there are bay area autograph collectors and there are also bay area diners who are fans too. it's a tough time, at least temporarily, to satisfy a craving for anything branded jimmy g. this being the off-season, supplies are short, sometimes even sold out. >> if they want screen print jerseys middle of june, they can get stitched or screened. >> reporter: so they got to be patient? >> yes. yes. >> reporter: fans acknowledge jimmy g. fever will do a lot to bring fans back into the fold. >> hopefully this will get fans back into it a little bit more and bring back good old 49ers football again. >> reporter: those seeking to satisfy a jimmy g. graving, they can go to the jimmy g. on fire roll, which is lit on fire with rum, featuring dep fried shrimp.

garofalo is a regular here. >> i'm so excited by him, he's very personable, he's very humble, and i think he's going to fit in really well with the 49ers. >> reporter: jimmy g. has awakened his position, just as the jimmy g. on fire role excited his pallet. >> i didn't watch my niners because they were kind of terrible. so when jimmy took over, i said, boycott is over. >> reporter: a photo of jimmy g. even hangs on the wall but without an autograph. the owner of a memorabilia shop says that jimmy g. autographs could top $10,000. >> reporter: selling the rights to jimmy g.'s autograph reportedly is under way, and that means he's going to be making a lot more than $147 million just from the 49ers.

by the way, $1 for every sale of the jimmy g. on fire roll is going to go to a charity of jimmy g., whatever he chooses. now let's hear from the man himself, jimmy garofalo and the 49ers on why they decided to do this deal. >> reporter: garofalo was acquired from a second-round pick from the patriots, he took a 1 and 10 patriots slump and turned that into a five game winning streak. >> people are going to have a lot of ideas on what could have happened. what i'm concerned about is that he's right here and he's signed for five years and i love that. >> i want to get this deal done fast as possible. it's only going to help our team going forward, and it 75 degrees, it's not a snowstorm like chicago. so we just came from that, so i can peek speak on that, it's a

better here. >> we always liked the guy and we felt very strongly about his talent. he's a guy we want eed here reay badly. >> reporter: jimmy g. is the first quarterback in history to win his first seven starts. he picks up a few tips under the greatest quarterback of all tom brady. >> the way he prepares, that's one thing i picked up from him, just being around him for 2 1/2ee years. >> there are quiet qualities that players like jimmy g share. >> reporter: the 49ers believe they have struck gold in garofalo, he believed he had all the leverae he needed to get a mill t multimillion-dollar deal. >> kristen likes his smile.

garofalo's contract and his former teammate brady, the boston herald ran a bogus report about braidly. saying that tom brady would hold out unless he got a contract that garofalo received. apparently he was duped. now we have more coverage on garofalo and his big payday, including the little minifumble he made in today's news conference, the unfortunate reference he made. a surprise settlement made this morning in the high profile acquisition between -- self-driving cars and about the culture of silicon valley. >> i was shocked.

i was very shocked. >> cn er nrwaymo's lawyer got u said they had reached a settlement. >> reporter: the settlement has waymo paying uber $20 million in equity. >> this lawsuit really was about allegedly stolen trade secrets. >> reporter: secrets from google's self-driving car project that later became waymo. files were stolen, but intellectual property attorney says it's not about the files. >> somebody could have information in their head and that could still be considered a trade secret. >> companies want to recruit the best talent but where's the line between talent and information. >> you're going to have certain know how that an employee gathers at the prior place of employment. that's in fact why you want that particular employee to come. >> reporter: the question of

stolen trade secrets remains unanswered, but there are answers to other questions about what went on inside uber. ub uber's founder took the stand and spoke under oath. >> about the inside story about uber's you culture. travis would say something like the second place loser, and the golden time is over, it's wartime. >> reporter: he said if the trial had proceeded to its conclusion, it's clear uber would have prevailed. waymo says it's pleased with the settlement and is committed to working with uber to make sure that each company develops it's own technology. at 8:17 this morning, we sent out a push alert on the settlement. and you can be the first to know the minute breaking news happens. to get stories like this, make

sure you customize our alerts, go to settings, manage notifications, select breaking news, you can also select the cities and topics you want to get the news for you. it's hyper local, you can get urgent news about where you live. before we get to the weather, look at this shot. i mean, the sunshine, you're just radiating with the shot. it's gorgeous, it's stunning, what a week we have had? >> i love your enthusiasm. but yes, it's been amazing. >> sorry, i like things that look nice. i apologize for that. >> and you will continue to like it today, well, maybe not in this traffic shot. but certainly the summer with above average warmth and that's continuing, we did hit a couple of records today, no as many. here's spencer christian with more. >> there are more coming in, so we don't have all the official records yet. we have thin high clouds, but it's a bright sunny day as you can see here from this view at

mt. tam. san francisco did hit 76, that's a record for san francisco on this day, it's 70 right now. also oakland. gilroy 73 right now, and half moon bay 64. this is a bright woern sestern right now. santa rosa 81, napa 73. and as we go into the evening hours, we'll see temperatures dropping off gradually, it will be mild in the evening and late night hours. we have established that it's beautiful, but we also need some rain badly, and there's nothing in sight for a while. we'll have the forecast for you in a few minutes. few americans outside of washington, d.c. noticed or felt any impact from last night's second government shutdown in three weeks. that shutdown came to an end with votes in both the house and the senate in predawn hours.

president trump signed the bill this morning. the government was official pli closed because of one single senator. rand paul objected to the budget bill because it increases the deficit. >> i don't advocate for shutting the government down, but i had >> president trump tweeted this morning the bill will help strengthen the military and create, quote, jobs, jobs. an antioch man shot by police yesterday has died from his injuries. he's been identified as 40-year-old lloyd joseph harris jr., police said harris was a fugitive wanted by several law enforcement agencies for a variety of crimes. harris was shot by a police officer on golf course road yesterday. police say they recovered a gun. you can see on this map that

garbage collectors discovered a hand grenade during a regular pickup in san francisco. this happened around schrader and 17th street. the bomb squad came out and declared the scene safe at 11:00 a.m. police did not say if that grenade was live or just being thrown out. the important issues they discussed and how the prime minister's socks were a factor. >> socks? >> okay. she's been a prominent voice in the me too movement, a senate member is taking leave because of accusations of groping a male staffer. >> it's been a wild heart pounding week on wall street, what this volatility means for

the canadian prime minister was -- on the private meeting as well as inside information on trudeau's socks. >> both governor brown and canadian prime minister justin trudeau like to describe themselves as defenders of the environment. >> obviously climate change has been an issue that the governor's been a leader on and i want to congratulate him on it. >> reporter: california signed a agreement with ontario and quebec to lower greenhouse gas emissions by putting caps on the amount of greenhouse gasses companies can emit. that measure went into effect in january of this year.

>> the trump people have their head in the sand and we have to make allies, canada's an ally, the provinces of quebec and ontario are working with california. >> reporter: outside that meeting at the fair mont hotel, three protesters managed to get in to denounce the canadian government's approval of a pipeline that would nearly triple the output of crude oil. this is what trudeau told reporters yesterday. >> we're going to ensure that that pipeline gets built because it's in the national interest. >> reporter: following the meeting with brown, trudeau met with gavin newsom, they their c. newsom highlighted san francisco'sed a tr ed attribute >> it's a cities of doers. >> and first thing i asked him was let me see your socks, you know? because we has a thing about

socks. well, he showed them and they were bright red with little dot on them. >> following that exchange, trudeau promised to come back to san francisco soon. we showed you just a portion of our one-on-one interview with governor brown, you can see all of it on the updated nbc news app, just strocroll down when y open the app. stocks closed today sharply higher after a wild week that actually saw overall a 5% loss. >> the dow bounced upward, more than 300 points after a late rally, but it posted actually the worst week in two years, at its lows today the index fell more than 500 points, the s&p 500 and the nasdaq both staged late rallies. they both closed higher. this week for the dow, it lost more than 400 points yesterday.

we want to know you're dealing about this roller coaster in the market. so go to your market and go to abc7news.com, you can express your feelings with emojis, you've got everything from love it to ahhh and as you vote, emojis will pop-up on the screen, it's kind of like instagram. you can vote as many times as you like so you can get a lot of emojis going. when you think about that and your portfolio, on what all this means for your investments and your 401(k), we are joined by michael finney. >> i appreciate you joining us here, you're always my go-to guy. pretty wild week. >> crazy week, if i can use a sports analogy, we suffered a concussion, now we're going through a concussion protocol. >> really? wow. >> we're up and down today,

we're trying to find our place. >> are bigger dips inevitable? are we for sure going to keep going down? >> this is a promise, every year we have a mean 10% negative, its inevitable. last year we had a perfect storm. now we're getting into 2018, moving from a policy year to a political year. just last week, janet yellen had her last fomc, federal reserve committee meeting, and she said that we're probably going to have three to four rate increases. she's been saying that all the time. but it's the first time the market has really heard this. so it scares the market. it means that there might be inflation. and actually on about the same day, the department of labor statistics came out with wages up 2.8%. so when wages go up, you have to increase the price of goods and that creates inflation. >> is your extra paranoia this time because we had such low inflation for so long, the businesses are looking at it and

going, how do i do this? >> absolutely, we have forgotten that there is volatility in the markets. i mean it doesn't take very long, last year was a perfect storm. we have been down 10%, today if you take a look at the indexes, we're down a little less than 10, if we get into the 20% area, then this really nice bull market is ending and we call it a bear market. >> you call it a bear market at 20%? >> exactly. are you more likely to keep going down then? >> i think the market will figure itself out in the next few days. and the reason is, if you go back to the economy, which is the real indicator, this is how we get paid, the economy is doing very well. last friday we announced 88 straight months of job growth. we are 88th in the world for our ain't to create great jobs. unemployment is very low, we're predicting probably going down sub 4%.

our gdp, chugging along at 4.5%, we are predicting 3. these are reality checks, all the s&p 500 earnings, all the companies, at least 80% of them have exceeded the expectations. if you have a bad kmeconomy you don't see those thinks. the stock market is very speculative, so we have the reality of the economy, and the market is speculative and we have fears of inflation. >> let me ask you a final question, the rich guys always tell me, buy and hold and somebody is selling, isn't it the rich guys selling while i'm holding? >> for everybody selling, you got to have a buyer, now is an opportune time for these speculative investors to pick up some good deals. >> i'm still in concussion protocol. we're going to go to spencer christian here. for those of you, kristen doesn't want to look at how beautiful it is. because she's uncomfortable with

that. >> i want you to take a look at the emojis. >> that's going too. but there's equal people freaking out as love. >> there's a lot of new loves. people feel better after hearing the interview. >> that was last year, you can't can complain about the way your stocks have done. >> i'm still afraid of the markets, i won't even go to safeway anymore. live doppler 7, a few thin high clouds around, but bright skies today and another record setting day, this is the ninth conservati consecutive day we have had record highs for the day. we're gradually retweeting in san francisco, after a high today of 76, we're down from 78 in san jose. we'll show you the records a little bit later. a beautiful view from our abc7 exploratorium camera, looking at those blue skies. and here are our forecast

features, we'll see winds and fire danger tomorrow, cooler afternoons saturday through monday and this dry pattern is going to continue through next week, beautiful weather but we could really use only rainfall. a wind advisory from 10:00 a.m. tomorrow until midnight, virtually all of the higher elevations of the north bay and inland, we'll see 55-mile-per-hour gusts during the nighttime hours, posing the danger of downed trees and power lines. here's a little wind gust information for you, taking you into tomorrow night. you'll see the gusts ranging from 25 to 30-mile-per-hour early on and then during the overnight hours into sunday, we'll see the winds get a little bit tamer. we ha low temperature mainly in the mid to upper 40s, and then tomorrow, look for highs still above average for this time of the year, but not quite so warm as we have seen the last few

days, low to mid 60s around the coast, mid and upper 60s around the bay, low 70s inland and then it's going to be windy in the higher elevations. next chance of some rain coming remive relatively close to bay area, but not quite the bay area, a little snow over the sierra, we have a system coming up from our southwest. notice the rain will start to push northward toward monterrey and not quite into the immediate san francisco bay area, so that's as close as we're going to come to rain here in the bay area. here's your accuweather 7-day forecast, once again, the dry pattern continues and the mild weather continues. even with the cooler weather coming this weekend, with temperatures dropping back down into almost the average range on monday, we'll see temperatures warming up again on tuesday and wednesday which is valentine's day, and then holding into a steady pattern toward the end of the week, with highs around 70

degrees for all the lovers who love this weather next wednesday. >> it's been beautiful weather. >> we're really at that danger point, where we could be going into the dreaded d-word, drought. >> let's hope it doesn't happen, more rain. thank you, spencer. it's been three months since hurricane mara hit puerto rico. plus a scandal involving one of the president's top staffers continues to grow after i have type 2 diabetes. i'm trying to manage my a1c, and then i learn type 2 diabetes puts me at greater risk for heart attack or stroke. can one medicine help treat both blood sugar and cardiovascular risk? i asked my doctor. he told me about non-insulin victoza®. victoza® is not only proven to lower a1c and blood sugar, but for people with type 2 diabetes treating their cardiovascular disease, victoza® is also approved to lower the risk of major cv events

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northeasterearly five monthr hurricane maria ravaged puerto rico. >> reporter: as the crisis in puerto rico takes its toll, many wonder how long it will be until

a sense of normalcy returns. >> there's some occasions people are living in a little room, six persons. >> reporter: this afternoon, more than 3,600 miles away from the u.s. territory, an intimate conversation is under way at the silicon valley committee meeting in valley view. >> we are potential survivors because the potential devastation and the aftermath of hurricane maria was especially painful. >> solar powered generators in 100 hospitals, clinics, schools and community centers across the island. emmett carson believes that silicon valley is up to the task. >> we were active in the sonoma fires, we were active when we had the floods and we decided we need to be active in puerto

rico. >> 70% of the island's infrastructure was damaged. more than 1 million puerto rican households are still without power. >> we are frustrated, but at the same time, frustration becomes your source of energy. to keep moving forward. >> a hopeful perspective, despite the devastation on the ground. in mountain view, abc7 news. southern california assembly woman now taking unpaid leave, this as she's been investigated for sexual misconduct, the allegations against her by two men. and an olympic swimmer accuses her coach of

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here are the stories making headlines at 4:30. it's official, jimmy garofalo will become the highest paid player in the nfl. the san francisco 49ers signed their new star quarterback to a new five-year contract worth $137.5 million. 49ers general manager john lynch sent this tweet during this morning's news conference announcing this contract. he said brick by brick, alluding to the team's effort to rebuild the franchise. abc world news tweeted this photo of vice president mike pence sitting a few feet away

from the sister of north korean dictator kim jong-un at the winter olympics. pence and kim jong-un attended the opening ceremonies in south korea. roabc news reporter palmery has the story from washington tonight. >> reporter: the handling of the case was so poor that trump said that he was considering replacing his chief of staff general john kelley. kelly said for his part, he told trump that he would be willing to resign. >> president trump defended his former top aid rob porter who resigned as staff -- from the oval office, president trump wished him well, this despite evidence of domestic violence

including photos and a police report. >> he said very strongly yesterday that he's innocent. >> reporter: trump is making no comment about the women accusing porter of domestic abuse. john kelly under fire about what he knew and when he knew it, sent a memo to the staffer who is say we all take matters of domestic violence very seriously. kelly first issued a statement calling porter a man of true integrity and honor. but after a picture -- his second ex-wife said she told the fbi everything. >> they were asking me to describe his character, asking me to describe anything that i thought might be problematic in his position. >> reporter: while the president seemed to show no signs of regret, white house spokesperson said yesterday -- >> we all could have done better in the last few hours or the last few days in dealing with this situation. >> reporter: there are questions

now over how rob porter was able to do his white house duties with just an interim security clearance. the white house said the fbi is looking into it. but he's not the only white house staffer who's working with a temporary security clearance. abc news has learned that the president's own son-in-law also has a temporary security clearance. state assembly woman christina garcia, a leader of the me too movement is taking an unpaid leave of absence while sexual misconduct allegations against her are investigated. two men, one a former legislative staffer, the other a lobbyist have accused garcia of improper sexual advances toward them. she has denied those allegations and said in a statement any claims of sexual harassment must be taken seriously. garcia has urged the justice department to do a thorough investigation. >> stat tryis

>> stat tryitically the perpetrators in these cases are men, and the victims are women. but people have to be very cautious because when people have unchecked >> gpower--. usa swimming is facing scrutiny over how it dealt with sexual misconduct allegations involving an olympic swimmer. 2012 olympian ariana kukorsku that she was sexually abused when she was a teenager. usa swimming investigated that case in 2010 but found no misconduct by hutchinson. ariana has now hired an attorney. hutchinson denies the allegation and says he had a consensual relationship with her in 2012. new fallout at michigan state university over the larry

nassar sexual abuse scandal there. the university announcing that it's taking steps to fire nassar's former boss. he had voiced support for nassar according to multipl reports, the university also suspended the chair of its radiology department. the university says both men were interviewed by campus detectives last march as part of a 2014 sexual harassment allegation of larry nassar. authorities in arizona are looking for a woman who they believe abandoned a newborn baby in a thank you son airport. >> we found a newborn baby with a note in the bathroom. >> in the bathroom? >> we have her covered with a blanket. >> according to police records, someone left the baby boy on a child changing table in an airport bathroom covered in a jacket. the note said please help me, my

mom is unfit to take care of me. surveillance video shows her walking with a blue blanket, leaving a secure area of the airport, walking toward the area where the baby was found. an airport spokesperson says it's possible the mother was on a flight and gave birth at the airport. the biggest snowstorm of the season hit the midwest very hard overnight dropping as much as 11 inches of snow in some areas, stranding thousand of air travellers. airlines had warned travelers this week to expect some flight cancellations from minnesota to ohio. about 550 flilg flights were cad alone at chicago's o'hare ain't. storm alerts are issued for 20 states now from wyoming all the way down to georgia and into new york. a tale of two coasts, right? a woman somehow escaped injury after driving her car off the third story of a parking garage. how it happened and the major damage it caused to someone's home. just a few more days before the pitchers and catchers

report. sometime to think about baseball, somebody's a giants fan. how some of the giants are feeling about this up coming season. i'm spencer christian and we're looking at baseball weather. also traffic weather. i'll have the accuweather sev7- forecast coming up in just a moment. let's talk about that traffic. yeah, i'm not getting the baseball feeling, that calm, happy feeling.

a texas woman amazingly escaped injury after driving her car off the third story of a parking garage. authorities in houston say the woman apparently hit the gas pedal instead of the brakes this morning. firefighters rescued the woman from her vehicle that hit an apartment building on the way down, and here's the pardon you will be floored by. no one in the unit was injured and she was okay as well. >> thank goodness. >> yeah. quite a surprise for a driver in a sarasota, florida parking lot. a man called the authorities to rescue a gator. the man was inside the vehicle at the time, but never came in contact with the gator. you can imagine it wasn't too happy about the situation. tomorrow thousands of giants fans will enjoy a sneak peek

when a team hosts a fan fest at at&t park. people will where able to check out the ballpark, some players will sign autographs, other plays will answer questions. the giants shared their optimism for 2018 after finishing dead last last season. >> i feel good about the guys that are out there every day and i'm excited to get started. >> we're excited. i think we were excited going into last year too, so i think you have to learn from what went on last year and try to make adjustments. >> can't go 64 and 98 again. fan fest runs tomorrow from 10:00 to 3:00 and best of all it's free. >> that's always a lot of fun, even if you don't get the autograph, you get to see the guys and hear the talks. >> if you want to wait in line, you have to wait a while to get your favorite player, so you may be better to mingle around and see what you run into. >> no waiting in line if you

want to catch some sunshine today. >> also free, sprens sprens sprs >> we have thin high clouds right now, tonight it will be mainly clear with a few clouds around, it will be breezy tonight, lows in the mid to upper 40s. tomorrow it will be a bit cooler than today, we will have winds tomorrow, a little bit gusty at times. highs in the 60s on the coast. a few 70s inland. a few consecutive days of record highs, i think we have had enough. tomorrow it will be cooler still on monday and temperatures will rebound on tuesday. so going into the middle of next week, we'll have another warmup coming our way, the coolest day in the forecast will be monday and then by wednesday, which is valentine's day, look for temperatures bouncing back up to several degrees above average for this time of the year and

still there is no rain in sight in the seven day forecast period. it is so dry out there. >> thank you, spencer. amazon wants to compete against fedex and u.p.s., the new delivery service the company plans to start testing. and it's time for sf beer week, we'll tell you about be upcoming celebration of all things beer. if you have been online or on the phone lately, you know all about auto renewal.

all right, tonight happens to be the opening gala for the sf beer week. joining us is nicole ernie, she has the prestigious title. she's the first female si srk srk that's being paid to drink beer. >> i'm the fourth master sisero. i had to take a pretty tough test, and that certifies that i know a lot of things about beer. >> you have to consume a lot of beer. what a job. >> yes. it's hard work sometimes.

>> i bet. so i went to sf beer week.org, and we're going to put the website up for you, but just scrolling here, i could not believe how many events there are. i was scrolling forever and this thing will reload and reload all over the bay area. >> this is the 10th year of san francisco beer week. and we're excited that there's over -- around 850 events happening and it's everywhere. it's not just in san francisco. there are events in every corner of san francisco, going from the presidio, over to the financial district. but there's also events going out to livermore, monterrey, all the way out to santa rosa. so it's a whole nine counties and beyond bay area beer event. chances are if there's a brewery or a beer bar in your neighborhood, they're probably having an event. and likely a fun one. and it's going to be your best place to find information about

events that are happening near you. >> do you have a favorite event that we were talking about earlier. nicole said that something about tricycles. beer and tricycles, i can just see danger. >> it's always fun to see the different events that breweries come up with. we're doing to have a drag race and a circus, there's a beer dinner happening. >> where's that? >> vallejo. but there are all kinds of events, some of my favorite ones are tonight's opening gala, tomorrow is the wipa festival in hayward and then moving on from there, next week, the celebrator party which is celebrator beer news, you might have seen that if you have ever been to a brewery or a beer bar. it's going to be at the brewery in berkeley and it's going to have lots of fantastic beers. >> there's a dim sung beer brunch, there's a yoga and beer

event, because those two things go together so well. >> beer and yoga is a whole thing. yeah, you get through your session and then you finish with a nice, refreshing beer, but, yeah, there's all kinds of restaurants that are having events, there's everything from festivals to sit down beer dinners to more casual beer brunches and things like that. >> nicole, thank you for coming in, and next time you come in, we'll get to sample some of these projects. there's hundreds of different events you can attend. we have a link on our website. it's volume nivolumenous. amazon wants to get into the delivery business as well now. according to "the wall street journal," the e commerce and retail giant is reportedly developing a shipping with amazon service that will compete against u.p.s. and fedex. amazon will pick up packages and

ship them for consumers. time now for ask fin any. >> "7 on your side's" michael finney is here now answering your questions on facebook, twitter and email. >> i'll ask the first question, rita says i'm looking to buy a dehumidifier in my home, i get a musky smell from time to time. any tips? >> there's two things to consider, if your home already smells, a large unit would probably work best for you. they're made for high humidity environments and they pull out about 10 gallons of moisture from the air a day. also get one with an energy star rating, that will save you about 15% on your energy bill. >> and g. is asking, can i use those small packages of crystals for demoisturizing pills in the

garden or are they toxic? >> those plastic packages are filled with nontoxic silicon gel. and, yes, you can use them in your garden, they're great for getting herbs to dry and the pa pa packets are nontoxic, you can reuse them for anything you would like to keep stored and dry. good for photographs and paper work. elke asks, i signed up for a free trial for products. now i'm getting charged and i don't want them. >> this is happening to a lot of people, especially lately, so there's a new law to stop this. beginning on july 31st, a

continual service offers, the new rule will go into effect in july. it says before you can be charged again, you must be notified and told how much it's going to cost you, and they've got to give you an option to cancel. but for you right now since the law isn't in effect. i want you to call the company again, tell them to stop, then contact your credit card company and tell them you never ordered the product from here on out and that you want the charges dropped from the last set of products. if that doesn't work, then i want you to contact me here at the station, we'll give them a call and see what we can do. if you have a question for me, you can record a 10 to 15-second long video, we'll find it and answer it. more than two dozen dogs rescued in the central valley, now here in the bay area, the prices local animal groups say we are now facing. new at 5:00, two whistle blowers talk about the toxic scandal in san francisco,

falsified data and secret soil samples, it's a story you'll see only on abc7 news. a sure sign of spring in the bay area, colonys of elephant seals. they have come a long way since they were practically hunted to extinction. and why this preying

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street. it's still live, go to abc7news.com/vote. you can use one of these emojis here, the options on the bottom of your screen, they range from love it, no worries, to scared. you can vote early and often. abc7news.com/vote. some high schoolers visited their middle school counterparts to teach them how to be inclusive of others. the program is no one eats alone day. conversations about social isolation. >> the skills that kids learn in middle school, i think they take those into high school and beyond. so if they learn to be inclusive and aware as children, they can learn be inclusive and accepting adults. >> the nonprofit started in san rafael, with a few middle schools, it has since groan to

2,100 all across the country. 31 dogs, many of them little puppies like you see back here, were rescued today from bay area groups from what they call a crisis situation in the central valley. leslie brinkley introduces us to the dog is the bay area is saving right now. >> reporter: these dogs were excited at this pet food store in pin noel, they were found abandoned at a homeless emcampment in merced, including a 7-year-old who was crushed by a shopping cart and is getting surgery. and then there's little beans, abandoned in a shoe box in a park. she was separated from her all right and was abandoned herself. she's now a surrogate mother. >> hurricanes, goods, fires, there's so many natural disasters, but people don't really pay attention to is that

there's a disaster every day in the central valley, they're inundated with strays, puppy breeders, dogfighter. >> whether they continue to breed, or whatever they continue to sell they keep. >> reporter: senior dogs passed their time of breeding are put out on the street. bay area rescue organizations are sending vans weekly to the central valley and bringing those kas aways here. >> the bay area is so dog friendly, we know that dogs are going to find homes here, loving homes here. >> reporter: milar foundation and mad dog rescue will be adopting these dogs, and as for the youngest, little beans, they'll be nursing him along. more rescue runs are in the

works. i'm leslie brinkley, abc7 news. >> four rescue operations have brought the dogs to the bay area. you can get more info on how to adopt. >> i was just going to get rid of the sample and just hush bout it. >> a former worker blows the whistle on a prime water front parcel, bad soil and bad data add up to a toxic mess. from counter culture to crypto currency. hand shake diplomacy, a formal greeting starts and end, the meeting between canada's lead leader. >> we have one goal in mind and that's to get to the super bowl and win it. two whistle blowers are

speaking out tonight about a toxic situation in san francisco. >> it was the red flag which got the attention of the u.s. navy. radioactive soil tests were falsified by the company doing the cleanup. >> two employees who used to work at the shipyard shared their story with abc7 reporter cornell bernard. >> right over the bank there is where i took the sample. >> reporter: anthony smith shows us one spot at the shipyard where he tested soil for radio activi activity. he said this spot rated by for radioactive cesium. >> he told me to get rid of the sample and just hush about it. >> reporter: he's a rm toer employee. he said falsifying soil tests to show they were safe was ram pachb pant. >> they're taking radioactive material and getting rid of it and getting clean samples