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. building a better bay area for a safe and secure future, this is abc 7 news. and i heard a smash, i'm about 10 or 12 feet away from them and i instan'tly realize that they're breaking into this car. >> seconds later this good samaritan in san francisco had a gun pointed in her face. the brazen daylight encounter in the city's alamo square neighborhood was all caught on camera, it's a story you'll see only here on abc 7 news. good morning, everybody, it's saturday january 9th. thank you for joining us after this historic week. we'll have more on the break-in and the woman who confronted the thieves but first let's start with a quick look at the weather with lisa argen. >> very dense fog out there. it's in spots. it's not everywhere, and as we look at live doppler 7, you pick
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it out there towards the east and the sacramento valley and that's where we have the dense fog advisory, visibility, a quarter of a mile, novato, napa and the delta, four miles down in san jose so certainly better, away from the north bay, combination of that residual moisture and also northerly winds for vacaville, fairfield, and vallejo. to see the visibility dip below a quarter of a mile at times. pretty shot from sutro, temperatures in the 40s at 9:00 with the clouds and patchy fog but we'll break out into sunshine. a dry and mild week ahead. liz? >> lisa, thank you. we're also following breaking news this morning, a passenger airplane has gone missing in indonesia. the boeing.737 boeing classic lost contact after taking off from jakarta. you can sflight radar 24. reports lost more than 10,000 feet of altitude in less than
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one minute after departing. you can is a ein that flight tracker there. now 56 passengers and six crew members are on board this plane. a search for the plane is now under way and the situation is under investigation. we'll bring you any updates a we get them. back here at home now, a brazen car break-in in san francisco's alamo square could have turned deadly. the woman who confronted the chiefs who pulled the gun on her spoke exclusively to luz pena. >> they grab a bag and i yell, you know, hey, that's mine, hey, you're stealing, you know, give that back. >> reporter: you were just trying to stop them. >> just trying to stop them from, you know, stop them in -- before they could take too much. >> reporter: and in a blink of an eye this alamo square resident had a gun pointed at her. were you scared for your life? >> i, yeah, to some extent.
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>> reporter: a moment she's still processing. she agreed to speak to us while keeping her identity private. she says during the pandemic there's been an uptake of car break-ins in this neighborhood but now thieves are more brazen. >> oh, my god, to take it that far. >> reporter: san francisco police data shows city wide in 2020 there were 13,553 thefts in vehicles, in broad daylight at 12:30 p.m. and the thieves took with them passports and personal documents from inside a tourist's vehicle. it's gotten so bad the city has signs like this one on the sidewalk and also on light poles. reminding residents not to leave anything of value in their vehicles. many telling me it's just not enough. john has lived in this area close to two decades and is also noticing two to three car break-ins in a day. >> i think it would be good to get cameras in these all light
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poles. >> reporter: the suspects fled the scene and no arrests have been made. in san francisco, luz pena, abc 7 news. the bay area stay at home order isn't expected to be lifted and will likely be extend extended indefinitely, you can see why. icu availability has dropped to 3%. the lowest since the region's tracking started. the order hasn't officially been extended yet. one restaurant decided to reopen for indoor dining. >> reporter: the patio at side track bar and grill filled up quickly as word got out they were open. >> i didn't know what to expect. >> reporter: todd owns the place. he says he's been planning for this day, the day the bay area regional stay at home order was set to expire. alameda county has not extended it on their own. without word yet from the state
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he decided to go for it. >> we stocked up our food. we hired back some staff and we felt let's be back open outdoors. >> reporter: 30 other restaurant owners expressed interest to him in reopening, in total, only about eight of them did but he says unless they're allowed to reopen soon this stretch of downtown pleasanton could lose a lot of local businesses. >> we are literally a month or two away from going out of business. >> reporter: barbara mckay owns mckay's tap house with her husband. they opened their patio as well insisting outdoor dining has not been proven to be the source of outbreaks. >> we would never make this decision if we didn't feel that it was not a health risk to our community and it was not the morally right thing to do. >> reporter: alameda county did not respond to our request for comment but they did issue a statement saying, quote, for the order to be lifted the state's projections must show that our region is expected to meet or exceed 15% icu capacity in the
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next four kweeks, we cannot communicate next steps until the state formally announces our region's status. in pleasanton, matt boone, abc 7 news. in the north bay the napa fire department is sending medical staff to southern california to help with the surge of covid patients. it includes four emts and paramedics. the first time the department has sent medical help to another area. the crew will work 12 hour shifts for 14 days. >> they're doing various duties. they could be doing ivs, working with patients, helping nurses in the e.r. >> the need is great, funeral homes and morgues are being overwhelmed with covid victims there. these aerial images show victims being placed into refrigerated storage at the los angeles county coroner's office. yesterday was the county's deadliest day since the pandemic began. and in sonoma county a refrigerated truck has arrived at the coroner's office in santa
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rosa. a spokesman for the sheriff's office says it can hold 56 bodies. right now the truck is empty but the county says it wants to be prepared just in case. now developing news, president trump is trying to get back on twitter now after his account was permanently suspended yesterday. the president tried to evade the ban by using the potus account, the team trump campaign account and an account belonging to an aid. they were all either blocked or suspended. twitter said it made the decision because of a trump tweet that posed, quote, the risk of further incitement of violence. >> i think why twitter and facebook are realizing is that this is a loaded gun. it is something that is not just mouthing off on the internet and it went off on wednesday. >> the president issued a statement saying twitter was trying to silence him and suggested he may build his own platform. facebook and instagram had already banned the president's account for as long as he remains in office. google blocked the social
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networking app parlor as well, which is popular with far right conservatives. it called the app an urgent public safety threat. apple has given parlor 24 hours now to start moderating its content or it could face expulsion from the apple store as well. momentum is building to remove president trump from office before his term ends in 11 days now. andrew dinberg reports from washington as washington mourns a police officer who died in the chaos. >> reporter: the flag at the capitol flying at half staff in honor of the officer who died. brian sicknick, a 12-year veteran. the vice president offering his condolences but silence from president trump, as calls for him to resign or be removed from office. ben sasse would consider articles of impeachment. >> i believe the president has disregarded his oath of office. >> reporter: lisa murkowski,
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more direct, saying i want him to resign. i want him out. democrats appear to be moving forward with impeachment. they've already written an impeachment resolution, a single article for, quote, incitement of insurrection, charging trump with, quote, willfully inciting violence against the government by urging his followers to march to the capitol. >> we're going to walk down and i'll be there with you because you'll never take back our country with weakness, you have to show strength and you have to be strong. >> reporter: when biden is sworn in, president trump won't be there, confirming on twitter before his suspension, he is not attending the inauguration. if trump stays true, he'll be the fourth outgoing president not to attend his successor's inauguration, the last president to skip, president andrew johnson, some 152 years ago. andrew dinberg, abc news, washington. house democrats plan to introduce their impeachment resolution on monday.
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we talked with congresswoman jackie speier who says if president trump doesn't leave office immediately he could topple our democracy. >> if we allow this unholy act to desecrate the temple of democracy, if this doesn't warrant an impeachment, what other conduct does? >> she says trump's second impeachment will be different than his first but it is still up to the republican controlled senate to convict him of wrongdoing. all right, oakland police are also investigating allegations that employees were involved in online hate speech, while it is up clear what was posted oakland police did not allow employees to affiliate with subversive groups as they call them or do anything that disgraces the department. any violation of department policy could result in discipline, including termination. in a statement interim police chief susan manheimer said,
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quote, the trust of our community is our highest priority. we will not tolerate any breach of that trust from any member of our department. lisa, let's take a break now and take a look outside, it is foggy this morning. >> yeah, visibility, liz, mainly in the north bay at a quarter of a mile or less. and a dense fog advisory towards the delta. golden gate bridge, see exactly what i mean here, it is 45 degrees and we'll see sunshine throughout the day today, a lot of sun on the way for the week ahead but a few caveats. we'll talk about it next. >> thank you, lisa. also ahead, the san francisco board of supervisors has a new president. we'll explain how least making history in that position. plus, governor newsom unveiled his budget proposal. breaking down how much money he's setting aside for funding the state's covid-19 response. colgate optic white renewal removes ten years of yellow stains. that's like all the way back to 2010. they're jeans. they're leggings. they're jeggings! whoa. remove ten years of yellow stains
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unanimous vote on friday. the first black man to serve as board president. wolton represents district 10, he will hold the position for two years. he joins a list of notable former board members, including mayor london breed and governor gavin newsom. and governor newsom released his $227 billion budget proposal, coming with a one-time wind fall leading to 12% more spending than last year, the center piece is immediate funding for the state's covid-19 response. wayne freedman takes a closer look. >> our budget understandably represents and reflects the realities of this recession. >> reporter: that budget acknowledges the pain felt by californians who've suffered the most, low wage workers, small business owners, and renters. the governor wants to augment those coming $600 checks from
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the government with $600 more from the state. >> you recall that first slide, proposing a golden state stimulus, to basically make those $600 checks that people are starting to receive from the federal government, to get them to be $1,200, we want to get roughly 4 million checks out within three weeks of me signing this package. >> reporter: as for fighting the virus, the governor hopes to see 1 million people immunized total within the next nine days. he proposes spending $1.7 billion for contact tracing and $372 million for vaccines, the state is relaxing some of those guidelines. >> it's when the vaccines are produced at scale and made available to the state, then we can answer the question 20 plus million californians can have access. what we did yesterday is we updated the guidelines, recognizing some of the bottlenecks in terms of this
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cohort, and now we are allowing people more flexibility at the local level. >> reporter: among the more unusual questions, why a governor who's gone into quarantine twice refuses at this point to be vaccinated himself. >> my humble opinion is, i don't think that will sit well with people. and i am happy to wait my turn. >> reporter: also in the budget there's more money for an earthquake early warning system. it's been in budgets before, remains for a few million dollars the governor figure he can buy a few seconds warning before the big one hits, that could save lives. wayne freedman, abc 7 news. $86 billion of the budget is for public schools, education, of course, is one of the things we are focused on here at abc 7 as we work to build a better bay area, some of the record investment would go toward addressing equity in reopening for in person learning. chris reyes spoke to local
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superintendents who have fired off a letter asking for a meeting on the dpgovernor's proposal. >> there needs to be from the state actual state standards concerning what is safe. >> reporter: that concern prompted this letter from seven major urban school districts this california, including sf unified and oakland unified. in it they say a patchwork of standards across more than a thousand school districts would impact low income schools. last week governor newsom announced an optimistic plan to reopen schools as early as february. in the letter the superintendents say the plan fails to address the need of urban school districts that serve nearly a quarter of california students, almost all of whom live before the poverty level. >> the governor sounded pretty hopeful about opening up schools in february. do you think that's realistic from where you stand? >> i think that a big part of opening those schools are state standards. >> reporter: state standards, a plan to help special ed students and a vaccination timetable.
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they also need clarification on the governor's promise of $2 billion. >> we shouldn't be taking funds out of the classroom to fund other initiatives, those dollars should definitely not come out of prop $98. >> reporter: in a statement superintendents said we need to continue to work together to refine the approach of the needs of urban school districts and equity in mind. the governor talked about addressing equity but no details on how it will be applied to schools reopening. >> to deal with the disproportionate impacts of this pandemic on the issues impacting our low income communities. >> reporter: superintendent, what response are you hoping for? >> it's a sitdown with the governor. >> reporter: we asked the governor's office if that meeting will take place, we haven't heard back yet. in san francisco, kris reyes for abc 7 news. now, a south bay organization is donating $75,000 to help repair the lick observatory damaged in the scu
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lightning complex fires. friends of the observatory, a local organization, designated the money to aid recovery efforts. crews were able to protect the main structures and telescope domes that have sat at the top of mount hamilton since 1888. but the fire damaged buildings like employee housing and critical infrastructure. all right, lisa, are we expecting any rain? i know last week was a wet one. >> we could see passing showers well to the north as we get into tuesday, today's only saturday. most folks want to worry about the weekend, what's ahead of them and we do have a lot of fog out there. we call that radiation fog where the air near the surface cools to the dew point, and with the combination of some offshore winds we're getting some pretty dense fog in our north bay valleys and also the eastern sacramento valley and that is expected to nudge just a little bit west, where you can see highway 4 there, live doppler 7 right now where we're looking at the storm track, pushing well to
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the north. and once again, missing us for the most part. but we will see a couple of systems just skirt the north of us, bringing in those high clouds from time to time today, and tomorrow. it is looking like very foggy conditions from novato to napa, quarter mile visibility, 2 1/2 miles out towards concord and you look at five miles, livermore, four miles in san jose. it's out there. it's going to move around a little bit, and it's not everywhere, but certainly take your time, numbers are cold, in the 30s, we're looking at 35, up in santa rosa, good morning to you, 36 in novato, with low 40s in napa, 42 in gilroy. as we look at our 24-hour temperature change with the cloud cover, the fog, the temperatures near the dew point, we're looking at 10 to 13 degrees cooler, up in the north bay, seven degrees colder than yesterday, from hayward to san mateo. should have changed the camera there, my bad, looking at areas of dense fog, chilly this morning, mainly sunny this
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weekend with high clouds and looking at not only record warmth, getting into, say, wednesday, but thursday and friday we could see widespread 70s around the bay area. let's take it hour by hour today, 7:00 you'll notice that we have the clouds around the fog is still with us. by midafternoon we've got the high clouds, filtered sunshine, temperatures near 60. so on the mild side, taking you all the way through sunday where that weak system overhead early sunday morning wants to bring a few sprinkles up into the north bay. otherwise, once again, we'll be into the high clouds, your sunday afternoon, overall we're dry. next chance of showers comes in on tuesday. take you all the way to the southeast where it's going to be cooler than average for the next seven days but back home we're looking at not only warmer temperatures, but a good 70% of the week ahead will be much warmer. we're talking wednesday, thursday and friday as high pressure continues to build on in. so take a look at tuesday, we'll
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see some clouds up to the north, upper 50s to near 60, still mild, though, above average wednesday, we're in the mid to upper 60s, and then as we get into your thursday, a few 70s arriving here for that mild end of the week. 60 today in oakland, look for 60 in palo alto, becoming partly cloudy, temperatures in the upper 50s, san francisco 62 and morgan hill, the accuweather seven-day forecast looking at highs today from the 50s to low 60s, that fog to start. and then by tomorrow pretty much the same story, little change on monday, maybe some showers into tuesday. liz? >> all right, lisa, thank you, sounds good. just ahead, hawaii's plan to keep covid out is causing issues for some tourists, a bay area man explains why he was forced to quarantine even after a negative test. ♪ don't just do it yourself. yes! do it for yourself. ♪
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finney has a story and a warning to anyone traveling to the state. >> reporter: the allure of hawaii remains tempting for many. the number of visitors plummeted as covid gripped the country. some 12,000 travelers still land on the island each day, many come from california despite travel restrictions in place in the golden state. one of those is a concord man seen here on the left with his two traveling companions. >> they were pretty good about social distancing on the plane, the plane probably held about 30% or 40% capacity, which is really good. >> reporter: hawaii requires all visitors to get tested 72 hours before departure. lieutenant governor dr. josh green explains. >> they get that test successfully, then it's negative, it's top flight test, then they don't have to worry about quarantining. >> reporter: rayes did that, got his test 72 hours before
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departure. he received his negative test result two hours after he landed. too late. test results must be in before departure. they ordered him to quarantine for ten days. >> it's not my fault. took so long to deliver the test. why do i have to quarantine if i have negative results and she said, sorry, that is the law. >> reporter: but the lieutenant governor says strict protocols are necessary to avoid having to put even more people under quarantine. >> and then they find out later they were positive, the two rows around them all now were close contacts, the individuals themselves and their family are going to have to isolate for ten days in hawaii, at least. >> reporter: rayes received his test from kaiser which is a partner in hawaii's safe travel program. kaiser told us we sympathize with mr. raw rose, turnaround times my vary, staying home the best thing to do. ramos says hawaiian airlines
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told him it would be okay to board without test results but the airline told us test results are not a requirement for boarding and that it encouraging passengers to stay informed of all requirements. rayes thinks all parties need to talk to each other. >> yeah, i mean, there are some big miscommunication going on between all the parties involved. >> reporter: i'm michael finney, "7 on your side." new developments in a seafood standoff, local crab fleets and hole sale buyers have come to a price agreement, negotiations centered around the amount of money the fleets were receiving for their hauls. this delayed the start of crab season. the san francisco crab boat owners association expects fishermen to begin setting their traps in the water on monday. so get ready for some dungeness crab finally. still to come, one california university is trying to fight the spread of covid-19 with vending machines. it's the first of its kind allowi
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allowing students to be tested quickly and easily. the continuing economic impact of the pandemic, some owners of east bay businesses big and small we live in the mountains so i like to walk. i'm really busy in my life; i'm always doing something.
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zblnch >> announcer: building a better bay area for a safe and secure future, this is abc 7 news. we're starting this half hour with a look at the weather with meteorologist lisa argen, it's foggy this morning, lisa. >> it's very foggy, liz, and we have a dense fog advisory by the delta until noon. looking at current visibility, can't see anything in novato, quarter mile napa, eighth of a mile over by fairfield, and it's better but you still just have four miles in san jose. so here's where we expected to be the worst, from fairfield and vacaville, and vallejo. do be careful. mid and upper 40s by 9:00 and high clouds by noontime. so mid and upper 50s,
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temperatures near average today, a mixture of that filtered high clouds with that sunshine today, keeping it dry, and as we go through the afternoon hours, the fog comes back tonight and we'll be looking at very similar situation on your sunday. we're going to add in some warmth throughout the week ahead, a few more clouds. we'll have the full look at the accuweather seven-day forecast coming up. liz? >> lisa, thank you. president trump's twitter account has been banned as we've reported he has used the social media platform to announce policy changes, challenge opponents, insult enemies, praise his allies and himself. and to spread misinformation. abc news reporter karina mitchell has the details. >> reporter: president trump permanently suspended from twitter, the social network says it's because of remarks over wednesday's raid on the capitol and that his comments could further incite violence. the president reacted to the decision in a statement saying he will not be silenced, teasing a new platform. twitter's move follows facebook
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and instagram which also suspended the president's accounts, those bans indefinite, lasting at least through the inauguration. the american civil liberties union expressing concern saying although the president can turn to other media out lets, those less fortunate won't have the same opportunity. the rules should be applied equally to everyone. five people died in wednesday's rioting, including one police officer just hours after the president held a rally and urged his supporters to march to the capitol. and with more than a week left in office democrats appear to be moving forward with impeachment. already drawing up an impeachment resolution. president-elect biden says that's up to congress, but adding there is an alternative. >> the quickest way that that will happen is us being sworn in on the 20th. >> reporter: but south carolina senator lindsey graham a trump supporter tells fox news' sean hannity, the president-elect should take action.
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>> president-elect biden, it's up to you, pick up the phone, call nancy pelosi, chuck schumer and the squad and tell them, stand down, this will destroy the country even further. >> reporter: karina mitchell, abc news, new york. president-elect biden is 11 days away now from taking office but this morning president trump says he will not attend biden's inauguration. >> one of the few things he and i have ever agreed on. it's a good thing i'm not showing up. i've been saying for now, well over a year, he's not fit to serve. >> trump would be the fourth president to not attend their successor's inauguration. he joins martin van buren, woodrow wilson and richard nixon. it comes as he faces impeachment effort in his role on wednesday's riots, calls for violence among right wing extremists have only intensified ahead of inauguration day. now to the covid crisis. there are now more than 368,000 americans who have died from the
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virus, and more than 3,800 deaths in just 24 hours. doctors and emts say patients on ventilators are now having to share oxygen because there just aren't enough resources, abc news reporter kaylee hartung has the latest. >> reporter: with hospital morgues and funeral homes overflowing los angeles bringing in refrigerated trucks to store the bodies. >> we're just coming off the travel and the congregating and social settings of the holiday season, virtually every day another record is broke. >> reporter: los angeles hospitals buckling. >> we've taken all of our resources and tried to give them to the patient that's in the most desperate and imminent need. >> reporter: ventilators and oxygen in short supply. >> they had the oxygen tubing and had a connector so that two patients were using basically the same oxygen flow at the same time. so it's -- resources are really low. >> reporter: that was your best option? >> that was the only option. >> reporter: paramedics telling us ambulances are waiting up to 17 hours outside hospitals because there are no beds. the mayor pleading for federal
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help, and more vaccines. >> give los angeles what we need. and just as we sent doctors to new york and ppe to other parts of the country, early on when they were peaking, this is our peak. >> reporter: with that highly contagious variance confirmed in eight states, promising signs, a new study from pfizer and university of texas medical branch, net yet peer reviewed found its vaccine likely protects from those two variants, only 30% of the 22 million vaccines distributed have been administered. president-elect biden plans to break with the trump administration and starts to unveil vaccines immediately. something some governors are pushing for. >> vaccines give us hope but the rollout has been a travesty. >> reporter: and fda commissioner steven hahn has new recommendations. he says if there is some risk of vaccines going to waste they should expand to lower priority
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groups that make sense, elderly, first responders, and people with preexisting conditions. a southern california university has ruled out covid-19 test sending machines, testing is required weekly at ucsd, the automated machines are the first of their kind on a u.s. kplej campus. they allow students to access the test easily and quickly and after self-administering and returning the swabs, results can be received in less than two days. so far the university has installed 11 machines across campus. now the reality of 2021 is becoming clear for many business owners realing the lockdown isn't ending soon. leslie brinkley met many in contra costa county fearful for the future, we're taking a look at the economic health in order to build a better bay area. >> reporter: this cafe owner says he's on the edge as he sees
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no end in sight to the shutdown. >> we're not doing good to be honest. not doing good at all. i let off six people the last three weeks. >> reporter: businesses say in the spring shutdown they had a sense of somehow we'll get through this. they say it's totally different now this winter, they've shifted into desperation mode. >> we're going to be opening our patio and limited indoor dining. >> reporter: in desperation the chef and owner of the hideout in lafayette went on social media to say he was going to defy the health order and pay the fines to stay afloat. but the county threatened to have his license revoked. >> the threat of permanent closure is greater now than it has been in the last ten months. >> we're talking to businesses every day and we're hearing a lot of struggles. >> reporter: the d.a.'s office has issued 14 fines since november for violations of the health order. >> it's a really grim prospect. >> reporter: the owner of flashlight books in walnut creek
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is hanging on, around her there are so many closures. >> we're anticipating maybe a few more that will just not be able to make it through. so some of our downtown businesses that have closed include cost plus world market, and knee man marcus will be closing at the end of january. >> reporter: the only business that sounded optimistic was 24 hour fitness, 41 locations are currently closed but six others have opened outdoor fitness. >> we're actually seeing more and more members and team members show confidence in our ability to run a safe space before them and an increase in the number of workouts. >> reporter: after an uptick during the holidays walnut creek businesses say even takeout orders are flat lining. it looks to be a grim winter ahead in the east bay, leslie brinkley, abc 7 news. still ahead on abc 7 mornings, alex trebek's final show as the host of "jeopardy" aired this week, former bay area contestants shared their memories with us. and here is a live look,
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looking out over the bay. you can see there, it is foggy this morning so please do take it slow and safe if you're driving on the roads. all right, stick with us, we'll be right back with a check of the forecast. everybody spends the night at the house. i love christmas, i always did. it's loud, it's family being together. a lot of food, music, people, hugs. that's a perfect christmas. ♪
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a row boat that's endured hundreds of days on the open ocean is now up for sale. leah ditton rode alone for 86 days from san francisco to hawaii last year in this boat. the chronicle reports she's now selling it for $48,000. it's 10 years old and designed to carry just one person. now her goal is to row solo all the way across the pacific ocean from japan to san francisco. she hopes to set sail in 2023. but she will need a newer, lighter boat. well, lisa, impressive on her part, very impressive and very brave. >> uh-huh, yeah, i'll say, good luck to her, good morning, everyone, temperatures range from 35 where we have the fog to
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45 right here in san francisco. so some areas of dense fog, now high clouds with filtered sun this afternoon. and looking at a very mild, almost spring like week ahead, your forecast is coming up. >> thanks, lisa. also next, bouncing back, a rematch between the warriors and clippers but this time steph curry was i'm made to move. but these days, i'm not getting out as much as i'd like to. that's why i take osteo bi-flex. it helps with occasional joint stiffness, while it nourishes and strengthens my joints for the long term. osteo bi-flex. because i'm made to move. ♪ oh, oh, (announcer)®! ♪ once-weekly ozempic® is helping many people with type 2 diabetes like emily
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warriors down in the third, with authority, nine points and six boards, the clippers seemed to have the game under control. paul george, the drive, and one, goes for 25, clips led by as many as 22, late in the third, the dubs catch fire, steph curry contested three, catch, release, splash, warriors close the gap, down six, curry goes to the bench, eric paschal, three of his 12, hitting two threes and up three. and another triple buried, warriors up six, curry loving this 40-6 outburst. the clips held steph to 14 points on wednesday, the reverse, soft touch in the lane, 38 points, 11 assists for chef curry. six-point game, a minute laeft, wig begins downed a three, 52-20 run to win it 115-105. man, that was fun. women's college basketball, top ranked stanford missing three players because of covid
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but fran bolivi was rejecting shots left and right. wilson 11 against the 11th ranked duction. haley jones led the way with 18 points, bounce pass right here, jones threading the needle to bolivi for the lay-up, stanford 10-0 after a 70-63 victory. nfl news, they announced the all pro team, 49ers linebacker fred warner is regarded as the best linebacker in the league, no surprise he was first team all pro named by the associated press, led the 49ers in tackles and the good news for fred, he's going to get a nice payday this offseason. in contrast, raiders tight end darren woller had a monster year and somehow, some way did not make first or second team all pro. that second spot was listed as vacant. i guess because all the first team votes went to travis kelce of the chiefs. if woller had gotten one vote, he would have been regarded all
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pro. certainly deserving, no question. have a great weekend, everybody, i'm larry beil. >> we thought 2021 maybe some hope of getting off to a better start but i don't know, here we are. all right, and before we get to lisa, the warriors only have 9% of their staff, 39 time workers, four others were furloughed, most of them worked in ticket sales and game presentation, ten months after the organization laid off 1,700 part-time event workers and before this week the warriors are one of the few nba teams not to let go of full-time employees. it will reiterate, we were hoping the year would get to a better start, here we are. >> here we are, you know, we've had some mist, some drizzle, some light systems that have given us a little bit of rain in the north bay and that's going to be the case, perhaps again this week, but overall, yes, you're right, high pressure, this dominant weather feature, that is hard to budge. it's going to stay with us for the week ahead. here's a look at live doppler 7 where there's fog in the central
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valley, that dense fog advisory, the storm track shows all the moisture and the storms headed to the north and for the bay area it's high pressure building in, we have visibility that's been reduced to nothing in novato. quarter mile in napa, eighth of a mile in fairfield. it's better in concord but we do expect this fog to stay with us, get a little worse and continue to move to the west. and reason being, we have moisture on the ground, temperature is at dew point and cool to the dew point, radiation fog. these winds coming out of the north/northeast, just transporting that fog into the north bay. but it's not everywhere. so where you do have it, it's dense. elsewhere, it's okay, that's why woe don't have a dense fog advisory for the bay area locally but it's cold, nine to 11 degrees cooler from oakland to the north bay, five degrees colder compared to yesterday than we were 24 hours ago in san jose. this is the airport, we are looking at that fog, areas of dense fog, chilly this morning, mainly sunny for the weekend. but we do have those high clouds
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and looking at near record warmth as we get into next thursday and friday. here's a look at the high clouds throughout the rest of the day today, it's 7:30. we have the fog. the fog dissipates by about noontime and then we'll look at those high clouds, 2:00, filtered sunshine, we roll this through your sunday, weather system moving in, this frontal passage offering up a few sprinkles for cloverdale, maybe santa rosa and as we look at your sunday, pretty much the same scenario, filtered sun, mostly sunny for most of you, and high clouds for the rest of us. but we are looking at the potential for just a couple hundredths down in san francisco, this is the next seven days, you can see all the rain in the pacific northwest, even northwestern california, over a tenth of an inch in santa rosa, probably from that system on tuesday. and then as you look at the rest of the bay area, just a couple hundredths with maybe some sprinkles out there. remaining dry the next seven to ten days and as we go into your tuesday, upper 50s to near 60,
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maybe cloud cover to the north, numbers just a bit above average but by wednesday we're in the mid to upper 60s. and by thursday, we're looking at temperatures near 70 in some of our interior locations for santa rosa, 71, perhaps 70 in san jose. here's a look today, and then the high clouds, 60 in oakland, 61 in livermore, 62 in santa cruz, dense fog this morning, looking at filtered sun throughout the day today and tomorrow. change on monday, milder and a chance of showers north on tuesday, otherwise, it's even warmer, looking like spring wednesday, thursday and friday, liz, so, yeah, this pattern is going to be hard to budge, unfortunately. >> all right, lisa, thank you. alex trebek's remarkable nearly 37-year run as host of "jeopardy" as come to an end. >> this is "jeopardy," and now, here is the host of "jeopardy," alex trebek.
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>> thank you, johnny. merry christmas to you and all of you, ladies and gentlemen. >> trebek's final episode aired last night. he lost his battle with pancreatic cancer shortly after the taping. while fans of the show mourn his death dozens of pay area residents who competed on the show are sharing their memories. abc 7 news reporter david louie spoke with two who competed on this week's final trebek hosted shows. >> here's the host of "jeopardy," alex trebek. >> reporter: over the years jeopardy as featured a large number of bay area contestants, two in this people week with alex trebek, their memories of meeting him even more touching because of his death. >> i realized i was going to be on some of the last games that were hosted by alex trebek. and it just gave me goose bumps and i feel so honored. to be in that historic position. >> reporter: san francisco state english professor jim gilligan
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tried out over 20 times to get on the show, made it on trebek's final broadcast. >> i've been trying for over 30 years, i'm glad i never gave up. not only did i get to meet alex who is an icon in the industry, and one of the world's class iest men, but i got to be on his final show. which is pretty special. i was struck with such admiration for him that he would continue to do it, you know, not only after he'd been diagnosed, but, you know, he did not miss a show in the two years that he'd been battling pancreatic cancer. i knew it was a struggle for him. but he did not let that affect his performance. once the cameras started rolling, he was giving it everything he had. >> reporter: jj harris from petaluma competed on jeopardy in 2018 shortly after trebek made public his cancer diagnosis. she tried to console him. >> i, you know, wanted to wish him good health.
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and, you know, i got a little emotional, my voice started to quaver a little bit and he held onto my hand and closed his eyes, and we just had a moment of connection, i felt. >> reporter: retired berkeley professor dan melia discovered during several matches he shared something unique with trebek. >> we got to talking about jobs, and discovered that both he and i when we were in college had summer jobs as garbage men. and it was an odd thing to have in common. >> reporter: some contestants might have asked trebek for an autograph. melia got it on his marriage certificate. >> alex was the official witness who signed the marriage certificate, he was right there on the stage. and stayed around for the entire reception. and happy to have his picture taken with all the guests. >> reporter: garrett kermoto, a
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library manager used the adjectives warm, genuine and affable to describe trebek. >> even though our time together was short he had an ability to make you feel like you were friends, that you were close, that he truly cared about you. >> reporter: in a connection that sadly comes to a close. >> certainly it will never be the same and we will always miss him. >> reporter: david louie, abc 7 news. >> to see more memories and moments of alex trebek, includi including clips from our archive, go to connected tv app, on your roku, amazon fire and apple tv devices. all right next, from park city, utah to san francisco, films interest this year's sun dance film festival can be seen height rear in the bay area, we'll tell you where you can check out some of the movies later this month.
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numbers from last night's $520 million mega millions drawing, 3, 6, 16, 18, 58, the meganumber 11, nobody picked all six numbers in tuesday night's jackpot. the sun dance festival is coming to san francisco, sort of. san francisco's historic rocksie theater was selected as one of 30 presenters for this year's film festival. it will happen smuimultaneously across the country. the special drive-in theater screenings take place from january 28th through february 2nd, outdoors at fort mason, since indoor theaters are still not allowed. tickets are on sale right now. next on abc 7 mornings at 6:00 a.m., only on abc 7, a brazen car break-in, just feet from the painted ladies. alamo square residents say these crimes are getting worse during this pandemic. and some east bay restaurants have reopened for in-person dining, why the owners say they're operating in a gray
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building a better bay area for a safe and secure future, this is abc 7 news. and i heard a smash, i'm about 10 or 12 feet away from them and i instantly realize that they're breaking into this car. >> seconds later this good samaritan in san francisco had a gun pointed in her face. the brazen daylight encounter in the city's alamo square neighborhood was all caught on camera, it's a story you'll see only here on abc 7. good morning, everybody, it's saturday, january 9th, i'm liz kreutz, thank you for joining us after such a busy and historic week. we'll have more on that break-in, but first let's get another quick look at the weather with meteorologist lisa argen. good morning, lisa. >> hey, liz, it doesn't look too bad behind you in terms of fog but visibility has been reduced in the n

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