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the marin school district. many students who went on the trip contracted covid. the school district says 50 students tested positive, many of them were vaccinated and are experiencing minor symptoms. >> it ended up with them getting covid, but it will not be severe. reporter: he was part of the marin school triple was not near the group that had the outbreak. he is immuno compromised and advocates for people to get at -- vaccinated. he says thanks to the vaccine, though students'symptoms will remain mild. >> those who got vaccinated and got covid are not getting really sick. reporter: this comes as a people in the nation's capital including members of congress tested positive for the virus. >> i feel fine. the good news is i have been vaccinated and double boosted. i think i got the variant that is prevalent on the east coast. reporter: health experts say we are in the endemic phase. they say part of that phase includes us having to return to normal activities, even if that
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means occasionally mild cases popping up. >> we are not in the business of shutting down large events at this point or even in the future. reporter: the doctorate ucsf says it is normal to expect cases to spike occasionally. >> we are still doing well decently, even though cases are increasing, it is a drop compared to where we were. reporter: he says he feels safe attending trips and events as long as those around him are vaccinated. >> as long as everyone around me is vaccinated. it is not nearly as frightening or threatening to me. liz: the cdc extended the federal transportation mask mandate through may 3, that includes any travel you do on planes, trains, inside airports and on some buses. we are here with more on the spread of the omicron variant, known as ba.2. reporter: according to both
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experts, we will see numbers rise. ba.2 appears to be 30% more transmissible than the omicron strain. we have to keep in mind, even though ba.2 cases are on the rise, hospitalizations and deaths are not. as omicron's subvariant, ba.2 spreads, the cdc confirmed the strain is now responsible for 86% of covid-19 cases nationwide. locally, researchers are also seeing an uptick in cases. >> most of the cases in the bay area and sacramento are being caused by ba.2. reporter: alexandria, professor of environmental engineering at the stanford university as part of a team that is tracking 12 water plants in northern california. how fast are they rising? >> based on the wastewater, that looks like they are doubling over two weeks. reporter: there detecting the largest number of increase in
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gilroy. >> covid-19 has not gone. it is going to continue to affect our lives until the near future. reporter: the cdc extended its nationwide mask acquirements for passengers on planes and public transits until may 3, they are citing the need to assess the impact of ba.2. >> what the federal government and state government should do is dial up the mask requirements as we are looking at cases rising. if cases are going up, it is justified we make sure that we keep people safe on public transit, airplanes, and other los environments in endorse. reporter: as passover and easter approach, the doctor president of the bio hub recommends. >> if you're getting together with a large group of people, consider getting an antigen test for people. everyone's negative coming in through the door, with good confidence, you cannot wear masks inside. reporter: there could be an increase of ba.2 after the holidays he says. >> we are not predicting at this
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time an omicron january peak we saw before. there is already a large amount of people that got infected in january that will have some new immunity to ba.2, plus their vaccines. reporter: the professor also pointed out that cases are increasing, that goes in hand with the mat -- back up mask mandates have been lifted, vaccines and boosters continue to protect against ba.2. dan: today on getting answers, we asked ucsf chief of medicine if it is a good idea to wear mask. >> i will continue to wear mask. if the mandate goes away, i will wear the mask even more religiously than i did before. the things we know our airplanes are well ventilated spaces. there have been very few outbreaks and no super-spreader events on airplanes. if you are a good mask, you can keep yourself safe, everybody wants to get vaccinated and
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boosted has had the opportunity to do it. people at high risk have the opportunity to take antivirals if they get infected. when you weigh all of that in i will wear a mask, i hope people around me wear a mask, but that is not the question when he think about a mandate. is the government's interest in making people do stuff that they may or may not want to do? is it strong enough to merit a mandate? now it probably is not. dan: as you well know, we have been dealing with pandemic restrictions off and on for over two years. a look back at what we have been through and what we have overcome, check out this day by day timeline on our website. liz: as crime continues to rise, staffing at the police department is shrinking, the impact hitting every neighborhood across the city. what does the chief and police doing to deal with the staffing shortages and how long is it going to take? stephanie sierra spoke one-on-one with chief phil scott. reporter: staffing shortages
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within the san francisco police department have hit a new low. the department struggling with declining retention rates, nearly 600 officers a short. >> officers are leaving for better pay and other departments. reporter: they release this report today indicating staffing levels have been steadily declining over the past three years. on average, 100 officers are either retiring, resigning or being terminated from the department each year. chief scott says it has gotten so bad the department is implementing a new retention unit, designed to help keep officers on the force. things like offering better treatment, equipment, and salaries. >> there was a time where san francisco probably had the most competitive salary. those times are not here anymore. we have cities that have better salaries, better bonuses, they are getting traction with that. reporter: as a department struggles to stay competitive, the impact hits all of us. this year, crimes like larceny,
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theft, up 29%. car break-ins up 32%. 911 response times across all priority levels are increasing. the president of the city's police officers association told us last week, these problems will be facing the city for the next decade. >> that is being real, giving you the honest answer. is going to stay the same. reporter: a grim outlook the chief agrees with. to think the reality of crime in san francisco as tracy pointed out is here to stay? >> i agree. we know officers matter, we can focus on one or two things with the staffing we have, we cannot focus on everything. reporter: the luxury, were officers patrolled major corridors is gone. lease for now. the declining number of graduates is exacerbating the problem, compounded with the fact that 25% of recruits do not make it. >> some of them drop out on their own. they do not meet certain qualifications. reporter: which is why two of the city's top officers say it
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is a long road ahead until we all see real change. >> if we even can. >> something has got to give and that is where we are right now. dan: more calls tonight to crackdown on ghost guns, coming from leaders around the state, including here in the bay area. this comes after the president's announcement to crackdown on them at the federal level. zach fuentes heard from those leaders today and has more. reporter: major announcements to combat ghost guns have been made this week at the federal level and continuing today at the state level. bay area leaders and law enforcement say the making and selling of ghost guns has been a dangerous trend. >> the city of san jose, we seized 287 ghost guns in the last 14 months alone, a quarter of all illegal guns that are -- are police department seized. reporter: california leaders, came together in a press call, pushing for state assembly bill
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1621 to be passed, one of many bills being considered in sacramento that targets ghost guns. >> there is no time to waste in addressing a crisis that kills 110 people every signal day and wounds 100 more. reporter: their firearms made from pre-manufactured parts that can be ordered online and put together at home. they are not registered and do not have a serial number making them untraceable. the guns can be enhanced and in some cases they can be changed to a more interest automatic gun. >> this is the fastest growing threat in what we already know, a scourge of gun violence in all of our communities. reporter: the mayor and oakland mayor were in washington dc as president joe biden announced the measure for new federal regulation. and includes applying background checks and serial numbers on and making kits and requires businesses that by ghost guns to get serial numbers on them before reselling. gun gunners of america say they will fight the gun control.
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they said the action sends the wrong message to violent criminals because the band will not affect them. as president biden continues to call on congress to do more to regulate illegal guns, the bill is set to be heard in committee on tuesday. ama: a brief court appearance by the shasta county woman who admits her alleged kidnapping back in 2016 never happened. she just made it up. sherri stay silent as she left the federal courthouse in sacramento. her attorney says the 39-year-old is feeling a lot of pain and sorrow. yesterday, she agreed to plead guilty to a single count of mail fraud and one count of making false statements. the mother of two vanished from her reading home in 2016 prompting a massive search. see resurfaced on thanksgiving day claiming she had been kidnapped at gunpoint and tortured by two women. turns out it was all a lie. dan: a collision in the north
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base. sky 7 over the scene after a bus and pick up truck get into a head-on crash. what happened to the passengers. liz: investigators are providing clues as to why some workers were on the tracks 18 caltrain came barreling on. dan: it will be a lot easier to use public transit in the area. >> first round of rain is approaching. there are two more rounds approaching. i will have the details and timeline coming up, entresto is the number one heart failure brand prescribed by cardiologists and has helped over one million people. it was proven superior at helping people stay alive and out of the hospital. don't take entresto if pregnant; it can cause harm or death to an unborn baby. don't take entresto with an ace inhibitor or aliskiren, or if you've had angioedema with an ace or arb. the most serious side effects are angioedema, low blood pressure, kidney problems, or high blood potassium. ask your doctor about entresto.
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a pickup truck. rohnert department of public safety says the bus was stopped at the intersection of rohnert park expressway and commerce boulevard when the truck veered into it. three people were taken to the hospital, that includes both the drivers of the truck and the bus. the cause of the collision is under investigation. dan: new details tonight from the ntsb on what happened moments before the march 10 caltrain crash in san bruno. the safety board released a report on its investigation. a supervisor gave railroad dispatch an all clear signal despite the fact that there were three construction vehicles on the track. the engineer hit the emergency brakes while traveling in 63 miles per hour. the train cannot stop in time and it collided with the equipment. the damages estimated at one point forming dollars. -- $1.4 million. 14 people were hurt. liz: as more people had back to
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the office, bay area transit agencies are hoping to see passenger volume increase. and effort is underway to reinvent how they operate. this is important as a region seeks to reduce carbon emissions by getting people out of their cars. david louis looks at are fragmented transit network. reporter: you may know bart, other residents of the bay area 101 series -- cities are serviced by transit officers, each one setting its own schedules, fares and operating hours. this is a map showing their service areas, a map created by a leading voice seeking to unify a fragmented network. while it is building in sacramento to get all 27 on board to make it easier for passengers to use one payment system and make transfers easier, with coordinated connections. sb 917 seeks to make this happen over the next two years, which may not be easy.
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>> the operators are saying, we have a little more time, there is and execution issues. that is fine. we can be conversational in that way. we do not want to use the milestone. reporter: hancox group joined violet -- french or silicone valley, to rally support from the public from civic groups and the 27 transit operators. to lack of coordination can be frustrating. hancock themselves said it was difficult to connect to barda from caltrain. to get to the station, he had to take bart north to san bruno then switch to a southbound bart. during the pandemic, transit general managers initiated a weekly call to exchange information. that is being used as an example of the kind of cooperation the plan seeks. >> they are seeing how important it is to learn from each other. they are going about integration and cooperation in their own way.
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they also admit deadlines can be important. reporter: the bill goes to the state senate's transportation committee in two weeks. liz: san mateo county broke ground on a multimillion dollar navigation center in redwood city. this is part of the county's goal to end homelessness in 2022. 2.5 acres in redwood city as being transformed into transitional housing. 240 prefab units along with social services to help people get back on their feet. to $57 million project is funded by the home key program which offers those without a home, incentive to get off the streets. >> people see it as a warm non-stigmatizing environment. it is welcoming. people will move in out of their encampments. liz: the county is moving quickly on this project, breaking ground today with the goal of having it complete by
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the end of the year. let us get a check of the forecast. i have been really chilly this week. dan: it has been, after a few warm days of the week. sandhya: we are turning it back to winter. that is why you have been chilly. temperatures today, a good 4-12 degrees below average. mid-50's to low 60's is all we could do. fairfield 65. i want to show you what is happening on live doppler as we get into the north bay first, around ukiah south state street, you're seeing what whether. light showers have moved through the north bay. they have been spotty today, taking you back in time you can see the showers that came through. we have a lot more opportunity for some wet weather. our golden gate bridge camera showing spot east -- gray skies. windsor, santa rosa, 307 inch. let's talk about what you can expect friday, our next system
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comes in and that will be late in the day. a chance of rain best in the north bay. went on saturday in the morning. easter is going to be dry and milder for the akon's -- egg hunts. life of views from our various cameras showing you the clouds gathering. it will look very different once the snow comes in. temperatures 40's, 50's, grabbed the jacket if you are going out as you look for more exploratorium camera, skies overhead. for system tonight, to more rounds of rain into early next week and we are expecting writer and milder weather for easter. is a level one honor storm -- it is a level one on our storm system indicator. something you'll need to watch out for. 9:00 you will see showers north as we head into tomorrow morning, 5:00 it is still in the north bay. 8:00 a.m., you start to notice the slippery roads in the east bay, the san francisco peninsula.
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to :00 we have light rain crossing the entire bay area as we head towards late at night, just isolated returns. rainfall totals will be highest to the norther end of our viewing area. third of an inch along the coast. the rest of you looking to a few hundredths to 2/10 of an inch. morning numbers will be in the 40's and 50's, nowhere near the cold we experienced the last couple of mornings. that is thanks to the clouds and rain coming through. speaking of rain, make sure you have your gear handy. tomorrow we will have the wet weather. low 60's tomorrow, the chill will be in the air. as you take a look at the forecast, it is light rain, a level 1 for tomorrow. late chance for tomorrow -- friday. level 1 for saturday morning. it will be wet and breezy. brighter for easter and dry in we have another opportunity for rain between monday night and tuesday. the good news is with all of these systems, it is going to help, at least lessen the fire danger and push it out a few
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wall street, stocks rose across the board. the dow jumped 344 points, 1% of its value. the nasdaq 272 while the s&p 500 gained 49. san francisco father has filed a civil suit against the men who was caught on camera stealing school board recall pretensions last spring -- petitions last spring. he is accusing him of violating his civil rights. he is suing him for emotional distressed. this is the video that went viral after the heated and divisive recall race. he was arrested, an is attorney say the lawsuit is a matter of uncovering the facts about what happened. >> the people of san francisco, the chinese community and i deserve to learn the truth. justice will be served. >> strong-armed tactics have no place in a democratic society. dan: we just spoke with him, he
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told us no comment about the lawsuit. according to the chronicle, he went yesterday to enter a diversion program, he is required to do 25 hours of community service and attend impulse control therapy sessions. he is also required to pay restitution to lam. liz: coming up the suspect in the new york subway shooting is taken into custody, how he was found and what he is being charged with. dan: thousands of motorists complain of unfair charges on bay area toll roads. has this happened to you?
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>> building a better bay area, moving forward, finding solutions, this is abc 7 news. liz: and arrest tonight in the worst attack in the new york subway system in years. welcome back, thanks for joining us. dan: after a hunt, police say they may have found him thanks to a tip from the suspect. for the very latest on this we will go to ab seven news reporter -- abc7news reporter. reporter: the shooter, frank james was found after he called the new york police department
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to turn himself in. he gave his name and a description of what he was wearing, telling police he would be at the mcdonald's on the lower east side of manhattan. in this video, you can see was arrested this afternoon in the east village, near that mcdonald's. james is facing several -- federal terror related charges for deploying a gas canister and firing 33 shots on the subway in brooklyn. 10 people were shot and others were injured in yesterday morning's attack. police found a credit card on scene and keys to a u-haul truck that help them tie james to the shooting. >> he was taken into custody without incident and has been transported to an nypd facility. he will be charged with committing yesterday's appalling crime in brooklyn. i want to commend all of the investigators and analysts who took part in this all hands on deck investigation. literally. hundreds of nypd detectives worked doggedly during the last
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30 hours to bring this together. liz: we learn james did have a lengthy criminal history. no felony's which allowed him to purchase a gun. some of his youtube videos, james talked about violence and mass shootings. james will have his a federal court appearance tomorrow. he could face life in prison. liz: now to new details on the war in ukraine. russian forces are preparing for a new attack looking to strike ukraine from the east. ukrainian officials are uncovering evidence of brutal acts from russian troops. president biden is working to divide more assistance sending millions of military aid to ukraine. >> has russia's relentless war on ukraine sends the civilian death toll to rise, they're sending a major offensive in eastern ukraine. satellite image from them find forces on the highway, as well as it what areas near the ukrainian border. ukrainian officials finding mass
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graves under attack, that had one -- once been controlled by russian soldiers. ukraine inviting inspectors to observe their excavation of mass grave sites as they evaluate them for possible war crimes. in washington, after an almost hour long phone call between president biden and ukraine's leader, the white house confirming that they will be providing military aid worth $800 million, which will provide ukraine with the highly effective weapon system the u.s. has previously provided, plus new capabilities, like artillery systems and armored personnel carriers. >> they are designed to help ukraine as we talked about in the fight they are in right now. in the fight will be in coming days and weeks. reporter: that new aid it cannot arrive soon enough after new findings from the organization of security and authorization in europe that uncovered clear patterns of russian forces committing war crimes and
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violating international humanitarian law from march to early this month. in response to russian aggression against ukraine, the leaders of both finland and sweden say they are taking steps and looking into joining nato to join that military alliance in hopes of protecting citizens from possible future russian attacks. in washington i am justin fitch abc 7. liz: if you want to help the people of ukraine we put together a list of groups and nonprofits that are sending donations and supplies to refugees on our website. dan: as bay area drivers emerge from the pandemic, they are seeing fast-track express lanes on local freeways. the lanes are only for fast-track customers and carpels right free. many drivers say they follow all of those rules and still find unfair charges on their fast-track accounts. several alerted 7 on your side michael finney. he has their stories.
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>> both girls are on the softball team and today they do not have practice. i get to come up and get them after school. reporter: nancy drives her kids to school. >> my brother and i were almost late this morning. reporter: now she is driving a car pulled back home, with fast-track they get to use the i 680 express lanes and the ride is toll-free. at least it should be. >> every statement i get from fast-track, there are errors on it. the one i got a couple of days ago charged me an additional $10.50. i spent a lot of time corresponding with fast-track. reporter: she says her fast-track pohlad to three plus people which tells electronic sensors they are a carpal and entitled to a free ride. yet her statements are sprinkled with extra charges, $.50 here, nine dollars there. she says the charges can take weeks to dispute. >> i would send copies with
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written explanations and i would hear nothing. i am playing by the rules and i'm being punished and i wonder how many other people are getting charged $9.50 for that. >> it is someone between six dollars and $10. reporter: it happened to scotland. he used the eye 680 express lane while driving his daughters soccer team. yet he kept ending charged the full toll. >> after the third time, there has to be something wrong with this tall reader. reporter: he was sure the electronic sensor at stone valley road cannot read his toll tag. he said the tag worked everywhere else. >> i want you guys to fix it. and they said there's really nothing we can do about it. that is terrible. reporter: fast-track kept telling scott he probably counted his toll tag wrong. >> they are tough about it when you fight it. they say, well your reader should be in the right location. sometimes they give it credit and sometimes they would not.
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reporter: finally he stopped using the express lane altogether. >> i have avoided it. i do not want to deal with it. reporter: we asked fast-track if there may be problem with the electronic sensors. they sent a team to investigate. so far, no answers. there saying nothing yet would definitively point to an of quitman failure. where we identify pull errors, the error rate is extremely low. with millions of drivers there are thousands of complaints. the latest data shows fast-track received 1967 disputes of told -- told -- toll charges at the end of last year. >> i wish they would stop charging me when i do not need to be charged. liz: that was michael finney reporting. a lot of people talk about climate change. the bay area teen who w
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>> this unit taught me that the climate crisis is the defining issue of my generation. reporter: bay area teen sarah found climate now in 2019. >> what we want? >> climate justice. reporter: the international youth led organization focuses on educating young people to take climate action, inspired by other activists, she started missing school certain days to strike out sites in san francisco city hall. >> for collective 50 weeks, showing the community why it was so important to take urgent climate action. reporter: the 17-year-old speaks about climate change at schools and interacts with political leaders. during the pandemic, she has been engaging in digital climate strikes. >> it is a digital action, there is a #on social media called #di gital climate strike, to put
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their voices out at this time. reporter: not everyone agrees with her message. some questioning whether climate change exists. >> there's always someone who is not going to believe and is going to say does wrong. i know for a fact, climate change is happening. we have had years and years to show that this is on our doorsteps. if we are not taking action now, we will just see in the future how that really pans out. reporter: she wants to engage other teens in this work and says there are three things we can all do to fight climate change. >> i would say one of the most important things you can do is start to eat plant-based. it is an easy switch, deciding on mondays i am going be vegan or i'm going to try to have a vegetarian diet. another idea would be to reduce the amount of gas that you are using to try different modes of transportation. maybe that is public, walking to
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school instead of driving. reporter: third. >> going out and having conversations about climate change. it's easy and it can be fun, going out and talking to someone why this matters. dan: coming up next, the simple elegance in the sheer fun of paper airplanes. some bay area kids get a lesson some bay area kids get a lesson from the world record hol what are you recommending for muscle pain? based on clinical data, i recommend salonpas. agreed... my patients like these patches because they work for up to 12 hours, even on moderate pain. salonpas. it's good medicine
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dan: today pg&e was at oakland's hebrew day school introducing the power of stem education for children in third and eighth grades. the event was hosted by the corporate foundation and features the long time world record holder for the longest paper airplane flight. john collins is his name. students competed in contests, learning aerodynamics, engineering and origami. p&g hope it will inspire kids to go into engineering. there is more to it that he think if you want to get one to actually fly a long time. liz: i'm sure it's quite complicated. get a check of the forecast. sandhya: liz and dan you will
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need those umbrellas especially for those heading out the door. tonight in the north bay tomorrow elsewhere. we are already picking up light rain. as we widen out the picture, still waiting for the rain elsewhere but it is coming at it -- the timeline will show you this is a level 1 storm. late tonight it is still in the north bay, as we going to tomorrow the commute will include wet roadways through the afternoon and evening hours turning to scattered showers. the sierra will pick up snow. the winter weather advisory until 11:00 p.m. about -- about 1500 feet. 8-14 inches of snow. that is not the only system. there's another coming into early next week. we will be talking about 22 inches at kirkwood. 31 at honors. this is great to see in spring. 11:00 p.m. on friday, our next system, north bay will have a chance to see what whether. by saturday morning, everyone is getting wet.
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thankfully for those of you who have outdoor plans on sunday, you'll be fine. highs tomorrow be in the low 60's still on the cool side. a look at the accurate forecast is a light level 1 tomorrow, saturday everyone gets what. easter is sunny and dry and then we have another opportunity for what whether next week. dan: thanks for a much. combine an nft with food and you get a pop up food concept called bored and hungry. the new restaurant opened up in southern california. it does except cryptocurrency for your meal. our sister station with los angeles. reporter: new puffer -- pop-up restaurant may seem like another joint, but it is way more than you imagined. because of its origin, nfts. >> is basically a code on this thing called block chain which is a server.
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the code is to verify that this code is actually yours. you put a picture, music, anything on top of it. reporter: he purchased a four and fts, a limited nft collection. >> we spent a little bit over $267,000 on it. we spent around $65,000 for each one. reporter: the restaurant is inspired by each of the images and can be seen on the packaging. they had about three weeks to turn the space around to get their kitchen ready for the opening which was april 9. the reaction was more than they expected, with more than 1500 customers on a date. >> we have had people on the grand opening day fly in from brazil. guys came in from miami. he said, have to fly out in two hours. if you came out here on grand opening days there was a line two blocks down. reporter: the offer both beef and vegan burgers with fries. you can purchase the food with money or cryptocurrency. they accept bitcoin of the theory of -- and a theory of.
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>> i am very excited. if i can, can i buy it now? thank you. reporter: he says they were originally planning to be open for 90 days but because of all of the support they were getting, they are planning to stick around for longer which they are still figuring out. he hopes he can change the stigma of calling an nft just the jpeg. >> we wanted to change the stigma, you can do more than just have a picture is a profile, you can turn it into a brand, with these characters you have. dan: that's a good idea. bored and hungry. we are not bored with the video you have tonight. >> i like to think of myself as bored, hungry and angry. [laughter] we cover everything. as dan was mentioning, warrior fans will be very interested in this video.
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i'm 53, but in my mind i'm still 35. that's why i take osteo bi-flex, to keep me moving the way i was made to. it nourishes and strengthens my joints for the long term. osteo bi-flex. available at your local retailer and club. >> good evening, stephen curry was dunking in practice today. let me repeat that. steph curry, the get -- guy with the injured foot who has not been cleared to play was dunking and warriors practice.
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it is a great sign as he tries to get back on the court for game one in the warriors nugget series saturday night here at abc 7. he was injured almost a month ago, he has been revamping his strained ligament bone. started shout. -- sorry to shout. the plan is for him to scrimmage with the team tomorrow. if he is pain-free on friday he will play game one on saturday. >> he practiced fully with the team today. we did not have a scrimmage but we had some situational drills. he took part in everything. >> he is on the staup and i am on the bum unit i was focused on my guys. i was not paying too much attention but he is closer. >> he looked like steph. that is a good sign. i know he is going to keep getting better and doing whatever he has to do to be ready. >> i was on the foam unit. [laughter] with all due respect to draym
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ond, we will have to change the picture out to curry. game one against -- saturday. after scoring 13 runs, the giants wrapped up their opening home stand of the season, pictures dual. logan against his good buddy, sean, lightning fast two hours and 11 minutes. putting his body on the line to make the playwright. hang on. padres strike first. it is a laser right over the head with the rookie elliot ramos who is going to aaa. scores of 1-0 in a flash. logan webb. . it's a grounder it's a play. if that is a run saving play. williams crushed down the left-field line, it is a two run double giants lead. that would do all the scoring for the day. webb, really settled into a groove when he is throwing out the low pitch, nasty.
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career-best, eight innings allows one-run with one strikeout, dicey two. bases loaded the ninth, gets mass beatty 2-1 for the giants. another efficient performance for webb. >> two hours? that's crazy, i expected this type of game. i feel like this is my goal every time. >> he was throwing strikes, obviously they were not hitting them. that was great. >> logan held up his end of the bargain, given it is high-quality pitching. he is super efficient. >> giants coach alyssa nakken made baseball history when the first baseman coach got ejected, she took over becoming the first woman ever to coach in a regular season major league game. helmet will go to the hall of fame in cooperstown. >> i never felt any sort of lack of support in this organization,
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against any of bob melvin's teams. that has been awesome. this group is really special. to go out there and be ready to step in for that moment, it was a no-brainer. this is my job. >> she is really special as well. 80's manager is sparky -- a's manager sparky, thumbs up, covid, i am not touching you. scoreless in the third, sean murphy puts up both chiefs in that swing. a reference to when he got hit by the pitch. 3-0 a's. a's go up 4-1 and they hold onto the game . 4-2 athletics is your final. i do not know if you really soaked it all in from earlier. but steph curry is dunking in
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practice. when i saw the video, i was like, we have no idea how his foot is doing or his leg. if he is dunking. they would not let him do that if they were not -- they still have to do the scrimmage and we will see how he feels. dan: encouraging sign. thanks, good stuff tonight. liz: coming up tonight, starting at 8:00 p.m., it is the goldbergs, the connors, home economics and a million little things at 10:00 followed by abc7news at 11:00. that is it for this addition for abc7news. thanks for joining us. dan: dunking, alliate you all. u liz: have a great night.
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♪♪♪ from the alex trebek stage at sony pictures studios, this is "jeopardy!" let's meet today's contestants-- an airline planning analyst from chicago, illinois... a bookseller from burbank, california... and our returning champion-- a tutor from toronto, ontario, canada... ...whose 6-day cash winnings total... [ applause ] and now hosting "jeopardy!"-- ken jennings. [ applause ] thank you, johnny. welcome, everyone. our champion, mattea roach, sailed into her sixth consecutive win on yesterday's show. she had a commanding lead at the end of double jeopardy! and then put the final exclamation point on the win
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and earned over $30,000 in final by knowing all about the bermuda triangle. what's spooky unsolved mysteries await us on today's show? let's find out. welcome to rachel and adam. here we go. here are the categories in the "jeopardy!" round. we begin with... then... we have... that's very specific. and finally... mattea, what strikes your fancy? ends in double letters for $200. - rachel. - what is stewardess? - good. - book 'em for $200. - mattea. - what is "dracula"? - yes. - double letters, $400. this seven-letter track and field moment seen here
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