. >> abc seven news reporter lyanne melendez is here. with how these pop ups are doing. >> well, you know, i have to say it looks promising for them. yeah, yeah, they're very optimistic. so that's very good. now they opened last october, so three months ago as part of an experiment to bring small businesses to the downtown area, rent free. now, after all, there are so many vacant properties downtown, so why not offer them a space that would have gone empty anyway. some of the stores that popped up in downtown san francisco are uncommon, unlikely, and peculiar. like holistic each a description is optional. >> it's a sewing school in a factory with an alterations department and donation center in a city that prides itself for being unconventional, it may be a great fit for a downtown that's evolving a critical aspect that was the property owners had to be willing to provide free rent for the pop up locations. >> i started sewing jeans. >> it's my idea. natural, organic progression of things. >> as a pop up, he was given the rare opportunit

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. >> our own lyanne melendez hits the streets of san francisco to show us how a new parking law is designedisten up because if you think you found the perfect parking spot, you might just want to wait on that. pedestrian deaths are on the rise in some parts of the bay area, so could this new law help build a better bay area and keep people safe? you may not know this, but parking next to crosswalks is now illegal. >> yeah, the bill signed into law earlier this month is already proving to be controversial because it won't just have an impact on where you park in the bay area. >> abc seven news reporter lyanne melendez is here to kind of share with us the implications of all of this. >> yeah, i was people don't know this, i don't know that was amazing. it caught so many people by surprise, myself included. so you know, transit officials use the word daylighting when you have light, you see better. right. and that basically means improving safety by removing parked cars. next to crosswalks in order to be able to see the pedestrian better. this is not an only in san francisco moment here. every

reporter lyanne melendez shares what she found while at the station.plus plus a generous act does not go unnoticed. how it ended up here for all to see. join us for those stories and more at 530 on abc seven. bay area streaming tv. >> dan okay, karina, thanks a lot. >> and you can download the abc seven app or just head to abc seven news.com and join karina in two minutes. be sure to do that if you're watching us here on tv world news tonight with david muir is next for sandyha patel and all of us. >> we appreciate your time. i'm dan ashley and i'm ama daetz. >> we'll see you again at 6:00. ...katie porter's whiteboard is one way she's: [news anchor] ...often seen grilling top executives of banks, big pharma, even top administration officials. katie porter. never taken corporate pac money - never will. leading the fight to ban congressional stock trading. and the only democrat who opposed wasteful “earmarks” that fund politicians' pet projects. katie porter. focused on your challenges - from lowering housing costs to fighting climate change. shake up t

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. >> abc7 news reporter lyanne melendez, joining us now with a closer look at those centers and the impacty have. >> yeah, so we looked at the numbers and found the opposite to be true. so that's positive. now in the case of one of the navigation centers, the city had to prove to neighbors that by just being there, it would be able to reduce homelessness in the area. it was august 2019. a surveillance camera caught a resident of a building near san francisco's embarcadero being attacked by a homeless man with mental health issues. the timing could not have been worse, as the city had announced just several months before that. a navigation center for the unhoused would be built just a few paces from where the attack occurred. >> terrible. i don't understand it. do you want me to talk, or do you want to yell? >> a battle ensued between residents of the south beach and rincon hill neighborhoods, and city hall, arguing that the navigation center would bring in more homeless and attract crime and more drug use. it turns out it never did any of those things . let's compare crime incident report

abc seven news reporter lyanne melendez is here. this is a really innovative program.h. >> this is a great example of a man who found a solution to a big problem that he had, right? a judge in salinas got tired of sending young offenders to prison for murder, assault, gang violence. the list goes on. now. instead, he reached out to the community to do what few imagined would work. and so giving hope to teens facing incarceration or experiencing hardship has been his mission for the past 23 years. these wide open fields make salinas one of the world's most famous farming communities. but several years ago, salinas also gained an unwanted reputation. >> salinas was the murder capital for juveniles here in the state of california. my job was to send kids to prison, and you thought there must be a better way we can do something. all right. and all this we put in, we put in a whole new water system. uh we have three water systems. >> this is rancho cielo youth campus, a place known for giving young people a second chance. now retired judge john phillips transformed the land

>> abc seven news reporter lyanne melendez is here with the results. so far they work. really? >> yeah, they sure do, you know, and i'm sure bart is now saying, why did we wait so long? we should have done this before. for now. is this 100% effective? nothing is, but bart hopes it will deter those people from doing what they have grown accustomed to. for years showed up unannounced at the west oakland station. no bart officials were contacted this way. we could observe and record whether or not the new fare gates were effective at deterring evaders. bart is testing several prototypes to see which door material makes more sense. why these seven foot gates? let's refresh your memory. for years, the transit agency has struggled to stop anyone with any kind of athletic skill or will who avoided paying by jumping, sliding, squeezing, following or yes, crawling. it's hard to put a cost on how much bart loses out yearly, but the transit agency believes it loses between 15 and $25 million in unpaid fares this way. that brings us back to 2024 and the west oakland station as bart tries t

lyanne melendez, you've been covering this story. it seems like, for years. everybody puzzled.ut this issue? yeah, you know, i spent two days there and several hours testing it, seeing what's going on. >> and you know, i think bart is saying right now, why didn't we try this years ago? because it works. now, is this 100% effective? well come on, nothing is. but bart hopes it will deter those people from doing what they have grown accustomed ed for years. unannounced at the west oakland station. nobody officials were contacted this way. we could observe and record whether or not the new fare gates were effective at deterring evaders. bart is testing several prototypes to see which door material makes more sense. why these seven foot gates? let's refresh your memory. for years, the transit agency has struggled to stop anyone with any kind of athletic skill or will who avoided paying by jumping, sliding, squeezing, following or yes, crawling. it's hard to put a cost on how much bart loses out yearly, but the transit agency believes it loses between 15 and $25 million in unpaid far

. >> abc seven news reporter lyanne melendez here with a look at exactly how those pop up shops are doing. how are they? >> well, let's say that they are no longer on life support and they're breathing on their own. how do you like that? that's progress. okay well, you know, they opened last october, so three months ago as part of an experiment to bring small businesses to the downtown area, rent free. now, after all, there are so many vacant properties in downtown, so why not offer them a space that would have gone empty anyway? some of the stores that popped up in downtown san francisco are uncommon, unlikely, and peculiar, like holey stitch. a description is optional. >> it's a sewing school in a factory with an alterations department and donation center in a city that prides itself for being unconventional, it may be a great fit for a downtown that's evolving a critical aspect that was the property owners had to be willing to provide free rent for the pop up locations. i started sewing jeans. it's my idea natural, organic progression of things. >> as a pop up, he was given the rare op

abc seven news reporter lyanne melendez put them to the test and found that they did prevent people from for the most part, although some people still did manage to find a way to get through. well after seeing issues with autonomous vehicles all across the state, state senator dave cortese wants to make them safer. he's introduced a bill that would put decisions for these cars in the hands of local lawmakers, not state lawmakers. abc seven news south bay reporter dustin dorsey explains the future of artificial intelligence is out there, even driving right past you on the streets. >> the new wave of technology is something that many leaders, like state senator dave cortez, wants to embrace. but when it comes to autonomous vehicles, he wants to pump the brakes on the current regulations or lack thereof. >> we've never really had a system, um, in this country where for, you know, i mean, from from the henry ford days where you just go out and experiment on the streets, you know, without traffic laws in place and without, uh, the kind of, of requirements that keep it safe for everyone after

abc seven news reporter lyanne melendez is here to tell us, how did they do this?yeah, well, it wasn't just one thing or two things. it was several things. but you have to understand that the haight street corridor is known for having business owners who voice their concerns. now, some of you may remember the sit lie law, where people were not allowed to sit or lie on the sidewalk or they would get fined. well, many merchants there pushed for that. it really didn't work. and now, years later, merchants and residents have taken a different approach to revitalizing the area. tourists have never stopped coming to the haight ashbury. this famous corner represents the center of the hippie movement of the late 60s, and the summer of love changed the narrative of american culture. >> thousands of young people from around the country were descending on the city's haight ashbury district. >> we do not have an obligation to feed these people to house them or to care for them. the neighborhood saw a decline shortly after. >> since then, the haight has struggled, experiencing

abc seven news reporter lyanne melendez put them to the test and found they did prevent people from skippingon paying fares. i can speak anecdotally, and from what i've heard from the station agents, they say it's been a complete game changer. >> we did see people coming down the stairs and then going right back up to go, probably to a different station. we expected that. but i mean, from our writers, they're telling us they like it. this is something that they've been asking for. they want people to pay their fair share. >> the project calls for all stations to have new fare gates by the end of 2025. >> a bill to ban tackle football in california for kids under the age of 12 cleared its first legislative hurdle. a state assembly committee voted 5 to 2 in favor of the measure, authored by sacramento democrat kevin mccarthy. supporters say the bill will help protect kids from brain injuries like concussions, while critics warn that it will cut children off from physical activity. >> skateboarding, hockey, skiing , bicycling, ice skating. you know, every sport or activity has an inherent dange

even though he had been arrested before for selling drugs in the newsroom, lyanne melendez, abc sevennight we're getting our first look at some previously unsealed court documents from the jeffrey epstein case. >> epstein was accused of abusing young girls and women for years, and died by suicide while awaiting trial. abc news reporter zohreen shah has a look at the first batch of court documents that was released today, some previously sealed court documents pertaining to jeffrey epstein have started to be unsealed, and the paperwork, part of a long settled defamation case brought by virginia giuffre, who has claimed she was one of epstein's victims. >> this is the litigation system working without doubt. virginia giuffre's lawsuit. this stuff wouldn't have been exchanged because it was relevant to the claims, and now the court has decided there's no good basis to keep this stuff under wraps from the public. >> giuffre previously claimed she was a teen sex slave ordered by epstein and his partner ghislaine maxwell, to have sex with powerful men. a federal judge ordered the unsealing

. >> abc seven news reporter lyanne melendez is here to tell us the implications of this. you actually scared us when you peered out from around the building with the cars coming at you like little concerned myself. >> yeah, you can't believe how many people had not heard about this law. many. now the word transit officials use here is daylighting. so when you have light right, you see better. and that basically means improving safety by removing parked cars next to crosswalks in order to be able to see the pedestrian better. this is not an only in san francisco moment here. every city in california must now follow this law. wait. is simple don't park within 20ft of a crosswalk. whether it's marked or not. sfmta told us parking control officers will now issue warnings. if you're within the spirit of the 20ft, they'll be okay. >> they're not going to they're not going to take out a tape measure. >> but we did so right there is we're going to measure. and this goes up to right here for ten. we did it in two stages ten feet at a time. so that's about 20ft right there. think o

abc seven news reporter lyanne melendez was with the team counting in the tenderloin, and we'll havee on what she saw tonight here on abc seven news. san mateo county is the first county in the nation to declare loneliness as a public health emergency, according to city leaders stats show more local residents consider consider themselves lonely since the pandemic. abc seven spoke to a clinical psychologist who supports the resolution, saying poor mental health can also lead to poor physical health. >> we're feeling depressed. we often have stomach aches or body pains, muscle aches, um, headaches, migraines. i mean, you name it. >> supervisor david canepa introduced the resolution. he's also requesting governor newsom create a new minister of loneliness position for the state. if approved, the minister of loneliness would help enact policies to improve people's mental health. >> after 40 years, today is the last day of service for quinn's lighthouse in oakland. the popular restaurant and pub along the estuary opened in 1984. inside is a real lighthouse built more than a century ago. q

so abc seven news reporter lyanne melendez took a closer look to see if any of that is true.august 2019. >> a surveyor camera caught a resident of a building near san francisco's embarcadero being attacked by a homeless man with mental health issues. the timing could not have been worse, as the city had announced just several months before that that a navigation center for the unhoused would be built just a few paces from where the attack occurred. >> terrible. >> i don't understand it. do you want me to talk, or do you want to yell? >> a battle ensued between residents of the south beach and rincon hill neighborhoods, and city hall, arguing that the navigation center would bring in more homeless. a tracked crime and more drug use. it turns out it never did any of those things . let's compare crime incident reports in that area before the navigation center opened with the most recent incident reports provided by san francisco police. it turns out the neighborhoods with navigation centers like the rest of san francisco, have seen crime go down some of the residents overlooking