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about the reopening of california. >> with the dangerous fire season coming, an
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cal osha backing the controversial mask rule. >> and soon businesses can decide if they want to have vaccinated individuals without masks indoors. fewer inmate crews, prepping for fire season is going to be challenging. abc 7 news starts right now. people are really tired of wearing a face covering. >> for the sec time in a week, california's workplace regulators have reversed
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themselves. they reversed controversial mask wearing rules. thank you for joining me, i'm dan ashley. >> and i'm ama daetz. cal osha got an tonight's business owners. >> people are really tired of wearing a face covering. >> reporter: cal osha is reconsidering their rule. that rule says if only one person in the workplace is not vaccinated, everyone wears a mask. >> i am concerned that we a rule that will pit workers against each over. >> but not everybody believes masks should go away all together. >> i think we're going to be taking away some of the
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guardrails. >> reporter: fully vaccinated californians can remove them come june 15th. dr. allie is offering businesses the choice of three options. customers can self-attest they've been vaccinated. a business operator can determine whether individuals should require a mask and the d everyone to wear a mask. >> some people who think they should not have the atestation approach that they should require everyone to visit a a business and frequent an establishment to wear masks. >> there will be some exceptions, masks will still be required indoors in k-12 schools and other youth settings. they will also be required in prisons, homeless shelters and during travel. >> you asked us if anybody was confused. i raised my hand. >> reporter: cal osha board members realized it was
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confusing. they voted to toss the mask rule that they had last week and reverted to rules in november of 2020. for now it will draft a new proposal to be considered on june 15th. if that pass it would not take effect until june 28th. cornell bernard. abc 7 news. the new mask guidance from the state relies on the honor system. j.r. stone spoke to some people who aren't willing to take the chance. >> right now masks are required for everyone when going into stores like safeway, come tuesday the california department of public health says, they will align with cdc guidance for face covering and allow vaccinated individuals to take off their masks in most indoor settings. >> i think june 15th is long overdue. >> reporter: while tim o'brien likes the idea, many we talked to in san francisco wednesday say, not yet. >> i'm going to keep my mask on because you, i don't know who's vaccinated and who's not.
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>> i just feel that we should continue to wear our masks everyone if you're vaccinated or nonvaccinated. >> i personally am going to continue to wear the mask because i know that, i'm going to be working with people that i don't necessarily know. and if they're vaccinated or not. >> reporter: a reason why kenneth bennefield would like to see proof of vaccination. >> they give you a card so i'm sure businesses and other places will require you to show your card. >> reporter: but at this point it appears it will all be on the honor system. dr. patel says those not being honest are putting kids at risk. >> we can potentially have unvaccinated, unmasked people mixing with these kids as well. kids can absolutely get sick. hospitalized, wind up in icu. regardless of how of how of howw
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unvaccinated feel. >> the kindness that we have toward one another and wearing masks has hindered all of that. the state's new rule takes effect a week from now. it's just five days away now. june 15th is the day coronavirus restrictions will lift statewide. mort on county is away gift cards for everyone wanting a vaccine. and tonight with vaccine demands slowing down in the united states, there's a new concern. millions of johnson & johnson doses sitting on shelves many about to expire. >> we're going to do everything we can to ensure those doses are used and put to good use. >> reporter: this coming as president biden announces the
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united states will buy 500 million doses from pfizer to provide to poor nations. on average, about 357,000 adults have gotten at least one shot every day in the last week. that's down nearly 20%. and falling far short of the proximately 540,000 needed daily to hit president biden's july 4th goal of 70%. meantime, tomorrow, fda vaccine advisors will need to discuss whether to authorize covid-19 vaccines for children 11 years of age and younger. >> what i think we're going to do in that meeting is decide what the parameters are for approval either through emergency use authorization or licensure. >> reporter: as travel picks up across the country a warning from the tsa that 131 of the largest airports
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will likely. let's turn to the drought. we now know just how bad the water supply situation is in marin county because of the drought. >> we currently have less than a year of water supply. and that's a perless position for a water agency to be in. >> reporter: marin's water district general manager took part in a virtual conversation today about the drought. the water supply is so dire, marin county water officials are reconsidering a plan to build a water pipeline the richland san marin bridge to take water everywhere. and the district is calling is calling for a mandatory 15% reduction in water use compared
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to 2019 levels. it will be up to cities and private water companies to decide on how those cuts will actually happen. but the rules could include cutting back on watering and filling swimming pools or banning home car washing. >> we are in a very serious situation. way worse than last time, especially since half our storage is gone. and the amount of water coming in our county is just a trickle. >> today's move could also lead to higher water california's drought conditions mean water concerns are here sooner. pga says it's wildfire season sooner. >> and abc 7 news amanda del
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castillo is telling us why they're seeing less fire crews. >> reporter: call tpaor is doing what it can to prepare what's expected to be a busy and brutal fire season ahead, calfire is doing what it can do to prepare. >> we used to see a 5 month to 6 month fire season and now they're calling it a fire year because it really lasts 9 to 10 months. >> reporter: santa cruz unit nate armstrong requires the statewide mutual aid system and more that helped battle the complex fire which burned last august. the 12th most destructive fire in california history. >> it was so taxed last year, if we were hit with that same event right now, we don't have anything more this year than we did last year. >> reporter: the the pandemic cut inmate fire crews down by more than half. pointing to the covid-19 early release program. chief ian larson told leaders
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previously 152 inmate fire crews were available. there's now just 53 crews available now. >> we have a significant reduction in a resource that provides a vital role in our suppression efforts and containment efforts statewide. >> reporter: calfire ccu says fuel conditions seen today they don't typically see until the end of summer and specific to the mountains, there's dead zones and tight roads. >> we have some challenging here to this unit due to our geography that other units in the state don't have. >> reporter: reasons why the state should prepare as well. that includes making a defensible space and being ready. car break-ins continue to get worse across san francisco. criminals are targeting one neighborhood in particular. we'll tell you where. >> facebook says most of its
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employees can work from home permanently. but it could cost them. >> a bear gets stuck in a very precarious position. see how it was finally rescued. >> i'm meteorologist sandhya patel learn when we will see rain. prepare for merriment. obi one kanobi is in progress and i'm wondering if could be in that. >> i don't think so, i haven't been approached. >> you're su ♪ ♪ ♪
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when this 911 dispatcher answered she never imagined talking a young mother through having a baby. >> stay on the phone with me. >> now tomorrow the incredible emotional exclusive. >> your mom is a warrior. >> mother, baby and their guardian angel. a familiar story a family visits san francisco's union square, goes off, parks her car, has some fun when they come back they finds their car windows completely smashed. car burglaries are rising especially in the city where they cut security service. we first brought you this story a month ago. stephanie sierra says the problem isn't getting any better. >> call it bad luck or just the price of parking in san francisco. >> and everybody was ooh, everything is broken. >> reporter: said ahmed and sanya cook took theitook thei
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the square for the first time since the pandemic. the two families came back to this. car windows shattered, electronics and kids toys stolen from the glove box. turns out they weren't the only ones. >> almost nine cars they said that, at the same time. >> reporter: in an effort to cut costs the city also cut all security services at half of the high volume parking garages in san francisco. sfmda told the eye team a month ago the decision was temporary. we asked this week if any of the contracts would be reinstatinged. the agencies said no, saying crime remains low at our city owned facilities. >> they're estimating $30,000 in damages. if problem is getting worse in the city's central district where car burglaries have more
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than doubled. >> it's very important to security there. >> former spd used to monitor that area. >> they park in groups of 4 to 6 people and they're breaking into cars. they could do 10 a day. >> reporter: back in the 80s the police department have a task force that at one point had 100 officers dedicated to only focus on car break-ins. a luxury the department can't afford now struggling with a major staffing shortage. so what is being done. >> we are developing a tourism deployment plan to make sure that we have enough officers that are in the areas that are frequently traveled by tourists. >> reporter: we're told that plan will include adding an additional 20 officers to patrol high traffic areas across the city. but that will not include any of the city owned parking garages. just another reason not to leave anything in your car. for the i team. stephanie sierra, abc 7 news. new developments a suspects
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is under arrest for stabbing a san francisco store clerk multiple times leaving him partially blind. we first brought you this story at 11:00 last night. the same suspect was caught reportedly trying to rob someone two days ago. police recognized him from surveillance video of the stabbing. >> facebook says all employees can now request permanent work from home but now an interesting twist according to bloomburg those employees who work from home then decide to move to a lower cost region may have their pay reduced. the tech giant also announced that it plans to open most of its u.s. offices at 50% capacity in september and 100% capacity in october. there's a lot of buzz tonight about president biden's first overseas trip since assuming office check this out. before taking off from joint base andrews president biden
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was seen swatting a cicada. take off was delayed 2-1/2 hours they took over the engine so much that they couldn't take off. >> that's the weirdest phenomenon every 17 years or whatever they come back. it's just so strange. all right meteorologist sandhya patel is here with more on our weather. >> it felt like november today with if cooler than average conditions today. it was definitely windy out there. we had pretty clouds, nice shadows with the sun and clouds moving through. but that wind it was definitely gusty. about 39, 40-miles-an-hour over our higher elevations. and lower elevations were breezy to gusty as well. it's a cold system, a deep thereof that came through that triggered those thunderstorms that you're looking at up in northern california. even some snow flakes but that thereof is heading out.
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that's what brought us the windy pattern and cooler than average conditions the last couple of days. now we have a freeze warning going into tomorrow morning so we will have some chilly weather in those areas. locally here we do have a couple of clouds around. here's a look at the temperatures really in the 40s and the 50s tomorrow morning you may want to bundle up before you get going because you can already feel how crisp it is outside. winds are gusting 32 miles per hour. as we look at the hour by hour forecast morning it's not going to be that windy. in the afternoon it will get breezy again. not quite as strong as today. we're looking at 25 to 35-mile an hour winds going into tomorrow afternoon and evening. so the wind along the embarcadero we have a little bit of a wind. the pollen is getting blown around so tree pollen and grass pollen moderate if you have been dealing with allergies you
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know what i'm talking about. juniper, olive, oak and pine are the biggest culprits. uv very high again tomorrow. so make sure you lather on the sunscreen. a view of the shark tank. we're looking at light, breezy in the afternoon. low clouds and fog in the morning between 5:00 taepb 5:00 and 8:00. clearing quickly but they will be replaced by clouds and then we go into friday. another system will come through. this will bring rain the eureka area. we're talking about a little drizzle in san francisco, inch and a half of rain in portland. wouldn't it be nice to get some of that here. it is a warmer day mid- to upper 70s inland. upper 50s along the coastline it is going to be on the breezy
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a bear that got a bit of a scare picked a dangerous place to get to safety. he scampered up a utility pole. a lineman spotted the bear, he said that something likely spooked it up. ama they got him down fairly quickly actually. >> yeah, that's pretty good. not bad at all. all right larry beal is here with sports. >> dan and ama nothing like a little controversy to get people fired up. is this
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good evening for a few years in the nfl remember we had what is a catch controversy with the refs deciding well you have to complete the play. we had the same thing in the a's d backs game today. let's start with happy birthday baby. good job dad. second inning, mark hannah with the drive. marte makes the grab but then loses it after running into the wall. problem for the review. martin has it but if the player drops drops drops after collision, next batter peacock. left the game a's up 3-6. he hasn't given up a run in 15 innings the a's head arizona their 19th straight road loss 4- 0. that's bad. giants in texas. sammy long his major league
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debut sammy was dealing. struck out 7 of the 14 batters he faced. family enjoying it. scoreless isn't jason fowler. sky high to left. back to back jacks. 2-0 giants. they had the lead in the 9th. adonis garcia pops it up. run scores we're tied at 2. both teams scored in the 10th. to the 11th. brock holt off mcgee. s that the walk off hit and the giants would fall 4-3 in 11. nba tonight long time cardinals receiver larry fitzgerald great seats for two. semy suns and semi, suns and nuggets. here to aden this would be blow out alert, blow out alert. suns a run away freight train
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right now. all gas no brakes look out. they're up 2-0. back to baseball for the catch of the day. in san diego foul ball. look at mom. mom with baby in tow with a bare handed grab. oh momma. that would have been a good catch without a baby. toddler in your arm. we score that a o 10. abc 7 sports
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