moving forward finding solutions this is abc 7 news? i am here standing on the shoulders of generations. of americans who never had anything close to this kind of opportunity. supreme court nominee catanji brown jackson was back to face senate judiciary committee members today for historic confirmation hearings. good evening. i'm amidates and i'm dan ashley. thank you for joining us. you're watching abc 7 news at five it is day two of four of those confirmation hearings and members of the senate judiciary committee wasted no time jumping into the tough questions. does roe v wade have the status of being a case? that is a super precedent? well, senator all supreme court cases are precedential.

they're binding and they their principles and their rulings have to be followed. judge jackson also asked about her time as a federal public defender for guantanamo bay prisoners being a public defender. did you consider that rewa thata senator? yes, i did because public service. is very important to me after that answer senator graham walked out of the hearing room saying he wouldn't care if the detainees-old died in prison judge jackson faces two more days of questions democrats. hope to finish the confirmation process by april 11th. a history class at john o'connell high school in san francisco learned today that the supreme court is there to ensure equal justice for all. there was great interest in following the confirmation hearing of the first african-american woman to be nominated abc 7 news senior education reporter lam melendez asks them what they got out of

it. a hundred and eight of the 115 supreme court justices we've had to represent our country have been white men this 10th grade world history class focused on the confirmation hearing of catanji brown jackson realizing that who serves on the supreme court can make a difference in their lives. i think it's really important for teachers and for schools to let students know that hey this implicates you i am committed to serving as an even-handed. supreme court justice if i'm confirmed by this body a point of discussion was can a judge really be impartial. connect especially an adult be like a hundred percent unbiased. no, it's impossible. i don't think you can be in partial 100% because we're humans. we're not robots. so it we're all we're always gonna have an incline to something that's favorite. jackson was asked about her views on abortion race and even religion. do you attend church regularly?

she refused to answer saying she worried about the message that would send to americans watching at home. i don't understand why they need to know what a religion is. it doesn't make sense. we're the court and religion. supposed to be separate and then there was this delicate question regarding justice clarence thomas the second african-american to serve on the supreme court. did you celebrate that as a historic event jackson kept her answer brief so as to not offend those who have claimed sexual harassment like anita hill did against justice thomas. that was 1991. i'm trying to remember where i was at the time. i believe i did. yes, that was never again mentioned during today's 10 plus hours of questioning. in san francisco leanne melendez abc 7 news and don't forget you can watch the confirmation hearings live on our abc 7 bay area 24/7 streaming app tomorrow's coverage begins at 6 am just download the app now on

your roku apple tv fire tv and android tv devices history was made in california today as a commission confirmed justice patricia guerrero as the first latina member of the california supreme court governor newsom nominated justice guerrero last month. the 50 year old is the daughter of mexican immigrants and an imperial valley native. she is a federal prosecutor superior court judge and most recently sat on the fourth district court of appeals. she graduated from uc berkeley and stanford law school. a hayward mother and her boyfriend have been formally charged with the murder of the woman to eight-year-old daughter samantha johnson and dante jackson were charged in merced county with abusing and murdering sofia mason whose body was found in jackson's merced home. this month johnson has been arrested but police are still searching for jackson according to court documents jackson kept sophia in a shed outside the house and she was subjected to physical and sexual abuse. oakland city leaders say tonight that they are fully committed to

bringing back an anti-crime program that has been credited with cutting violent crime once before mayor libby shaft joined her police chief and clergy to announce the city's ceasefire unit. it will be fully staffed and sent back out onto the streets. this program takes aim at group and gang violent crime. officials say the ceasefire unit cut crime in oakland a decade ago and mayor schaffolds announced today. she will support a call to drop no bail court policies. we are now joining with da o'malley to ask the courts to return most of those bailed policies back to pre-covid policies. we believe that also will have a profound effect on repeat offense on recidivism and also on the cycles of ret. nation that ceasefire was designed to interrupt. the ceasefire program not only includes or involves police, but community groups and clergy 26 officers are being assigned to

the ceasefire program with that number going up as police cadets graduate the academy. in the south bay the trial of former theranos president sunnybalwani got underway with opening statements and the first witness testimony today abc 7 news reporter. zach fuentes was there and has the details. it was a return to this san jose federal courthouse for sonny bonwani after last week's delay cameras, and audio are not allowed inside bhawani spacing the same charges as homes. they're being tried separately because homes plan to testify that bawani subjected her to mental and physical abuse today bhawani's attorneys worked hard to distance him from homes saying that he did not control the company or mr. bellwani what you saw was him saying, there are no existed before i ever got there and those relationship. so were formed before i became part of this and it continued mm we.i left he faces couirsyo otuiecutor rer lch s o that thirabo

and cheating to obtain property. he says that both homes and bhawani worked to defraud patients and investors bhawani's attorney spent the first portion of their opening statements reiterating that it was elizabeth holmes not bawani who started and built theranos. in 2003 bawani joined in 2009. that's the distancing that needs to go on here. give me a fresh. look. don't convict based on what you heard about elizabeth holmes and that's really important to the defense case. give us a fresh start his attorneys say he was an entrepreneur not a scientist and truly believed in what the company was doing. they say he invested millions of his own dollars and never sold any of the shares he had left attorneys say he relied on information that came from theranos scientists, and that's what he relayed to investors the first witnessed the court heard from today was former lab associate erica chung. she worked for theranos between 2013 and 2014. she says she quit because she was uncomfortable with the fact that they were testing on

patients with technology. she felt wasn't reliable. she was questioned that link about what the theranos technology was able to do court ended today in the middle of her testimony, which is set to start back up tomorrow morning at 9:00. san jose zach fuentes abc 7 news someone has been taken into custody in connection with two fires that broke out along highway 4 near willow pass road in bay point. they burned three and a half acres this afternoon contra costa county fire officials say these were the first significant fires of the season and an indicator of dangerous conditions. this comes as we are seeing unseasonably warm temperatures across the bay area. this is a live look from our camera in the east bay hills. looking towards san pablo reservoir, and it's been beautiful like this all across the region today boy, it sure has that we want to give you the latest on church and whether we i'm a broken record, yeah, so let's get right to abc 7 news meteorologist sandy patel sandia. yeah, dan anama felt like summer out here and definitely some records here are the preliminary numbers so you can see the sun is shining as we look towards

the golden gate bridge sfo breaking its record set back in 2008-82 so far redwood city 83, oakland downtown 85 so far san jose breaking the previous record of 83 coming in at 84 and it looks like santa rosa the co-op site. 89 previous record was set back in 1926. that's just coming in. look how warm it is. i mean you have 70s and 80s across most parts of the bay area as you take a look at the 24-hour temperature change. yeah, 16 degrees warmer compared to yesterday and mountain view 10 degrees warmer in napa and up 12 in san francisco. i'll be back to let you know if this warmth is sticking around or some of you will cool off ama. all right. thank you, sandy and you can check live real-time temperatures. forecast on demand and learn more about bay area weather anytime in the weather on demand section of the abc 7 bay area streaming tv app, you can download it now for your roku apple tv amazon fire and android tv right coming up here.

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ukraine where there are signs that ukrainian troops are gaining ground as they go on the offensive ukrainian government says it has retaken a strategically important town outside the capital of keeve. this comes as the pentagon claims that the russian military has lost more than 10 percent of its combat forces russian forces continue their assault on civilian targets a missile strike on a mall and kiev killed eight people the deadliest attack in the capital since the war began the now reports more than 10 million have been forced from their homes a quarter of the ukrainian population. tonight the contra costa republican party is raising money to buy body armor for ukrainians at a fundraiser.

they're hosting in pleasant hill as abc 7 news reporter leslie. brinkley tells us it's all in an effort to help keep ordinary citizens protected. civilians are and explosions throughout ukraine as the war grinds on and a bay area non-profit is found a way to help them anyone who's going to be in the battle zones, which frankly is the entire country needs the protective gear to keep doing what they're doing the ukrainian american coordinating council is already made two successful runs getting body armor into ukraine now the contra costa republican party is hosting a dinner to fund. delivery we only sold tickets for seven days and we got 130 people attending a lot sponsored and vip tickets. we raised about 26,000 by the government is the critically in critical important. it's not the weapons. but it's the defensive stuff which which allows them to survive they are

shot or is there yet no targeted by some mortar or something. and the body armor which is which is being purchased here and sent to ukraine is level 4. so it's a military grade body armor the ukrainian council general also said the california national guard and law enforcement agencies are scrambling to collect used and expired body armor that they too can ship overseas, but the military-grade armor requires a special license to export we will purchase the military-grade gear and equipment here in the us and then we have a logistics chain that will send it to we'll ship it outside of ukraine ukraine and then we have groups. down who will carry it into the border and into the major cities where the equipment is most needed in the east bay. i'm leslie brinkley abc 7 news. alright still ahead here. just a beautiful day to get outside and enjoy the sunshine, but it comes with a price as we know what these warm

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was a gorgeous day across the bay area today with warm weather even a few records broken, but we also know it comes at a price abc 7 news report reporter dustin dorsey has more on what this could mean for increased fire danger and overall drought conditions. march in the bay area feels more like a taste of summer with es i the 70s and 80s and record highs falling across the region it made for a perfect day to go. enjoy the sunshine the human body likes likes warm sunny skies, and this is one of the days we've had you know this week. it's been nice. so, it's great. i mean the rain is not as desirable as the sunshine. that's for sure. well don't tell that to anyone following the drought and climate closely while it's true. it feels good to soak in some vitamin. sjsu professor craig clement says these record temperatures are actually not good for our environment any of these heat waves that we have so early in

spring helps dry out the fuel so it can actually cause our fire danger to increase earlier than we typically would see in the late spring early summer. we have been enjoying these beautiful green hill sides in the area, but more days like today could turn that green to brown. in fact clement says plants are drying. out or curing about a month sooner than they did last year grass fires normally start in june, but he says this fuel may be ready to catch fire as early as may most of the big fires actually do start in graph grassfields burn very hot very easily and then they can carry up intohehr into the forest so we could actually potentially see more fires because of our early curing of the grasses. so what's the magic cure to this curing well reign, of course, it has been a historically winner the clement said some late spring rain would go a long way because if not, the outlook is looking pretty grim in terms of what we should expect for next

season given the fact that we're in the severe drought our grass is already curing this early in the season. our fuel moistures are below normal across the northern california. we could actually probably say that we're gonna have a pretty busy june in terms of fires so days like these are nice but here's hoping for some rain rain in san jose dustin dorsey abc 7 news hoping for rain and enjoying the sunshine while we have it may as well. there's nothing else. you might as well. enjoy night. into monday dan and i want to show you a live picture from san jose where they are enjoying nothing, but blue skies right now check out those temperatures 84 in santa rosa still in the 80s napa vacaville close to 90 degrees. i mean some of these temperatures are 15 to 25 above average concord 85 liver. 82 degrees seeing the sun in downtown san francisco from our sutro tower camera, and those temperatures lows 70s from san

francisco to oakland's 83 degrees in san jose and half moon bay is the only spot where it's cooling off nicely a little bit of fog starting to approach. here's a look at live doppler 7 and no rain yet, but that's going to be changing from our golden gate bridge camera. we do have a little bit of a breeze records are possible again tomorrow you we had several as you know morning fog near the coast and cooler there. we are looking at a chance of rain late sunday. going into monday overnight tonight. there will be some fog along the coastline going into your morning commute tomorrow right around the bay shoreline as well and then higher clouds will be moving in throughout the day tomorrow. so you might notice this especially if you live along the coastline watch out for that fog in the morning numbers will range from the 40s to the 50s. so not terribly cold as we head into the afternoon and the south bay it's going to be warm once again 83 in san jose 84 morgan hill 79 in sunnyvale 84 in shadows on the peninsula 77 redwood city 66 in pacifica downtown san francisco 70 degrees 67 in daly city. there will be a mix of sun and

high clouds in the north bay 80 in san rafael mid 80s, calistoga santa rosa heading into the east bay 72 oakland 74 newark inland areas. you're going to be well above average once again 83 in walnut creek 84 in livermore could see some more records for your wednesday. we're going to fast forward to the weekend. it's oscar sunday and time to be watching the oscars right here on abc 7 as rain begins to move in this model wants to bring it in late sunday night going into monday. certainly. we'll see the chance of a rain snow mix in the sierra as we go into monday night. they're still looking at some you're still looking at some wet weather here locally. now, this is one of the wetter models what we're looking at is anywhere from about a tenth or 1100 of an inch in fairfield to just under a half an inch along the coast and half moon bay, but at this point this late season will take any rain. can get accuweather seven-day forecast records possible again tomorrow cooler weather for your thursday in all areas. not just the coast and notice those temperatures are in the

70s inland 50 60s coast side, oscar sunday. at night level one storm going into monday and it looks like it's going to be wet and breezy then alma and dan. all right. thank you so much, sandia. well, today's some disney employees walk off the job to protest florida's don't say gay bill and disney's response to it. the bill bans classroom discussion about sexual orientation and gender identity and allows parents to sue school districts if they feel teachers violate the vague standards disney ceo bob chapick has apologized for the company these companies initial silence and for not being a stronger ally on instagram today disney posted this it opposes any legis. that infringes on basic human rights and on abc 7's. midday live our own abc 7 news. anchor regia key spoke about the bill and support for those who walked out. think what i see today is an opportunity. it's an opportunity for disney quite frankly to say gay.

not just including us but celebrating us that goes for the person who just produced the first half hour of this newscast. hello baraka, it goes for the person who's helping to make the mandalorian on disney plus. hello, deb, my friend adam, it goes to the people in emeryville who are bringing films like luca from emeryville's campus to your home. hello to my friend jesus. we have always been supportive of this company and when we found out that we are being attacked and make no mistake. this legislation in florida and elsewhere around the country. that's an attack on our own family here at disney and when we didn't feel like the company was adequately supporting us and protecting us from that attack. we were shocked. this is the reaction to that shock and this is a chance for disney to do better and i believe through the hard work of lgbtq people at this company. we are seeing the company do better, but there's a difference between words which is a wish

and action and we don't just want to wish something we want to be real boys and girls and non-binary people not puppets. there are no strings attached here. we want the full support. we want to be like everyone else at this company who feels protected and i believe that we are going to do that because let's face it. we are the magic. great comments from reggie today. disney is a parent company of abc 7 other divisions also owned by disney like hulu espn fx walt disney world and disney plus also expressed support for our lgbtq plus colleagues and all of them. represent this comp

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that is a good tip. well, finally tonight some much-needed federal funding is heading to the bay area to support the health of our oceans today north may congressman jared huffman announced $500,000 in funding to help further the work done at the marine mammal center. the world's largest marine hospital the money will help provide medical and rehabilitative care as well as protect and promote marine biodiversity and marine animal we desperately need to continue. into broaden this important work because our marine mammals are critical indicator species for for the health of our oceans. now another two million dollars will help restore the kelp forests disappearing off the farallon islands and the north coast since 2014 90% of kelp forests to northern california have disappeared 90% all right that is going to do it for us for now. thank you so much for joining us world news tonight with david muir is next. i'm on a date and i'm dan ashley for cindya patel all of us here. we appreciate your time go see

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tonight, breaking news as we come on the air. the deadly tornado outbreak as we begin tonight. and the heated supreme court hearings on capitol hill. first, the breaking headline. tornado watches and warnings up at this hour across several states. at least 40 reported tornadoes now. touching down in texas, oklahoma, mississippi. a confirmed ef-3 in jacksboro, texas. winds up to 150 miles per hour. dozens of homes damaged or destroyed. atornado tossing a truck. >> get inside! get inside! >> a twister tearing across a walmart parking lot. people racing to get inside. the system now headed east to florida, the carolinas, up into the ohio valley tonight and tomorrow. ginger zee standing by live in the storm zone timing this out. the other major news this tuesday night, the heated questioning on capitol hill.