they're still working on things on a hemi avenue in alamo. danville boulevard's moving in both directions, but you can tell this sinkhole is something else a hundred and seventy. nine homes still don't have water after a dramatic break in a pipe in the the middle of the night. it looked more like the rapids in a river than a suburban street just before 1 am a major break in an east bay mud water main started the waterworks. we probably got to see up close, you know a geyser in the middle of alamo. so you know that doesn't happen every day. i didn't realize that main breaks can get so bad by dawn a huge sinkhole formed as you can see from droneview 7 the flow couldn't be turned off for more than eight hours because cruz cruz had trouble accessing the valve because the torrents of water and mud, you know it watch the whole get bigger got a little nervous is more and more of the parking lots or

disappearing and street and crosswalk and had to call a lot of people and let them know the school was thatshocked that it s much water this preschool and a nearby elementary school closed for the day because this road provides the only access there have been three water main breaks. this is the third in a week in alamo. what's up? right now this is still under investigation. we're trying to determine what could be the of this so the pipe that burst is an 8 inch cut an 8 inch asbestos cement pipe that was installed in 1959 the same kind that burst earlier in the week east bay mud is investing millions in replacing aging pipelines around the bay area some home sustained damage that is still being assessed including flooding in yards and even a washed out portion of this driveway. most of the water i was tol flowed under the eight and into

a storm drain and eventually into san ramon. there are concerns about millions of gallons of chlorinated water flowing into that creek so east bay regional park district said investigating that meanwhile, i'm told that this road will have a temporary fix and will reopen to traffic sometime over the weekend, of course a permanent fix is going to take a lot longer and that water. should be restored in the next 24 hours reporting live in alamo. i'm leslie brinkley abc 7 news lesley. we're taking a look at the scene now from sky 7. we are you talking about a water service being restored to all customers within the next 24 hours? they can't be that specific. they are hopeful that they will restore to all customers. this is a main if they repair it bu ofthing should be good to go course, larry and they're saying

saturday morning is the targeted goal for restoring the water service. but this road, i mean they've got so much to do to even put the temporary fix on it. tomorrow is the goal might take a little longer than that back to you. that actually was my next question. looks to be massive and extremely deep i would think that the intersection would be closed through most of weekend. is that what you're hearing? i am hearing that they hope to have a temporary fix on this tomorrow. that's according to east bay mud. again, they are asking neighbors who were affected by this water break to contact them if anyone had property damage for a lack of water. they should directly contact east bay mud about that. but right now this is a kind of a name thorough there into pocket neighborhood and that's shut own right now, so some people are going around on the iron horse trail or finding other ways back to their homes. all right. thanks for the update leslie

brinkley reporting live in alamo. governor newsome came to san francisco today to announce an emergency order requiring all students to get the covid-19 vaccine. want to get this behind us get this economy moving again. make sure our kids never have to worry about getting a call saying they can't go to school the next day because one of the kids are a staff member we're tested positive. the new mandate will take effect. once the vaccine is fully authorized by the fda for younger age groups. it is expected to be sold out in two phases with students in grade 7 through 12 expected to be vaccinated by july of next year based on current fda timelines. there's no real timeline for kindergarteners. sixth graders as the fda has not approved the vaccine yet for even emergency use in children younger than age 12, although that's expected to come soon. the governor is expecting backlash over the new order if you want to attack someone attack me, i was the first governor of the country to acquire masking for all our public schools. i was the first governor of the

country to require vaccine verifications and/or testing and now we're leaning and again you want to go after someone go after me. the new mandate will also apply to all staff members as state schools, california has now become the first state in the country to require students to get the covid-19 vaccine now before the governor's announcement the west contra costa unified school district board voted to approve. own vaccine mandate, it requires students employees volunteers board members vendors and contractors be vaccinated as well. those eligible will need to have one shot by november 15th and their second shot by december 15th. that's well before the governor's mandate in the south bay now, san jose police have come to an agreement with the city over mandatory vaccinations. the update allows unvaccinated city workers a one-week grace period to receive their first dose of the covid-19 vaccine and if they don't will be placed on a one-week unpaid suspension. our whole outlook on this was really when we talked about the

vaccinate or accommodate giving an individual their choice. of course, we always encouraged our members to get vaccinated but we also respected an individual's choice. and again, i think agreement is is working towards that. the agreement affects 140 unvaccinated san jose police officers as well as dispatchers those who remain unvaccinated we'll have to test twice a week at their own expense and could still face termination after the end of the year. drug maker merck says it has developed a covid pill that can reduce the risk of hospitalization or death by about covert by about 15% if you get covid now merck says the drug malnupurevir was so effective. it halted its study if all goes according as planned it would become the first oral antiviral medicine to get fda emergency use authorization to treat covid. i asked her vaccine team member dr. alok patel how it works.

essentially what it's doing is it's going to here with the virus's ability to replicate to make more of itself, which is what a virus wants to do when an infects you and this trial had pretty incredible results for for what they were looking at which is why i was stopped early. top white house medical advisor, dr. anthony fauciid called merck's data impressive federal health officials say of the drug winds emergency approval from the fda. the government is poised to purchase 1.7 million doses. here are the most recent statistics from the california department of public health as of today. there were 7,800 new covid cases. the state says those are mostly among unvaccinated populations more than 1300 covid patients are currently in the icu at 84% of eligible californians have received at least one dose of the vaccine up next beach for sale, and there's no shortage of willing buyers where to find this popular stretch of sand.

her own life on the line to help a man was being attacked on a bus. her story is next plus fleet. week is back and so are the blue angels what to expect for one of the bay areas. favorite shows abc 7 news at five. five. my new, better-than-ever cluck sandwich with a bigger, crispier, juicier fillet, bigger pickles, more mystery sauce, and an extremely serious crunch. i'm kind of a big fan. try my bigger, crispier, new cluck sandwich combo for $6.99. download the jack app today.

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for the right price johnson's beach resort is up for sale on the russian river and already several potential buyers are lining up that includes sonoma county which has plans of its own abc 7 news reporter cornell. barnard is in guerneville. you know, it's it's a pretty prt memorable and kind of unique and special experience broker catherine proctor was talking about her newest listing iconic johnson. speech resort on the russian river in guerneville. we've listed on johnson's beach for sale. for 3.7 million 10 rustic cabins and 38 campsites on 10 acres, but the show piece of it all that famous beach the right buyer for this is really recognizing and appreciating all of the value on the beach for more than 100 years. beach has been the playground for guests of the resort. the current owners are now retiring. during covid public access was limited to the beach. it's been so. sonoma county supervisor l s hopkins says officials are now

considering making a bid on the property with a new vision. i mean, i think the most exciting opportunity is to really make the beach a regional park right a public space that everyone can come it's a business. it's not it's not a park hotel and restaurant owner. krista ludkey is bidding on the property too her dream preserving cherished memories from the past. for me, it's like, you know when i would go to the beach with my nieces and nephews and get a burger and a soft serve you were transported back to the 50s. you know, it's just i want people to experience that for years to come. well one thing's for sure the sale of iconic johnson's beach is personal. to just about everybody who lives in guerneville including downtown business owners. i don't think it's a this is good. this is bad guerneville 5 and 10 owner robin johnson hopes, whoever the buyer is knows how precious this beach is to the community. there's many generations and history and good feelings. yeah, sonoma county plans a public hearing on the possible

purchase of johnson's beach on october 6th. i mean because this is such an iconic place in the you know, there's a sense of wow, this is exciting and don't screw it up and garnville cornell bernard abc 7 news. earlier this year. we covered the story of a man brazenly attacked on an oakland bus now five months later a good samaritan is coming forward who saved the man on the bus while putting her own life at risk abc 7 news anchor dion lim with a story of unity and heroism that you'll see only on 7. unfolded on this oakland bus april. 96 i saw this man walked past me and he had his cane and he just hit the man in the face or also a prime example of humanity at its finest. i wouldn't sit there and watch anyone be heard michelle who didn't want us to use her last name works in the non-profit sector witnessed 69 year old hua lin get randomly attacked by

this man with the cane we caught up with mr. lynn and his daughter shortly after the incident painful and can't see this scale on the sipping and i of the surveillance video used in the investigation. we know michelle not only stepped into shield mr. lynn from his perpetrator. i just put him up against the plexiglass. i jumped off the bus i flagged down the ambulance. michelle ended up getting attacked herself all in an effort to save mr. lynn anybody would do that. anybody anyone should do that on that very day, oakland chinatown chamber of commerce president and outspoken advocate for stopping aapi hate carl chan himself was attacked by someone else on his way to visit mr. lynn after learning of what michelle did she's not only courageous. she has someone with integrity. a fundraiser to express his gratitude and to keep michelle safe for any landlord or managers if you have a place to stay that you think you know, michelle can can move into

please contact the oakland chinatown chamber of commerce because of michelle's fast actions law enforcement were able to make an arrest and chan says set an example for others if that's not a matter who we are but no matter your black asian why hispanic whatever race you are what i believe you are we all need to unify we all need. together to fight, you know, not only the covid-19 but let's all fight hate crimes many of us will step in and recognizing our best hero just don't tell that to her. face, that's what you're supposed to do. i don't know what i don't know how else to say it wonder woman though. yeah, that's more like i i i oakland dion limb abc 7 news. bay area skies were looking a little hazy this afternoon meteorologist sandy patel tells us if we'll see more of this over the weeke (♪ ♪) (♪ ♪)

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(breaths) (electricity) around the bay area this afternoon the bay area air

quality management district says it's because of wildfires smoke along with warm temperatures and exhaust and we can see more of it this weekend. unfortunately abc 7 news meteorologist, sandhya patel here with more that as well as the heat in the forecast sandy. yeah. i mean we definitely off to a warm start for october larry and kristen and we're going to turn up the heat as we head into the weekend. i want to show you a live picture though right now from our east bay hills camera. we are looking at a very hazy mount diablo as we pan around here. it's hard not to notice that there has been some more haze in the air. we do have a spare the air alert for tomorrow air quality is declining moderate to pour for your saturday mod. on sunday monday. it looks like we'll start to get some good air quality in here right now. it is good to moderate. so the yellows is moderate air quality around the north bay parts of the east bay inland good right near the coastline. look how bad it is right around fresno visalia poor to unhealthy. they do have an air quality

alert there as you look at the hourly smoke forecast here in the bay area. we keep it on the hazy side going into your saturday afternoon still hazy for part of your sunday before we see an improvement. on monday live doppler 7 showing you the little bit of fog we had earlier today has pulled away from the coast. it'll return later on tonight from our emeryville camera. we are seeing a nice view of the golden gate bridge 70 degrees in the city. it is 77 in oakland upper 80s from san jose to mountain view morgan hill 68 and half moon bay and just beautiful blue skies from our golden gate bridge camera, santa rosa 87 along with napa low 90s for fairfield and concord most areas today in the 70s to 90s. 90s. why would you even want to get away? in case you traveling warm and hazy light breeze mid 80s to low 90s that are local airports honolulu some sun showers 86 new york city 79 chicago 79 with showers and thunder and la looking at sunshine and upper 80s from our pier 39 camera. just a nice view chamber of commerce day areas of fog near the coast overnight hazy and

warm to hot this weekend a much cooler weather is heading your way the middle of next week morning temperatures will be in the 50. and 60s afternoon highs on the hot side in the south bay 97 and gilroy 91 in san jose 87 in santa cruz on the peninsula 89 in redwood city mid-70s along the coast, you know, october brings warm beach weather 72 and daly city 83 downtown san francisco north bay temperatures low 90s from san rafael to petaluma 94 santa rosa 92 in napa. it's going to be a bit on the hazy side 85 in oakland in the east bay 88 castro valley had inland, it'll be hot and hazy i've in concord and livermore now. i want to quickly just turn your attention to next week slight chance of a couple of showers in the north bay, but it's really friday that we have a better opportunity for rain and possibly some sierra snow accuweather 7-day forecast. it's a warm to hot weekend heat eases next week and it's much cooler cloudier. maybe umbrella weather coming your way.

by friday, kristin and larry. look forward to that. yes. thank you, sandia. all right the 40th annual commemoration of fleet week. takes place next week in san francisco the event featuring the blue angels is back after being canceled last year due to the pandemic officials. say the traditional largely be the same this year, but there will be some minor adjustments law enforcement agencies say they're going to be out in force at all the venues and events all across the city. we're going to ensure that we have staff out there our plane close staff will be in uniform. our people will be out there working with the police department because the most important thing is to be a a visible deterrence to any shenanigans. any tomfoolery that may occur. events will begin with a concert next wednesday evening at the san francisco war memorial performing arts center. the air shows start a week from today and run through the weekend and and

can. watch the pacific air show live on saturday from beautiful, huntington beach, california, exclusively on hulu every branch of the military will be represented army air force coast guard marines and the navy this is the blue angels last show before they come to san francisco for fleet week next weekend, which we were just telling you about this special

presentation of the pacific air show streams live saturday beginning at 10 am exclusively on hulu if you want more information on how to watch head to hulu.com a little while ago during 7 news at 4 we had some problems showing you the story of san francisco's lowrider council. celebrating 40 years off change in the community and honoring the past and present of the lowrid. experience job the upholstery the rims the chrome every lowrider is different. it's like candy. it's a moving piece of art. anniversary of the san francisco lowrider council with an exhibit at the culture center for latino arts.

it's a retrospect and historically documents the struggle that began 40 years ago and the organizing of the community for justice and equity and to end racism within the police department here in san francisco, but most important also it's showcases all the different car clubs and low riders that have been part of the history of cruising here in the mission district in san francisco. so we get to celebrate what we do what we like to do. it's a way to show who i am. this is me. and i'm proud to be a lowrider because it's the reflection of who i am my heart. my soul my spirit my mind you feel it in you? yes, it's beautiful. over 40 years ago here on mission street in san francisco. we've come cruising the police department. in they started citing us and then they started arresting us.

it was a big dilemma about police brutality in the mission society wasn't accepting the low and slow movement. and so what we did was we began to get organized and i founded the san francisco low rider council during that time. i got arrested 113 times and got beat up several times and it was worth it because at the end we won and we got a right to cruise so it was beautiful about that now is that you know low riding is beyond accepted but appreciated respected and admired. throughout the last 40 years, you know, we've been involved in fundraising for schools. we've been part of our missional eviction fighting fighting the gentrification and more importantly. is pandemic we've been part of the mission food hub. there was people that were

calling me up and told me that they lost their job. so what i did was i started providing food for families? we've done promotions for people to get tested and more recently. we've been doing promotions to get people of vaccinated. so we've stayed true to our values and our principles and what we believe. 40 50 years later the lowrider moving. i mean it's alive and well in san francisco. this is an art form. that is just going to continue growing. hopefully the new generation will keep it up then go for another 40 years. some of those cars really cool. all right world news tonight with david muir is next. i'm larry deal and i'm kristen zee for sandy patel and all of us here. thanks for watching us tonight next newscast coming up. 30 minutes 6pm remember you can connect 24/7 at abc 7 news.com

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tonight, several breaking stories as we come on the air. president biden on the hill a short time ago. what he said behind closed doors amid this showdown among democrats on the president's two key bills. one on traditional infrastructure. the other bill expanding health care, child care, education, and fighting climate change. what we have just learned tonight. what the president floated in that room. rachel scott live on the hill. also tonight, the coronavirus and the major headline this evening. what could be a new covid pill. merck saying their trials involving a pill were so encouraging, they've stopped trials early. they will ask for emergency authorization. they say the pill cuts the risk of severe covid and death in half. dr. jha standing by with your

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