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quite a while. >> 16 small businesses ransacked all in one single office building in oakland over the weekend. good evening. i'm ama daetz and i'm dan ashley. >> thanks for joining us. it happened near collins drive and hegenberger road. that's the same area that's seen a number of businesses close because of crime over the past few months. >> today, abc seven news reporter lena howland talked to impacted business owners and they kicked this one open. >> here they are. you can see right there where they kicked it open door after door. >> ken houston shows us 16 small businesses that were kicked in and ransacked early saturday morning. >> this is the remnants of them cutting our fence right here. >> houston is the director of oakland's beautification council and one of five owners of this office building on collins drive near hegenberger road. he believes thieves cut through two fences and broke in through an exit door on the second story. >> i've never seen it like this. it's lawless. they're not
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scared. it's called healthy fear and respect. they have no healthy fear and respect for the law. that's scary. >> houston says their space is an incubator for small businesses with primarily black and latino owners, like chris prater's barbershop. >> every single time you go through the door, you're like, it's like somebody slept in your bed who wasn't supposed to be in your house. >> their office building is directly behind the denny's on hegenberger road that closed earlier this year because of crime in the area. their building, now covered in graffiti, their parking lot now overrun by campers. it's just down the street from the 76 gas station that was raided by more than 80 thieves just three weeks ago. here's co-founder and office manager latonya hawkins. >> as more businesses close, we see you know what? what what? it leads to. you know, we see people come and destroy businesses like like ours and like our tenants and like the
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gas station up the street. and so it's really just disheartening. disheartening because we're from here. >> according to our neighborhood safety tracker, burglaries across the entire city of oakland are down by 21% compared to the previous three year average. oakland mayor shengtao just visited this site last week with the deputy police chief and city department of transportation director over safety and traffic concerns. oakland police said they believe at least three suspects were involved, but no arrests have been made in oakland. lena howland, abc seven news. >> and we're learning new details tonight about a shooting in hayward that happened yesterday morning, claiming the life of a 16 year old teenage girl. a 41 year old man was also shot but is expected to survive his injuries. the shooting happened on west tennyson road near terrell avenue. in abc. seven news reporter suzanne vaughn is live in hayward with the story on this. suzanne >> so, dan, police are still looking for the people involved in this shooting. according to
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the police chief, the guys were wearing hoods and masks and they were shooting at each other in front of an apartment complex. but we still don't know why. you can clearly see the extensive damage done by the bullets early sunday morning. police say a number of people fired several rounds at each other in front of this apartment complex on west tennyson road, and then took off. >> we believe that there was an exchange of gunfire between two separate parties. >> when officers arrived, they found a 16 year old girl in the parking lot who was badly hurt. she died at the hospital. police don't know if she was the intended target. she lived at the apartment complex where the shooting happened. police say a 41 year old man who was just passing by was caught in the crossfire. he's expected to survive. investigators are still looking into what caused the shooting. we do believe that there the parties know each other. >> uh- don't know if there was an argument that preceded this, but we'll tell you that we believe that some of the shots were fired from a vehicle. >> witnesses describe some of
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the suspects involved. >> subjects were wearing hoods and masks. this was a group of young men. there were several vehicles involved. we believe that we have recovered the vehicles associated with this case. >> police believe one of the shooting suspects lives in the apartment complex. police know the identities of the two people shot, but they're not releasing that information yet. and this was hayward's eighth homicide of the year. police say anyone with information about sunday's shooting should call hayward police. we're live in hayward, suzanne phan, abc seven news. all right, suzanne, thank you so much. a san francisco police officer ended up in the hospital today after a burglary suspect crashed into their car. happened just after five this morning at a shopping center on cameron drive and cardenas avenue in the parkmerced area. officers got a call about a burglary in progress. police tell us when they got there. they tried to stop a suspect's car. the driver tried to take off and crashed into a patrol car. the driver is in custody and the officer's injuries are not life threatening. >> developing news now in
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california's largest active wildfire. the man accused of starting the park fire outside chico appeared in court for the first time today. ronnie dean stout, the second is facing a felony arson charge. butte county prosecutors say witnesses saw him push a burning car down a hill last week before trying to blend in with people running from the flames. the butte county district attorney's office says stout has a criminal record if he's convicted on the arson charge, it would be his third felony, and he would automatically be sentenced to 25 years to life in prison. stout is being held without bail and is due back in court on thursday. >> and as for the latest on the firefight, cal fire says crews have done an incredible job getting the containment up to 12%. considering how dry the fuels are, it's just been a brutally tough fight. >> the fire has now burned more than 373,000 acres. abc news reporter mola lenghi is near the fire lines with more. >> tonight, the park fire exploding into california's
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record books. it's now the sixth largest fire on record in the golden state, and it's still out of control. and tonight, the man authorities say started it, 42 year old ronnie stout charged in butte county with arson. this is the car authorities say he set on fire and rolled off a 60 foot embankment, the park fire burning through more than 575mis in just five days, destroying more than 100 homes and other buildings, forcing thousands to flee. david teahen and his son jonathan, both firefighters in butte county, both lost their homes in the fire. >> we have really not had time to stop and look at all of this and what we're going to do. we're still putting fires out the park fire, just one of more than 100 major wildfires burning across multiple western states. >> authorities in oregon identifying the pilot killed thursday while working near the falls fire as 74 year old james maxwell mourning the loss of a
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man who spent more than half a century fighting fires. well, dan ama, the fire still raging tonight. the park fire devastating community after community here in northern california. this is just one family's home that we see here completely wiped out, completely destroyed. folks coming home to see sites like this. and this is still very much a race against time, as extreme heat is expected to move in by midweek. triple digit temperatures moving in by wednesday. so again, this is very much a race against time as when those triple digit temperatures move in here, guys fighting this fire will be extremely difficult. >> all right. thank you mola. and the city of actually you can track the wildfires across the state as well as air quality with our interactive wildfire tracker. we have all the information for you on our website abc seven news.com/fire map. >> southern california was rattled today by a magnitude 4.9 earthquake. it hit around 1:00 in the mojave desert outside barstow. people from los angeles
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to san diego to vegas felt the shaking. there are no reports of damage or injuries. at least two aftershocks followed the quake a magnitude 3.5 and 2.7. >> oakland has reached a deal today to sell its share of the coliseum complex to a private developer, mayor shang tao's office tells abc seven news. a representative from the a s e g land group signed a term sheet to buy the city's 50% stake of the coliseum for $105 million. a news conference is set for tomorrow morning. mayor shang says the deal will lead to a multi-billion dollar investment in east oakland. it also helps the city close a massive budget deficit and avoid mass layoffs in its police and fire departments. >> all right. coming up here, republican vice presidential nominee jd vance makes a fundraising stop in the bay area. the important role that political experts say silicon
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vance is headlining a fundraising reception on the peninsula tonight. yeah. >> video just into our newsroom shows trump supporters gathered outside the four seasons hotel in east palo alto with officers screening cars as they pull up to the hotel. the trump campaign has not confirmed details about the event, but this certainly looks like the kind of security we've seen at presidential fundraisers in the past. >> abc seven news south bay reporter zach fuentes talked to experts who say the bay area is playing a big role in the november election. >> the november election is fast approaching, and presidential campaigns are again turning to silicon valley donors. >> it's a cliche, but i'll repeat it. we are the atm for the political world and that, says political scientist melissa michaelson, makes california one of the most important states in the presidential election. the reality is that silicon valley
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has a huge amount to do with the presidential election. because of the amount of wealth here and anyone attending mondays fundraiser in palo alto will need wealth to attend. >> according to this invitation posted on the santa cruz county republicans website, people will pay up to $50,000 per couple and or as much as $25,000 for an individual. the least expensive ticket is $3,300. you can even donate with cryptocurrency. the washington post and bloomberg report the event is being hosted by mike belshe, ceo of the crypto company bitgo. a sign of vance's ties to the local tech community. >> i think there's a lot of excitement around having somebody with strong connections to the silicon valley on on a ticket, on a national ticket, shane patrick connolly, chairman of the santa clara county republican party, expects the local trump vance campaign fundraiser to do well, especially because of vance's ties to the tech world. i think that's good for silicon valley and somebody who understands the issues that are important to our startup communities, especially both sides of the aisle, have seen millions in campaign
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donations. >> the kamala harris campaign reporting sunday that it raised $200 million in the first week of its campaign, a number michaelson said she expects will also motivate republican donors. >> republicans are seeing all this enthusiasm for harris, and that's going to make them want to rally behind their candidate. almost a will show you you think you're excited about harris? watch how excited we can be about president trump. and so they're going to have massive fundraising efforts in the south bay. >> zach fuentes, abc seven news. >> democrats are turning to zoom to raise millions for the presumptive presidential nominee. vice president kamala harris, according to an axios report, more than 500,000 people joined three separate zoom calls last week, raising more than $11 million. analysts say we can expect to see more and more of the online events they're cheaper to organize and, of course, easier to attend, new polling shows vice president harris making gains among critical groups. >> the latest abc news ipsos poll found 44% of independents
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have a favorable view of harris. that's up from 28% just a week ago. harris overall favorability is up to 43% to former president trump's 36%. >> and 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, just head to our website to abc seven news.com/election. >> all right. more to come here. and east bay theater company says it could be forced to shut down if it doesn't raise $350,000 by thursday. it's that dire. the funding emergency facing cal
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rest of this fire season could look like. that fire is still growing as it tears through portions of butte, plumas, shasta, and tehama counties. abc seven news reporter leslie brinkley reached out to the experts, who expect more megafires to come.
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>> i don't see any reprieve in this, and the last two years before this year have been pretty good. the two years before that were pretty awful, and this year is gearing up maybe to be an awful year. >> mark schwartz predicts ecosystem vulnerabilities. and he says, surprisingly, most of california's wildfires in the last five years weren't even in the areas at highest risk. he's not surprised the park fire is scorching land with remarkable speed. >> we're in a position because we have a lot of people living in the wildland urban interface where we are, protecting buildings, protecting lives, protecting people at the expense of letting wildfires run into into wild areas. and so fires get large. and they we should expect them to continue to get large. >> i don't think there's much that's going to stop it. and we think we're talking about weeks, if not many weeks of burning ahead of us. >> as an ecologist and the chief scientist at vibrant planet working to analyze wildfire risk mitigation, dixie fire a couple of years ago was nearly a million acres. >> and this one's going to
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certainly hit a half million, any day, any day here, given the speed that it's moving out past fire. >> science looked at the brush, the fuel close to the ground. >> we've ignored really, really big fuels like things the size of tree trunks, for example, because they didn't actively drive what happened in fires. and now they are because we have so much dead material. >> and then there are plumes of smoke. we know a lot about particulates, but not enough about the chemical composition of the smoke. this uc davis professor is designing cutting edge chemical sensors. >> some of them can be put onto drones, and we've been working on that with some of our colleagues, so that these chemical sensors can actually go out and sniff the air as they fly around. the other thing is that they could be put on mobile units, so sensors will soon be mounted on fire trucks, technology that will be ready to be deployed in the next year or two. >> i'm leslie brinkley, abc seven news. >> well, so far off to a pretty
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scary start with the fire seaso, but the weather in the bay area is certainly a good bit cooler, which was a nice break uh- saturday. >> lisa i'm like, wait a second, what's going on? >> yeah, it probably didn't even clear at your house, right? yeah, there were many areas where that fog really held on and it was barely 70 in livermore on saturday, but we rebounded on sunday and we've got a couple cool days before we warm up into the 90s again inland. there's a look at live doppler seven. you can see the fog banked up along the shoreline. there it's going to make a quick return and push all the way inland once again. but it did retreat quickly this morning. there's a look at the park fire. you can see the smoke heading into northern california and also parts of the sierra nevada. looking at those hazy conditions so far we have been spared from that. the end of the week, we could get a wind shift and we could see a little bit more haze. so there's another look at the low cloud deck. and what about that breeze? you can see the fog coming back into
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play and the winds over 30 miles an hour here in the city and across the bay in oakland it is 60 downtown, 61, in half moon bay, upper 60s oakland, hayward, 75, san jose and redwood city. and for mount tam, you can see the marine layer out in the distance. it's going to encompass the entire bay once again, 83 by the delta right now, southwest wind at 18 with 71 in napa. and as we look at our 24 hour temperature change, anywhere from 4 to 5 degrees cooler for most except right along the coast there where we had some sun, half moon bay was partly sunny. there's a look at the winds. you can see over 20 miles an hour out by the delta, but these 31 mile gusts from the airport and down by mountain view, it's breezy as well as hayward. so from the shark tank there you can see the sunshine. last mile day will be tomorrow. on tuesday. by the middle of the week we warm up back into the 90s inland. it's still pleasant around the bay and then into the weekend. warm to hot. we have one day we could flirt with about 100 degrees, so there's a look at the current fog situation. but look how quickly it pushes in. and we'll also get
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some mist and drizzle at the coast 730 tomorrow. then it retreats for the most part, but it is going to hug the shoreline and we'll get those afternoon breezy winds overnight lows from the mid and upper 50s here, maybe about 60 in fremont with the cloudy skies jumping ahead to wednesday. we're in the mid 90s. not too terribly hot here and still have those 70s around the bay, maybe 80 in fremont, but by thursday we're a little warmer, maybe 3 to 4 degrees warmer in the upper 90s, dropping off a few degrees on friday. 73 in oakland for your tuesday upper 70s in napa as well as san jose. look for 85 in livermore with temperatures on the peninsula in the 70s, the accuweather seven day forecast. then another cool day for july tomorrow. but if you like it a little warmer, we have that on wednesday and thursday. not too warm, but saturday compared to last saturday, this next saturday looks to be the warmest day out of the next seven, and that should be primarily inland. getting just slightly warmer
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around the bay and certainly cool at the coast. so we are back into the warmer weather. but thank goodness not an extended period of time with that 108, right? yeah, absolutely. >> all right. thanks, lisa. >> all right. a beloved east bay theater company believes the show must go on, but they can't do that without some help. california shakespeare theater in orinda says if it doesn't raise $350,000 by august 1st, that's this thursday, they may be forced to close and call off their production of as you like it. cal shakes has already built the sets and cast the actors. they're ready to go, the theater's executive director told us. ticket sales and fundraising are down. alum zendaya already made a major donation. uh- alum zendaya already made a major donation, but that's not enough to keep the theater going. the theater launched a gofundme last week to try to close the gap. they've raised about $22,000 so far, so they have a long way to go. >> still ahead, a san francisco teen has now set a new world
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level seats and the gilt edge club will be an open air, shaded lounge flanked by a green wall at the edge of the outfield. the a's are scheduled to play in sacramento starting next year and through at least the 2027 season. >> history. last night in pro soccer, 14 year old mckenna mac whitham of san francisco made her debut with new jersey's gotham fc of the national women's soccer league. her arrival came one day after she turned 14, and two days after she signed her pro contract. she breaks the record set by teen soccer star kevin sullivan, who made his debut at age 14 years and 293 days with the philadelphia union back in may. >> exciting. all right, well, we still have much more news ahead. >> we do. let's go to abc seven news anchor stephanie sierra with a look at what's coming up at 530. steph thanks, dan and ama tonight. >> a cautious outlook on the bay area's future fire season. a local fire marshal joins us live
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with a closer look at the front lines of california's sixth largest wildfire in state history. what the park fire signals for us here in the bay area, plus new help for homeowners accessing insurance. then tired of tipping? restaurant surcharges are reaching an all time high, but lyanne melendez has found some places are avoiding both while still providing a livable wage. she joins us live to discuss. join us for those stories and more. at 530 on abc seven. bay area streaming tv. >> dan and i'm stephanie, thank you. >> and you can download the abc seven app or head to abc7 news.com and join steph in two minutes. >> and if you're watching us here on tv world news tonight with david muir is next for lisa argen and all of us. i'm dan ashley and i'm ama daetz. >> a power outage is looming. that's just alert, he's always getting worked up about something. flex alerts notify us of preventable power outages. that way we always know when to help stop one. ok flex, just drop some knowledge on me again. oh, ok i will - i'll turn our thermostat to 78...
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