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san jose's police department. chris reyes spoke to the mayor and voices around this issue about what it really means to fo thth forward is through reform, not to defund the police. >> reporter: that's why the mayor says in the city's new budget he won't be introducing an form of defunding but propose expanding the authority of a police aud author, changing use of form guidelines and added the police force is already lean compared to others in the country. stwhaz i he >> what i hear is more call for police patrol, not less. >> reporter: he says defunding is not the most popular choice across the political spectrum, but there's a reason the idea is gaining traction. >> i think the main issue is that as a society and community, we haven't created alternative forms of justice to address
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crime in communities. >> reporter: minnesota city council announced they planned to defund their police force following the killing of george floyd, explaining defunding is a reallocation of funds from police to other forms of police safety. at this black lives matter rally pin san jose, they're calling fr reforms but not quick to take a stand on defunding police. >> we need a dialogue on reformative change. >> reporter: the mayor is expected to announce his budget tonight, aware that his community is looking for change. >> it's critical for us to respond with action for reform. >> reporter: in san jose, chris reyes, for "abc7 news." >> chris touched briefly on what it really means to say defund the police. let's get into that a little deeper. here's an explanation. >> reporter: it's something we're hearing about right now as we talk about solutions for ending police brutality. defunding the police.
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it's not a new idea, but sit new to a lot of people just learning about it. so what does it mean? the answer really depends on who you ask. on one end, there's some who say defunding the police means stripping away police funding and disbanding it all together. a community advocacy organization in minneapolis is working to a police free future. but for many, it's not about abolishing police departments, but divesting from police departments and investing that money into other community services. in "time" magazine, matrice colors, a co-founder of black lives matter says police should not be in charge of dealing with homelessness or supporting people with drug addiction. those are line items we can cut out of the police budget. that brings us to city budgets. according to a report, police spending vastly outpaces community resources and services. they say in oakland, 41% of the general fund expenditures in
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2017 was spent on policing. the highest program of all the cities they studied. for every dollar spent on the police department, the idea of defunding the police is about closing that gap. those against this idea say an underfunded police department will only make cities more dangerous, and reforms that much harder. it costs money to train, hire, and develop good leaders. but those say it's about reimagining public safety. by shifting money away from the police and toward services that meet those needs, we'll be able to get to a place where people won't need to rob banks. and that's broadly what activists mean when they say defund the police. >> and we have an explanation of defunding the police on our website. it's an article you can read and share with your friends. you'll find it on abc7news.com. a peaceful protest in
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oakland after a man was shot and killed by police. you see there at cherry street and 96 street where the man was killed. the 23-year-old was shot multiple times by the chp on saturday night and tonight, as you can see, the demonstrators are demanding that officers be fired while the family is in mourning. >> i think i'm good right now. >> reporter: mourning the death of her younger stepbrother, amanda agreed to speak to us. >> why not try other methods of getting him out of the car if he was such a danger, that hey had to shoot him 40 times. >> reporter: 23-year-old eric was shot and killed saturday night during an officer involved shooting just a block away from his mother's house. family members confirmed to "abc7 news" his pregnant girlfriend was a passenger in the vehicle. >> she got shot in the stomach. that's why he's in and out of a coma right now. >> reporter: according to the
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oakland police department, the california highway patrol was conducting a criminal investigation in the neighborhood. the vehicle is believed to be one of 74 vehicles stolen from a dealership. >> reporter: community members organized a rally to demand justice for eric, and end to police brutality. >> what happened to eric was no less than a public execution. >> the keys were still in the ignition. so once they started shooting at him, i guess his foot ended up on the accelerator. >> reporter: the police department has not released the names of the officers involved in the shooting. >> i want him to be remembered as a good person.ep sis w under invtigation by the oakland police department. the district attorney's office, as well as the chp's investigation unit. the fbi is expected to be in ben lowman tomorrow as it helps
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with the investigation into the killing of a santa cruz county deputy. the sheriff praised the resident who tackled the suspect. sergeant damon gutswiler was killed in what the sheriff's office called an ambush. >> it's important for damon's memory we get this case right. and we encourage anybody who saw something, who knows something, or who may have been a victim of this guy to contact the district attorney's timline. >> carillo is an active duty u.s. air force sergeant based out of travis air force base in fairfield. the fbi is looking into whether there may be some connection between the weekend's shooting and the killing of a federal officer over a week ago. as protests continue daily, a former mayor is praising the leadership of students.
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crediting high school and college youth for rallying public opinion in ways her generation didn't. david louie is live with her thoughts on how the movement has changed. david? >> reporter: for one thing, claire max generation grew up without social media and devices to mobilize people quickly. she sees it as an important dividend with sharing martin luther king's message. at age 83, claire mack is busy seven days a week filling orders. she was san mateo's first black mayor, serving on the council for 12 years. what strikes her most about the protests locally and across the nation is how many were organized and led by young people. >> this group of youngsters is changing the world. and it's not happening just in san mateo. >> reporter: help from her great niece and nephew in the kitchen gave her a chance to pull out some albums showing her family's affiliation with the naacp.
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it reminded her the time her brother was beaten by the police. she klsees how the spirit of martin luther king has had an impact on younger people. >> they celebrate martin luther king and they have been doing this for 23 years. they're the ones in high school, and they're believe thing country is not what it has -- what it is. they're not believing it. >> reporter: while some of the youngest marchers are years from voting, she sees them serving as a catalyst to get elders to engage and initiate reforms. >> they're giving their mothers and fathers and aunts and uncles the incentive. they're showing initiatives that the adults haven't shown in this country. adults are out there marching also. >> reporter: well, times have changed. she remembers not being allowed to be a high school cheerleader. some doors were closed as she grew up in san mateo. however, she's hopeful that in the weeks and the months ahead,
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what young people are doing today, she says hopes will lead to a new era. we're live, david louie, "abc7 news." >> david, thank you. changes are coming to the san jose police department. the chief announced the department now expressly forbids officers to kneel on somebody's neck, part of the department's prohibition on chokeholds. officers are required to report and enter seed when they witness excessive force by another officer. and rubber bullets will no longer be used to disperse crowds. doctors from a major bay area medical center are joining the calls to ban the use of those so-called rubber bullets. on this mophthalmologists draft paper -- >> these rubber bullet injuries, when they are targeted at people's face, especially their eyes, it's a blinding eye injury. >> the petition supports the
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american academy of ophthalmology, which demanded that law enforcement stop using those projectiles as a method of breaking up crowds. the "abc7 news" i-team's dan noyes found one of those rubber bullets and spoke to one activist who was hit with a rubber bullet in the groin today and had to have surgery and may not be able to have surgery. we posted his story to our website, abc7news.com. next, a live update from the i-team on this incident in alameda. a black man taken into police custody for dancing in the street. racism has been ram pant on social media since the coronavirus outbreak. i'm spencer christian. our most recent warmup has begun and it's going to get warmer. i'll hav
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george floyd's funeral is tomorrow and we'll have live coverage of the live service and celebration beginning at 9:00 a.m. you can watch it here on tv, as well as streaming online through abc7news.com as well as our "abc7 news" apps. tomorrow at noon, muni will pause all service for 8:46 to honor george floyd. that is the length of time his neck was pinned down by the knee of a police officer. alameda city officials are dmn demanding action after a black man was handcuffed by police after reports he was dancing in the street. tonight, the i-team is learning new details criticizing the police department for not telling the whole story. stephanie joins us live with the details tonight. stephanie? >> reporter: i spoke with the vice mayor john knox who told me he was apalled to see that body
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camera footage released on friday. but he was even more disappointed that police were not fully transpart from the beginning. >> stop resisting now. >> i'm not. >> reporter: this is body camera footage of five police officers hand cuffing molly watkins, a 44-year-old martial artist who says he was exercising in front of his home. >> you're dancing in the streets. >> i'm dancing in the street? >> yes. >> they were trying to break me, physically break my body, physically. >> gentlemen, what are you doing? >> reporter: this all happened the morning of saturday, may 23rd. alameda vice mayor john knox white heard about it not long after it happened i. >> the impression that i was given from the police department is that this was probably just one officer, things department go quite the way they wanted to. but looking at the video --
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>> reporter: as clearly shown in the footage, it wasn't just one officer cuffing watkins but five. >> let me go! >> reporter: watkins says he was handcuffed and pushed around by police for an hour. just two days before the death of george floyd. >> for me to hear what happened to this man, again, one slip, it's me instead of floyd. >> reporter: following our story, knox-white held a town hall to address police enforcement. it was supposed to last 90 minutes but went on for five hours. >> the point he walks away, he tries to exercise a right that we're supposed to all have as americans, but as a black person you don't have that right. >> we both just felt like we tried as hard as we could to tell the police officers to stop and they would not listen. >> reporter: the i-team reached out to the police reach, requesting an interview for the third time. but we have yet to hear back. >> it has shaken my confidence
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in the leadership that we have at the alameda police department. >> sir, let me go! >> reporter: the vice mayor could not comment on whether any of the officers shown in that footage should face any disciplinary action. the outside investigation that will determine that is still pending. stephanie sierra, "abc7 news." all right, thank you. happening today, democrats in the house introduced legislation aimed at reforming policing. some things that could change might be the requirement for police body cameras, as well as dash board cameras. chokeholds would be banned and victims of police abuse would have an easier time suing police officers. senator kamala harris appeared on "the view." >> right now when a police officer uses excessive force, the question in a courtroom is to ask was that use of force reasonable? well, as we all know, we can reason away just about anything.
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the real question, the fair question should be to ask, was that use of force necessary? >> hearings on the ledgislation will start on wednesday. discrimination towards asian-americans towards the coronavirus is an issue we have covered here on abc 7. one of the people reporting on it is dion lim, who joins us live with a look at a new online tool aimed at not only tracking the racist incidents, but educating the people behind them. dion? >> reporter: this tool does a lot, larry. and much of the hate is online. i've not only seen it myself, but i've also been a target. and that's why a new bot is using this technology to raise awareness and to do more. >> we don't want you here! that's why we elected president trump. >> reporter: there has been no shortage of hate-related incidents targeting asians since the coronavirus outbreak. >> go back to where he came from. >> reporter: the stop hate
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reporting center has documented nearly 2,000 incidents like this across the country since the pandemic began. when maria lee's brother and then mother experiencedis first hand -- >> out of nowhere, someone just started throwing all kinds of racial slurs at her. telling her to go back to china. >> reporter: maria knew something had to be done. she and a group of volunteers who work at her ad agency started an initiative called respond to racism. >> it is a platform to empower people, sense racism demands a response. >> reporter: hateful speech towards asians has exploded 900%. here's how the bot works, it uses artificial intelligence to identify racist hash tags. it then automatically sends a message to the user of education and why this language is wrong. >> first it talks about how these words or hash tags they're
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using online has a big impact on people's lives in real life. >> reporter: the program also sends video messages from asian-americans to users who may not even know the terminology they're using is wrong. >> it forces the audience to look eye to eye with the person that may be impacted by your words. >> reporter: the bot sevrves purpose -- to be an ally on how to respond when they see hateful speech. >> it makes us feel like there is an action that we can take. even while we're quarantined. >> respond to racism i facing a big hurdle because twitter flag bots that are used for spam or to spread hate, so they're limited to how many tweets they can respond to. they also hope to of enough resources to help people from all back grounds. in san francisco, dion lim, "abc7 news." >> dion, thank you. young, local activist who is
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on a mission to end discrimination and promote lbgtq rights shared her message with a national audience today on the tam ran hall show. >> something that i would like to let parents know is to just -- you don't have to understand it now, it's a really long process. i know my parents is still taking them time. >> she's a co-organizer of the online movement virtual pride, designed to bring together members of the lbgtq community virtually during the time of the coronavirus. virtual pride is holding special online events throughout june, which is pride month. and tameren hall, you can her every weekday right here starting at 1:00 p.m. the weather is warming up. spencer shows you the beak's high temperature in the forecast, ne
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new at 6:00, pg&e is moving its headquarters out of san francisco. the utility said today it's heading to oakland, saying the move from the financial district will save the company money as it emerges from bankruptcy. the new headquarters will be at the new kaiser building. all right. let's check in with spencer now. he has our weather forecast. it's heating up, spencer. >> it certainly is. seems like a weekly pattern now we start to get this warmup in the early to midweek days and then cools down with windy conditions later in the week. let's look at winds right now. even as the warming started today, we had a breezy day. and right now surface wind speeds ranging from 16, 18 to about almost 30 miles per hour across much of the bay area. so it's quite breezy, but it's also quite warm. notice the 24-hour temperature
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change. most locations are six to ten degrees warmer. in fact, 13 degrees warmer in san carlos than this time yesterday and so on we go. this is the view from the roof top camera, looking across the embarcadero. 65 degrees in san francisco. 71 in oakland. mid to upper 70s at gilroy. and 65 at pacifica. this is from emeryville, towards san francisco. other temperature readings, 9 in santa rosa. 77 at napa. 83 in fairfield. 76 in livermore. tomorrow it will be warmer in these locations. looking across the skyline of san francisco from the tower. the warming continues the next two days. cooling begins on thursday and windier and much cooler on friday and saturday, which is similar to the pattern we had last week. overnight, look for clear skies. breezy in the early evening
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hours. after midnight, the winds taper off. overnight lows will be in the upper 40s and some inland locations. also on the coastline. elsewhere, lows in the low to mid 50s. tomorrow, look for highs ranging from near 70 at the coast to low and mid 80s right around the bayshoreline to low and mid 90s and a bit holter in the inland east bay. the north and south bay will have highs to around 90. it gets warmer on wednesday. we'll see maybe some upper 90's in the warmest inland spots. about the same temperature range on the coast as we'll see tomorrow. thursday, cooling begins. certainly near the coast and bay, but even inland, temperatures drop off on thursday. it will be much cooler just about everywhere. and windier on friday. here's a look at the accuweather seven-day forecast. two quite warm days tomorrow and wednesday especially inland.
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cooling begins on thursday. still quite warm in our inland locations on thursday. friday, gusty and cooler. windy and cooler still by a couple of degrees on saturday. temperatures will begin to rebound rather forcefully on sunday. and by next monday. we'll have that usual summer spread of high temperatures going from low 80s around the bay to low 90s inland. no extremes coming our way, but fairly warm inland for a couple of days. bear that in mind. you may want to reduce your exposure to the sun and heat. larry and ama? >> thank you, spencer. no more eating lunch in the cafeteria. one of the many changes spelled out in 62 pages of guidelines to safely reopen california schools. find out what else is going to affect not only students but parts, too. that's next. >> i'm wayne freedman with the story of small business owners, of nail
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build a better bay area for a safe and secure future. this is "abc7 news." >> wall street's enthusiasm about the reopening economy sent stocks soaring. the dow saw 461 point gain and closed at 27,572. the nasdaq was up more than 100 points. the s&p gained 38. investors are optimistic that the worst of the recession may be behind us. today, economists declared the recession began in february, ending a decade of growth, the longest expansion on record. >> the world bank says the world will see its deepest recession since the end of world war ii, predigging economic activity will drop by 5%, the fourth worst global downturn. and the coronavirus may have been present in china several months before the chinese government reported it. researchers compared satellite photos of wuhan hospital parking lots from october 2019 to the
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year before and counted a higher number of cars, that was nearly three months before the chinese government announced the existence of the virus. researchers found an increase in internet searches around the same time. meanwhile, new zealand says it's eradicated the virus from the country. all patients have recovered and no new cases in over two weeks. >> we will almost certainly see cases here again. that is not a sign that we have failed. it is a reality of this virus. >> new zealand, unique. island population of 5 million. just over 1500 people contracted the virus, including 22 who died. just for comparison sake in the bay area, the population is about 7 million. we've recorded more than 15,000 cases and we're charting the number of reported cases each day. check out the yellow line there. that is a rolling average. worldwide, there are more than 7
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million reported cases of coronavirus and more than 400,000 reported deaths. this according to johns hopkins university. the state has released guidance that could allow movie theaters and arcades to reopen as soon as friday, if county health officials allow it. some of the rules include that they can only be at 25% capacity or with a maximum of 100 people. theaters are urged to consider taking reservations, closing or removing seats and using washable seat covers. hair salons and barbershops in contra costa county will reopen next wednesday. indoor dining, bars, churches, gyms and hotels can reopen july 1. last friday, the county opened up outdoor dining, swimming pools and dog parks. today new rules go into effect, allowing for library curbside pickup, pet grooming services and small outdoor gatherings with people belonging
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to the same social bubble. masks must be worn at all times when in public, including when exercising. >> >> starting tomorrow morning, you can reserve a spot to visit yosemite park when it reopens thursday. you can start reserving passes at 7:00 a.m. tomorrow. you have to get a reservation in advance. they will not be available at entrance stations. because of the pandemic, we've concentrated our efforts to build a better bay area into four areas. health, education, our changing workplaces, and the economy. the anticipated road map to reopening schools in california was released ahead of guidelines to help school districts prepare for august as they welcome students back again. lyanne melendez tells us what that might look like. >> reporter: in the fall, schools must put the safety of students, teachers and staff first in order to reopen with
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success. the ways to do that are include in this 55-page guide book. >> you will see our guidance talking about the need for students to be spaced in ways that honors a six-foot space of physical distancing. >> reporter: schools are advised to follow our cdc recommendations, such as facial covering for all. temperatures should be taken before anyone enters the campus. on friday, governor gavin newsom announced personal protective equipment will be made available to all school districts, including thermometers, hand sanitizer and face shields for teachers among other things. when it comes to designing the school day, it will be up to the districts to choose who works best for each school. some may opt for a hybrid model, which includes in-person learning combined with distance learning. districts are being asked to be creative the way early education schools are currently working.
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>> they're using spaces like the cafeteria for classroom space that they can use to have tables spaced out over six feet of distance. they're using spaces like a gymnasium. >> we know that the guidance is telling us several things that we would need to do that right now we are still trying to figure out how we can possibly deliver on. >> reporter: districts will undoubtedly face challenges as they implement these safety measures at a time when california's budget is shrinking. in san francisco, lyanne melendez, "abc7 news." now let's turn our attention to the impact on our economy. nail salons are one industry that still hasn't reopened across california and no estimated date to do so. wayne freedman sells us nail salon owners had some hope last week but it hasn't materialized. >> reporter: pamela is licensed to perform manicures and
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pedicures. she spends a lot of time cleaning an sanitizing. if only she could see customers. >> it put a target on our back. >> reporter: the governor blamed california's first case of covid-19 having spread from a nail salon. >> i think it was absolutely careless for him to say that. >> reporter: last week, a meeting twine the governor's office and industry representatives, who say those staff members walked back the governor's statement. >> it was understood from the call that the first case of covid-19 did not, in fact, come from a nail salon. >> reporter: to today, nail salons announced a second lawsuit against the state. fred jones, legal counsel for the professional beauty federation of california, filed the first suit. >> we think they singled out a particular segment of our industry in defamatory terms. >> we're angry, frustrated and suffering. we need our nail salons to be
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open. >> reporter: but they're not open yet. now add another frustration. they have no idea what the guideline also be. >> i have the shields up. not only for my manicuring but pedicure. >> reporter: she has masks, sanitizer, a thermometer, but no love for the governor. >> for him to say that and to p pin point our business in a way he did is deplorable. >> reporter: that's plain talking from a frustrated industry. wayne freedman, "abc7 news." during the pandemic, a lot of people have skipped or missed medical appointments. see how some local eye doctors figured out how to conduct an exam. next, a historic ship may have survived that big fisherman
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a fire two weeks ago gutted a fishing warehouse. it only caused minor damage to a world war ii ship that was docked nearby, but that blaze was another blow to the historic vessel, which has seen revenue drop drastically during the pandemic. when a fire erupted at a pier 45 warehouse, matt lasher feared the worst. >> we saw some photos of the structure fire. it looked like a volcano. >> reporter: flames shot up from the roof of pier 35. he feared the blaze would spread to the world war ii era ship, the "ss jeremiah o'brian." >> it was safe to say there was going to be a lot of damage. >> reporter: fortunately, the fireboats shot water into the warehouse and the water
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streaming past the ship may have spared it from damage. >> we have a lot of minor damage. as you climb up the ship, the fire curved inward and damaged a lot of the plastics and non-steel materials. >> reporter: the glass in several portholes cracked. covers from the lifeboats fused and lines that dock the ship to the pier war damaged. >> 545 degrees sfarn hi s fahree melting point of this line. >> reporter: the crew was analyzing damage to the radar. >> it doesn't look great. hopefully it works. >> reporter: replacing damaged items won't be easy. the ship has been closed since march because of the stay at visitor feesak up 2/3 of its budget. >> having the ability to come aboard the vessel, touch, feel, see things is more impactful than a photo. this is a living, breathing memorial. >> reporter: more than 2700 liberty ships were built during
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world war ii. they were used to carry supplies. this ship delivered cargo to normandy after the invasion. it's one of two liberty ships that has survived. its triple expansion steam engine was featured in the movie "titanic." >> when you see the engines spinning and reversing, that's us. >> reporter: the ship moved to pier 35 and is waiting to welcome visitors again. the national liberty ship memorial which operates this ship is taking donations to replace some of the damaged items and help maintain the ship during the pandemic. next up,
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hand made gift is worth more than it appears. >> reporter: the coronavirus can impact families in terrible ways. joanie thomas and her family saw this reality play out earlier this year. >> back in march, my mother-in-law and my father-in-law both died of the covid-19 virus. and my aunt also died. and she's kind of like my mom to me. >> reporter: in such a difficult time, it was an unsuspecting gift that helped turn things around. >> a friend of mine, kelly, called me up and said i'm going to drop off something for you and just leave it on your porch. and i go out on my porch and this beautiful blanket was there. i think of it as the comfort blanket or the love blanket. >> reporter: hours of work by this woman, kate nelson, who has never even met joanie, making blankets is her way of helping those grieving. >> it makes me feel really good. i know the joy and the happiness that they can bring. even if i don't know those people, that's fine. i just know that they will be
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happy to have one. >> reporter: kate has been making ten blankets a month for 17 years. and you don't need me to tell you that's a lot of support for people who need i a hand made hug in the form of a blanket. >> that's the kind of person i am. i love to do things for people and i have given a lot to places where they're doing chemo and dialysis. just fills my heart. >> it makes me want to learn how to crochet so i can pass the gift along. i can't think of a nicer gift, i really can't. flowers come and go. and i love flowers. but the blanket is like forever. >> kate, i've never met you. but what a gift. >> reporter: a blanket keeps the body warm. the gift of a comfort blanket warms the heart. in san jose, dustin dorsey, "abc7 news." >> kate is so sweet. we invite you to join better bay area project thanks and share your gratitude for everybody on the frontlines of the covid-19
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battle. build a better bay area means taking care of our health. a bay area eye clinic is speeding up the way it handles examines during the covid-19 crisis. dan ashley has a look at how it works. >> reporter: as an ophthalmologist, this doctor is trying to spot dangerous developments in the eye. >> so this is the optic nerve here. >> reporter: the challenge is that she has to examine patients to do it. and with the covid crisis, many may not be scheduling their normal eye checkups. >> one of the main things we need to check is the eye pressure, because a sustained increase in the eye pressure can lead to lasting damage to the vision, which is called glaucoma. >> you just put the new tip in there. >> reporter: so to speed things up, the team has moved its clinic closer to the patients. setting up a drive-through eye pressure test in a parking lot
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on the campus. >> so we use the eye care, which is a great tool. we don't have to use drops to numb the eye. and there's a small part that bounces off the cornea and lets us check the pressure. >> reporter: by the time the patient rolls up, the test is set and the total time is about a minute or two. >> look straight ahead. >> reporter: the goal obviously is to catch any warning signs early by staying connected with patients who may be hesitant to visit a doctor's office in the shelter in place. >> in the covid environment, you want to minimize that as much as possible. so i thought, great, i drive in, roll down my window. it's perfect. >> reporter: in christine's case, the pressure reading is slightly high. a realtime evaluation that can be checked in the clinic or on a followup appointment, potentially heading off more serious trouble. in san francisco, dan ashley,
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"abc7 news." >> doctors say the exams are also important, because many eye conditions develop quickly before the patients feel the symptoms. let's talk about our weather, because we want to know how hot it's going to get. spencer? >> well, it's going to get quite warm, ama and larry, we have a big ridge of high pressure. let me show you the at mols feericks right now -- atmospherics right now. the warmup as you know, has already begun, and the next two days, tomorrow and wednesday, will be even warmer, especially inland. and over the central portions, really hot. overnight, we don't have to worry about any heat. it will be clear and breezy at the coast. relatively cool. upper 40s inland to 50s around the bay. highs will range from low to mid
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90s inland. here's the forecast. the warmest day will be wednesday with inland highs reaching mid to upper 90s. friday and saturday, the cooling will continue. so this won't be much, just a two-day bump-up. >> thank you, spencer. so i'm in for dan. chris is handling sports. baseball fans have to be wondering are we going to see a baseball season? >> larry, i really hope so. that's the question that remains to be answered. what will oracle park look like if baseball comes back? we have some photos to show you. and is klay ready to play? i am robert strickler. i've been involved in communications in the media for 45 years. i've been taking prevagen on a regular basis for at least eight years. for me, the greatest benefit over the years has been that prevagen seems to help me recall things
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when many joined the protests across the bay area. steph curry, klay thompson were among the many who showed up to that. they missed plenty of time off the court due to injury, the gm bob myers was asked about the condition of klay, who is still recovering from that torn acl. >> 100% for you and i to walk around on the street is not 100% for an nba player playing basketball. so until we test him and you start him one on one and then two on two, and obviously the pandemic has not allowed him that opportunity to do those type of things. so there's no rush, clearly. as far as i've heard, he's recovering from fine. this hasn't been a setback. >> the 22-team nba restart in orlando july 31st. the athletic reporting on some key postseason dates. august 16-17 can be a play-in
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tournament. first round, august 18th. second round, september 1. conference finals set for the 15th of september with game one of the nba finals september 30th. how about major league baseball? they proposed a 76-game season, including a 75% pro-rated salary for the players, but expect a counteroffer from the players union. if baseball is played in 2020, we have a better idea of how oracle park is going to look. the giants released these photos of the new bullpens in center field. the park has had bullpens in foul ground since 2000. this should help the offensive production. former a's catcher bruce maxwell was the first baseball player to take a knee in 2017. he was the most recent guest on our with authority podcast. now, maxwell is now playing in mexico and opened up about everything, including growing up biracial in alabama and his decision to kneel and how that forever changed his life. >> i think personally when people say it's disrespecting the military, disrespecting the
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flag, and the all lives matter comments that people tend to love to say, you know, it bothers me, because it's a deflecting technique. it really is. people want to talk about the military and our flag and our national anthem. well, my father fought in the military. my grandfather fought in the military. i've got uncles, i have an opportunity that spehat spenhah five years in the military.
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