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five, the bay area is getting ready to welcome the vice president later. >> what's planned for kamala
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harris as she campaigns in san francisco this weekend and encampment sweeps continued two weeks after the governor's executive order. we take a look at its impacts big music weekend across the bay area from outside lands to the san jose jazz fest. we hear from a young man trying to keep jazz alive for all generations. good morning to you. it's saturday, august 10th, i'm zach fuentes and yes, it is shaping up to be a very busy weekend across the bay area. so lisa argen is here with your forecast. >> yes, you're right. and you know, today is the much warmer day, especially inland. we've had a little bit of cooling, but we'll be back to those mid 90s inland. you can see a stream of some clouds, but we also have the low clouds. these are high clouds moving in to the bay. and they'll be with us through the morning hours. it is 58 in fremont, 60 palo alto, 55 downtown and up in the north bay cooler. check out that 46. in novato, 54 santa rosa. so
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anywhere from nine degrees cooler from that 46 in novato to a couple degrees milder with all the low clouds and some high clouds. so throughout the 9:00 hour, we're still mostly cloudy. and then through about the ten 11:00 hour, we're sunny inland with 70s to low 80s. it's another warm one as we get through the early to mid afternoon. we're in the mid 90s inland 60s with sun at the coast. uh- looking at mid 70s to low 80s along the bay shore. so we'll talk about a much cooler sunday. how long that cooling trend lasts in a few minutes. zach >> lisa. thank you. vice president kamala harris is making her first trip to the bay area since she became the democratic presumptive nominee for president. harris has been speaking in front of huge crowds all week, but it's going to be a much more intimate affair when she appears at a san francisco fundraiser tomorrow. the event will be at the fairmont, and tickets to tomorrow's fundraiser start at $50,000. for a photo with harris. half $1 million gets you at the head of the
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table, with vice president harris. former san francisco mayor willie brown is going to be there tomorrow and this comes as he shuts down claims from former president donald trump. now, trump claimed he and brown were both on a helicopter when it made an emergency landing. >> i have never traveled anywhere with jerry brown or even the good man that's running for the republican nomination in any kind of a helicopter never happened, period. and i think my memory is probably better than his. >> the question came up when trump was asked about brown's relationship with harris in a news conference thursday, the new york times reports trump may have been referring to former governor jerry brown, while politico says he may have been referring to nate holden, who's a black lawmaker from los angeles. holden says he was in a near helicopter crash with trump in the 90s. well, new this morning, former youtube ceo and one of the first google employees, susan wojcicki, has
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died. she's one of the most prominent women in tech. the santa clara county native stepped down from her role at youtube in 2023, and that was a position she held for nine years. her husband confirmed his wife's death in a facebook post, saying she had non-small cell lung cancer for two years. she was involved with google from the earliest days, when two of the founders worked out of her garage. the current google ceo said wojcicki was core to the company's history. she was 56 years old this morning. we're taking a look at the results. two weeks after governor newsom issued an executive order that led to multiple homeless camps sweeps. the order came on the heels of a supreme court ruling that gave cities more leeway in clearing encampments. we've seen tents removed, rvs told to rvs told to go someplace else, and even a directive to offer people bus tickets. abc seven news reporter tara campbell has more on a key court ruling in the north bay. >> across the bay area and beyond. scenes like this are intensifying. governor gavin newsom doubling down on his
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executive order from two weeks ago, directing the state to clear encampments thursday in southern california, putting pressure on cities to do the same or lose critical funding. >> i want to see results. i don't want to read about them. i don't want to see the data. >> but as the push continues, so too does the push back. friday in the south bay, homeless advocates gathered in san jose. how can we have a governor that says we're going to reduce the prison population? >> but at the same time, we're going to criminalize someone being unhoused? >> the organizations promising to start legally fighting the governor's order next month, while also advocating for more affordable housing. >> we're supporting the regional housing bond, which will build thousands, tens of thousands of affordable housing units, which is the real solution to homelessness. >> and in san francisco, as shelters fill the mayor's prioritizing a program to bus unhoused people out of the city, we offer services, we offer shelter, we offer we make
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several offers. >> we also have the journey home program, where we will offer if they're from somewhere else, and they want to reconnect with their family and friends back home for wherever they're from. we'll help get them there as well. >> and in the north bay, the city of san rafael is upping its efforts after a year long court battle. >> we recognize that folks on the street or on the street for lots of different reasons. there are a lot of reasons. their own personal safety net failed them. >> a federal judge this week dismissing an injunction filed by homeless advocates last year, the city now free to resume enforcing an ordinance aimed at limiting the size of encampments. and homeless advocates say they'll be watching closely. >> the whole dissolution is based on the representations by the city that they're going to let people have a safe place to be, and so we're going to monitor that. >> meanwhile, back in san francisco, dozens of people living in rvs along zoo road are
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being forced to move again. authorities began citing vehicles this week, letting owners know they must be out by this sunday. owners upset, telling us they don't know where else to go. tara campbell, abc seven news. >> and it's worth noting the governor's executive order to clear encampments only applies to state agencies and workers. he doesn't have the power to order cities to follow suit, but it does add some pressure. well, the man charged in the death of popular oakland baker jen angell will go to prison in alameda county. judge sentenced ishmael burch to seven years as part of a plea bargain. we have a photo here from last year. now, burch was driving a getaway car when an accomplice grabbed angel's purse. she tried to get it back and was dragged some 50ft. she died days later. the sentencing comes despite the wishes of angel's family and friends, who wanted a restorative justice framework for the now 20 year old. they issued a statement yesterday saying, quote, we know that jen would not want someone involved in her death, whether complicit or not, to waste away
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in prison for decades. and we take some comfort in knowing ishmael has a chance to repair some of the harm he has caused. a former rising star of the san francisco political world, now charged with rape, will stay in jail for now. john jacobo was back in court for the second time this week. a judge will revisit his bail at a hearing next week. the former nonprofit director resigned from his job in april over sexual assault allegations he's accused of sexually assaulting a housing rights activist. three more women filed police reports against jacobo. his attorney claims the charges are politically motivated. >> a previous district attorney's office looked at this case and decided not to file. so there really is a lot of problems in terms of the lack of credibility of the alleged victims that have come forward. mr. jacobo is innocent, and he asserts his innocence. >> in a statement, the attorney for the victim wrote in part, quote, when survivors make the brave choice to come forward, it's essential that we believe them and that we empower them to
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understand and enforce their rights as victims of crime. otherwise, survivors will not feel safe to come forward. all right. we got a lot more coming up. let's check in with lisa. >> all right. zach, good morning to you. a lot of low cloud cover out there. there's a look at mount tam where you can see the marine layer clouds. not quite as far as our inland valleys yet. we could see a few patches, but another warm day inland, the last one for a while. i'll have the details coming up. >> lisa. thank you. also ahead, tragic video that captures a plane filled with passengers falling from the sky in brazil. what we're finding out is authorities investigate what went wrong and the first day of school takes an unusual twist. how east bay students showed up to class just to find out that
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still questions about what happened before that plane went down. as abc news reporter alison kosik tells us, the aircraft didn't communicate any emergency before that crash. >> this is the horrific moment a plane carrying 61 passengers and crew plummeted to the ground in brazil, killing everyone on board. new details. meal deals. >> meal deals. >> meal deals. the two engine turboprop from local airline vo pass. spinning out of control and crashing into a residential neighborhood. witnesses horrified this man saying he was running late and missed the flight. now grateful to the airport worker who wouldn't let him board the flight, taking off from cascavel in the brazilian state of parana, bound for the airport in sao paulo, shortly before it was scheduled to come in for a landing. the plane dropping 17,000ft in just one minute. >> usually this sort of thing
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occurs because the flight crew was not able to maintain or did not maintain enough airspeed. clearly it was a stall spin. how they got into it is what we don't know. >> the fiery wreckage, large parts of the plane smoldering in a residential neighborhood. debris littering yards. one person on the ground was injured. brazilian aviation officials say the aircraft did not communicate any emergency on board. the focus is on examining those black boxes, the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder, which will be crucial in the investigation. alison kosik abc news, new york. >> the fda is turning down the use of the psychedelic drug mdma in assisted therapy for ptsd, at least for now. the agency formally rejected the treatment, asking for more studies on the safety and efficacy. it is a big setback to the san jose company lycos. it's also a setback for the overall movement to bring psychedelics into mental health care. the lycos ceo says it's
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deeply disappointing because conducting a new study would take several years. big changes are coming to a critical hospital in east san jose and neighbors are fighting to stop it. come monday, regional medical center will be downgraded to a level two trauma center. now it's not the full closure the hospital had originally planned, but it does impact the kind of emergencies that they can treat. neighbors and health care workers held another rally, asking the hospital to back off on its plans in the east bay. some parents are frustrated after their kids went to school for the first day of the year to find out there was no instruction happening, the north oakland community charter school was ordered to shut down in june. ausd said the school hasn't met academic goals. now, the school sued to keep operating, but a judge denied their motion. but they still opened yesterday. but while students were on site, no instruction was happening. it's not known what's next, as families may be forced to relocate to new schools. >> mike, as a parent, right now, i'm walking up to drop off blankets and pillows for my tk
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child and i found out the school is closed on the first day. imagine how you would feel. i have three children here now without an act of charter. >> the school is not legally permitted to operate and will not receive state funding to do so. two former cal basketball stars are teaming up to make a big investment in black businesses in oakland, boston celtics all star jaylen brown and hall of famer jason kidd are launching oakland exchange. the initiative aims to address the wealth imbalance by funding black businesses, including business incubators, launching programs for local artists, and purchasing property to create generational wealth. brown launched a similar effort in boston. >> he did win the championship on the floor, but we can also create championships off the floor and i'm here to support that. >> oakland is rich in history and tradition, entrepreneurship, so it's not like i got to come here and start something that ain't been done already. >> oakland exchange has started looking at where it can make its initial investments, and also into how to attract more
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investors. well, the first ever us national wing foiling championship took off in the waters off crissy field. the speed racing sport combines windsurfing and kite surfing. that's only been around for about ten years and it was a foggy, windy day yesterday in san francisco. not ideal for summer, but it was perfect for these athletes. >> the other sailing disciplines is usually a sail and a mast connected to a boat, but we're physically holding our wings in the air and it lets you do a lot of things like freestyle and also racing. >> people came from all over the country to the san francisco bay for a chance to take home the prize. competitors chased that first ever title in those choppy waters between golden gate bridge and alcatraz island and the south bay, the annual jazz festival in san jose continues for its second day. it provides not only an economic boost, but a showcase for young musicians. abc seven news reporter lauren martinez spoke with an oakland teen who's going to be featured
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this weekend. >> 17 year old ibrahim is a rising star in the jazz world. this weekend, the oakland teen will hit the main stage at the 34th annual san jose jazz summer fest on friday. he gave attendees a little show as they waited in line. >> i'm really just excited. yeah, i'm excited to like, share my music with the rest of the crowd. >> on monday, the saxophonist starts his senior year of high school and then takes off to headline a week long show in cuba. i mean, it's cool being a trendsetter in a way like specifically in oakland. >> i know there's a lot of different scenes out there in the world, but specifically like black teens, there's not a lot of musicians like picking up jazz and like keeping it rolling with our within our community. so it's definitely cool to like, keep doing what i can do. >> still in the drum. >> the three day festival branches out from cesar chavez park. there's nine stages total,
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five that are outdoor and four indoor. we spoke with executive director brendan rawson. >> we have people from about 25 different states that travel to the festival each year. >> organizers say last year, san jose jazz summerfest brought in more than 34,000 people. >> we generate about $17 million in economic impact to the city of san jose, uh, with this event every year. and, you know, and we have about probably 3000 hotel rooms that are filled with guests for this. so, you know, the arts can be an important driver, economic driver for downtown. >> these friends from college say this is their 12th year coming to the event. >> i love that we are here and it's expanded and it's like the most beautiful time i, o brain takes to the stage. >> on sunday. i was giving them joy and my name actually means joy in yoruba. >> so it's just like really crazy fulfilling what i was born to do in san jose. >> lauren martinez, abc seven news. >> there's a lot of music
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playing in the bay area this weekend. the second day of the outside lands festival is today. the rise to fame pop star sabrina carpenter headlines today and the killers headlined and closed out last night. festival organizers are expecting around 225,000 people to attend this weekend. they have a whole range of goodies out there too, from food, cocktails, cannabis. this is expected to bring in as much as $75 million to the local economy. now, if you're planning to attend, city officials are encouraging people to use public transit because, yes, traffic is probably going to be a headache this weekend for that festival. but hopefully the weather will not be a headache and won't be frustrating for us. this weekend because there's so much going on. >> lisa yeah, yeah, and it's going to be nice. we were talking about how hot it's been all summer long, and we get somewhat of a break the past week or so, but tomorrow is really going to feature a big cooldown. so today the much warmer day out of the weekend, in fact, we'll see sunshine for outside lands and temperatures will be comfortable. the winds will be breezy, but boy, it's
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going to be a different story as we get into sunday. so a little fog out there this morning, then sunshine, upper 60s winds out of the west, but by tomorrow the fog is going to stick around a little more and those winds will increase a bit, allowing for slightly cooler temperatures. also, if you're headed down to san jose for the jazz festival, we will be mostly sunny 11:00, and then by 3:00 in the mid 80s, 7:00 upper 70s and it's a clear night if you are hanging out through 11:00 in the upper 60s. so there is a look at the cloud cover, some of it moving closer to the bay. it will thin out for a mostly sunny day today. and as we look at mount tam, look how beautiful this is! 617 the official sunrise. the sun sets at 807. it is 55 downtown 59 in oakland and hayward, as well as redwood city, 61 san jose. and a look here from our roof camera where there is plenty of fog. there's mist and there's drizzle at the shoreline, so you may
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need your wipers this morning. low to mid 50s for many locations in the north bay and mid to upper 50s with a few patches of clouds out towards concord. so we do have a little bit of haze in the atmosphere from some of the ongoing fires. so moderate air quality today for the coast, the central bay, the inland east bay and the south bay gets better as we get through your sunday. but notice that light color there indicates the smoke out there and obviously the concentrations up towards the park fire into the sierra nevada. and for the bay area, just a little bit of haze out there. the sea breeze kicks up for your sunday improving that. there's a look at the day today where we get into mostly sunny skies, and then a quick return of the low cloud deck across the east bay. you can notice that the clouds are hugging the peninsula. the north bay there, and then you'll notice the push inland through tomorrow morning, a little bit of mist and drizzle and you'll notice more high clouds throughout the afternoon. but
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that sea breeze will kick up to about 30 miles an hour, bringing temperatures anywhere from a few degrees to about ten degrees down into your sunday afternoon inland. just a modest cooldown. elsewhere across the bay. this is today, though. saturday 94, in concord, 93, in livermore. looking at those mid 70s around the bay from oakland to san mateo, 78 for palo alto with 68. in san francisco, low 60s some sun there, half moon bay and the accuweather seven day forecast. we are mild to warm today so kind of a warm to hot one inland. and then look at the cooldown. we are racing the inland heat for you on sunday. more cooling for monday and we'll see a minor bump up throughout the middle of next week. but overall pretty pleasant temperatures at seasonal averages are slightly below into next
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bay area, so let's get a look at the weather with meteorologist lisa argen. lots of things happening outside, not just outside lands. >> that's right. you know, we do have the warmer and the cooler day today, starting with the warmer day. despite the low clouds and fog out there, they
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will scatter out and we'll see a sunny and mild warm day out there. 55 downtown. it is 59. in hayward and redwood city. and as we look from our roof camera. 621 the official sunrise mid to upper 50s out there and we don't have any fog far inland yet. we could see a few patches, but it's a little bit chilly there up in the north bay. we'll get through the noon hour with sunny skies, low 80s inland to mid 90s by the afternoon. bay shore we've got 60s, noontime, 70s to even some upper 70s around the bay, and that fog will get some sunshine along the coast. we'll call it partly sunny, low 60s there, but boy, the winds kick up and the temperatures drop for the second half of the weekend. we'll talk about air quality as well over the weekend and how long that cooldown lasts for the workweek. coming up, zach, we'll see you then. >> lisa. thank you. today, vice president harris will arrive in san francisco ahead of a fundraiser tomorrow. she's currently on a tour of west coast cities with a stop in las
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vegas today. yesterday, she was in the pivotal swing state of arizona with her running mate tim walz in front of a packed arena. she told voters she's still the underdog and there's still a lot of work to do before election day. at one point, pro-palestinian protesters interrupted her speech. >> so let me say i have been clear now is the time to get a cease fire deal and get the hostage deal done >> now is the time. >> meanwhile, former president trump was in montana for a rally. he was more than an hour late because of mechanical issues with his plane. now, montana, it's not a swing state for the presidency, but it is the home of a key senate race. trump pushed back on claims that republicans are weird. >> we want to have strong borders. we want to have good elections. we want to have low interest rates. we want to be able to buy a house. we want great education. we want strong borders. i think we're very
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actually i think we're the opposite of weird. they're weir. >> trump will also hold fundraisers out west with events in wyoming and colorado. you can find the latest on the presidential race and find all of our election coverage heading into november. right now at abc seven news.com and wherever you stream abc seven. well, scientists here in the bay area are making an important discovery about covid 19. the local scientists found a key link between covid 19 and a mysterious severe illness that was sending children to icus across the country. abc seven news reporter luz pena went to the lab where this discovery took place. >> it was 2020, and doctor aaron bodansky kept seeing a high number of children coming into the icu with a mysterious, inflammatory disease. >> they had severe inflammation of all of their bodies, but in particular their lungs. and really their hearts. >> turns out this was happening to children across the world, and no one knew why the illness came to be known as multisystem, inflammatory syndrome in
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children, or mis-c. the only thing we knew was that they had previously had a sars-cov-2 infection. as cases intensified, doctors suspected the severe inflammation was connected to the immune system to keep children alive. medical personnel acted on that hunch. we used medicines to suppress and calm their immune system, which thankfully worked extremely well to save their lives. doctor bodansky remembers reaching a breaking point after seeing one of his patients. >> we had to put a breathing tube in and put on medicines to essentially induce a coma. it was really hard to look the parents in the eyes and just tell them that we had no idea what was happening, and i didn't want to have to keep doing that. >> after this, he contacted some of the top infectious diseases experts and scientists in the area. the pivotal figure, doctor joe derisi. together, they collaborated with the cdc and hospitals across the country to collect nearly 200 blood sample.
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>> this has been a puzzle that researchers and clinicians across the country and in fact, across the world, have tried to figure out. and yet it is eluded almost everyone until now. >> after years in this lab, they cracked the case. >> so the moment was realizing that that unusual reaction to covid matched something in our own immune system. so it acquired a target against covid that matched us. so it was attacking both at the same time. >> now they're hoping to use their findings to advance science, knowing that a virus can provoke an autoimmune reaction later on. >> and having this proof allows us to potentially develop therapeutics and diagnostics for anything like this that might occur in the future. >> luz pena abc seven news. >> and scientists hope this will help them understand other diseases that we know are linked to viruses, including type one diabetes or ms. well, as
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homeowners across the bay area struggle with the rising cost of insurance, the state will let companies raise rates faster. insurance commissioner ricardo lara is bypassing lawmakers to enact the policy. the division of insurance will have to act on rate hike proposals within 120 days. now, that's much faster than the current system, where approvals can take more than a year. lara says he's trying to fix the wildfire insurance crisis and keep insurance companies from leaving the stat. well, still ahead on abc seven mornings, wells fargo workers waiting for you to get out of the way before they go into work. a deep dive into what this is all about. and here's a live look from our tam cam. look at the sun rising this morning at 535. lisa origins going to
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federal building, working from home because of safety concerns. turns out they may not be the only ones. san francisco based
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wells fargo is taking it a step further, asking that you move out of their way so they can go to work. abc7 news reporter lyanne melendez found out about the security policy and what's behind it. >> the time is 8:40 a.m, 20 minutes before this wells fargo branch in the financial district is set to open to the public. the way employees enter the branch resembles something out of a spy movie. each worker is positioned a distance away from the entrance. they constantly check their surroundings and wait until they are given some kind of permission to enter. otherwise they are not allowed to proceed. this wells fargo employee starts walking towards the bank, but then retreats and waits behind this column. a few seconds later, she makes her move. this other employee circles the entire building before he enters from the right side of the building several minutes later. bizarre? somewhat. but what happened next
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took us by surprise. customers are not allowed to stand or wait within a few feet of the door while employees are entering. even though this is a public space, the man sitting near the entrance, an abc seven staffer, was asked to move away because the employee you see on the right of your screen is about to enter the bank. good morning sir. >> how are you, we're letting team members in, and we were just for a brief period of time, and we said we have to wait just for a brief point of time. so we can get all our team in. why do i have to move? >> it's like a public plaza. >> we then approached the wells fargo employee to ask why the unusual policy? >> excuse me. >> excuse me. i'm with abc seven news. my name is lyanne melendez. we'd like to know why you have this security policy. is. is this wells fargo in general? throughout the country? at a different san francisco wells fargo branch, a young man
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standing next to the entrance was asked to move away and to also stand clear of the atm. but this time, the wells fargo employee explained the company's security policy as employees enter. are you with the bank? >> yeah. wells fargo correct. is it a policy that people have to step away from the door? yeah. and who instituted that policy? >> our security for our safety. for the safety of our team members. we can't have anybody standing by the door or by the atm in case there's an ambush and try to get in. we can't have anybody in this area. so due to the safety of our team. >> okay. is this a national policy or is it applied just to san francisco? why? just because we're curious. >> she then told us to call corporate headquarters. wells fargo said the policy applies nationwide, but would not answer our specific questions about this unusual procedure of moving people from public places for their employees. but sent this
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statement, quote, the safety of our employees and customers is our top priority to keep our employees and customers safe. the branches surrounding areas must be clear before employees can enter the branch. we apologize for the inconvenience this may cause. our valued customers. according to san francisco police, incident data, there have been only eight bank robberies this year in the city in random places. police told us most robbers don't carry a weapon and end up giving tellers a note. we asked other banks if they followed the same procedure. only bank of america responded to what wells fargo was doing by stating, quote, this sounds like an industry security procedure and advised us to contact the california bankers association. they wrote, quote, specific opening procedures can vary depending on the branch location. we send someone to monitor a wells fargo bank in new york city. this is
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the branch on east 14th street near union square. it's 843 in the morning and the bank has not opened to the public. and employees are arriving. >> i will be seeing if the same policies exist in san francisco as they do in new york. at wells fargo, i will be standing outside near the door and see if they kick me out before opening. >> the person stands next to the door and engages with another customer, who is also waiting in front of the entrance. meanwhile wells fargo employees wait for the branch manager to open the door. the customers standing outside in the path of the employees are never asked to move. when the bank opens to the public at 9:00, they are greete. good morning. >> they can't actually usher people off of our sidewalks in front of their business anyway, the president of the board of supervisors told us he is concerned with wells fargo's security policy and the negative image it might portray.
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>> they do it in san francisco. they're headquartered here. yeah. what does that say about wells fargo? what does it say about the city? >> it says it's time for me to pick up the phone and call the head of wells fargo, because the reality is, the streets of san francisco are safe. they're as safe as any city in this country. they're safer than our conditions, are safer than most of the cities in this country. in san francisco. >> leon melendez abc seven news. >> now you heard the word ambush in that report. now, wells fargo would not say if any of their employees has ever been attacked or ambushed. police told us that, to their knowledge, they do not have any reports of a wells fargo employee being ambushed. all right. 543 we got a lot more coming up. let's check in with lisa. >> all right. good morning to you. 73 degrees up in about 2300ft there from mount tam. and that relative humidity at 25%. so we still certainly have some warm air in the upper elevations. and a warm afternoon on the way. again, for our inland valleys. but it has been
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cooling down a little bit. we'll talk about a much bigger cooldown for the second (ethan) is that the one? (janet) so much space! that open kitchen! (tanya) ...is that a walk in closet? (ethan) i want those tiles! (intercom) boosters engaged. (ethan) wait! we've got a problem! (janet) problem?! (ethan) how can you sell your house when we're stuck on a space station for months???!!! (tanya) no, no! bad timing, janet!!! (janet) but that was the one!!!! (brian) no, no, no... opendoor!! (tanya) don't open the door. (brian) opendoor gives you the flexibility to sell and buy on your timeline. (all) really? (brian) yea!!! (intercom) we have liftoff. (janet) nice! (janet) houston we have a playroom!
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figure out what to do about wide receiver brandon aiyuk, who wants a new contract or a trade. here's abc seven sports anchor larry beil. >> good morning everybody. the giants opened up a seven game home stand against the tigers last night. and the giants without their best relief pitcher camillo duvall, sent down to triple-a an all star closer last year. duvall has struggled to find the strike zone recently. giants hosting the tigers on an orange friday. you want to be a ball, dude. maybe not. whoopsie. fell down. giants being no hit through six innings until tyler fitzgerald singles up the middle. he would later score on a michael conforto sac fly. keep track of the sac flies here. bottom eight tigers still up two one patrick bailey pinch hitting line drive caught with men at the corners.
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another sac fly. we're tied at two apiece. we go to the bottom of the ninth. drama bases loaded for mark canha, former a former tiger until like a week and a half ago. the man who once said, this is my house. deep to left, i thought that ball was going out. but conforto scores. good night. game over. drive home safely. the giants score three runs on three. sacrifice flies and they win three two. that is so giant. all right a's in toronto visiting the jays. a's fans still wearing the team colors. top of the third. new a's shortstop darrell irons, with his first career big league home run. and we are tied at one a piece. but jose berrios was a problem throwing smoke seven innings fans eight. in fact, the only run that he did give up was the home run. we showed you. two one jays in the eighth. speaking of home runs, spencer horowitz hi deep and a low. ha! i thought that was going out of the rogers center. jays beat the a's three one. the 40 niners play their first preseason game tonight in
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tennessee, with the looming question being what is happening with wide receiver brandon aiyuk and his contract. first, the 40 niners wanted to do the extension. then they got frustrated with aiyuk having his hold in and they worked out potential trades with the patriots and browns. these were done deals except aiyuk rejected both of them because he doesn't want to play in cleveland or new england. so now the 40 niners have reportedly resumed talks again to keep aiyuk in red and gold. the whole thing is absolutely exhausting. at this point, i'm going to say the sweet spot is like 27 million a year. somewhere around there. meanwhile, aiyuk took to twitter himself, posting niners being the media every day lol. it's two options out there. pick one and stop dropping reports. simple. sounds like a man who's getting tired of this. all right, team usa women's hoops advancing to the gold medal game at the olympics 8564 over australia in the semis. breanna stewart had 16 to lead the way. the u.s. women you talk about dominance. they've won 60 straight games in the olympics.
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the americans will play for an eighth consecutive gold medal against france on sunday. that's a wrap on morning sports. everybody have a great weekend. i'm larry beil. >> we have a very active weekend kicking off right now. so let's get a check of the bay area forecast with lisa argen. >> all right zach good morning to you. low clouds are with us. mist and drizzle at the coast. you can see some of the higher clouds streaming in from our satellite. and radar composite there. but they will burn back and we'll have some sunshine throughout the later morning hours for most of us, but mid morning hours in our inland valleys, there is a look from mount tam. it just gets prettier and prettier with the passing of time. this morning, with the sun coming up at 617, it sets after 8:00 and current numbers are in the mid 50s. downtown 59, oakland and hayward with redwood city in the upper 50s. and a look from our east bay hills camera where it looks like we do have a bit of a marine layer there. 54 santa rosa 52 petaluma with mid 50s in livermore. so
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everyone cooling off the past couple of days allowing for, you know, with that the nights a little bit longer. it certainly feeling cooler by the evening hours. but we do have also throughout the day today a bit of haze out there. we had that yesterday with our air quality advisory that continues through your saturday. you notice moderate air quality in the east bay. this is all from the ongoing fires in california, mainly northern california. we'll get more of a increase in our sea breeze tomorrow that will help to push some of the smoke further to the east, but we still have that northwesterly wind that will allow for a bit of haze out there. the golden gate bridge socked in with the low clouds. we've got drizzle there and some fog. so for the rest of the day it's hazy sunshine, mild around the bay. those temperatures at the coast will be cool, but inland we'll have those 90s returning. so pretty warm there and then for tomorrow it's breezy. will be a bit below average as we get into
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that monday tuesday time frame with a bit of an increase in temperatures by wednesday and thursday. the sea breeze today certainly intact, allowing for the winds to kick up throughout the afternoon from about 20 to 25. even maybe 27 miles an hour, right on through the delta. but in the south bay, it's another warm one out there. the jazz festival later on today, a low to mid 80s there so looks beautiful. san jose, 83, in milpitas and along the peninsula with the sea breeze. we're back into the low 80s. redwood city. so little change from your friday to saturday with upper 70s in palo alto. 76 menlo park partly sunny out there for outside lands with upper 60s downtown mid 60s as you get closer to the coast. upper 80s in novato 94 sonoma and santa rosa. so another warm day up in the north bay with mid 70s in oakland. pleasant here, upper 70s union city. you head inland and a return to some mid 90s in brentwood. about 90 the san
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ramon valley 94 in concord, the accuweather seven day forecast mild to warm today we've got those breezy winds and a cooler day for the second half of the weekend. that trend continues monday and tuesday. a bit of warming inland and around the bay mid week next week, so it looks pretty pleasant out
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thousands of people filling the streets to check out the vendors and spend time in community. there's live music, dragon dances, and of course, plenty of food to choose from. the market's going to run every second friday of the month through november. the san francisco 40 niners begin preseason today against tennessee, and with the new season comes new tech. abc seven news reporter lauren martinez shows us the future of the modern sports experience. >> the nfl league office is rolling out facial ticketing for credentialed people. they've teamed up with the company
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wicked, a facial authentication platform provider. ceo jeff beam tells us. wicked started in the height of covid when the cleveland browns were looking for a way to get fans in instead of manual barcode scanning fans who have enrolled can show their face to validate their ticket. >> fans opt in to use this solution in order to gain the convenience of faster access to a stadium, or even faster concessions or faster access to an event, beam said. >> browns fans are now getting into the stadium four times faster. >> when you actually take a picture and you take a selfie at home to register for the system, and then when you show up, there's a camera that is used, typically an ipad, to access the event. those pictures are immediately changed into a mathematical representation that is then in turn encrypted. the nfl tells us for now, the facial authentication program is only available for the team. >> game day personnel, vendors and media fans are not included.
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every nfl team can use the new technology. levi's stadium had no comment. the mlb, for exampl, just launched their go ahead entry program this past spring at oracle park. giants fans who are 18 or older can enter using a camera at designated gate. we spoke to anil jain, a professor at michigan state university, about this growing technology. >> when you enter the united states, it used to be fingerprints, but now it is face recognition. >> jain suggests people who voluntarily register for similar systems know if the company will sell or not sell their information to third party applications, you know, will you get some specific emails from advertisers? >> you know, you know, it's one of those things where it should only be used for the purpose for which it was being collected. and you agreed. >> and beam said, that's exactly what wicked safeguards are. their data is not centralized,
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it's not sold or given to any third parties. >> your face is your payment method. your face is your credential. it's a much easier and more secure method. and i do believe this is what the future will look like. >> this program is completely optional in san jose. lauren martinez, abc seven news. >> next on abc seven mornings at 6 a.m. we're following the story of the oakland baker killed during a robbery. the man convicted now heading to prison. and chilling video shows the moments a plane falls from the sky. what we're learning about the it's piled high with tender beef that's slow cooked and smothered in tangy memphis style barbecue sauce. it's no fuss, no muss. just tons of flavor. the best barbecue beef is only a togo's.
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