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homicide. this year. good evening. i'm ama daetz and i'm dan ashley. >> it happened just before 330 yesterday morning inside a bar at a very popular shopping center. and today, abc seven news reporter dustin dorsey went to the area and spoke with people who say it's safe during the day, but things tend to change at night. >> engine three your calls for reports of an individual who's been shot early sunday morning. >> angela cue, vietnamese food and deli owner shawn nguyen was preparing food for the upcoming business day and suddenly, at his back door, he heard loud banging and men screaming to let them in. >> he say he he found the sunday police department and he say, open the door now. and i opened the door as soon as i opened the door, there's two police pointing a gun at me. i was scared, i jumping back, i said, what's going on? >> multiple 911 calls from east san jose near the little saigon neighborhood, san jose police say a man was shot inside the
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colocan bar located here at the maxim market shopping center next to grand central mall. it's a popular destination. we spoke with many people in and out during the lunch hour monday. many told us off camera that it's relatively safe during the day, but not a place to be overnight. that's when nguyen says it gets pretty rowdy, especially at this bar. >> i know there's a lot of people there. they sometimes they stay really late. when i come in, they still there sometime like 3 or 4 in the morning, sometimes five. >> police say the shooting occurred around 320 in the morning, roughly three hours after the bar is listed. closing time when sapd arrived on the scene, they say a man was suffering from at least one gunshot wound within the business action. three. >> that is affirmative. it is secure. however, pd is still requesting more officers. they said they have applied a tourniquet to the patient and they are unconscious but breathing. the victim later died from his injuries at a nearby hospital. >> the suspect in this case has not been located. this is the
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20th homicide of 2024 in san jose. our abc seven news exclusive neighborhood safety tracker found the homicide rate in san jose over the last 12 months is the same as the annual average for the previous three years. the motive and circumstances of this shooting remain under investigation. witnesses are asked to contact sapd with any information they may have in san jose. dustin dorsey, abc seven news. >> a deadly fire in vallejo is under investigation. firefighters found the home on depaul drive engulfed in flames. two women were found inside the home. one died at the scene. the other was taken to the hospital but sadly died of her injuries a short time later. two dogs also died in the fire. the flames were contained to that house with no damage to neighboring homes. >> a man was found dead in a restroom at golden gate park yesterday. police say he was found unresponsive in a locked portable restroom just after 1 p.m. it was about a mile and a half away from the perimeter of outside lands. they say there's no evidence right now. the death
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was related to the festival, which was going on at the same time, and there are no signs of foul play. a 20 year old worker for camp mather died in on a hike in yosemite national park. his name was matt mullan. he worked in the kitchen at the summer camp where hundreds of san francisco families go every year. sf recreation and parks, says mullan lost his life in a tragic accident thursday. during a day off with coworkers. officials gave no further information about what happened. his death is under investigation in southern california, a 4.4 earthquake rattled the area just south of pasadena happened about 1220. >> this afternoon, and oakland native malika andrews responded seamlessly to it while hosting nba today from espn's los angeles studio. >> watch as we have a bit of an earthquake here in los angeles, so we're just going to make sure that our studio lights everything stays safe. everything's shaking. you good? milan? everybody good? all right. thank you so much for bearing with us through that.
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our studio is shaking just a little bit to see if you're still good in the studio. and in the. everyone's still good. all right. >> cool as a cucumber and a total pro. and in monterey park, a dog named hamachi stood up just moments before the earthquake rattled home. luckily, there are no reports of any major damage. abc news reporter zohreen shah has more on the quake >> we felt the earthquake here in the abc news l.a. bureau. it was a strong rattle and others across los angeles also reported feeling it in pasadena, a magnitude of 4.4, according to caltech. cbc's chopper was over in wilson high school in el sereno, which was evacuated as a precaution. you can see all the students there on the athletic field and l.a. county fire and lafd saying they are now in earthquake mode and checking buildings and other structures for any major damage. right now, there are no reports of injuries, so we can't predict earthquakes. >> we cannot. i'll say it more clearly uh- the what we can do
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is forecast, but it's still very exact. we'll say it's still we can only give a small numbers. and so we know after an earthquake like this, there is an increased chance of many aftershocks. but it's still not a very likely that we're going to get a larger event. >> there have been smaller earthquakes in california recently, but caltech says those are not believed to be connected to this one. zohreen shah, abc news, los angeles. >> people on the front lines in the fentanyl crisis among california's young people addressed a state assembly committee today. the panel included parents who've lost children from accidental overdoses like amy neville. her 14 year old son, alexander, died in june of 2020. she says the narrative behind deaths like her son's needs to be changed, saying they should be referred to as a poisoning, not a drug overdose. >> by referring to alex's death as a poisoning, it helps overcome stigma and opens doors to a conversation. if i say overdose, i met with parents who
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think they do not need to listen because they do not have a drug problem in their household. when i say poisoned, parents want to know more, and that's because we are conditioned from the time we are going to have these babies in our homes to prevent a poisoning and what to do in the event of a poisoning. >> fentanyl accounted for more than 80% of all drug related deaths among california's young people in 2022. in all, more than 6000 people died from a fentanyl overdose in 2023. >> san francisco's tourism rates are still anemic, never fully recovering at all because after the pandemic. but hotels are getting hit especially hard, the wall street journal reports. the hilton and union square and hilton park, 55, have lost $1 billion in value as hotels citywide see a rise in bad debt. the san francisco travel association tells us. this summer has been really challenging. conferences and business travel are down. plus, the strength of the dollar is discouraging. international visitors. >> it's been a tough summer. i'm
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not going to i'm not going to try and sugarcoat that. you know, we had a good june and july and august have been a little softer than we'd like. you know, it's kind of like a three legged stool. and. right now, all three of those legs are a little bit broken. >> anna marie presutti with the san francisco travel association thinks it could take until 2028, maybe 2029, for san francisco to hit pre-pandemic tourism levels. >> 26 people are now facing criminal charges, accused of shutting down the golden gate bridge during a pro-palestinian protest back in april, san francisco district attorney brooke jenkins gave them until 9:00 this morning to surrender. abc seven news reporter lena howland was there when they did and has the details. three them all. >> three at home, one by one, 26 protesters walked into the san francisco county jail. >> everyone is surrendering themselves today so that they can be cited out and then show up in court.
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>> san francisco district attorney brooke jenkins issued arrest warrants for the group on saturday. they each face 40 charges, including false imprisonment, conspiracy and trespassing for their role in the antiwar protests that shut down the golden gate bridge in april. >> it's a humongous waste of resources, the humongous waste of money. but this is how d.a. jenkins chose to go forward and we're going to fight this case, and we're going to get a dismissal. >> but this group is wondering why they're being treated so differently compared to the bay bridge. >> 78 at the end of the day, we were dismissed from our charges. they were dropped against us. and we were able to, you know, to go on. >> masamura was one of the 78 protesters who shut down the bay bridge back in november. she says as a group, they only faced five charges, all of which were eventually dropped. all they had to do was a few hours of community service and pay restitution. we asked jenkins about the difference in the bay bridge case one. >> it was a new experience for us, but also we did not have anyone call in as as to report
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sort of their status as a victim and how they were impacted, she says her office received more than 100 calls from people impacted by the closure. we had someone with a brain tumor who was scheduled for surgery and was not able to have that surgery. we had a child with disabilities, cerebral palsy, stuck on a specialized school bus for over four hours without anyone other than the school bus driver, but others say the false imprisonment charge is a stretch. >> so definitely this trumped up charge of holding people hostage is really outrageous. we asked jenkins if she was making an example out of this case for future protests. >> no one wants to see the amount of carnage and death that's happening as a result of this conflict, but we cannot jeopardize the safety of others in our expression. >> all 26 suspects are set to be arraigned this week in san francisco. lena howland abc seven news. >> a native american tribe is trying to block construction of a new police training facility in san pablo. members of the
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muwekma ohlone tribe held a rally this afternoon, vowing to evict the san pablo police department from the site on gateway avenue. the city of san pablo plans to build a $44 million training facility at that location, but tribal leaders say the construction would take place on sacred tribal land. >> the idea of stopping something that is already being constructed might seem impossible, but whatever's being built can be repurposed. >> the city of san pablo is set to begin construction on the new training center in october. >> there are major changes coming for oakland city council, with multiple incumbents choosing not to run for reelection in november. it's a huge shakeup for the future of oakland politics, with three out of eight council seats suddenly wide open. one of the announcements came very last minute. council member trevor reed posted a statement on her decision not to run on friday night, hours after the deadline for paperwork had passed. longtime council members rebecca
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kaplan and dan kalb are also not running to hold their places on city council. the city is now extending the deadline for candidates to file plans to run in those council races. >> all right, still ahead here, we're tracking the latest on the campaign trail as donald trump returns to x and democrats get ready for their national convention. >> plus, we'll introduce you to a woman in the north bay who is combining her support for the harris walz ticket with her jam. business details. when abc seven news at
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the democratic national convention, kicking off in one week. president biden is expected to speak along with former presidents obama and clinton. tonight, former president donald trump is making a play for the spotlight, returning to an old haunt of his. trump posted on x for the
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first time in nearly a year today, ahead of a live stream with owner elon musk. musk has broken with heads of other social media companies by openly endorsing trump and increasingly using his platform to promote his political views, leading to questions about the role of social media companies in elections. meanwhile, trump's running mate, senator jd vance, is heading to west to texas this week. he's pushing immigration reform, including mr. trump's vow for mass deportations. >> i think it's interesting that people focus on, well, how do you deport 18 million people? let's start with 1 million. that's where kamala harris is failed. and then we can go from there. >> trump is expected to attend a rally in north carolina on wednesday. harris event in san francisco yesterday brought in more than $12 million in the north bay, a local jam maker is raising money for vice president kamala harris's campaign, one jar at a time. >> a new patriotic themed flavor
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named after harris is generating some buzz and lots of new orders from across the country. abc seven news reporter cornell bernard has more from lala's jam bar. >> i was born in oakland. like kamala, and i was raised in the east bay. >> there's no doubt who leslie goodrich, better known as lala, is voting for this november. >> i'd love to see a woman president in my lifetime. >> she owns lala's jam bar and urban farm stand in petaluma, where these sweet spread bowls have been. award winning. now lala is pumping up the jam with a new creation honoring kamala harris's run for the white house. >> i make kamala jam that's red, white and blue jam and it's raspberries, white sugar and blueberries. >> lala donating a portion of each jar sold to the harris walls campaign. >> the jam is $15 for eight ounces, with a $5 donation to the campaign. >> the jam bar's website, keeping track of the donations so far more than $700 raised, leslie says response to her jam,
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which tastes a lot like blueberries and raspberries, has been nothing short of overwhelming and pretty sweet. did you ever expect that you would get such a response from? no not at all. >> i thought i would sell 24 jars of jam to my friends. >> now she's shipping kamala jam across the country. about 200 jars in seven days. >> we've had connecticut, several to new york, several to portland, oregon. i think it shows the interest that she's bringing to the campaign to the democratic party. we'll do a big jar. >> all right. yeah. perfect. >> nick harris sells lala's jam at his coffee shop. he's grabbing something extra today. >> i think this is a great way for her to get some money going in that direction. and support a good cause, and. and then you also get a delicious product out of it as well. >> people like it. and the best part is, there has been no comeback, no nasty calls, nothing thrown at my store.
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>> lala hopes to give kamala harris a jar of the jam one day, but for now, she's not expanding her product line. any plans on making trump jam? >> uh- no, not none at all. >> in petaluma. cornell, bernard abc seven news. >> i never thought that i would ever experience something like that that close to something that big when i was, you know, we were both very exposed. >> we're going to need a bigger kayak. coming up, a close encounter with a shark on the peninsula. we'll hear from the oakland science teacher about an am
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mill is closing. coda farms has been in business in merced county for 97 years. the company's heirloom rice is considered a staple in many of the country's top restaurants, according to reports. the coda family says it has decided to shut down in part due to the rising cost of farming in
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california. the chronicle says coda farms products will still be available through western foods under a strict licensing agreement. >> i had this weird urge to pull out the crock pot this weekend, and maybe go pumpkin picking. i don't know what was going on. >> it has that sort of fall feel a little bit. meteorologist sandhya patel is here with a cool forecast. sandy. yeah, it's definitely cooler than average, so i can definitely see why ama wanted to pull out the crock pot. >> dan, let's show you a live picture right now. go ahead. do it. it is definitely going to stay in this similar pattern. we'll see slight bump up in the temperatures. a lot of sun right now from our east bay hills. camera gorgeous view live doppler seven showing you just limited wispy clouds, high thin wispy clouds passing through. and we do have a red flag warning for parts of tahoe and truckee until 8 p.m. tonight. that's because of gusty winds and low humidity, all in association with a trough that has been deepening to our north and that has been kicking up the
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winds, dropping our temperatures since yesterday and today. we've seen some areas go up in terms of temperatures. some areas go down, but overall below average gusts to 31. right now at sfo, 25 in livermore. so you're getting a nice breeze as we go. hour by hour you will see what's going to happen. 6:00 tonight. still pretty gusty around the delta 30 miles an hour going into the evening hours. winds will drop off tomorrow morning and then pick right back up again. you're going to see those winds over 30 miles an hour along the coast. 24 fairfield 27, in san francisco right now. a live view from our golden gate bridge camera. and you're seeing a lot of blue skies. 62 in the city. it is in the upper 60s. oakland hayward, san jose. you're at 77 degrees as we take a look at another live picture. now same one, sorry, low 80s in santa rosa, 72 in napa and then the 80s around fairfield. right now, as we look at the san jose camera, you'll see plenty of sun tonight. gusty winds will continue the next few days, a little warmer and this weekend we're talking about cooler weather below average
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temperatures once again. so just a little bump up for a few days. as we head into tomorrow morning. we're going to see some fog, but it's going to be limited and then some higher clouds will filter the sunshine a lot. like today. the marine layer is beginning to compress. it's now down to about 1000ft. it was deeper yesterday and earlier today temperatures right for tomorrow morning will be in the upper 40s to the upper seconds. antioch. those 60 degrees afternoon highs in the mid to upper 80s inland. it's going to be a nice day. low 60s coast side. another breezy one. and as we check out the accuweather seven day forecast you will notice those temperatures continuing to come up. but it's a minor bump up into the low 90s. wednesday, thursday, friday uh- inland low to mid 60s coast side. and then those temperatures coming down over the weekend they think still very pleasant weather. and dan we're looking at 60s to 80s. so really can't complain about this pattern. >> oh that's nice. yeah. thanks andy. >> all right. well a science teacher from oakland got very close to nature last week. ian
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walter says he was out fishing with his buddy in half moon bay when he noticed a huge fin trailing behind his friend's kayak. you see it there in this video. he shot that video and he thinks it was a great white shark, about 13 or 14ft long, following them out on the water. >> we watched it kind of go back around and start following me. and, we just tried to keep each other calm and not give any reason for, you know, a reaction from the shark and just let it toward some seals. and it eventually just let us go. >> these seals are like, hey, come on, what are you doing? walter told us the shark didn't do anything threatening. it just seemed curious. he says all he heard was a gentle bubbling under the calm waters. ever the science teacher, walter told us it was a magical moment that's left him with a feeling of wonder. glad it all turned out okay. we'll
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today, the oakland roots announced it will make the coliseum home in 2025. the minor league soccer team will play 17 regular season games there, and
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potentially more if they reach the playoffs. roots officials say their ultimate goal is to build a long term venue in a parking lot next to the coliseum. >> reports out today say that former warrior klay thompson isn't that strange to say. will face off against his old team very early next season, according to the athletic. thompson and his new team, the dallas mavericks, will visit chase center on november 12th. thompson left the dubs in july in a sign and trade deal with dallas, after contract negotiations with the warriors broke down. the 34 year old was, of course, a key part of the golden state's dynasty, helping the warriors win four world championships between 2015 and 2022. it is going to be a little weird seeing klay back in that capacity. >> all right, 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. >> it's being pegged as a seismic shift in the real estate world. we'll discuss new rules taking effect this week that will change how realtors get
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paid to help people buy and sell their homes. a local expert joins us live to discuss the impacts expected right here in the bay area. then a local bank policy seemingly taken out of a spy movie. we'll dive into further controversy involving san francisco's wells fargo employee security procedures. join us for those stories and more at 530 on abc seven bay area streaming tv. dan and ama. okay, good stuff. >> thanks, stephanie. >> and you can download the abc seven app or head to abc seven news.com and join steph in two minutes. >> and if you're watching us on tv world news tonight with david muir is next for sandhya patel and all of us here. we appreciate your time. >> i'm dan ashley and i'm ama daetz. we'll see you again at six.
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>> david: tonight breaking news, the images coming in. the earthquake rattling the los angeles area. you'll see the images. also, late today the new tropical storm that has just formed now in the atlantic.
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