>> abc7 news reporter luz pena joins us live. luz, these homeowners are disgusted, to say the least. understandably. >> reporter: they definitely are. for the last three days they stayed at friends and families' homes. they're hoping to go back to their own home sometime before christmas. this was the moment that the family feared the most. >> dang, look outside. >> first thing i thought of was i've got to go check downstairs because every time it rains heavy, we have sewage that backs up into our house. >> reporter: and saturday was no different. >> i'm not joking, it was an explosion of sewage through the toilet that came up about 8 to 10 inches over the toilet, and i was trying to hold it back with a plunger. it was ridiculous. >> reporter: for 15 minutes, he said sand and rocks came out of the toilet and into his daughter's bedroom. >> how are you, how is your family after all this?

>> my wife is -- she cries about it because it's our home. and my son, he's just worried, are we ever going to move back in here. he's 11 years old. >> reporter: days prior to the storm, he said the san francisco san francisco public utility commission sent someone to check the drain after an incident. >> it's fine, the whatter is flowing. it's not the issue if water is flowing. that's not the issue. it's the capacity. >> reporter: we talked about drain capacity with the board's president norman yee. sunny side is in his district. >> i think it's worth us researching what it would cost into a ten-year -- increase the size. as we are replacing, we could go into a bigger system, but it koftsds more. >> reporter: we also contacted the puc. the city just replied to us. this is what they're doing. in a statement they said they received the ticket numbers from this household and added in part based on the initial information

provided, it appears the area may need more maintenance than a simple clearing of the storm drain which is not unusual. >> i hope they follow through because it's not just flushing out the system. >> reporter: and the puc did not give specifics on when this inspection will take place. in san francisco, luz pena, abc7 news. >> has anyone else in the neighborhood experienced anything similar? >> reporter: as a matter of fact, yes. his next door neighbor, we spoke to her and she did tell us that every single time that it rains, she has to cover heron tire basement with plastic bags. and there was even one time where she lost all her family photos. back to you. >> all right. thank you so much, luz. >> another water problem for san francisco neighborhood, a 6 inch water main break today flooded fill bert street in pacific heights. sky map 7 shows you the exact location between lion and baker streets. crews had to shut off water service in that area.

at this point it is unclear what caused that water main break. the storm system ranks 1 on the abc7 news storm impact scale. abc7 news weather anchor spencer christian is tracking more rain. spencer. >> that's right, dan, it's raining in parts of the bay area, mainly in the north bay. here's a live look of live doppler 7. a batch ever showers are moving on shore now. a closer look at sonoma county we have showers around sonoma, pen grove, this has been the pattern over the last three hours developing offshore and now moving on shore. it's likely that locations like san francisco and other points south of the golden gate will get some rain tonight. the storm ranks 1 on the storm i am fact scale. storm of light intensity. light rain and showers overnight and tomorrow. a closer look at how long it will last in a few minutes. ama? >> all right, spencer, thank you. new at 6:00, they will increase the use of recycled water. valley water will spend $16 million to recycle water that

gets processed at the regional water quality control plant in palo alto. officials tell us recycling waste water will provide a drought resistant source of water for irrigation and other uses. valley water is working with the cities of mountain view and palo alto on improving the quality of recycled water. >> a major overhaul of the mental health system won approval with the supervisors. the mayor along with supervisors hillary ronan and matt haney put forward this plan called mental health s.f. and is intended to focus first serving people who are homeless with serious mental illness or substance use disorders, getting them the services they need and off the streets. the city says roughly $100 million is needed every year to implement this program. >> and new at 6:00, our first look at a man involved in a shooting with police over brandishing what turned out to be an umbrella. 24-year-old joshua faces charges including criminal threats and assault. on saturday afternoon santa rosa police say an officer responded

to an area near guerneville road in and fulton road after seefrming multiple reports of a person pointing a gun at people and cars. the officer says the suspect raised the object at him. so he fired. on closer inspection the object turned out to be an umbrella. >> part of building a better bay area is making it more affordable to do business here. high costs have now driven out one of san francisco's biggest conventions. oracle usually holds its open world conference at the moscone center. it is moving to las vegas. according to cnbc, oracle blames skyrocketing prices and street conditions for that decision. chronicle insider contributor to our building a better bay area initiative explains why this is such bad news. >> san francisco is incredibly expensive. if you're spending money here, you want something for your dollar and that's not necessarily stepping on something in the middle of the street you don't want to see. >> open world's departure will

cost san francisco an estimated $64 million a year. that's according to the city's tourism bureau. so it's a big hit. well, from big business to small, mayor london breed is calling for san francisco residents to support local shops during the holidays. staying in business continues to be a challenge for many of them as you know. we asked abc7 news reporter lyanne melendez to find out what's driving them out of business and what the city is doing to try to help them. she is live on polk street with that story tonight. lyanne. >> reporter: well, here's what local business people are telling me. san francisco is too dirty, too many car break-ins and also too expensive. but really the quote of the day came from a small business owner who told me, san francisco has lost its mojo. this is san francisco's union street. in just half a block we counted

one, two, three, four, five, six stores that had closed or were closing. the owner of this store barely survived a rent increase of 85% last year. as if that were not enough, then came another hike. >> they gave me only a year and they said it's going to be another 200% increase if i stay longer. >> reporter: after 42 years, she's closing her shop. i asked her if given the chance to talk to mayor london breed, what would she tell her? >> we should have some sort of a restriction on the rent control for commercial space as well. sneer here's the mayor's response. >> while we can't control what a landlord charges, we do have some controls over how we eliminate some of the fees and provide rebates and support and grant opportunities to small businesses. >> reporter: the reality is that san francisco imposes a lot of fees on small businesses. fees sometimes already charged by the state. one of the members of the small

business commission confirmed it. >> so you're saying that we in san francisco have more fees for small businesses than probably anywhere else? >> oh, yeah. >> reporter: those fees paid to agencies like the health department and public works to name a few add up to more than $2,000 a year. what can be done? >> do the hard work of identifying which ones aren't relevant any more, which ones can we get red of. >> reporter: san francisco now has the legacy business program. landlords may qualify to receive up to $22,500 from the city to help supplement the price of the rent. but a business must be at least 30 years and agree to sign a ten-year lease. that's why some small business owners say selling online is a better option. >> being online allows us to get the word out so people can see it. >> reporter: today the mayor opened city hall to a handful of small businesses trying to gain visibility and stay in business. a lot can and should be

done. that's what city hall is saying. but small business owners told me or wondering how long that will take. i'm live in san francisco. lyanne melendez, abc7 news. >> lyanne, thank you. happening no the official release of the latest vision zero data for san francisco and the discussion at the city's pedestrian safety advisory committee, vision zero is the name of the initiative to bring traffic deaths down to zero. abc7 news got a sneak peek at the data yesterday. today some context from the vision zero epidemiologist with the city's department of public health. >> the overall severe -- number of severe injuries for pedestrians was about the same as it has been over the last few years. we saw that critical injuries went up a little bit to pre-2014 levels, which is something we want to watch. 2014 was the year that vision zero debuted in san francisco, and so it's an important piece of data as we move forward. >> listen to this. she tells us speed is the leading predictor of whether

someone survives a crash. there have been 27 traffic deaths in san francisco this year. >> well, we are trying to build a better bay area when it comes to the challenge presented by the homeless. >> they feel like they're trapped in their own homes. >> they're worried about retribution from the homeless if they confront them. >> this is what they said to me. if i confront them, i'm scared. >> next, a live discussion on what people are dealing with, and what can be done about it. >> 5 million, that's how many would-be renters have been scammed nationwide. i'm michael finney. what to watch out for ahead on 7 on your side. >> and join michael tomorrow beginning at 4:00 p.m. for a 7 on your side health insurance hot line. enrollment specialists will be on hand to take your questions by phone or via social media about covered california. >> the deadline to ensure coverage january 1st is

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san francisco's semiannual gun buy back will be held this saturday. over the years it's recovered more than a thousand guns. abc7 news reporter vic lee looks at what a difference even one gun makes. >> reporter: the walls in the united players conference room is covered with photographs of young men who died. reminders they were all shot to death. the youngest, this 12-year-old killed by a stray bullet. >> one gun that is not taken off the streets will kill somebody and can destroy everybody. so let's save as many lives as we can. >> reporter: since 2014, rudy, a victim of gun violence himself,

has been doing that. this is his ninth gun buy back. since then, his group, united players, has removed more than 1600 firearms off the streets. he displayed some of them at a news conference today. one of those guns on the floor not been taken in a gun buy back, it might very well be an instrument that might have taken someone's life this year. >> reporter: mayor london breed promised anonymity. >> come out and bring your guns. no questions asked. >> reporter: you'll get 100 bucks for a hand gun, $200 for an assault weapon. mattie scott was here. she's an activist against gun violence. her son was shot to death 23 years ago. scott had to tell her grandson on his birthday that his father ded. >> the scream i heard on that phone, i don't want anybody to ever have to hear the scream that i heard on that phone. >> reporter: sheila burton was here. her son was killed 14 years ago. time has not eased the pain. >> as a mother having to deal

with christmastime, he's not there. his birthday, he's not there. >> reporter: and, by the way, the santa clara county gun buy back program will also be this saturday at the gilroy corporation yard. vic lee, abc7 news. >> what is the future of pg&e? it's a question we've grappled with this year during bankruptcy hearings, wildfires, and those power shut offs. new at 6:00, some insight about what californians want. in a poll by u.c. berkeley's institute of governmental studies, when people were offered five choices for future alternatives, the most popular response was, i don't know. it is complicated so that's understandable. about a third of voters support the idea of tasking pg&e to come up with solutions to its own problems subject to approval from the state. a nearly equal number like the idea of having the government take over pg&e at either a state or local level. in the bay area, the government

take over idea has even more support. the survey also asked about those power outages that pg&e has done repeatedly during times of high fire danger. the majority of voters want decisions about turning off the power to be made jointly business the state and pg&e. 70% of those surveyed in the bay area say they were not affected by wildfire evacuations or public safety power shut offs. >> now to our efforts to build a better bay area. it's not your imagination. you really are seeing more homeless in the bay area. alameda county alone, the number has nearly doubled in the past four years, from about 4,000 to more than 8,000. about half of them can be found in oakland. abc7 news reporter leslie brinkley joins us live with the story of one oakland man whose feelings of empathy for the homeless have been outpaced by frustration. leslie. >> reporter: oh, that's frustration that led him one year ago to put up red concrete kay rails outside his business on a dead-end street to keep rvs and homeless encampments from

parking there. and it worked so far for him. it's the same kind vigilanteeism, someone put logs on a street to keep homeless rvs from parking there. that's how bad the problem of homelessness has gotten. >> we're less empathetic. the people are getting tired of it. they're seeing it. they have to live with it. they see it every day. they have to suffer through -- i have seeniers calling me up saying, ken, i'm fearful. i'm scared. i have grown men calling and saying, i'm scared to make a report because they know where i live and i don't know where they're going to go. so the public is being less empathetic right now because of the condition that's got out of control. >> reporter: so you put up kay rails because you needed to get homeless rvs out from your business. >> yes. and i'm probably going to get hit for this, all right. i got fed up.

i got desperate. i did it. i know they're going to call me and seri move it. but what's going to happen after that when i do remove it? is it going to come back and get out of control again? >> reporter: time will tell, ama. neighborhoods, entire neighborhoods are starting to rebel against homelessness. >> leslie, beside the idea that people are so desperate to block homeless rv parking that they're putting logs and kay rails and roads to block they have, were there any tangible ideas to get at the problem? >> reporter: certainly suggestions floated around. one of them houston posed was just simply for the city to not allow rv parking on the streets, to enforce that, and at the same time provide safe parking lots for those rvs. finding a way to provide utilities. basically finding the land. >> this land is vacant. it's only used for raiders games, overflow lot.

this is owned by the cities, that's owned by the county and city. this can be used as a rv parking for homeless encampments to get that off the street so the public is safe. >> reporter: that particular lot is off of hagenberger just south of the oakland coliseum. now, the city does, they told me today, they've got two operating rv lots right now. one in east oakland, one in west oakland, with a total of 63 rv sites. and, ama, that's just simply not enough. reporting live in oakland, i'm leslie brinkley, abc7 news. >> it is quite the problem. thank you, leslie. we do want to hear your ideas about building a better bay area. you can share them by joining our better bay area group on facebook. >> we are about to have a wetter bay area. >> spencer christian is here with the forecast. spencer. >> it is getting wetter by the moment. take a look at live doppler 7. you see a large batch of showers moving on shore. just a few minutes ago, only

sonoma county was getting this rainfall, this light rain and showers. now we see it sliding down into marin county. so it's getting quite wet. it looks like a few isolated downpours there as well. this is the view from the rooftop camera at abc7 where it is mainly dry. 55 degrees now in san francisco with mid to upper 50s also at oakland, redwood city, san jose, 51 at gilroy, 54 at half moon bay. and here is the view at the golden gate where the pavement looks a little damp right now. not quite sure at the moment, but it looks like lights reflecting off water. 51 degrees at santa rosa right now. 54 petaluma, napa, 52, 55 concord, 51 at livermore. emeryville, these are the forecast features. scattered showers will continue overnight. there could be isolated downpours. receipt roadways are likely for the morning commute. and we'll have an unsettled pattern right on into the weekend. the storm ranks 1 on the impact scale. light to moderate showers. highest totals will be in the north bay. the north bay is getting rain

already, and there will be light wind with the system. the forecast animation at 7:00 this evening, notice we'll see waves of moisture and shower and rain moving on shore through the nighttime and overnight hours into the early morning. so even though the rain may not be very widespread or heavy, as the morning commute begins at 5:00 a.m., there will be wet spots on the roadways. morning commuters may get slowed down a little bit. during the day we'll see mainly widely scattered light showers continuing and we expect rainfall totals by 11:00 tomorrow night will range from about a quarter of an inch to almost half an inch in the wettest parts of the north bay. other locations, south bay, peninsula, east bay will generally see rainfall totals in the few 100s of an inch. low 40s to 50s, highs tomorrow under showery conditions will be mainly right around or just below 60 degrees. and here's the accuweather seven-day forecast. we're going to have some periods of light rain or showers

tomorrow and thursday, possibly friday before we start to get a little bit of drying out over the weekend. temperatures are going to dip also over the weekend as cooler air mass settles in. and early next week, around tuesday or so, we can expect the development of our next storm possibly. but for the next three days, we can expect some wet weather. >> all right. thanks, spencer. >> san francisco's warning sirens went off for the last time today until 2021. >> find out why toda o♪ ozempic®! ♪ oh! oh! (announcer) people with type 2 diabetes are excited about the potential of once-weekly ozempic®.

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today was the last test of san francisco's warning sirens for two years. they usually go off at noon on tuesdays. today's was three minutes late. city officials say the first test didn't work, so they had to restart it. during the second run, a few of the sirens didn't go off, which the city says is why it runs the weekly tests. abc7 news spoke to a man visiting from hawaii where sirens are tested once a month. >> if you do them every day, people are going to ignore them. >> and for people that are from out of town like you, if that thing started going off and you didn't know -- >> i would run outside and duck for cover. >> the system dates back to world war ii and is made up of more than 100 sirens throughout the city. san francisco expects to spend up to 2 1/2 million dollars to upgrade the system over the next

two years. >> a helping hand today in san jose, abc7 was at the silicon valley harvest food bank where chris nguyen presented them with a $15,000 check. they say it's contributions like this that keep it running. >> the vast majority of our donations are private donatins from individuals or from corporations or partners like abc and disney. we literally could not do what we do without this level of community support. >> the food bank says it serves a quarter of a million people every month. the 10th annual holiday heroes is underway at oracle park in san francisco. the event is a fund-raiser by the wender weiss foundation that benefits at-risk kids. they meet sports heroes from the giants, earthquakes, raiders, 49ers and sharks. abc7 news anchor kristen sze is an advisory board member and the emcee tonight. >> lot of fun for them. all right, when you see a

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>> announcer: now news to build a better bay area from abc7. >> renters here in san francisco bay area are more likely than most other areas of the country to be victimized by a rental scam. >> that's not good. that's part of the study released by the better business bureau. >> michael finney is here with a look into this issue. >> the bbb did some work all over the country. they found a stanford trained economist estimates more than 5 million consumers have been victimized by this scam, many putting down deposits for homes that don't exist or really aren't available for rent. what happened to the gonzalez family is not unusual. they were forced to live in their van after being duped into putting down $10,000 for what they thought was this rental property in south san francisco.

they told their story to our luz pena. >> reporter: this is where you sleep now. >> yeah. >> reporter: has it been hard? >> yeah. >> reporter: why? >> because it's uncomfortable. >> reporter: lori wilson of the better business bureau told me today the scam is prevalent in the bay area. >> home prices have gone up and up, so sometimes we're more desperate. you know, we've got to get out of our apartment, we've got to find a new one, and this price looks pretty darn good. >> what happened to the gonzalezes is typical how the scam works. the fraudster copies photos from a legitimate ad. the ad ends up on market place. the landlord was conveniently not available to show the inside of the home, but priced the home at $1,000 below market value, an offer the famil jumped on. >> i'm going to jump on it because it might be gone. and that's what the con artist

wants you to think. >> vacationers rarely ever see a property in advance. they place their listing on legitimate sites, but then convince the renter to close the deal off the site. >> they will usually try and get you to text or to email their personal email, again, wire the money, send gift cards. >> reporter: fortunately for the gonzalez family, viewers who saw their plight on abc7 donated some $16,000 to get them back on their feet. >> surprised. thank you. >> a survey found one out of three victims lose more than $1,000. you can watch our complete interview with lori from the bbb at abc7news.com. >> thank you, michael. >> sure. >> house democrats today unveiled two articles of impeachment against president trump. he is charged with abuse of power and obstruction of congress. abc7 news reporter mona kosar abdi has the latest now from washington.

>> reporter: in a rare move, congress this morning deploying its most powerful tool under the constitution. >> the house committee on the judiciary is introducing two articles of impeachment charging the president of the united states, donald j. trump, with committing high crimes and misdemeanors. >> reporter: the announcement the culmination of months long in-depth investigation into the president's efforts to pressure ukraine to investigate his 2020 political rival joe biden and his son hunter as well as the 2016 election. >> framers of the constitution recognized that some day a president might come to office who would abuse that office, betray the public trust, and undermine national security to secure foreign help in his reelection. >> reporter: house republicans are accusing democrats of moving too quickly throughout the process, claiming they have no solid evidence against the president. minority leader kevin mccarthy swiftly criticized his democratic colleagues for what he says is their attempt to overturn the 2016 election. >> it's not difficult to defend

this president because this president did nothing that's impeachable. >> reporter: in a key battle ground state. >> hello, pennsylvania. >> reporter: vice-president mike pence railed against the impeachment inquiry and called for four more years of trump in the white house. >> what's happening in washington, d.c. today is a disgrace. >> it is. >> it's nothing short of a partisan impeachment. >> reporter: the house judiciary committee is expected to take up articles for debate and approval as soon as this thursday. setting the stage for trump's likely impeachment before the year's end. house democrats need around 217 votes to pass each article. if they pass, speaker pelosi will formally send the articles to the senate for a january trial. mona kosar abdi, abc news, capitol hill. >> there are 15 candidates attempting to win donald trump. one picked up an endorsement from the big city. here's who and why from san jose.

>> reporter: former new york city mayor mike bloomberg will visit san francisco on wednesday for the first time as a 2020 presidential candidate, and he'll do it with the backing of san jose mayor sam liccardo. >> mike bloomberg has shown time and time again that he's willing to take on big oil. he's willing to take on the gun industry. he's going to take on big soda, coke and pepsi. >> reporter: on twitter bloomberg praised liccardo for his leadership saying the city of san jose has spearheaded bold solutions to critical issues from climate change to economic development. i'm glad mayor liccardo is joining my team as a california campaign coe chair. >> mike bloomberg became the guy who did good. >> reporter: he's bypassing iowa and new hampshire and opting for california and other states that vote on super tuesday in march. san jose professor larry says the race is open. >> the campaign seems like it's going on a long time. so a lot of california voters feel like they know who is running. and can they be interested enough to look at someone who is

new. >> reporter: a recent u.c. berkeley poll found bloomberg to be the first choice of just 2% of the state's likely democratic voters. >> his issue advocacy is very much in line with where democratic primary activists are going to be. so he's got to sell his positives on policy. >> reporter: republican strategist chen serves as a fellow at the hoover institution at stanford university. >> the endorsement is significant because of -- not just because of who liccardo is, but also because of the brand that liccardo has in california and northern california politics. >> reporter: liccardo's bloomberg endorsement marks the first from a prominent elected officials in california. >> we've got the biggest bully in the history of the planet occupying the white house, and i want to support those who can take down bullies. >> reporter: in san jose, chris nguyen, abc7 news. >> california's 2020 primary election will be much earlier than in years past. election day is march 3rd. voter registration is due by

february 18th. you can request a vote bay mail the ones that make a truebeen difference in people's lives. and mike's won them, which is important right this minute, because if he could beat america's biggest gun lobby, helping pass background check laws and defeat nra backed

politicians across this country, beat big coal, helping shut down hundreds of polluting plants and beat big tobacco, helping pass laws to save the next generation from addiction. all against big odds you can beat him. i'm mike bloomberg and i approve this message.

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"they." referring to a person whose gender identity is nonbinary is someone who identifies as neither male nor female. merriam webster tweeted the word today adding the new definition of the word they leading to a 313% increase in the number of searches for the word. >> u.c. santa cruz student could be without their grades at the end of the fall term. that's if the grad students in charge of turning them in refuse to do it. kris reyes takes a look at what's going on and what's behind their ultimatum. >> reporter: their demands chanted loud and clear. their anger and frustration, too. dozens of u.c. santa cruz graduate students rallied on campus demanding a 1400 plus a month raise, or they won't hand in grades as part of their duties as teacher assistants. they're due on december 18.

many hearsay they canhere say t cannot afford to go on strike. >> most of my wages goes to rent. it's bleak when you have to feed your child. >> reporter: it's a university raise they can't afford to give to them. >> as presented $1,400 per month pr graduate student would come to approximately $20 million which is more than our budget can bear. >> reporter: in a strongly worded statement, the dean of graduate studies w5r7bd these stuts are in violation of their contract. that academic student employees can't engage in a strike and withholding grades or deleting them from the system could be in violation of federal law. >> we can understand the graduate students are angry and frustrated around this. we want to support them and sit down and talk through how we can do that. a grading strike illegal maneuver doesn't bring us closer to resolution or helping them. >> the problem was not just the contract. it's a long history of exploitation by the university of saying, we're going to pay

you enough money to live here. we're not looking for large salaries. we're looking to make rent, to buy food, to support our lives. >> reporter: if grad students don't turn in the grades, the university can fire them. administrators telling us they don't want it to come to that. they want to help students alleviate their financial burden. in santa cruz, kris reyes for abc7 news. >> a light level 1 storm is moving through the bay area tonight and tomorrow morning. >> spencer will show you what else is in the forecast next.

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hollywood has arrived at the state capital. everybody has gone through. rupaul, brandy chastain. organizers have done something different tonight. they've set up stages with the theme, each theme representing each of the inductees. this one should be a bit obvious. a halfpipe in honor of the legendary tony hawk, one of the most famous skateboarders in the state's history. earlier he did a little demonstration to the roar of fans. george lopez. the big part was the fans out here to support them. when you think of tony, a legend of his sport -- >> 100%. look at the young ones here. look at the skate boards going. they look up to him, especially what he does. it's very respectful. it's an honor, absolutely, for him to be inducted. what else, right? pretty school.

pretty cool. >> reporter: the event gets started in a couple minutes now, about 7:00 p.m. each inductee will be awarded the spirit of california medal. we'll have a full report coming up on abc7 news at 11:00. reporting live in sacramento, i'm unser hassan. abc7 news. >> we should try that halfpipe. >> right. are we already getting the rain, is it here now? >> i think so. spencer christian is tracking it closely. >> oh, it's here, and there as well. it's expanding as you can see now on live doppler 7. it started in the north bay, now it's pushing down south of the golden gate over to the east bay as well. the storm ranks 1 on the storm impact scale, storm of light intensity tonight and tomorrow. we expect light to moderate showers. there may be isolated downpours. highest will be in the north bay. in the morning we'll see showers li lingering. upper 40s to low 50s. highs tomorrow afternoon with a chance of showers will be mid to upper 50s in the north bay.

60 in other locations. here is the accuweather seven-day forecast. we have a like lay hood of a few showers on thursday. maybe even some light rain again on friday. so we'll rank each of those systems 1 on the storm impact scale. just a slight chance of a morning shower on saturday. basically the weekend is going to ring us partial clearing, drying out, and a much cooler air mass. high temperatures inland saturday and sunday, monday will reach into the mid to upper 50s. wet tonight, and early tomorrow. >> thank you, spencer. >> talk a little giants tonight. >> larry is here. >> the winter meetings are going on. if you're a giants fan, maybe you want madison bumgarner back. maybe you want garrett cole. you'll get nothing like it, mean you'll get nothing like it, mean anything to you? ...6, 7, 8 you'll get nothing like it, mean anything to you? ♪ ♪ ♪ big dreams start with small steps... ...but dedication can get you there. so just start small...

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snooze n >> announcer: now abc7 sports with larry beil. >> all signs pointing to madison bumgarner signed with somebody else. like it or not, 2020 is going to be all about a youth movement for the giants and the dreaded r word, rebuilding. so, the goal is to find quality players at discount prices. today the giants, they did add three new players at the winter meetings in san diego. they signed pitcher kevin gausman to a one-year deal. he is expected to be used as a starter, right hander, three and nine last year, 5.7, two e.r.a. with baltimor. but he throws heat. they also acquired second base

man zack cozar and will wilson. a player for cash and and considerations, cozar was hurt, had season ending shoulder surgery. in nine years he's hit 87 homers, 305 r.b.i.s. he can relate to the recent struggles. >> i had an opportunity to talk with zack. we share something in common. when you're not your healthiest version, when you're not at your best, it can be really difficult. i went through that as a player at various times. all you want is the opportunity to prove that you still have it in you. that you still have that left/right athleticism. that you have that sock. and i think zack is anxious to bring that brand of baseball to san francisco. i also know he likes national league baseball. >> so get this. marcus semien finished third in the american league mvp voting, but he did not make the brand-new all mlb first team. na honor went to boston short stop zander bogaerts. simeon played 162 games last

year. that's all the games. he hit 33 homers, drove in 92 runs. named the second time all mlb. how could this happen? fans accounted for half the voting, and clearly fans are not watching the oakland a's, at least not those who were voting. soon this misery will be over. not the sports guest. well, that will be over soon, too. ill was talking about the warriors season which is going to be painful until it ends in april. last night the warriors became the first team in the nba to reach 20 losses. they're plagued by injuries obviously. they're slowly on the mend and during a difficult first year at chase center in san francisco. coach steve kerr knows the squad -- they're not going to make the playoffs. the goal is to develop young players while everybody else heals up. >> the last five years we played nine-month seasons, you know. this is a seven-month season this year the way things are going. so we've got younger players, much bigger group of younger players who need the work, so

it's a totally different situation. >> today ice sharks visiting music city. can we watch the hockey, please? hey! no score in the first. stay that way. the sharks forming a brick wall in front of the nat. one shot, two shots, three shots. save, save, save. still scoreless. patrick marleau is going to come in with a chance here for the sharks. can't lift the puck. and drew soros with the save. and then evander kane fighting all of the national predators. you want some? he's fighting dan, ends up fighting austin watson. anybody else want to get a punch in the face? i'm right here for you. sounds like a sports department meeting. scoreless after two periods. evan weaver, he was a lightly regarded recruit out of spokane when he got to cal. opinions of him have changed dramatically since then. and today evan weaver was named the pac-12 defensive player of

the year. weaver leads the entire nation in tackles. look out, osky. he got osky. he had the chance to set the all-time season when he was at boston college. 18 tackles in the red box bowl in illinois to tie. weaver was our guest last week on our with authority podcast. he's looking forward to showing nfl scouts what he can do even though some still question his ability. >> i've always been the type of person people don't see as athletic or anything, you know. i don't know, i obviously play this game at a very high level, so -- >> yeah. >> there's super athletes who can't play the sport and there's guys who can play football. i'm a guy who can play football. i'm an athlete, i can run fast. everybody thinks i run a 4-8. i run a 4.8 sideways. >> there you go. >> but it will be pretty awesome to be able to push all those nay sayers out a little bit.

so -- and just kind of hush them. >> he is confident and fun. the with authority podcast available on itunes, youtube, wherever fine podcasts are heard. >> fine pod casts. >> the mystery team, i don't know they're bidding for him. i don't know they're going 35 million for a pitcher when they're not going to contend a couple years. >> thank you, larry. >> tonight join us for abc7 news at 11:00. >> i'm amanda del castillo. in san jose, tonight city leaders are considering ways to help fix the affordable housing crisis. at 11:00, we look at the future of what could be a $70 million spending plan. that's at 11:00. >> and wild pigs tearing up lawns in an east bay town. tonight the new plan to put an end to their chaos. >> and tonight on abc7 at 8:00, it's the conners followed by bless this mess, mixed-ish. emergence, then stay tuned for abc7 news at 11:00. >> that's it for this edition of

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