moving forward finding solutions. this is abc 7 news. the nation's largest skilled nursing facility now in danger ofhuwn.terosgpliance violations, we know how valuable this facility is. to ensure that it remains open. good evening. thank you for joining us. i'm dan ashley and i'm dionne lim today federal officials terminated funding to san francisco's laguna honda hospital abc 7 news reporter melanie woodrow explains why it happened and how officials are trying to get the money back. san francisco's laguna honda hospital is a licensed skilled nursing facility that serves approximately 700 patients with complex medical needs many who

are low income now. the hospital was at risk for being shut down after the centers for medicare and services terminated laguna hondas participation in the healthcare safety net program mayor, london breeds at the hospital will continue to receive medicare and medicaid payments over the next 30 days, but can't take on any new patients and expect reimbursement. the announcement was triggered by a requirement that the facility resolved. efficiencies by the end of a six-month period that period began in october when states surveyors outlined and documented deficiencies related to preventing contrabands such as cigarette lighters and drug paraphernalia on campus. we have been well on our way to making things right to improving the conditions in the latest round of surveys this week state surveyors identified new issues with hand hygiene infection prevention and control as well as two missed doses of a medication during the visit what was seen were a number of things that we know can be corrected, san francisco. say because there wasn't enough time to address those deficiencies before the review period ended the medicare

medicaid funding was terminated while we are in a challenging situation now the more most important thing is that laguna honda is not going anywhere hospital officials have already begun the recertification process speaker of the house nancy pelosi said her office is working closely with mayor breed and the biden ad patient to ensure the hospital can come into full compliance writing. statement quote it is unfathomable that laguna honda could lose the vital federal funding it needs to support life-saving programs for some of our most vulnerable san franciscans. we look forward to recertifying with medicare. and in the meantime, we will continue demonstrating our unwavering commitment to patient safety laguna honda. ceo says part of that safety will include changes to the way visitors enter the hospital in san francisco melanie woodrow abc 7 news. do developing news coming out of salinas tonight? where a shelter in place order has now been lifted even so crews are still on the scene

monitoring hotspots and evaluating the damage of this massive fire. it broke out at about 7:15 yesterday here at the taylor farms processing facility abc 7 7 news reporter. zach fuentes is joins us live with the very latest zach. yeah, those evacuation orders in the shelter in place orders were lifted just before one this afternoon. that's nearly 17 hours after this all started now that we're here closer to the building we can show you just some of the damage that has been done here. selena's fire telling us that 85 to 90% of the building is a total loss. not a remind. everyone. taylor farms is a major agricultural company who brings any of the salad kits that we see in our grocery stores. it's also a major employer here now amazingly no one was hurt but the situation overnight could have caused massive devastation. this is the fire that tore through the 225,000 square foot building just after seven wednesday evening making things even more dangerous was a 35,000 gallons of ammonia the facility had and explosive chemical that stephen fire crews to evacuate

the scene. so with that amount of 35,000 pounds of ammonia. that that could have been devastating to this community it we're talking big explosions with major damage throughout the community. not just taylor farms shawn mccluskey owns a business just on the road from the facility. he and his workers were evacuated and some of the first to witness the fire. you can see straight down airport boulevard there and you could see the the flames and the smoke and everything coming. up from taylor farms most of the surrnd are other businesses which were evacuated but residential areas downwind of the fire were told to shelter in place and schools today canceled because of the toxic smoke caused by the ammonia the plant was closed for the season with many workers set to come from yuma arizona on monday. no produce or people were inside but taylor farm as leaders have been in meetings all day to address the thousands of employees impacted. we are working internally bruce taylor has been meeting with all of the vice presidents of the

different divisions to make sure that any people that are you know, something any hardships primarily that the that are in yuma. making their way here. just making sure that we take care of everybody work through the problem. they're also faced with the challenge of the process. thing of the food that eventually comes to our tables we do have other plants in the immediate area. we are working at any option that available to us. to continue our our products to our customers and you know, make sure that we keep everything going now with the imminent threat gone the main question for sean mccluskey and the rest of this community so driven by ag are the jobs the owners have insurance the shareholders have insurance. but we don't have a way to protect people's jobs. they're livelihoods. now the environmental protection agency hazmat cruise fire crews there all still here on the scene and official cause is being investigated with the salinas fire. chief says that early indications show that a welding

project may have sparked a fire inside a wall. but again, that is all still being investigated right now live in salinas zach fuentes abc 7 news. okay zach. thank you today in silicon valley google announced a major project coming to san jose a downtown west will be the newest south bay google campus aimed at utilizing the downtown area abc 7 news reporter dustin dorsey explains how it's going to be a major boost for the economy. google is coming to san jose and it's bringing more than new offices for employees. these are artists renderings of what it will look like in the near future. the tech giant is investing in the city to create a project that benefits the community and revitalizes downtown. i think this is a different path to redevelopment in our city. it's not led by the government. it's really a collaboration of private sector investment the city and support and the entire community the downtown west project looks to bring new life around the sap center with offices restaurants

entertainment centers and more. google will create nearly 6,000 construction jobs to build the project 25,000 jobs will be available when it's completed with training opportunities. so people can fill them and 4,000 homes will be built. and of those affordable with rent restrictions, i think it's an outstanding example for other. what we've really come to recognize particularly through this investment is how bringing a collaboration private sector investment and the community is really going to bring the people here. google has invested a great deal into the plan to bring people into jose today, they announced they are going further. 2022 we are going to be investing another three and a half billion dollars in the state of california. that's growth for our company, but that's also fuel that makes the overall economy grow a big boost for the south bay and beyond that includes expansions for the offices and mountain view new offices in sunnyvale and a new 500,000 grant for two

san jose nonprofits the soon-to-be built african american cultural center and people assisting the homeless or path just part of the hundreds of millions. dollars being invested to build a better south bay when they started people were very anxious. you know, what is this going to mean and by the time they finished their plans? every segment of the san jose world is saying this looks good in san jose dustin dorsey abc 7 news. happening now the snow is causing problems for drivers in the sierra. take a look. this is video of the conditions along i-80 at donner lake and a castle peak right now chains are required between baxter and donner lake, but there are no chain requirements yet along. weigh 50, of course, that means closer to home. we're getting some rain. this is a live look out from our camera on mount tam. you can see how foggy it is up there and some droplets on our camera, which is really nice to see this time of year abc 7 news

meteorologist sandy patel tracking the rain with live doppler 7 and is here with details sandia. yeah, dan. it is a welcome site indeed as we take a look at live doppler 7 right now you will notice that we still have light showers steady across parts of the as you will notice lakeville highway petaluma penngrove you're getting wet in the east bay moraga skyline boulevard oakland. it is showering right now and in the south so 280 across san jose story road into alum rock wet weather right now. so take it easy on the roadways. it's a light level one storm moisture stream continues to come in. there are lightning strikes to the north and in the sierra. it is snowing as deon just showed you so timeline indicating more showers right on through 11 pm tonight. this is the first in a series of storms three more storms are coming one is going to impact your weekend. i'll let you know when that timeline is coming right up dion. all right, sounds good, sandia. thanks. the man who pleaded guilty to killing a hayward police officer nearly seven years ago was finally sentenced today marcus

estrada was sentenced to 50 years to life after taking a plea deal for first degree murder estrada shot sergeant scott longer three times as longer approached estrada's truck during a pre-dawn traffic stop back in july of 2015. for today's sentencing emotional statements were given by those who knew sergeant lunger including his girlfriend daughter and the partner who held him as he died. while our hearts are still heavy and this is still very difficult time. we're hoping that this can start to bring a sense of closure for for everyone involved. we should point out procedural moves and the pandemic delayed that sentencing until this year coming up. the latest on elon musk's attempt at a hostile bid to take over twitter what he said about it during a ted talk today plus questioning diane feinstein's ability to serve in the senate why some are raising concerns about the senior senators memory stay with us abc news at five will be right

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isn't satisfied with his 9% stake in twitter. so he is trying to buy the whole company musk has launched a hostile bid to take over the social media company. he has made a 43 billion dollar offer to twitter's board of directors. today during the ted 2022 conference in vancouver. the world's richest person said twitter is in need of a free speech overhaul. the twitter has become kind of the de facto town square, so it's just really important that people have the both the the reality and the perception that they are able to speak. lee within bounds of the law. musk has repeatedly criticized twitter for being too restrictive of speech is take over offer comes just weeks after he became twitter's largest shareholder, california senator dianne feinstein's memory is rapidly deteriorating her ability to serve as being

questioned that's according to a report in the chronicle the newspaper interviewed four fellow senators a california democrat in congress as well as former feinstein staffers. they all say 88 year old feinstein is suffering from memory lapses and rules on her staff to relies rather on her staff to fulfill her job duties her term ends in 2024. she has not decided whether to run for reelection, although she has taken out the necessary paperwork to do so we spoke with a chronicles washington dc correspondent who reported the story everyone who i spoke with for this story. there was such a pain and a sadness in what they were telling me. no one. no, one took any pleasure in this they all have tremendous respect for senator feinstein. fellow democrats have come to feinstein's defense including house speaker nancy pelosi and fellow, california, senator, alex padilla and a statement to the chronicle. feinstein says she is still performing her job. well despite losing her longtime husband richard blum to cancer

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food bank celebrated its volunteers who stepped up amid the pandemic are they sure did too and is abc 7 news reporter tara campbell explained since there is no sign of demand slowing. down neither are the volunteers. one bag of groceries after another joseph signs loads up his truck every thursday at the marin san francisco food bank. he's one of hundreds of volunteers who stepped up am pandemic making deliveries to the disabled and to seniors and he hasn't stopped always. give and get back in like vast multitude taking time away from work to make the same deliveries each week just the deep

investment with the with having a building and going to the same people every single time as opposed to just doing them random route, and there's nothing random about this route. thank you. of picking it up when others were reluctant people didn't necessarily want to do because it was in a lower income neighborhood and i guess they didn't feel as safe. i don't see that what he is seeing are warm welcomes like this. food delivery seniors. happy to hear the knock and i feel like if me somebody out there that really cares about the seniors because he brings it to the door. and that's very appreciated and the food bank. showing its appreciation celebrating volunteers who help through the pandemic amid skyrocketing demand. at-home deliveries alone jumped from roughly 3,000 to 10,000 households a week when we scaled up the delivery program we heard from the community that other

groups would be benefited from home delivery now delivering to women who are pregnant families with young children and families with children with disability and those kids aren't going away pandemic or no pandemic readying for a long road to recovery as families work to come back. it happened dealing with inflation affecting gas prices affecting food prices. we've still seen supply chain issues as for joseph. he says he's in it for the long. up with no plans of slowing down delivery tara campbell abc 7 news also, great. yeah. all right something else. that's great, dan. we have a trifecta of the rain coming. that's right. abc 7 news meteorologist, san diego patel is here. yeah, dan and deon it is really wonderful to see the series of storms coming through here over the next seven days besides this one. we have three more coming. so let's look at live doppler 7 and we're gonna talk about what's happening right now. so as we get you into street

level radar in san francisco, you will notice mission street right around the sunset district street it is wet heading towards skyline boulevard moraga, emeryville berkeley out towards castro valley crow canyon road. definitely watch out slippery roads in the north bay, san rafael to mill valley sir, francis drake boulevard fairfax, lucas valley area rainfall totals so far try close to an inch there in ukiah, but obviously everyone else less than that 4,500 in santa rosa a hundredth of an inch in san jose. we're still counting. these are just rainfall amounts so far. comfortable right now in the 50s and the 60s not so comfortable mount rose. it is a very windy view it is snowing right now in blue canyon. so in the sierra, nevada, you can see that snow is just coming down pretty good at this hour and we are under they are under a winter weather advisory four to nine inches of wet snow up to 15 inches for the peaks winter

weather advisory above 5,500 feet until 11 pm tonight. a slippery roads and reduced visibility exploratorium cameras, certainly showing you a rainy view here in san francisco and visibility is not so great. it's a level 1 through late tonight scattered showers slippery roads light in terms of accumulation. so here's that next band going through as we head into 8pm 10 pm mainly an e-space south bay santa cruz mountains area and through midnight. we'll continue to see those showers additional accumulations up to maybe 12 13 inch. at best now tonight the chill is going to settle in we do have a variety of freeze warnings and frost advisories from one to nine. am temperatures will range anywhere from the mid-20s to the mid 30s for austin freeze will damage any sensitive plants. so protect them now temperatures in the morning with fog forming mid 30s to upper 40s. certainly, we'll have some cloud cover around as well tomorrow morning and then tomorrow afternoon. it's a milder day upper 50s to

upper 60s a mix of sun. clouds and then we're going to fast forward to saturday. this looks like it's going to be a drencher in the morning. will notice some heavier rainfall 8 o'clock, you will notice that the showers continue but really by the early afternoon this system is done. we have more coming. other 7-day forecast morning fog milder afternoon level 1 for saturday with moderate rain breezy conditions bright for easter. and then another storm monday afternoon into tuesday. it's a one next storm will be on thursday when you count all these storms and the potential for rainfall we may get more rain than we've seen the first three months of this year. i mean, that's crazy right dan and deon, but then again we didn't see a whole lot of rain, so that's all relatively exactly good stuff. that's really all despite this little bit of what weather drought conditions across the state are worsening take a look at the latest drought map out today. you can see there in the side by side comparison to last week the red area which denotes extreme

drought now extends to the sacramento valley and central valley for the bay area nearly all of sonoma and napa counties are also included in that extreme category. stay with us. we will be right back.

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habits like. are you following a specific diet or if you already use renewable energy it then lets you track your spending the app shows you how much of what you purchase leads to co2 emissions. yes, all of the emissions that the app is estimating is based on an open source database so you can go online you can see that for the gas station category. that's x kilograms of co2 per dollar or for the airplane category. it's x y grams of co2. i decided to give the app a try to see my carbon footprint it shows gas. of course as my biggest contribution. so i started the app today and it's already giving me a red fire. i can show you that right here. am i off to a good start or do i need to make some adjustments? i think that's pretty common for me gas stations are my number one impact category as well. and it's i think doubly hard right now because gas is so expensive. you can't adjust the budget, but the goal is to keep it.

570 kilograms of co2 emissions a month or 7,000 a year something great car says many people don't do the average right now for an american is to admit 14 tons of co2. so we're basically all trying to reduce our carbon footprint in half. it is the biggest challenge. he says the app is trying to lay out ryan curry abc 7 news. alright, finally tonight a steph curry updates. we have been waiting with bated breath. yes. he was back at practice for the warriors today, but there is still no decision as to whether he will play on saturday. now curry has missed almost a month with a left foot strain and says the plan has always been to return for game one of the nba playoffs. which of course will be right here on abc 7 saturday night the scrimmage today and as you can see look pretty good and was smiling and post-practice individual workouts even talk with reporters. you'll hear from him coming up at 6 o'clock. will he or won't he play looking forward to that? all right world news tonight

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tonight, new details about new york city subway shooting suspect frank james. federal prosecutors calling the attack entirely premeditated. frank james ordered held without bail, accused of shooting ten people on a subway in brooklyn, injuring 29 in all. prosecutors saying he terrified the entire city. abc news learning authorities believe he rushed the attack, setting off smoke grenades on the train earlier than planned. prosecutors also say he had enough supplies to carry out more attacks. his attorney urging against a rush to judgment, praising him for calling crimestoppers to turn himself in. janai norman outside federal court. overseas tonight, a major blow to russian naval forces off ukraine. the russian flagship sinking in the black sea, crippled by an explosion. ukrae