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

destroying our cities shelling our people our children residential neighborhoods churches schools destroying everything that provides a normal life. in keith, there were heartbreaking scenes of women and children boarding trains to escape the fighting while in germany hundreds of volunteers waited for their arrival with welcome signs offering to house refugees in private homes in moscow. the government blocked. says to facebook and twitter and threatens to punish anyone spreading so-called fake information about its armed forces and there are no signs that radiation had leaked during a battle for ukrainian nuclear power plant. both sides. say russian troops are not interfering with the plant's staff. here in the bay area. we're seeing the first refugees from war-torn ukraine beginning to arrive and for many that arrival is bittersweet after leaving friends family and their lives behind abc 7 news reporter cornell bernard was at san francisco international airport for some of the emotional

reunions. an emotionalmotionalmotionalmotl paulina propiak and her one-year-old son art and exhausted after a long journey escaping their beloved war-torn. country ukraine. oh, yeah, very scary in ukraine right now. lots of bombing lots of striking going on. the trip was very afraid for her son that but that's why she made a decision to leave ukraine and come to united states. cousin eugene venikoff is translating he lives in castro valley. he says it took paulina and her son five and a half days to escape their country. this was the scene paulina encountered at the border of moldova a long line of refugees. nearly 10 miles people die in every day civilian people die and soldiers dying just protecting their country. you know, it's very very difficult times. minutes earlier this reunion was happening, but donna korchuk from san jose greeting her mom

vera who arrives in san francisco with only a small suitcase to her name. no. no my dog. normal family photo no. vera says she's been taking cover for days and her own basement turned bomb shelter. am i my town is destroyed when i was coming here. i saw women with a little kids who didn't know how to save their kids. the train station she left from a ukraine was bombed minutes after she left her message to russian president putin putin so much i say mania. i want to say that putin is a crazy. maniac. there's nephew once a member of ukrainian parliament is now fighting for his country for now. she is safe. yes the most difficult for for in our situation was to convince her to leave because she was very scared nearly 1 million refugees have fled ukraine about the population of san jose these relatives. hope to apply for refugee status

allowing them to stay in the united states at sfo cornell bernard abc 7 news. and over the past week one bay area couple has raised nearly two hundred thousand dollars for ukrainian refugees with a plan to head to the ukraine romania border to hand out cash to those crossing needed abc avenues reporter tim johns caught up with a couple at their san francisco home today just hours before they headed 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 bargaining for us a little bit of bargaining. it and it'd be pretty hard as the world watches scenes of devastation continuing to unfold in the eastern european country. forman says he felt compelled to do something. it felt like i felt like we've got to do more felt like it's time to step up. and do something he did together with wife the pair is so far

raised nearly $200,000 now firman is catching a friday afternoon flight out of sfo and heading to the ukraine romania border to distribute the money. he's helped raise. yeah. literally we're gonna 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 furman's wife. marina will stay back in san francisco, but we'll 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 that's not gonna take a long time. right? like there's no way that they i wish it on soon, but it's not going to end soon. so this is gonna be a marathon in san francisco tim johns abc 7 news. governor newsom wants to make sure state. actors are abiding by economic sanctions imposed on russia. he says california is standing squarely behind the ukrainian people and that means the state should not be doing business with russian entities governor newsom also urged businesses and organizations to refrain from investments and financial transaction with russia. the governor is also asking businesses to not transfer technology to russian companies 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 the owner of the property says she wants to honor the people who are suffering so badly in ukraine and call for peace. tonight 2020 will feature a special episode called putin's war the battle to save ukraine angered by david muir on the border of ukraine in poland. you can watch it here on abc 7

at 8pm. all right, let's turn out of the weather happening right now awfully breezy in some areas around the bay area and a wind advisory is an effect. yeah, you warned us. and yeah and it is here it is indeed. it's a windy pattern to ananama. i want to show you. picture from our east bay hills camera from vollmer peak and you can see just how shaky that camera is. hang on to your hats gus right now 44 miles an hour at sfo. we're an airport weather warning is up 37 in livermore 36 at half moon bay. we've seen gus over 45 miles an hour mount diablo is one place 46 right now. we do have that wind advisory coast bay until 7 pm tonight for carquina strait and delta until midnight. we are looking at those gusty winds possibly blowing down tree. unsecured objects and there is a possibility of a few power outages as we go hour by hour notice the winds remain elevated going into late tonight. they start to ease and then we bring in the second wave of a wintry mix. it's a light level one storm. i'll be back with the hour by

hour forecast coming up, dan. all right, sandy. thanks very much a scooter rider who was hit and killed sadly by a big rig in the mission district on wednesday morning has been identified as a school teacher flowers have been left in front of mission prep school on workstreet where 24 year old abraham joshua taught students and colleagues are remembering him as a beloved member of the family. they're just torn up over this of course neighbors put up signs at harrison and 22nd streets where joshua was found lying in the street. they're calling for safer streets in light of this fatal collision the big rig driver stopped and is cooperating with the police investigation. a former danville police officer has been sentenced to six years in prison for fatally shooting a mental ill-man in 2018. 33 year old larimer arboleda was shot nine times after leading police on a slow slow speed chase police video shows officer. andrew hall who was not involved in the initial pursuit firing a volley of shots into arboretum slow-moving car. the judge said hall violated his

own training and put fellow officers in danger. the shasta county mother accused of faking a kidnapping story appeared briefly by video conference in federal court this afternoon. sherry papini was read the churches against her including lying to federal agents and mail fraud. she seemed extremely distraught and her lawyer mentioned that she has not been able to much since her arrest due to dietary restrictions and allergies papini was reported missing in november 2016. she was found a few weeks later on thanksgiving day on the side. a yolo county freeway bound emaciated and injured the penny told police two women kidnapped her at gunpoint while she was jogging but the justice department says she made the whole thing up and actually was staying with an ex-boyfriend. still ahead irreplaceable family memorabilia destroyed after a fire at a north bay winery. we'll show you the extent of the damage plus san francisco's glide foundation is getting ready for an upgrade details on

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has learned the name of a 14 year old boy killed in oakland wednesday night the family of shamari martin jr. shared these photos of that teenager shortly after reports of a shooting police. say a car flagged down an ambulance on mountain boulevard investigators. say someone pulled martin out of that car left him on the street near the ambulance and then drove away investigators. asking anyone with information about what happened to please come forward in san francisco family members and friends gathered this morning to remember longtime financier. richard blum blum was the husband of california senator dianne feinstein. he died last week at their san francisco after a battle with cancer feinstein attended today's memorial along with some of the couples political colleagues like former san

francisco mayor willie brown blum was 86 years old. glide foundation of san francisco is moving forward with plans to upgrade its aging buildings. glide has been headquartered at 3:30 ellis street since 1929 officials say the building has seen minimal renovations or improvements during that time and is in critical need of organization as you can imagine the plan calls for a new building at the current location with an expansion into an adjacent lot parts of glide memorial church would also be renovated in this process the initial cost estimate for the project is between 150 and 200 million dollars a wine tasting room in sonoma county caught fire causing extensive damage to the building. now the video you're seeing here is from the sonoma county sheriff happened at the larson family winery wednesday evening. the owner said in a statement they are devastated by the los. or business and irreplaceable family memorabilia. no other buildings were damaged and no one was hurt the tasting room was once a barn and home to the sonoma rodeo.

the fire cause is under investigation. the winery will closed until further notice. well, the chp says three people and a baby are truly fortunate to have survived a multi-vehicle crash in sonoma county. the chp says a subaru subaru with an 18 month old inside. slammed into the back of another car on river road in the town of fulton the subaru then spun into oncoming traffic hitting a county transit bus the bus slid down to 20 foot embankment and ended up on its side the subaru sustained of course major damage a passerby came and helped the baby. as soon as he got to the and seat with its rear facing child seat and as you can tell that was contributing factor to that child is still alive. the chp says the baby and three adults were taken to the hospital with moderate injuries.

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to be a thriver with metastatic breast cancer means asking for what we want. and need. and we need more time. so, we want kisqali. women are living longer than ever before with kisqali when taken with an aromatase inhibitor or fulvestrant in postmenopausal women with hr+, her2- metastatic breast cancer. kisqali is a pill that's significantly more effective at delaying disease progression versus an aromatase inhibitor or fulvestrant alone. kisqali can cause lung problems, or an abnormal heartbeat, which can lead to death. it can cause serious skin reactions, liver problems, and low white blood cell counts that may result in severe infections. tell your doctor right away if you have new or worsening symptoms, including breathing problems, cough, chest pain, a change in your heartbeat, dizziness,

yellowing of the skin or eyes, dark urine, tiredness, loss of appetite, abdomen pain, bleeding, bruising, fever, chills or other symptoms of an infection, a severe or worsening rash, are or plan to become pregnant, or breastfeeding. avoid grapefruit during treatment. ask your doctor about living longer with kisqali. district announced today. that masks will no longer be required at middle and high schools starting march 12th 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 proof of 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 starting april 11th tax time is once again just around the corner and we know you probably have questions. lots of them seven on your side's michael. finney is here today with the

united way helping to answer all of those tax questions. hi michael. hey, have you done your taxes yet? uh, someone's working on them. i think get out your computer and you can ask us a question along with everyone else up until seven o'clock tonight. just go to the stations web page one of the people answering your questions. is this guy right here. his name is kk's hair gucci and he is going to talk to us right now about the taxes or not taxes on a lot of the stimulus payments, right what's going on with that? well, we had three rounds of stimulus payments so far. the first two rounds were really tax credits on the 2020 tax return and the third round is a tax credit on the 2021 tax return the stimulus payments should have been received by everyone's by now, but if you haven't got the third round of stimulus payments then when you file your 2021 tax return you can claim it and get it and if and guard your first or second round either then you can go back and file a 2020 tax return

or an amendment and go back and claim them. now one of the complaints that i've seen coming across our facebook page is people say i haven't received my payment. how do i claim it? is it easy to claim it on the tax form? yes, actually there's a worksheet over there it's where you that you've got to fill out the shares to show how much pay how many how much you've received in terms of payments for instance you may have received only a part thereof you may not received for everyone on the tax return let's you may not have proceeded for your dependence you can claim it at this time now there is a lot going on with this and we're going to be here till seven o'clock taking your questions cal cpa the golden gate society of enrolled agents and united way bay area all taking your questions. just post them on our facebook page and we'll get to them reporting live from i don't know some conference room here at the station. remember what those look like. thanks. michael great resource for

folks. well, apple's shareholders are backing a proposal but the company to audit how it treats female and minority employees like other major tech companies apples workforce particularly in technical positions, consists primarily of white and asian men company representatives have said a third party audit isn't necessary and point out recent strides in civil rights efforts. apple also says it is raising the pay of women and minority employees while hiring more female black and hispanic workers. all right weather probably almost not you down today. it was awfully breezy and yeah, the winds have been really ramping up today, especially this afternoon and heading into this evening. dananama. i want to show you a live view from our mount tam cam. so we're high up there. you will notice how shaky that camera is. notice some clouds are starting to come in as we are tracking the next wave of some wet weather gus, right? to 44 at sfo 37 inapd'et dated

einds are u and as we lookt aa0 it's still blustery across the region 31 in san francisco 30 and livermore going into tomorrow. the winds will be primarily confined to the coast in the morning the rest of you start to notice those winds dialing down, which is a good thing, especially if you have outdoor plans, i want to show you the sierra nevada right now because as you will notice from northern portion of the state to sierra we are seeing active weather. this is winter for you sierra seeing thunderstorm snow and up to the north. they've been seeing snow showers as well here locally, not yet, but you notice there are some returns. just northwest of mendocino county temperatures at this hour in the 50s for most of you a few 40s showing up. so it's definitely chillier than where we were yesterday live look from our emeryville camera. nice view of the rays of sand, but certainly a shaky view strong gusty winds tonight wintry mix tonight into tomorrow morning and a a cold sunday morning with frost coming your way if you're getting away bay

area airports the hawaiian airlines. has partly cloudy gusty temperatures in theer 50s tomorrow afternoon, honolulu 84, sunshine, new york city 44 chicago 65 partly cloudy and los angeles 59 chance of rain. we have a one on our storm impact scale between tonight and tomorrow morning. you're looking at those strong gusty winds. hours possibility of hail and certainly snow over the higher peaks. we're talking like mount. hamilton as we look hour by hour 8:30 tonight is when that next round starts to come down across the north bay ten o'clock tonight scattered showers across the region could be briefly heavy mountain snow over mount hamilton 11:30 tonight. so it's definitely going to be cold enough and then tomorrow morning other than a few early morning showers. we're done. we will still see some sun and clouds mixing in for the afternoon and the chill will be there rain fall estimates not expecting a whole lot. we've seen up to 2/10 of an inch in the wettest spots in the last 24 hours. from zero to about a tenth of an additional inch of rain in the mountains. it's a winter weather advisory

until tomorrow afternoon carry the chains difficult travel expected with up to a foot for the peaks and the snow level crashing down to 2,000 feet temperature is 40s in the morning. a few early showers windy tomorrow numbers will be in the 50s 60s for your saturday and your accuweather seven day forecast. it's a one tomorrow wintry mix wendy's start and then we're gonna dry it out for the second half of your weekend for your outdoor outdoor plans certainly temperatures trending higher. next week 70s inland 50s 60s coast side on indian? okay, sandy. thank you. well, the sierra is getting some much-needed snow today from the system that is passing through. oh fellow it's gorgeous the uc berkeley central sierra snow lab received about an inch what it's calling wet snow exactly the kind water managers like because it contains higher amounts of moisture. the lab is expecting another six to inches over the next 36 hours do carry chains if you're heading up there which includes highway 50, which is open again. thanks to this check it out.

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on the lakers tomorrow night and you can watch it. all right here on abc 7 just tune in for tip off at 5:30 followed by after the game while we're talking basketball. the queen of basketball is an oscar nominated. humanry short that tells the story of a woman really ahead of her time lucia harris's career was stellar she scored the first basket in women's olympic history won three college national championships and was the first woman drafted to the nba by the new orleans jazz in 1977 now executive producer and nba great shaquille o'neal is working with director ben proudfoot to share harris's story with the world. her story was overlooked because she was a woman. and the inequity

parity between genders and basketball. are stark a special screening of the queen of basketball will be held this weekend in san francisco with the opera plaza. cinema tickets are still available. we have more information at abc 7 news.com. that should be fascinating. oh, absolutely. all right. finally tonight. this is my favorite story of the day. i admit a couple of a bald eagles that have become social media stars are now officially new parents. it is a good stories and i'm a jackie and shadow. welcome their first successful hatchlings since 2019 this week. the new chick can be seen pipping or starting to break its shell and a video feed of the nest near big bear lake in southern, california. what's a day it started to peek through even more while shadow played the role of protective dad. meanwhile mom kept watch over the hatchling and a second egg inside the nest that is expected to open any day now. i watched this a couple times on our app later earlier today. did you really i can see why i'm it's fascinating to see them in their natural habit of like that's cool.

right world news tonight with david muir's next week. appreciate your time. i'm danny. a dates for sandia patel michael finney all of us. thanks for joining us. we'll see again at

tonight, a special edition of "world news tonight." tonight, a special edition of "world news tonight." russia's horrific escalation of attacks inside ukraine, and what authorities said could have been the worst nuclear disaster in europe. russian forces shelling the largest nuclear power plant in ukraine, the largest in europe. fire breaking out near six nuclear reactors. russian troops seizing the plant after a fierce firefight. and tonight across ukraine, the russian military targeting civilians. a missile strike destroying an apartment building. reports dozens have been killed. a school bombed. the search for possible victims. and tonight in the capital of kyiv, ukrainians sheltering underground. and new 3-d images tonight of that massive russian convoy outside kyiv. what the pictures now reveal. and tonight here, ukraine's

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