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is sunny with low 30s around the tahoe valley airport. near 70 at south lake. the rest of the bay will enjoy 70s around the north bay and mid-70s inland and nice for mother's day. chris? >> thank you. there's biz around the bay area presidential candidates. mayor pete buttigieg hosted a fund raiser in san francisco and we sat down with kamala harris for an exclusive one-on-one interview. both are neck and neck in the latest polls. last night tickets for mayor pete's fund raiser were $25 and they sold out. cornell bernard was there as he spoke to the packed crowd. >> please help me and welcome the next president of the united states, pete buttigieg. >> justin brought his husband pete buttigieg to the stage of this grassroots fund-raiser in san francisco. pete buttigieg told the sold-out crowd they needed a campaign slogan. >> lock her up, build a wall.

fine. we've got freedom, security and democracy, and i think that's a pretty good bumper sticker. >> what's your message to voters mere in the bay area. it's time for a new generation of leadership to step forward. buttigieg supports reproductive rights for women and believes climate change is real. it is time to treat climate like the security issue that it is. >> buttigieg is a rising star in the democratic party. the mayor of south bend indiana, veteran and harvard grad. so far he's been successful in fund-raising across the golden state. >> it is about raising money and profile in the space of a couple of weeks, really, we've seen this guy rock fret a nobody to somebody who is really getting noticed around the country. >> he's different from the other candidate, a gay, married man. this couple from sacramento likes what they hear. being a gay veteran also and that's the biggest thing that's

drawn me to mayor pete. >> leana brady brought her son eli. he's a good role model for my children and he gives me a lot of hope for the future. >> buttigieg channeled harvey milk when thanking his supporters. >> i'm mindful that i'm in the city where a certain path-breaking leader said you have to give them hope. now to that expect, in-denth interview with kamala harris. our liz kright talked to her one-on-one about the challenging road to 2020. fresh off the campaign trail, we met up exclusively with kamala harris at a law firm in downtown san francisco. >> how would you grade your performance on the campaign trail so far? >> i think we're doing great. i'm really enjoying this process and i'm not sure what that says about my personality. i've always thought and said that in campaigns you meet the

angels walking among us. >> 20,000 people showed up to her campaign launch in oakland. she has just 8% support among democratic votes are trailing 20 points behind joe biden. >> what differentiates kamala harris from everyone else? >> at the end of this process voters are going to want someone who has a proven track record of leadership which i do. >> harris' prosecutor chops have been on full display. >> you did not question or look at the underlying evidence that support the conclusions in the report. >> her record on criminal justice reform has come under scrutiny. we asked her if increasing funding for public defenders is a way to appease her critics. >> the recent proposal we have is part of a life and career of what we need to do to reform the criminal justice system, and i, frankly, believe that when you have known the system from the inside as i have, you're uniquely able to, one, talk about what is necessary and actually implement what is necessary for reform.

the criticism of harris in a field of 21, she's too cautious. we asked her three times if she agrees with facebook co-founder chris hughes' proposal to break up facebook over what he calls mark zuckerberg's unprecedented power, she wouldn't say. >> i think we need to regulate technology and there's no question about that and do a better job. >> and that was liz kright's reporting. as the list of democratic presidential candidates grows, you can keep up with who is officially running by going our website, abc 7 news.com. >> developing news, police want to find the person who threw something at a caltrain engineer. it happened in redwood city. the object came through a train window. nearly 450 passenger his to be moved to a different train. the engineer was taken to a hospital, but has since been released. new developments. the landlord of an apartment complex in richmond is promising to fix the units after tenants complained about some big issues. jerry miller has lived in this

apartment on san pablo avenue for three years. miller said he and his neighbors have complained to the landlord castle management, about mold, water leaks, roaches and no heating without results. >> it's frustrating because we're helpless. we live here and a lot of us live here because we didn't have any other options. >> it went in my nose and went in my eyes, everywhere, in my lungs. >> miller met with the richmond building apartment and building department and castle management at city hall yesterday. the landlord promises to fix the apartments. castle management told abc 7 news it will wanot delay on takg action. part of building a better bay area includes finding solutions to one of the biggest problems and this morning we're talking about housing and exploring a growing trend that's putting housing units in bay area backyards. amanda del castillo has the story from san jose. >> crews broke ground on paul's

538 square foot adu in january, short for accessory dwelling unit, the granny flat is growing in popularity across the bay area. >> i've never been a trendsetter until now. >> we checked with the city of san jose and it took applications. so in 2018 the number of te.lications in san jose mo and his wife decided to build a one-bedroom unit in the backyard to keep their daughter and son-in-law close. >> in other places they'd probably well enough off that they could afford to buy a house. well, they can't here in the valley. >> a recent report ranks the san jose metro as the most expensive area in the country to buy a home. stanley acton is behind the baines unit. the keeping families together piece of it seems to be a really big part of this. all part of what he says is one answer to the bay area's housing crisis. >> what it is doing is providing

housing for those that probably wouldn't have an opportunity to live in the bay area. for baen, he and the wife will live in the main house. their daughter and son-in-law in the ashlgs du until grandchildren force a switch. >> parents in my backyard will be the next trend they will take on. >> we're not at that stage yet and it's still my daughter, but yeah, that might happen. >> i'm amanda del castillo, abc 7 news. the warriors advanced to western conference finals after closing out the series against the rocky it is. from high anxiety to victory the fans endured ameesrnonrencfwienl for thcotrght y they eliminate the rockets in houston. the warriors were without kevin durant in game six and steph curry went scoreless in the first half. the two-time mvp skofrpd the

rockets with 33 points claiming deep three in the series clincher. >> this stage in terms of how this game was was huge. i've had games like this and maybe not as drastic with 0 to 33 where things weren't going your way and you start to figure it out, but i'm glad it obviously happened. >> the conference final begins tuesday night at oracle arena. [ cheering ] >> we caught up with fans watching the game in berkeley and they can breathe easier now as we wait to see who the warriors will face next. [ cheering ] >> check this out, abc 7 news anchor ama daetz posted this from fans at oracle park watching the warriors win. we will find out tomorrow who will face the conference finals and it is between the denver

nuggets and portland trail blazers. watch that only on abc 7. sing single-game tickets for the conference files go on sale today. and at 9:30, members of the season ticket priority wait list can get their tickets. at 10:00, warriors insider members can buy theirs and ticket goes on sale to the general public at noon. time now is 8:10 and lisa argen is tracking the accuweather forecast and we are off to a cloudy start in some parts of the bay area. >> breezy in the upper elevations. in mount tam, temperatures are cool here and temperatures in the low 50s with west wind at 22 miles an hour. we'll have the sea breeze today and plenty of 70s in the north bay and near 80 in the east bay and south bay, you'll warm up, too and we'll talk about the rest of the bay area and the mother's day next. >> if you think your coffee was expensive, think again. why some people are paying $75

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mother's day weekend. >> you are right about the slight warm up. we have high pressure building into the bay area and that brought warmth yesterday and we will follow that plan for the weekend into monday and this morning, live doppler 7 shows the fog all of the way out into the east bay. so our friends in the valley, they're waking up to the gray die. this is san rafael where it is mostly cloudy and 55 in oakland and santa cruz and half moon bay and mountain view and half moon bay and milder there and looking at mount diablo and 54, santa rosa and 55 in napa and livermore and 57 in concord. it is mild from fairfield to vacaville in the upper 50s and if you're coming into san francisco, 3:00 in the afternoon, 66 degrees with our sunshine so we have a ways to peeling back, and sunny and mild

for this mother's day weekend and a cooler pattern develops as soon as wednesday and we could even see showers. wednesday into thursday, the debate is still out whether or not we will see any rain, but as for today, look at that. by 10:30 the clouds have cleared the coast and they'll stay away from the shoreline throughout the afternoon and if you want to lead to the beach and it will be sunny, but that push is making its way into sunday morning and the fog will be at the shoreline and very little change from today to tomorrow. 54 in ocean beach with low 70s in santa cruz and it will take a while, and san jose, 77. average high, 75 and very little change tomorrow and monday, cooler and high pressure begins to fade away. perhaps low pressure coming in

and allowing for temperatures to drop off so we'll be looking at cooler weather by the end of the week for everyone, but for mother's day, waking up to cloudy skies and by noon time we're in the 70s with coolers and staying cool at the coast and we should hit around brentwood tomorrow and enjoy the 77 around san jose and san mateo, 72, getting sunny later this morning in san francisco. 72 in novato, low 70s and you head inland and this is where the warmth is and your accuweather seven-day forecast and med-07s in fremont ask danville and a repeat performance tomorrow, and then we'll cool it back perhaps give our accuweather app

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thanks so much for joining us. i'm chris nguyen. we are starting this half hour with the preview of the accuweather forecast. here's meteorologist lisa argen with the latest conditions where you live. >> hi, chris. 56 degrees in santa cruz. we'll get into sun and in the 70s later on. 59 in san jose. despite the cloud cover, we're mild and the cloud cover insulated us overnight and from mount tam you can see nice and sunny with numbersos and concord checking in at 57. here's the plan today. in the next few hours we're sunny everywhere and we have 60s in the inland valleys and by 2:00, low 70s in the san ramon

valley and low 60s downtown and we'll be looking at that fog surging back during the early evening hours. >> lisa, thank you. the search continues for a missing 4-year-old from houston. a spokesperson for the mother of maleah davis is now accusing the stepfather of abuse and this comes as we get a new look at surveillance photoes of him. >> reporter: a spokesperson for the mother of 4-year-old maleah davis making chilling allegations claiming her stepfather was physically abusive toward the child? we need the truth about what happened to young maleah to come out. >> sources say this image from a surveillance camera shows maleah's stepfather derrion vence leaving home with a basket carrying a plastic bag. the next night he's seen walking into a hospital after he claims he woke up on the side of the road and maleah was gone. vence told police he was driving maleah and her brother to pick up her mother at the airport.

>> one of them makes a comment saying maleah looks very nice and very sweet. vence claims he was beaten, but officers say his story changed several times. his car found abandoned. maleah was removed from the home after a head injury last summer, but returned in february. child services says the family was being ma you maleah's mother was pressed on why she has these allegations. >> she requires constant medical care after multiple brain surgeries for that head injury. ariel rashev, abc news, new york. >> a murder suspect and a female driver are in custody this morning after leading los angeles police on a wild chase. watch as the suspect leans out the passenger window and fires at a dozen trailing patrol cars. multiple officers returned fire.

the woman that was driving eventually surrendered and police took the murder suspect into custody after a brief standoff. that man was wanted in the deadly shooting of a liquor >> in other news, virgin galactic is moving from california to new mexico ahead of its first commercial flight. richard branson says the company is aiming to launch the flight within a year. galactic will conduct the final test with pilots and crew members onboard. 100 of its workers will be in spacecraft america this summer. 57 other employees are already working there. >> it's like something out of the jetsons. a bar in las vegas uses robots, from the muddling of a mojito, it is just like a real bartender. >> you order from the tablet and decide when you want and they're everywhere else. you have a shelf-checkout and

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>> it's cool, yaunique and want to try something new. >> i wanted to know what a drink was like made by a robot. >> i'll take a robot any day. ♪ >> you can check out abc's brand at localish.com. it is also on facebook and instagram. >> still ahead on abc 7 mornings. a disgusting discovery. the germs found in vehicles used for uber and lyft. more on that in a bit and here's a live look outside from the pier 39 camera. you can see the sea lions out there and it looks gloomy at fisherman's whatever and we'll have the full accuweather forecast with lisa argen

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thanks so much for waking up with us and we're taking a look at our golden gate bridge camera. good morning to our friends making their way in from mare into san francisco. we'll get a check of the forecast. lisa will break it down for us coming up in just a bit. >> new this morning, a reason to carry hand sanitizer if you use uber and lyft. ride share vehicles may carry more germs an toilet seats. yep. the st online insurance marketplace netquote involved swabbing seat belts, door

handles and window bums and the ride share vehicles on average had 35,000 times more germs than toilet seats. the study only examined three cars in each category. if you're heading to brunch hope you pack the hand sanitizer. >> exactly. >> we see the breeze behindous the camera and the flag flopping around there. >> we have that throughout the day today p keeping us cool at the shore today. it is cloudy out there. 56 degrees downtown and we'll be looking at numbers in the 70s for you around the peninsula and a nice day, but with the afternoon breeze and near 80 inland and it will continue to be pretty nice and seasonal. we will detail that for you in the weekend and we'll look at that next in the accuweather seven-day forecast. >> steph curry comes alive. it was a thrill for warriors

>> good morning, everyone. time right now is 8:42 and we're taking a li taking a live look from the camera, picturesque along the coast. we'll get a report from lisa argen coming up. game one of the western

conference final. st. louis faces the -- sorry. san jose faces the st. louis blues at sap center. the pub drops at 5:00 p.m. before the game they're hosting a free street rally on autumn street between santa clara and st. john from 2:30 to 4:30. the event will feature the stanley cup, and photo-opes and a slap shot booth and much more. the warriors will have a few days offern conference finals. last night the dubs beat the rockets to advance to the western conference finals for the fifth straight year. larry beil has the highlights in this morning's sports. >> good morning, everybody. no kevin durant and steph curry was scoreless at the half in houston in game six of the for 33 in just the curry was second half and the warriors sent them home for the summer. starting with amelia clark, courtside, game of thrones. bend the knee, james harden.

bend the knee. he wu he wasn't ready to do that. clay thompson is incredible early on. he kept the warriors alive and the bench contributed. jordan bell in the past two months with authority from draymond green. back to clay who had 21 at the half and steph was scoreless c shot. third quarter, chris paul, heating up. dangerous. the rockets opened up a lead as large as seven. third quarter, here comes the mvp from way out, splash, and once he started to feel it. curry gets knocked down on this play and re-injures and tweaks the dislocated finger. no pain no gain. 90 seconds to go. curry, oh, he's dancing now. 33 in the second half and one more from clay who gets excited

and the warriors pull off a stunning, shocking 118-113 victory and they take the series on to the western conference finals. >> the guys were talking to in the locker room and the fourth quarter was amazing and we took shots we knew we could make and it's just a big-time win for us. >> it's one of the most satisfying victories we've had during this run. we've been blessed to have all this talent and competitiveness and these guys are just amazing. so they've won a lot of big games, but this is definitely one of the most satisfying we've had. >> what a game. the giants are using the stanley cup in batting practice. giants and here.

stephen duggar, i've got it, i've got it. iot got it. th cinci. the guy has a calendar on his hat and at least he knows what day of the week it is. matt chapin sends everyone home, game over. it is chappy's first-ever walk off and that wins it 4-3, a 'i'i 12 and do not forget, western conference finals in san jose. have a great weekend, everybody. i'm larry beil. >> mild conditions for now and some changes could be on the way and meteorologist lisa argen is here with the forecast to help you plan out your weekend. >> most definitely with the change e you've got it because we're starting out with the low clouds and the fog and that's going bring us another seasonally cool day today at the coast, but pretty nice inland and we'll look for low clouds and fog to make an early push

again across the bay. 54, san francisco and 56 in oakland and santa cruz checking in at 58 and in san jose, still gray skies for you, as well with numbers ranging from the mid-50s in santa rosa and 58 in vacaville and concord. 57 degrees and at the beach we'll get into some sun. 72. you can see it's trying to bruten up a little bit and that stratus this morning with the cooler pattern developing as soon as tuesday. wednesday, some forecast models want to bring in a chance of showers, but not sold on that yet. so later on today, in fact, just within the next few hours we'll see a pretty nice start to the day with some sunshine for you and by about 4:00 or 5:00, and once again, waking up to the gray sky for your mother's day and peeling back to the coast.

again, a little change over the weekend and the coast to the inland valley and as we look at the trend for concord, you'll notice that will be in the upper 70s today and warmer tomorrow and 78 on monday. here comes the cooling trend and i don't think you will see any showers and you will certainly cool off about five, six degrees and across the bay today, we have the mid-60s here and half-moon bay and 74, and redwood city, 72 and san mateo and the north bay. low 70s for richmond and san rafael and these are within range of our average highs for this time of year. it looks pretty good, but when the fog is pulling backrt to 2 miles an hour here at the shoreline. so if you're spending the day in oakland, particularly at the coliseum today with the cleveland indians in town, temperatures by 1:00 and a nice,

mild, 64 deg 66. so you could bring the jacket early on. 54 overnight tonight in oakland with the low clouds and fog all of the way inland again and your accuweather seven-day forecast, low 60s coast, mid-70s around the bay and the fog and sunshine today at the same tomorrow and looking at temperatures coming down a bit on monday as high pressure sort of fades away. we could get another low pressure area that wants to bring a chance of showers into the bay late wednesday and thursday, but you can stay up-to-date with, and things are changing, and not quite warm enough for everybody and we'll cool off for the second half of the way. >> glad to see no rain for the weekend for mother's day. >> worked out. >> today's the largest food drive in the country. it's the stamp-out hunger food drive. postal workers in thousands of

tecitiesms to deliver food banks. fill a bag with food items and place it by your mailbox and workers will pick it up and deliver it for you. last year more than a million pounds of food were donated and that's equivalent to 500,000 meals. still ahead on abc 7 mornings, then and now. it's a major milestone for one of san francisco's most iconic spots. the 80th anniversary celebration at the top of the mar

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>> time now is 8:52. happening today is the 7th anniversary of san francisco's top of the mark lounge. the lounge debuted in 1939 as a place to celebrate and dance for decades. it's also a destination for active military and veterans after serving as a location for service men leaving and returning through san francisco. there will be a special celebration at 4:00 this afternoon. seating is first come first served and lisa, as you know, the sunset views are amazing from up there. >> yeah. getting longer and longer these days after 8:00 tonight and today we'll feature more sun around the bay with low 70s in oakland. 72, san mateo and upper 70s and 77 santa rosa and 72 up in san rafael. the accuweather seven-day forecast a little change for mother's day and starting out gray and a nice finish and we'll cool off throughout the middle of the week and perhaps a slight chance of showers wednesday into thursday and stay tuned for

that. it's still not a sure thing. >> as always, you with follow the forecast on the abc 7 news app. lisa, thank you. thanks to you for joining us on abc 7 mornings. i'm chris nguyen along with lisa argen. abc 7 returns at 5:00 p.p. until then, make it a great day, everybody. >> this is the "california spotlight," sponsored by the california department of public health. >> hello, there. did you know that according to the u.s. surgeon general, vaping is now a youth epidemic? what you need to know is that there's often as much nicotine in a tiny vape pod as an entire pack of cigarettes. the california department of public health reports that nicotine alters teens' developing brains and can increase anxiety, irritability, and impulsivity. today in the "california spotlight," i am joined by dr. pam ling, and

we're talking about a very important topic -- vaping amongst teens. dr. ling, great to see you >> nice to see you. >> thank you so much for joining us. first of all, help us understand the dangers of vaping and how nicotine affects the developing brain. >> sure. so, nicotine is a neurotoxin. and teens' brains are particularly vulnerable to this toxin and addiction. in part that's because your brain is still developing up until you're 25 years old, and also teen brains are really designed for learning, right? so every time you learn a new skill or a new fact, your brain is forming connections between the cells, called synapses. so teen brains are really designed to learn. and that same capability also means they're more vulnerable to nicotine addiction. >> how can you tell if your kid is vaping, though? >> well, there are some signs of nicotine withdrawal, which can be, as you mentioned, irritability, learning

difficulties, mood swings. now, that may also sound like a regular teen. >> sounds like a regular teenager to me. >> exactly. you can talk to your teen, for one thing, and you can ask them. they may or may not tell you, so you may need to ask in more general terms -- what do they know about vaping, what have they heard about it, do they know other teens who are vaping to get a little bit of sense of that. in addition to talking to your teen, you can also take a look at what's happening at home. often if there's a funny, sweet smell when you enter your teen's room, that smell can actually be vape aerosol in the room. you can also take a look in your en in there. you have to look really carefully because a lot of the new vapes really look like usb port devic supplies, so you have to know what they look like. >> but it can be a minefield with teenagers. talking to kids is the best start. >> i think that talking to kids is always a great place to start. and it's really starting a

conversation that's gonna go on over time, so you want to avoid sort of single lecture from mom as your only way of finding out what's happening with your kids. but listening more than talking is a great idea, and especially if your kids are young, you may just want to ask them what their experience is and what they know. a lot of teens, you know, they start vaping because they think it's different from cigarettes. they also don't even realize that it may have a lot of nicotine or what nicotine does. four out of five kids actually start vaping because of the flavors and just curiosity about the flavors, and they don't po le this tiny va pod,h little contains the same amount of nicotine as a pack of cigarettes. i do think also parents can ask their school administrators what's being done about teen vaping. so middle schools and high schools across california are seeing this happening and are putting policies in place. and then parents can also think

about the kids in their communities and say what can be done to get rid of flavored tobacco products, including vapes, and getting them out of our convenience stores and other places that are so easy for teens to access. >> yeah. well, dr. pam ling, a lot of really important information for us to digest here. but is maybe one of the big takeaways here is that parents and teachers, health professionals, community leaders need to take more of an aggressive step to help protect children from these highly potent products, right? >> i agree. i think it's up to us to really take action in this, and one really great way to get started is to check out the website flavorshookkids.org. and that place has -- the website has information about the vapes, it has pictures so you can find out, really, what they look like and what they do, also ways to talk to your school administrators or even send a letter to the mayor. >> dr. ling, thank you so much. what's that website again? >> sure. it's flavorshookkids.org.

>> flavorshookkids.org. well, there you have it. if you'd like more information on anything we've discussed in today's "california spotlight," go to flavorshookkids.org. dr. ling, thank you. thank you, and i'll see you next time. ♪

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