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at six. >> the search for a suspect who shot and killed a man in the east bay residents shocked it happened in what they believe is a safe neighborhood, and the abrupt resignation at sfo just one week into the new school year. plus, the effort to make a popular bay area road safer for bikers. good morning everybody. it's saturday, august 24th. i'm stephanie sierra. great to be back with you on a very rainy saturday morning. >> yeah. welcome back. in some unusual weather. exactly. >> i'm glad to be with you. >> yes. and you know what? it is not going to last throughout the day. in fact, not even the morning hours. just the very early morning hours where you can see that the activity just kind of washes out towards the bay area. the main activity off of eureka, the low off crescent city, some lightning bolts there as we go in closer from west to east, we have seen the showers from marin county, san francisco out towards hayward. right now, vacaville highway 80 american canyon has had a shower and
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right around 80 highway 24 out towards berkeley and then orind, maybe san leandro. and as we look at mount tam, boy, it is foggy. it looks like winter, doesn't it? we are humid this morning. 66, in san jose and in the north bay. still dark, the sun coming up. six 3362 in napa and 24 hours ago much cooler. so it's a warmer muggier air mass and throughout the afternoon 70s to low 80s in concord, sunny skies by late morning. bayshore low to mid 70s upper 60s downtown and some clouds at the coast. a big warm up coming our way. we'll detail it coming up. stephanie. >> lisa. thank you. developing news now. police are looking for a suspect who shot and killed a man in dublin, an area that rarely sees violent crime. it happened yesterday afternoon at the emerald park apartment complex off hacienda drive and central parkway. a nearby school was put on lockdown. abc seven news reporter lauren martinez talks to residents in the normally quiet neighborhood.
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dublin police are looking for the person who shot and killed a man friday afternoon. police say it happened at the emerald park apartment complex just after two. sandra cardenas has lived at the complex for three years. >> i was just shocked because we are normally a quiet community and living close to an elementary school. i never really thought we would have that kind of incident happen here. >> james doherty elementary school was briefly put on a lockdown. as far as the shooting, police say an adult man was found with a gunshot wound to his head. he was pronounced dead at the scene. during the investigation, some residents were blocked from getting in. >> i'd say everybody is getting home from work right now and not expecting to see police first thing as you come in through the complex and definitely getting the message from the apartment complex that, you know, a fatality happened here during the day is definitely just kind of mind blowing. >> several residents talked to us off camera and said, as far as crime, maybe their mailboxes
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will be tampered with or their cars will be broken into, but nothing to this scale. according to city data, there's been less than a handful of murders reported since 2014. 2 in 2020 and 2 in 2022. police say they were still searching for the suspect, but there is no threat to the public. >> i feel okay and safe knowing that at least they don't suspect that there's like an active shooter around. so yes, i think we're all just really on our toes and alert right now. >> in dublin lauren martinez, abc seven news. and justin, this morning bart will operate as scheduled in the east bay. it comes after a major delay affected stations around downtown oakland last night. service was stopped between ashby west oakland, rockridge and lake merritt because of an equipment problem on the track right near the macarthur station. bart says repairs have been made public safety is one of the top concerns of oakland residents. it's also one of the
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reasons why mayor xiang tao is facing a recall election in november. last night, the mayor and police chief held a public forum. abc seven news reporter tara campbell was there with more on the discussion. >> a packed church friday in oakland concerned community members gathered to hear from the mayor and police chief. what do you think it's going to take to reduce crime? >> money. >> money. more police officers. more of a real concerted effort. more from the community. get the community involved. >> and that's exactly what this series of town halls is all about. the city's public safety leaders taking questions. one card at a time. up first questions about the police staffing shortage. >> one of the key pillars in regards to how we move forward with our budgeten, ev though we had a huge deficit, was to ensure that we continue to have those police academies. >> what do you think can help reduce crime and make change in the city? >> reducing crime might be prosecuting more people. the
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people that run into stores and grab things and run are know that they're not going to be prosecuted. >> the police chief, speaking specifically to prosecution, saying working with prosecutors at all levels is key. >> we're going to continue to work with our state prosecutors, our attorney general and our federal prosecutors. when the crimes rise to that level and from prosecuting to the pandemic, questions about how to get young people the support they need when schools got shut down, that really threw a wrench in clockwork for a lot of, you know, these adolescents here in oakland. >> and i just want to hear something that's going to help, that's going to help offset what they've been going through. >> the police chief calling on community leaders to help keep kids from turning to violence. >> they're the elders of our communities and the mothers of our community that know that can help us pull these kids aside and say, hey, there's a better way. >> and from the youth to the youngest among us, the next generation, top of mind.
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>> it just turns into having enough resources for children to go to. there has to be things like after school, there have to be programs. this oakland native says she'll believe the change when she sees it. the hope is there. it's small, but it's there. >> tara campbell, abc seven news. >> the chp recovered $450,000 worth of stolen merchandise in a bust on a fencing operation. >> investigators looking into a string of retail thefts track stolen items to a home in oakland. that search then led them to a storage facility where they found more stolen items. the chp says many of the items are from drug stores. one person is in jail. they're accused of organized retail crime, conspiracy and more. california college of the arts is facing a $20 million budget deficit. this as the school finishes an expansion project to consolidate its san francisco and oakland
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campuses. according to the chronicle, a's president announced possible layoffs in a recent staff meeting. he also suggested a merger with another institution could help. a follow up memo says student enrollment has declined by a third. now to this, a big shakeup for the san francisco unified school board. the school board president unexpectedly resigned, citing personal reasons due to my personal circumstances, my immediate priority needs to be my health and my family. >> and while i believe this to be a temporary setback, i truly am unable to give this role the attention it deserves. usher. >> mayor london breed moved to replace her immediately. this is all happening during a very challenging time for the district, which faces budget cuts and school closures. board vice president matt alexander will step in as president. fill. kim was also sworn in to fill a key vacancy. he will be on the
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board for the remainder of the term. in the north bay, now, a chinese immersion preschool is fighting to stay open despite being served an eviction notice. mill valley unified school district owns the building. it claims tara marin preschool owes rent for june, july and august. the preschool director says she made the payment for the space. tara marin is currently using, and hoped the district would consider that payment as rent. she says the check was cashed. she also believes the district is breaking the lease early because it needs the space for administrative offices. >> i really want things to work out. i would love if i could talk to the school district. i would say, you know, can we come back on the table and try to figure this out because we're all just going after the same goals. we just want we just want our kids to have good places to go. >> tara marin's director, says she has ten years left on this lease. school district officials had no comment on the matter.
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all right, let's check on the weather now and see how it's looking outside. >> lisa. okay, maybe most of you can sleep through the cloudy, gloomy start to the day because things will brighten up alcatraz right now. 62, downtown san francisco. going for a high in the upper 60s today with a sunny afternoon. even a sunny mid to late morning for some of you. but we are tracking showers. a weather system is bringing some wet pavement our way, and maybe just a little petrichor in the air. we'll talk about it coming up. >> lisa thank you. also ahead, covid tests being handed out for free once again when they'll be made available. plus, a monterey teen hailed a hero. how he jumped to action, saving a young the best summer plans come from the back seat. let's go camping! i want to see a dinosaur! let's rescue a puppy... a real one. let's go on a big family road trip! volvo plug-in hybrids.
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now the cdc is looking to see whether our summer surge returns as a winter wave. the biden administration is making covid tests available for free again next month. you can get four per household. new covid vaccines that target variants are also rolling out. the cdc recommends scheduling vaccinations for september or october. ucsf doctor peter chin-hong told us the later end of that time frame may be better right after october comes a bunch of events. >> this thanksgiving, there's a holidays. there's holiday parties, there's holiday travels. so if i wanted to kind of get the biggest bang for the buck, it's going to be that period because antibodies are going to peak that period. >> doctor chin-hong says if you've had covid recently, wait at least two months before you get a booster. the cdc recommends everyone six months and older get an updated covid shot, as well as a flu shot. a new study shows one of the world's most popular weight loss
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drugs has an added health benefit. researchers say long term use of wegovy can reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke by 44%. in march, the fda approved the drug for use by obese or overweight people with heart disease. wegovy is also approved for weight loss. >> it makes us metabolize glucose better. they also reduce blood pressure. they are cardioprotective in the sense that they improve left ventricular function and improve blood flow to the heart. >> advocates believe this new research could make the medication more accessible and covered by health insurance. next week, ucsf health will open a new comprehensive care center on its mission bay campus. the bayfront medical building is on illinois street near the ucsf benioff children's hospital. the building includes urgent care and outpatient surgery facilities, radiology, imaging, and a pharmacy. the bayfront medical building opens august
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27th. a california teen is being celebrated for his act of bravery after he saved a seven year old boy who almost drowned. monterey county park rangers say a boy fell off a tube near the shoreline at lake nacimiento in monterey county. 13 year old lazaro perez jumped in to help him when the boy didn't come back up from the water. >> he started going towards him and then he was about to go underwater. yeah, i was kind of scared. are you a good swimmer? well not that much. >> i've heard both stories like these, but were both ended up drowned. it can happen to even the best swimmer. i thank god that he could save that boy's life. i told him congratulations. you did it. i felt grateful for what i did. >> park rangers say that boy is going to be okay. lazaro will be recognized at an upcoming county of monterey board of supervisors meeting for his heroic effort in the east bay. now, the push for
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safer roads for cyclists is now paying off. today, those who ride up mount diablo will celebrate the addition of new bicycle turnouts on the road, and officials say it's already reduced collisions. here's abc seven news reporter ryan currie. >> these signs are everywhere when you drive up to the mount diablo summit. why? this road is narrow, windy and full of these blind curves. >> very fun going up. coming down. a little scary for me. >> sherry taylor and alex sagastume are out on an afternoon ride. it's sheri's first time, but alex has been riding this hill for years. recently, he's felt a lot safer. >> they built up a few new ones on the side also, which are really nice, and it's a lot safer for everybody going up and down the hill. >> he's referring to these bicycle turnouts at the blind curves. they were first installed eight years ago after an abc seven news i-team report in 2015 identifying something that needs to be fixed, an important safety issue in this case, and pushing public officials to get it done. abc
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seven's dan noyes found there were 116 collisions involving cyclists on mount diablo over a four year span. 70% of them were around blind curves. >> it's actually, over 300 blind curves as you go up the mountain. anybody who's driven up the mountain or ridden up the mountain knows that not only is it arduous, but there are a lot of turns. >> randy madera, with the california state park foundation, says cyclists started raising money for these turnouts years ago. >> the rest was donated by the general public, which was it was a process. it's exciting. and it was only like two years from fund raising to construction, which was pretty quick for the state parks and state process. so we're excited about that. >> this saturday, officials are gathering with cyclists to celebrate the recent addition of 22 turnouts, bringing the total on mount diablo to 67. and according to park officials, the ones already in place have led to an 80% decrease in collisions. >> the cars are coming over and
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these guys are coming down. >> you know, just having a good time and there have been some accidents coming down here. so it's been it was very dangerous beforehand. now it's made it a lot safer making sure the ride up and down the bay area's tallest peak can be done safely in the east bay. >> ryan curry, abc seven news. >> investigators say a wildfire that destroyed more than a dozen homes is a case of arson, and they've arrested a suspect. the thompson fire burned 3700 acres on the eastern side of oroville in butte county last month. cal fire arrested a 26 year old from oroville this week. he's now being held without bail. cal fire is not saying why he's accused of sparking this fire, but a press conference on the matter will be held on monday. turning to weather now, rain, rain and more rain this saturday morning. is it really august? >> i know, i know, such a dry month. yeah, we are seeing just a few more hours. some scattered light showers and really i went outside this morning and just saw the wet pavement smell that
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petrichor that fresh rain from such a dry season. and that's about it for some locations. but behind me, boy, do you see the activity there from the sierra nevada, where we're even looking at a little snow in the mountains. but the heavier rain to the north, you can see the lightning strikes the area of low pressure just moving into crescent city right now, and then it lifts over to the sierra nevada. well out of our region by tomorrow. but as for today, the scattered showers moving from west to east there and certainly getting the ground not only in marin but through san francisco into the east bay. and as we track them for you right now, it was american canyon in vacaville. now you can see just east of 101 penngrove, a few light showers and some of this falling below the radar beam. so even though we have the green here, there still could be more rain around your neighborhood. oakland and orinda. highway 24 out towards the san ramon
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valley. a few sprinkles, light shower and then further to the south. it is quiet from the south bay with plenty of cloud cover, humidity, and as we continue to watch this system, you'll notice that it is active from the sierra nevada blue canyon. a few sprinkles to light snow showers from bear valley to yosemite throughout the day. today there's a look at the cloud cover. the golden gate bridge, dry pavement there, and a light breeze. temperatures from the low 60s. half moon bay to 66. in san jose at 63 in oakland. and it is muggy out there. 633 the official sunrise napa is at 62 and 63. in concord. looking at this system to head on out by mid morning hours with the rain showers, i should say, and will be warming up quickly for your sunday. so the drizzle, the spotty showers, your second half of the weekend is trending much warmer and then the heat coming back monday. tuesday will be the hottest day. there's a look at how quickly from 7:00 this morning through about 9:00 10:00, we break out
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into some sun and it's a sunny afternoon with that fog along the coastline. rainfall amounts even up to a 10th in the higher elevations. seeing a couple hundredths, but overall, just a glancing blow with that little bit of precip. the next few hours, upper 90s arrive for your monday afternoon 80s around the bay shore. san francisco will be 70. the coast even warms up into tuesday in the 70s. so how about a day at stinson or point reyes? maybe. but by wednesday we begin to cool off into the 90s inland and then a trough heads our way. another one the end of the workweek 82. today, the warm spot in concord. sunny skies, 73 in oakland, 76 in fremont, upper 70s, santa rosa. the accuweather seven day forecast some low 80s. this afternoon. inland 90 tomorrow 80s around the bay shore with a big warm up sunday, monday, tuesday. modest warm up at our beaches and then the cool down for the s
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up by sharing rent data. then the software algorithm compares it with other landlords and tells them the maximum amount they can charge. realpage says prosecutors are scapegoating its software. last month, the san francisco board of supervisors moved toward banning this kind of software. the ban heads to a final vote next month. also new this morning, microsoft says it will hold a cybersecurity conference. microsoft executives plan to meet with crowdstrike and other security companies at its washington state headquarters next month. it comes after a crowdstrike software update caused outages for millions of windows computers. that was worldwide. of course, back in july, delta airlines said the outage cost the company more than half $1 billion. delta is now seeking damages from crowdstrike and microsoft. in our next half hour on abc seven mornings, we're hearing from the pilot accused of trying to crash an airplane mid-flight. how he's raising mental health awareness while
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bay to san francisco, and right now it's kind of quiet out there. one wave has moved on through, and you can see a few sprinkles there up towards petaluma that we did have american canyon with the wet roadways. highway 24 580 a little damp and from okay, across the bay you can see the wet tarmac. it is muggy with low to mid 60s around the bay this morning. sfo the cloud cover there. 63 in napa. and so we will allow for a muggy start with the clouds. some scattered light showers mist and drizzle. and then by mid-morning we are partly cloudy. sunshine arrives throughout the afternoon with mid 70s around the bay, so it's kind of mild with low 80s returning in concord and clouds at the coast. but we'll talk about a major warm up as soon as your sunday. stephanie. >> lisa. thank you. new this morning vice president kamala harris and minnesota governor tim walz will kick off a tour in battleground georgia on wednesday. it will be the first time they will campaign together in georgia. the rally is
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expected to help build the campaign's volunteer efforts in the last month alone. harris rallies helped generate thousands of volunteer signups. the upcoming campaign swing will come nearly one week after the democratic national convention. independent presidential candidate bobby kennedy jr. is now rallying behind former president donald trump. he endorsed trump after suspending his campaign. abc news reporter kim nguyen has the moment they shared the spotlight in battleground arizona. >> they might have once been considered a political odd couple. >> he is a great person. i've known him for so long for the past 16 months. robert f kennedy jr. >> lifelong democrat bobby kennedy jr. joining donald trump on stage last night in battleground state arizona. rfk jr. suspending his presidential campaign as an independent and throwing his support to trump. >> and don't you want a president who's going to protect america's freedoms?
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>> for decades, kennedy's powerful political family define the democratic party. >> his father, robert kennedy, a great man, and his uncle, president john f kennedy know that they are looking down right now, and they are very, very proud of bobby kennedy. >> siblings calling the endorsement of trump a betrayal of the values that our father and our family hold most dear, calling it a sad ending to a sad story. >> i just am outraged and disgusted by my brother's actions. i think it's a gaudy and obscene embrace of donald trump. i love bobby. i am, i abhor what he did. >> the harris campaign making the pitch to kennedy voters, saying vice president harris wants to earn your support, adding for any american out there who is tired of donald
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trump and is looking for a new way forward, ours is a campaign for you. >> almost my whole family is fighting so hard to reelect kamala harris and coach waltz with rfk jr. >> polling 5% in our abc news latest poll. which candidate his supporters go to could make a difference. daria aldinger, abc news new york. >> and abc news is your place. when it comes to the presidential election. you can find complete coverage and live updates at abc seven news.com, as well as on our app. well, today marks ten years since a 6.0 magnitude earthquake shook the city of napa. one person was killed and nearly 200 others were injured. the quake happened at 320 in the morning on august 24th, 2014, damaging businesses, homes and some of the city's most iconic buildings. nearly 100 buildings were deemed unsafe. napa is 140 year old historic courthouse reopened about five years after the fact
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in 2019. the quake caused over $1 billion in damages. it was the bay area's most powerful earthquake since loma prieta in 1989. new developments now, a person expected to be a key witness in the 2023 murder case of cashapp founder bob lee, will not take the stand. the government does not plan to call the sister of accused killer nima momeni as a witness. according to charging documents, the sister sent a text message to lee the night he was murdered in her message, she said her brother had, quote, come way down hard on him. when the three were talking. it was considered a key piece of evidence during the preliminary hearing, since prosecutors allege she may have been the reason for a dispute between the two men. the defense says it's not sure why she's not testifying. >> so we were under the assumption that the government was going to call her. i think that she's an necessary element for the people to explain certain things. doesn't look
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like they're going to do that. so we'll go ahead and consider whether or not we need to fill that void. >> yesterday was his 40th birthday. his mom brought balloons and signs to court. his trial is expected to start next month. now to the case of a former bay area pilot accused of trying to crash an alaska airlines passenger jet. joseph emerson, from pleasant hill, is sharing details about what happened that day. here's abc news reporter gio benitez. >> former alaska airlines pilot joseph emerson is telling his side of the story after he was pulled off a flight in cuffs for allegedly trying to crash a passenger jet. >> it's 30s of my life. i wish i could change, and i can't. >> last october, he was hitching a ride in the cockpit jump seat on a flight from everett, washington, to san francisco when he says he began to hallucinate. >> there was a feeling of being trapped. like, am i trapped in this, in this airplane? this is not real. i need to wake up. >> he stood up in the cockpit and pulled these red handles
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that are meant to shut off the engines in the case of a fire. thankfully, it didn't work. did you know what the levers were at the time? >> what i thought is, this is going to wake me up. i know what those levers do in a real airplane. right. and i need to wake up from this. >> two days before the flight, emerson says he took psychedelic mushrooms, hoping that it would help with depression. he blames that and a lack of sleep for the episode. >> coming into this, i hadn't really been sleeping a lot. the night that i took the magic mushrooms, and i did not sleep that that night, and so this cumulative sleep deficit, i believe, may have also impacted just my perception of what was going on. >> emerson says he'd been suffering from depression ever since his friend scott died suddenly, but never sought psychiatric treatment. worrying that a formal diagnosis could end his career, he instead turned to alcohol and eventually those psychedelic mushrooms. >> right now, there's a perception out there that if you raise your hand and say
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something's not right, there's a very real possibility that you don't fly again. >> emerson now speaking about it all in the new documentary, the new york times presents lie to fly on fx and along with his wife sara, he's working to raise awareness about mental health in the cockpit, launching a nonprofit called clear skies ahead. >> sara and i would like our story to be of some value, right? we think it tells a larger story on pilot health. >> and emerson faces 83 counts of recklessly endangering another person and one count of endangering aircraft and first degree. he's pleaded not guilty. the new york times presents lie to fly from fx, is streaming on hulu this weekend. gio benitez, abc news new york. >> still ahead on abc seven more things a sneak peek at a new san francisco exhibit capturing beetle mania. and we'll take you outside for a live look from our emeryville camera. you see, it's a gloomy start to this saturday morning at 6.39.
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british boys known as the beatles invaded san francisco. now, curators at the deyoung museum are getting ready to capture the excitement of beatlemania all over again. here's abc7 news anchor dan ashley. >> well, it certainly is nice to be here in san francisco. >> it was 60 years ago, almost to the day the beatles arriving in the bay area to kick off their first u.s. concert tour. and the images of the fab four performing before a packed crowd at san francisco's cow palace in august of 1964, are still the stuff that dreams and screams are made of. twist and shout, shout. >> come on, come on, come on, come on baby. >> and while it's a bit of a hop. from the cow palace stage to the bandshell next to san francisco's deyoung museum, curator sally martin katz is hoping that same excitement will still echo through in an
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upcoming photo exhibit. and she met us on stage to highlight its unique point of view. beatlemania through the eyes of sir paul mccartney. >> so this exhibition covers the period the three month intense period from december 1963 to february 1964, and so we have a rare opportunity now to see it through mccartney's eyes, to see it from their experience. >> the exhibit is called eyes of the storm candid photographs taken by mccartney himself with his 35 millimeter pentax camera and newly retrieved from his personal collection. the photos document that mad rush in the year leading up to the san francisco concert. >> i love that the title of the exhibition is called eyes of the storm, which really gets at this idea. i mean, the storm that was beatlemania arriving here in the u.s, how it took the country by storm, but also this notion of looking, of being eyes and who's looking at who and the direction of gazes we're used to being the
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ones looking at them. and here he's returning the gaze. >> and mccartney turns his lens on both journalists and his fellow beatles, giving audiences an unfiltered look at the innocent joy and unrelenting pressure of their sudden fame. >> the photographs are on the go. they're blurry. we see a sense of movement and so, you know, they're not carefully posed images where he's thinking about composition from a very deliberate perspective. but they do, i think, have a lot of value as works of art in and of themselves. >> the photos have been on exhibit in new york and will arrive at the deyoung this spring, perhaps reigniting the excitement that swept the bay area for so many decades ago. yes. >> oh, i love that song. well, that was our dan ashley reporting the paul mccartney eyes of the storm exhibit will be at the deyoung from march through early july next year. well, people are making the trek
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to burning man in the nevada desert. officials don't expect heavy, heavy rain like last year, but light rain certainly still could keep people from getting in. gate road may be closed depending on the conditions, and if that happens, burners would see a delay in their arrivals to black rock city. last year, a storm created a muddy mess, stranding many people. as we head to break, let's check in with lisa. how's it looking right now? >> well, it is certainly gray and gloomy from emeryville. temperatures are in the low 60s. it's muggy. we've had some light rain showers and later on today, a sunny day for you in the east bay with low 70s arriving. so it's going to be mild and sunny despite our gray start. we'll talk about a big warm up starting tomorrow and lasting through part
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[ding] [upbeat music] ♪ yeah, baby, i like it like that ♪ ♪ i like it like that, i like it like that ♪ ♪ si a ti te quiero mi amor, i like it like that ♪ ♪ eeeeeh, baby, i said i like it like that ♪ ♪ stomp your feet if you think i'm neat ♪ ♪ clap your hands if you want some more ♪ ♪ i said i like it like that ♪ ruling out terrorism and a knife attack that killed three people
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at a music festival. five others were seriously injured. police say a 15 year old boy was arrested early this morning, but they do not believe he is the perpetrator. it happened at the festival of diversity in western germany last night. authorities are still trying to find out the motive behind the attack. back here at home to sports now, shohei otani of the la dodgers hit a grand slam last night against the tampa bay rays in the ninth inning, cementing his place in baseball history. he's now the fastest major league player to join the 4040 club. that's 40 home runs and 40 stolen bases in just one season. ohtani broke the record held by alfonso soriano, who reached the mark in his 148th game. ohtani hit the mark by his 126th game. the baseball star is the sixth player to reach the milestone in mlb history, and the 40 niners wrapped up the preseason last night at allegiant stadium in
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las vegas. here's abc seven sports director larry beil. >> good morning everybody. despite months of contract talks that have not resulted in a deal, 40 niners receiver brandon aiyuk did travel with the team to las vegas for the niners final preseason game. so that's something niners back at allegiant stadium where they lost in the super bowl to casey. brock purdy opens here by hitting deebo samuel. and somehow deebo gets both feet in bounds for a gain of 27 yards. setting up a jake moody field goal three nothing. niners. second series for purdy. throws high. here. hey diddle diddle kittle down the middle george kittle full extension. what a catch. purdy goes three series nine of 12 passing 96 yards. also threw one pick though. well that catch would help set up jp mason four yard touchdown. mason is going to be really important if christian mccaffrey's calf injury keeps him out. ten nothing. niners. second quarter niners punt. tyreke mcallister finds a seam. and look out. aloha 81 yard punt return to get the raiders on the board.
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they're down 10 to 7. josh dobbs battling to beat brock purdy's back up to the rookie jacob cowing. and this game ends in a 2424 tie. the season opens for real september 9th against the jets here on abc seven. on a baseball giants in seattle. homecoming for blake snell, who will pitch today for a team desperate for offense. the giants like the pacific northwest elliott ramos moonshot to the upper deck. giants built a51 lead. but tyler rogers, with the giants record allowing six straight singles in the eighth without getting an out, and the mariners tie it up at five five. to on extras. how about take him out before the sixth consecutive hit? bottom ten leo rivas single off eric miller, dylan moore scores. good night. game over. drive home safely. the giants find a way to blow the game six 5 in 10. a's hosting the milwaukee guy catches a foul ball in the first inning, then snags his second foul ball of the night a few moments later, and then a leaping grab for three foul balls caught by one dude in one inning. are you kidding me? the brew crew puts up a five spot in the second.
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rhys hoskins going deep on jp sears, who had been pitching well recently. but then joey ortiz very next pitch. here it comes. there it goes. back to back jacks. sears gave up seven runs in three and two thirds. and the a's fall 11 three. a little hockey news. the san jose sharks have acquired goalie yaroslav askarov from nashville. this is a trade that swaps draft picks and prospects. he brings some intensity. he bench presses the net after a big save could turn into the sharks goalie of the future. we'll kick it with bay fc visiting the utah royals fc so tired. what a long week. first half. page monahan with a shot. it's a cracker and utah holds on for a21 win. that's a wrap on morning sports. have a great weekend everybody i'm larry beil happening now a tropical storm is approaching hawaii. >> the storm is threatening the big island this weekend. and it's expected to bring heavy rain and strong winds, which will raise fire concerns as well with the wind. back here at
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home, we're getting a lot of rain to. lisa is tracking the very latest for us. >> all right. well, you know, we have dry air at the surface evaporating a lot of that rain, but we have had wet pavement and showers this morning. the main activity to the north, the low, is right around crescent city. and you can see from the south of that the showers extending the lightning. and then the heavier rain through chico into susanville and the sierra nevada back home. this is what's left of the system. as we loop this, you can see the heavier showers early this morning, three 4:00 in the morning and then 5:00 pushing through the east bay. a few sprinkles and moisture beneath our radar beam, but we are showing the smattering of a few showers from healdsburg to glen ellen and penngrove east of 101. but 101 is wet, as well as 680 highway 29 out towards mount hamilton. higher elevations looking at a couple hundredths, but look at the activity from the sierra nevada all the way down to the central sierra by
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yosemite. so some light snow and also the rain showers continue throughout the afternoon here. maybe a thunderstorm. pier 39 camera looking at alcatraz. awfully gray out there. 63 in hayward 66 and muggy in san jose. but the skies will open up in terms of partying and evaporating that moisture, not rain in the afternoon, but sunshine. and as we look at mount tam, it's misty and foggy, with 61 in santa rosa, 63 in napa. so this system will get behind us as soon as sunday. but you can see all the cloud cover hanging around the golden gate bridge. dry pavement though drizzle, spotty showers this morning for your sunday sunshine and much warmer for early next week, monday and tuesday. summer sizzle returns with near 100 degrees in our inland valleys for tuesday. wednesday it cools off. this is this morning. by the middle of the morning, we are looking at partly cloudy skies. 11:00 it is sunny pretty much everywhere in the
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afternoon, featuring a nice day with a rebound from mid and upper 70s around the bay shore to low 80s inland. rainfall amounts anywhere from a few one hundredths to more than that up in the north bay, maybe 5/100 upper elevations. but that wet pavement, you probably smell that fresh rain out there here is that tropical system that will briefly get to hurricane status that at 75 miles an hour, passing south of the big island, bringing anywhere from about a foot of rain there to maybe a half a foot eastern side of maui. and as we look at the activity in the pacific, it's really the system behind which is gilma hurricane at category two. but this will dissipate in the next day or so. not affecting hawaii. highs today from the 70s in oakland, 76 in fremont, upper 70s for you in san jose looking at 82 by the delta. and then the accuweather seven day forecast shows big shift with near 90 inland tomorrow upper 90s monday and tuesday we will warm up around
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the bay and even the coast into the low 70s through tuesday. but then we cool off on wednesday. stronger onshore flow and another area of low pressure bringing some cooler weather, but really a return to near
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he's been adopted. muttville senior dog rescue in san francisco is looking to find more dogs like minute maid homes, and happens to be holding an event today. it will be held at the old location on alabama street from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m. today. muttville recently moved but does not have enough power to operate its vet clinic. currently so the dogs are being
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kept at the old location for now. more than 3500 classic cars are on display at the good guys 37th west coast nationals in pleasanton. this weekend. this year, chevy chevelles are being showcased to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the vintage car. there's also live autocross racing industry vendors and businesses will be showing their products. the event runs through tomorrow at the alameda county fairgrounds. also happening today, the 35th annual street fest in oakland's chinatown. the oakland chinatown chamber of commerce is celebrating the diverse cultures of the aapi community. there will be vendors, food, and an international stage showcasing different cultural performances. it will be happening at ninth street and franklin. the street fest starts at 10:00 this morning until five and tomorrow from 10 to 5. well, thank you all for joining us. the news continues at 9 a.m. for lisa and all of us here at abc seven. have a great day. we'll see you back here at 8 a.m. we have a
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we have a drug, homelessness, and economic recovery crisis, because the system that's supposed to fix things is the problem. record budgets. fewer officers. business killing bureaucracy. the insiders won't change a system built for their benefit. i'm daniel lurie and san francisco needs a mayor unafraid to take on the status quo, bring accountability, and stop the excuses. >> gio: good morning, america. deadly stabbing attack.

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