18th. has this news broke over the last few hours we use the abc 7 news app. send out a push alert download the app for your phone now so that you'll be the first to know when news breaks. good evening. thank you for joining us. i'm on a date and i'm dan ashley. keep in mind all of this unfolded because smith slapped rock following a joke about smith's wife. jada now a long time friend of chris rock tells abc news that rock didn't know about jada's condition alopecia which causes hair loss. for the first time we're hearing from the lead producer of the oscars about what happened during sunday's show. he's talking only to abc about the behind the scenes chaos abc news reporter morgan norwood has the story. oscar's 2022 producer will packer is opening up about what happened behind the scenes on hollywood's biggest night after actor will smith slapped comedian chris rock on stage. he sat down for an exclusive interview with abc's tj holmes. i've never felt so immediately

devastated like i did at that moment packer who watched from behind the scenes thought it was a bit but then rock confirmed that he'd been slapped by smith the lapd showed up ready to take will smith. city they were saying this is battery. we will go get him. we are prepared. we're prepared to get him right now. you can press charges we can arrest them as they were talking chris was he was being very dismissive of those options. the academy says the -- will smith to leave in which he refused he go on to accept the for best actor for his performance in king richard a speech will packer was hoping would have included an apology to chris rock. i think we were hoping that he would make it better. that he would stand on that stage and say what just happened minutes ago? was absolutely and completely wrong. chris rock, i'm so sorry.

please forgive me will smith later apologizing on instagram. i would like to publicly apologize to you chris. i was out of line and i was wrong. i am embarrassed and my actions were not indicative of the man. i want to be and friday night will smith announcing he's resigning for membership in the academy. he said he'll accept any additional consequences the board deems appropriate smith reached out to me the next morning and said any apologized and said you know this. this should have been a gigantic moment for you and we'll packer also freezing chris rock for maintaining his composure during the show morgan norwood abc news, los angeles. you can still see plenty of oscars coverage on demand through the abc 7 bay area connected tv app. it's available for apple tv android tv, amazon fire tv and roku. all right, we'll turn now to our work to build a better bay. area renters can breathe a little easier since california extended the eviction protection

program for another three months abc 7 news reporter loose pena followed up with a mother of six who says loose it is welcome relief. that's right dan for the next three months californians who applied for the rent relief program will be protected from eviction, but based on the state's backlog. it will take california more than three months to respond to. every applicant to be specific it could take over nine months for many people to see any money. two days ago. we met camilla mueller protesting for the state to extend the rent relief program. we followed up with her today 24 hours after a b-2179 passed protecting tenants from eviction for the next 90 days. that's another stopwatch as to how long are we gonna be stable is what it is as we walked inside her home. she showed us her biggest accomplishment. i actually was pregnant i had a child while i was getting my degree and working her dining room turned into a child. care business this house is also where her six kids homeschool

and ultimately their home. there are two months behind in rent the millers are one of over 350,000 californians who applied for the housing is key program and are still waiting for the state to pay their landlords. does it hurt you that 15 year old is thinking about ways to help contribute. yeah, it hurts it crashes. yeah to know that he feels like that. yeah. their entire family was once homeless six years ago. she's trying to get more kids to join her child care and her husband is working two jobs. and your fear. is that everything that you're teaching? your kids means nothing we can't even keep a on the other hand landlords are also struggling. the state is processing. about 9,000 applications a week at this rate. it will take about nine months for the state to process the backlog alone and many are on the verge of losing their properties.

there isn't enough time to process the applications. and therefore there would be another extension. as camila she's trying to keep it together for her kids. so you're smiling, but i see a lot of pain behind that smile. yeah, it's a mom thing. and we have a gofundme on our website to help camilla and her family while they wait on the state's aid now another aspect that is concerning landlords. is that as of last week over 200,000 californians were still waiting for their applications to be reviewed which means that there will be applicants who won't get any money from the states. so there's a possibility that many property owners won't get paid at all in the newsroom lose peña abc 7 news see luce. thank you very much in the north bay face mask. required again at one marin county elementary school following a spike in covid-19 cases nearly two dozen students and staff have tested positive abc 7 news reporter cornell bernard shows how the school is

responding. at these serving kid every student and every staff member gets one of these principal mike taylor shows us the covid rapid test being passed out at coleman elementary school in san rafael after a spike in new cases. not very surprised. i'm surprised that it all happened at once. it was very challenging to see kids not feeling well teachers not feeling well. taylor says in the past week 15 students and six staff members have tested positive for covid those infected are staying home until they are the and can provide a negative test. so yeah, definitely didn't want to close the school not going back to zoom taylor spoke to us outside the school where masks are optional but inside masks are now required for students and staff. it comes less than a month after marin county said it was saved to unmask. i think the school acted really responsibly parent and levinson says for now her son in first grade is staying healthy.

he has not had covid we've managed to a covid free so far but at some point we expect we'll probably get it an email from principal taylor was sent to parents this week saying in part. i want to emphasize that this is not a time for alarm but for us to implement the recommended public health strategies to respond to an uptick in cases and decrease risk of transmission covid rates remained low at other schools in the county a far cry from january when nearly 90 students were out. with covid in one school district alone spring break is next week, but when students return they'll have to keep wearing. ask here at school through april 15th as a precaution meantime this school reviewing protocol all too familiar to keep its campus safe lots of hand sanitizer going on. we've got hepa filters and all of our rooms still windows open. been in san rafael cornell bernard abc 7 news today san francisco city leaders and

transit leaders celebrated the completion and grand opening of the bus rapid transit system on van ness avenue this map shows you the city's first brt system it stretches from lombard to mission streets. the system has red bus only lanes upgraded pedestrian crosswalks and improved underground water infrastructure. the goal is to make travel by bus safer and faster while easing traffic congestion sky 7 was above van s avenue to give us a look at those new bus lanes. this is going to be a meaningful change. reducing the travel time by 30% making public transportation more attracted to people. the project took nearly two decades to complete it is significantly over budget and behind schedule. owners and residents say the construction process made things difficult, but they are hoping that the improvements make things a little easier. l train riders got a very nice

surprise while paying their fair today the transit agency is cutting fares in half for the entire month of april. not an april fool's joke. either caltrain says it's to thank writers for their patience during the electrification project. it's also too entice commuters, of course to get back on caltrains as more people start heading back to the office and good news for road commuters gas prices are starting to drop just by pennies, but at least they're dropping san was down to 592 per gallon. that's according to triple a. it's 584 in oakland 583 in san jose. it's been days since bay area gas prices set records. santa clara county is taking action to try to prevent opioid deaths today leaders outline the work a newly formed task force has been doing to combat the crisis which led to 106 fentanyl related deaths last year. the group includes parents like yon-blum his son linus star wrestler in high school died a month before his 18th birthday after taking a percocet laced

with fentanyl the for his death. we had actually placed him at a rehab he got discharged in early july and and when he looked very healthy and happy unfortunately, he relapsed. blonde says being part of the task force allows him and his wife to channel their grief into something productive this month. the county will launch a public service and social media campaign to get the word out about fentanyl laced drugs. we have an update on a cold case that is haunted san francisco police for six years. it involves 32 year old nicole fitz who was found dead in a park in 2016 her two year old daughter still missing abc 7 news reporter lamb. melendez says police have new developments in the case. tonight a vigil for nicole fitz and her daughter ariana relatives believe the 32 year old mother came to mclaren park on april 1st 2016 to meet a person known to her police say most likely her child's babysitter. it's here where her body was discovered a week later in a

shallow grave her sister contessa fitz remembers what she was made of the biggest thing. i remember about my sister is is how much love she had how much she loves she had for? pretty much anyone she met san francisco police announced the department was increasing the reward money to $250,000 for anyone with information on nicole's murder and the whereabouts of ariana police and the fbi say progress has been made in the investigation but no one has been arrested as we continue to collect information analyze forensic evidence. and develop new leads. we together with the fbi will be reaching out to people again in the coming weeks and months according to the investigation. beato was in the care of a babysitter and her husband when she disappeared they and another woman believed to be involved have not fully cooperated with police a rihanna was two and a half at the time.

she's now eight. this is what she may look like. thanks to an age progression photo you receive success stories where age progression photos have led to the recoveries. sometimes by that missing child themselves. horseman has never determined whether or not ariana is alive today police said we have to believe that she is that's why that age progression photo is so crucial billboards with that photo will now go up in california and nevada the people who baby set ariana have moved to las vegas so putting that billboard up in nevada was done strategically. that's just the biggest thing that we can do for for ariana. for our family and for nikki is to find ariana and bring her home as soon as possible. in san francisco leanne melendez abc 7 news a lot more coming here. the edd is trying to crack down on fraud, but it's left thousands of truly disabled folks locked out of their

benefits. they came to seven on your side and michael finley for help. today's temperatures were averaged even a little bit warmer than average that will continue through the weekend, but the risk of heat illness it climbs next week with near record high temperatures. i'll have

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snow depth of two and a half inches. and a snow water content of one inch the statewide snow pack is just 38% of average and just 4% of the total. we usually see on april 1st this survey annually on this day by the california department of water resources is seen as the most important that is typically when our snowpack is at its peak. in terms of snow water content. unfortunately the northern sierra nevada experience its peak snowpack in mid-january. this snowpack sets the stage for how our water outlook will be for the rest of the year. and with these numbers showing the driest past three months and over 100 years. it's looking like a dry year ahead. some may say this is a wake-up call i disagree. the alarm has already gone off. this has a big impact on our water supply here in santa clara county santa. valley water districts matt keller says we rely on more than half of our water from outside of our county including the snowpack. so heading into the warmer

months it comes back to the community doing its part the actions that they need to take is really reduce their outdoor watering. that's the biggest use of water here in santa clara county about half of the water use in the county is outdoors and even more concerning is that people have actually been using more water during this dry stretch of winter moving forward. everything is on the table really for our board to evaluate. aside, you know, what steps need to be taken to protect our water supply here in santa clara county that includes increased water rates tying it back to the snowpack with less water in the state. it will cost more to purchase meaning if you don't conserve now, you will literally pay for it later. the reality is if you use less water you're going to pay less on your water bill if you use more water, you're gonna pay more on your water bill the time is now to take steps because we're looking at more dry conditions going forward in the south bay destin dorsey abc 7 news. yeah, and it's gonna get hot around here. actually, dan. yeah really is a surprisingly hot actually mike right it is

going to be near record warmth as we head into next week the latter parts of next week and you know drier the ground is the easier it is to heat up and then that heats the air and that's what we're dealing with during this drought. we're also seen temperatures that are average around the bay 63 today and san francisco and also in oakland to above average and places like san jose 76 concord and livermore 77, santa rosa 74 and napa 69 now the coast in san francisco kept pretty close to bay be in oakland because of those breezes and those will back off a little bit as we head into the afternoon hours. all right, let's talk about temperatures. see look at that san francisco 56 right now half moon bay 54 barely 60 in oakland, but mountain view, san jose and santa clara in the upper 60s that haze out there and the little bit there's that some of that fog that's gonna develop along the coast as we head into the overnight hours temperatures in the upper 60s and santa rosa petaluma, napa and look at these low to mid 70s fairfield conquered and livermore. so the air quality it is moderate to good depending on where you are and that's healthy

if you're heading out this evening. all right, there's a beautiful shot from sutro and you can see a bouncing around with those high clouds and sunshine all weekend a chance of sprinkles in the north bay for monday are coolest day and then we'll bounce back with that near record warmth the next week. how about if you're just sitting on the couch or kind of like the sea lions are doing just kind of hanging out or if you're going out dining we've got temperatures. that'll be pretty comfortable through seven o'clock. away from the coast then all of us fall into the 50s and definitely want to have a heater around by nine or ten o'clock our destination tonight low to mid-40s inland mid-upper 40s around the bay and out to the coast of those increasing high clouds in fog along the peninsula coast. the high clouds are due to this cold front now the high pressure that brought us such a warm day today will deflect any of that cold air away from us in any moisture. so tomorrow we're looking and feeling almost like we did today. it's just we'll have those high-class take away some sunshine so murky sunshine and mainly low to mid 70s in the south bay. same thing for the peninsula to get to millbra 868 got some low to mid 60s along the coast until you get right there 59 in the sunset and look at these

mid-duppers. these in downtown south san francisco sausalito mid 60s north bay coast, how about mid-dupper seventies in your valleys and 70s a wealth of them loaded with 70s for the east bay a little bit warmer in the valley 76 to about 80 degrees. let me show you what's coming in monday. here's our cold front to the north and you can see as we head towards monday morning just dipping down in the lake mendocino in the northern part of the sonoma county a few chances of sprinkles and then watch the high pressure split and take over now the only the eastern pacific but also the western us. and that's why we're going to warm so significantly temperatures that will be in the 60s and 70s around the bay to 80s inland wednesday our warmest day when we could set potential records 70s and 80s coast bay even some 90s inland. all right, let's take a look at the weekend a little bit cooler with that seabreeze coming in sunday about four to six degrees cooler and there you go mainly 50s and 60s with cloud cover and a strong robust on shore breeze the other retract our temperatures a little bit. but then once stops high pressure takes over look.

the sunshine at 70s 80s and even 90s wednesday thursday and possibly even friday so a nice sunny forecast there, but we do have heavy hearts and broken hearts here in the weather center. i want to turn over to dan to about that. yeah, we sure do mike. we are sad to report that a long time member of our abc 7 family has passed away joel bartlett died last night at his home in santa rosa surrounded by family and the animals that he so dearly loved he joined the air force in the 1960s where he became a meteorologist. he went on to become a very familiar face in the bay area where he brought us the weather for 31 years 17 of those at kgo wednesday was joel bartlett day in san francisco after retiring in 6 joel dedicated his time to helping charities in the north bay. he was truly the nicest man. you could ever meet we worked with him for so many years and just wonderful guy joel bartlett was 81 years old. we'll be back.

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retired microbiologist george miller has been anxiously waiting for this a gold mine of census data from april 1950. there's a page of census data from my hometown in 1950 and i'm going to look through it and see how many of those people i know. he took 140,000 census takers or enumerators to contact more than 150 million people. they'll cover miles of city streets from new york to san francisco they asked about income occupation education and number of children. the answers have been sealed for 72 years by law based on average lifespan you get the sat their econom. madness how they worked and who they worked with possibly who their neighbors were the 1950s census data also gives us a look at the first wave of baby boomers and their parents after world war two miller's parents divorced in the late 1940s.

so he hopes to learn where his father was living in 1950. the original forms were microfilms and then optical character readers were used to digitize the records the first census where a computer was used to tabulate the people actually typed keep punched cards, and then those cards were entered into a univac computer whether you're a seasoned pro. research like this as george is or if you're an amateur, there could be a lot of data on there that could lead to some surprises april haberstad hopes the data will shed light about a family rift. they were a family of nine children, so i'm kind of wondering what the what that was about and where all they ended up, so i'm sure that there will be some things that were will be revealed the newly posted data will yield answers both for curiosity seekers and for serious researchers the park david louie abc 7 news we are embarking on the holiest month of the year for muslims ramadan

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better bay area moving forward finding solutions. this is abc 7 news. we've reported on the massive freeze of disability benefits as the edd tries to weed out fraudulent claims the edd suspended 345,000 accounts saying most are fraudulent but left thousands of truly disabled folks locked out of their benefits many came to seven on your side's michael finney. he's here with a san jose man struggle. the edd isn't saying how many legitimate claims are still frozen but says thousands of claims. they're still under review. so now many disabled folks are running out of money. they're standing in line desperate illness. hoping to get their benefits. i'm in remission, but it's incurable. so at bill grayson was already fighting a rare cancer and heart disease in on top of it all he

took a bad fall and i severely broke my back. oh, yeah, it's been one thing after another and then the edd it was the last thing he needed through the fog of the illness bill notice that edd had cut off his disability payments with no warning why why isn't a payment come through and there was just nothing there bill had no idea the edd. frozen his claim along with 345,000 others as it tries to stop a huge disability scan. they could have easily sent a message. hey, we need to prove your id, but they didn't they didn't tell me anything. i had no idea. thank you for calling the employment development department. i had it like on speed dial hitting all the buttons and he said online messages, but no reply. i didn't have any other option. i mean i couldn't reach them on. phone and show in spite of his pain bill went down to the disability insurance office in san jose. it took a little bit of suffering. i i'm not taking any pain

medication when i'm driving. so i just had to deal with it. i wore my brace but instead of quick answers he found this a long line wrapped around the block of others who had also lost their benefits the weight up to four hours. i can't stand up for four hours in a row. i didn't wait in line. i just went right to the front still ask for the he needed to prove he's really disabled and they wouldn't give me one. they told me i had to come back and wait in line. i said i can't i have to be in bed. i shouldn't even be out here right now. they said well, you got a wait line like everybody else. everybody hears disabled. that's what they said too bad deal with it bill new he'd need help to stand in line. maybe my wife could hold my spot for me while i sat in car, but she would have to take time from work yet. it seemed wrong to make the disabled wait in long lines. this is something that people really need. it's only for people who are disabled and yet they make you come into the office to deal with it. there's people like me who can't go down to the office easily or

chance at all. everything hurts every muscle in your body hurts like dale phillips of malaya dale went to a disability office three times in spite of severe pain from lupus and still couldn't get his benefits. i feel like i'm not gonna get the money amanda moroian waited at the disability office with her newborn but couldn't get her benefits either. where's my money? you know, this is my money. i paid into the system bill was about to go with his wife to wait in that line, but then thank goodness seven on your side helped me and he contacted us and we asked edd why he can't get the right forms as folks person said in part every climate associated with a suspended claim was sent notices with if a construction set apply to them and if someone says have not received that notice they are encouraged to contact edd by a sdi online or the call center. of course bill tried all that so we got help from bill state senator dave cortez his office

contacted edd and obtained the simple form bill needed they asked for my name my claim number my social i did it in 10 minutes within days. he got his benefits back. i don't have to worry about having food paying my mortgage anymore. very very awesome. thank goodness. now the edd did not tell us how many claims are still being verified but says a few thousand are still waiting review as for others in this report. we help them all get their benefits too. now if you need help, let me know go to abc7 news.com 57 on your side. we want to hear about both your triumphs and your frustrations. we are living your frustrations here not like you are we not getting that pain, but we're awfully frustrated too. yeah. i know you've give us to heart certainly for a lot of people. thanks. michael cheer. the bay area's muslim community is preparing. for the start of the holy month of ramadan this march the first ramadan with east covid protection since the pandemic began abc 7 news race and social justice.

porter julian glover takes us to the lighthouse mosque in north oakland where they're preparing to welcome waves of worshipers. inside the lighthouse mosque in north oakland. there's a tangible excitement. what i like about ramadan as soon as it comes, i'm very happy. it's like my best friend coming to visit me. there's a time where you see everybody. that's probably muslim in the bay area ramadan is the holiest month of the year for the bay area's $250,000 strong muslim community this year. it'll mark not only a period of reflection but reunion the first ramadan with mask and capacity orders lifted the march of 2020. it was like one month out or before ramadan so our ramadan plan got scrapped that year, but this ramadan i feel like we might be back to full capacity. so i'm looking forward to that a month that muslims around the world. look forward to starting each year with exciting of the crescent moon and if you find the moon that means it's like

muhammadan and the same thing happens at the end if you find the moon you fast one more day if you don't see it, you don't have the fast anymore muslims will fast from don until dusk each day during ramadan and break their fast each night with iftar meals. the lighthouse mosque is three break fast meals for the community on april 8th 20th in 27th, renting out humanist hall in uptown to accommodate larger crowds. i liked the seclusion that we found in stay at home. and the social distancing, but i'm looking forward to you know, just the community being able to come together and made his ramadan be our best ramadan julian glover abc 7 news. happy ramadan. well, we are all familiar with california's drought, but it's not just our state the whole west coast is affected in nasa is helping give us an idea of the big picture and speaking of big picture. look at the new clues of where

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large out-of-state corporations have set their sights on california. they've written a ballot proposal to allow online sports betting. they tell us it will fund programs for the homeless, but read the fine print. 90% of the profits go to out-of-state corporations, leaving almost nothing for the homeless. no real jobs are created here. but the promise between our state and our sovereign tribes would be broken forever. these out-of-state corporations don't care about california. but we do. stand with us.

start of spring san francisco restaurant week 160 restaurants are participating offering fixed menus for set price restaurants struggle to survive during the pandemic and hopefully some event convinces people to dine out if they haven't already but we want to be hopeful we we saw the, you know, san francisco's really promoting the bloom sf and the coming back to work and what's cool is many of our restaurants have opted in for super affordable lunches. we've got a $10 fifteen dollar. i was just checking 25 and 30 dollar price point but there's a lot of really good two options for lunch. spring sf restaurant week runs through april 10th next sunday and alameda restaurant. week is already underway. it ends this sunday. very good. all right. we told you earlier in the newscast about the results of california's latest snowpack

survey. yes abc 7 news meteorologist mike miko has a look at the bigger picture for us mike. yeah, the climate implications are affecting areas that are critical to water supplies in a number of states. while snowpack measurements are sending a sobering message to california a new study is painting a broader and perhaps even more urgent picture kaitlin weber is a researcher with the weather nonprofit climate central. she helped analyze data about the ongoing drought in the western united states and the effect. it's having on snowpack reservoir and groundwater levels across most of the west we're seeing aquifers are really depleted. and they're very dried up and we haven't had them on precipitation to really recharge those aquifers. so the conditions are really dired. she says the driest of those readings show up as a why splattering of red stretching from the colorado river basin through arizona and california and into the northwest, but just as concerning is the evidence showing the acceleration at which the snowpacks are melting.

you notice that snowpack peak snowpack is coming a lot earlier in the year, which means that it's seen -- melting sooner in the year meaning it's going to be harder to stretch that water supply out to the end of the full dry season the data and the climate central report comes from a nasa satellite project known as grace which calculates moisture levels over a broad area by measuring surface gravity and we can do things like look at the amount of water stored in the sierra nevada's or you in aquifers around the world. look at how they've been changing over time. they're ups and downs and snowpack contributing to more than half the water supply in the western us they say pressure on water systems shared by multiple states is likely to increase dramatically during summer months. so we are going to have less of it when we get to the end of the dry season when we really need it the most so definitely happening in all throughout the colorado river basin well as this sierra's and moving forward we may soon have an even more

detailed understanding of our water situation. nasa is conducting satellite research that will ultimately measure flows of water through rivers and tributaries providing the look at their health as well as the drought impact. now we had the snow survey today and the amount of snow in march did not make up for the amount of melting of that snowpack. so we went negative in march. in fact, here's a look at the total capacity last week to this week of our reservoirs, and they should be rising exponentially. steady to barely rising 1% in oroville and don pedro that is going to continue. if not over the next couple weeks go up, but then it's gonna go right back down because of all the usage. we're going to have in the evaporation. we have a chance of some sprinkles monday across the north bay. here's a look look at future radar and you can see it. really doesn't amount to much in fact as i show you the rainfall estimates. they don't even make it down to places like clear lake and cloverdale. so it's going to stay well to the north and that's going to

open us to this high temperatures that could be near records for places like oakland santa rosa in livermore. we had a stretch of about five days in 1989 of near to record heat. this stretch will be three days. it'll be wednesday thursday and friday. i want to go back to today wasn't today great in. they was a very special day for one of our own right here at abc 7. meteorologist drew tuma got married today. oh, yay. these are the pictures of the sarah san francisco city hall where drew and is now husband joey tied the knots. look at how happy they are. we are so excited for congratulations. yeah. congratulations, joey drew. awesome that's great. they do look so happy. all right onto sports. yeah more happy news larry. promising prompt trending promising trending in the right direction seth seth seth curry is not playing for them. steph curry is he was at practice with the warriors today

without his walking boots. so promising any chance he returns before the end of the

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no walking boot. that is a great sign. he's got the sneakers on but he's not been cleared for encore drills yet. that should begin. with the warriors say they're going to re-evaluate staff on april 11th. that's the day after the season ends. the dubs had hoped that steph might have been able to get one game in before the playoffs, but that's not gonna happen. steph has been injured many times either before during the playoffs in the past and he's always returned really really well, so i'm not too worried about him. all it takes is one made shot and he's back in rhythm hopeful he might be back but and it was always a reach so do i try to get back so playing warriors basketball his last five five games and try to get some momentum going to the playoffs and whenever he comes back. he usually always come back with a bank. lebron james freaked a lot of people out with this tweet today. i'm out for the season see y'all on the fall. what day is it? mm-hmm lakers they need them. this is too close to home for some because they're hosting the

pelicans tonight crucial playoff seating matchup in. as a game time decision april fools another potential roadblock for the a's howard stadium terminal project a lawsuit trying to stop the construction the east oakland stadium alliance. schnitzer steel harbor trucking association, they are among the groups joining together to prevent this project from being built and their opposition is on environmental grounds. they've been opposed from the outset the a's and oakland new the lawsuits would be coming really normal for projects like this abc 7's kc pratt spoke with a's president dave cavill about the new obstacle to overcome. that is something we're dealing with. we're doing our best to navigate that that would be true on any location we would have in oakland or in the bay area and you know, obviously the giants went through a lot of this too and the warriors and so, you know, these big projects are challenging in the state and we're doing everything we can and putting a lot of effort money behind it, but we still have the uncertainty of not knowing how the judge will rule.

tomorrow is world autism awareness day and today warriors forward draymond green along with former, michigan state. teammate anthony. ioni took part in hosting a paul clinic for students who are on the autism spectrum and this was part of two days of activities at chase and thrive city partnering with the autism society of san francisco. i didn't know they had to put a court down out there. of the arena was the first division one college hoops player to play with autism. success for someone with autism is to simply have a friend in this world and if i can help that i'm always down and i always want to be a helper hand. just letting people know like, you know, you can do anything in life despite autism, and i've always told people that autism doesn't define me like i define who i am and for me to be a leader in the autism community like it means more than anything. that is awesome the draymond and the warriors has an organization are willing to take part and help as for the team itself five games left dallas lost tonight. so as we stand right now the

warriors are the three seed they've got an enormous game with the utah jazz tomorrow night all the teams fighting and jockeying for positions in the western conference. if the war is really really need to win tomorrow. if not, they will likely slip to four or five in the ceilings a lot of pressure. yeah. thanks, larry. coming up tonight on abc 7 at 8 o'clock shark tank that's followed by 2020 at 9:00 and stay with us for abc 7 news at 11. remember abc 7 news is streaming 24/7 get the abc 7 bay area app and join us whenever you want. whatever you are. well, finally tonight if you thoughts about what really matters. quorum matters and so does doing the right thing will smith failed to exhibit the former during last sunday's oscars. but today he at least did the latter resigning from the academy of motion picture arts and sciences. it was a preemptive move as the board of governors was already debating his expulsion and other disciplinary measures for

slapping chris rock followed by that f-bomb-laced tirade on live television. not on the table apparently stripping smith of his best actor award, which many feel would go too far. most of the attention from that shocking moment has been on will smith's poor behavior, but chris rock deserves enormous credit for showing such remarkable restraint not just in the moment on stage where he carried on with impressive poise given what had just happened he done, but also backstage not wanting police to drag will smith out of the theater and cause even more of a fuss and in the days afterward choosing not to fan the flames. he hasn't really commented much about it. hollywood's biggest night was marred by one person's lack of decorum. what really matters is how another is helping repair the damage by demonstrating his? i always love to hear from you. let me know what you think. follow me on twitter and facebook at dan ashley. ec7 all right, that is going to do it for this edition of abc 7

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