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administer at least 33,000 first and second doses over the past 11 days. abc 7 news reporter stephanie sierra is getting? answers for those scrambling to save their spot in line. >> i haven't heard really anything. >> reporter: 88-year-old phillip page calls it painful silence. he never imagined he'd be on his cell phone for hours trying to confirm if his vaccine appointment at the moscone center will be canceled next week. >> if not again i'm going to assume the scheduled appointment's on and we'll just show up. >> reporter: with roughly 33,000 appointments backlogged due to supply issues will people like page still have their spot in line? the short answer is yes. abc 7 reached out to the san francisco department of public health and was told there were no cancellations of appointments as a result of the recent pause. at the moscone and city college high volume vaccination sites. as spots are only released once the vaccine supply is confirmed.
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the moscone center will reopen thursday from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on friday and thereafter the site will operate from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. depending on vaccine supply. unless your appointment is canceled don't expect an e-mail. kaiser permanente tells abc 7 the second dose supply available for the moscone center is still on hand and those appointments will be prioritized starting thursd thursday. the site was averaging 3,000 to 4,000 shots administered per day. >> i hope we get a more consistent growth in supply rather than this two steps forward one step back. it's really damaging. it's confusing. >> reporter: johnson & johnson's vaccine could be approved for emergency use as soon as friday. could that solve the supply shortage? >> i don't want to say solve, but it will have a significant impact. when an eua was approved, the vaccine could immediately be shif shipped. we saw that with the moderna and pfizer vaccine.
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there's no reason to think that's not going to be the same case. >> reporter: in the meantime san francisco's city college will reopen for second dose appointments only tuesday and wednesday this week. leaving the sf market bayview site the only operation open taking appointments. stephanie sierra, abc 7 news. and sky 7 was over the drive-thru clinic in larkspur in marin county. it is for residents -- for people who have an appointment to get vaccinated. a lot of police cars at the mass vaccination site at the san mateo events center where officers were getting their shots today. vaccinations in san mateo county expanded to include law enforcement employees and teachers. in the south bay santa clara county continues to make progress on its vaccine rollout. however, as abc 7 news reporter chris nguyen found out, some people are having a tough time canceling appointments, which could impact the high rate of
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no-shows. >> reporter: with less than a week to go until santa clara county expands its vaccine eligibility beyond seniors and health care workers, questions remain over the availability of appointments and the number of no-shows at vaccination sites run by the county. last week between monday and friday nearly 4,500 people didn't show up for their appointment compared to roughly the same amount during the same period the previous week. county officials previously said it was hard to pinpoint the reasons behind the noshows but believe that some people made multiple appointments or signed up before they were even eligible. at the time the county pleaded with the public to do its part by canceling appointments they didn't intend to keep. however, since then abc 7 news has been contacted by multiple viewers who say they've tried to do just that but have run into problems. one viewer said when he called the county he was put on hold for over one hour and no one picked up. he eventually hung up and told us he'd be a no-show for his appointment today. in most cases those who are signed up to receive the vaccine
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at a county-run site can only cancel by phone through the valley connection call center. for now only appointments scheduled for the santa clara county fairgrounds can be canceled online through a link in the appointment confirmation e-mail. in a statement the county said in part, "we are looking into multiple solutions and will keep the public informed when new cancellation options become available. we very much appreciate everyone's efforts to cancel and reschedule their appointments when necessary as well as the public's feedback regarding the process." county officials maintain that no doses are wasted since they overbook appointments by roughly 10% to 15% to account for the no-shows. in san jose chris nguyen, abc 7 news. just one day after the pleasanton school board voted to return to in-person teaching some parents say some teachers used zoom time to try to dissuade their kids from returning to the classroom. abc 7 news reporter laura athens has reaction.
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>> eventually i'll have my desk sort of taped off in an area and i can't really leave that area. >> reporter: it seemed an odd tangent in the middle of a friday zoom class for students at one pleasanton high school. just one kday after the local school board voted to return to at least some in-person classes. >> if you want to go to school for social reasons, recognize that you absolutely will not have that. there is no question that you are not allowed to interact in any fashion. you cannot work with a partner. you cannot speak with anyone in your class if they're any closer than six feet away. >> reporter: on a public facebook page several pleasanton parents say at least a few other teachers made similar comments to their students. strong words that made some kids think twice about going back to class at all. >> students were changing their minds, some of them. they were getting the information from the teachers and some of it was maybe not rolled out as positively as i would have liked to see it or know about because they are kind of changing their minds.
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>> it's understandable to have concerns. >> reporter: the concerns come just as pleasanton unified is asking families and students whether they prefer to stay all remote or return with a hybrid model with some in person. >> we have students in classrooms now and the results of simply being in the classroom setting have been remarkable. >> i cannot give you help in the classroom. >> reporter: as discouraging as those words were, parents here are telling us they're now hearing from other teachers who are excited to welcome their kids back to the classroom. >> last night an amazing teacher got on the phone -- got on zoom with me and my family on a sunday night. he gave up his time. he's a high school teacher. he believes the experience is going to be amazing. he has no plan whatsoever of simply zooming in the classroom. >> reporter: pleasanton families and students have until wednesday to decide whether to stay remote or return to some in
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person. laura anthony, abc 7 news. >> teachers in the bay area are starting to see some movement on the vaccine front. two counties will start getting shots to teachers. a key step to getting kids in classrooms. here's abc 7 news reporter amy hollyfield. >> reporter: berkeley teachers say this is key to getting back into the classroom. after months of negotiations about distance learning and safety measures, getting vaccinated is the game changer. >> once vaccines became available, it just changed the conversation. right? and teachers overwhelmingly supported the idea that once they're vaccinated that they feel confident that they can work in classrooms with students who are mobile. >> reporter: but signing up wasn't easy. so the city is now involved. helping pave the way for teachers to get an appointment. >> it's very exciting. people have had a lot of trouble finding their own vaccinations even though they qualify in alameda county. so having a coordinated effort
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will ensure that everyone basically that's working at school sites will have vaccines. >> reporter: san mateo county is also now vaccinating teachers. officials there say they will be vaccinated as supply allows, pointing out supply has been an issue and asking everyone to be patient. in berkeley the teachers union says patients shouldn't be a problem. >> generally people are very excited because there was a lot of frustration about knowing you could get vaccines but no one could actually find them and now they're here. >> reporter: i checked in with school officials about their vaccination supply. they tell me here in berkeley they have enough to vaccinate teachers who sign up this week. those are the teachers who teach pre-k through second grade. they're hoping to get to the other teachers in the weeks to come. in berkeley amy hollyfield, abc 7 news. now, abc 7 news is monitoring the vaccine rollout with our vaccine tracker. you can track california's progress and compare our state's progress with the rest of the country. you can find this on abc 7 news.com. it's been a year since more
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than 2,000 passengers boarded the "grand princess." that's the cruise ship that had a deadly coronavirus outbreak. abc 7 news reporter luz pena followed up with several passengers who were still processing their experience, luz, a year later. >> reporter: a year later, dan. i can't believe it's been a year since thousands of passengers left the san francisco bay here on a cruise ship to hawaii. little did they know that the world was changing around them and they would become some of the first group of people to quarantine because of covid. >> hi. nice to meet you! >> nice to meet you in person. >> reporter: this has been a meeting a year in the making. let's rewind to early 2020, when bay area residents laurie and john miller became our eyes and ears inside the "grand princess" cruise ship after 19 crew members and two passengers tested positive for a virus that we were just learning about, confining them to their rooms
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for weeks. how long did it take you to process what you had gone through? >> i think we're still processing it. >> in some ways, yeah. but like i told you, the first couple of months that we were home i in particular just felt like i was just -- i was depressed. >> reporter: what's keeping the millers positive is their seven-month-old grandson theo. >> he's a major mental health tool. >> yes. i call him my theo therapy. >> reporter: through a facebook group the grand princess passengers have kept in touch and helped each other cope. >> it was a completely different world. >> oh, it's been -- >> of course. and i think that was the biggest shock. when we were in quarantine at travis we'd watch the news and see everything that was going on but it didn't hit me until we actually got home. >> reporter: remember 87-year-old adlena and henry cerrata. we caught emwith them too. adelina was quick to let us know
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she's a year older and wiser now. >> yesterday was my 88th birthday. >> happy birthday. >> thank you. i had a very lovely brunch. >> reporter: they said they've gotten closer as a family after this experience. and they're planning two trips on the "grand princess" this year. >> are you telling me you're going to take the same trip that had you under quarantine but this year, a year later? >> we've done that many times. her mother and her father. >> reporter: the millers are now fully vaccinated. the serranos got their first dose recently. and they all want to go back on a cruise ship. they tell me they're also hopeful that cruise ships now will require for many people to be vaccinated before they get on board. live from san francisco, luz pena, abc 7 news. >> well, luz, thank you. the state legislature just
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approved $600 stimulus payments for more than 5 1/2 million people. now, you're eligible if you claim the earned income tax credit or an immigrant who pays taxes with an individual taxpayer identification number or if you receive assistance from certainly state programs. a lot more to come here. herd immunity. how close are we actually getting as more and more people get vaccinated? standing their ground. an exclusive interview with an officer at the capitol riot who says it was more than just a fight for democracy. and leaving a legacy. alex trebek's family on how the "jeopardy" host's love of giving is living on. stay with us. i'm spencer christian. an impressive february warm-up is under way. it may even lead to record highs. i'll have
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what's the first moment that you began to get a sense that something is off kilter here? >> we were told to get helmets, riot helmets. that was new. >> reporter: but no sense that all hell could break loose? >> correct. correct. >> reporter: then the 13-year veteran seen here watched as the crowd of thousands closed in on the east side of the capitol. >> you just see a sea of people, trump flags, confederate flags, thin blue line flags, don't tread on me dplagz. and then you look down and you see officers fighting with these people, pepper spray, smoke grenades, gas grenades, pepper balls being thrown by everybody. flash bangs. we thought with these people who were prepared for a fight. they had on gas masks. they had on body armor. they had on two-way radios. they had on tactical gear.
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bulletproof vests. they were ready to go. >> reporter: when you see that level of preparedness, did that surprise you? did it scare you? >> i was scared. i was absolutely scared. i'm on this platform. i'm a big guy. i'm 6'7". i'm this giant person. and we had our guns out and i'm thinking, all these people out there, they're armed too. and i'm like, i'm going to get shot. they're going to take me out. i remember at one point i said how is this going to end? >> reporter: eventually the mob forced its way inside the capitol building. officer dunn confronting a group carrying a blue lives matter flag. >> i said we've got dozens of officers down. we've got dozens of officers down. and you've got the nerve to be holding a blue lives matter flag. i thought they were going to have a moment where they came to and they realized like what are we doing? but like they instantly snapped out of it and they said nah, we're doing this for you, we're
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doing this for you. and as one of the guys kept walking by, the other one pulled out his badge and said trust me, i understand, we're doing this for you, buddy. and he's got a badge. he shows me his badge. >> reporter: what did you think? a fellow officer's -- >> you've got to be kidding me. you've got to be kidding me. >> reporter: exhausted, officer dunn tried reasoning with a large group of protesters approaching a hallway he was guarding. >> i literally told them if they want to get through here you've got to go through me. and they didn't. they just started talking to me. they were saying how joe biden did not win the election and nobody voted for him. so i took the bait and i -- okay. what about me? i voted for joe biden. does my vote not count? >> reporter: this is when officer dunn encountered a couple in the crowd who began hurling the most vile racial slurs at him, a black officer.
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>> and his girlfriend, she had on a pink maga shirt. said hey, this [ bleep ] voted for joe biden, guys. hey, everybody, this [ bleep ] voted for joe biden. they said you [ bleep ]. >> reporter: so the crowd joined in? >> everybody. everybody joined in with them. >> reporter: you're in the capitol, defending the capitol, and somehow race seeped into that too. >> everybody wants to say that it was about politics and everything. but it was a large number of people in that crowd that were racists. >> reporter: did the people who were there tell you why they were there? >> we're stopping the steal. according to them, they were doing it for us. they were doing us a favor. according to those terrorists. >> reporter: you're very precise. you used the word "terrorists." >> absolutely. absolutely. it wasn't just a mob or a bunch of thugs, you know. they were terrorists. they tried to disrupt this country's democracy. that was their goal.
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and you know what? you all failed. >> remarkable interview. that was abc news chief justice correspondent pierre thomas. you can see more of his exclusive interview with officer dunn next tuesday at 7:00 p.m. on abc's "soul of a nation," a series that examines the black experience in america. hope you'll tune in for that. but let's transition now and talk a little bit about, kristen, this sparkling weather outside. >> i know. and if you thought today was warm, just i wait till tomorrow. spencer? >> you're right about that, kristen and dan. we may have record high temperatures. i want to give you a look at what's happening in the atmosphere that's contributing to this warm-up. a large building area of high pressure over the last 18 hours. this has been the pattern. and that has brought us the sunny skies and this warm-up. as a matter of fact, the 24-hour temperature change shows you that several degrees warmer in virtually all bay area locations right now than it was at this time yesterday. let's take a live view from sutro tower looking out over san
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francisco where it's 68 degrees right now. 70 at oakland, mountain view and morgan hill, san jose, 72, 59 at half moon bay. blue sky over the golden gate as we look northward. it's 70 degrees at novato and santa rosa. napa 69 degrees. also 69 in vacaville and livermore. concord 71. and the view from mount tam looking down on ocean beach where skies are clear. these are our forecast features. we'll have a few clouds overnight, some passing high clouds as well as a few low clouds. record high temperatures are possible tomorrow as it's going to get even warmer. and this dry pattern will linger into next week. actually, you could say it's to next month since next month starts next monday. here's a look at our forecast animation overnight. you can see the passing high clouds and skies will get clearer as the day begins tomorrow morning. overnight lows will be mainly in the mid to upper 40s. and tomorrow's highs will range from upper 60s at the coast, 68 in half moon bay to mid 70s around the bay shoreline at oakland, fremont, san mateo 73. up in the north bay look for
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highs of 78 tomorrow at santa rosa. and cloverdale. down in the south bay 76 will be the high. excuse me. at san jose as i lose my voice here, the wind gusts will pick up a bit tomorrow morning. and going into tomorrow evening and overnight tomorrow night ito wednesday we'll see some pretty strong gusts from 22, about 30 miles per hour in the windiest locations which will generally be over the hills in the higher elevations. so on we go. let's take a look at the accuweather seven-day forecast. and once again tomorrow will be a very, very warm day for this time of the year with record highs possible in some of our inland areas as well as the bay shoreline, we'll keep tabs on that for you. blustery and a bit cooler on wednesday. in fact, about 10 degrees cooler on wednesday. but still mild. still warmer than average for this time of the year going into the end of the week. finally we get to saturday where temperatures drop off a little bit more. they bounce back a couple degrees on sunday as the winds
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relax. and then monday will probably be the coolest day, next monday, the coolest day in our forecast period as temperatures settle back into a more seasonal range as the month of march arrives dan and kristen? >> all right. thank you, spencer, very much. 78 degrees. we may be a little crazy from the heat around here. i want to correct a number we had just a moment ago. the "soul of the nation" special with pierre thomas and that wonderful and power interview with the capitol hill police officer airs next tuesday at 10:00 p.m. i think we had it at 7:00 p.m. but it's actually next tuesday at 10:00 p.m. please be sure to tune in. it is powerful stuff. san francisco takes a step back. the pause in plans to change school names. and digging deeper into the college
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the san francisco school district's controversial plan to rename 44 city schools is on hold. board president gabriellela lopez announced the decision in an op-ed in the "chronicle" calling the renaming debate a distraction and acknowledged mistakes were made during the process. last month the board voted to remove names of dozens of prom nen prominent figures including presidents washington and lincoln. lopez says the reoechg schools will be the board's only focus until children are back in class. meantime, parents and students in san francisco unified held another zoom-in morning today near a locked
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school site. >> we're trying to support decreasing the distance and the idea that it's really important for kids to go back to school in a safe way. >> parents took their children to dolores park for their day of distance learning. they say socialzation with other students is very important and it's hard for their kids to learn everything on zoom. next month, netflix will release a documentary exploring the college admissions scandal. "operation varsity blues" will focus on how rick singer accepted millions in bribes to help celebrities and other wealthy clients cheat to get their children into elite colleges. more than 50 people were charged in the scandal. the documentary drops on netflix on march 17th. more to come here. the united states stumbles when it comes to covid-19. what president biden is saying tonight as the country hits an unfortunate new milestone. plus, are the vaccines really working? if your dry eye symptoms keep coming back, inflammation in your eye might be to blame.
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>> announcer: building a better bay area for a safe and secure future. this is abc 7 news. today the united states hit another unfortunate milestone in the pandemic. half a million lives have been lost to covid-19. about 90 minutes ago president biden honored those who died in a ceremony at the white house and put things into perspective. >> 500,071 that's more americans who've died in one year in this pandemic than in world war i, world war ii, and the vietnam war combined. that's more lives lost to this virus than any other nation on
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earth. >> president biden also was optimistic saying we can beat the virus together as a country. biden ordered flags on federal property to be lowered to half staff for the next five days to remember the dead. governor newsom traveled to long beach to healthy progress the city and the state are making in the battle against covid-19. >> a month ago today we reported the highest number of deaths ever recorded in the state of californ california. 764. today we report tragically still too many. 233 deaths. but a far cry of where we were just a month ago. >> newsom says the state's positivity rate is at 3%, down from 8.9% a month ago. the governor also reported progress in vaccinations with 1.4 million over the last week bringing the state's total to 7.5 million as of today. he says while that's significant there's still not enough vaccine
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available to meet demand. and let's give you more information about the importance of the vaccine. dr. alok patel is part of the abc 7 vaccine team and he is here live with us today. alok, always great to be with you. thanks for taking your time. >> my pleasure, dan. >> let's start with the vaccines themselves. a new study out of scotland shows the vaccines seem to be working. whoo are you hearing about them? >> well, dan, what these early studies are showing is actually great news. what they're basically suggesting is that the pfizer and astrazeneca vaccine are reducing the risk of being hospitalized, which is exactly what we expected from the clinical trials, by about 85% and 94% respectively. researchers basically are following a lot of people who got both one shot of both vaccines and found there's a significant amount of reduction to people getting hospitalized. that is good news, something we can all be optimistic about. >> on a day where we mark this grim milestone of 500 deaths in the united states, it is nice to have something to be optimistic
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about, that these vaccines are bringing us to some kind of tipping point. we're not far off now from approval of the johnson & johnson vaccine. how big a difference is that going to make to get another one out there? >> before i answer that, dan, i do have to acknowledge also the fact that it is a very grim milestone. and i do hope that all of our honest communication and our efforts toward getting to herd immunity and vaccination just proves that the deaths are not going to be in vain. we're going to stay strong, stand by science and get out of this. >> absolutely. >> now to go to your question, getting the johnson & johnson vaccine approved would be huge because we would be able to essentially vastly increase not only our supply of vaccines but our ability to get vaccines to communities we they may not be able to have the right type of storage for the pfizer or moderna vaccine. it's only one shot and doesn't have that deep freeze requirement. it can be refrigerated. we'll find out in a few days. but fingers crossed. >> but it looks pretty good at this moment that this will get -- >> it does. based on all the preliminary data it does look like it will get that fda approval. >> now, what about people who want to make sure they get -- and there's already this debate
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going on. everyone i ask or who tells me they got the vaccine. the next question is did you get the vaccine or the moderna. what about people who want to make sure they get one of those two and not the johnson & johnson vaccine for whatever reason? will that even be an option? can you pick and choose here? >> well, off the bat i hear this question a lot and the short answer is people should get whatever vaccine is available to them as soon as they can. now, as of right now you can't really pick and you don't necessarily even need to worry about picking. there are anecdotes of people calling vaccine centers and saying are you giving out moderna or pfizer, but that's not really a protocol people should be following. some people are citing the difference in the efficacy and saying hey, moderna and pfizer were more than 90% effective and johnson & johnson's only 66%, why would i want that thing? but remember the johnson & johnson trial was done on a worldwide scale at a later date when there were more variants around. so it's hard to compare these two head to head. the analogy i make with people is when people say hey, is lebron the greatest? i say what if lebron played in the nba in the early '90s?
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two different times. that's how i compare the johnson & johnson trial with moderna and astrazeneca. it's hard to compare but if you actually control for everything it's still a very effective vaccine. >> okay. and it certainly is effective as the flu roughly vaccine typically is. great analogy using the nba and lebron james, just to put it in some perspective. let me ask you quickly about herd immunity. we've heard that from the very beginning. we're still not there. and i've heard recently in the last few weeks that we still have a long way to go before we really get to herd immunity, especially around the world. when is that tipping point? when do we get there? >> dan, it's a moving target right now. if we make the assumption that herd immunity is around 70% to 90% of people at the current rate of vaccination right now and you add that in addition to the amount of people we think were infected in the past and may have some natural immunity, we could get there by july according to math models. now, if we double the amount of vaccines every day to 3 million, which we may get to if johnson &
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johnson gets approved and widely distributed, we'll get there faster such as may. but remember, this is based on some assumptions about the protection from the vaccines. this is based on the assumptions about variants and what they may or may not be able to do. and we also need to make sure vaccines -- people go get the shot. looks like late summer if everything goes according to plan. >> let's hope things do go according to plan. so far that has not been the case. but at least we have another vaccine we hope coming online soon. alok thank you very much for joining us. dr. alok patel, part of the abc 7 vaccine team. thank you, sir. >> thank you. all right. this does an ply not apply to dl or dan but napping on the job. not you
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four at 4 as spencer and drew join us. did you see this? a grand victorian was picked up yesterday and moved six blocks from franklin street to fulton street at a cost of about $400,000. onlookers lined the streets as the house rolled along at a speed of about one mile per hour. power lines and street lights were removed for this move. muni had to reroute some bus lines too as the house crawled along at, again, a top speed of one mile an hour. not exactly breakneck. known as the englander house, it dates back to 1876. and was all successful yesterday and quite a sight.
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and you know, years ago this just wasn't possible, but they've gotten all this new technology where they can lift a house off of foundations and move them. that's the tricky part from what i understand, spencer. actually just lifting it and not destroying it or damaging it. seriously. >> i would think so. lifting part. once they get that i guess moving it is not a big problem. but wow, what an amazing feat it was and what an amazing piece of video it is to watch. i loch i i love it. >> if we thought about this we could have gotten the abc 7 news team on there, could have been a parade float. we would have gone down the street waving at folks. >> yeah. honestly, very cool sight, but only in san francisco is it cheaper to move a victorian house than it is to buy one in the city. but i will say that i'm super happy that -- one of my favorite things about the city -- yeah, i know, right? one of my favorite things about the city is the architecture, right? you go around different city blocks and just see these buildings that are more than a century old. so it is very cool they decided
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to keep a building from, what, the 19th century and move it to its forever home. >> they are treasure ppz that's a good point, kristen, it's cheaper to move it than -- >> yeah. i was thinking about the insurance. right? how about -- right? super high. how about a dream job that pays you to dream? a website called sleepstandards.com is paying $2,000 to a qualified candidate willing to spend five nights sleeping in different environments. one of the nights is a five-star luxury resort. they'll be required to write a report on their sleep. candidates have until march 31st to provide a headshot, links to their social media and a one-minute video on why they're the perfect person for the job. i'm just curious what is the science that they're trying to determine ultimately? i don't even care. i just want to know where the places are i would sleep. what about the other four, the ones that are not the five stars? spencer? >> no, i'm not going to sleep at any four-star places. i've got to have a five-star.
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actually, sounds like a great -- it sounds great. i'd love to do it. pay me to sleep at a luxury resort. absolutely. >> drew? >> yeah. i love how they're like willing to sleep at a five-star resort, right? i think this might be some people's dream job. i for one love to sleep. so five days just journalling how you slept at these places, i think that is a fantastic way to make a couple thousand dollars. >> think how rested you'd be when it's over. today spacex revealed the identity of the second person who will be aboard its first all-civilian space flight this fall. hailey arsenault will join tech billionaire jared isaacman aboard the dragon spacecraft mission he's funding. isaacman told the 29-year-old who dreamed of being an astronaut as a child before be losing part of her leg to bonus cancer at age 10. the billionaire will select another two passengers as well. he hopes to use the mission to raise $200 million for st.
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jude's hospital where arsenault was treated as a child and is now a physician assistant there, which is a really nice tie-in. and turning it into a charity effort is really spectacular. i have to say, you know, space, astronomy, it all fascinates me and has since i was a kid. i don't know if i'd do this. drew, would you get on board, if you were chosen by isaacman? would you get on board this thing? >> i'm kind of in the same boat as you, dan. i find everything about space just utterly fascinating but i've never really had the want to go to space. i don't know why. i just think the vastness and the darkness and a little bit of claustrophobia might be a thing of it too where i don't really want to be in a tight space for a long period of time. i think i'll just more admire it from the ground. >> for the time being. >> and let other people kind of enjoy. yeah. >> the closest thing i've ever done, which was pulling more gs than the space shuttle, is be in an f-18 blue angels hornet when it took off. and claustrophobia's a thing. because first of all, it's very
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uncomfortable. >> yes. >> spencer, i don't know that we would like it. >> no. i would go one stop beyond drew. not only do i have the want. i don't have the courage. but i'd love to -- it's a subject that fascinates me, space exploration. and i really admire those who do have the courage to go beyond. >> spencer, i'm right there with you. bok, bok, bok. that's me. and speaking of chicken, the chicken sandwich wars have expanded. back in 2019 we taste-tested wendy's, popeye's and chick-fil-a chicken sandwiches. and now taco bell is joining the fight. it's testing a new crispy chicken sandwich taco. the taco features fried chicken marinated in jalapeno buttermilk, coated in tortilla chips then tossed in chipotle sauce. it describes the shell as puffy bread that's shaped like a taco. it's expected to roll out nationwide later this year. huh. at first i was like, are uh.
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but come to think of it -- i like those puffy bread sandwiches. the puffy bread chalupa or whatever. drew, what do you think? >> i love everything about taco bell. and i'll try anything once. so you describing it that way, in my mind i thought they were going to try to make their own chicken sandwich like a popeye's, but i like they're just putting their own twist on it. and that i am all for. taco bell, i love everything they have. >> yeah, drew -- okay. spencer, we're out of time. but i don't see you salivating there. i know how healthy you generally i'm greg, i'm 68 years old. i do motivational speaking in addition to the substitute teaching. i honestly feel that that's my calling-- to give back to younger people. i think most adults will start realizing that they don't recall things as quickly as they used to or they don't remember things as vividly as they once did. i've been taking prevagen for about three years now. people say to me periodically, "man, you've got a memory like an elephant."
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all right. time now for tonight's consumer news, and 7 on your side's michael finney is here with a look at the headlines today. michael? >> reporter: good afternoon, dan. a mysterious malware is targeting thousands of computers. a top security firm says 30,000 macs have been infected with malicious malware called silver sparrow. it was first detected last week mainly in the u.s. and europe. researchers say silver sparrow includes a self-destruct mechanism. but it appears not to have been used. a heads-up to anyone using a visa debit card to pay their bills. consumer site mouseprint.org says some users are getting new cards with what's called visa
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account updater. visa will inform merchants you have an -- that you have an a autopay account with that your new expiration date or card number is now available. now, this is good if you don't want merchants to bother you when a card expires. but it's not good if you deliberately use the expiring card to keep your account from renewing. you should check with your bank if you care about this and find out if they will allow you to opt out of this automatic renewal service. t-mobile is offering a new wireless plan to help retain as well as add new customers. the magenta max costs $47 per line per month for up to three lines and includes unlimited 5g and 4g premium data, more mobile hot spot data, 4k video streaming and free netflix for each of those three lines. the company hopes to double the number of its 5g network
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customers to 200 million customers this year. dan, 5g is really firing everybody up. you can tell that's the competition now. they're looking for us. so hold out for a great deal. that's my advice. >> good advice. and that is the way it's all going. thanks, michael. business remains slow at the port of oakland. loaded cargo ships remain anchored in the bay while containers are stacked up and trucks backed up for yet another day. officials blame the situation on two things. first, the recent arrival of three new giant cranes kept one of the port's four terminals from being used. the second, heavy congestion at southern california ports is slowing things down here. they say to their knowledge the issues are not covid related. let's go back and update what looks like a forecast, kristen, that reminds us of spring. >> very much so. especially tomorrow, spencer. >> oh, especially tomorrow is right. we may have record high temperatures for tomorrow's day.
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overnight we'll see a little increase in clouds, not much. overnight lows will be mainly mid to upper 40s. tomorrow look for high temperatures in the upper 60s at the coast. mid 70s around the bay shoreline. and even some mid to upper 70s inland. here's the accuweather seven-day forecast. this unusual warmth will last one more day, just tomorrow. we'll get a bit of a cooldown on wednesday. quite a bit of a cooldown under blustery conditions. still mild and pleasant, though. highs wednesday, thursday and friday will be in the upper 60s inland. then tapering off to mid 60s saturday, bouncin up a degree or two on sunday and then beginning to cool down again next monday. looks like a lovely forecast over the next several days. dan? >> it sure does, spencer, thank you. the warriors are assisting a community with the food pantry at the chase center. this is part of a program they're calling swishes for dishes. every point the team scores means 100 meals for those most in need. today the team expected to hand out food to hundreds of people who live in the bayview and potrero hill neighborhoods. the goal is to give out a million meals this season. keeping the spirit of alex trebek alive through fashion.
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legendary "jeopardy!" host, alex trebek. his family is keeping his spirit of giving alive, donating the suits and ties he wore on the show to help men restart their lives. t.j. holmes spoke with his son. >> how is the family? >> we're good. >> reporter: alex trebek's son matt says he, his mom and sister are still figuring out how to be a family of three after trtrebes passing in november. >> losing my father and my mom, her husband, the one who spearheaded and guided our family. it's been an adjustment. but fortunately my mom, my sister and i are all close. we remember him and keep trying to move on together. >> reporter: husband, father, iconic "jeopardy!" host but trebek also had a legacy of good works. >> i don't go out of my way to
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malign anybody. i want to be considered as helpful and generous and kind. >> reporter: matt and his family now honoring that philanthropic legacy by donating part of t treb trebek's wardrobe to formerly incarcerated men to are restarting their lives. >> just how would you describe it in terms of sheer size, if you will? >> suits, dress shirts, ties, the wardrobe at "jeopardy!" consisted of close to 300 dress shirts, you know, hundreds of ties. >> reporter: the "jeopardy!" wardrobe of suits was around 20 at the studio, that is right? >> i think probably about that. when you think that they shoot, you know, five shows a day, they need to constantly make different combinations and stuff, so they had a large wardrobe. >> reporter: they don't say a.t. stitched on the inside, nothing crazy? a "jeopardy!" board or something, nothing? >> no, nothing. they're just, like, good suits.
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>> reporter: you describe your dad's style to me. >> he was pretty dapper when he would dress up and very clean and definitely had his own particular taste in the way that he would dress. i remember when i was growing up and he would try to dress me in suits and stuff, i think our styles differ, but he was obviously right with how he went about things. >> reporter: it was in this spur of the moment speech during one of his final shows that trebek implored all americans to give back and take care of one another. >> we're trying to build a gentler, kinder society, and if we all pitch in, just a little bit, we're going to get there. >> this, you know, kind of just fits into what he believed and, you know, passing along kindness to others so it's nice to see that it continues even after he's gone. >> and you can watch all of our newscasts live and on demand through the abc7 bay area connected tv app. it's available for apple tv,
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next at 5:00, the small piece of evidence that's leaving a large presence. tonight the fight to open schools in sonoma county. and the role teachers play in the spread of covid at schools. the cdc is out with new data tonight. and huge gains in the state's fight against covid-19, but it comes as the death toll across the country has reached more than 500,000 lives lost. also this evening, 366 days later, former passengers reflect on the covid-19 outbreak on board the grand princess cruise ship. all those people stuck while officials figured out how to handle a new crisis. and the hope that more of us will use mass transit once the pandemic ends.
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