back. it's at about 2000 to 2500ft as we have a trough moving through california. so that has allowed for some big changes. temperatures coming way, way down this morning. and we'll see
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numbers out of the 80s today. so we had a few 90s yesterday. there's a look at that dip in the upper levels of the atmosphere. and that represents that cooler air moving on in. and that is going to allow for temperatures to go way down today again and then into tomorrow kind of coming up a couple degrees. 61 in hayward, it is 61 in san jose with mid 50s at sfo, 51 in calistoga. that's a big cool down. yesterday at about 4:00. temperatures were in the 80s here. and so overnight lost a lot of that heat as upper level winds right now over 30 miles an hour. mount tam about 38 miles an hour. and there's a look at mount tam sunrise 809. the cool down continues into the weekend. the temperatures will be below average today and tomorrow, and then we'll look for a slow warming trend as we get into next week. so look how far the fog has gone this morning. and as we go through the next
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several hours, stopping this at about 3:00 and it's still hung up right there over the bay. so really not a whole lot of clearing for some of you around. perhaps a hayward. this afternoon. and then as we get into sunday morning, check it out. the fog is all the way back into the sacramento valley once again, pulling back and hopefully getting a little bit more sunshine around the bay for your sunday. but it's those spots from the san mateo coast, southern marin over into oakland that could hold on to the low cloud deck, into your monday. then looking at high temperatures pretty much the same in the mid 80s inland. but that will be where we are probably on sunday. so that's going to bring the numbers up. still below average though, with 60s and 70s coast in bay. and then as we get into your tuesday this is more like average upper 80s to near 90. and then we'll continue to see the numbers come up. this should be one of the warmer days on wednesday. big question is with high pressure building back, where is it going to set up? is it going to allow
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bay fire. the progress made along the altamont pass. we'll have more on that in just a moment. good morning, everybody. thank you for joining us. this half hour. lisa is here with your forecast and it's looking awfully gloomy out there. >> it is, but it is helping the firefighting efforts. except for the wind, you know, that has been really a problem yesterday. and it will be breezy again today. but look at this view
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from mount tam. sun coming up at 608. and what a gorgeous shot. the deck of low clouds is pretty expansive over 2000ft. it is 56 downtown, 60 in oakland. good morning hayward 61 for you in san jose, 55 in half moon bay. and speaking of san jose, it is cloudy there. temperatures in the mid 50s up in the north bay from santa rosa, 58 in fairfield and the 24 hour temperature change. you can see the cooldown 2 to 7 degrees from oakland to livermore. it is breezy, up to 25 miles an hour in concord. fairfield 17 mile an hour. southwest wind in upper elevations over 38 mile an hour wind gusts. the oakland hills. so look how long it takes that fog to pull back. here it is, 1:00, and we still have gray sky over the east bay, the north bay, the peninsula. it's sunny, but in the 70s in the east bay, mid, maybe some upper 70s inland. and so that's a further cooldown and we'll talk about when we'll see a warm up. hopefully a slight one right. coming up in a few minutes stephanie.
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>> all right lisa thank you. in the south bay a small fire is burning in santa clara county, not far from the lexington reservoir. the water fire near los gatos creek in the alder croft heights area, put up a lot of smoke, as you can see here, but only burned one acre. fire crews are making progress and thankfully no buildings are currently threatened. evacuation warnings were issued yesterday, but have since been lifted and fire crews are also making progress on a fire burning along the altamont pass. it's now 80% contained as of this morning and has burned nearly 400 acres. the flames were reported thursday night near north flynn road, just outside of livermore. cal fire says the cause is under investigation. an initial report from chp shows a car caught on fire on westbound i-580, and the flames spread to the grass. we're following new developments nearly two weeks after conflicting accounts, the fbi now confirms former president donald trump was in fact struck in the ear by a bullet during
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the assassination attempt earlier this month. before this announcement, law enforcement, including fbi director christopher wray, says it was unclear if trump's injuries were caused by a bullet or shrapnel. shrapnel are small pieces of a bullet. now to your voice. your vote. former president trump is back on the campaign trail this weekend. mr. trump addressed the crowd last night in west palm beach, florida. he took aim at vice president kamala harris for her alleged plans to pack the supreme court. he also accused her of betraying israel for not attending prime minister benjamin netanyahu's address to congress earlier in the week, new polling shows. vice president harris and donald trump tied this six days after president biden's exit from the race. a wall street journal survey shows trump leading harris 49 to 47%. that's within the margin of error of plus or -3.3%. now, trump held a six
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point lead over mr. biden before his exit. harris leads trump 45 to 44% when robert f kennedy jr and other independent and third party candidates are included. california congressman and u.s. senate candidate adam schiff is in the bay area for his own campaign events this weekend. he sat down with us to discuss several topics, including this week's washington, d.c, visit by israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. schiff explained why he did not join some of his fellow democrats in congress, who boycotted netanyahu's address. >> i've never boycotted a an address before congress, and i also have respect for the state to state relationship between the united states and israel. i think it's a very important alliance for us. but i have deep disagreements with the prime minister, and there are times, many times over the last nine months where it has appeared that the prime minister believes it's politically advantageous
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for him in his right wing coalition to pick a fight with president biden. >> schiff also talked about the democrats new presidential candidate. he was one of the house members who prosecuted former president trump and his impeachment trial. he says the strategy that led to the impeachment might help kamala harris's campaign in the lead up to the election. >> what i ended up pivoting to in the impeachment case was moving away from strictly reliance on what he was charged with. in that case, it was withholding hundreds of millions of dollars from ukraine to extort that country into helping him cheat in an election, to focusing on his patent, unfitness for office, the fact that he can't tell right from wrong, the fact that he, is a pathological liar, that he, is basically indecent. and we can't leave someone like that running the country. we can't go back to that kind of chaos, that ugly, divisive chaos. she is already
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powerfully making that case. do we want to go back to that chaos or do we want to go forward? do we want to have a country where we're attacking climate change, where we're attacking, you know, this epidemic of gun violence, where we're improving the quality of life? we're bringing people together? i think people are going to choose that forward looking vision over that reactionary, backward looking vision of donald trump. >> schiff also says he believes mr. biden's exit from the race has the trump campaign scrambling to reorganize. he believes mr. trump is scared to debate vice president harris. you can count on abc seven news for all things politics as we race toward election day. for live updates and expert analysis on this presidential election, you can just head to our website, abc seven news.com/election. new developments overseas now. israel's military issued new evacuation orders for residents in southern gaza, specifically khan younis. it's the second evacuation order this week. this
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comes after the idf launched an operation on monday targeting hamas militants in the area. the hamas run gaza health ministry says at least 70 people were killed in airstrikes at the start of the operation. and new this morning, at least 30 people died after an israeli airstrike hit a school in gaza. according to civil defense workers, thousands of people were sheltering in that facility. still to come this morning, a local deputy speaking about a sexual harassment case involving the san mateo county sheriff's office. her story as she sits down for an interview for the first time. and we'll take you outside for a live look from our mount tam camera. a beautiful shot her
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sheriff's swat team is about to receive what could be a record settlement for a sexual harassment case. the county is paying the enormous amount of $8 million, but it's not admitting fault. the i-team's dan noyes talks to corinne barker for her first interview. >> and i went through uc berkeley as a pre-med student and was working as an emt at the time, 32 year old corinne barker told me in this exclusive interview that she studied to be a doctor, but she became drawn to law enforcement. i had a change of heart. i started doing ride alongs and i just loved it. i loved that you could be able to help somebody on their worst day and make it maybe just a little bit better, or make them feel a little bit safer. >> she excelled as a san mateo county sheriff's deputy, receiving the department's medal of honor with her partner for rescuing a woman from a burning mobile home. >> and i was trying to hold my breath because it was pretty impossible to breathe. so i
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would come back out to take a breath and then go back in to look for her. >> then barker joined the department's swat team, the only female member of the unit. >> that was kind of my pinnacle. that's as soon as i became a deputy. i knew i wanted to be on swat. >> how long before the problems started? >> i now see that it was almost immediate. i think at the time i was very trying, very hard to block it out. you know, i had worked so hard to get on that team and it was everything to me, you know, it was blood, sweat and tears that i put into it. >> the lawsuit against the county lists lewd comments allegedly made by her swat team leader, andre munoz, in front of other officers wanting to have sex with me, wanting to watch me do sexual things with other people, barker tells me. the comments were relentless and that it got physical during a training session out of town in front of other swat team members. >> he wrestled me to the ground
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and reached his hand through my leg. you know, touching private areas. >> i reached andre munoz on a cell phone last night. he hung up as soon as i said my name and referred me by text to his lawyer. jonathan murphy confirmed he's representing munoz in a personnel matter, but would not go into detail and would not offer any response to barker's lawsuit or the settlement. she told me her complaints to the county's hr department went nowhere. >> i really, really hoped something would come from that. and when it didn't, i was scared. >> then came my batmobile investigation. in july 2022, i reported that then sheriff carlos bolanos sent a team of investigators to a garage in indiana to recover a replica batmobile for a friend. >> andre munoz was thought to be the leak, who leaked that information to me? yes to you? yeah. >> munoz was not my source, but bolanos sent it to internal
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affairs, and corinne barker's sexual harassment complaints became part of that investigation when it stalled. barker resigned from the swat team and filed a lawsuit that is now being settled for $8 million. >> i think it gave me hope that women can stand up for themselves and be successful, that it is possible. >> i spoke with corinne barker's attorney. >> we were willing to settle the case for much less uh- much earlier in the litigation before so much testimony came out, zach franklin tells me he began to press for a higher settlement amount after he learned that barker's colleagues on the swat team stood up for her and complained about munoz behavior. >> the county denied the allegations, but relented. and i think they feared, and rightfully so, that if we went to trial, a jury could return a verdict. >> that's much bigger than $8 million. a statement from current san mateo county sheriff christina corpus depicts the harassment as incidents that occurred years ago under the
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previous sheriff. >> it says corpus is committed to improving the culture of the department by prioritizing accountability and implementing higher standards, setting the tone that misconduct will not be tolerated under her watch. despite the treatment she received and how her complaints were ignored. corinne barker wants to remain at the san mateo county sheriff's department. she's now a detective focusing on homeland security. >> i still love this career. i still love what we stand for. but, you know, i'm the first to say that there are problems and we need to fix them. >> but you know that there are women out there who are like, okay, you have the settlement. why don't you just get out of law enforcement? >> i think i would be abandoning who i am. you know, this this is not just a job. my son is proud to say that his mom is a detective. you know, he looks up to me, and i still find a lot of meaning in the work. i do for the i-team. >> dan noyes, abc seven news. >> now, the county attorney
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responded, saying insurance will cover most of the $8 million. if you have a story for dan, melanie or myself, you can call the number on your screen 188 40 i-team. or you can head to our website, abc7 news.com slash i-team to weather now let's check on conditions outside. >> all right. good morning stephanie. hi everyone. look at mount tam. how gorgeous is that? the sun was up at 609. sets at 822. it is 51 degrees on top of mount tam with a relative humidity at 82%. we were in the single digits yesterday with all the heat and wind. we are cooling off further today. my full accuweather s (banker 1) let's hear it! (vo) with wells fargo premier
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started out strong last night against colorado, and they'll need that good start ahead of next week's trade deadline. the
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question is who will stay and who has to go? here's abc seven sports director larry beil. >> good morning everybody. with the trade deadline rapidly approaching on tuesday, the giants really look much more like sellers than buyers. maybe trade some vets for young prospects. try to reload for next year. giants and rockies sailing in on a four game series. yes, they need to sweep and they need that guy to get hot. jorge soler first inning and that ball is sailing away. number 12 for soler. giants with the early one. nothing lead. and whether they're buying or selling tyler fitzgerald looks like a keeper. he hit a pair of two run homers in this game. so he's got seven bombs in eight games. and that's plenty of support for kyle harrison, who was dealing. harrison six and two thirds strikes out a career high 11. and the giants take the series opener 11 four. they've had a rare double header coming up today. a's fans in anaheim. and this is really unusual. play at the plate is coming up here joe adell trying to beat the throw. shea langoliers with the
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tag. and adele's momentum takes him right into umpire mark wegner. and not only is adell out, but you don't want to be under there right? uh- a's down four two in the sixth. brant rooker hanging bang it takes care of that with one mighty swing. his 24th two run jack. and we're tied at four later in the inning seth brown down the line initially called foul ball, but upon further review, that is fair. and that's an rbi single, which turns out to be the winning run. five four a's. little league world series west regional championship dublin, california against wilcox, arizona first inning dylan medrano base hit up the middle, scores. hattie mccumber two. nothing. arizona. they just kept hitting. base, hit base, hit base, hit up the middle. stephanie aguiar are there and dublin just couldn't get on the board. arizona goes on to the little league world series five. nothing nfl football. brock purdy did not have to rehab his elbow this offseason, and that gave him time to actually work out, coach kyle shanahan says brock has baby bosa quads. pretty clearly did not skip leg
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day off season right before camp starts. >> everyone you know gets after it and tries to get in the best shape as they can. so that's what i did. and you know i think for me moving forward it's like, how can i maintain that strength and all that throughout the season. >> now to that other football bay fc against angel city at paypal park this hurts. this is an own goal scored on bay fc. dorian bailey was trying to make a play. instead the ball caroms off the post, then off of her. she basically kicks it into her own net. so angel city with a two nil win. that's a wrap on morning sports. have a great weekend everybody. i'm larry beil. >> thank you larry. well happening today giants fans. you can watch a doubleheader at oracle park and experience a country music concert with that same ticket. you can catch country music star tyler rich perform a private concert during the 45 minute break between games. first pitch against the rockies is at 405 tonight, and
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that second game tentatively starts at 735. a portion of doubleheader ticket sales will benefit four h and ffa groups here in the bay area. lisa. of course, both those games at home. how's it looking around for this afternoon? >> well, you'll definitely need the jacket. temperatures in the low 60s, winds anywhere from about 17 to 20 miles an hour. they will be becoming less. it will be less windy by the later evening hours, but still throughout the three 4:00 hour. pretty breezy and cool with just partly sunny conditions. there's a look at a trough that is moving over the state and that has allowed for an expansive marine layer. mist and drizzle, and the low cloud deck all the way into the east bay. this morning. it's going to be that way for the next several days. look how nice this is from our view from mount tam where it is 609 sunrise, 14 hours and 13 minutes of daylight and boy, temperatures here really have cooled down. so upper elevations as of yesterday were in the 80s,
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even some 90s. and now we're looking at 50s out there. so big cool down 56. san francisco couldn't come soon enough, right? we could do without the wind though. 60 in oakland, 61. hayward, san jose, 56 in redwood city and 55 half moon bay, san jose. nice day on the way. you can see the low cloud deck there, 55 santa rosa, 52, in petaluma with upper 50s by the delta that southwest wind keeping it breezy there today. not as windy as yesterday thoug. 58 in concord and livermore and a final stop here from our exploratorium camera. so the cool down continues into the weekend. looking at the temperatures below average today. cool and tomorrow couple degrees milder. looking at temperatures slowly warming up by the middle of next week, we're looking back at temperatures will rebounding into the mid 90s inland. look how extensive the fog is. the drizzle along the coast. it pulls back but it doesn't completely clear around parts of
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the bay here. so your saturday afternoon could stay somewhat gray around the bay shore. and then into your sunday morning once again reaching all the way towards the sacramento valley and then by the evening hours, looks like we'll get some better clearing here. and that may nudge our temperatures up into the low 80s inland. here's a look at concord for the week ahead. upper 80 is the average and temperatures today into the 70s. there's our little bump up for sunday, monday, tuesday, and you get the idea by wednesday and thursday just a little bit above average. so in the south bay today, sunny skies for you in san jose, but a mild 75 degrees on the peninsula. look at the gray sky just on the border there san mateo 60s for you 66 in millbrae. the breezy winds, the clouds hanging on to the coast. here san francisco in the 60s and up in the north bay widespread 70s those 80s up in cloverdale and lakeport and on the east bay. here, look at that finger of fog right on through
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castro valley, where temperatures will be in the 60s. there you head inland and that orinda not 84 temperatures today with the breezy conditions in pittsburg, 78 degrees 76 in livermore, the accuweather seven day forecast. so more fog and low clouds to wake up to. certainly cool below average for july and then that minor warming trend as we get into the middle of next week, feeling like a more like summer as august arrives by the end of next week. so for once, we get a big break. july has been so hot and record breaking. as you know. >> yeah, this wave of heat waves and certainly unusual, right? you have this consecutive. >> absolutely. >> yeah. thank you lisa. well a reminder you can watch all our newscasts live and on demand through the abc seven bay area connected tv app. it's available for apple tv, google tv, amazon fire tv and roku. you can download the app now a
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for two days. bob eichel says his two dogs, marty and taylor, were staying with a pet sitter when marty got loose last weekend. he was spotted all over the city before he ended up in the tenderloin. eichel says an unhoused man found wardy at a park. >> a homeless man bought him a little crate, a blanket, a pad, food dog toys and kept him two days. this is a man who has nothing and he lives in this park. and he took care of our little boy. >> what a wonderful act of kindness. a woman who knew wardy was missing spotted the dog and that man at a bus stop. she showed him the missing posters and explained that marty had run away. now eicholz wants to find the kind hearted man who gave marty so much. we hope he finds him. still to come on abc seven
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