better bay area moving forward finding solutions. this is abc 7 news. the approach is to how to manage them in a humane way so that they're not being disruptive. that's the story. officials with the oakland coliseum now trying to figure out how to manage a feral cat problem. good evening and thank you for joining us md on limb and i'm dan ashley now officials are trying to figure out how to get rid of dozens of cats abc 7 news reporter. tim johns has more on this story. baseball season may be here but on the grounds of the oakland coliseum, you'll find someone other than the a's players having a field day in recent months. the stadium complex has been taken over by about 50 to 100 feral cats. our focus is just trying to help

stabilize that population and and done is the director of oakland animal services. she says the complex has had issues with a variety of animals for years one of the biggest problems is the vast amounts of food. available on the site the more food there is the larger the litters and the cats are going to have so minimizing. feeding to tackle the problem. the plan is to capture the felines and then spay or neuter them before releasing them back onto the premises. don says for the kittens. they encounter the goal is to ultimately get them adopted but for the adults, it will likely be a different story given that they've lived in the wild their whole lives dunn says the adults aren't socialized and not good pets but our expectation from from experiences that most of these cats are not going to have any interest in being around people but as for the babies, that adoption process might be easier than you think says henry gardner the executive director of the coliseum authority. we're even considering maybe

with the kittens having some kind of adoption program don says the whole process could take as long as six months to complete. so for now the game of cat and mouse continues in oakland tim johns abc 7 news. all right. let's move on tonight excitement is growing before the golden state. warriors return to the playoffs tomorrow and for more matt and what we can expect and the latest, of course on steph curry abc 7 sports director. larry beale is here there things are looking promising the war. a center but when they do take the court tomorrow night 5:30 tip off here on abc 7. they will have their full complement of stars all healthy for the first time this season steph curry officially upgraded to probable after completing another practice today. he is expected to start game one tomorrow as i mentioned here on abc 7 not gonna play a full load. minutes curry's left foot still not 100% there may be still some residual pain, but it's good enough to give it a go and that gives the warriors a massive

boost. we're listing him as probable. everything's gone really well, so we expect him to play see how he's feeling tomorrow, but know coming off the absence and the injury. the only thing i'll say is he's not playing 38 minutes, so i'm not gonna give you a number there's some variables involved try to be about best version that i can be. i haven't missed a little bit of time now, obviously i've been through this before so i have high confidence that i can. you know go out there and help our team win. so you heard steve kerr say steph is not going to play 38 minutes best. guess would be somewhere between 25 and 30 is probably where they would like to keep it and you know, obviously with a warriors victory if they can pull that off against denver and nikola yogich. well a lot more coming up in sports on our six o'clock news. we'll see you then. okay looking forward to it. thanks, larry. well the players and coaches aren't the only ones getting ready for the game in san jose. they are celebrating blue and gold day mayor sam licardo. these photos of the warriors flag raised in front of city

hall and there was a similar sense of warriors pride in san francisco as well. on behalf of the city and county of san francisco. we are going to officially declare today blue and gold day in the city academy. all right now even warriors alum and friend of abc 7 adominal foyle was on hand abc 7 news reporter. ryan curry has more now as the excitement builds. the warriors baby the excitemeny keeps growing san francisco. mayor london breed friday raised the warriors flag over city hall. and so yeah, april 15th blue and gold day here in san francisco. declared the day before the game in honor of the warriors return to the playoffs. we're coming out of covid. people are ready to get back to games ready to get back to events that have chase center here for the for the community is huge and i have a playoff run that hopefully extends into june would be amazing for the entire

bay area. yeah. here you go go. let's go side city hall fans. got to pick up special playoff merchandise all of them excited for saturday. it is beautiful you know, see. city hall the warriors everybody supporting the warriors and over at chase center. what is now empty will soon be flooded with? i think it'll be new but i think you'll hear a lot of the same loud, you know cheering and support for the team. i think this building was really built for basketball the excitement surrounds what the players will do in the postseason clay thompson, draymond green andrew wiggins, and of course, hopefully some other guy named curry supposedly we have step back tomorrow. so i'm super excited the hope from fans of course is to bring another championship back to the bay area. this is my hometown. i always want to see us win. ways and i just hope we make it through in san francisco ryan

curry abc 7 news. our curry's pretty good too as you can tell well, even if you don't have tickets to the game, you can watch it on the big screen outside thrives city, of course, you can also watch it from the comfort of your own home right here on abc 7 coverage begins at 5 pm and then join us for after the game now to new details on a wild chase from the east bay into san francisco this afternoon take a look sky 7 caught up with part of it as the driver of this car weaved in and out of the upper deck of traffic on the bay bridge. an attempt to get away from chp officers now we are told the driver was being chased because the car was stolen from a gas station on lincoln road in vallejo police. tell us the owner went inside to pay when the suspect hopped in that car and then drove off. witness follow the stolen car and called police. that's when the pursuit began now at one point the car even exited i-80 at 9th street and officers continued chasing the driver on san francisco city streets a short time later

police canceled the chase because it was becoming too dangerous since that driver was weaving in and out of oncoming traffic near sf general. all right, let's move now to the weather rain has gone for now, but not for long wars on the radio. yeah with what we can expect for. weekend let's get to meteorologist sandia patel crossing our fingers for good weather. yes, you're gonna have good weather for the holiday. that's for sure dan and dion, but i do want to show you beneficial rain moving in tomorrow morning as a light level one storm is off the coastline and heading in our direction. so it's time it out for you if you have early plans. i mean i'm talking four to about 8 am. that's when most of it's going to be coming through some moderate to heavy rain between four and six am by 7 o'clock. most of these steady rain is moving. on winds will be picking up ahead of the system gusting to 36 miles an hour along the coastline still on the gusty side in the afternoon. this isn't the only storm i'm tracking. there are more storms on the way in the accuweather seven-day forecast. i'll be back with the look at

your easter forecast coming right up dan okay. sandy. thanks very much. well, despite the spring rains. we're seeing here firefighters say make no mistake. fire season is coming on faster. the bay area cal fire is getting a jump hiring back at season. firefighters really much earlier than in years past to prepare for this abc 7 news reporter cornell barnard got exclusive access to a cal fire training academy where firefighters are gearing up for what could be a very tough season. it's a story you'll see only on seven. make sure it's real life. let's play the game real. all ppe will be down and worn bell's make sure we got a couple clamps. okay, right. they're the fire is through that game. the training beyond intense. here we go. here we go guys. we got her almost there 100 feet 800 feet italian most of these seasonal firefighters have been through this cal fire training academy before but it never gets easier. how hard is that? that's pretty hard, sir. it's a lot easier without 110 degree.

and fire encroaching on a cell 105 firefighters are back on the job at this seven-acre napa county training facility nearly a month and a half earlier than usual due to drought conditions across the state. jessa rodriguez is back for her second fire season, there hasn't been a lot of rain. we're in a drought year. so we're expecting another intense fire season. you will drive through the cone fallen firefighters driving skills are put to the test on this course. good. of heights here when you're doing a rescue on the ladder truck figures and toes. many say they're up for any challenge. i enjoy the people i work with and then obviously serving the public is something i'm really passionate about a break in the weather today more spring rain could be on the way that's good news, but firefighters know it's only delaying what could be an epic fire season. i feel would be just a slight band-aid to you know, from what the winds we had the week prior

it just kind of dried it out. it's a delay it a little bit barley. the captain says all of his firefighters passed this week-long academy proving they have what it takes. next time these firefighters meet and napa lake or sonoma counties. it won't be a training drill getting ready for a season. it's gonna be a busy one you're moving. in the napa valley cornell bernard abc 7 news they work so hard well over in the east bay in oakland a homicide investigation is underway after a woman was found dead inside a home thursday afternoon officers were sent out to a home on 23rd avenue between east 15th and 16th streets to check on someone they found the woman dead from an apparent gunshot wound that victim's identity has not been released because investigators are still trying to track down her next of kin the man police say shot and killed a bay area tv news. guard has been arraigned on murder charges. kevin. nashieta was guarding a tv crew

in downtown oakland in november of 2021 when he was gunned down while on the job prosecutors. say 25 year old. she died at mitchell pulled the trigger. he was formally arraigned today in alameda county court. mitchell will return to court may 13th to enter a plea she just widow spoke outside the courtroom about the importance of seeing those responsible charged. i miss kevin very much. it's really hard. but i lived day by day and and i got to be strong for him. police say there are two other accomplices to the killing 24 year old herschel hale is in custody 27 year old iran market marquez. gilbert has not yet been charged nashida. was a retired veteran police officer who worked in colma, san jose and hayward. coming up twitter and acts a so-called poison pill to a possible elon musk takeover. we'll explain what exactly that

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directors unanimously enacted a so-called poison pill to stop elon musk's haskell hostile takeover bid of the social media platform the defensive measure gives twitter's existing shareholders time to purchase additional shares at a discount, which will dilute musk's ownership stake. this move comes after reports that the investment. richmond firm vanguard group recently increased its stake moving past must as san francisco company's largest investor musk announced his 43 billion dollar bid yesterday 144 million of us are facing a monday deadline to file our 2021 federal taxes.

the last minute frenzy is a time when cyber criminals target people with scams to steal passwords and other confidential information abc 7 news reporter david louis looks at what the thieves are after. what we can do to protect ourselves. as pressure mounts to file your taxes on time cyber criminals are stepping up to take advantage that you're too busy or distracted to notice. they're targeting you they'll send out emails appearing to be from the irs seeking personal data passwords or a pin or a text message with attachments or links art? gilliland is ceo of redwood city based linea which design solutions to manage access to corporate information systems. this is prime time for thieves to prey on taxpayers. you're in a hurry you want to get your taxes done? and so they'll be sending you emails or trying to target you to get you to click and give up information and then the other one is after you've submitted your taxes. you want to get paid right away you want. money back and so they'll be focused on sending you emails to try to trick you and giving up

your information to either reroute your tax return and they'll be trying to trick you saying i will give you your money back faster if you sign up for this and give me your information. the problem is once you've fallen for the scam, there's no easy fix gillian recommends changing your password immediately and to use two-factor authentication. that's when you need to enter a second password usually numbers that are texted to you before you can again, there has been concern that russia might be stepping up attacks on american citizens in retaliation for sanctions over the war in ukraine. however, delenia doesn't see evidence of that. they take the resources that they were using to steal money from us citizens and they're moving that now to maybe try to attack the infrastructure or track some of the other sort of defense industrial based companies. the best line of defense is to slow down and think before responding to any effort to get personal information or click on links anyone who is doing that or any email. you see like that is probably a

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is a big one from the cdc today the agency announced that 100 million americans have received booster doses since august in new york the association that oversees broadway says theatergoers will have to keep their masks on through the end of may but vaccination checks will be up to theater owners starting on may 1st and the oakland unified school district announced today that it's indoor mask mandate for schools will be lifted on april 24th. masks though will still be strongly recommended starting monday, april 25th, and we learned this week that the new covid omicron sub-variance are spreading quickly across the us particularly in new york today on our afternoon program getting answers abc 7 news special

correspondent dr. alok patel told us that he'll learn we'll learn much more about the impact at the variance may be in the next two weeks all data right now suggests that ba2 is more transmissible than omicron and the subariants also. a growth advantage over ba2 so that potentially translates into a lot more cases, but fortunately as of right now we are not seeing a correlated increase in hospitalizations, and there's no data to suggest that this is more virulent than omicron. definitely not more virulent than delta. dr. patel says even though hospitalizations are not increasing at this point. that doesn't mean we can ignore rising case numbers. right moving on to the weather and dan the site behind you from. so true we're so foggy and misty out there yesterday abc 7 news meteorologist. sandy. patel is here with the holiday forecast. yeah, the holiday forecast will feature a little bit of something for everyone dan. and dion right now skies have opened up as you both noticed. we have sunshine from our tower

cameras mixing in with a few passing clouds as you look at live doppler 7 clouds are beginning to trees in the north bay ahead of our next storm that's coming in in just a matter of hours temperatures right now 50s to 60s was a little bit milder than where we were yesterday if you're getting out of town hawaiian airlines forecast wet and windy in the morning at our local airports. sunny and breezy for the afternoon. for 50s to mid 60s showers scattered in honolulu 81 new york city a chance chicago 48 mainly sunny in los angeles looking at clouds to son 67 degrees. we're seeing a mix of both from our santa cruz camera. nice looking day next storm moves in overnight tonight bright and sunny for easter. and two more springstorms are coming next week. i want to show you the easter forecast for the sun comes up at 6:31 in the morning if you're going to sunrise services definitely bundle up sunshine for the rest of the afternoon. the egg hunts will be just fine. no rain for the accuweather's seven-day forecast either that's

going to be changing. excuse me. i should say rain in the accuweather 74 forecast. so tomorrow morning. it's a level one brief heavy rain early isolated thunder chance gusty winds near the coast. just let me show you the timeline here three o'clock in the morning, while you're sleeping that storm moves in you might hear the pounding rain at five o'clock as we do have some moderate to briefly heavy rain eight o'clock. it's pretty much tapering scattered showers. it's gone before the lunch hours. so you will not be seeing the rain lasting very long. it's going to be a quick mover rainfall totals will range anywhere from about 1,300 in san jose to about three quarters in santa rosa for most areas. there could be a few isolated higher totals in the sierra winter weather advisory tomorrow morning. through 5pm above 6,000 feet difficult travel conditions. so definitely carry those chains expecting up to 15 inches for the peaks your morning temperatures with stormy conditions 40s 50s windy weather along the coast for the afternoon breezy and mainly sunny mid-fifties to the upper

60s. so pretty nice looking saturday the accuweather seven day forecast. it's a wet and gusty morning level one storm sunny for easter and milder weather late night chance monday that accuweather 7-day forecast looks more like winter tuesday we have morning rain and then another round coming in wednesday going into thursday potential for it to hang around into friday. so really what we didn't see in winter. we're finally starting to see in spring. hey, we have to take it when we can deal. absolutely. we're happy to see it. thanks, sandy. well happening now and all day long major league baseball is honoring jackie robinson today marks the 75th anniversary of his debut for the brooklyn dodgers breaking the barrier, and that means all mlb players are wearing his number 42 on the backs of their jerseys. here is his son david speaking about his father's legacy. he was a man of few words, but a man of action responsibility and he did not give a long lecture

about responsibility, but when it was my turn to cut the grass for example saturday morning supposed to be out early cutting the grass if and i have on a few occasions been caught laying in bed, and i'd hear the lawn mower start. and i'd look out the window and i'd see my father. cutting the grass that i was supposed to cut so he didn't have to give me a lecture about responsibility and shirking responsibility. he went out and said, you know that there's a job that needs to be done. and you can either take that responsibility and do it. or somebody might have to do it for you, and it's it's to your greater shame if it's your own father.

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tonight, the new threat from vladimir putin about u.s. military aid to ukraine. and on this weekend when easter, passover, and ramadan converge, new clashes in the holy land. the pentagon now saying it was ukrainian missiles that struck and sank russia's massive warship. now the counterattack on a missile factory near kyiv. and moscow's official warning to the u.s. against arming ukraine, threatening, quote, unpredictable consequences. inside that terrifying new york subway attack. the city now honoring those transit workers who raced in to save lives. and tonight, new details about the suspect's moves, from the moment right after that attack, to his arrest on an east village street. millions traveling this holiday weekend. long lines and anxious waits at the airports. the skies so busy, one union saying pilots