area moving forward finding solutions. this is abc 7 news. boy, it's a scene. we haven't seen since 2020 streets in san francisco's chinatown packed today to honor a culture and celebrate a new year. good evening, and thank you so much for joining us. i'm dionne lim. you're watching abc 7 news at five live here on abc 7 hulu live and wherever you stream. right away. this is a time to celebrate and heal as we take a live. look outside. this is the starting point of the parade set to begin in just about 15 minutes abc 7 news

reporter. ryan curry has a look at some of the preparations behind the parade and the hopes for a brighter year ahead. crews are securing the details on each float ahead of the parade saturday evening. yeah, we're just in specting everything and and maybe done. stephanie mauffson's team want to make sure the floats look as good as possible when they head down market street during the parades anticipated return. it was canceled last year due to the pandemic. it's great to be back here right now because the hard work is the hard part. this is the this is the payoff coming out seeing people. enjoy. work we put into it most of the floats have a decorated tiger the symbol for this year's chinese new year the year of the tiger represents bravery and confidence at the street fair saturday in chinatown those we spoke with say those traits are something everyone should embrace especially if the community wants to heal from the difficulties from the past two years a lot of the crimes that

are happy. you feel lonely even for us we feel lonely and coming out to remind us. i wear a community, you know, there's a lot of us here hudson lau runs a nonprofit. asians are strong a group dedicated to empowering the asian community. he says, hopefully the parade will remind everyone how important the asian culture is to the bay area. it's been a rough couple of years and the last month has been pretty horrible for our community. so coming out and showing people that we don't have to be afraid that we don't have to stay home as hundreds once again crowded the new year. divides lau says it reminds him the strength of the bay area community can overcome any obstacle yet to step away from all the bad and remember the good because that's what that hope. in san francisco rn the word tho mind is resilience. all right, once again taking a live. look outside as the chinese new year parade gets kicked off in just a few minutes. this is of course the largest chinese new year parade outside

of asia, and we've been missing it for the past year an event that draws hundreds of thousands of people from all across the bay area and truly the world you see there. everyone masked up and ready to celebrate we will join in in just a few minutes live later on in show or muni says it is celebrating the chinese new year by offer. free service and additional safety measures this weekend. the agency says it has muni transit ambassadors on the buses and at bus stops in chinatown to assist riders and support bus operators this free service began this morning at 5 and last through 5 am monday morning. it includes the cable cars you won't need to your clipper card or activate a muni mobile ticket when you get on board. now also this weekend bart is doing something it's never done before all five lines will be in service on sundays starting tomorrow drains will also be running until midnight on sunday for the first time since the start of the pandemic.

moving on to developing news now ukraine's president today called for russian president vladimir putin. eat and seek a resolution to the crisis this unity march you see here was held in love you ukraine today as others flee their homes under a threat of war from russia. abc's aaron kuttersky says russian backed separatists are urging people in eastern ukraine to evacuate. amid, escalating tensions between ukraine and russia the us is continuing to warn russia could invade ukraine any day president biden told reporters friday. he's convinced russian president putin has decided to take military action, but the president said diplomatic resolutions remained a possibility asked about it today. biden didn't answer. what's the latest on ukraine mr. president? you us officials. say more than 150,000 russian troops are mass near ukraine's borders new satellite images showing russian military. activity building up in belarus crimea and western russia russia

conducted drills involving advanced hypersonic missiles with its neighbor belarus with president's putin and alexander lukashenko watching from moscow in russian-led breakaway parts of eastern, ukraine separatus called for civilians to evacuate and accused ukraine without evidence of preparing to launch its own attack the us sees this as part of russia's attempt to cast ukraine as the aggressor and invade under the pretext of protecting russian. king citizens abc's in panelists and kiev. the west is warning that this could be the pretext for a russian invasion because vladimir putin is claiming that the russian speakers in the east of the country are under attack in germany ukrainian president zelensky the us national security team in nato allies gathered to talk about a diplomatic solution. vice president. kamala. harris said one is still possible, but she issued this warning if russia further invades, ukraine. the united states together with our allies and partners will impose significant and

unprecedented economic cost aaron kitursky abc news levy, ukraine in the east bay the search is on for a woman 29 year old kimani mcalpin was last seen five days ago in el cerrito as she left to take a walk. she's from the los angeles area and is visiting family. there was a sighting of her in uptown oakland on tuesday friends say she may be disoriented. parents students and teachers are rallying in oakland to try to save schools under threat of being closed or consolidated. they gathered this afternoon. to come up with ways to keep campuses open they're calling on the governor to intervene and are considering a teacher walkout along with putting pressure on board members to find alternatives to consolidation. today's town hall follows an emotional friday night oakland school board meeting where members rejected a proposal to postpone the closure of two schools and the restructuring of

another students last night vowed to start their own hunger strike. moving to covid headlines now police today pushed back against a crowd that was protesting covid mandates in canada for the past three weeks officers arrested or drove out protesters to control of the streets all but one state hawaii is now lifting ore planning to lift mask mandates, california lifted its mandate last wednesday. but individual counties can opt to keep it. sonoma county health officials said today that 1 million doses of covid-19 vaccine have been administered there 80% of those eligible are now fully vaccinated while 60% have received their booster shot. well just ahead. it is a day to honor japanese americans who were incarcerated during world war two we check out an event today in the bay area that marks that dark time in history and seeks to safeguard the civil rights of all americans. ended up being a lot more

treacherous than we were expecting. extreme athletes who are also history buffs decided to retrace the steps of famous pioneers known as the donner party here what they have to say about the experience. i'm professor christian our mild weather is winding down now and a winter-like pattern is on the way. i'll have the accuweather forecast. coming up for an since i left for college, my dad has gotten back into some of his old hobbies. and now he's taking trulicity, and it looks like he's gotten into some new healthier habits, too. what changes are you making for your type 2 diabetes? maybe it's time to try trulicity. it's proven to help lower a1c. it can help you lose up to 10 pounds. and it's only taken once a week, so it can fit into your busy life.

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9066 from speakers who described how their families were sent to internment camps all around the country steve. akamoto was interred with his family when he was weeks old and what is now at the tanforan mall in san bruno, and there's a lot of young japanese children who never heard this from their parents or grandparents because when they home from the camps they were either ashamed they were upset or they were told by the government. don't be japanese. earlier this month nakamoto helped break ground on a memorial near the san bruno bart station to honor those who were wrongly imprisoned by the executive order. well the black history month celebration today in milpitas honored six people for their contributions to historically black colleges and universities. those recognized included fremont's fire chief. artist jacobson ohlone colleges, dr. eric bishop and dr. leanne

osborne the first black deaf administrator at california school for the deaf in fremont. i see them doing the hard work. doing the work day in and day out and the determination the perseverance the high integrity of character and bringing out of thinking out of the box. the event was held at albert augustine junior memorial park of sunny hills that park is named after a leader of the black community who lived in the sunny hills neighborhood the very first planned racially integrated community in the united states. well, it's 175 years since the american pioneer group the donner party rescuers sent out to help those left behind this week. another group saddled up at the historic johnson ranch near wheatland to retrace their steps for extreme athletes followed. the relief party's 100 mile route on foot as well as horseback. bob crowley had been planting this trip for eight years.

he injured his knee though on the first day. just like with the relief party we had to sort of find the metal to persevere and just push on. the relief party ended the reenactment at donner memorial state park on friday. the donner party is often linked to cannibalism but as the reenactment showed it also is a tale of heroism. well, it wasn't sharks swimmers in florida had to watch. for today at the beach. it was a helicopter rescue crews. say the landing was just incredible the latest on three passengers aboard that shopper. christian wright and breezy right now in san francisco for the chinese new year parade. it's going to get a lot breezier and a lot colder over the next few days. i'll have the accuweather forecast in just a moment with abc

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breathtaking video coming out of miami where if you look closely there, it is a helicopter just goes down to a very close to swimmers at the beach two people on board. the helicopter were taken to the hospital the good news. they were not seriously hurt a third person on the helicopter was not injured. miami beach fire department said if the crash had happened just 50 yards more inland. it would have been a mass. t event they say it is quote incredible and insane that no one was hurt. well back in february 1939 the world's fair opened on treasure island. it celebrated san francisco's two. newly built bridges the bay bridge in 1936 and the golden gate a year later this weekend vintage boats and planes kicked off a series of events celebrating treasure island's world's fair. it marked the 80th anniversary of the world's fair which those celebratory anniversary celebrations. i should say, we're delayed because of the pandemic treasure island was built for the fair

today. it was the centerpiece of the celebrations. we need to remember history whether we like it or not. you know good history bad history. we make mistakes, too, but we got to remember it. the theme of the exposition was pageant of the pacific it showcased the goods of countries around the pacific ocean. well at the nba all-star weekend in cleveland a fusion of sports and high jewelry take a look yesterday tiffany and company unveiled this limited edition blue wilson basketball. it's a collaboration between tiffany artist daniel. arsham whose hometown is cleveland a limited number of basketballs are available only in cleveland selling for i mean, it's tiffany. it's got to be expensive 575 but wait they are being resold online for as much. $3,000 spencer you would keep that basketball in like a glass case not on the court. i would give somebody else's

house. i would just go for the regular basketball by the way. we've got great outdoor basketball weather right now. it's a mild and pleasant and sunny and breezy the chinese new year parade has already underway and it's a bit milder than it was at this time yesterday. check out the 24-hour temperature change. you can see it's about two three four degrees milder. here's the view from emeryville looking at downtown oakland current temperature reading. 52 here in san francisco, oakland 63 73 at mountain view 69, san jose santa clara 6855 at half moon bay blue sky over the golden gate right now a little little bit breezy there. it's 68 degrees up at santa rosa petaluma in napa mid 60 70 at fairfield upper 60s, almost 70 concord and livermore and the view from our east bay hills camera. looking westward at the pre sunset sky, and these are our forecast features. will increase overnight they'll be areas of fog developing in the morning. it'll be windier and much cooler beginning tomorrow and that pattern is going to continue into next week. we expect well winter like chill with showers and possibly some snow in the higher elevations of the bay area by tuesday overnight though. we'll start with clear skies for the early evening followed by

increasing clouds during the overnight and early morning hours. i'll be a little bit of fog mix in there as well near the bay and the coast and some of the inland valleys and we've got some clearing later in the day tomorrow going into tomorrow evening and it'll be getting a little bit gusty going. monday overnight low temperatures mainly in the low to mid 40s from inland to the bay and coast but some locations in the far north will drop into the upper 30s ukiah lakeport and santa rosa highs tomorrow under partly cloudy skies mid-50s at the coast about 59 here in san francisco right around the bay shoreline. we'll see mainly low 60s in on east bay mainly mid-60s up in the north bay. the highest reading will be about 67 ad santa rosa. here's our forecast animation beginning on monday notice. we'll have a bright breezy day on monday, but then light rain comes into the bay area on tuesday mixed in with well snow in the sierra, but we may have a mix of rain and snow in some of the higher elevations here in the bay area and then wednesday the wind just blows everything away. skies will clear but we're gonna have some cold cold weather settling in wednesday, thursday and friday.

here's the accuweather 7-day forecast monday president's day looking chilly and windier a mix of rain and snow, especially especially in the higher elevations on monday. the storm system ranking only one on the abc 7 storm impact scale really cold mornings on wednesday and thursday some locations thursday farther inland may see low temperatures dropping to the upper 20s thursday morning and sunny and a little bit milder on friday and that pattern will continue into next saturday deon. okay spencer. thanks. all right any tiffany blue basketballs casey in sports? yeah, i don't want anything to do with immediately ruin it. i know that and i'm not going to be allowed to put it anywhere in my house. anyway, so normally we have nba prime time action on our air right now, but it's all star weekend. so here we are. we'll still show you how stephen curry shows off his range on the court and off of it at all-star practice though tho

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news it's nba all-star weekend and the warriors are well represented in cleveland. i'm actually old enough to remember when they had no all stars. so anyways this afternoon the league's best and brightest. we're on the court for practice ahead of the big game. yep in our lead story. we're talking about practice not a game practice. oh you want to go to go to go to you you turn into a splash mother too? yeah, say he got to go and stay one time, huh, bro, he go to 40% that secret success first time all-star andrew wiggins getting some good nature ribbing from his teammates. the warriors do indeed have the secret. his name is stefan curry. he stole the show in team lebron

warm-ups burying consecutive half-court shots. where else do you see team half court drills, but all star weekend. always curry is seven time all star. just trying to enjoy the moment. also, we can always special. be recognizes, you know thehe in the league and represented team your family come here and draw all the festivities. experience the city different than when you come in there's a road team to play. it's always something. forward to the game especially but like you said this year with 75th anniversary team and the hbcu class are going on here is a lot of different things to kind of look forward to and yeah never it never really gets old and i hope it never does. i'll start weekend not just special for the players. check out this cute moment curry notice that a fan in a wheelchair had a poster saying it was his birthday and asking for steph to sign it. not only did he sign it. he posed for a few photos

stephan curry the real people's champion. what a great moment right there. now want toscano anderson will be in this very first dunk. as tomorrow. whoo, he pretty much guaranteed his invitation when he posterized former warrior javale mcgee and it's literally a poster now jta had this shot framed javale was even kind enough to sign it now. it's been a long road for the oakland native. he was undrafted out of marquette spent years in smaller leagues before making the most of his chance with the dubs. he's truly living his dream. so he's being truthful when he says he's soaking it all in. you never know when your last one is your last one. and so and if it's your first one, you're always remember your first one. so just enjoy it. soak it all in living the moment. that's one thing now. i'm 28 going on 29. i'm learning to do it. just live in a moment. enjoy, you know every single moment that i know i have the blessing to. be a part of draymond green also enjoying all-star weekend, but he won't be playing due to a ino miss the last 21 games green will be an analyst on a special

all-star game broadcast tomorrow. draymond has been sorely missed especially on the defensive side as the warriors lost four of their last five heading into the all-star break, but he says, in reality is since i've been out i think we've had a ton of games where we play really well. wearing a little rough batch here going coming into the break. but for the most part, i think guys have stepped up. and we're still in a good position as i think obviously i can help by me to healthy so, you know, that's obviously to go. then the warriors cannot wait to get green and james wiseman back and we will

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is part of this year's chinese new year celebration abc 7's parent company disney has a booth at the community street fair in chinatown for turning red the animated film follows mei lee as she navigates adolescence and discovers that she turns into a red panda when her emotions run too high this community street fair features more than 100 booths and entertainment. it runs once again tomorrow from 9 am to 5 pm turning red launches exclusively on disney. plus on march 11th, i had a chance to check it out my favorite those roasted chestnuts. alright once again taking a live look outside along market and second as the chinese new year parade gets underway. it looks like all of those floats are ready to go. we have the return of all those spectators. can't wait to bring you more

when abc 7 news at six continues later this evening. i'm dionne lim. we'll see you then. tonight, breaking news as we come on the air. the world holding its collective breath as tensions in ukraine near a tipping point. new images tonight from russian state media show the country conducting strategic military drills, an elaborate show of force with president putin and the president of belarus watching. this as u.s. officials warn that up to half of more than 150,000 troops gathered at the ukraine border are now in position to attack. vice president kamala harris meeting today with ukrainian president zelensky in munich, calling it a decisive moment in history and saying the u.s. and allies will impose economic costs if russia further invades. tonight, increased shelling in the eastern part of the country, killing two ukrainian soldiers