right around the bay shoreline and locations near the carquina strait and delta will see gusts up to about 50 miles per hour at the peak of the wind gusts and there's a chance of unsecured objects being blown around tree limbs may get blown down and there may be a few power outages the storm for this evening and tomorrow morning ranks one on the abc 7 storm impact scale through morning, it's a chance of some showers developing especially late tonight and overnight. maybe some hail mixed in a snow level down to 2500 feet winds gusty at the coast in bay and here's our forecast animation taking us into the evening hours notice a chance of showers moving back in around 9 o'clock tonight between 9:00 and midnight there. is that chance and then tomorrow morning. it looks like we get a little bit of a clearing but by midday some more clouds may move in and there's just a slightest chance of a shower or two with those returning clouds. otherwise, we can expect to dry weekend. tomorrow the full forecast a little bit later larry. all right spencer. see you in a few minutes every drop is welcome the sierra getting some much-needed snow today from the system that's

passing through this is video from the uc berkeley central sierra snow lab a lot of snow there carry chains if you're headed up that way a reminder you can track the latest weather with the abc 7 bay area streaming tv app. we have a 24/7 live stream of the latest radar as well as updated forecasts all on demand available on your roku amazon fire and tv and apple tv a danville police officer has just been sentenced to six years in prison for the shooting death of a mentally ill man the officer claimed he feared the man was going to run him over the judge said today that didn't mean he deserved to die abc 7 news reporter ryan curry has reaction. yesterday the contra costa county courthouse has andrew hall is sentenced to six years for killing latimer arboleda. deputy dangerous unreasonable and excessive hall shot our belated nine times following a slow speed police chase back in 2018.

he was only convicted for a deadly weapon charge his manslaughter charge was met with the hung jury. we prayed and hope for this day. we pray that he would get jail time and he did following the sentencing the family spoke while surrounded by advocates for justice reform. they are pleased with the sentencing despite hall not getting the full punishment hall faced 17 years in prison for the weapons charge, but was only sentenced to six years. thank you for all who have prayed. we've been praying and living. this torturous hell for the last three years according to the family arboleda experienced a mental episode which caused him to slowly drive away from police charges were not filed in this incident until hall was involved in another deadly shooting last year video of that incident showed hall shooting and killing 32 year old tyrell wilson from the district attorney says that incident is still being investigated. we reached out to hall's defense

lawyer and are still. hear back civil rights attorney john burris said he is happy to see officers get sentenced for crimes. it is a very refreshing day. i hope it is the hallmark of the future that justice will be given in the years to come and this message has to be clear to the officers that in this county and maybe in this area that you will be held accountable the contra cost of district attorney said they are still looking at this case given how the manslaughter charge resulted in a hung jury. they still looking at whether or not it. possible to charge him again in this incident in martinez, ryan curry abc said the news the shasta county mama arrested and charged for faking a kidnapping story appeared briefly by video conference in federal court this afternoon. sherri papini was read the charges against her that includes lying to federal agents and mail fraud puppini was reported missing in november of 2016. she was found a few weeks later thanksgiving day on the side of a yolo county freeway that time

bound emaciated and injured puppini told police the two women kidnapped her at gunpoint, but the department says she made the whole story up in a statement papini's family said we're confused by several aspects of the charges and hope to get clarification in the coming days. they also accused authorities of acting unprofessionally. russian forces are pushing through ukraine toward multiple cities while us officials say ukrainians continue to put up a stiff resistance thousands of mostly women and children raced to catch trains and kieve to escape the city the russian government blocked access to facebook and threatened to punish anyone spreading so-called fake information about its armed forces and more support for ukraine from california. governor newsom is ordering state agencies to end contracts with anyone subject to us sanctions on over the past week one bay area a couple has raised nearly $200,000 for ukrainian refugees. and now one of them is making his way to the ukraine romania

border to hand out cash to those who were crossing over abc 7 news reporter. tim johns caught up with a couple at their san francisco home today just hours before they headed out to sfo. frolics furman watching the ongoing war in ukraine has been difficult right all the stages of grief right like anger fear right like bargain anchors a little bit of bargaining. it'd be pretty hard as the world watches scenes of devastation continuing to unfold in the eastern european country. foreman says he felt compelled to do something. it felt like i felt like we've got to do more. i felt like it's time to step up. and do something he did together with his wife the paris so far raised nearly two hundred thousand dollars. now firman is catching a friday afternoon flight out of sfo and heading to the ukraine romania border money. he's raise, yeah, literally we're going to show up and we're gonna put cash in their pockets both furman and his wife were born in russia and came to the

us as jewish refugees. they say they know firsthand how much a little assistance can help those who have left everything behind. i know like alex's family got here. he was like was three kids was one parent was only had 200 dollars in the pocket. that was it. government's wife. marina will stay back in san francisco, but will still be playing a critical role continuing to raise money and keeping people updated online. there was definitely a certain amount of guilt. over being russian i grew up moscow and i i feel really bad for what's happening there. inferman says that this is only the beginning even after he returns home to san francisco he plans on continuing to help. anyway, he can also gonna take a long time right? like there's no way that they i wish it on soon, but it's not financing. this is gonna be a marathon in san francisco tim johns abc 7 news. a hillside in lafayette famous as a memorial to the soldiers killed in the iraq and afghanistan wars will be the

site of a peace vigil this sunday at noon the owner of the property says she wants to honor the people who are suffering in ukraine and call for peace tonight 2020 will feature a special episode called putin's war the battle to save ukraine anchored by david muir on the border of ukraine in poland. you can watch it here on abc 7 at 8 o'clock as the war continues. there's some fallout right now. in the us, our high gas prices are getting even higher record-breaking in fact abc 7 news reporter carina. nova joining us live now in the newsroom with a look at how much higher they may go karina. yeah. we've seen those gas prices above five dollars at some stations here in the bay area and as of today according to gasbuddy.com, california is the first state ever to have an average price above five dollars a gallon. we jumped 13 cents overnight an experts say that number will keep clim. you can see here in emeryville the shell gas station overnight jumped to 529 for a gallon of

regular gas patrick. dehon with gasbuddy says that's a sign of what's to come there will be more increases coming maybe to the tune of another 20 to 30 cents a gallon. i do expect that the national average in the united states will hit the $4 a gallon mark. that's probably something that's less than two or three weeks away dahan says, that's when we're likely to set all-time new records in the us and here in california specifically in san francisco and la it's the first time a major us city hit that $5 an average mark most california cities will likely continue moving closer to 525 in the next week. we could eventually see california going to 550. that is not something we will see nationally at this point yet. han explains about 80% of the gas price increase is impacted by the crisis in ukraine the other 20 is because of the transition to summer gas prices and while congress has considered suspending the 18% federal gas tax kevin slagle with the western states

petroleum trade association says they want california to look at long-term solutions what happened immediate impact of depending on which tax it was how much but the bigger issue really for california's specially is in in the supply side in production if we could produce more here then we have more energy independence. we're not so beholden to what maybe happens outside of our country and places don't environmental or political philosophies. point back to that $5 record here mind if you were to ingest for inflation that four dollar and 10 cent record in a gallon today. and gasbuddy projects that this rate of gas price increases the average american will spend an extra $100 to $200 a year to fill up. so the big question everyone is wondering how high could gas prices jump experts. i spoke to today say it's too early to tell if we'll hit an average of $6 a gallon live in

the abc newsroom. i'm karina nova karina. thank you. it's not just at the gas pump prices are going up pretty much everywhere, and it's widely anticipated that interest. will also be going up by the end of the month abc 7 news reported david louie takes a look at how the federal reserve will try to do that without triggering a recession. just keep rising at the grocery store and at the gas pump the us finds itself with the battle of its own against inflation, which is hit seven and a half percent treasury secretary janet yellen giving a virtual talk to the annual stanford super economic summit indicated. the fed is likely to raise interest rates with a goal not cause a recession they want to bring inflation down but in a way that achieves this soft landing so that they're able to simultaneously achieve maximum employment the russian attack on ukraine has also creating turmoil in the economy as us companies sever their ties to

russia which could impact profits and their stock prices that can make investors nervous if these types of things wake you up in the middle of the night and really cause you uneasy feeling it probably is a good time to reassess that and how much of your portfolio is invested in those kind of risk assets despite stock market volatility. yellen said the us economy is on the rebound with robust job growth and consumer spending a weak spot remains supply chain shortages as americans during the pandemic bought cars to rely on computer chips while spending less on eating out which hurts service workers when interest rates rise that could auto sales and home buying that's gonna affect things like home mortgages auto loans. it also is going to affect a positive way rates of return that you're going to be able to earn on short-term cash investments like money market funds david louie abc 7 news. under pressure the struggle with school social media and covid

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going to be here till 7 o'clock tonight taking your tax question. so anything you want to know right now write it down on your computer and send it to us one of the questions we hear a lot is about the earned income tax credit. and so we've got alexander ho here he's with united way bay area free tax help. okay. so this is a program you've got to earn about $60,000 or less. right? right. actually the earned income credit is one of the us's largest anti-poverty measures and it's best. it's targeted at low-income families with children, so generally to qualify you would need around actually under around 50,000 or less to get to earn income credit. and so basically i should bring those back. so basically what it does is it empowers people that have low income and it encourages them to continue working rather than look for welfare, correct? that's correct. so unlike other credits, it doesn't just work automatically the calculations a bit

complicated and incentivizes families or taxpayers to work. more so the more they work the more credit they get out of certain point it levels out and then it phases out once their income gets too high. it is a little bit complicated. at least it sounds that way the way you're describing it so they can use help. yes, it is definitely complicated. but to file it is actually quite simple because all a taxpayer really needs is to make sure the way to qualify is to be within a certain income range. it's calculated automatically and we just need to make sure that the taxpayer has a social security number and is a us resident or citizen. and they don't need to have had the social security number all year. just when it's time to file, right? oh, well, look if you call alexander will know that question alexander. thank you so much alexander hoe. he's with united way bay area

free tax help. we can help you right here. we're going to be here till seven o'clock tonight. we're going to be going full-time during the newscast. you do not have to wait until you see us the golden gate society of enrolled agents are here cal cpa is here and like i said united way bay area free tax help reporting live from the 79 years. office. i'm michael fitting. all right. thank you michael. sure. successfully blasted a massive boulder that came crashing down on highway 50 at echo summit around 6 o'clock last night blocking the highway caltrans has the boulder was about the size of a semi truck and cruise were able to get the remaining debris cleaned up and the road reopened about 2:30 this afternoon. that was massive larry. so absolutely. yeah. all right, let's turn to the forecast now spencer christian is here and spencer you guys were saying it's really windy and joke often about driving across the bay bridge. i wish i could you know just fly

across it was so windy. i thought the car was going to be airborne. it was unbelievable felt like you were flying across that same sensation driving in today. it's very windy and especially in on bridges and overpasses where there's nothing to block that wind. so, let's take a look at what's going on right now. here's lived out for seven and we've got mainly clear skies, but you notice some lightning strikes and some active weather up in the northern sacramento valley some of that activity is going to wrap around and move possibly through the bay area tonight right now though. we're looking at strong wind gusts up to 47 miles per hour at oakland 41 at sfo. we've got 35 to 38 mile per hour gusts and many other locations. so no surprise. wind advisory is in effect and remains in effect until seven o'clock this evening mainly for the coast for locations right around the bay shoreline and over into the delta and the carquina strait gusts may reach as high as 50 miles per hour wind may blow unsecured objects around could blow down some tree limbs and cause a few power outages. so bear that in mind and you can see the effects of the wind on the embarcadero right now as we look in that direction from our

rooftop camera 51 degrees here in san francisco right now we have mid 50s in oakland mountain view, san jose santa clara and 50 degrees at half moon bay. and it's windy but with blue sky at the golden gate of the temperature readings up in the north bay and over the inland east bay 50 60 degrees santa rosa right now, napa 54 petaluma 53 58 at fairfield conquered 57 livermore 54 degrees and looking westward from the east bay hills camera a nice view. these are our forecast features. we will probably see a few scattered showers overnight, maybe a wintry mix as well some hail mixed in maybe some snow on the higher elevations through tomorrow morning then colder nights this weekend and a warmer pattern begins early next. week the storm coming through tonight and tomorrow morning ranks one on the abc 7 storm impact scale. so once again showers possible possibly some hail snow levels down to 2500 feet, which is why we might see some snow on our higher peaks. and of course gusty winds at the coast and bay forecast animation looks like this going into the late later night hours. we'll see some clouds returning and some pockets of moisture. so some showers are mixed in

there and possibly some hail as well and then we get a little bit of clearing early tomorrow, but by midday clouds wrapping on that storm to our east will move back into the bay area. there may be a sprinkler or two in those clouds, but looks like mainly a dry day after about midday tomorrow and going into tomorrow night the snow the snowfall the rainfall total is one amount to much the areas that have measurable rain will generally have under 500 of an inch of rain and in the sierra winter weather advisory remains an effect until 1:00 pm tomorrow snow levels now the 1500 feet most locations get about four to eight inches of snow overnight lows here in the bay area mid to up. these inland low 40s near the coast and bay tomorrow as high as will not get out of the 50s in most locations. and here's the accuweather seven-day forecast sunny or dryer a little bit milder on sunday and then a warming trend begins on monday and through all of next week. we can expect high temperatures inland around 68 to about 70 or 72 degrees in the upper mid to upper 60s right around the bay shore line. so it is going to warm up and it'll get drier larry.

all right spencer. thank you if you don't like the weather tomorrow night, i've got to suggestion stay in and watch these. two guys, we've got steph versus lebron warriors and lakers tomorrow night right here on abc 7 tip off is at 5:30 pm followed by a

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elizabeth holmes is awaiting sentencing after being found guilty of defrauding investors. there's a 2020 special tonight with the latest on this case abc 7's reggie key got some details

from rebecca jarvis abc news correspondent and host of the podcast the dropout. let's talk about the sentencing which is still to come she could face up to 20 years in prison for being convicted on counts of defrauding investors. what do we think is actually going to happen? well, it's interesting reggie because the sentencing guidelines given the degree the amount of fraud that she's been convicted of above the 60 million dollar threshold. a lot of legal experts. tell me she could see more prison time as a result of that but legal experts also taken to consideration the fact that her co-conspirator sunny bell. wani is about to start his own trial and that the sentencing for elizabeth holmes was moved to after that to september. there's the possibility that her team is trying behind the scenes to work out some kind of deal with the government. i've talked to a lot of legal experts about a dozen and they say anywhere from three to 10 years is what they believe she will see as far as prison time

is concerned jarvis also says homes attorneys are preparing to make a case as to why she deserves a lighter sentence, but they'll have to overcome evidence and statements from theranos investors as well as patients who received test results and got the incorrect results you can watch the 2020 special the dropout the rise and con of elizabeth holmes tonight at 9 here on abc 7 and you can catch the new series of the dropout based on the podcast streaming on hulu. it's been two years since the pandemic began and now masks and vaccine mandates are finally starting to drop plus the surge in suicides the mental health crisis. that is

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moving forward finding solutions. this is abc 7 news. well today marks two years from the day that governor gavin newsom first declared a state of emergency in the covid pandemic. that state of emergency is still in effect by the way the first known california death from covid was also announced two years ago today a 71 year old who had traveled and got sick after a cruise the san francisco school district announced today. that masks will no longer be required at middle and high school starting march 12 elementary school students can remove them starting april 2nd in los angeles county masks are no longer mandated in public settings like grocery stores restaurants and bars in addition. a vaccination or negative test results will no longer be needed to enter bars and most other businesses and apple says employees will be required to come into the office at least. one day a week i starting april 11th. the covid shutdown has brought awareness to the issue of mental

health and suicide rates have really soared over the past two years and now the suicide of a star stanford soccer player has reignited the discussion of mental health abc 7 news anchor deon lim joining us now with a challenging discussion that you had this morning in the newsroom. yeah, larry full transparency here. i wondered as did many people in our news from our editorial meeting this morning. why the death of katie meyer was so visible when there were many in the api community and other young people of color who die by suicide. i spoke to a parent and an lgbtq healthcare professional and they both say they aim to create more visibility. there's like imperial quality about her that you never felt burdened emotionally when you're around her. she was always bad that kind of that light. that was really dark inside. i mean, i didn't know that until

she passed that hidden pain is what ultimately led to song brown's daughter's death in may of 2018. 19 year old elizabeth wasn't accomplished violinist who was involved in many organizations dedicated to helping others yet. elizabeth never felt it was enough elizabeth's compassion and caring for others is what makes it so hard to comprehend her own internal struggles dr. jay. africa is the first openly transgender behavioral. professional in california and is marin county's director of behavioral health and recovery services. he says cases of young people who die by suicide in the aapi community are not as publicly visible for cultural reasons. it may be why stanford soccer player. katie myers death has become so public families don't want to admit that it's suicide. they don't share that because of the shame and the privacy we need to talk about it one to the stigmatize that people are reading anything help and are suffering those in the lgbtq

community says dr. africa have an extra layer of complexity in discussing mental health visibility such as with katie myers family is crucial to helping others the visibility of people coming out and saying, you know, we've struggled we continue to struggle but we're asking for help why people to talk about it's such a brave thing to do that bravery exemplified during my time with song. what is the one thing you'd like our audience? take away from you telling your story. we really have to take a look at it and take a deep breath. and let our children to really live their life the way they feel and let their soul to guide them and i say this as a asian american because at that seems to be very much the thing that we do in our culture, so i just want to cry because i think about my upbringing also and how that was instilled in me to always be the best at

everything. it's okay to fail. it's okay to not be the first it's okay to be not be the best we are enough w w w w an important message. this is of course a weighty subject, but for so many healthcare professionals and families. i spoke with today if the story helps just one person. just one seek help or help someone have a discussion with their family. that is progress larry. it's a subject that's complex and one that we will continue to cover. is often parents to initiate those conversations with their kids both sides are uncomfortable with it. but as you can see right here, it's really important to have those conversations. yeah, even today song told me she felt a little awkward at times even though it's been several years, but the more you continue to have these conversations the more help it can provide. absolutely. thank you deon if you or somebody you love is in crisis, you can find organizations that

offer help and hope by going to abc 7 news com slash. take action. the mayors of seven of california's largest cities are throwing their support behind governor newsom's new plan to tackle the mental health crisis among the unhoused in california. the mayor is so much including san jose, sam ricardo and libby schaaf of oakland appeared together by zoom to support the proposal called care court the plan unveiled by the governor yesterday would offer more services to homeless people and others with severe mental health and addiction disorders people will be obligated to accept care if they don't they could be put into a leadership care court is a very important step forward. i think even governor newsom would be the first to admit. this is not a sufficient. solution it is a necessary one and it's an important step we need to take. under the plan counties will be required to set up a mental health branch in civil court and provide comprehensive and community-based treatment. well get ready to unplug. well, don't do it just yet. well, don't do it just yet. is your bathroom over 10 years old?

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now for the four at four today. we have alma and spencer for the conversation. so some big changes. you heard for new york city. the city is dropping masks requirements for students and lifting proof of vaccine mandates for restaurants and theaters. it all takes effect next week. that means restaurants theaters and other indoor venues will no longer have to ask patrons for proof of vaccination. it comes as changes are being made to mandates across the country california has dropped its indoor mask for unvaccinated

people. so do you think we should drop the vaccine requirements as well? i'm already think i don't know. i don't pretend to know what's right and wrong these days and but it just strikes me that there isn't really much incentive to get vaccinated anymore. it seems like and we were sort of on the honor system. anyway, if for the most part yeah should have been wearing a mask if you were unvaccinated, but who knows if you were actually doing that. know spencer they should bring back the $100 gift cards. remember that incentive lottery that might help you. yeah, it's just too bad that so many people just have refused to get vaccinated. i don't think there are any persuadables out there right now, so i'm probably right, you know, it doesn't matter whether we keep the mandated and effect or not. long as the numbers are going down. yeah, that's good. that's encouraging. yeah, if we see more spikes than we may have to walk it back a little bit. so hopefully full speed ahead.

here's your chance for you and your family to take a break from technology. today is national day of unplugging from sundown until sundown tomorrow. you're encouraged to put away all of your electronic devices. we're talking phones tablets tvs. well, maybe maybe keep the tv. gaming systems as well the goal of a tech-free 24 hours to get more of us to spend time doing things that make an impact on others. it's really about connecting to things that matter beyond screens, which is human connection, which we haven't had enough of in the last couple of years. that's for sure. you know, we're so attached to the phones if i even get 10 feet away from the house without the phone. i'm like i can't i can't be without that's what if something happens. nothing ever happens. how about you guys? i'm the same way. yeah, just like you, you know if i leave home without it. i find and discover that i don't

have it. i turn around and go right back, but having said that i'm not someone who spends a lot of time on the phone. i just like to have it with me. you know if someone sends me a text or you know, one of my kids on the other coast and wants to reach me i want to have that phone with me, you know well and it comes in handy so much in terms of like checking in at child care you need to you know, there's the qr code that you do it that way. so if i don't have my phone, i can't do that and i always think it's funny. we're used to seeing everyone on their phones when i drive by bus stops in the morning. i'll see six seven kids out there waiting for the bus and everybody is like this. yeah. right. i mean like the phone. was not good or bad. i mean, it's just a tool you can use it to like look at youtube videos all that by yourself or you can use it to connect with people right? like i play spelling bee and with my friends and we share our results and you know, by the way you could also if you went back and you looked at pictures from the 1950s you'd see everybody on the train with a newspaper and they said the same thing at the time ever just taking away from

interaction spencer remembers it like it was yesterday. okay, press he plays a lot of great before the locomotive. yeah. oh my goodness there. i have a backyard. do you want to make some extra money? sniff spot is like airbnb for dogs. you can rent out your backyard for anywhere from four to twenty five dollars an hour one host says it's been good for dog owners whose dogs don't do well at dog parks. the service is offered all over the us. they're about a dozen listings in the bay area right now. wait, so i don't get it. is this like you run out your backyard and then the dog can run around like rents it in the dog. just okay, like if you have a dog and living in an apartment, and it's too big it needs to run as long as you make sure to up your poop. don't leave that behind. i think that one dog was like aa great dane. yeah, like if he's in the backyard, he will leave a mark on the backyard. yes, there should be a poop surcharge. yes. yeah sure. it was all over it.

how about a fertilize your backyard party there? there you go if you needed an excuse to treat yourself today. is one today is national snack day. so when you're unplugging you can have a snack as well. that's retreat some fun facts about snacks. the word snack is derived from the dutch word snackin' which means to bite or maybe they would say snocking. i don't know the first snack food in the united states was the peanut and americans by 4.3 billion pounds of snack food. are you a popcorn fresh popcorn? good spencer. what is your favorite snack? i love nuts. i like savory snacks. i like peanuts. i like almonds pistachios walnuts all that stuff and i like popcorn as well. alma popcorn is good. get stuck in your teeth being half ganan. i love plantain which was a very cultural thing. my mom would always make it growing up fried. but now i love the plantain chips. i get at trader joe's scoop a

little of the like soft cheese with it. two salty. it's amazing. boba tea for me. how about for you larry? well, you know, i didn't even think of liquids as a snow his snack that tate that takes me to a whole different genre from alcohol actually. no, that's the boba tea is is outstanding that i mean, i would go to like hawaiian roots a malasada, which is a dessert. yeah. yeah nerds baby. bring it on leonard. yes the best. all right. now that we're all hungry. now that we're all hungry. - [announcer] the more we learn about covid-19, the more questions we have. the biggest question now, what's next? what will covid bring in six months, a year? if you're feeling anxious about the future, you're not alone. calhope offers free covid-19 emotional support.

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on the field but off the field the 49ers foundation is helping teachers with 25,000 in grants is the dr. harry edwards. follow your bliss award and here to talk about that is the man himself dr. harry edwards noted sociologist civil rights activist educator author and 49ers team consultant. i think we got everything covered there harry first. it's great. see you i feel like it's been an et. just about yeah, so tell meell e about these grants and why the program was created. the program was created five years ago when jesse lovejoy and his education staff at the san francisco 49ers museum on foundation went to john yard,

dr. john york and the york family and told them that we you know, we need to do more in terms of teachers the york family brought it immediately and what we determined to do was to give these $5,000 grants to teachers every year based upon. equation of their service commitment production and so forth and it's just been a real real privilege and a pleasure not just to give the awards but to read the applications. there's so many great teachers. we didn't set out to a war give awards to every deserving teacher but to give out awards to set an example of the degree to which we should recognize an honor the teachers to do such a great job in the nine. area counties, so we're talking five teachers 5,000 apiece who's eligible for these awards. can can anybody apply any teacher? in a teacher can apply they can be nominated by anyone they can

nominate themselves. they can be nominated by a principal or a member of the board of education. they can be nominated by a parent. they can even be nominated by a group of their students. we're not interested in how they get to us. we're interested in the what the file looks like what the profile looks like and the basic is to honor. our teachers teaching is the greatest profession. in the world because unlike architects and engineers and doctors and attorneys and so forth who do something for somebody teachers and sight people to think and inspire them to learn and follow their bliss so that they can do for themselves. and that is a the greatest thing that you the greatest service that you can do to anyone. so we really want to recognize teachers for the service that they do and of course with covid we found that they do so much more they're critical to army because they allow parents to to go to work their credit critical

to community health all of the stress and so forth that students bring to school until the teaching and education situation teachers have to deal with so we want to honor them. we want to make sure that that degree of respect is publicly accorded and hopefully other corporations will step up and do the same thing. well, no question. i mean, they're they're underpaid and under appreciated and this is a great program to try. some recognition for them real quick. is there a website that people can go to to apply the teachers? absolutely, they can go to the san francisco 49er website and there's a information there about applying and what you have to do to get that done march 31st of the deadline so get on it right away the more applications we have the better for us. we look forward to reading all of them and you can do that by simply going online. all right. dr. edwards is always a pleasure to see you. this is a great program and you

know, keep up a good work great to see you. thanks so much. thank you so much. it's a privilege. appreciate it. a hundred thousand tulips will blanket union square in san francisco tomorrow. it's to celebrate flower bulb day and international women's day now, this is from 2020 this year a garden will be set up so people can actually pick their own flowers. it's happening from 1 to 4:30 tomorrow near the powell street bart station you're looking for something to do about a walk back in history. there's a narrative here to tell i really recommend it to anyone who has the opportunity. at oakland's black

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abc 7. it's three hours of 2020 at 8 a special edition of 2020 the battle to save ukraine that at nine the dropout the rise in khan of elizabeth holmes, then don't miss abc 7 news at 11. west oakland may not come to mind as a must-see destination, but the black liberation walking tour is changing that the historical tour celebrates multi-generational black history and culture. and it's gaining national attention. people may look at this neighborhood and say oh it's kind of rundown and they drive on past and don't give it a second thought but there's a lot of history both oakland and california history. there's a narrative here to tell about black liberation and black liberation acts.

time i take it i learned something new. i really recommend it to anyone who has the opportunity so much to be inspired by this tour connects people. it inspires pride. i want people to take away from the tour the fact that black people were here are here and have made significant contributions that need to be documented and preserved. i was born here the mid 60s grew up here. i'm walking down the street and i'm imagining and seeing things that happened 50 years ago this neighborhood when i was a kid and and it was that desire to here with other people some of that information and knowledge about things that had happened here to tell a story of a neighborhood. you know, where the black population has been so overwhelming displaced this mural was commissioned for the tour. they wanted to basically just highlight what's going on and

what's been happening for the past 50 or so years from the california hotel stories of the black panther urban gardening the hoover foster library. we wanted to put all of these things that are mentioned in the tour into this mural in this racially changing neighborhood where black folks are being have been and continue to be displ. great rates to be able for me to see my culture reflected on these walls and reaffirms that there's a place, you know for me here there was and there will be medley jumped to mind are the former site of the saint augustine's episcopal church. where the panthers first three breakfast feeding program and also the funerals of george and jonathan jackson were there. delham's house is very important because what he did i would say

he is the seminole and central figure in the west coast civil rights movement and is kind of the central figure in this ark of black liberation at the story that this tour tells lila beasley was a early historian documenting the contributions of black americans in early, california. we stopped here because it really points to the major major impact that freeways have had on this neighborhood over the years the building of these freeways that surrounded this neighborhood and those associated issues of redlining redevelopment urban renewal and -- removal as james baldwin called it is such an important factor to understand in a development of this neighborhood specifically of west generally and urban america. black liberation walking tour you can take it from your desktop anywhere in the world. you can come out here with your

smartphone. it is a self-guided audio tour. it changes the way that you see this neighborhood. this one's gonna stay in my memory for a while. 18th this year today. we have a special seven on your side tax chat. you can get your tax questions answered from now until seven o'clock tonight. just use the hashtag askfini on social media or go to the abc7 news bay area facebook page and post your tax questions there michael vinny and the folks from the united way bay area. we'll be back live in just a few minutes and they'll be there the experts to answer your questions again until 7 o'clock tonight. and of course, you know abc 7 news is always streaming 24/7 get the abc 7 bay area streaming tv app and join us whenever you want wherever you are that's going to do it for abc 7 news at 4 abc 7 news at five with dan

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moving forward finding solutions. this is abc 7 news. emotions running high here in the bay area tonight as some people greet loved ones arriving from ukraine bringing with them harrowing tales of escape while others get ready to say farewell. they are rushing into the war zone to help good evening and thank you for joining us. i'm amidates and i'm dan ashley. you're watching abc 7 news at five we begin tonight with the latest in ukraine where russian forces are advancing on key targets on this ninth day of the invasion gunfire and air raid sirens blared across eve as ukrainian troops continue to put up a stiff resistance tonight you can ukrainian president vladimir zalinsky delivered a sobering assessment of the war. for nine days. we have been seeing a fierce war