report for the new. work by vote of six to two now advocates for the proposed projects say it's a major step forward and ensuring that the a's stay in oakland. last night's certification of the environmental report for the howard terminal ballpark and waterfront district neighborhood was a huge milestone. it was really the point of no return for this project oakland mayor libby schaaf speaking at a news conference friday morning following the city council's vote to move the new a's ballpark development forward if approved the final plans include building a 35,000 seat stadium thousands of units of housing. was millions of square feet of new office space at the port of oaklands howard terminal. this is not just a ballpark. it is a new waterfront neighborhood the vote also being welcomed by the a's too it pays the way to actually create finding economic deals between the city. the a's and a community who say

they're spending big money trying to get the project over the finish line no later than this summer we're spending two million dollars a month on consultants are real estate staff, you know, the eir itself was probably a 35 million dollar document but not everyone is happy with the proposal noel gaio. who was one of two oakland city council members to vote against the report thursday night says he'd rather see the team stay at the coliseum. everything sent place. have to worry about the environmental issues. you don't have to worry about the high tides. you don't have to you got the bart the ac transits the airport the freeway. everything is sitting there. kyle says he wants the team to remain in the east bay city, but has concerns over the proposal's impact on jobs and port operations, and i was selected to represent the people of oakland and at an institution or not a private business. now while this is a major step forward there is still a long way to go some of the net steps include getting a development agreement between the a's and

the city of oakland as well as a community a community community benefits agreement finalized. i'm live in the studio today tim johnson 87 news. all right, tim. thank you while the ace stadium project advances. we actually have no idea when we'll actually see this year's squad on the field or any team for that matter. the ongoing lockout has led major league baseball to postpone the start of spring training the league saying in a statement today that spring games will begin. earlier than march 5th as the league in players association. try to hash out a new labor agreement the giants and the a's were scheduled to play their spring openers, february 26th in arizona. the high school district board is holding an emergency meeting tonight and could decide to delay some school closures the board voted just last week to approve a plan to close merge or shrink nearly a dozen schools a resolution before the board tonight would move two of the closures and one grade truncation to the end of next school year. instead of this one mayor libby schaff says no city should ever have to close schools everyone

opposes school closings, and it is really the evidence of an unacceptable system. that is not adequately supporting public education, which should be first on our list of priorities. the district has said the closures are necessary because of declining enrollment and a budget deficit. the educators have been on an 18-day hunger strike to stop the closure say they plan to did tonight moses omalade and andre sanchez implored people to sign public comment at the meeting we have realized thate aepo we are definitely committed tomd this cause 100% and if you mess with the kids you mess with us. the educators called out the mayor some school board members and some city council members

who they claim say one thing behind closed doors, but don't back it up with action. new details today out of san francisco district attorney chasa boudin announcing charges today against former department of building inspector, bernie curran curran resigned amid scandals and is now facing charges of conflict of interest and perjury he's already facing federal bribery charges on twitter boudin wrote. my office is committed to rooting out public corruption and ensuring equal justice under the law. now to developing news on ukraine president biden says he believes russia has decided to invade ukraine in the coming days in a news conference today. he says the us will not send troops, but we will defend nato allies against russian aggression. many issues to divide our nation and our world. standing up to russian aggression is not one of them. the american people are united. europe is united a transatlantic communities united are political parties in this country are united. the entire free world is united.

russia has a choice between war and all the suffering it will bring or diplomacy. i will make a future safer for everyone. the us now says they're between 150 to 200,000 russian troops and russian-backed separatists threatening, ukraine new developments now the state of california is making national news for a proposed new gun bill. it's actually modeled after a texas law that lets private citizens take on abortion providers abc 7 news reporter carina nova live in the newsroom now with the details behind this bill karina. yeah larry, that's right. the governor says california is modeling this legislation after. texas's controversial abortion law that was upheld by the supreme court that law allows private citizens to sue anyone that performs or even helps someone have an abortion once a fetal heartbeat is detected the new california gun bill proposed today would allow private citizens to sue gun manufacturers and gun sellers for harm caused by firearms.

they make and sell if texas can use a law. to ban a woman's right to choose and to put her health at risk. we will use that same law to save lives. and improve the health and safety of the people in the state of california allowing you to enforce. illegal, sales and manufacturing of weapons of war and assault rifles and ghost guns people would be able to recover up to $10,000 in damages for each weapon plus attorneys fees. the bill would apply to people who manufactured distribute or transport assault weapons and ghosts guns. the governor says he expects the supreme court to uphold this gun law as it did in texas and this is one of four pieces of legislation targeting the gun industry in the state. the other bills would make it illegal. market assault weapons to children and crackdown on ghost guns larry carina thank you for your report a man is facing

charges for a freeway shooting and carjacking within minutes of each other in napa county this morning 42 year old tuang win is accused of shooting a man on highway 29 right near highway 221 at 6:40. am the victim was hit in the head some i was able to still call 911 eight minutes later napa police responded to a carjacking downtown off. later stopped that stolen vehicle and detained the driver win. the former minneapolis police officer who said she confused her handgun for her taser has been sentenced to less than two years for the death of a black motorist today a minnesota judge sentenced kim potter to 16 months in prison and eight months of supervised release back in december. kim potter was found guilty of first and second degree manslaughter in dante wright's death writes relatives said they feel cheated hurt and very disappointed by today's sentence. fact locally now the video from sky 7 in the oakland hills where about 30 minutes ago? we saw somebody being taken away on a stretcher from a

construction site near the intersection of broadway terrace and pine haven that person was moving taken away in an ambulance. you could see arms moving right there. the injuries don't appear to be too severe we did see him talking with paramedics and as we said moving is just a bit one longtime oakland salon owner is experiencing yet. another unexpected challenge this year nearly all of her belongings were stolen right out of a storage facility abc 7 news anchor deon lim tells us crooks are getting craftier a story. you'll see only on seven. i've never had anybody take anything from me so to see it on video was like, whoa. it was a shock. melissa seals jackson has been a hair stylist for 25 years and own studio 99 salon for 10 opening her second location at the end of 2019 near lake merritt was a dream come true started from the ground up. yeah, i put it in floors and everything there pandemic hit like all salons. were shut down.

i took my i maxed my savings out to the point where i started using credit cards to pay my bills in november of 2020 melissa put everything from the lake merritt store into storage in oakley where she lives closing that location for good. she had planned to open a new second location this spring but this week got a call from the storage facility with bad news. it was three people that had three dollars. and it seemed like it was about 10 minutes and they were out of there as seen in this video used in the police investigation. melissa's unit was broken into she says the manager told her the suspect's allegedly rented a unit on february 5th and can be seen on surveillance accessing and removing nearly. all of melissa's belongings the next day. slap in the face when somebody steal your stuff you work so hard for it didn't come easy. i spoke with three storage unit facilities in oakley. they tell me this is the new mo for crooks. they rent a unit in order to

gain access to the building all three companies tell me they now have do not rent two lists. melissa is unsure how much insurance will cover and estimates about $10,000 in items were stolen despite the setbacks. melissa is determined to find a new location and says it's the support of others that keeps her going. been doing this for 25 years by myself. i know i'm not going to give my stuff back. but i did work hard. in oakland dion limb abc 7 news endemic plans moving past the pandemic what the future looks like from here traffic safety the push to save lives as traffic fatalities continue to rise across the bay area and new year parade, san francisco's historic parade is back what you can expect this weekend, and i will have that forecast for you and i want to show you what's going to happen after that forecast. we've got a big change coming up with temperatures highs only in the 50s by the time we get to

tuesday now, we've got a chance of some wintry. hours with those cool temperatures. i'll map that out for you a

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california roads are more dangerous than ever since the pandemic began thousands of residents have lost their lives to traffic accidents since 2020 police say one factor can be most dangerous. speed kills. we are seeing significant number of these test resulting from those drivers who are speeding and we know if we can do something about the speeding we can save lives enter assembly build two three six. the bill allows select use automated cameras to man. beat and its co-authored by san francisco assembly member phil ting. i'm a proud joint author of this bill because steve kills in san francisco in cities all across california. that's why san francisco's been trying to pilot traffic calming measures including traffic cameras by schools in particular. the cameras will read license plates to check speeds and automatically issue set fines of 50 100 200 or 500 dollars in six california cities including francisco oakland and san jose

in san jose tied an all-time high number of traffic fatalities in 2021, and the city is now on a record pace of deaths in 2022 mayor sam. licardo says 55% of fatalities happen on 3% of the city streets and these cameras will hopefully lead to the reduction of speed on these dangerous roads with automated speed enforcement we can use technologies widely used in 14 other states to be able able to stop speeding and discourage speeding. importantly meanwhile privacy advocates raise concerns about factors like the cameras usage enforcement and mass surveillance. i think it's enticing for people who are concerned about public safety and oftentimes either, you know, see or somehow experience speeding traffic on their streets. so you want to do something about it. i think it's an open question as to whether this is the thing. that should be done about it. that is going to be most effective if t areoteffectiv rut first 18 months citiesl have tota cng msure tars down dust ay

abc 7 news. bart's extension into san jose may not but until the year 2034 and could cost more than 9 billion dollars. that's four years later and more than two billion dollars over budget this according to valley transit authority estimates our media partners at the bay area news group report the federal transit administration has expressed concerns over vta's plan to use the single bore method to dig the subway tunnel. they believe the projected mining rate is overly ambitious and also fails to account for possible delays vta is bart. ram chief told the bay area news group. there is a possibility of a delayed opening but says quote sometime before 2032. speaking of art expanded sunday service begins this weekend. all five lines will run for the first time ever on sundays sunday. trains will also run until midnight for the first time since the start of the pandemic bart says providing five-line service on sundays reduces the

need to transfer for most riders and provides more equitable service. the countdown is on to tomorrow night's chinese new year parade in san francisco. it's finally back in person for the first time since the pandemic bleacher seats are sold out but the parade is free so you can still attend abc 7 news reporter, gloria rodriguez spoke with parade coordinator william g so the parade is back in person this year. that's a big deal. what does that mean for you having the event back in person means a lot to everyone so we've been hearing an enormous outpouring of support from both community as well as attendees that have come in years past and everyone is looking forward to us bringing this timed honor tradition back to the city what it really means to city of san francisco is that we're gonna try to to bring tourism back. we're gonna try way to bring tourism back to you the chinatown businesses the chinatown area because it's been hit hard economically,

especially for the past two years local shops restaurants. some of them haven't really made it and some of them are just hanging on by a thread and so this means a lot to us in in different ways as a as a lunar new year celebration. it is a celebration of the year the tiger it basically it is a stands for boldness and resiliency and new beginnings. a lot of people do want to come out to the parade. do you have any tips on the best places to watch in person sapd or the local law enforcement will start closing roads around 3 pm. so if you're planning to drive in the city at the last moment, i probably would recommend against that just in case just so that you don't get locked up in in traffic with one of the street closures and things like that. i would say get there early pick a place to watch any place on the parade route is probably the best maybe closest to union square so you can check out those fireworks as well at the end.

there have been some concerns about anti-asian hate crimes, but the mayor says police and ambassadors will be out there in full force the parade starts between 5:15 and 5:30, gloria rodriguez abc 7 news. the parade starts at market and 2nd streets runs through union square and ends in chinatown always such a festive great time, you know, i've marched in it before it was pouring rain and that's the way mike it used to be right chinese new year parade. it was always raining. yeah. well not a concern anymore. unfortunately mike you got a little bit of everything for us. you've got the parade forecast. you've got some heat right? you got some cooling. maybe maybe some rain, maybe maybe not. depends on where and yeah exactly what the rain but let's start with the forecast for the chinese new year. it's back better never and look at this at four o'clock. i put the forecast i started there because they say find that seat by 4:30. so to be sunny in about 65 stars

will come out at six o'clock. we'll drop down to 59 and buy eight o'clock. it's supposed to wrap up around 7:45 or 8 o'clock and if you're going to hang around or heading home temperature around 54 degrees, that's why you need the jacket, but you know what also is back the community street fair it's from the clock in the morning the 4:30 saturday tomorrow 9 to 5:00 sunday tomorrow. definitely the better day for outdoor activities a ton of sunshine 56 to 66 for the 52 cooler start and then 60 of cooler end and it also be quite windy by the time we get to sunday afternoon and into the evening hours. gorgeous look from sutra tower and looking the other way from the east bay hills nice evening and store. we're going to uplight those clouds and create a colorful sunset around 552 if you're outside it's going to be a nice one at least at six o'clock away from the coast. we're in the 50s. we're still holding on to the 60s for our bathing inland neighborhoods, and then we drop down into the 50s after seven o'clock and just keep cooling to almost the upper 40s by nine o'clock our best day for outdoor

activity tomorrow showers hail snow grapple lightning thunder. it's possible tuesday and it freezing cold especially inland wednesday and thursday morning. so if you have some stuff blooming we're going to have to protect those. here's the area of low pressure. it brought us the high clouds in the cooler condition. today tonight it will drop down to the south take those high clouds with it. we'll have 30s in our valleys and low to mid 40s elsewhere. we'll see tons of sunshine tomorrow 64 at half moon bay. at that wealth of seventies around the bay and also into our inland neighborhoods and then we lower the hammer on tuesday with those scattered wintry showers. it's a one on the storm impact scale. not a lot of rain not all of us get it. tent possibly a quarter of an inch if you get a couple of showers over top of you future radar shows nothing monday morning, and then monday evening some showers start to pop up tuesday, though. look at this in the afternoon and then to the evening hours. you're starting to see some pink and white on our mountaintops. and that is that snow level dropping down to 3,000 feet by 11 o'clock tuesday evening, one more push of wet weather and

that is it. so here's a look at what's going on. look at that not even a tenth of an inch snowfall though during this time we could get up to 10 inches starting. afternoon through about wednesday evening. so that is some good news. here's look at my accuweather 7-day forecast. so about a six to eight degree drop from saturday to sunday. we'll wake up with low clouds. we'll see increasing high clouds and breezes temperatures in the 50s most of the day in brisk winds monday, and then we've got mid 50s with those wintry showers tuesday, and then we've got some freezing cold temperatures wednesday and thursday morning and highs in the 50s to barely some low 60s with sunshine in the afternoon hours larry. thank you, mike. we're watching that possibility closely as we get set to celebrate this weekend's chinese new year parade one east bay company is putting a new twist unfortune cookies. maybe seven on your side. it's michael finney a popular baby. formula is being taken off the shelves what parents need to know t

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today. so let's start with this alert for parents. see fda is warning about some powdered infant formulas that maybe linked to several chronoactor and salmonella infections three, illnesses and one death have all been already been reported here in the united states. let me show you this specifics. they are similac amatum and elec. formulas with a specific codes you see on the screen. we've got all of this posted on our website so you can easily compare the products you have at home. federal communications commission is proposed a 45 million dollar fine against a telemarketer who made unlawful robo calls during the pandemic florida-based. what a surprise interstate brokers of america is alleged to have made more than 500,000 robo calls with false claims about health insurance. they calls offered to sell health insurance under the pretense that the ann. enrollment period had been reopened due to the coronavirus pandemic.

a new scam morning and this one. it's a doozy the better business bureau is warning consumers of a new surge in imposter scams specifically the boss text we've reported on this in this game. someone claims to be your boss contacts an employee and ask them to buy gift cards or transfer funds the funds instead goes straight to the are in disappear if you received such a text, you should reach out to your boss to verify if it was them. this happened to a friend of mine and his business and his accounting staff was getting ready to do it and one of them said whoa, wait a sec and gave him a call. so that's it. very close to home. well, you told me years ago. just delete the text from the bosses, right? don't forget right. i mean, they no matter what they're saying. yeah, exactly. yeah. good thank you, michael. have a good weekend. we thought it was a scam. okay, see that request. all right covid cases dropping

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reported 851,000 new cases compare that to more than five and a half million cases reported in one week during last month's peak california's test positivity average has declined to 5.4% but experts wore nearly 96% of us counties are still reporting high transmission that includes the entire bay area. alright joining me now to talk all things covid abc 7 news contributor dr. alok patel doc. thanks for the time yesterday. the governor announced the state's smarter plan our path to move forward you think the timing is right or we too soon or what? larry the timing is right spot on especially because we're talking about lifting mandates. and so i think what's actually reassuring is that as we're starting to remove the mass mandates. we're getting back to a certain level of freedom that there's a plan in place for what might happen in the future just to make sure we're ready. i really like the fact that governor newsom opened up by saying that we're gonna be we're gonna be proactive. we're gonna be ready rather than reactive which is what we should have been two years ago, but i'm glad we're doing it. all right, so would you say this

officially means we are in the endemic phase. of this i would say this means that we are gearing up to be able to call this endemic. i'm not gonna put the label on it just yet because that does entail a lot to call this endemic meaning that outbreaks are going to be controlled that we're not going to see an overwhelmed hospital capacity. but larry i think a really important undertone here is endemic does not mean virus free. it does not mean we're not gonna have any debts. we're not gonna have any illness. it just means it's gonna be a little bit more controlled as a frame of reference influenzas endemic. we still lose 20 to 60. americans during a given influenza your malaria is it is endemic which killed over 600,000 people in the year 2020. so it's important just to be rational about that. yeah, so it basically just we're going to live with it and go on with our lives as best. we can one possible twist or complication here the latest data out of japan suggesting that the omicron be a two variant is even more contagious and maybe more severe so i mean

this is endless it seems like are we gonna to be back in the masks in a few? because of this new thing i think that's leaping that's leaping. you know, it's a pre-print study meaning it's early. it's in a lab, but larry you're exactly right in that these early studies are important. to give us a sense of what could potentially be out there now going back to the smarter plan embedded in that plan is increased genomic surveillance testing for new variants. also the availability of a lot of masks making sure that schools are kept open and safely wastewater surveillance a push to still make sure that we're getting out. nation so even if fingers crossed there isn't but even if we see a surge in a new variant in the future, we should have the foundation ready to take care of it. yeah. we're in a much better place than we were a couple of years ago or absolutely a year ago. you mentioned school kids. i'm glad you did. there's still required to wear masks when they're in class. should they keep them on for a little while longer? is it time for them to take it off? i mean what level of caution do you advise here? you know larry right now.

i personally would if my daughter she's only 10 months old, but if she was in daycare at school i and i've been appropriate age where she could wear a mask safely not mess with it. i would recommend she's wearing a mask. it's important that we still make sure that adults around our kids are are masked and this is a special concern for parents who with children who are five or younger who are not gonna be eligible for a few months or any parents of kids who are high risk, and i think this is gonna be important talking point at the end of february early march when the state starts to really revisit those guidelines for schools, don't you think it'll be challenging if the parents are taking the masks off and on the kids keep the masks on you could see the dilemma that's going to come with that. oh, there's a lot of dilemmas. we're even seeing the situation where masks might be required on a school bus because the public transportation, but then it's not required inside the classroom, which just some people is really not going to make much sense, but i think it again comes down to that individual risk and parents realizing that just because a mask mandate is lifted. it doesn't mean it's not recommended in certain situations and this is going to be of talking point and a lot of school districts out there as

you try to assess their own resources their population their community transmission and so forth. yeah different for everybody. all right doc. thanks so much for your time. have a great weekend. larry thank you. happy friday boss. alright doctor will look patel our abc 7 news vaccine team is here to answer your questions. the doc is a part of that team. all you have to do is go to abc7news.com/vaccine and click on the blue box. to submit your question a clothing controversy and frightening the fou

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four at four as dan and mike join us for the conversation. so some good news for avocado lovers. washington is lifting a ban on mexican avocados which clears the way for exports to resume over the weekend the us band avocado imports from mexico after drug cartels started threatening us food inspectors this led to concerns about shortages and chefs started coming up with ideas to replace avocados and holly some some soe peas zucchinis edamame and even cactus so are you relieved that you won't have to eat the zooka mole more concerned about the cactus amole. actually. i'm actually interested in trying those out because i mean, i love avocado-based guacamole, but it does have a lot of a good fat, but you know like sometimes you might check out a different option like the zucchini day mike. well, i think that's always what happens when we have issue like this we go for other substitutes

and we find something we may like even better or enjoy better and it may be better force and it may actually be cheaper and better for the economy and also for the environment so bring it on. right dan. it's after the super bowl. so maybe you're more willing to consider something different. yeah, well, i do love edamame. here's a true confession. i shouldn't say this on live television. it's not a guacamole person. well, we'll take yours dan that's very easy to resolve that. i want to shame that the cardinals are hassling the us drug. i know. and the price the price of avocado, i know right? yeah. but no dan we won't shame you but the way you said that reminds me of the way i talk about my mint hate of mint don't like mint. i know see. yeah. all right. it's a strange group college coach is fighting back over criticism of her choice of sideline. apparel, texas a&m coach. sydney carter was wearing pink pants to go along with her

ribbon honoring breast cancer awareness. so she to the picture on social media and the critics immediately pounced some say she looked unprofessional others were saying she should be fined. carter says her critics only make her stronger and certainly won't be influencing her fashion choices for her. that's ridiculous. everybody. got an opinion on everything. yes. it's just why i you know, people cannot mind their own business now, especially with social media. it's just so easy to jump on and criticize somebody not honestly, i'm sure that's where she got most of the grief. she looks great good for her for wearing pink right expressing yourself the way she wants. it's a big program with the texas a&m with the aggies women basketball program. they support very few local breast cancer survivor organizations there in the valley and you could see the the lady next to her was also wearing a pink dress and the players were wearing pink shoes.

yeah. i mean look at what bill belichick wears. i know i know i was from here scrumpy. she looked great. yeah, he is probably business element there for sure. well, you know, they say haters are gonna hate right? that's right. forget about them. we don't care about them. okay, one state lawmaker and animal lover has introduced a bill this month to give cats and dogs the same legal rights and protections that you have assembly bill 1881 is being called the dogging cat bill of rights. it gives pets multiple rights including freedom from neglect and abuse the right to health care nutritious food and appropriate exercise among others if the legislation comes law it would also require every public rescue group and animal association to post the bill of rights in a conspicuous place or face a 250 dollar fine. oh, yeah, i think about this. i don't know. i think i think snowball. little dog may be rising up now with these new rights that oh dan. i'll be representing snowball and and we we have a long list

of issues to discuss. i'm sure food should be lengthy proceedings with kinds of issues snowball needs to be paid for all those facebook posts. you know, that's true. i have been exploiting snowball. yes, that's it. yeah, and it's darling name image and likeness, you know, there's money to be paid there. it's true, but we should just care better for our pets. that's already outlaws on the books, of course regarding animal cruelty and animal welfare to some degree so that i think there are laws that that do protect animals in many respects the challenge with this new one as in so many of these laws we pass that we feel good about when we pass them. how do you really enforce it? well, you know, how does it how do you put no pun intended or maybe put a teeth into that law? yeah, but yeah, you don't it's more of you know, just making a statement and raising awareness dan snow. be asking for filet mignon as part of the settlement look where you're going. this is not a new warning and

today we're showing you why you want to keep your eyes up a young man in turkey learned this lesson the hard way on the phone on the phone. oh, no. fell right through the storage door. he's lucky. he landed on a pile of boxes. so that actually he stuck the landing this happened at a mall in istanbul. i mean imagine if the boxes weren't there. out right it could have been i mean, i'm sure he his arm probably hurts and here he comes. boom. yeah. anyway, imagine if he was our age. at least he was younger and yeah. that forward so he had a better chance of surviving. yeah, he walked away uninjured, but you know you see this all time. i mean we see it in the say i always you know joke with people because they're you know, like this look up and live right look up and live. that's you could it's not whoever it is on the phone. it's just not. that important all the time. yeah, you have said that to us many times larry i had to be true some offend more than others dan. i'm trying to help you.

yeah, what was that? i'm not the worst offender. i think we know who the worst offender is who i'm not calling. oh him is only i don't kn i i thought it was gonna be kristin for sure. well, it was christmas. she's top five. oh, right. she doesn't get a medal though. she didn't finish top three on the podium. oh, sorry, that's it for this for

fortune factory specializes in handcrafted fortune cookies and carries on long-standing customs inside the mother-daughter team. they're evolving the traditional treat in impactful ways. take a look. when i first started making fortune cookies with my mom. i thought it was just a temporary almost sort of like a boring job. as an adult i realized that i could do something bigger and more meaningful just by using fortune cookies as an asian-american that grew up here i exper a lot of racism shame and guilts the fortune turkeys that i make are my way of changing how people perceive me and how people perceive chinese americans.

here at my the oakland fortress factory here in chinatown and my job is i make fortune cookies. i grew up here in oakland chinatown my whole life. it's a very tight-knit community everyone here knows each other. around six years ago. my parents came across the factory and it was in very poor condition. it was struggling it was about to close my mom decided to take the opportunity to try to run the factory herself. i did want eve eve eve eve eve e every asian lover's dream. i went to try to become a doctor. i really didn't not like seeing blood and i didn't not like working in a laboratory much to my mother's disappointment. i decided to come back and help her.

making custom fortune cookies that were just very simple you just zip them in the chocolate and throw on a few sprinkles. we grew that by bit each yeah ya and during 2020 when covid first started our business took a very serious hit it wasn't until the past three to four years where i really started exploring. what else can we do with our cookies? that symbolize and represent the important values and issues that occur in our daily life and in our community. we made a set of cookies that had the words essay age. stop asian hates and the fortunes inside them were quotes and proverbs and korean in chinese and japanese.

and the and they were english translation on the back. so we raised money from those sales to donate back to the aapi community. i take such pride to make the best fortune cookies that i can i suppose the fortune cookies that i make are in some way. my way of changing perceive me and how people perceive chinese americans. and that's why. doing what i do making making my fortune cookies is so important. szechuszechuszechu cookies are salivating. wow, we need some of those we pick those up and then head to the chinese new year's parade. absolutely with good weather. i presume mike. yeah. yeah low 60s to start and then we'll drop into the mid-50s. no need to worry about rain. don't need to worry about it being really windy. that's more sunday's forecast the wind and then tuesday's more

the potential for some wet weather. here's a look at your evening planner by the time we get to 9 o'clock. we're falling into the 40. so make sure you take a jacket if you're going to the doesn't that look inviting that's saying the cruise tomorrow is your day sunshine light winds mid to upper 60s sunday the winds come back look at the temperatures mid 50s to barely 60 and with less sunshine and if you're heading up to the sierra no snow for saturday, sunday and monday. yeah, monday's president's day. but monday night, that's when the snow begins and hopefully we can get about six to 12 inches by the time we get to wednesday for us sunday's the day day winter starts to return. noticed it monday with those brisk conditions and temperatures mainly in the 50s and then we'll have the chance of showers for tuesday. we could have hail we could have grapples snow thunder lightning rain. it's all possible. just not a lot of it and then we've got those freezing cold mornings followed by quieter afternoons starting wednesday and thursday. all right, mike. thank you. paul. mccartney is coming to the bay

area. he announced a 13 show tour today. it's called got back. mccartney said at the end of the last tour quote. i said i was going to get back to you. well, i got back at this tour includes a stop at the oakland arena may 6th. his first show there in 20 years tickets will go on sale next friday. if you haven't heard about encanto or bruno, which is where have you been? we don'we don too late to get into encanto what you might be missing just ahead.

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at 8. it's the last semi-final on the jeopardy national college championship followed by 2020 at nine then don't miss abc 7 news at 11. the magical disney movie and kanto is returning to theaters. the movie has been a huge success and to celebrate its back at the box office this holiday weekend news reporter george panaccio caught up with one of the stars of the animated film to talk about its popularity. i'm so excited to go with my kids, especially now that they know all the songs and i know all the songs by heart. i'm ready to be like question. that's just that'll never stop. i'm so excited in encanto. adaso voices the role of dolores who possesses the gift of amazing hearing the dasa personally possesses the gift of song and she uses it in the movie which is set in a magical. colombian village, she also gets

to be a part of this number. which is forward things that i had to struggle so long at the beginning of my career to accomplish now our wide open possibilities for anybody who has a dream so to see where i started 20 years ago having to scratch and just paved my way with blood trying to accomplish something now that a colombian comes out now and it's like the coolest thing here would be just you once said be ready opportunity knocks and opportunity has knocked. i'm forever grateful for the opportunity knocking. let me tell you it's been a dream come true. i cannot believe i'm here encanto his break broken.

not just so many records but made us all feel seen and feel like we've been heard. do you understand and always believe in your dreams because a dream worth having is worth coming true. adasa has actually been dreaming about disney for years beginning with the little mermaid free. wish i could be part of that world. that was the film that did it for me. i knew i wanted to be a singer after i heard a part of your world part of your world jody benson 1989. that was the day. i was like i want to sing forever in los angeles george panaccio abc 7 news wonderful music. encanto has been nominated for two oscars including best animated feature. it's in theaters and on disney plus and disney. parent company of abc 7 abc 7 news is streaming 24/7 get the abc 7 bay area streaming tv app and join us whatever you want

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moving forward finding solutions. this is abc 7 news. yourself right now are voicing present. stern warning from president biden today who says he has convinced that russian president vladimir putin has decided to invade ukraine, but the president does add that there is still time for diplomacy. good evening. thank you for joining us. i'm dan ashley and i'm karina nova. you're watching abc 7 news at five live here on abc 7 and always streaming on the abc 7 bay area app president biden held calls today with nato and european union allies and members of congress. the white house is urging a diplomatic path toward de-escalation around at the ukraine border. biden says there are new warnings. russia is preparing.