were detected and the russian government blocked access to facebook and twitter today and threatened to punish anyone spreading quote fake news about its armed forces the abc 7 news i-team has learned that a group of us special forces is taking off right now for ukraine including one man from northern california. now, these are not active. groups keep in mind being sent into battle but veterans and volunteers on a medical mission. our dan noyes is here now with a story that you will see only on 7th dan dan the team met in new york and is taking off from jfk about right now including one men from palo alto a newly retired member of the elite us army special forces. among all the online bravado from americans who say they want to fight in ukraine. there are some serious offers. i received one private message being passed to veterans on social media want to go do something have your passport contact us asap by email with your dd-214 the official record

of military service and it says simply want to do something have your passport is kind of cryptic, right? yeah. yeah, i mean if you was like trying to reach out to the right people aaron epstein is a surgeon in buffalo, new york who worked as a defense contractor in a previous career in 2015. he started gsmsg global surgical and medical support group to treat victims of isis and arranged doctors from places like harvard yale and georgetown to volunteer in iraq and bring them right to these kind of frontline communities because we could cocoon them in my other network of the security guys. we were we were essentially bringing levels of care that these communities haven't seen before his message now on social media uses abbreviations that veterans will understand asking for special forces combat medics from the army navy air force and marines. he says gsmsg has 1500 qualified medical professionals on its roster vast majority or former

military or intelligence community folks who either were medical providers while in service or became medical providers after i checked and gsms. is an active 501c3 nonprofit that has sent medical staff to the middle east africa and central america. they were all so busy staffing field hospitals in new york for the pandemic. and then russia invaded ukraine last week dr. epstein received this letter from ukraine's minister of defense. we would ask for all possible cooperation from gsmsg in the field of medical surgeon training. so today 10 gsmsg volunteers are on their way to u. a surgeon a pediatrician and or nurse medics and a newly retired us army special forces sergeant from palo alto. i've told them that they can be armed if it's starting to look like where they will be is is going to be a hostile combat area. but if they're gonna come under fire they can return fire if

they have here. yeah. absolutely. yeah. a group is also translated the us military's tactical combat casualty course into ukrainian and posted it online the aim to train more ukrainians to take care of their own. the requirements for joining gsmsg are top along with medical qualifications. you have to be in the same top shape you were in the military. dr. epstein is worried about all those keyboard warriors who might actually show up in ukraine with no military experience very little to offer looking for a fight if these idiots run into a combat situation and get killed and suddenly russians are killing americans. i mean, i don't think they understand that like this could literally start world war 3. i mean, i i think that a lot of people don't understand. what's actually at stake when they just want to go? you some people i mean, it's it's insane. dr. epstein is heading is not heading to ukraine himself. he's already scheduled for upcoming trips to kenya and

south south america and can't afford to take more time off from us paying job as a surgeon in buffalo. this is remarkable really doing tremendous and so moving to see how people are getting involved and risking you're not selfless group, and i wanted to check them out because i was skeptical sure of course, but it looks like these are good guys doing tough work. yeah. thank you, dan. i know you'll keep us updated on their progress. thank you. excellent. here in the bay area. we are seeing the first refugees from war torn ukraine beginning to arrive after leaving friends family and their lives behind abc 7 news reporter cornell bernard was at san francisco. national airport for some of the emotional reunions here an emotional reunion at sfo 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 did 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 polina 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 stretching 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 court check from san jose greeting her mom vera who arrives in san francisco with only a small suitcase to her name. no house no town no friends. know my dog normal family photo no. vera says she's been taking cover for days in her own basement turned bomb shelter. am i my town is destroyed when i was coming here. i saw women with a little kids.

didn't know how to save their kids. says the train station. she left from a ukraine was bombed minutes after she left her message to russian president putin putin so much i'd say manyak. 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 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. a past week one bay area couple born in russia has raised nearly $200,000 for ukrainian refugees with a plan to hand out cash at the ukraine romania border alex furman and his wife say watching. the ongoing war has been difficult so they felt compelled to do something firman is now on his way to the border to

distribute the money to refugees leaving ukraine. like i felt like we've got to do more i felt like it's time to step up. yeah. literally we're going to show up and we're gonna put cash in very pockets. both furman and his wife came to the us as jewish refugees. they say they know firsthand how much a little assistance can be to those who have left everything behind and coming up tonight at 8 to special episode of 2020 putin's wore the battle to save ukraine anchored by david muir on the border of ukraine and poland right moving on now the main road into south lake tahoe from the area is back open tonight. thanks to the work of a demolition crew. the crew successfully blasted a massive boulder that came crashing down at echo summit about six o'clock last night blocking highway 50 a caltrans says the boulder was about the size of a semi truck and it sure looks like it. wow. right, man, you could hear the wind feel the wind rain yesterday sandia win today. what's going on? i know we're all over the board. after the wind we're going to

bring in a wintry mix. i want to show you live picture right now from our east bay hills camera. you will notice that the trees are blowing around in the wind tonight and it is tough to hit the roads at this hour because those gusts are 43 miles an hour in oakland right now 44 and hayward 32 in livermore. watch out as we look at the higher elevation winds 45 on mount diablo. we do have a wind advisory for the carquina street in delta until midnight for the coast and bay until seven pm tonight. those wind gusts could be strong enough to cause some damage like blowing down tree limbs causing power outages and definitely blowing unsecured objects around so as you look hour by hour tonight at 7 o'clock, it's still plated pretty blustery out there 11pm gusty, but not as strong live doppler 7 tracking our next wave of a level level one system. it's right here. it's going to bring with it colder air potential for hail snow certainly seeing thunder snow in the sierra right now hour by hour look at the forecast going into the weekend

coming up, dan. okay, sandia. thanks a lot. south bay cat owners say they're terrified the person who tortured and killed their pets has been released one month early to a supervised program abc 7 news 19 reporter melanie woodrow explains. why? i don't feel safe mary and martinez says she adored her beloved adopted cat thumper. she was like the neighborhood. cat martinez was one of many families victimized around 2015 by robert farmer our cats were brutally. brutally guilt prosecutors say evidence showed farmer tortured and/or killed at least 21 cats. he was found in his his car and there was blood evidence contained in his car former pleated guilty and was sentenced to 16. 13 years in custody followed by three years of mandatory supervision according to the santa clara county deputy district attorney who explains that in california for crimes such as these person only serves half of their time in custody farmer was supposed to be released on april 10th, but was

released a little more than one month early on march 1st to enter a non-custodial program where he's being supervised by the sheriff's office with an ankle monitor. the deputy district attorney says he'll transition to the probation department supervision on april 10th. i'm hoping that the monitoring will be sufficient to protect the community and to ensure that nothing like this happens again leonard delgado and carol hyde are with the palo alto humane society. we're very concerned they say it's hard to know whether farmer has been rehabilitated. we don't know the deputy district attorney says the conditions of his release include counseling substance abuse treatment a stay away order of 100 yards from the cambrian park 95124 neighborhood and farmer can't have or live with any animals for 10. this is one of the more horrific and disturbing cases i've ever worked on animal lovers have this warning for the community, please. please keep your pets inside. not only because of people like farmer who could be out there,

but also because of other dangers abc 7 news reached out to farmers' attorney. we have not yet heard back for the i-team melanie woodrow abc 7 news. he went six some sad news to report from the san francisco zoo maki. the ring-tailed lemur has died. you may remember this is the same lemur that was stolen from his zoo enclosure back in october of 2020. maki was recovered 36 hours later in daly city healthy veterinarians. say maki was suffering from acute kidney disease that and old age are attributed to his death. he was 22 years old the average life expectancy for a ring-tailed lemur as just over 16 years old. a change of parts san francisco unified will now lift the masked mandate, but only for some students will explain 7 on your side's michael phineas answering your questions tonight until seven go to abc7news.com or our facebook page and use the hashtag askfinnie. we'll check in with michael in just a moment entresto is the number one heart failure brand

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two years ago today governor newsom declared a state of emergency in california because of the covid-19 pandem. that state of emergency is still in effect. it came the same day the first covid death in california was announced a 71 year old man from placer county died. he had traveled on the grand princess cruise ship from san francisco to mexico in february. san francisco unified now says it will partially lift the school mask. 8 in line with state guidance starting march 12 masking will be strongly recommended but not required at middle and high schools. the mandate will be lifted for

tea through k pre-k and elementary and eight schools on april 2nd tax time is just around the corner and you probably have a lot of questions 7 on your sides michael. finney is here with the united way help. to answer all of your questions. hey michael. hey i'mma this is our annual 7 on your side tax chat. let me show you who's involved and how you get help what we're taking a look at is united way bay area the golden gate society of enrolled agents and cal cpas are all here. they've got great answers to your tough questions one of the guys. here is alexander hoe. i've asked him to talk about the child not the child credit because we talked about that last time but the child care credit what do people need to do? this is the child independent care credit and the key thing is is if you're a taxpayer and you have children under age of 13, and you paid to bring them to

daycare, all you have to do is have a letter from your daycare provider that shows how much you paid per child and that can get you a credit of up to $8,000 $8,000 in this year's tax return. wow, is it difficult to figure this out on the tax form? no, it's not quite difficult. in fact, i wanted to say that i'm with one of the free tax sites with united way's free tax help and if you bring it to one of our many sites throughout the bay area you just have to show us your letter. tell your tax preparer or tell the organization that you put your child to daycare and we're able to enter that information and get you a really large credit. let's talk about free tax help from united way bay area. how does that work? who's it for? you said it's all over the bay areahuh, right. so free tax help is a program by united way bay area to give access to free tax filing services to the low-income community throughout the bay area and all you have to do usually there's a lot of demand right now, right? there's a lot of people who need

help right and usually many places need an appointment ahead of time so you can go to united way bear area.org or dial 211 to look for a site near you so i work in the fremont and we have a lot of clients who come to us, but if you're not within our area, there's many sites throughout the bay area and you just have to go to united way bay area.org and look for the free tax site near you. excellent alexander, ho thank you very much from united way bay area now. he and others are going to be here up until 7 o'clock tonight taking your questions. here's how you ask them this year. we can't take. phone calls because of the pandemic so we're doing it through the stations facebook page. so go there. leave your question. it will get answered. if not tonight. we'll make sure we pass it on and get it to somebody else as well reporting live from the station. i'm michael. thank you, michael. all right. well coming up gas prices. we're going to get gas prices the moment, but first want to turn our attention to say india

patel and the weather on yeah quite blustery out there today sandia absolutely and like gas prices dan and alma the winds are going up. all right, let me show you live doppler seven right now. we're gonna talk about what's happening at this hour as we look around the mendocino county coast. we are starting to see some showers beginning to approach the coastline here. it's the colder sector that's about 24 miles away. we'll start to see those showers moving in and about a couple of hours. so in the sierra, it is thunder snow at this hour the low pressure system will be diving southward and as it does we could see more than just showers here. in the mountains, really not a good idea to travel right now, even though it's nice to see all that snow difficult travel winter weather advisory in effect until 1pm tomorrow up to a foot for the peaks snow level down to 2,000 feet in the morning reduced visibility. so that is going to be difficult from our mount tam cam what we're dealing with right now is the windy conditions blustery

conditions remaining with a seven o'clock tonight 35 close to 40 mile an hour winds, especially over. the higher terrain and along the coast as we go into late tonight. it'll still be gusty here right along the coastline and around the bay but not quite as strong as what we exper. just our experiencing right now. tomorrow morning winds ease inland not so much near the coast as we go into tomorrow afternoon. you will definitely see a change in our pattern not as windy temperatures right now in the 40s and the 50s live look for my exploratorium camera, and it's a beautiful view of san francisco strong gusty winds tonight wintry mix tonight through tomorrow morning with a very cold start sunday morning with some frost. they have a freeze watch for lake county for tomorrow morning as they are expecting very cold conditions tonight tomorrow. morning, it's light level one system the winds potential for hail and snow over our higher peaks above 2500 feet nine o'clock tonight. you see those showers moving in hour by hour we go midnight mount hamilton could see some snow and then would go into tomorrow morning and if you have

early plans be prepared for some cold showers, but it's pretty quickly moving on out of here. and so the rest of your saturday afternoon is just fine rainfall totals. some areas will not measure anything. some areas get a couple of hundreds of an to a tenth of an inch so far rainfall totals have very from trace amounts to about 2/10 of an inch in the last 24 hours morning temperatures. it's going to be chilly 30s 40s spotty showers afternoon highs will be in the 50s 60s certainly windy for your saturday and the accuweather seven-day forecast. it's a one for tomorrow morning with that wintry mix windy conditions cold and frosty start sunday morning for parts of the bay area temperatures will come up the sun will be shining. it's going to be spring like with 70s inland. exceeds coside early to middle part of next week. so really overall the pattern is pleasing for everybody this weekend. we get the showers we get some sunshine. how's that sound aunt dan? excellent? yeah. that sounds really nice. good unlike our gas prices. thank you.

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intensified invasion of ukraine sent markets plummeting again today the dow dropped. 79 points the s&p fell 34 points while the nasdaq suffered the

biggest drop 224 points the losses came despite the economy adding a better than expected 678,000 jobs in february inflation has jumped 7.5% in the past year and that's driven by prices driving up prices at the grocery stores. you've no doubt noticed and that the gas pump. i would appears interest rates will be going up to by the end of the month treasury secretary. janet yellen gave a virtual talk at the annual stanford economic summit today. she indicated the federal. i'm sorry. the fed is likely to raise interest rates with a goal not to cause a recession here. 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. now despite stock market volatility yellen says the us economy is on the rebound with robust job growth and consumer spending a weak spot remains supply chain shortages as well. she says gas prices in

california hit a record today. we are the first state to ever to have an average above $5 a gallon and as abc 7 news reporter corina nova explains that number will keep climbing. you can see here in emeryville the shell gas station overnight jumped to 529 for a gallon of regular gas patrick dahan 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.

johan 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 professor of economics at san jose state matthew. holian says despite the price jump it's not time to panic yet. we're used to seeing fluctu. oceans and gas prices we're not talking about such large increases that it's going to bring our economy to a standstill. it will affect some households more than others. but as a whole we're going to come through this and and gas prices can be expected to come back down when the conflict is over. and so that i think is where we should really keep our focus is on that. this is a short-term cost. for a very worthwhile cause of avoiding a large-scale war in europe. and going back to that $5 record. here's some perspective compared to 2008. keep in mind if you were to ingest for inflation that $4.10 record in 2008 would be $5.25 a

gallon today and gasbuddy projects that this rate of gas price increases the average american will spend an extra 100 to 200 dollars a year to fill up. so the big question everyone is wondering how high could gas prices jump experts. i spoke to you today say it's early to tell if we'll hit an average of $6 a gallon live in the abc newsroom. i'm karina, nova. hi michael fitting. how long will it take you to get your tax refund this year kind of depends? around i'll show you how you configure it out 7

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bay area moving forward finding solutions. this is abc 7 news. armor, danville police officer sentenced to six years in prison today for shooting and killing an unarmed mentally ill man the officer claimed he feared the man was going to run him over today. the judge said that didn't mean he deserved to die abc 7 news reporter curry has reaction. remade contra costa county courthouse has andrew hall is sentenced to six years for killing latimer

arboleda. unreasonable and excessive hall shot are 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 are still looking at whether or it is possible to charge. again in this incident in martinez, ryan curry abc 7 news we now know the name of the person shot and killed the marin city on thursday. marin county. sheriff's officials. say 18 year old randy ray ballinger of san anselmo was shot on drake avenue around 4 pm

messier say they have some leads and our reviewing video and photo evidence. they're also asking any possible witnesses to contact the sheriff's office. the shasta county woman accused of faking a kidnapping appeared briefly by video conference in federal court this afternoon. sherry papini was read the charges against her including lying to federal agents and mail fraud. she seemed extremely distraught and her lawyer. mentioned she had not been able to eat much since her arrest due to dietary restrictions and geez penny was reported missing in november of 2016. she was found a few weeks later on thanksgiving day on the side of a yolo county freeway bound emaciated and injured, but pini 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. a moving on now when you go to into a grocery store, the question is always paper or plastic right? well when you go to a tax preparer, it's paper or

electronic seven on your side's michael. finney has been looking into that michael you say that because of the pandemic the difference between those two distinctions never been more stark. it is amazing dan. let me start with this fact. the irs has the same number of employ. today as it had in 1970 and our population went from about 203 million to 331 million. so they same amount of people doing a lot more work than the pandemic had and a lot of these employees have been working on sending out pandemic checks rather than taking care of normal tax activity, and that's why i'm getting a lot of questions like this one. my daughter did my taxes this year. she dated on naturally by the last day of january and so far. i haven't i haven't got anything. i know from from california and normally don't get anything because i own some money, but from the other one, i haven't got anything at all.

and he only says that i had to keep checking and checking and checking but nothing at all. so you want to know when do you get your tax refund? is that right? that is an excellent question when you get your money depend how you filed in how you wanted your money back. this is what the irs is telling me today if you file a paper return and want a paper check, you'll wait four to six weeks if you e-file your return and want a paper check. it'll take about four weeks, but if you e-file your return and what direct deposit you're looking at getting your refund within 21 days. however, the irs does give itself some wiggle room. look at this covid-19 processing delays. the irs says it is behind and your return could take longer. so what is a tax filer to do irs

spokesperson rafael? toledo says try to keep everything electronic paper is our kryptonite and we're not getting the paper very well. so you do in a paperless airless tax return. he's really going to make things easier for you the taxpayer as well as the irs in terms of administration and processing tax return this year. there's your takeaway paper is our kryptonite. file electronically and you aren't guaranteed a fast refund. but it does give you a fighting chance. last year was quite a mess mor r than 10 million americans still don't have their tax refunds from 2020 it could happen again this year. we don't know yet. we're keeping track and we'll report back and let you know how it's going reporting live from san francisco. i'm michael fay. okay, michael. thanks very much great information. and it's always now remember michael and seven on your side answering your tax questions today until seven o'clock tonight. so you have another 25 minutes. you can go to abc 7 news.com or the abc 7 bay area facebook page

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a stanford soccer star is reigniting the discussion around young people and mental health, but perhaps in a more

overarching way than we even realize. yeah, that's really true. abc 7. anchor dion limb spoke with those in the asian american and lgbtq communities today. they say visibility is the key to breaking down stigmas and helping someone who may be suffering. they're saying ligh i'm almost there quality about her that you never felt burden 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 destigmatize that people are reading even help and are suffering those in the lgbtq community says dr. africa have an extra layer of complexity and 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. we're wanting 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 um live their life the way they feel and let their soul to guide them and i say this as a asian-american because of that seems to be very much the thing that we do in our culture. 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 in san francisco dion limb abc 7 news. it's an important message and if you or someone you love is in crisis, you can find an organizations to offer help and hope by going to abc 7 news com

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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. ukraine and call for peace refugees entering poland from ukraine were greeted by music today the international organization for migration says 1.2 million people have now fled the country the pianist says he went to the border crossing to offer refugees some musical relief. moment is that nice a moment of humanity and inhumane moment in time? yeah, very beautiful. right. let's turn our attention to the weather and find out how long it's going to stay this windy dam. yeah meteorologist. sandy patel is here. it really was gusty today as you told us it would be. yeah, absolutely and dan and alma is still blustery right now gusting to 44 at hayward 40 at sfo where they do have an airport weather warning until 10 pm. you will notice oakland 43 miles an hour. so the winds are just funneling through here on a higher peaks like mount diablo 40 mile an

hour winds right now. now hour by hour we go and you will notice that the gusty pattern remains with us 11 pm. it's still gusty although not quite as windy as what we're experiencing now on live doppler 7 watching for a few showers along the mendocino coast still far enough away. it hasn't arrived yet, but it is on its way. so in a matter of a couple of hours this light level one system will begin to spread some showers across the region between eight and 10 pm and there will be some snow over mount hamilton as you will notice early tomorrow morning, certainly. some mountain snow in the tahoe area. it is snowing right now, which is great to see if you have travel plans though might want to hold off temperature is in the afternoon. it's still going to be chilly in the 50s and windy today's high temperature is a good three to eight degrees below average with mid 50s to mid 60s. we're going to keep it on the coolers side of average to start off the first part of your weekend. it's a level one system on our accuweather 7 day forecast wintry mix in the morning windy and then colder air for the morning hours on sunday with

frost but then sunshine milder conditions in the afternoon. we'll keep that warning warming going through the middle of the week with low 70s inland low 60s coside. i'm indian. okay nice sandy. thank you, larry. what's going on? what's the deal? i'll text steve kerr. i i can't figure it out either but the warriors they've lost three straight for the first time this season what's going on here? you want to start talking defense or offense? defense or offense? i have a chance to ♪ dry eye symptoms keep driving you crazy? inflammation in your eye might be to blame. let's kick ken's ache and burn into gear! over the counter eye drops typically work by lubricating your eyes and may provide temporary relief. those drops will probably pass right by me. xiidra works differently, targeting inflammation that can cause dry eye disease. what's that? xiidra? no! it can provide lasting relief. xiidra is the only fda-approved non-steroid eye

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beale good evening. what is wrong with the warriors and can the return of draymond green fix it whenever that happens. it's complicated. the dubs have lost three straight for the first time this season the defense just flat out poor last night in dallas luka donich. he went for 41 points the warriors just couldn't stop him. i mean that's understandable luca. does this to everybody pretty much the problem was the rest of the mavs were also knocking down threes. none of the warriors. defenders could keep their guys in front of them on top of that the maps were double and triple teaming steph curry. he didn't attempt a single shot in the fourth quarter and clay thompson. i mean you ever see him hit the side of the backboard never right and clay himself seemed to be in disbelief after the game. i got i gotta make some shots, man. i can't be. air balling and shooting off the side of the backboard and i got they saw me but i mean every time i step out there i expect to be great. so i'll be better.

it's weird. we're losing a lot of different ways first half was ugly and and put up any resistance and you know, they were pretty comfortable the whole 24 minutes and then you climb back into it on the road. it's really hard to get over the when the team's rolling like that, so in fact that we were in it was this on but no more vapors. one positive note rookie moses moody hit a couple of huge threes down the stretch. including one late to tie up the game. he scored 13 points in the fourth quarter five of five shooting was fearless out there coach curses the number 14 pick out of arkansas. he'll be a regular part of the off rotation and down the stretches well in the regular season moses says he's ready to help. anyway, he can i'm gonna go go with the flow. you never know how it goes. never know what the rest of this what the future holds or how do i will go? so if i hear um when i get the opportunity i step up and do what i can do. otherwise keep figuring out other way to help the team win and to learn and do the me team and i can be a chance to get well tomorrow. we got stuff versus lebron

warriors and lakers tomorrow night. you can watch right here. abc 7 the tip-off is at 5:30 followed by after the game the west coast conference basketball tournament underway right now the university of san francisco dons hoping to use this to lock up a spot in the ncaa tournament dons have a record of 23 and 8 most wins since usf brought the program back in 1985 january buies. a scoring machine is so much fun to watch the usf has not made the ncaa since 1998 they hope a few more wins this weekend. we'll punch their ticket to the dance quick had a really really good year and have put ourselves a really good position not obviously to do well in wcc tournament, but also to make the instabulator, i've just enjoyed seeing a lot of these guys get better and you know to see the progress of our program for the past three years, you know, these guys have really done a good job of growing together, you know, sacrificing some individual, you know stats and accolades for the greater good of the team and i think that's why over the course of 31 games

we've been able to perform like a top 25 team on ken palm because we have really good players and they're unselfish. espn making changes in the booth for monday night football brian griese on the left here is leaving. he will join the 49ers espn is reporting the greasy will be the niners quarterbacks coach greasy played 11 years in the nfl. he was the quarterback in tampa when kyle shanahan now the niners head coach was on the buccaneers staff and this goes along with espn reportedly ready to pay troy aikman 20 million dollars per season. to join the monday night football booth really. wow, 20 million dollars. he's good. i'll give it he's great. i like 20 million dollars good. well his agent would disagree. yeah, totally. also stanford women playing in the pac-12 women's tournament little bit of a brawl a dust-up cameron brink out hitting the face and she threw a ball at the colorado. we'll show you at 11. yeah. okay. we look forward to that.

thanks, larry. all right tonight at 8:00. we will have a special. episode of 2020 putin's wore the battle to save ukraine then at 9 another edition of 2020 the rise and con of elizabeth holmes and do stay with us for abc 7 news at 11. and remember abc 7 news is streaming 24/7 get the abc 7 bay area app and join us whenever you want wherever you are well, finally tonight if you thoughts about what really matters as they say the nature of life is not permanence, but flux, it's really about uncertainty and few of us like that the pandemic particularly in the early days put us all through the ringer in that regard. now the crisis in ukraine has so many people i'm talking with worried and on edge. how long will the fighting last and at what cost? will the conflict escalate to involve nato and us forces president biden says no, but circumstances could change. we just don't know and of course our economy already feeling the effects of this war with

skyrocketing gas and food prices growing volatility in american and world stock markets as well so much uncertainty. is all beyond our control but not beyond our ability to adapt and to make a difference where we can. what really matters is how americans are responding to help you crainians in their time of need with demonstrations of support donations to help refugees and those who relocate here. i always love to hear from you. let me know what you think. follow me on twitter and facebook at dan ashley abc 7. that is going to do it for this edition of abc 7 news. we thank you for joining us tonight. i'm on a date and i'm dan ashley for sandy patel. larry beale all of us here. we appreciate your time. hope you have a nice rest of the evening and we'll see you again for abc 7 news at 11.

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