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a car burglary suspect. >> thank you for joining us. this all happened this afternoon, not far from oracle park on varny place near the intersection of third and bran an. the suspect was shot in the wrist. leanne, take us through what happened, please. >> reporter: police are just wrapping this investigation. and they're leaving what police are telling us was that this car was known to them because it had been identified before by withins in other smash-and-grab burglaries. police said there were three people inside that car. what is not clear is why did the officers shoot one of the otr gun involved? that's one of the questions we asked police today. we do not know. and li >> any information regarding the possession of a weapon is all
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part of our investigation. as far as what caused the use of force is still early on in the investigation and we have not determined all of those pieces. >> reporter: now the suspect was shot in the wrist. the person is being identified as an adult male. the other two people inside that car we're told took off so police of course are searching for that car and the two people. how many shots were fired police would not tell us this afternoon. the chief of police was also here. and we were all surprised to see him here. but i can only assume, suspect that what is happening with regard to police shootings across the country, i believe that police the police chief thought that he needed to be here at this moment. now the suspect we're told was taken to
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the hospital. as always when there is a shooting in san francisco, police conduct a town hall meeting within ten days. that's what we have right now. live in san francisco, leanne melendez, abc seven news. we first sent out the alert about this story through our abc seven mobile app at 2:11 today this afternoon. the contra costa county district attorney's office issued a public report that it will not be prosecuting two walnut creek officers for shooting and killing a 23-year-old man in 2019 during what his family says mental health crisis. the district attorney's office says there was insufficient evidence. that there's not consequences for these officers.
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>> reporter: the family of miles hall and supporters gathered outside of walnut creek city hall after the da's report came out exonerating two walnut creek officers. >> we want justice for my grandson. this should have never happened. >> in 2019 miles was shot and killed in walnut creek. when he was in a mental health crisis. >> reporter: one officer used a bean bag shot to subdue hall who was armed with a gardening tool. then two officers fired their weapons killing him before a police mental health expert arrived in a quiet walnut creek neighborhood. >> ultimately though they had to use lethal force because of self defense for the officers and the danger to the neighbors in the community there was not enough evidence for our officer office to file criminal charges against any of the officers involve. >> it does match our pd's internal review in that regard as well. one of the key takeaways for me is that the mental health system failed.
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>> reporter: the mayor and city manager say they're trying to fix the system. >> we have advanced training with the police now and we've taken leadership in a 24/7 mental healthcare crisis response with the county. >> reporter: the response team is expected to go into effect later this summer. but that is far too little too late for miles hall's family. >> it's appropriate to consider whether or not the u.s. attorney's office or the ad's office will take a look at this with a new set of eyes. >> reporter: oscar grant's in their quest for justice.nd to >> i believe law enforcement should be held to a higher standard when they shoot and kill someone. not a lower standard. >> reporter: in walnut creek, i'm lesley brinkley, abe 7 news. also in the east bay, a
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demand for more resources for those who suffer from mental illness. the family alines for the mentally ill held demonstrations today. demonstrators are asking for more treatment for people suffering from scottic breaks. too many people are being turned away from hospitals and end up homeless or in jail. >> that's what we're asking for today. to keep people out of jail, off the streets, get them the treatment they need for this to be stable and live in the community. >> demonstrators say the mental health system is broken and are advocating for programs who reach those who may be unable to ask for help. >> to the weather. another red flag warning going into effect tonight in the bay area because there's a high risk for wildfire wildfires. >> that includes the north bay hills. the east bay hills.
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the east bay valleys. and this is really also solano county that is included. the red flag warning begins 11:00 pm tonight. till 6:00 am monday. solano county. 8:00 am tomorrow until 6:00 pm monday. the biggest concern is it's a northerly wind. gusts from 40 to 50. 60 or higher above 2,500 feet. relative humidity will be running really low. single digits in solano county. rapid fire growth is possible. wind advisory 8:00 am to 6:00 pm for solano county. lower humidity. gusty winds. possibility of power lines going down and trees getting toppled. a look at those winds beginning to ramp up later on tonight particularly in our hills. you look at solano county, tomorrow a winds 30 to 35. higher gusts are expected. that red flag warning will take us into early next week. which means the fire danger will remain high. i'll be back with an hour-by-hour look at the rest of the wind forecast coming up.
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>> thank you very much. fire departments in the east bay are preparing for this weekend's wildfire threat. in oakland there will be enhanced fire patrols. joaquin miller park will be closed to the public. deputy chief nick lupe says the early start to the fire season we're experiencing is unprecedented. >> here we are in may. and we're starting to see these events being forecasted. and it puts the hair up on my neck and puts us all at a heightened level of concern and it puts us as a very heightened level of preparedness. >> fire departments around the east bay are already communicating with each other and working together. jusut every day, firefighters in the bay area have been dealing with some sort of wildfire big and smallful california recently hired about 1,400 additional firefighters. fears of yet another disastrous fire season become a reality. some of those new firefighters started their training today inn
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the north bay. cornell bernard was there. >> reporter: chainsaws ripping into dry bush inside of one of marin county's deepest canyons. >> good job, guys. >> reporter: cal fire's newest recruits. their first week on the job. these trainees are learning how to cut fire lines, creating a fire break in case a fire happens here. christian is one of 1,400 new firefighters hired by the state in preparation for what could be another brutal fire season. >> i took the job because i wanted the labor. i was working in an office. this is an something that is pretty important work. >> reporter: the training going well with a few hiccups. these recruits have help from veteran firefighters like marcus fletcher. >> it's my way of helping out with the newer ones and give a
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little experience. >> this is not easy work. >> right. but we train for it. >> reporter: this crew came to marin county to train there because they say their traditional training grounds have already burned. >> we didn't really get those april showers. it's already fire season. >> reporter: captain brandon says look around. grass and brush, driering out by the day. >> a lot of it burned last year, but california is a big state. there's plenty more to burn. it's not looking good. >> reporter: this training session can end the moment a fire breaks out. christian is ready. >> what are you expecting? >> to work really hard and be gone a while. there were three earthquakes near truckee all within two hours last night. many bay area residents got an alert. but it turned out not to be as bad as predicted. how did that happen? chris nguyen went searching
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for answers. >> reporter: around 9:30 thursday night, you may have received a notification on your phone about an earthquake that was just seconds away from hitting. a predicted magnitude 6.0, potentially entered in placer county, but most of us in the bay didn't feel a thing. unlike mark who lives in nevada county. >> my whole house just shook. i didn't know what it was at first. then i got up and i walked into my livermore. and everyone came in my living room and said i think it was an earthquake. >> reporter: why did some of us get the alert and others didn't? rob cert a national coordinator for the shake alert system. which can warn residents via cellphone when underground sensors detect an earthquake. >> one of the critical pieces of information is to know where on the located. when you know about where the earthquake is located, then you know how the region around it is going to shake. >> reporter: in this case the system misread where the quake
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was located because there was only one senor station in the area. it ended up being closer to truckee and was only a 4.7. some bay area residents were notified to take cover because the system thought the quake would be bigger. geologists say it's a good thing the system worked. sorta. and the data will get even better as more sensors were installed throughout the state over the next four years. >> those ten or 20 seconds may save lives. what i think is great about this is even though people think this isn't working, it actually really did. >> reporter: there are two mobile apps powered by shake alert. one is the my shake app developed by uc berkeley. shake alert also provides warnings to google which has an earthquake alert feature onwing the android operating system. another way to receive warnings is if you have wireless emergency alerts naibled on your smart phone device. >> i want people to think that
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as a too many in their toolbox. >> earthquake. drop, cover, hold on. >> reporter: a chance to get in some good practice before the big one eventually hits. some bay area doctors find themselves doing double duty as they try to tackle the coronavirus surge here and in india. >> they thought they hit the the jackpot
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the vaccine inventory keeps going up. california now has 27 days worth on-hand. it's starting to about 275,000 doses per day. san francisco health officials brought their mobile vaccination efforts to the city's richmond district today. they say some richmond district residents voiced concern over access to the vaccine. the area is home to a large number of seniors as well as people w as disabilities. >> especially going to city college it's not easy for them to take public transit. having it centrally located really allowing residents to walk here, bike here. >> that area is also very linguistically diverse. today's clinic included staff that speaks several different languages. >> for the latesta vaccine appointment openings or the
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process, you can ask the abc seven news vaccine team by going to abc7 news.com/vaccine. we watched as a covid surge in india has spun into a full-blown health crisis. quietly behind the scenes, doctors, engineers and others in the bay area have been working nonstop to help. >> reporter: busy on her normal rounds at state free hospital. if they're more exhausting than usual, it may be the result of a human crisis half a world away. it's now the middle of the night when she begins her second shift at home using social media and remote connections to relay critical information to patients in her native india. people caught in the tragic covid surge that's left thousands of people dead in. >> the health system is overwhelmed right now. and several of my family members and
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friends and physicians out there are just overwhelmed. >> reporter: many of the patients are desperate for advice. sometimes very basic things like taking aspirin or tylenol. sometimes for much more. >> oxygen levels have been under 90% for so many hours. the hospital is eight hours away, should i go or stay at home? >> reporter: feeling the shortages of oxygen, ventilators and other devices has become a life or death struggle. contributing to an even more urgent collaborative. >> many of them have been underground doing things in india. academics, engineers. >> reporter: there's also a burgeoning online strike force that's collecting everything about c-pat machines that can double as ventilators to open
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source plans to build equipment. while both are natives of india, they say the volunteer moving sweeping across stanford and the bay area is about far more than nationalism. >> we're going to be in this forever pandemic if we just let every country fend for itself. >> i know that the world will do right because they want to do the right thing. we want to help. this weekend a shipment is expected to leave by cargo flight for india. two men thought they had scored by breaking into a placer county score and stealing about $25,000 worth of lottery tickets. until they decided to try to cash in. surveillance video captured the burglary on april 16th.
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there's lots to love about california. so put off those chores and use less energy from 4 to 9 pm when less clean energy is available. because that's power down time. >> meteorologist sandy patel is here with the forecast. >> hi there. it's unfortunate that i have to call this so early in the year which is may. but we do have this fire danger heading into tonight. and this weekend. which is mother's day weekend. let's take a look at a live picture right now it is absolutely gorgeous outside. in the comfort zone from our camera
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right now. 78 in santa rosa. up to 80 in fairfield. 73 in livermore. the mother's day planner if you're taking mom out in the morning for some breakfast. it's gonna be bright and breezy. plenty of sun. temperatures rise big noontime. windy and warmer for the afternoon. low 60s to low 90s. and it is going to be a pleasant evening. in case you're out and about with mom or picnicking outside for the afternoon and evening. getting rain at our local airports. 76 to 83 degrees. a warmer, sunny day. honlulu 82 degrees with some showers. new york city chance of showers, mid-50s. chicago increasing cloud cover. 51. and los angeles will go from a little bit of fog to sunshine with a temperature of 73 degrees. you really can't get much better than this. i want to show you the winds. they are
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gusty. these winds are onshore. they're going to switch direction coming more out of the north northeast. that's what's going to raise the fire danger, humidity and bring that red flag warning into play. 40, 45 mile an hour winds 7:00 tonight. higher than that along the coast. tomorrow afternoon, the focus is the north and east bay. also the solano county area. those winds will remain gusty saturday night going into the first half of sunday. and then really breezy for the rest of the day. sunny skies, high winds and fire danger. cooler weather coming your way the middle of next week. temperatures in the morning, 40s, 50s. a clear start to your saturday. tomorrow afternoon, warm day. 84 in the south bay i 88n gilroy. on the peninsula 82 in palo alto. 65 half moon bay. downtown san francisco 72 degrees.
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sunshine and warm weather. 81 in oakland, fremont. and it's going to be windy solano county area. 92 fairfield. 90 in livermore. also windy in the east bay valleys. the seven-day forecast, windy with high fire danger to start off your weekend. mother's day will have plenty of sun. and it's a warmer pattern for your monday before we cool it off the middle of next week. roses are red, violets are blue. here's a reminder that the weekend is mother's day at worksman cycles, we've been building bikes for a hundred years. but our customers' needs have changed,
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tonight, several developing stories as we come on the air. four former minneapolis police officers have now been indicted on federal civil rights charges for the arrest and death of george floyd. how much time could they potentially face in federal prison? alex perez standing by tonight. news on the coronavirus in the u.s. the new milestone this friday night. one-third of the population now fully vaccinated. and tonight, the major headline involving the pfizer vaccine. and how soon could children 12 to 15 be getting the vaccine? and we're tracking the horrific images now emerging from india tonight. authorities investigating video that shows families finding the bodies of relatives abandoned in the icu. and some staff reportedly fleeing for their own safety.
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