they want their baby-sitters back. that's what a school board member said as you heard about parents clamoring to get campuses reopened and their students back in school. now a petition to recall the board over those comments is more than halfway to its goal. that's in less than one day. the board did not know they were still on record during that call that the mic was hot. abc7 news reporter lyanne melendez is in the newsroom with more on this. caught a lot of people by surprise, lyanne. another example of just how tense this school situation is a year into this pandemic. >> dan, think about it. we've been in this lockdown situation as you've just said for nearly a year. teachers i've spoken to are exhausted and parents are frustrated seeing their kids fall behind. they all want to say something, be heard. in this case unfortunately, the oakley school board put it out there for everyone to hear. >> whatever. i wasn't doing anything bad. >> reporter: the oakley union elementary school district board

thought they were just chatting amongst themselves. >> are we alone? >> but their conversation over a webex call was being recorded as they were responding to complaints from parents who didn't understand why their children were still in distance learning mode. this board member didn't mince words. she talked what she would do if parents who commented online did it to her face. >> if you're going to call me out, i'm going to [ bleep ] you up. sorry. that's just me. >> reporter: that comment quickly spread throughout the oakley community. >> it was really shocking to hear that. it was appalling. >> reporter: another board member suggested that parents just want to send their kids back to school so they could smoke pot again. >> my brother had a delivery service for medical marijuana. the clients were parents with their kids in school. >> they see us writing letters monthly, weekly to the board members.

you know, detailing our stresses and our grief about distance learning. so for them to say that we're doing nothing and we're sitting at home smoking pot is so far from the truth. >> the conversation went on for eight minutes. >> it's really unfortunate they want to pick on us because they want their baby-sitters back. >> right. >> right. >> reporter: the open microphone incident reached parents in other parts of the bay area. >> i don't think any of my collective parenting friends ever would expect a teacher to be a baby-sitter. that's just not what education is about. >> reporter: these san francisco parents expressed their frustration that classes have not resumed for in-personni today they began the first in a series of zoom-in mornings. online classes were held outside a clreon elementary. >> to me it's all ridiculous. vaccinate them. make them feel safe, get the kids back. >> reporter: and in case you're wondering, this is the moment when the oakley school board

discovered they were still live. >> oh. >> we have the meeting open to the public right now. >> na-ah. >> reporter: now, a statement from the superintendent came out late this morning. it says "the comments made were not in alignment with our vision and are definitely not what any of us stand for as leaders. i know that we lost trust with this community." a lot of work to be done, dan. >> no doubt. really damaging what happened. we're told that the superintendent was on that call as well, but he stayed silent, is that correct? >> yeah. we don't know why he didn't say hey, guy, stop it, quit, enough. today in that statement, he said "i am the superintendent. i am responsible and accountable, and i am truly sorry for what took place." dan, i have a feeling that's not going to be good enough for some parents. >> i suspect you're right.

the outrage and the tension that has been building for months over schools coming to a head in this situation. this was a self-inflicted wound by the school board last night. lyanne, thanks very much. state superintendent of public instruction tony thurman says he believes a combination of expanding vaccinations and frequent covid testing will lead a pathway to in-person learning. he appeared on our 3:00 p.m. show "getting answers". >> we have covid tests that can give you results in 15 minutes. that's a game-changer for schools to be able to identify if someone has come to school and they're positive for covid. >> california lawmakers have agreed on a $6 billion plan to get kids back in school. the safe and open schools would require county health departments to offer teachers vaccinations. schools that open by april 15th would get extra funding. schools seeking funding would have to open to vulnerable students first, including homeless students, foster kids and establish learners.

chico state is aiming to have 20 to 30% of classes in person in the fall. that's a big disappointment for some students. abc7 reporter laura anthony has the story. >> but right now, i think 30% is a solid number. >> reporter: it's hardly the prediction many chico state students and parents wanted to hear. more than six months ahead of the start of the fall semester that so few classes will be in person. >> it's just confusing and frustrating. >> reporter: vincent evangelist, a student moved from the bay area. he is taking all his classes online. >> i personally don't see why we couldn't be even 100% open with masks on. >> reporter: the projection of 20 to 30% in-person classes at chico state comes as covid cases in california are dropping, and vaccines are under way. this week many of chico's own staff and faculty will get the vaccine. most could be vaccinated by the end of summer. still, the administration says

they are limited by small classrooms and older buildings. >> we're currently creating some sort of a document that's going say hey, here is what your typical day could look like in fall to try to highlight to those parents and students how exciting it will be to be on campus and in our area while you may only have like i said, a couple of in-person classes. >> reporter: the chancellor of the larger csu system of 23 campuses has set a more aggressive goal. >> that is going to vary differently on the campuses, and that's going to depend on what the spread of the virus looks like, the availability of vaccinations in the counties. but that is the goal, to have the majority of those activities and instruction in person the coming fall term. >> reporter: chico state's announcement for its modest reopening comes just as many high school students are trying to decide where they'll attend college next fall. >> 20 to 30% is not even close to half. they've got to do better. they are to do better. >> reporter: some chico students may transfer.

>> i don't know what else i could do besides look other places. >> reporter: laura anthony, abc7 news. all right. let's turn your attention now to vaccine watch. and good news in the east bay. contra costa county has expanded its vaccine eligibility to phase 1b, tier 1, which includes education and child care worker, grocery workers, as well as emergency services workers and seniors who are at least 65 years of age. this takes effect immediately. similar expansion begins in santa clara county on february 28th. and the mayor of the bay area's largest city, that's san jose, of course, is calling on the public to help with educational outreach, especially within communities hardest hit by this virus. abc7 news reporter chris nguyen is on the story. >> reporter: in the capitol of silicon valley, an old-fashioned approach is being used in the fight against covid-19. >> we particularly need volunteers who speak spanish and other languages who can help us in outreach. >> reporter: san jose mayor sam

liccardo is calling for volunteers to sign up through silicon valley strong, an initiative that connects residents with nonprofit organizations. in this case, a big push to have the public assist with vaccine education and awareness. >> to ensure that we are getting information to everyone so that they can make good decisions and hopefully so that they can be vaccinated to protect themselves and their families. >> reporter: the latino community in san jose has been disproportionately impacted by covid-19 to illustrate the disparity, roughly 12,000 latino seniors have been vaccinated which equates to 26%. that's compared to 60% of white seniors who have already received the vaccine. county officials have now set up pop-up vaccination site, including the one at the mexican heritage plaza which will expand its hours next week. >> we want every single neighborhood, every single zip code to be at an 85% level. > reporter: the community health workers say they're battling vaccine misinformation.

and while outreach is key, they say most people need to hear it from a voice they trust. maria marcelo from healing grove health center hopes the county will provide vaccines to her clinic so that her team can vaccinate the patients they serve. >> when you want to share the information to the community, you need to see 30 minutes with each person and explain what is god for the family to have the vaccine. >> reporter: in the meantime, work continues in some of the areas hardest hit by the virus. >> we need the follow the science, but we need to get vaccinated so we can get back to work, back to school, back to normal. and i think that's the real issue. >> reporter: a monumental effort to educate the public about a potentially life-saving vaccine. in san jose, chris nguyen, abc7 news. touchdown on mars. it's a major accomplishment, and it's thanks in part to nasa teams at moffett field. find out out their work was

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the most advanced robot to ever go into space, a rover named perseverance touched down today on the surface of mars. billions of dollars, years of wrk, months of travel and minutes watching a nail-biting descent culminated in a successful landing. >> touchdown confirmed. perseverance safely on the surface of mars, ready to begin. >> can you imagine their relief and joy after all that work?

this is the first picture sent back. perseverance will collect samples to send to earth for analysis which could reveal signs of ancient life and eventually return some rocks in about ten years from the martian surface. the final descent was described as seven minutes of terror. that's because the rover perseverance faced extreme heat and lost communications with mission control. abc7 news reporter david louie shows you how a team at nasa ames in silicon valley played a key role. >>. >> reporter: the final seven minutes were the most critical. the mars rover was hurtling at 50,000 miles an hour and enduring as much as 3800 degrees fahrenheit as it prepared to land. a team of engineers and scientists at nasa ames played a critical role in two areas. one was the parachute that helped to slow the perseverance rover. the lid covering the parachute compartment had to withstand the extreme heat, yet separate safely. dr. helen wong worked on it. >> it has to be very lightwei

lightweight. we don't want that lid to come back and do what we call a recontact, to hit that part of the spacecraft. that would be terrible. >> reporter: the rover's heat shield material was invented at nasa ames and tested at its arc jet complex that simulates mars entry conditions. protecting the rover, its instruments and computers on board is especially critical in those last minutes. a special computer and network of cameras have to withstand the extreme heat to make critical landing decisions. >> that vision system is looking at the terrain, looking at obstacles and making onboard decisions to divert the rover in hopes of landing it somewhere safe. >> touchdown confirmed. perseverance safely -- >> reporter: even with the successful landing, research and development will continue at nasa ames on a new woven heat shield for future landings on mars to retrieve soil and rock samples. >> and that heat shield is going to be using this new woven material. it's very robust. it's very strong, and we really think this is the way to go in

the future, to be able to weave an entire heat shield in one piece. >> there is much work ahead to continue the mars mission to find evidence of life, the study of its climate and geology and the hope of extending the reach of humans in space. david louie, abc7 news. >> i could watch and read that stuff all day long. just fascinating. 300 million miles to mars roughly, seven months to get there, and the fist pictures come back in 11 minutes. it's just incredible. >> it is really just -- it's hard to even fathom sometimes. i know all three of us, spencer, you two are amazed. >> what an incredible achievement. i was listening to the scientists talk about what the atmosphere is like there. the air is thinner than ours, and how that would affect the way we hear sounds on mars. the sounds will be softer, they said. sort of like led zeppelin would sound like bing crosby. >> there is an image.

>> nice! >> i don't know. just some thoughts off the top of my head. >> let's talk about weather, shall we? the soft sounds of a quiet evening in san francisco as we look across the embarcadero from our rooftop camera. it's currently 55 degrees in the city. upper 50s in oakland, mountainview, san jose. 60 degrees at morgan hill and 52 at half moon bay. and the lovely view from emeryville. you can see the clouds getting a big thicker over the entire bay area as rain is approaching. 55 in santa rosa right now. mid to upper 50s at novato, napa, fairfield, concord and livermore. looking westward from the exploratorium camera, light rain will arrive late tonight in the north bay, and then continue sweeping to other parts of the bay area during the overnight hours. wet roadways will be possibly a slowing factor with the morning commute. and the next wave of showers will arrive early saturday morning. the approaching storm ranks only one on the abc7 storm impact scale.

a storm of light intensity. once again, it could be problematic for morning commuters. again, north bay rain tonight and moving southward, eastward to other parts of the bay area, but weakening as it moves southward and eastward. under a quarter inch of rain likely for most areas. here is the forecast animation. you can see the expected arrival of rain in the north bay before midnight, and pushing southward, eastward and weakening as it does so. you can see 5:00 tomorrow morning as the commute is getting under way. there will be wet spots on some portions of the payment. it will be out of here pretty much by noon tomorrow. and then we'll have a second system coming in late tomorrow night, swooping through quickly as all, and weakening as it does so. that will produce a little bit of rainfall overnight into saturday morning. that's it for rainfall for a while for us. let's take a look at our projections for rainfall totals. again, generally -- not only under a quarter of an inch, under a tenth, but in the north bay a little wet. and the farther north you go, in concord expect a quarter inch of rain. overnight lows as the rain moves

through will be generally in the mid- to upper 40s. so a much milder night than we had last night. and tomorrow, by the time we get to the afternoon we should be drying out a little bit, and high temperatures will range from 56 in half moon bay to 58 here in san francisco. up to about 60 in the warmest spots around the bay shoreline. we'll see lots of low 60s in our inland areas. and here is the accuweather seven-day forecast. so let me back away and show you. scattered showers on tomorrow morning. more scattered showers on early saturday morning, but saturday event will probably end a bit earlier than the friday morning event. then dry and milder as we get into sunday. and look how mild it's going to be early next week. up to and even above 70 degrees in our inland areas the beginning of next week. 70 around the bay shoreline with minor cooling, but dry conditions going into the end of the week. dan? >> okay, thanks, spencer, very much. how do you assemble the legacy of a legend? tonight in honor of black history month, you'll hear from the bay area man taxed with

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chase. make more of what's yours. you are taking a look at a special celebration. through art and culture. san francisco's first citywide joint celebration of black history month and lunar new year. this is a panel conversation about the role of art and

cultural engagement and bringing diverse communities together. of course it's all virtual at this point. you see mayor london breed there. you also see talented artists and performers in the asian african communities. and we're streaming this right now on our bay area 7 connected tv app available on apple tv, android tv, fire tv and roku. >> please check that out when you can. all this month, black history month, abc7 news is dedicating to focusing on highlighting hidden stories in our community. tonight we introduce you to the king papers, a mull volume collection of dr. martin luther king's personal letters spanning decades, curated right in our own backyard. an abc7 race and cultural reporter julian glover sat down with a man who dedicated his life to illuminating king's. >> that's been challenging. no because of a lack of material but because of so much. >> ror matealistoanm.gir of the

martin luther king resea edatn stitute at stanford isec life in the martin luther king papers, it's taken us much longer to edit than it took him to live his life. >> reporter: the martin luther king papers is a collection of king's most significant correspondence, speeches and rare manuscripts. >> this is first volume. >> reporter: so far seven exhaustive volumes have been published, spanning hundreds of pages, each one bound in a signature red cover. the work started in 1985 when coretta scott king picked carson to lead the project nearly 20 years after martin luther king was assassinated. how long did you believe it would have taken you to get through all 12 volumes at the time, right, instead of 14? >> i'm kind of embarrassed. because i told her yeah, probably in about 20 years i think we can wrap up this. >> reporter: so you were thinking 2005? >> yeah, yeah. and we kind of passed that

deadline. >> reporter: the first volume ki ely life in atlanta and took seven years to produce. each volume is filled with powerful text, each within peeling back another layer revealing king's growth and shifts in ideology, as he became one of the most prolific and controversial figures in american history. >> but what are a couple or a few of the most important pieces that you've come across in doing this work? >> i remember being in coretta's basement. we pull out what was called his preaching file. it was handwritten by martin king. and it was the beginning of his nobel prize acceptance speech. handwritteprab t las pso to touch that legal pad was martin luther king. until i opened it, what is it, 30 years later. >> reporter: carson has never found an attic or basement he was afraid of digging through. he and his team have spent

decades crossing continents to locate these hidden and often forgotten documents. >> to get king's perspective, i have to go and find those documents. and it might be the child or grandchild of the person who corresponded with king. so they don't necessarily know the value of what they have. >> give me your best estimate. how many documents do you think you sorted through? >> tens of thousands. >> reporter: 30,000? 40,000? >> we have cataloged 50,000 to 60,000. >> reporter: today the king institute is working on volume 8, set to be released in 2022. it focuses on 1963. >> it was the birmingham campaign. and the most important protest campaign of his life. the meeting with jfk, the march on washington. >> reporter: dr. carson believes king's work is as important today as ever as mlk's messages are often flattened into his famous "i have a dream" speech. what do you think dr. king would

make of the king papers? >> i think he would be kind of amused by it. he was not a keeper. coretta was the keeper. i think that he would have been happy that his ideas are still very much alive in the 21st century. >> reporter: julian glover, abc7 news. >> dr. carson's life work, a labor of love. you can learn more about little money people, places and events in black history by watching our "america's hidden stories" streaming on roku and other devices beginning on monday. check it out. coming up next, run to failure. it's a term you're to be learn a lot about. >> pg&e's decision was simply just to let these things hang until they broke. >> an investigator with the help of a former pg&e engineer and newly released core evidence

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that's the deadliest wildfire in state history. now the evidence used in the criminal case is starting to come out. >> our firepower money team is about to show you one key piece of that evidence, showing that pg&e knew old parts were at risk of breaking on older power line, like the one that sparked the camp fire. this investigation gives us a window into how prosecutors were able to show pg&e planned on running those parts until they broke. >> reporter brandon rittman has the story. >> what pg&e did was violent. whether you beat someone to death or you cause them to die in a fire, you cause a violent death. >> reporter: the violence of the camp fire turned main street businesses to ashes. it destroyed the homes of 14,000 families and killed at least 84 innocent people. >> the employees of pg&e knew, they knew, they ignored it.

as a consequence, people died. >> reporter: pg&e's maintenance of its power line wasn't just bad. it was criminal. the company pleaded guilty to 84 felony manslaughter. nearly every building in paradise burned down in the span of a few hours, but pg&e's criminal behavior took place over years. >> they had lit the match on this bomb years ago. and it wasn't -- if it's going to go, it's when it's going to go. >> reporter: what went was this nearly 100-year-old worn down hook, which cracked, dropping the power line it was holding and sparking the fire. >> pg&e's decision was simply to let these things hang until they broke. >> reporter: what did pg&e know? and when did pg&e know it? much of the evidence used to indict pg&e has remained a secret, shown only to the grand jury, until now. we obtained this internal pg&e report that found the same kind

of wear on other old pg&e power lines. it shows pg&e knew it had this problem with old parts, and that pg&e wasn't keeping track of how old those parts were. >> your colleague had to guess how old this stuff was. >> yeah, we find that a lot. >> reporter: these photos taken by pg&e showed the company taking part in its own criminal investigation. >> literally, we're letting the murderer into the crime scene and telling them to collect our evidence for us. >> reporter: prosecutors couldn't find a qualified contractor willing to pull parts off the power line that sparked the camp fire, so pg&e's own crews did the work, and the company cataloged every piece of evidence it helped collect. this hook found a couple of miles up the line from where the camp fire started shows just how bad things got. a groove more than halfway

through the metal from decades of grinding against the hole it hung from. those holes in what are called hanger plates or wear plates also became evidence. >> on this side, this hole is worn, what we call keyholing. >> reporter: these holes started as perfect circles, but over time got worn down by the hook. we found evidence that before the camp fire, pg&e knew old parts like these were wearing past their useful lives. these worn plates showed up in a pg&e lab report half a year before the camp fire started. the photos show the hooks had worn more than halfway through the metal of the plates, plates pg&e crews found hang here on this high tension line near the caldecott tunnel in the bay area. these plates hadn't been changed in 72 years. at least that's the best guess the engineers at pg&e's lab could make, that these plates were probably installed in 1946. what would it have been like trying to figure out how old

those plates were when they walked into the lab? >> oh, you wouldn't know. >> reporter: engineer nick vance did not write this report. he was one of a handful of metallurgyists working in the lab that created it and said pg&e had no good parts for this. >> hooks, i don't think there are any records of those anywhere that i'm aware of. >> reporter: pg&e's lab report shows company scientists had to guess how old parts were, using the year the power was built, 1946. >> they know the age of the towers, but they weren't tracking the age of the parts. >> reporter: >> exactly. >> reporter: pg&e had no records to show how old the parts were. >> this line was energized in 1921, and then they have nothing until 1990. >> reporter: prosecutors say pg&e had a simple reason not to track the age of parts. the company wasn't interested in fixing them.

>> the term that all of the pg&e people run away from is run to failure. >> reporter: run to failure means not fixing a machine until it stops working. and pg&e's machine carries hundreds of thousands of volts through the air. >> running to failure, it's like running around with a loaded gun. >> reporter: former state utilities commissioner katherine sandoval says the fact that pg&e let parts get this worn down should worry all of us. >> and the world that pg&e created reflects their criminal thinking and is criminally reckless. >> reporter: pg&e denied that it used a run to failure strategy in writing to a federal judge, but prosecutors aren't alone saying the company used a run to failure policy. so does a forme about as company policy. i felt that -- i didn't know that publicly, but run to failure was the policy. >> reporter: did they call it that? >> that's what it was joked about. pretty much run to failure.

and it wasn't that big of a deal before really the wildfire times. >> reporter: wildfire danger has in fact gotten worse in the last decade. pg&e frequently points to climate change as the main problem. the federal judge handling pg&e's probation is all out of patience with that. please don't blame climate change, the judge scolded pg&e's lawyers. climate change doesn't start the wildfire. pg&e starts the wildfire. this report on worn parts is also evidence of how pg&e looks at this problem. >> there is no remaining life to that. >> reporter: in his opinion as a metal mettle urgist, the report kra claimed those plates could last another 28 years. >> i think it's trash to even have stated it. >> reporter: the lab report says it ignored the possibility these plates could crack, assuming that they just keep wearing eventually all the way through. but nick says they were already

at risk of cracking. thinking could have felony time in the last decade. >> reporter: that's what happened to the hooks holding up the power line that sparked the camp fire. >> on this one, the actual hook that caused paradise to burn down, you can see that tiniest bit of a nub. >> reporter: we wanted to know why pg&e's lab report tried to estimate remaining life for used up parts. engineer peter martin authored that report. he now works at the rochester institute of technology in new york. martin didn't respond to our calls and emails. we do know he is trying to keep his name off of the record of pg&e's crimes, and so is this whole list of pg&e employees. in a lawsuit paid for by pg&e asking a court to black their names out of the grand jury transcript, we obtained all 22 names on that list and it includes all four people listed on the pg&e lab report. they're keeping quiet, but nick has an idea why his lab tried to

say these parts did have some remaining life. >> to give somebody a number for something because they were wanting a number. >> reporter: a number nick says pg&e's power line managers kept asking for. without those manager, pg&e's lab couldn't earn billable hours of work. so he says the lab gave those managers what they asked for. >> that had to do with pressure on the scientists to deliver what they were looking for? >> correct. >> it's completely backwards. >> reporter: sandoval says the fact that pg&e set up a lab that had to sell its own services to managers within pg&e is more evidence of the company relying on criminal thinking. >> that is not the responsibility of some guy to convince -- to convince another boss to send them work. it is pg&e's responsibility as the corporation that owns those assets, maintains those assets. >> reporter: prosecutors say pg&e missed these problems because it cut back on

maintenance and inspections. the company even admitted that it tied bonuses to how well supervisors cut inspection costs. pg&e told a judge it doesn't do that anymore. >> and the more i study about what happened, the more galling it is. they knew that these hooks were failing. >> reporter: to this day, phil still wonders how painful his father's death was. his first check for his dad's death finally arrived. $25,000, minus attorneys fees. he told us he'd much rather see pg&e's upper management in prison. >> if i had a sense that we they were even trying to fix anything in a meaningful way, maybe i wouldn't feel so harshly towards them. but evil little people.

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of course the coronavirus pandemic has taken a toll on our lives, and tonight we're able to quantify just how much in a certain respect. life expectancy in the united states has dropped as much as it did during world war ii. overall, americans can expect to live one to three years less than before. and this impact is not experienced equally among ethnic groups. life expectancy for black populations declined the most, dropping almost three years to age 72. that's the lowest level since 2001. latinos experienced the second biggest decline, losing almost two years, dropping to age 79, lower than when it was first recorded in 2006. and for white americans, the difference is less than one year with a life expectancy of 78.

>> throughout the entire pandemic, what we have seen time and time again is that our black, latino indigenous populations have really borne the brunt of this pandemic. we're see that they're increased risk of exposure because they are oftentimes in frontline, front-facing work. oftentimes low wage work without the additional resources to protect themselves. >> the life expectancy differences are based on data from the first six months of 2020. coming up next, looking at the weather forecast. rain is on the way says our spencer christian.

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>> we're going get some slight improvement, but it really is slight. nonetheless, we welcome it. we'll have light rain developing overnight in the north bay, sweeping to other parts of the bay area. overnight lows mainly in the mid to upper 40s and highs tomorro . low 60s inland. the approaching storm ranks only one on the storm impact scale. late tonight first in the north bay and early tomorrow morning, we can expect light rain, scattered showers, wet pavement for the morning commute. so things may be a little slow if you're a morning commuter. here is look at the accuweather seven-day forecast. we'll get a similar pattern late tomorrow night into saturday morning. that might be lighter than tonight's little storm. then we get sunny and warmer weather on sunday, and much warmer on monday and tuesday, with high temperatures inland and around the bay getting up to 70 to 72 degrees. a little breath of spring, early spring coming our way. dan and ama? >> all right. thank you, spencer. all right. over to abc7 news sports director larry beil. big news about steph curry tonight.

>> you know, stef continues to make headlines the way he is playing this season. hit some clutch threes late last night. best win of the season for the warriors. another honor today for chef curry, cooking. curry, cooking. steph is going to be teammates curry, cooking. steph is going to be teammates ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

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guard steph curry will be a starter for the westerncoence st he league in three-pointers made and will be making his seventh all-star game appearance. curry received about 5.4 million votes, a little over that. third overall in the league behind lebron and kevin durant. lebron is captain of the west. others are luka doncic and leonard. in the east kyrie irving, bradley beal and joel embiid. with spring training ramping up, the a's made a couple of intriguing moves, including signing a former all-star closer in trevor rosenthal. rosenthal reportedly gets a one-year deal for $11 million. he split time last year between the royals and the padres. and as you can see in these highlights, an era under two and a fastball that can hit triple-digits figures to slide

in to replace liam hendricks. now the mitch moreland. he can dh or backup at first base. 11-year veteran, should provide some power. neither of the deals is official yet, prompting this from manager bob melvin. >> nothing is official here yet. but i will tell you, you're right. our front office does have a way of making some moves when it's least expected and/or certainly when it's opportunity, opportunity rises for us. so hopefully i'm able to comment on all these guys here in a day or two, but i appreciate you trying. >> sergio romo signing with the a's is official as the a's rebuild the bullpen. now they're play-off contenders on paper, clearly. the giants still trying to craft a roster that will challenge the world champion dodgers and the padres in the nl west. so many new faces in camp, they almost need name tags.

gabe kapler has opted for the next best thing. that is everybody wearing their game uniforms with their names on them so he can keep track of exactly who is doing what. >> this is the time of year where we ask everybody to wear jerseys for the first five days of camp. and the reason we do that is because it's hard to put all the faces with names. and with as many to your point, with as many pitchers as we have in camp and nri guys we think have a really good chance to stick on our club, we are kind of just getting to know them. >> get to know your teammates. san jose sharks bob going for 101 tonight in st. louis. brent burns, a nice how do you, david perron. he'll go to the bentley box for that. ensuing blues power play. gets the assist on a mike hoffman goal. 1-0 blues. later, noah gregory, we are tied

at one. sharks looking to take the lead. ryan din natto. john leonard, right on the spot, and the sharks take a 2-1ea t t period. look likes the warriors decision to send jordan poole to the g league, that is paying off. he fell out telephone rotation this season with the big team, but he is getting minutes in orlando. he leads the g league in scoring at 25 a game and poole had 37 today as the g league warriors overcame a 20-point deficit to beat the mad ants. yes, the mad ants from ft. wa wayne, 113-109. hi, i'm larry. i play for the mad ants. if you're wondering, dan and ama, the mad ant nickname, the fans voted on that. named for a general who lived in the late 1700s, general mad anthony wayne. apparently he was angry a lot.

>> not what i was picturing. >> if we had a team in the sports department, they might be the mad larrys. >> the livid larrys. >> that's a good one. >> i like it. >> all right. thanks, larry. well, coming up at 8:00, celebrity "wheel of fortune" followed at nine by the chase and the hustler at 10:00. stay with us for abc7 news at 11:00. >> and you can watch all our newscasts live and on demand through the abc7 bay area, connected tv app. it's available for apple tv, android tv, amazon fire tv and roku. download the app now and start streaming that is going to do it for this edition of abc7 news. we thank you so much for joining us tonight. i'm ama daetz. >> and i'm dan ashley. for spencer christian, larry beil, all of us, we appreciate your time. hope you have a nice evening. we'll see you again tonight at 11:00.

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