moving forward finding solutions. this is abc 7 news. into destruction we're going t'o this on a path of feeling the earth. our global day of action drawing attention to the world's most pressing environmental issues just days before top international leaders meet at the united nations climate summit. good evening. thank you for joining us. i'm dan ashley and i'm liz kreutz. you're watching abc 7 news at five live here on abc 7 hulu live and wherever you stream the united nations climate change conference begins on sunday in scotland governor newsom who has made climate one of his defining issues was supposed to attend. but this morning his office abruptly said he would no longer go citing family obligations still his team says the california delegation will be effective on this global stage.

from london with greta thunberg to here in san francisco today protests were held in major cities around the world. world all part of a global day of action to bring awareness about global warming ahead of the un climate summit in scotland in san francisco activists use ash from california wildfires to create a mural in front of blackrocks downtown office. they are demanding the world's biggest banks defund fossil fuels you need to stop it over people the cop 26 summit begins sunday in glasgow, governor newsom was supposed to go but this morning is trip was abruptly. sold his office said in a statement due to family obligations governor newsom will no longer be traveling to the conference and instead be participating virtually lieutenant. governor. eleni kunalakis will now travel in his place on a call with reporters today at newsom's team stressed. the trip will still be effective without the governor. we obviously have a lot to brag about because california is doing more in place than any other state and many other

nations the california delegation says they plan to talk about california's policies on phasing out gas-powered cars. and also highlight how the state has taken action on climate while still boosting the economy we can demonstrate actually we can do this in the world can do this for 18 year old climate activist hannah estrada. she says she will be watching hoping not just for discussion, but real solutions message for saying that we're not that aren't paying attention. we know that the actions you're taking are going to either send us into destruction or going to send us on a path of feeling the earth. and governor newsom's team is not provided any more insight into that into exactly what led the governor to abruptly cancel his trip the lieutenant governor. they're told the associated press that spoke to newsome yesterday. and got a sense that she may be asked to go to scotland. she said the governor has a young family and we should all be understanding. along abandoned marshland is back up and running in the east

bay today. it is all part of a larger effort to restore a habitat that's becoming increasingly rare actually in the bay area. the pacheco marsh is located near martinez. that's north of the benicia bridge abc 7 news reporter laura anthony was there when the levy was deliberately breached for the first time in nearly a century. it'sit'sit'sit'sit'sit's the making to reopen a key east bay marsh that's been dormant for nearly 100 years the pacheco marsh near martinez. it's a huge day for us. within a matter of minutes a pair of giant excavators cleared away tons of dirt and breached the levy allowing tens of thousands of gallons of bay water to rush in and we've lost about 80 to 85 percent of our marshlands surrounding the bay. and so this is an opportunity for us to really bring that type of habitat back. the breach allows the saltwater of sassoon bay to flow back into

the 232 acre pacheco marsh a giant step and restoring not just the marsh but the lower walnut creek watershed. it's part of a larger effort to restore the san francisco bay shoreline. the environmental benefit is we're creating habitat specifically for assault marsh harvest mouse, and we also have a rare birds like black rails which are actually right around the edge of our site. the revitalized marsh is also designed to be resilient to the sea level rise expected with climate change now that there's water back in this marsh for the first time in a century the expectation. is that birds and other species will soon follow and at some point this will also be a recreation area for people be able to come and enjoy the shoreline which is otherwise inaccessible for miles and other direction. to really really emphasize the notion of the environmental education for generations. the plan includes nearly three miles of walking trails and a visitor center all set for

completion in 2023 near martinez laura anthony abc 7 news the fda authorized the pfizer covid-19 vaccine for emergency use in kids 5 through 11 today the final cdc authorization could come as soon as tuesday. it'll be dose series spread three weeks apart, but at a lower dose than what's approved for people 12 and older in the us covid-19 cases and children five through 11 years old make up 39% of cases and individuals younger than 18 years old parents and guardians can rest assured that we conducted a comprehensive and rigorous evaluation of the data on the vaccine safety and effectiveness. advisor is expected to ship out 15 million doses in the next 24 hours vaccinations will start once the cdc gives the okay, which will happen likely next week. mayor london. the breed is announcing tonight that nearly 98% of san francisco's employees are now vaccinated 98 end of the

employees in the city the announcement comes just days before the city's vaccine mandate deadline expires that's on monday back in july when the city established the november 1st deadline for all employees to be vaccinated the rate of employee vaccination was 66% those who don't show proof that they've been vaccinated by monday will be placed on paid administrative leave. it comes to boosters there is a lag and that is why san francisco health officials launched a new initiative today urging seniors to get boosters ahead of the holidays abc 7 news reporter stephanie. sierra is digging into this data and joins us now in the newsroom with a closer. look. hi steph yes, liz. well boosters for moderna and johnson & johnson's vaccines got approved just over a week ago. it's been more than a month now since the fda authorized pfizer's booster for seniors and those at high risk. covid but health officials say both groups in san francisco are far from where they need to be. for months, we've heard health

officials highlight the importance of booster shots, especially for seniors and those at high risk of covid-19. but the problem in san francisco most aren't getting them only about one in five of our seniors over 65 have gotten boosters are about 19 percent deputy director of health dr. naveena. baba says, these are people are eligible meaning anyone. 65 and older who are at least six months out from their primary vaccination series. where would you expect that percentage to be? it's a good question. i mean, obviously we would want it to especially as we hear go into the winter months. we want, you know those percentages. you know, well above 50% san francisco has more than 100 vaccination sites across the city and county including health centers pharmacies and hospital systems yet, dr. baba says many of them saw little demand for a third dose over the past few weeks. yeah. i think it was like at a steady low level just vaccines in general. why do you think that is? i think there's a couple

reasons. i mean first of all it was only pfizer that was approved. luckily madrina and johnson have also now gotten approved and so i think because of that messaging people weren't quite sure if they should get a booster the critical third dose now considered necessary as research on waning immunity becomes more clear. the research is showing that you know months out the meeting that might even decrease below 30 to 60 percent. i mean, there's a range there dr. mike wasserman who sits on california's vaccine advisory committee says educating people on the value of boosters will be critical for us to move forward. we don't spend the time and energy to educate we're gonna be down the same path people just aren't going to naturally do do it. we cannot assume. that they're just going to say great the boosters here, and now that they are here with the holidays inching closer. we all have a deadline to meet and what i would encourage everybody to do is look at thanksgiving go back two weeks and say that's when you want your that's your deadline for getting a booster.

two weeks out from thanksgiving is november 11th, which is just a couple weeks away. i'd say a pretty easy deep. mind to meet given there are plenty of booster appointments available right now online. you can go to sf.gov slash vaccine sites to find a clinic near you and we also have that link posted over on our website. just click vaccine watch live in the newsroom stephanie sierra abc 7 news stephanie. thanks very much in marin county masks will come off on monday officials say the county has met all the tired metrics and the masked mandate will be lifted at noon on november 1st. the mandate was put into place august 2nd as part of a bay. wide public health response to the surge in cases related to the delta variant. it's the first bay area county to reach the benchmarks including a vaccination rate above 80% marin and san francisco are the only bay area counties currently in the yellow or moderate category. this year covid-19 cases are down and now people are turning up the fun for halloween

experts. say the fall holiday is slowly making a comeback to free pandemic levels, even the national retail federation says this year people are predicted to spend more than 10 billion dollars on the holiday the spokeswoman for the halloween and costume. associ. station says compared to 2020 candy costumes and other decoration sales are up 25% 16% of americans plan to take their children trick-or-treating and 35% say they do plan to hand out candy. that's fun. yeah. awesome. this is my costume for all your news. anchor right? exactly. right? what is the halloween forecast look like us the question? yeah, sandia, hopefully a little dryer than last weekend. absolutely. we don't have an atmosphere grower. that's for sure. dan it is going to be all treats for halloween. so let's take a look at the forecast. right now really when kids start getting under get their trick-or-treating underway early five o'clock for those of the little ones out there mild start temperatures in the 50s 60s at

six o'clock the sun goes down at 6:11 is going to be spook. cool at 7 o'clock and all treats at 8pm but good idea to just dress in layers underneath those costumes live doppler 7 showing you a changing weather pattern with increasing clouds and fog and next week. we have a wet weather pattern that is going to unfold with two storms coming. i'll be back with a closer look coming up dan. okay, excellent sandy. thanks very much. well outside lands music fest is back live. once again about 70,000 people are expected at the three day event that today. there are changes of because of the ongoing pandemic anyone attending must show either proof of vaccination or a negative covid test some of the headliners include lizzo the strokes and many others foot traffic in and around golden gate park could also deliver a shot on the arm, of course to local businesses get to see that. all right honoring the santana family and san francisco's mission district today, a mural was unveiled as a tribute to carlos santana and his younger

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recent four-year period and other findings include that about a hundred and ninety five people die each year from interactions with california law enforcement and more than 40. sense of people wounded in non-fatal police shootings showed signs of mental illness or the effects of drugs or alcohol activist and former 49er colin kaepernick's new autobiographical series is now streaming on netflix. since the day i was born. my passion my love. was being a quarterback. but what you start out as is not necessarily what you become. the series titled colin in black and white mixes fictionalized scenes from kaepernick's life as a teen athlete here in california. stories about the history of racism in america kaepernick co-created and co-produced the series with oscar nominated director ava duvernay. he's also the narrator. okay, legendary guitarist and

musician carlos santana is synonymous with san francisco's mission district today, he and his family were honored for their many contributions to that community and to latin rock. abc 7 news reporter leanne melendez was at today's unveiling of a huge mural dedicated to the santana family. godfather of latin rock carlos. santana has been alleged in the place. his family has always called home san francisco's mission district. here's longtime friend richard segovia to me because i was here this whole time created that latin rock sound. i mean, you know him in the percussionists, but it was carlos that put us on the map today his lee with a mural in the heart of the mission his parents son and his brother jorge are part of that legacy you can't say i miss you without families. you cannot say la familia de

santana without la mission. it was actually jorge santana who came up with the idea of having a family mural. he died in may 2020 a gifted musician in his own, right? this is a picture of jorge santana featured with our own. especially we are the beneficiaries of their spirit of their love of their musical. genius mark bodie painted the mural. the inspiration is the number one family of music in the mission, you know, like and in the world, you know, i am more than a musician. i bring a change. in a lot of people because i bring hope and courage. in 2017, santana was involved in the documentary dolores. lighting the achievements of civil rights leader dolores huerta.

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is officially underway at palisades tahoe. today's opening is a in october certainly a rare occurrence. and as zach fuentes from abc 10 in sacramento reports, eagers skiers and snowboarders were lined up very early today opening weekend in october. it does not happen very often at all. in fact, this is only the third time in the resort 72-year history that this has happened and people were so eager to get out and take advantage of it.

they opened up at 9 am but people started lining up at six getting outside getting active. it just makes you more happy. and when you doing something you love like skiing makes you even more happy. i'm feeling super psyched and i'm just ready to go ski. yeah, those folks say they plan to be out here all weekend taking part in this right now. i have alex here with palisades tahoe. how excited are you guys for this? i am so excited. i mean these people got out here so early everybody is just so fired up to be able to ski in october. that's not something you can usually do especially halloween weekend. what a fun way to spend the, you know come out with your costumes. we're gonna be giving out andy it's just a great way to spend a fall weekend. we saw the amount of snow that came in on monday and we made the decision that afternoon that we would open this friday. so only four days to get everything going, you know, our lifts were down. nothing was touched on the snow up top. we had a groom we had to get the lifts going, you know, it was a monumental effort, you know between the wildfires the

drought up here covid a lot of kind of tough news and this is just something you can be excited about, you know getting to ski in october seeing some snow on the ground getting all that rain and precipitation this week. just all good things for our community. and in addition to palisades tahoe boreal mountain resort also opened this morning if you're thinking of heading up you should know that all guests are required to purchase tickets in advance before arrival. the resort will operate wednesdays through sundays until november 19th, and then i'll expand to seven days a week. how about that? right and there is more snow and rain in the forecast, although it sounds liz not like anything we have the last few days. i know i know who would have thought october. it looks. january there. yeah, it does. it definitely looks like winter up there and they will. getting some more snow liz and dan next week as two storms come through the bay area and bring us rain. let me show you a live picture right now from our mount tam cam. the weather is already changing start looking for the golden

gate bridge. it's buried under the fog also have higher cloud 61 in the city. it's in the mid to upper 70s from oakland to san jose. we did get another mild to warm day in before the change has got underway from our east bay hills camera. you're looking towards hazy mount diablo 73 in santa rosa 74 in napa currently 77 fairfield 79 in livermore live doppler 7 showing you the fog near the coast of the higher clouds are starting to come in an association with this week's system here. now while all the energy is going into northern california. there's a small possibility a couple of isolated showers may make it into the north bay tomorrow, but it should be just fine for outside lands. so cooler and cloudier tomorrow in golden gate park mid 60s. mostly cloudy on sunday. also in the mid 60s a good idea. have the jacket if you are going and enjoy here's a look at the travel forecast in case you're getting out of town upper 60s to lows 70s. mostly cloudy honolulu looking at 84 degrees with rain, new york city 65 also wet chicago a chance of showers 57 and in los

angeles 74 degrees looking at mostly sunny skies for los angeles. so let me show you. picture from san jose where we're seeing a mix of sunshine and high clouds a cooler weekend isolated sprinkles for your saturday cloudy, but dry for halloween. and two storms will bring wet weather next week. so let me show you that weak system that i was referring to tomorrow morning might see a couple of drops especially in the north bay around 10 am and then really a couple of sprinkles might linger into the evening, but that is not a game changer for your plans for tomorrow in the morning. you're looking at 40s and 50s a lot of fog out there along that with the higher clouds and then for the afternoon you're looking at a cooler day coast side in the 60s along with the bay communities. and a few lows 70s, well inland, but certainly cooler than today most areas today were in the 60s to 80s range a breezy conditions expected along the coast now next week is what we're going to fast forward to storm number one gets here monday morning. it brings us the wet weather it switches over to a rain snow mix

in the sierra and then we get a little bit of a lull before storm number two arrives on wednesday, and that one will linger into thursday rainfall projections for both storms will look like this the wettest spots and the santa cruz mountains the earth bay up to an inch and a half the rest of you anywhere from about a half an inch to three quarters of an inch, so we will welcome that rain the accuweather 74 cast isolated shower not out of the question creepy clouds for halloween, but looking good level one system for monday wednesday lingering wet windy weather for thursday, and then we dry out on friday dan and liz as long as it's dry to show off our costume. absolutely the costumes will not get wet. thanks, india. all right, s to be a thriver with metastatic breast cancer means asking for what we want, and need...

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the chp is asking for help in identifying a veteran whose photo was discovered on i-580 in the east bay chp says officers found this photo along with a folded american. tag in a display case on the freeway near isabel avenue and livermore. it was wrapped in a warrior's blanket. so for no one has claimed the property definitely something that we want to return to an owner. i mean we find all sorts of weird things out there but something like this this means a lot to somebody and we want to get this back from their hands.

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