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remains high because of this weather. >> we are tracking those conditions. we talked to people in napa county who are concerned. let's get to wayne live for us in santa rosa. >> reporter: good evening. it is warm tonight, but it's not windy so far. this warnin came in on friday afternoon. we had a 100 hcountdn to uncertainty. the power remains on in the north bay. the question is for how long? extra crews and added equipment and headquarters, feeds from eight different cameras, they're not blinking, especially today and tonight. >> we do not expect the wind to come up until later this evening and as the wind ces up, the fuels become more receptive to
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fire. >> reporter: in the north bay it's been hot and dry, but not windy. that absence of wind made a difference of residents. >> tonight we are not worried about extreme weather conditions. >> reporter: by noon when the power was on, wheels had gone into motion or non-motion for residents who lined up to fill their cars with gasoline in case the power did go down. >> i have work in a couple of hours. i was not wanting to do this right now. >> reporter: in preparation of a shut off the emergency center was open. the county prefers to be ready whatever happens and to hope for the best outcome. >> i think at the end of the day, if nothing happens, if that nothing includes no wildfire, that's what we keep telling people. >> reporter: so far nothing has happened, at least in those terms. we're not finished yet.
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the power will be on tonight, there's always the question of tomorrow and if those conditions are worse, all bets are off. we could be doing the same story all over again but with a different outcome. >> thank you. pg&e may have given the clear for today, but it will monitor weather and could decide to shut off power tomorrow for certain areas of the north bay. that includes parts of napa valley where we are live tonight. >> reporter: hi. this is an area that knows well what wind and heat can do given all the homes lost in 2017, but still there is some doubt among residents here that shutting off the power is the right thing for the napa valley. >> it's hard to say if it's going to be something that's beneficial for us or not. >> reporter: lana remembers well the horror of the 2017 napa fires, but she's skeptical of
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the plan to cut off power to prevent a danger. >> the restaurants are here, but closing that will definitely affect our busins and all the businesses here in napa valley, which we are still recovering from 2017. >> reporter: is it uncertain like you may or may not have power tomorrow? >> very much so. they say prepare, but people have lives. >> reporter: more than 10,000 customers face a possible shutoff in napa county mostly in the hills to the east and west of downtown. >> we reach out to you any caregivers or those with medical devices that require electricity, we reach out to them and ensure we are providing them with information and how to watch for any potential power shutoff. >> reporter: the possible outage includes a number of tasting rooms. >> we have an event tomorrow. it's an outdoor event. if we don't have music, it wouldn't be the end of the
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world. we'll still make it happen. >> reporter: inside the country club where hundreds of homes are being rebuilt from the 2017 firestorm, a power outage could bring things to a stand still. >> we have a round of generators if they turn off the power and we'll try to keep things moving. currently it will be stop work if that happens. >> reporter: we heard that one resident talk about the events planned here. one is this week's pga tournament here at the country club. the pros are set to play a practice round here tomorrow. the public is not invited. it's not open to the public, but no word yet from the resort or the pga tour about what they might do if the power goes out, how those practice rounds might be affected if at all. in napa, abc 7 news. it's not just the north bay concerned about high fire danger. check out the new mobile doppler
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theyeted ts video saying the radar is ready and can be up and running in three minutes. the weather lab is the only one of its kind in california. the goal is to research fire behavior and find out how weather leads to extreme fire danger. speaking of the weather will be hot the next two days and tomorrow is already marked as a spare the air day. here is drew. this heat is going to stick around. >> not only the heat for the next couple of days, tonight we are worried about the winds increasing in the hills. a red flag warning will go into effect at 9:00 tonight and that will last until wednesday morning. the winds gusting 30 to 40 miles an hour bringing low humidity, warm temperatures. any fires can easily start and spread under those conditions. a closerook at the communities affected under that red flag warning. east foot hills is included in
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that red flag warning. look at the winds in the north bay with our fire danger index. this takes into account humidity and temperature and winds. as we go into the early part of tomorrow morning, you can see the pops of yellow and orange in the north bay mountains indicating to high to very high fire danger as the winds increase. the winds will bring about hot temperatures. the advisory goes into effect at 11:00 a.m. tomorrow. the temperatures soar above average for the second day of fall. we'll have the full forecast in a few minutes. >> thank you. new details today about the man who was detained by san francisco police after neighbors reported him jumping from roof to roof in the outer mission yesterday. we spoke to the hospital spokesperson where the man was believed to have been a patient. >> reporter: this is the house where the man was caught jumping
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on the roof and trying to get in through a chimney. we're 700 feet away from the hospital. that's a four minute walk. you'll see why this is to know. the man identified was caught jumping from one roof to the next breaking a window and trying to jump inside a bedroom. after four hours he jumped off the property. where did he come from? he was wearing a hospital wrist band so we asked the hospital spokesperson if he was at their facility prior to this. >> that's my understanding. >> reporter: the san francisco sheriff's department is in charge of the security inside the hospital. they confirmed that at 6:50 a.m. on sunday they received a call about a patient breaking glass inside the hospital. 20 minutes later he was no longer on hospital property, but on this roof.
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>> sometimes they'll be walking around in hospital pants and they have wrist bands and they're walking around confused. >> reporter: we requested information from the hospital's code green, which means patients that have walked out of the hospital without telling anyone. in the last three years that's a total of 23 incidents. >> after treatment and evaluation those people are released if they want to be relieved. we don we don't have the authority to keep them here if they don't want to be here in the hospital receiving treatment. >> reporter: the hospital has a 23 hour max policy to keep patients that come out of emergency services unless they need further treatment and then they are released. we also asked the hospital on how many patients have walked out of that hospital against doctors orders and that's a number that we're still waiting to get. in san francisco, abc 7 news.
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>> we will keep pushing for answers. thank you. in other news today, the murder trial finally got under way. the victim in this case is keith green. he was killed in 2016. his body found in a field with a bullet wound in his neck. among the suspects is the mother of his two children. tiffany lee has been out of jail after posting bail, $35 million, a record. she's charged with murder along with her al let's get to chris who is live for us outside the redwood city hall of justice with the reason why and a look at day one. chris. >> reporter: absolutely. good evening. he was supposed to be a key witness in this trial until he was sent back to jail last week, one of the turns we've seen early into this trial. in another dramatic reveal the defense arguing today that in
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fact he alone is responsible for keith green's murder. >> this ey have the wrong peopln trial. that's been clear from day one. how they're pursuing him will be up to the d.a.'s office. >> reporter: tiffany lee's lawyer said it was one of the longest opening statements of her career. in great detail she presented text messages and phone conversations to make the case that lee and green were not on bad terms, that they conspiraciconspiraced to harm green. >> this man was in a trunk that had the emergency latch release removed among other things. >> which is exactly what the police first thought and held with that view until he started giving a fairytale that has come
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to him being arrested as a liar. >> reporter: the prosecution laid out the case that green and lee were in a battle about the couple's children and lee was frustrated by demands for money. lee ordered green dead. defense played a phone conversation between lee and green arguing that lee cared about green as a father and that in fact their custody issues had been settled ten days before green disappeared. >> at the end of the day that's the other takeaway, which is tiffany lee absolutely wanted keith green in her life and her children's lives. >> reporter: here's what we can expect over the next few weeks. a lot of circumstantial evidence. no murder has been recovered and there is no iteyewitness to thi crime. green's girlfriend will testify. >> much appreciated. to stay up to date on the
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case, you can download the news app. we'll use it to send out push alerts with the latest developments in the trial. we have made a commitment to building a better bay area which means that we dig into topics that affect our lives and stick with stories that could affect our neighborhood. we are live with plans with a homeless navigation center in san francisco. imagine not getting paid for the work you've done. it's a problem here. coming up, they took $12.8 billion from big tobacco. juul marketed mango, mint, and menthol flavors, addicting kids to nicotine. five million kids now using e-cigarettes. the fda said juul ignored the law with
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the apartment project will become permanent low income housing for the neighborhood. a coalition of groups is behind the project, including the baptist church and the city which wants to turn more vacant buildings into homes. >> in a housing crisis where we have more and more people living on the streets, to have a building vacant is really unacceptable and we need to be creative. we need to bring these back online. >> the apartments will provide eight units of housing once its done. the church wants to prevent more displacement in the neighborhood. those apartments should be ready by the end of 2020. an attempt to stop a new navigation center from being built has been thwarted by the judge. there are six navigation centers in san francisco. the proposed location would be the city's seventh center. navigation centers are high
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surface homeless shelters that aim to move people off the streets within a short period of time by providing them with extra resources. we are joined live with the details of this case and how it's part of building a better bay area. >> reporter: the judge sided with the city basically saying if you build it, you take homeless people off the street. they transition to a better life and hopefully away from drugs and crime. but that's not what people here wanted to hear. he told me his name was he frequents this area. neighbors are concerned that the area will be flooded with homeless people. you are homeless? >> pretty much. >> reporter: do you understand that people don't want the center sometimes? >> i don't think so. >> reporter: crime in this area also rises and falls just like
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in many san francisco neighborhoods exhib neighborhoods, but when a woman was caught on camera being attacked by a homeless man, neighbors increased their efforts to try to stop this navigation center from going forward. >> i think the city wants to run a navigation center without negative effects, but they haven't shown themselves capable of doing that. >> reporter: they argued that the land has to be used for the good of the public. until now it's been a parking lot. the navigation center is not a permanent structure and would stay in place for a maximum of four years. the city is charging itself $400,000 a year to lease the property meaning taxpayer dollars are being used. the judge in the case did not grant a stay and agreed with the city's position allowing the project to be completed. >> if san francisco is unable to open the navigation center or the opening is delayed, hundreds of unsheltered people whom the
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navigation center would serve will remain on the streets. >> reporter: the group will decide whether or not to appeal the judge's ruling. keep in mind that there is another navigation center less than a mile away from here and this would be navigation center number three in district six, more than any other district in san francisco. abc 7 news. >> thank you so much. shifting to the weather now. we are experiencing a heat advisory for many parts of the bay area. >> we are here with the details on that. >> tomorrow morning that heat advisory will kick in and last through wednesday as we see hot days headed our way tuesday and wednesday. not a cloud on satellite. not a drop of rain on radar. the picture right now as the sun is setting, it's a nice picture this evening, but we have a pretty warm evening at hand,
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which will help to lead us to a hot afternoon tomorrow. 70 in the city. it's mild in oakland right now. it's hot in santa rosa. 24 hour temperature change, we're all warmer right now compared to this time yesterday by 12 degrees in santa rosa and 4 in concord. that warming trend will continue tomorrow. temperatures above average.aver. mid 50s to low 60s. the winds will be ramping up in our hills overnight tonight. let's look at the numbers in terms of our wind gusts. as we go into early tuesday morning, many of us are still sleeping at 4:00, you can see the winds beginning to race out of the north, especially in the north bay mountains. we could see gusts close to 30 or 40 miles per hour. that trend will continue through much of the morning on our
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tuesday. mid day and into the afternoon, the winds will subside. tuesday night into wednesday morning they will become active again. we have that red flag warning in affect starting tonight and lasting through wednesday for strong wind gusts dragging in warm air and bringing in dry air. the humidity is going to drop and fires can easily start and spread. it is hot tomorrow. 100 in morganhill. 96 in san jose. along the peninsula, 96 red wood city. half moon bay, it is mild along the coastline. 82 there. discou downtown san francisco, it is warm tomorrow. north bay, it is hot. 103 in santa rosa. the same in sonoma. 91 in oakland. 94 freemont.
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inland hotter than that. 102 for concord w have that heat advisory in affect tomorrow and wednesday. it is hot on tuesday and duplicate forecast on wednesday and cooler air moves in on thursday with temperatures really tumbling by friday. the weekend cool and feeling like fall both saturday and sunday. watching those winds tonight and that warm weather tomorrow. >> all right. thank you. a nationwide measles outbreak is ["white rabbit" by jefferson airplane] ♪ one pill makes you larger ♪ and one pill makes you smaller ♪ ♪ and the ones that mother gives you ♪ ♪ don't do anything at all ♪ remember what the dormouse said ♪ welcome aboard.
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the measles outbreak isn't over. two new cases were reported last week. two cases were not measles so now the total number of cases stands at you'll find data on the outbreaks across the country. you can see it on our home page. the data is looking at whether schools satisfy something called the herd rate. that's when 93% to 95% of people are vaccinated. you can see it right here at the very bottom. all you have to do is go to
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abc7news.com and go to the return to measles section. if you want to see data on vaccinations for the schools your children attend or community, scroll down and you'll find this map. you can click the bay area and tap your county on the map or search for your school in the find your school menu. for example, we will use john sweat elementary school. you can enter it into that box and you'll see it has a 98% vaccination rate. this resource is live as we speak on the website. happening tonight, medical drama, the good doctor, is back for a third season and this year the doctor will have his hands full. >> it's certainly an exciting season ahead in terms of his romantic love life. >> the character is a young surgeon with autism. the show is based at a hospital in san jose. it premiers at 10:00 tonight. stay with us for the news at
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11:00. stick around for jimmy kimmel live. >> i love hearing his accent. >> i know. one of the bay areas best features is the bay itself. it can also be a source of potential problems. new tonight, see how construction projects are not only building a better bay area, but doing it with an eye toward the environment and protecting us from rising sea levels. people are suffering. people are dying. how dare you. >> a teenage activist unloads on world leaders at today's u.n. climate a
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san francisco's e-cigarette protections. say no to juul, no to big tobacco, no to prop c. 6 months, 6 push-ups. ready,up.. down. down. uh-uh. that's one. up. that's two. inhale. down. get down. get down. leaders from around the world, including president trump, attended the climate action summit, but it was a 16-year-old girl who stole the show. three days after leading the climate change marks the 16-year-old climbed on to the world stage unleashing an assault on world leaders.
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>> we have the story. >> reporter: the world's leaders convened in new york for day one of the united nation's climate change summit. >> we will play our part in the global effort. >> reporter: taking the pledge to form a united front. >> if you really understood the situation and still kept on failing to act, then you would be evil. >> reporter: the 16-year-old not mincing words as she addressed the heads of state accusing of them of proposing infectsieffec solutions that have stolen her childhood. >> all you can talk about is fai fairytales of economic growth. >> reporter: president trump made a brief and unexpected appearance at the summit and as he left, trump told reporters.
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>> clean air and clean water and all countries should get together and do that and they should do it for themselves. >> reporter: the summit comes amid growing public pressure for the world's government's take to take action against climate change and protesters shut down major intersections in the nation's capitol. the group shut down d.c. adamant that the distraction to monday's commute was temporary and the climate crisis is not. >> president trump stayed at the summit for about 15 minutes before leaving to address a meeting on worldwide religious persecution. >> the president trump wasn't in the room when greta scolded world leaders on their lack mof action. here's more on what she had to say. >> i shouldn't be up here. i should be back at school on the other side of the ocean, yet
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you have come to us young people for hope. how dare you. people are suffering. people are dying. entire eco systems are collapsing. we are in the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is economic growth. how dare you. >> after her speech, 16 children filed a complaint against the u.n. accusing the world powers of not taking action to stop climate change. >> we are focusing our efforts to build a better bay area. as the world turns its attention to climate change, action is under way around the san francisco bay. agencies are in the midst of launching major projects to literally build a better bay.
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as abc 7 news explains, a main target is sea level rise. >> reporter: if the battle against climate change has a front line, the shore of san francisco bay might be it. tons of dirt was delivered to build a levee. the engineering supervisor is standing on a platform that caps the southern tip of the bay. >> it will be fema certified to protect the community against flood events and rising seas. >> reporter: the project is part much a climate change push that circles the bay. both the airports are confronting projected threats of sea level rise and flooding in the north bay has sparked proposals to rise highway 37.
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in san francisco, crews are hard at work on one of the most complex sea level rise projects in recent memory, rising the complex at pier 70 to ensure the buildings and surrounding shoreline area remain high and dry as its converted into a mixed use development. >> along our shoreline it's diverse. >> reporter: the executive director says that the $425 million sea world bond approved by voters could be the upgrade to the sea wall. >> it's a down payment for the larger project which will cost about $5 billion to make it three miles long and improve it for sea level rise. >> reporter: while holding rising tides back is necessary in some areas, david lewis says in others it makes more sense to give the water a place to go by breaking down levees and
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restoring natural wetlands. >> what we've learned is when you reintroduce the bay tides to an area like this, the restoration happens faster than we thought. >> reporter: engineering are combining plans to include wetland restoration wi. >> we're hoping to reestablish that whole pond and restore that. >> reporter: restoration of the past and protection of the future. >> both the port of san francisco and valley water are also finishing detailed assessments looking at what will specifically need to be done in the upcoming decades to best protect the bay shoreline. we want to hear your ideas about building a better bay area. share them on facebook. tonight there are some 200,000 fewer pounds of trash obey area beaches and streets.
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final numbers were released about an hour ago in the coastal cleanup day. san jose, san francisco and oakland turned it into a friendly competition. 6,400 volunteers took part in saturday's event. the most trash was picked up by volunteers from oakland. san francisco has the most estimated miles of coastline cleaned at 46. >> great job. you work for it. you earn it, but you don't get it. we are talking about wages. >> the south bay is standing up for workers. next, the changesor businesses and employees. the shutdown over the world's oldest travel company has stranded tourists. how can
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a new program launched today to protect food workers from wage theft. >> officials have the ability to suspend permits from businesses that refuse to pay employees what they're owed. >> we have a look at the efforts under way. a big effort to hold businesses accountability for wage theft. the launch of the new food
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permit enforcement program. theresa, a victim of wage theft herself, says this sort of enforcement is long overdue. >> everybody will have that courage to step up and voice their sentiments about their work. data from the state found that santa clara county received the highest number of claims prompting the board of supervisors to create a new office. the new program is one of several efforts that the county's office of labor standards enforcement implementing to support employees. in fact, services and support will initially will be offered in seven languages. >> if we don't get the word out about these programs, people don't know it's a safe place for them to come. it's a safe place for them to bring grievances and i'll follow
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up. >> reporter: according to a recent analysis, food vendors owe nearly $5 million in back wages to employees based on more than 1,700 judgments that have been filed since january 2015. managers believe the program will send a strong message. >> for anyone that's a part of your team, i couldn't dream of cheating them in any way or not giving them what they deserve. >> reporter: officials will start enforcing wage theft judgments in san jose before expanding to the rest of the county. >> running a good business means treating both your workers and your customers with dignity and respect. >> reporter: businesses that don't comply will have their permits suspended. abc 7 news. a red flag warning kicks in tonight for the bay area. >> we look a
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tourists. >> the travel company operated an airline that served san francisco international and four other u.s. airports before shutting everything down. officials tell us no one is stranded here. the last flight out of san francisco left on time on saturday. the next flight would have been this coming thursday. we'll have to wait and see if anyone is left behind. this video posted by sfo welcomed thomas cook airlines to san francisco international airport back in 2017. thomas cook operated flights two days a week from san francisco to england. the flight out of sfo left as scheduled on saturday, one day before the company shut down on sunday. officials are uncertain how many were scheduled to fly out on the next flight on thursday. all of those passengers should be rebooked on other airlines.
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>> if you're overseas on a thomas cook holiday, then you can continue to enjoy your holiday. we are launching a program and we will be bringing home everybody back to the uk as close as possible to the return date. >> the uk civil aviation authority posted this information for tourists in the bay area advising them to rebook flights on either virgin atlantic or british airways. customers still on vacation are waiting for flights back home. the british civil aviation administration has hired 40 chartered jets in the effort since world war ii. >> there's aircraft in position and in the next few hours we'll start bringing passengers home. >> thomas cook isn't the first company to halt operations this year. back in march wild air cancelled all of its flights. the next month jet airways did
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the same. how do you protect yourself? buy your travel in california from a california company registered with a travel consumer restitution fund. if the company goes quits operating, you can file for restitution. use a credit card. first, if you don't get what you paid for, you can file a dispute. second, many cards offer some sort of travel protection. think about buying travel insurance. i do it. it has saved me a couple of times. the important thing is not to buy it from the same company supplying your trip. no doubt thomas cook travelers were insured by thomas cook. that isn't doing them any good right now. i want to hear from everybody. go to my hotline monday through friday. you know the telephone number. you can reach me at my facebook
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page. >> it will be interesting to see what happens come thursday. >> i can't wait until thursday. >> thanks. one last check on the weather. >> hey, drew. >> we're keeping our eye on the red flag warning that will go into effect tonight and last through wednesday morning. those winds will turn active overnight tonight. that will bring the humidity down and bring us warmer weather. tonight clear skies. no fog at all. the winds will begin to increase in our hills. gusting close to 30 to 40 miles per hour at times. of year that weather pattern and those winds will get us into the 90s in some spots. 87 in the city tomorrow. 103 santa rosa. the heat advisory will go into affect tomorrow and another one on wednesday for the entire bay area for these hot temperatures which means the risk of heat
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related illness is possible. next two days are hot. then cooler weather will finish out the week ahead. by friday the temperatures tumble. it's nice over the weekend with cooler and partly cloudy skies with temperatures in the 60s and 70s. >> thank you. al i can think about is sports. the final week as big league manager. how the team honored him. we'll highlight the path for the
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they took $12.8 billion from big tobacco. juul marketed mango, mint, and menthol flavors, addicting kids to nicotine. five million kids now using e-cigarettes. the fda said juul ignored the law with misleading health claims. now juul is pushing prop c, to overturn san francisco's e-cigarette protections. say no to juul, no to big tobacco, no to prop c.
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soccer is a sport of choice in honduras, but for one san francisco giant baseball is the sport and now he's living his dream with the team he grew up watching. in 2014, he was just a fan in the stands watching the giants clench the national league pennant. >> it's wild to the right. the giants win the pennant. >> reporter: less than five years later he is playing for his adopted hometown team. >> i was 14 at the time when they saw me playing, playing
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catch, and they thought i was good enough and they told me do you want to come play summer ball for us. since then my life changed. >> reporter: he settled with a host family in sacramento playing baseball in the states and was drafted by the red sox in the 26th round of the 2013 draft. on the door steps of the big leagues in may of 2018, a torn acl ended his season. >> the whole time i was thinking why did it happen to me? but my dad said something. he said, like, all that stuff didn't happen to you. it happened for you. so if i wouldn't have got hurt, i wouldn't be here. >> reporter: making his major league debut on july 7th, a few weeks later, he was acquired by the giants at the trade deadline. on august 29th he made his giants debut. >> number 19. >> that's music to his ears. >> he earned the right to be
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here. >> first major league hit. >> if you would have told me when i left honduras that i was going to get my first big league hit, i wouldn't believe it. >> he has a good feel for the game. what i mean by that, great game awareness. he sees things as a player should see them. >> i mean, not many ball players come out of honduras. that is pretty special. >> reporter: it's come full circle for the fan who has come from sitting in the stands to playing alongside guys he grew up watching. >> those guys have been doing it forever and they won three world series. not everybody can get one. there's a reason why and i just hope i can be as accurate as they are. >> reporter: the future is bright for him. after the giants' final game yesterday, everyone on the team
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board in the the plane rocking those orange t-shirts. he will manage the final six games. the 49ers win over pittsburgh and feeling good and the tight end has everyone asking a very important qestion. >> can you smell? >> i meant george, not greg. the rock noticed this tweeting if you smell what they're cooking, it's a heck of a start. keep having fun. the quarterback expected to miss at least a month with a foot sprain according to the head coach. he was injured yesterday in the third quarter. expected to get a second opinion from a foot specialist. they return october 7th, a game
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you'll see right here. the raiders are 1 and 2. they turn their attention to the colts. it will be another road game for the raiders. oakland making no excuses. the schedule is what it is. the head coach wants his team to keep improving. >> there's a lot of adversity. there's a lot of teams that are 1 and 2 and 0 and 3 and dealing with it. it's a hard business. guys are going to learn some valuable lessons. we need our second year players to play better. we have a lot of first and second year players playing and we have to coach better. >> still a lot of time left in the football season. what a great story playing here for the giants. >> i want to cheer him on. >> that's the goal. go cheer him on. >> thanks. be sure to join us tonight for the news at 11:00. i'm in san jose. we're taking a drive around one san jose neighborhood where
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residents say drivers a d ignoring simple traffic laws and they're saying it could lead to tragedy. the theft of a wallet from a shopper. the video went viral. tonight we have an update in the case. >> that is going to do it. look for news on the news app. thanks for joining us tonight. from all of us here, thanks so much for joining us. have a great night.
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♪ lipton®. live alive. lipton®. ♪ this is "jeopardy!" here are today's contestants-- a director of technology from wolfforth, texas... a university administrator from maynard, massachusetts... and our returning champion-- a math teacher from albuquerque, new mexico... whose 16-day cash winnings total... and now here is the host of "jeopardy!"--alex trebek! [ cheers and applause ] thank you, johnny. thank you, ladies and gentlemen,
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and welcome, everyone. yeah, it's a lot of money, isn't it? by way of comparison, only two players, ken jennings and james holzhauer, have won more money in regular competition games on our program. jason is a force to be reckoned with. i say that for your benefit, jacky and trey, but you never know. let's see what happens in this half-hour. good luck. here we go. ♪ let's get this week off to a great start with these categories... sounds strange. ah. followed by... hmm. strange categories. jason. album, $1,000.
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