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>> building a better bay area, moving forward, finding solutions, this is abc 7 news. >> it's important for me to participate in the walkout because the walkout is trying to help schools become safer for the kids who attend. ama: some bay area students griller -- gearing up for school boycott to highlight concerns over covid safety measures. this time it is this a gap that could last a week. julian: you're special edition of abc 7 news at lot -- at 9:00. as omicron surges, several oakland schools plan to participate in student -- sick out. the idea is to bring attention to their safety demands.
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our senior education reporter has the details. reporter: like many's schools in oakland, this elementary school has students and staff absent. a fifth grade to student -- for fed teachers is one in four students is out on covid related illness. >> either they themselves has it or family member does. reporter: the acorn woodland elementary campus will be open but most families voted to keep their tilden home for the entire week. teachers will only be out tomorrow to show their support and will participate in a rally outside of the school. >> the fears are very rea they have younger siblings to can't be vaccinated. older family members. >> it is important for me to participate in the walkout because the walkout is trying to help schools become safer for the kids who attend. reporter: many schools receive
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the kn95 masks late on thursday. because school has been out since then, not all the masks have been distributed to each student. school district maintains classrooms are still very safe, despite the spread of the omicron variant. >> we just hope that in the eyes of some of the folks that have been critical of the situation, essex line reporter: she teaches at bridges academy in oakland, another school joining the walkout. she says the community wants more covid testing threat the district. >> there are sites there not getting that can of testing. we believe equity means all schools are getting what they deserve. reporter: tomorrow, teachers at that school will join a caravan like the one organized last week to raise awareness. ama: new east bay where kaiser permanente is offering additional vaccines to 3900 patients who were given
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a low dose by mistake. kaiser sent out a the affected patients who got the pfizer vaccine at its walnut creek medical center last fall. kaiser says the dosing error should not significantly reduce immunity. patients are received with moderna or johnson & johnson vaccines are not affected. julian: earlier today, kaiser therapists held a protest to bring attention to what they call it systemic racism in the hospital system. they claim kaiser broke its promise to make mlk day a paid holiday. it is currently in contract negotiations with the union which represents a therapists. in statement, kaiser said it is unfortunate the union is using this important topic as a tactic to gain leverage in bargaining. ama: paul kreis the bay area, may martin luther king celebrations -- all across the bay, many martin luther king
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celebrations brought attention. reporter: a caravan of people celebrated martin luther king day. >> we are writing for all the lives lost, whether it is someone in the community or someone for a law enforcement agency pulled the trigger. reporter: of the anti-police terror project. it is a call to do it king said and declare war on poverty, not people. >> along with a coronavirus andd economic pandemics of it was important to come together in the safest way possible. volunteers plan to hand out gift cards in much supplies. >> this is our 33rd year. this is a car parade, ok? we are not getting out of our cars. but we are still celebrating. i love it. reporter: generations of
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supporters gathered, including 20-year-old melia who says this tradition again with her tradition -- with her grandparents. they fought with sausalito to make it a holiday. with me being a part of that, it is important to celebrate this day and other days to acknowledge the progress we've made and the progress we still need to make as black people and as americans. reporter: this 86-year-old and her family survived internment camps. >> he fought for freedom. he fought for equality. all the things he said to us have been part of my mission in life. reporter: el cerrito police chief. >> it is great to keep his dream alive. to talk about faith and family and community and how we bring each other together, especially during hard times. reporter: two events keeping his dream alive. >> the story can never die.
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julian: in church, in partnership with rise against hunger honored king's legacy helping those who don't have enough to eat. 60 people spent the day packaging 10,000 meals for people around the world. they say is important to spend the state in service to others. >> ama: today's national day of service pumped of members of the south bay group to plant trees inside this parkinson josé. about 100 people took part never. organizers say dr. king would been happy with the efforts. julian: today many are volunteering around the bay area as part of the martin luther king junior dave service. local food banks are specially in need of help. second harvest in san jose were volunteers were helping out today. reporter: with this latest surgeon pandemic, local food
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bank say they are experiencing some the worst staffing shortages in years. >> volunteers make up one quarter of our workforce. we cannot do this work without them. reporter: diane works for second harvest of silicon valley, a food bank based in san jose. she says the situation has gotten so desperate that second harvest is considering hiring temporary labor, they could cost an extra $50,000 a week. >> sometimes we're spending more money to buy pre-box produce. reporter: the call for help was answered on monday thanks to a group of volunteers from the regional medical center of san jose came in for a day of service in honor of martin luther king jr. day. >> this gives us an opportunity instead of taking a day off to serve our community in more ways than one. reporter: canwest is the ceo of the medical center. he says spending the date helping those most in need is the best way for him and his colleagues to put dr. king's
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message and action. >> this type of work fills you up. we want to be an inspiration to others who may be sitting at home. reporter: they say covid cases have been the main region behine staffing shortages. >> that is about 80% increase over what we were doing pre-pandemic. reporter: despite the challenges, she says they will always be here. >> we know that need is continuing, it is sustained. that is why we are here, no matter what we will always be here for our community. ama: the family of the late dr. king paid tribute to him today in our nation's capital. his families laid a wreath at his memorial in washington dc. they placed the wreath at the base of the statue the honors his -- of the trouble is there. also in washington today, people from more than 100 grassroots organizations marched with martin luther king the third.
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they are demanding congress passed voting rights legislation, currently stalled in the senate. the group marched to the federick that was memorial bridge to send a message to law brick -- lawmakers. julian: those close to passed voting rights protections are growing louder and more so and more timely as we cut -- celebrate after king's birthday. more than five decades after his murder, fight continues freight boxes to vote. >> to commemorate my father's life and teachings with the day on. reporter: dr. bernice king ceo of the king center, instead of a day off of work and school is calling for a day on. >> putting pressure on our united states senate to bypass the filibuster. reporter: it still falls on the martin luther king jr. memorial in washington dc on what will be the civil rights icon's 93rd birthday.
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legislation to protect voting rights from installed. >> passed the freedom to vote act. pass it now. reporter: >> president biden made the rounds last week making impassioned speeches to push congress to adopt the john lewis voting rights act. even if it means eliminating the filibuster. legislation is in response to legislation passed by 19 mainly republican states. >> i will not support separate actions that worsen the underlying disease of division. reporter: arizona senator kyrsten sinema and west virginia's joe manchin are that you hold out democrat senators voting -- blocking the senate -- blocking the voting rules legislation. >> he has to figure out how to use the bully pulpit of the
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presidency to mobilize his base. reporter: james taylor, legal science professor sees the president's fight with his party as an uphill battle. >> biden will have to prove to himself, his party, voters that he has the capacity to get to people who philosophically are on his team to vote in support of his agenda. if he cannot, it will weaken him significantly. >> if dr. king was tired of having to struggle for justice in 1968, he certainly would be tired and frustrated by the fact we still have some main challenges. reporter: a scholar of mlk's teachings, life and legacy sees the parallels between his fight to secure the passage of the civil rights act of 1964 in the voting rights act of 1965 with today's bitter battle. >> king would call for us to work for social justice, peace, economic justice. but he would call for us to do it every day. julian: all eyes will be on the
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sent tomorrow when senate majority leader chuck schumer is expected to bring the voting rights legislation up for a vote. ama: tonight we are learning more about the woman pushed to her death in front of a new york city subway. her ties to the bay area and how she's being remembered. julian: plus the underwater volcano near tonga continues to rub. a bay area relief effort is underway.
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julian: and east bay family says they are in a state of shock after their loved one was post in front of a subway train in new york city. 40-year-old michelle lizza though was born in -- she is being remembered for her volunteer work and being an advocate for the homeless. reporter: on the same subway platform where the victim was pushed, riders are still living on the edge tonight. many on their phones or talking with friends, waiting within inches of their oncoming trains. 61-year-old marshall simon confessed shortly after his arrest, while proclaiming himself god. that scares say he is homeless and emotionally disturbed -- investigators say he is homeless and emotionally disturbed, with prior arrests. he approached the victim from behind and shoved her into the path of an southbound our train.
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we shall was killed instantly. whose volunteer work with the new york junior league included helping the homeless. >> she clearly had a strong passion for working one-on-one with these populations in need. she was a compassionate soul. who wanted to be rewarded by directly working with those individuals and watching them evolve over time. reporter: a comes less than two weeks after the mayor and governor declared that homeless outreach and police presence would be stepped up dramatically. the nypd's transit sheet said officers were at the opposite end of the same platform when michelle was killed. >> we had a robust plan in place today. unfortunately, these incidents do occur. reporter: that comment did not
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sit well with mayor adams who continued to insist the subways are safe, despite rising rates of violent crime. >> the chief did not and is not sending a signal that being a victim of a crime is inevitable. you have an incident like this, the perception is what we are fighting against. julian: the suspect is undergoing a mental evaluation but is expected to be arraigned on murder charges. ama: an underwater volcano near tonga corrupted for the third time since saturday. -- erupted for the third time since saturday. phone and satellite service arm knocked out in tonga. no mass casualties have been reported, a concerned. >> what we do
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ash fall has been significant. this nami ways have been destructive. ama: police say two women died in for because of the tsunami waves. tongan relief. it has raised more than $320,000 of its $1 million goal. oakland logistics company that has staff in tonga will be sending to ships. . donations can be dropped off at2525 mandela parkway near the port of oakland. julian: turning our attention to weather. it was a bit of a wet start. ama: let's check in with spencer christian on what to expect for the rest of the week. spencer: a couple places got isolated sprinkles today. essentially it was a dry day. there were isolated sprinkles. you can see there's a
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low-pressure system just off the coast of southern california kicking off some showers. you can see it's been pretty wet from san luis obispo to long beach. we haven't had rain and immeasurable sense -- in a measurable sense. we have a couple areas where there some moisture in the air. it is not hitting the ground. air quality is moderate to good. why want to show you is the fact we had isolated sprinkles and the bay area. all of a sudden my accuweather forecast is up prematurely. we are expecting a string of sunny days coming our way starting tomorrow. this one starts with today's forecast, which is behind us now. as we look at live doppler 7 that's when trying to show you. isolated sprinkles between mount
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hamilton, gilroy down to hollister. you can see that rainfall potential over the next seven days is zero in the bay area. southern california macy a couple hundreds of an inch. -- may see a couple hundredths of an inch. upper 40's at mountain view, santa clara and half moon bay. 54 san jose. the view from emeryville, the east bay hills camera. 44 degrees in santa rosa, napa 41, 43 in fairfield. 50 in livermore. we present this view from emeryville as a present the forecast headlines. mostly clear overnight. chili in the inland valleys. mostly sign days and dry into next week with springlike warmth at the end of this week. overnight forecast shows passage of high clouds to the bay area. that will be the picture 5:00 tomorrow morning. we expect mainly bright skies tomorrow with a few high clouds passing during the day. overnight lows will drop into
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the upper 30's to low 40's in the chile's inland areas.-40's y shoreline and run the coast. tomorrow, has run 56 and half moon bay. upper 50's to near 60's. inland areas and the south bay and north bay will see low 60's but only up to about 60 in the inland east bay. see accuweather seven-day forecast. sunny, dry, mild conditions all the way through. on friday and saturday, we expect a springlike warm up with mid 60's or higher inland and around the bay and low 60's on the coast. lovely weather. i'm sure we will enjoy. we need some rain, if we don't get soon, our drought situation could get even worse. julian: slide back anymore. a san bernardino police officer had to be treated for minor injury after an incident this morning at the mall.
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according to please, the officer injured his arm while trying to this arrest a man suspected of her -- assaulting a clerk. the suspect is not her. ama: about causing -- why some
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despite the opposition, the city council has not designed to bring it back for further discussion. set point is spoke with those who want the city to do away with the belt. reporter: mission bells have been a sightseeing -- site scene for more than 100 years now. while before they lined the highway, they said they were used by missions to order oppressed native american people around. >> if you didn't follow that belt, they would punish you. often with a whip. that is what the bells represent, nothing but brutal control and domination of indigenous people. reporter: the dark history of the bells have been brought to the headline in recent years. in between 19, 1 was removed from the grounds. so far, the belt still set to be installed. it was introduced and approved in september of 2020 is a gift
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to the sate to celebrate its 150th anniversary. -- to the city to celebrate its 150th anniversary. >> this is an example of a gift that doesn't mean the same to everybody. reporter: he was on the council and the belt was approved and was one of the three voted with the belt back on the agenda last week. >> cancel culture. i believe some of my counsel colleagues are falling into that trap. this is a chance to do something right before we do something wrong. >> why so how those council members voted, that is what came to mind. they're trying to erase indigenous history. reporter: helton says he will continue working to get this back on the agenda for discussion. their fight against this mission bell and all the others in the state want and into all those bells are gone. >> we think in terms of
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moving forward, finding solutions. you are watching abc 7 news, live on abc 7, hulu live, and wherever you stream. >> household will be able to allow up to four at home tests. ama: the u.s. general is a warning of the spread. julian: case rates rates rates in san francisco are soaring. where than 1500 residents are testing positive each day. ama: covid cases are also on the rise for teenagers and younger children across the country. the cdc is asking schools cancel extracurriculars to help the spread of omicron. we ask the doctor of pediatrics at ucsf about this.
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>> people hanging out and watching films in indoor spaces trying to do learning, people hanging out and taking off masks, those kinds of activities seem to be driving the transmission. that is why the recommendation is to do less of those activities. ama: there is a belief that transmission could be higher for indoor sports rather than outdoor ones. a stunned data from south africa on the rise and fall of -- based on data from south africa on the rise and fall of omicron. julian: those of you who have been waiting for more than a week for covid test results, the i team has been working on it. specifically investigating virus geeks who has locations across the bay area. >> desperate to get tested,
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marilyn moore is tired of waiting. she scheduled an appointment to get tested with virus geeks, a company that has more than a dozen test sites across the bay area. >> you schedule there appointment and they send you a qr code. reporter: according to the test site, they report your results within three days. now it has been a week. the same story for jenny chao. >> this is not ok for a companyy contracted by the department of health. reporter: in an e e e they have tripled their capacity to deal with the backlog. processing times may now take up to seven days. according to state data, of labs facilitating covid-19
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testing across california reported results of five days or later. >> any company that is producing anything with more than a 24 hour turnaround time, you are wasting our money. reporter: we brought this issue to authorities in san mateo county. >> it has to do with the availability of reagents. we are urging our contractors and staff to make sure that if they are testing people, we get results back to them in a good amount of time. reporter: the company wrote that we hope to get back to the standard of one to two business days in the future and will continue to update you. what a week later, many more got nothing. >> they never called back. >> san mateo public health says they are working with virus geeks to improve turnaround time and we are actively tracking that as well.
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from the i team, set daphne sierra -- stephanie sierra. ama: our news reporter spoke to businesses who say they do not know how much longer they can hold on while the pandemic continues. reporter: this is not how m businesses across san francisco were planning to start the year. they are taking what some are calling and omicron break. >> staffing has been really hard and we are going through a labor shortage. reporter: one of those business orders is this man who opened the ice cream store a year ago. he decided to close his store as omicron breaks through the city. over 1500 san franciscans are testing positive for covid-19 every day, according to the
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latest data. >> we put a we put a we put a w moment, but we may extended depending on what we hear. reporter: there are 10 to 15 businesses that are taking a break right now because of how transmissible this variant is. >> places like flour and water it took a week off. we closed manny's for a week and a half last year. >> he is avoiding a temporary closure by ensuring workers get boosted. >> giving your employee $100 versus them being out for eight to 10 days. reporter: there is still something you can do. >> support your small businesses and spend money, buy food.
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>> precautions with its workers. the tech giant is now requiring store and corporate workers to show proof of a covid booster. the employees who have the booster have four weeks to get the shot. those who do not get boosted need to submit frequent testing. ama: cases are tapering off where omicron was seen first, down 7% in new york and new jersey in the past week. still, hospitals nationwide are still feeling the strain. dr. anthony fauci says it is still unknown if we could get another variant, but he says covid will stay with us. >> we will not eliminate not disease completely, but hopefully it will be at a low level that it does not disrupt our normal social and economic
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interactions with each other. ama: testing is about to become easier. insurance companies are now reimbursing up to eight at home tests a month. julian: a new study out of israel suggests a fourth visor -- booster dose the fourth shot were only slightly less likely to get the variant. the study did found that fourth shot did give more people antibodies. ama: beijing has reported its first case of the omicron variant. reporter: the first case of omicron in beijing has been found at the heart of the capital, right in the neighborhood were olympic figure skating is supposed to take
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place. they believe this came from a package sent from canada, although studies show that this is not how the virus spreads. beijing's reaction to this one patient has been swift and they have sealed off the patient's workplace and home. they announced that the olympic hotel team that was supposed to arrive in beijing is now moved up to tonight. authorities are desperate to keep covid out of beijing right now, but this is not affecting the olympics but a but economy. as long as china continues to pursue this zero covid policy, they are doing whatever they can to shut covid down. this will impact manufacturing and global shifting.
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in america, this means ongoi supply chain problems can only get worse. julian: tennis djokovic tennis due to being unvaccinated. his visa was overruled by the australian government and unable to add to his nine titles at the australian open. no exceptions were made to the vaccine mandates, and djokovic faces not being able to play in the u.s. hard court because of his vaccination status. he says he does not consider himself to be annexed -- an anti-vector. ama: the golden state worriers
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the railroad says themes of breaking into the freight containers and emptying the contents on the track way, you can see the mess left behind here did he say they are looking into the cost of derailment and whether the dumped packages might have contributed to the jump in the tracks. police are increasing patrols in the area. ama: new details about the hostage -- the suspect who held hostages at a north texas synagogue. what authorities have uncovered. reporter: two teenagers now in custody detained in england, authorities questioning them about saturday's husted -- hostage situation. authorities say the teens are the children of the suspect. the congregation of beth israel
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in texas is where the suspect took a rabbi and three others hostage. >> we were bracing ourselves he had a bomb. and he said he had a gun. reporter: this federal agents storming into the building moments after the remaining hostages made a -- to freedom. the rabbi escaped through a side door unharmed. the suspect killed in what authorities are calling a shooting incident. multiple authorities say that he listed a customs form as his local address. multipleipleipleipleiple sources telling abc news that he seems to be
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demands against terrorist hid -- terrorists. the suspect releasing a statement that reads, we as a family do not condone his actions. adding that although his brother was suffering from mental health issues, we are confident they would not harm the server -- hostages. julian: capitalist and minority owner of the golden state warriors is under fire for comments he made saying that, nobody cares about the weaker genocide in china. he owned a 2% stake of the team. in a statement from the team, the warriors said, as a limited investor who has no day-to-day
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function with the warriors, he does not speak on behalf of our franchise and his views do not respect those -- reflect those of our organization. ama:
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barreling up the east coast now moving into new england. the severe weather alerts affecting everywhere from florida to maine. they are tracking record snowfall in buffalo, new york. >> at some point, the airports got a foot of snow and downtown it is still coming down. reporter: at brevard college in north carolina my students rushed to safety, a dorm room collapsing under the weight of snow. the storm turning deadly in that state, two people cal -- killed when their cars slid off i-95. this tractor-trailer was left hanging over an overpass. major car wrecks over major highways and other drivers seen sliding on the road. on sunday in virginia, authorities responding to nearly 500 car crashes and the same number of disabled vehicles.
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some were pushing out of -- their cars out of the snow. the same system causing an ef2 tornado in south florida. and more than a thousand flights have been grounded nationwide. charlotte douglas international airport is dealing with the most cancellations in the world. ama: it is time to check back in on the weather. julian: let us get to spencer christian. spencer: we have a few high clouds passing overnight, but skies are mainly clear. overnight low temperatures will drop into the upper 30's and low 40's because of the absence of clouds. right along the coast, we will see lows in the mid 40's. we will have a suddenly -- sunny day with mid 50's on the coast to near 60 on the bay shoreline. we will see low 60's and lend
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but some inland spots will only reach the upper 50's. for the end of the week, we will see a warm up with highs reaching the mid 60's inland. what does the forecast for the nation look like for the next five days? we have got the jet stream and the storm track moving to our north. nothing here is in the break -- nothing here in the brick -- bay area. ama: now howling at the moon. tonight is the first full moon of the year. the moon is named after wolves that were thought to how will more frequently this time of year. the january full moon is also referred to as the old moon and the iceman. julian: paying tribute to her betty white on what would have been her 100th birthday.
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jeopardy at 10:30. stay with us for abc news at 11:00. julian: we are announcing 45 california universities chosen to participate in the all california response corps. the state is helping participating students by subsidizing their tuition. it will give $10,000 for up to 50 hours of service. ama: animal lovers are are tribute to betty white today on what would have been her 100th birthday. because white was a huge annable -- animal lover, fans are donating to bay area shelters. humane society silicon valley has even named some of its dogs and cats after some of white's best known characters.
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reporter from our sister station shows us that a late went all out to celebrate betty white today. >> we are paying tribute to betty white at the allen plaza at the zoo, named after betty white's late husband. she was a longtime friend of the l.a. zoo, this woman provi her time to raise money and more. >> betty was not just an advocate for animals and zoos here, but animals around the world. she loved all animals large and small. >> something feels incomplete here, not just at the zoo, but also around. our dear friend betty white. we were all looking forward to celebrating 100 years with her. i have been here so many times with betty. >> the words that come to mind
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when i think of her are entertainment legend, animal advocate, and she was a member of the los angeles zoo for decades. she worked tirelessly on behalf of the los angeles zoo and the animals that call this zoo home. >> betty also loved they are donating $1000 to the zoo for their hot dog seals -- sales. >> she used to come here and would tell everybody that betty gets naked at pinks. we have been selling betty white's naked dog for well over a decade, and we were giving 100% of the proceeds to the l.a. zoo. she loved it more than she loved hotdogs. >> as we celebrate betty white's
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birthday, we also honor martin luther king jr.. both of these iconic figures were civil-rights pioneers. ama: she made such an impact. julian: if you google her name today, you will check that out. ama: that is it for this addition of abc 7 news. thank you for joining us. i am at my dates. julian:
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