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some room to negotiate to we're looking at what's happening with inside. what colonel bernard. we'll start with colonel who is in the newsroom. the mayor had a lot to say on this issue. >> yes, she did, larry. the mayor and other officials are hoping to keep some walgreens open where many seniors stop. walgreens says it has no choice but to close stores. >> a lot of stuff to buy, and
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we're going miss it as far far as the store. >> many know whyhad with business or location. it has to do with people just walking in taking whatever they want. and just walking out and they including ocean avenue stones town. cesar chavez street in mission and goff street in the valley where melendez shot this viral theft video that suspect was arrested. >> so i want people who are sadly committing these crimes to keep this in mind because when they do, this it impacts their family members, their grandmother who is can't get their met since in their pharmacies. >> it's impacting >> it seems that i have to cry
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when somebody that the walgreens is closing. >> in a statement walgreens says due to organized crime, we have made the difficult decision to close five us by walgreens location within a mile radius and we expect to place the store's team members y can't control what they do or what they say. i just know that ultimately, we are here to work with walgreens. >> the mayor and supervise or matt haney believes there is still room to negotiate. >> i will be reaching out to walgreens. i've expressed how important it is to stay in our community.
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>> then there were five, then there were seven. and there were 17. and now there's another five. it comes down to dollars and cents and safety first off the dollars and cents as colonel pointed out. when your theft right is five times the national average that means you're losing five times as much money. when your security cost are over that, that means money you're spending out. add in high rent, high labor
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costs, other problems an challenge, and it doesn't pencin scene le you saw what was that security guard supposed too? could leanne have gotten hurt? sometimes we say enough is enough, we can make our money elsewhere. >> that's the frustration. these people could be snatched just arrested right at that time scene, but you don't want innocent buy standers so it's easier to let them bicycle out. could the city do more? you can't put a police officer at every walgreens? >> well, and you know, you're seeing more and more police officers off-duty dutiy police officers and that's costing money at walgreens and other retail outlets, larry. the point is this, they're organizer their theft unit. they've increased that from two
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inspect ors to six inspect ors. i was talking to police sources an i've talked to them in the past. and retail -- the problem is, or the challenge in san francisco is accountability. the bomb line is that as a city, we do not believe in locking people up especially before they go to trial for nonviolent offenses. the result is a revolving door in which someone is sited and -- cited and released. sometimes they go right back out and steal again. >> is it just crime? is there something else going on here? >> part of it is a thing called prop 47, which we the voters of california passed that said theft of under $950 is not going to be treated as a felony. it's going to be as a citation misdemeanor. $950 is a lot of cosmetics and drug that is you can get out of walgreens r. the criminals know the dollar amount so they stay just below the
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limit. a different going to. there's a new survey that found out that 56% of residents and five local counties plan to move away in the next five years that's up more than 9% since the pandemic began. a lot of times people say things. do you think this is likely to occur? we're gone to see a dramatic shift in our population as a result of a number of issues? >> the biggest one is housing, larry. people can not afford to continue to live here, they're going to move elsewhere. if people are going to retirement age and an older population of the bayer there's a good chance they'll live. will there be a shift? yes, will move move out? yes. will it be younger people? yes. younger people and immigrants are moving in the bay area and in large numbers as well. so you're going to have a bay area. it's not going to look the same as the past bay area, but it's probably going to continue to make money and it's probably going to continue to be
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expensive living here. >> i don't think the rents will drop that dramatically. phil, thanks so much for your time. anchor: a new round of power safety power shut-offs could begin at midnight. p pg&e has an updated list but the warningsing applies to 4900 bay customers. see the yellow spots? it includes over 3300 customers in napa county. nearly 1400 in solano county and 144 customers in sonoma county so what are we expecting? let's check in with abc7 weathee forge right now, it's breezy with the wind speeds at that time surface mainly between 15 and 20 in the breeziest locations. but as we look at our wind gust animation, you can see that going into the overnight hours, although winds will taper off a bit, they'll start to increase in the early morning hours.
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we expects an increase especially in the higher elevations throughout the day. as a result these will be high gusty winds in the higher elevations and the red flag warn ing from 10:00 to 8:00 p.m. lit be a bit gusty in other locations ass well. and even though fire concerns will be elevated in those areas this is the only region where a red flag warning is expected to be in effect. kristen? kristen: targeting ghost guns t. new effort to get illegal guns off the streets. running out the rising prizes and shortages due to the supply chain problems and what's being chain problems and what's being done about it. to be a thriver with metastatic breast cancer means... asking for what we want. and need. and we need more time. so, we want kisqali. living longer is possible and proven with kisqali... ...when taken with fulvestrant in postmenopausal women with hr+,
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a complaint announced today alleges the three companies lead buyers to believe that frames and receivers purchased in gun kits are legal without explaining the legal obligations they will face if
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they assemble the firearm. the complaint also alleges that the three companies do not disclose to gun kit buyers that handguns sold within the state must pass a firing test and dropped safety tests and that those requirements apply to them as individual private firearm manufacturers. finally according to the complaint, blackhawk and block store failed to comply with the required. moment that certain california firearm manufacturers in grave all frame and receiver blanks with a unique serial number. we have the firepower we need to win this war. against gun violence america we got to stop it. it's time abc seven news reached out to all three companies. we have not yet heard back in san francisco, melanie woodrow, abc seven news. san jose police department is crediting a rookie police officer forgetting three ghost guns off the streets. the department tweeted these photos of the loaded guns today, according to the tweet, the officer discovered the guns during a traffic stop. they label had drugs in their possession santa barbara county sheriff's
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deputies are going door to door right now to make sure people have left the area where the alisal fire is threatening more than 100 homes in ranches and that includes the reagan ranch parts of highway 101 and amtrak lines remains shut down that fire started on monday. it's already burned over 15,000 acres only 5% contained high winds and dry conditions cost that fire to grow quickly and firefighters from across southern california have been called in to try to artist in the fight the marine mammal care center in los angeles took in two baby seals and a sea lion so cute there evacuated from that fire area the northern fur se. elephant seal and sea lion we're being cared for at the channel islands marine and wildlife institute in santa barbara, but had to be evacuated when the flames got too close to that facility as we rejoined spencer with us cooler temperatures here, but wind remains a problem throughout the state. yeah getting up spencer. yeah, the winds are picking up or doing the overnight hours. we may see the winds diminish a bit which is often the pattern,
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but they're going to kick up again tomorrow and as a result we'll probably right. we will have red flag warning in effect for solano county. let me give you a look at what's happening right now the satellite radar composite image a little weak funnel system swept through today bringing us increasing cloud increased clouds earlier today. those clouds are now moving out of the bay area a little bit of a breeze behind the front and were a couple of areas of sprinkles earlier today as well? so it's breezy right now, but not terribly windy across most of the bay area surface wind speeds range from 12 to about 20 miles per hour generally and it has is quite a bit cooler right now than it was at this hour yesterday in most bay area locations 60 degrees cooler here in the city 90 degrees cooler in oakland right now. let's take a look at some of our current temperature readings as we also look at just a few high clouds over san francisco from sutro tower. it's only 56 degrees in san francisco right now 60 in oakland. 63 mountain view mid to opera 60s at san jose and mountain view and and morgan hill rather and 52 at pacifica and the view of the golden gate much bluer sky than we saw just a couple
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hours ago at that location. it is 70 degrees in santa rosa novato 68 64 napa 77 at fairfield concord 69 emeryville livermore 67 and looking across the embarcadero from our rooftop camera. you see a mix of blue and a few high clouds in the sky. and these are our forecast features mostly clear overnight chilly in the north bay valleys windier tomorrow with increased fire danger returning a warmer afternoon's lie ahead on friday and saturday. so during the overnight hours under mainly clear skies. we'll see low temperatures dropping into the upper 30s to low 40s in the northernmost part of our viewing area. most of the locations will see lowe's in the mid to upper 40s and then tomorrow look for sunny skies breezy at the coast highs will range from 65 at half moon bay to 68 in san francisco. really low 70s right around the bayshore line tomorrow and inland areas will warm up to up. needs to about 80 maybe 82 degrees over a fairfield and tomorrow evening all important game five in the nlds dodgers
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versus the giants game time 607. it'll be bright and sunny at that time. even as he gets darker. it's going to be clear. mainly pretty breezy and as the game winds down ninth inning or so expect temperatures being the mid 50, so it'll be cool and breezy which is often the case for baseball at oracle park now going writing it'll be even a warmer with mid 80s inland fact, friday and saturday look for mid 80s inlet up to about 80 degrees around the bayshore line turning sharply cooler under breezy conditions on sunday and that cooler and breezy and cloudy or pattern will continue into the middle of next week with a chance of rain that four letter word here next wednesday kristin. we actually kind of like that for later. i love it. thank you. mayor london breed is celebrating a new outdoor space in downtown san francisco abc use was that the ribbon cutting for the crossing at eastcott the new entertainment and recreational center now stands at the old temporary transbay
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terminal site. it has public street soccer and pickleball courts as well as an outdoor cinema and food trucks mayor breed boasted the city's high vaccination rate will create more opportunities for group activities. this place will play an important role in our economic recovery, but more importantly it will plan important role of continuing to bring people together. the crossing will be hosting a free block party tomorrow night starting at 4 pm to show off the new space with food trucks games and sports it is do or die for the giants tomorrow against the dodgers giants home at oracle. we will have a preview and a disturbing new report on climate the effects. it's having on coral reefs and it's having on coral reefs and what bay area resea why hide your skin if dupixent has your moderate-to-severe eczema or atopic dermatitis under control? hide my skin? not me. by hitting eczema where it counts, dupixent helps heal your skin from within, keeping you one step ahead of eczema.
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head into winter take on game 5 of their division playoff series tomorrow night at oracle park if you count regular season playoffs both of these teams have won. nine games this season 110 will decide who moves on to the national league championship series giants have shut out the dodgers twice. in this division series, but the two la winans have been routes. they've outscored the giants overall 16 to 9 through 4 games pitching matchup logan webb was great for the giants and game one against jose orias. this is a huge matchup. i think our players understand the magnitude of the game five in a ds at home against the
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dodgers first time playing the dodgers in a postseason series all of the dramatics that have happened in game fives. the way and some of the the cool things that have happened for giant the giants players and giants fans. i think our players are well aware of that. and so when i hear them talk about it, it fires me up a little bit. gonna be a lot of fired up people at oracle tomorrow onto the a's stadium situation at howard terminal now baseball commissioner rob mannford. just expressed some doubt about the progress or lack of progress being made on the project. it's dragged on so long and you know, frankly in some ways. we're not sure we see a path to success in terms of getting something built in oakland. honestly, there is no new information here just the commissioner continuing to try to keep the leverage on the city of oakland in particular alameda county which will meet the supervisors on october 26th to consider joining the project
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which is necessary for this to succeed oakland mayor libby schaaf commenting today on midday live. i am in regular communication with the commissioner with the a's i can tell you his statement is consistent with what he's been. chain of late he remains frustrated. that we don't have a shovel in the ground yet and and he is just expressing thatthere. there's nothing that that has changed since you know, he he made that statement that oakland still his first choice. so again, the next key date is on the 26th of october followed by the final environmental impact report, which is expected. just a few days later. all right, supply chain issues could soon be affecting your holidays? holidays coming up you might be wondering if gifts you plan to buy will arrive on time. the president's answer to the
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bay area moving forward finding solutions. this is abc 7 news. alright now on to the massive disruption that we're seeing in the nation's supply chain. it's impacting stores all across the country consumers already seeing short supply of some items. they're also digging deeper into their own pockets abc news. have been a roy looks at what president bid? today to try to tackle the problem. supply is down and prices are up. but president biden says he has a plan to change that with the holidays coming up. you might be wondering if gifts you plan to buy will arrive on time. and today we have some good
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news. we're going to help speed up the delivery of goods all across america the biden administration meeting with major retailers and suppliers, including walmart and ups along with the leaders of the nation's too busiest ports. figure out how to ease the supply chain bottleneck affecting millions of americans the port of los angeles now expanding to 24/7 operation as workers battle record-breaking backlogs of container ships workers here at the port are now working around the clock to empty as many ships as possible throughout the night, but still the stacks of containers are continuing to mount along the port and so does the line of rocks samsung and ups announcing they will also be working around the clock to try and help the backlog. we need major retailers who ordered the goods and the freight movers who take the goods from the ships to factories and to stores to step up as well, but from a shortage of truck drivers to workers on the dock plus rising prices for
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shipping containers. it's an intricate issue to solve and there's not one easy fix that's available and that means costs are high for consum. hours diaper prices up nearly 9 percent clothes up 4.2 percent new cars up 7.6 percent meat prices up nearly 9% and eggs up nearly 10 from a year ago treasury secretary. janet yellen says there is no reason to panic buy but that there will lik be some shortages and high prices especially during the holidays some experts. say the earlier you buy those gifts the better rena roy abc news, new york. our great news for halloween pumpkins are also scarce across the country due to supply chain issues. the pandemic has left farmers with a lack of seasonal workers and shipping delays or contributing to the shortage other farmers were forced to lay off workers and shut down in california. the drought has cut into pumpkin production as well. some local orchards have doubled the prices of the ornamental
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pumpkins due to low supplies. that's where another holiday shortage and this one might affect your kids. there's a shortage of santa's helpers. 87 news reporter dustin dorsey explains how organizers of san jose's annual christmas in the park are changing up santa visits to help with health and safety worries. tis two months till christmas. oh, what time of year stores have already begun to spread holiday cheer christmas in the will return for in-person fund, but there's worry that it may be missing someone. others for safety reasons and their own personal reasons. they aren't able to participate this year and hope to come back in future years. so for us we're short, we don't want somebody to come down and have sand and not be there. we all know the big guy is busy this time of year. so for 40 years visits with us helpers have been the centerpiece of the excitement at christmas in the park in san
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jose. alright guys with drive-thru and in person events the park will offer more volunteer shifts than ever before. after losing santa's helpers organizers are making changes. it's up to us. accommodations and see if we can attract a few more volunteers to help with the santa program so that we can have good variety of people that want to come and visit, you know and share their time and visit with our guests after a year of virtual and distance visits in 2020 kids can see santa's helpers. in-person again this and safetys with santa's helpers will be outside in each volunteer chooses distance or traditional visits based on their comfortability. comfortability. how's the jelly belly doing? better than ever thanks to covid. this is one of santa's helpers at christmas in the park for nearly a decade. he loves the emotional impact santa can have on a child.
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with santa's this weekend. he encourages others to volunteer and make a difference. this is the year for step up the kids really need. to have some christmas interaction a little sense of normalcy. we should do everything we can to bring things back to a real christmas season the way we've seen in the past visit our website for how to volunteer. there's nothing to lose in san jose dustin dorsey abc 7 news. dustin with santa there ahere ae william shatner explores new worlds. well at least above our world his reaction after going to the edge o ♪ ♪ dry eye symptoms keep driving you crazy? inflammation in your eye might be to blame. [inflammation] let's kick ken's ache and burn into gear! over the counter eye drops typically work by lubricating your eyes and may provide temporary relief. those drops will probably pass right by me.
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forward four as drew and spencer join us actor william shatner can add real life astronaut to his resume the man known for his iconic role as captain kirk on star trek has now traveled to the edge of space in real life a 90 years old. he's the oldest man to ever do so. here's abc news reporter morgan norwood. blue origin blasting off intoo space once again making history william shatner best known for his is captain cork in the original star trek? well beaming up now the oldest person to travel to space shatner joining three other passengers entrepreneurs glenda rise chris boshizen and blue origins own audrey powers aboard the new shepherd rocket the crew reflecting on their experience
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everybody needs. space separating from the rocket leaving the more space travelers weightless for three minutes the crew taking in the incredible views through those giant windows the passengers capsule or shooting to the ground. celebrations roared shatner shar space adventures no longer fiction, but now a reality what you have given me. is the i can match so what's next for captain kirk shatner who loves music and performing says that he's writing new music inspired by everything that he saw in space. morgan norwood abc news, van horn, texas really cool to see his reaction because he was just overwhelmed by the whole experience spencer. he was it was it was just
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incredible you could feel his emotion. you know it. i don't think there was any acting there. i think that was his honest feeling. yeah true. yeah, i was those heartwarming to see you know get emotional. was the cool thing for him to do also i did not know that he was a musician and he's gonna create some new music out of this. oh, that is cool. i was like i was inspired he couldn't stop talking about that comforter of blue seeing her atmosphere right? i just think it's amazing that he is 90. he said i'm gonna do it. he did it. he did. i just wanted him at some point to to blurred out. i need my engines now scotty. yeah drive and have somebody go. i'm working on it captain. that's scottish. it's okay. all right, nice. try it out. i reportedly working on new health us. es tech giant is exploring ways to have the pods take your temperature monitor your posture even improve your hearing. the report says there's no time
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frame to roll out the features adding that they may never be rolled out at all last month. the journal reported that apple was working on new health related features for the apple watch including blood pressure monitoring. yeah, what do you think? does this get you more excited to buy? products i guess it's like an apple a day kid. keep the doctor away. you know, i'm here for this if they can find ways for you to know sooner if something's wrong with you health wise, you know, they keep your heart rate on your apple watch if you have a you know, irregular heart rate it can tell you. for you may need to go to a doctor for something serious and if it can tell your temperature is on the rise, maybe before you feel some symptoms. that's always good to know. just i'm happy to hear that there could be a positive airpods application for improving hearing because i always think when you have you know, those things in tendency is to have loud music and that kind of hurts your hearing, know, yeah tendency tendency. like that, that's all right, by the way, the aura ring is also similar in terms of its ability
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to monitor your temperature and it's really precise. so if you're thinking about covid and some of the symptoms it'll let you know right away if something's in this that's really cool. yeah facebook is clamping facebg they'll remove content from people who are unvoluntary famous. they will take down people mocking george floyd who is an involuntary public figure. journalists fall into the same policy which goes into effect today. this is one of many steps that facebook needs take to fix a lot of problems. >> i hope it's not too late to change things because you know with the advent of social media, bullying has just become part of our identity as a culture.
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it's so sad. >> i wonder if this is something that's automatically done or if the user has to report something that is on their passenger that may be damaging to them. how quickly can this be implemented? and what constitutes someone to make this list? chris: we -- kristen: we know that facebook's a.i. is not always right on. they are so under the microscope right now. all right. several bay area restaurants made it to the new york times list that they're most excited about. they include mr. ju's, nari and the anchovy bar. those three are in san francisco the marshall store in marshall made the list. food critics and reporters were taxed to finding the place to eat to find the rich mosaic of
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american dining. mr. ju's is across the station. we can walk there for amazing dumplings. have you gone there, drew? drew: i've been up to marshall but not that restaurant. but that's always a fun place to go to get larry: when i first read it i thought it read marshalls like the clothing stores. i thought, they have restaurants at marshall's? i'm amazing. i've got to go back there. kristen: you know you dine at ikea with those meat balls. drew: they're not bad. larry: maybe this is the next big marshalls does it before ross does it. [laughter] all right. that's it. that's it. kriste ♪ ♪ ♪ that's it. kriste
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kristen: government health officials are stepping up, the pressure to get food companies to reduce the amount of sodium in their products t. f.d.a. wants the sodium intake from 12% to 3,000 milligram as day they're targeting 163 products including potato chips, condiments and cereal. dr. jen ashton says the move is significant but encouraging people that they should take action themselves. >> they should read labels
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because there's a lot of hidden sodium in almost everything you consume, use spices in place of salt. people focus ton sodium. but if you also focus on potassium-rich food you can lower your blood pressure by three to five points. >> about 70% of the salt we eat comes from prepackaged food. too much sodium can increase the risk for heart attack and stroke. larry: as part of our effort to help build a better bayer we're committed on focusing on the climate >> a disturbing new report about the damage being done to corral reef habitats. larry: spencer has more on that. larry: this report is setting off a alarm bells as it should the bay area has been an epicenter of research into replenishing and potentially saving corral reaves -- reefs re
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exploring the world's corral reefs has been exhilarating and disheartening especially when she comes across the damage of the damage being blamed on climate change and rising open ocean temperatures an effect known as corral bleaching. >> and seeing the corral bleaching, it's just -- it's really shocking and sad. this is a corral skeleton. it's made of calcium carbonate. >> the white contrasts with colors often visible a few feet beneath the surface produce bid algae that leave in healthy reef, a symbiotic relationship that's disrupted when waters are too warm. >> that relationship, it's not positive for the corral any more. so the corral released that algae. >> sometimes with dead deadly
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consequence. a new report reveals that some 14% of the world's corral reefs have disappeared in a decade. because of global warming. >> research whats have been hard at work on new ways to protect our ocean habitats. one concern is rising ocean temperatures and stressed ecoo systems disrupting the marine food chain, impacting the fisheries and the migration of animals that grace our shores >> many, many animals like whales and birds who come visit marine mammals an birds who come to our coast and rely on our ecosystems here for nesting and for feeding r. rebekkah johnson part of a diverse academy of science teamworking on marine solutions, programs includeing leaving california, the resilient ions initiative and hope for reefs which created
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this laboratory for corral spawning for supporting bio diversity around the globe. >> it's changing pretty quickly because of what we've done for planet question plaque a difference if we make changes now. >> whatever is there, maintain it in the best way. >> and the need has never seemed so you are jet as they struggle to preserve this keflin our ecosystem. if there is a hopeful note it's that the report pointed out that habitats like reefs can regenerate themselveses if they're given enough time and a healthy environment in which to recover. that's encouraging. kristen: we've seen seen that, right, larry. one of the few pluses benny benefit offers the pandemic is that fewer people have been like in hawaii and you've seen the fish come back and the reef come back to life.
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moving forward finding solutions. this is abc 7 news inflation matches a 13-year high as supply chain issues continue to affect consumers. and now the white house is trying to fix the problem. good evening. thank you for joining us. i'm dan ashley and i'm kristen z. you're watching abc 7 news at five live here on abc 7 hulu live and wherever you stream. one place you will notice the sharp increase in inflation is the grocery store the prices of beef and chicken especially have created distress for people. just trying to keep food on the table abc 7 news reporter david louie is tracking the economy as part of our focus on building a better bay area. no, i've never seen it like this. bob's true penny has been a butcher for 44 years the meat manager of piazza's in san mateo. he

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