>> good evening. traffic here is very snarled. we were here when it happened a few -- about a couple hundred yards away. all of the sudden we heard sirens and we saw ambulance, then more chp. you're looking at what we believe to be the car that the chp was pursuing. that white pickup truck over there. to the left, you will see a fire truck. behind that fire truck, a second vehicle with what appears to be a body covered bay tarp. how this went down we don't know exactly. but we do know that traffic getting in and out of this area either to the freeway or out of the freeway is just down a slow crawl. at least it's better now than it was. we don't have a lot of information yet for the chp on scene. they say they're going to bring someone out and tell us, but we do know that there are some people over perhaps behind the side of that pickup truck that may have been witnesses to it. we have not reached them yet, but people are still gathering here. it still remains a crime scene.

it still remains a traffic jam. we're at greenbrae at sir francis drake and lacuesta. it's going to be a mess for a while. live in greenbrae, wayne freedman, abc7 news. >> thank you so much. let's take another look at sky 7 over the scene here to hang on for just a moment. we're trying get back to that live picture. if not, we'll move on. you can see the car involved in the chase badly smashed up. investigators trying to piece together exactly how the whole thing went down. this is a live picture from our sky 7 helicopter. >> and we will continue to monitor this story throughout the evening for you and bng you any new updates and developments as soon as we learn of them. now, though, to our other top story, a woman is dead after being shot and killed in dublin. her ex-boyfriend opened fire, he says in self-defense after she and another man showed up at his door with a gun. i'm ama daetz. >> and i'm dan ashley.

police just took down the crime scene outside the home on monihan street. >> kate larsen is live in dublin. what do we know about this investigation? >> well, that it's very much ongoing, and police are still trying to figure out the motive for why this all happened. i can tell you that this is the first homicide in dublin since 2009. so perhaps needless to say, a very unusual crime that happened around 11:30 last night right here at this town house. dublin police tell me that a woman, the ex-girlfriend of the president and a man showed up knocking at the door. the resident, who neighbors tell me just moved in the past week woke up and looked out the window and saw his ex-girlfriend. he opened the door for her, but then the man she was with kicked in the door and police say that's when she and the man started assaulting the resident who then pulled out a gun that he had on him and opened fire while he tried to escape from the house.

police believe the male suspect also fired shots. the ex-girlfriend was shot and died at the scene. the man who she was with was also shot one time, not life-threatening injuries and is currently detained in a hospital. neighbors who have i spoken to tonight say they were very surprised this all happened. >> i only heard the police, an there was like 15 of them all with drawn weapons and a dog trying to get into the place, secure it. and i saw them carry the body of -- a body out. >> this is a very safe neighborhood. i live here. i work here. my child goes to school here. so for there to be a shooting here three houses down is very alarming. >> so police tell me that no charges are pending at this time against the resident, that he is okay, not physically injured, but understandably very shaken up. as far as the male suspect who is in the hospital, police are still investigating and trying to determine if they have enough

evidence to actually arrest him since he is just detained at this point. this neighborhood i can't count how many kids i've seen out here this evening. a very friendly place. so everyone trying to understand how and why this happened with some of their new neighbors. we'll have more at 11:00. for now live in dublin, i'm kate larsen, abc7 news. >> kate, thank you. new developments in a new year's eve tragedy. a man killed trying to stop thieves who stole his laptop. for the first time today, we're hearing from his friends and family. abc7 news reporter melanie woodrow joins us live from oakland's montclair village with their words. melanie? >> ama, people who knew this young man are absolutely devastated. you can see that there are flowers that have been left here where he passed away. this was his 34th birthday, and it was just hours before he was getting ready to host a joint birthday/new year's eve celebration at his own apartment. tonight we are honoring his family's wishes and not revealing his name. post-it notes filled with condolences and questions are stuck to the window of this

montclair starbucks. peter tseng can't believe his friend is gone. he was working on his laptop when someone stole it. witnesses say one suspect snatched the laptop while another held the door open and a third drove the getaway car. the victim was dragged by the getaway car as he attempted to get his laptop back. >> i didn't think he was the type to do that. >> his cousin says he is a software engineer. she believes he either wanted to preserve all of his research or perhaps save the photos he was editing from their recent vacation together. >> i still cannot believe that this has happened. i do not want him to be remembered as a victim of a robbery because he's so much more than that. he's a scholar. he constantly reads. >> his friends say he also loved hiking and was a talented photographer. friends find out he died in the

most heart-wrenching way, arriving at his apartment for his joint birthday party/new year's eve celebration and getting a call for police as they waited outside his closed door. >> we were extremely shocked and in disbelief, i think. >> the victim's parents are now coming from china and his cousin from new york to identify his body. the oakland police department says they've made two arrests thanks in part to montclair village association's surveillance video that captured the getaway vehicle's license plate. >> without the cameras that the montclair village association installed, we may not have captured these criminals. >> starbucks customer sue taylor was sitting next to the victim before he ran out. she later handed his cell phone to first responders. >> it was still warm from his hand. i mean, it was just seconds. he was there one second and the next minute he was really gone. >> and the woman who set up those post-it notes says she didn't know the victim but she wanted to do something so that people could express how they were feeling. meantime, the alameda county

dolphins says the oakland police department has not transferred the case to them as of yet. live in montclair, melanie woodrow, abc7 news. >> thank you. as we move on, take a live look at the golden gate bridge, because it was drivers going through this toll plaza that led to a lawsuit against fastrak. a trial regarding that started today. the trial started in fact just as time was about to expire. >> 7 on your side's michael finney has been following this story. he is here to explain why fastrak is getting sued and why the case was almost thrown out. >> this class action claims that fastrak illegally charged toll evasion penalties to thousands of motorists after the golden gate bridge switched to all electronic tolling. fastrak denies those claims. the suit claims fastrak illegally penalized thousands of motorists who cross the golden gate bridge without fastrak accounts. they were supposed to receive toll invoices in the mail, but the lawsuit claims many never got them and fastrak simply

piled on penalties. folks couldn't register their cars until they paid those penalties. so many spent thousands of dollars in seem cases. fastrak, the bay area toll authority and the bridge district say they improved their policies for handling tolls and disputes, however, they want to keep the new policies a secret from you, from all of us, saying we might use information to, quote, game the system and evade tolls. the agency has also tried to ban the press and public from the courtroom during key testimony. now abc7, 7 on your side objected, saying government policies are supposed to remain open to the public. the judge allowed information to remain under seal in court documents, but is keeping the trial open. at trial today, the court allowed limited questions just to meet the legal deadline to start the trial by tomorrow. te case resumes in march when we may be able to hear what fastrak has been keeping under wraps. i'll let you know. we will of course be there. >> it's all been fascinating.

>> it has been. >> thanks, michael, very much. when it comes to your voice, your vote you have one fewer choice. julian castro was the only latino candidate. 14 candidates have left the race. an equal number are still vying for the presidential nomination for now. today marianne williamson laid off her campaign staff nationwide, but has so far made no announcement about leaving the race. abc7 news reporter lyanne melendez joins us live from the newsroom with the consequences of castro stepping down. lyanne? >> well, the role model for many latinos is gone, for one. the person who pushed the other candidates to talk about immigration and illegal border crossings will no longer be heard during those future debates, but it could be that voters are more interested in supporting someone who can defeat president trump than someone who looks like them.

julian castro was one of the first to throw his hat into the democratic presidential arena. >> i represent a new generation of leadership with a bold, ambitious plan for our united states to be the smartest, the healthiest, the fairest and the most prosperous nation on earth. >> during an abc7 news forum in november, we asked castro how he would deal with the family separation issue surrounding undocumented immigrants. >> by executive order. find a way to protect our dreamers and also to protect their parents. >> but eventually it became apparent to many that castro was an unwinnable candidate and could not deliver the hispanic vote. bernie sanders seen here campaigning at fresno city college two months ago seemed more appealing to latinos. in fact, a poll commissioned by the latino community foundation in november found that 31% of latino voters in california supported sanders followed by joe biden and elizabeth warren, but only 9% were behind castro.

>> they're choosy consumers about this. they want to get behind somebody who can win. >> i'm fulfilling the legacy of barack obama and europe not. >> many believe his confrontation with biden suggesting he was forgetting things cost castro some support. >> when you act like a bully or someone who is mean, then all you're doing is imitating the person you're trying to beat, mr. trump. and that doesn't distinguish you in a positive way. it makes you a liability. >> castro never apologized, instead saying i wouldn't do it differently. and castro said he'll keep on working to make sure everyone in this country counts, everyone gets a good job, health care, and a decent place to live. now can we say potential cabinet position? in the newsroom, lyanne melendez, abc7 news. >> and lyanne, can you talk a little bit about the silver line fog interest castro family with today's announcement? >> how did you guess? now you know that julian castro has an identical twin who is a

congressman. joaquin castro, we're going to show them there possibly with a beard -- well, he has a beard. he joked on live tv that julian made him grow the beard, there yo go, the one on the left is joaquin. joaquin started growing it so he wouldn't be confused with his brother. so after revealing that to the entire world, julian castro did this. he tweeted "if i knew it would look like this, i wouldn't have suggested it." anyway. >> wow. >> wow, bro, ouch. i say shave the beard. no? what do you guys think. >> it's fine. they're brothers, that's fine. >> definitely. >> now we can confuse them. >> thanks, lyanne. coming up next, from the bay area to boise, we're live with a look at where people are moving to as california sees its first net loss of people in almost a decade. i'm spencer christian. the new year got off to a dry

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new jersey was first, california ranked seventh. now building a better bay area means making this place where people want to stay, right? but high housing costs, crime, and traffic are factors that we just cannot ignore. abc7 news anchor dion lim has stories of people who made the move. >> every time i come up here on the kgo roof, i look around and marvel at how beautiful the bay area is. why would anyone ever want to leave? apparently there are a lot of reasons. in a span of five years, 7200 californians have moved to boise, idaho. i spoke to two people who are native californians and they say the state has a lot more to offer than potatoes. the state motto means let it be perpetual in latin. appropriate for the perpetual stream of californians flocking to the state. including this former bay area resident. >> i remember there being a wave

in the late '90s. and then around the time i moved here in the early 2000s. this wave feels more significant than it has previously. >> it seems like the state known for its spuds is now a hot potato. forbes reports boise as the fastest growing metro area in the u.s. >> i grew up in southern california. i actually picked up and moved all the way to boise, idaho. and, you know, people asked me how it was, and i love it. >> reporter: kayla aveda moved to boise for her job at black box vr which is based in idaho. after moving back to start up san francisco's location, she gets why so many people from the bay area want to relocate. the median price for a home in san francisco, $1.3 million. now in boise, the median sales price, just $332,000. that's about a million dollars less. both kayla and michelle say idaho is contagious. >> whatever the reason is that they move here.

and then the family comes to visit, and then slowly you start to see the rest of that family moving up. >> i would take any chance to go back to boise just for a little bit. >> back out here live there are lots of factors to consider when moving to idaho. but i posed the question on instagram just about 35 minutes ago. so far more than 500 of you have responded, and 45% of you say yes based off housing alone you would indeed consider making that kind of move. in san francisco tonight, dion lim, abc7 news. >> thank you, dion. now to city of mountain view, which has commissioned a $265,000 study to look into converting a small portion of its downtown into a pedestrian plaza. abc7 news reporter anser hassan joins us live on castro street, one consideration for the conversion, and what nearby business owners think about it. hi, anser. >> ama, good evening. this is the part of the street the city is considering converting to a pedestrian

plaza. it's not just about making this area more pedestrian friendly. it also has to do with the train tracks and the train station behind me. most people eating outside on castro street in mountain view say it would be nice not to have traffic interfering with lunch. getting cars off the road sounds like a great idea. >> the kids go play over there, scotter or skating, you know. >> while the family eats? >> yes. >> the current proposal is to convert this section of castro street into a pedestrian plaza. but unlike cities where pedestrian-friendly streets are part of revitalization projects, mountain view's move may be out of necessity. with the electrification of caltrans, cars won't be allowed to cross the street. cars will have to be rerouted either creating an overpass or underpass which would cost up to $100 million. >> open up more shores like shopping, it will be better.

this way, just restaurants, it's going to be bad. >> his turkish restaurant has been open for ten years. like many business owners, he fears recruiting traffic could lead to a loss in foot traffic. >> castro street has to be rerouted no matter what. and it's kind of the best worst solution. >> sarah owns a nightclub on opal street. she has similar concerns. she says the city has to do something to draw people to the area for this to work. >> we fear it's going to be like california in palo alto which is a bus lane at the end. once they closed it, it is now apartments. we hate to see castro street die like that. >> now the city opens to have this plan back by the end of spring. they will then have three public meetings to solicit input. reporting live, anser hassan, abc7 news. >> thank you, anser. we want to hear your ideas about building a better bay area. share them by joining us on

facebook. now the weather forecast as we hit the weekend in this new year. >> spencer christian is here with what's ahead. >> we're going toe start with a look at our high surf advisory because the surf has been rough and the wave heights are still elevated. there is still danger of rip currents or sneaker waves. this will be in effect until 9:00 tonight. bear in mind. a live look from emeryville looking towards san francisco. current reads are not showing up in some of our reading stations right now. we'll go to the forecast features. we'll see areas of early morning fog tomorrow, but mainly sunny skies in the afternoon. it will be mild as well. and a chance of showers late tomorrow night into early saturday. now tonight look for mainly clear skies. there will be patches of fog, especially in the inland valleys. overnight lows will range from upper 30s in the inland valleys to lower mid-40s elsewhere. highs tomorrow afternoon under mainly sunny skies. mainly upper 50s, but we'll see mid 60s in the south bay. 64 at san jose. and tomorrow night in comes our storm which ranks 1 on the

impact scale. a storm of light intensity. look for mainly scattered showers and the best chance will be in the north bay. here is the forecast animation starting 9:00 tomorrow night. notice by 11:00, we'll see light rain beginning to push into the north bay. it will be pretty much an overnight event, and the storm such as it is will fall apart by early morning saturday. here we go with the accuweather seven-day forecast. the storm will give way to mainly sunny skies by saturday midday. sunny skies on sunday and monday. a cooler pattern will begin early next week as well. and then midweek next week, we see some clouds moving in, and maybe our next chance of light rain. >> time to get that. thanks, spencer. amazon is not the only company making grab and go convenience stores. >> we're going at at&t we believe in access.

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stocks got the new year off to a roaring start today with more gains and record highs for the three main indices. following up on a strong finish to 2019, the dow jones industrial average climbed more than 300 points. the nasdaq was up triple-digits. the s&p gained 27. technology sector stocks accounted for a good part of the upward move. smaller company stocks dragged behind but still showed growth. it looks like amazon go stores are getting competition. a completely autonomous store is open at a shell station. it's called a nanostore. download an app and register your credit card.

once you're at the store, you'll be sent an access code. scan it. walk in, grab what you want and go. no clerk, no money, no hassle. a receipt will be emailed to you as soon as you leave. >> the store is a mobile store. so as you can see, it's literally a modified from a shipping container. and in the future, imagine that they can put those mobile stores in rural areas, in open centers, in universities and other areas. >> pretty clever. the store is operated by a company called aifi which plans to open additional stores at gas stations in the coming months. maybe they will catch on big-time. we cover car break-ins frequently because they happen frequently. >> sometimes what's taken cannot be replaced. next, a plea to return a priceless memento. a basketball jersey worn by a teenager who did not live to see his senior year. and next, the san francisco zoo gives us

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now news to build a better bay area from abc7. >> now to those terrifying fires in australia that have killed at

least 18 people and destroyed more than 12,000 homes. you can see on the map here more than 200 fires have burned about 12 million acres. that's about six times the size of the 2018 fires in california when roughly two million acres burned here. >> look at the satellite view. it shows smoke billowing from the countryside between canberra and melbourne. in the streets here is a familiar sight, people wearing masks to protect themselves from smoke. we've seen this in the bay area over the last few years when heavy smoke ruins our air quality. >> we can really relate, can't we. >> yeah. >> the fires are not just affected people but a lot of animals as well. >> liz kreutz has that story. >> for californians, these images are all too familiar. more than 200 fires are burning across two of australia's most populous states. thousands have been forced to flee. the u.s. embassy has issued a warning telling tourists on the coast of new south wales to get

out. people arriving from sydney said they've never seen anything like it. >> you can smell smoke all the time. there is ash falling on the clothes. it's really quite scary. it's apocalyptic sometimes. >> when it's a school day and pillars of smoke, we can't play outside. >> the fires are also having a devastating impact on wildlife. nearly half a billion animals are feared dead. the koala population is particularly suffering. >> oh, mate, you're badly burned, aren't you. >> videos like that that show koalas parched, approaching humans, fighting for their lives have been shown all over the world. koalas are already considered vulnerable. the san francisco zoo has two and aloud us inside their zoo. >> hi, sweetheart. already their numbers are threatened. and now you add in these huge wildfires they're taking away more trees. and that's compounding the problem. and putting their numbers in real dire threat. >> koalas have very particular needs.

they only eat eucalyptus. the zoo here keeps four different types of eucalyptus for them. this is also how the kuaqualikos get water. >> you don't often see koalas drinking water. when you do, it typically indicate there's may be something else going on with the animal. >> people around the globe are trying to help. so far more than two million has been donated to an australian koala hospital. >> what happens when the fires end? >> they're going have to plant a lot of new trees. that's the key thing. planting for eucalyptus. >> liz kreutz, abc7 news. united airlines says there was no fire when smoke rose interest one of its jets in a maintenance area at sfo today. you're looking at individual yes of that smoke rising from the out-of-service plane while it was being pushed this afternoon. united tells us that sometimes resit sid yul oil burns off inside jet engines and causes smoke like this. all flights operated normally at sfo while united's mechanics dealt with the situation outside

a hangar in a remote part of the airport. sports jerseys. those who get attached to them because of feelings and memories. their value transcends cloth and numbers, which brings us to the search for a missing jersey and the story behind it. here is reporter wayne freedman. >> it is the last practice for the branson high school bulls before a big game tonight, and while they'll have five men on the court, they will still go into battle feeling one man short. >> he was a our distributor, vocal leader, scorer, playmaker. he was everything. >> hence the words on their shoes, which read all for you. the former number 11, clinton wiggins died in a late night solo car crash on highway 101 in korto madero last june. >> there had to have been ten or 11 colleges on his list. >> how do you go from such promise to such pain? >> yeah. >> clinton's mother latanya now wears his image around her neck and carries him permanently on her left arm.

and she did have his number 11 home jersey, but gave it back to the team where his best friend, payton malarkey opened the season wearing it. >> he we wanted his jersey to be out there for his senior year. and so we were like we absolutely need payton to wear that jersey, and he did, until bad luck intervened after a game in oakland one night last month. someone broke into payton's family car and took a backpack containing the jersey. >> there was like glass over the ground and i looked inside my bag was gone and my heart dropped. >> now getting that jersey back has become as important for the team and quinton's family as winning a championship. they had planned to retire it this year. >> you know, having a duplicate jersey is just not the same as having that jersey, the one that he wore, the one he sweated in, the one he played in, won championships in. >> and just like any other high school jersey, but please, they ask, whoever took this one, please bring it back, no questions asked. >> it means everything.

it is absolutely priceless, absolutely priceless. like there is no -- it's a one-of-a-kind. >> in marin county, wayne freedman, abc7 news. >> has no value except priceless to the family. >> right. coming up, an intimate interview with "jeopardy!" coastal elect trebek and his wife. >> do you know you're married to an icon? >> he just my husband. >> layer what trebek says about how a cancer diagnosis changed his life and his family's life. take part in a new poll. berkeley's new law charging 25 cents for a disposable coffee cup. three options. great idea, i hate, but i'll pate or

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bring their own cups in order to reduce the use of plastics and help the environment. customers we talked to this morning were pretty positive about it. >> it doesn't bother me. i think it's okay. although i'll probably pay the price. because i hate schlepping my cup around. >> i think it's great. i think people, it's time to really do a drastic reduction in single use plastics and cups usually have a lining of plastics. >> i'm all for saving the environment, and these little things, these little adjustments that you have to make in order to do that. in the long run, it's worth it. initially, it's kind of a pain. but after a while you accept it and it okay. >> great comments today. in addition to the new cup fees, berkeley restaurants are no longer allowed to hand out plastic disposable food wear for forks, knives. compostable items will only be provided on request or at

self-serve stations. >> these are the results from abc7news.com/vote. 36% say it's a great idea. most, though, 58% say they're going elsewhere. 6% say they hate it but will pay it. >> that's kind of surprising. a lot of people not happy with it. >> to get a look at what else is now law in california, look for this video on our website, abc7news.com. >> a lot of new laws to know about. now the new year is off to a great start in terms of the weather. >> spencer has the weekend forecast you'll like the look of, next. and heads up about new programing here on abc7. on saturday mornings you can catch two hours of "good morning america." abc7 news airs from 5:00 to 7:00. gma will air at 7:00 and 8:00. ab

"jeopardy!" host alec trebek and his wife jean are open uh about his pancreatic cancer diagnosis and how it's affecting him. >> they sat down with michael strahan. >> i knew as soon as the doctor came back and mentioned the pancreas, i said uh-oh, it's going to be cancer.

>> this week i was diagnosed with stage iv pancreatic cancer. >> did you think once you new orleansed this it would affect people the way it had? >> i had no idea. that was not my purpose in making the announcement. i just wanted to get ahead of the tabloids because i knew they would emphasize and misrepresent what was happening to me. and you've seen some of the headlines in the tabloids. he's not going to make it to christmas. okay. i'll show them i am going to make it and beyond. >> they have been married 29 years. they have two adult children. very simple question. do you know you're married to an icon? >> he's just my husband. >> you haven't spoken about your husband's illness before. what's the toughest part for both you have? >> i'd say for me, it's when i see him in pain and i can't help him. and when he didn't eat right.

when he has too much diet diet d >> back off, michael. >> i'm not saying anything. >> i'm 79. if you get to be 79 and be in as good as shape -- wait a minute, i'm not in that great shape. darn. blew that one, trebek. >> alec has been working through all of this. >> yeah. >> have you ever looked at him and said honey, take a break. you can miss a show. >> yes. to my girlfriends, yes. but i know it's what feeds him. he loves doing "jeopardy!." he has his own family over there. they're such a close-knit, beautiful group of people. so i think that gives him a lot of support, a sense of purpose and that he is just not in bed and can be productive. >> the cancer diagnosis shifted his world. >> most of us have open-ended lives. we don't know when we're going to die. because of the cancer diagnosis,

it's no longer an open-ended life. it's a closed end life because of the terrible statistics, survival rates for pancreatic cancer. and because of that, and something else that is operating here, people all over america and abroad have decided they want to let me know now while i'm alive about the impact that i've been having on their existence. >> i'm just happy that people are able to express it right now. >> they have come out and they have told me. and my gosh, it makes me feel so good. >> really great to hear from alex. you can watch "jeopardy!" here every weekday at 7:00 p.m. and tonight at 8:00, a one-hour special called "what is jeopardy? alex trebek and america's most popular quiz show." i know he is struggling with his health, but he still looks great. >> he can't help but being an

inspiration. spencer christian? >> let's move along and take a look at live doppler 7. we have calm weather conditions right now. mainly clear skies. although the weather is calm, the surf is not. once again, a remind. >> we have a high surf advisory until 9:00 tonight. there is the possibility of dangerous rip currents and sneaker waves. if you plan to be anywhere near the coastline, stay away from the water's edge. here is a live view looking out over san francisco. these are our forecast features. there is fog early tomorrow morning and advance of the storm coming our way, which will start to move in late tomorrow night. looking up in the north bay, we'll see light rain by 11:00 tomorrow night. continuing mainly during the overnight hours, but breaking up before the break of day pretty much on saturday. and that will give way by midday to mainly sunny skies on saturday. it will be a weak storm, a storm ranking only 1 on the storm impact scale. overnight tonight, we'll see a few areas of patchy fog, especially in the inland valleys. and tomorrow sunny skies in advance of the rain. high temperatures in the afternoon tomorrow upper 50s to

low 60s. and here is the accuweather seven-day forecast. so we're posting a 1 on the storm impact for the overnight into saturday morning rainfall. a storm of light intensity once again mainly a north bay event. then after that we get partial clearing. sunny skies on sunday and monday. mostly sunny on tuesday actually, but clouds will thicken midweek and another chance of rain next wednesday. weekends looking pretty good. >> okay, thanks, spencer. let's talk play-off football. >> larry is here with that. >> 49ers have got a week off. try to get healthy, try to get everybody rested up. and they may get a starter back, soon. it's the return of quan. but exactly

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now abc7 sports with larry beil. >> good evening. the 49ers are getting rest and more importantly they're getting healthy at the right time of the year. linebacker kwon alexander, he was the emotionl lead over the defense in the first half of the season. he returned to practice today. might be able to play in the nfc title game, despite tearing his pectoral muscle on halloween. this is assuming the niners get to the championship game. they would have to win a play-off game before that as well. alexander wearing the blue no e contact jersey in practice today. this type of injury usually a six-month recovery. he suffered it days after j.j. watt or the his and he is back this weekend. kwon or the his acl back in 2018. he said this injury has not been

as tough to rehab from. >> my leg, my acl and knee, i'm able to move around. it didn't hurt that bad. so it was cool. so i was able to get on. because they've been holding it down so far. >> he is the emotional leader of our team. he is the guy, the hype guy that gets everybody going. we definitely missed that. so having him back out there, you can tell by practice how much fun, how much energy we had. it was having a warrior back like him, it makes everybody want to just go just like he does. >> niners off this weekend, especially happy they don't have to travel all the way across the country to play the eagles in philadelphia. that's what the seahawks have to do this week. the national weather service says temps in philly will reach the near freezing mark for this game. traffic and weather together on the 7s. russell wilson doesn't mind playing on sunday.

>> there are only 12 teams left. and the great thing is we're one of those 12. and it really comes down to just having a fresh start, new season. just really just trying to be great on the road, trying to be great in execution. that's what it comes down. to. >> the team that can focus and settle down the quickest, the team that usually does the best. more nfl news. 49ers general manager john lynch was named one of 15 finalists for the pro football hall of fame. it's the seventh time that he has made the list for his playing days with the buccaneers and broncos. former niner and ram isaac bruce as well as bryant young and former raider richard seymour are also finalists. those selected to the hall will be announced the day before the super bowl. let's go bowling. college football, the ticket smarter birmingham bowl. rolls off the tongue, doesn't it? taking on cincinnati. quarterback desmond ritter gets to the outside. his second rushing touchdown of the game. 17-0 bearcats.

third quarter, it's ritter. >> eight yards to malik mow who makes the great one-handed catch. 24-0. ritter. 105 yards rushing. there he goes again, brushing off the tackle. and scores again in the fourth. cincinnati rolls over boston college, 38-6. the warriors, you know, ravaged by injuries all season long, tonight facing a minnesota team with their own health problems. consider this. their two best players, karl-anthony towns and andrew wiggins both out. steph curry has company in the surgery department. you want to compare scars? first quarter. oh, jordan mclaughlin. cleaning up nicely. how about rookies for the warriors. allen. this was all timberwolves. robert covington bombing from way downtown. damian lee playing better as of late. the warriors down 17 at the half.

might want to guard robert covington out there. wide open for three. it was 21-point lead at that point. they're in the fourth quarter now. 81-67 timberwolves. sharks opening the new year in pittsburgh. wow. whatever they had, i want some. patrick marleau and joe thornton become the 12th and 13 players to play in four different decades. check out the pursuit by the 40-year-old marleau here, feeding the captain, logan couture for the call. under a minute to go. patric hornqvist, bang-bang play right in front. they end up going to overtime. sharks not a great overtime team. look at brent burns. patient, per cubic meter of air, and then fires. good night! game over. drive home safely. and the sharks get a much needed win in pittsburgh, 3-2 in overtime. you know, the sharks, they fired coach peter deboer.

they've got bob boughner coaching them. they need every win they can get if they want to turn this season around. >> thanks, larry. join us tonight for abc7 news at 11:00. >> i'm amanda del castillo. a close call for a san jose family involved in a hit-and-run on new year's eve. they had a countdown at the hospital. that story at 11:00. running wild. new video reveals the unsafe conditions at a north bay homeless encampment. and coming up tonight on abc7 news, what is jeopardy? alex trebunskaya and america's most popular quiz show kicks off at 8:00 followed by the great american baking show holiday edition. then stay with us for abc7 news at 11:00. >> and stick around for jimmy kimmel live which comes on at 11:35. >> look for breaking news with the abc7 news app. we appreciate your time. i'm dan ashley. >> i'm ama daetz. the entire abc7 news team, we hope you have a great evening.

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good new audience. well, most of the celebrations are over, so now we can start trying to make 2020 a really good year. it started off well for karen, of course. she could go over $100,000 today, but kevin and brit are gonna have something to say about that, i fear. all right. good luck. here we go. into the first round of play. we have one daily double coming up in one of these categories. we start off with... ...followed by... that sounds good. ...and then... in this category, each response will be two words, different by one letter only. next... ...and finally... [ spanish accent ] we want you to translate the spanish into the elton john title. karen, start. tools of the kitchen for $600. kevin. what is a colander? you are right.