aids foundation had 500 people on the waiting list for the monkeypox vaccine today. that number has grown exponentially. we now have over 3,000 folks on our waiting list last week the white house reported that 144,000 doses would be on their way nationwide. but as of today the need is much greater than the allocation. it's up to the california department ofri tm to county hst thousand doses those would be sent to san francisco general kaiser and the san francisco aids foundation strut health clinic we have yet to receive any update. however, fear and concern continue call volume on our monkey pox hotline continues while the region waits today the cdc warned. there are other options other than a vaccine. it's important to remember that we have really clear harm reduction strategies that can

help stay safe and prevent monkey. acquisition or transmission but some are concerned that upcoming street fairs with large gatherings will spark an outbreak the dory alley street fair is just two weeks away. it's not only the reality but there is lazy bear coming and there is right after it and they serve a bunch of events that are bringing our community together lex montiel is the owner. they will have an outreach session for the community this weekend. are hoping for a vaccine drive the following week. i wish you'd have learned from the previous epidemic that we had then take being more proactive or taking action and the san francisco aids foundation says this sunday will be their last vaccine drive with only 500 doses available after that. it's anyone's guess when more will arrive in san francisco leanne melendez abc 7 news. in berkeley steamworks is one of

several clubs that launched vaccine clinics. protect the community from monkey pox some people who are waiting in line to get the vaccine earlier this week complained after paying members of the club were allowed inside first. well today the general manager explained that many of those people were wearing robes and bath towels and had to receive the vaccine inside. he said it was a misunderstanding telling abc 7 news from now on all vaccines will be administered outside next week. the plan is outside. only one line. i have them coming to check out our parking lot which is where we may have it hoping to 500 doses again and yeah, that's the deal. steamwork says it has administered 800 monkeypox vaccines so far. this morning live on abc 7 at 7:00. we brought together a monkey pox expert in someone who has a case of monkeypox ucsf infectious disease specialist, dr. peter chin hong and fitness instructor. will hutchinson joined reggie a

key for a candid conversation. if i have it, does that mean i have immunity or do i still need to go get a vaccine? we think that people who get disease like you did or infection leading to disease have good immunity and would be protected. we don't know for how long and but you know, we think given the experience from smallpox that you'd be having at least a few years protection. we'll get probably get more information as time goes on but that's kind of what the thinking is right now. do you think that he should still get a vaccine now even while he has a current? outbreak of monkeypox on his body well the vaccine and monkeypox is very different from the way we think about say vaccines and covid so in covid if you have covered a vaccine doesn't really make any difference whatsoever because it helps for the future the incubation period or monkeypox moves so slowly that if you get

the vaccine and monkey pox, it actually can help you with the disease you have right now, but you have to get in the right amount of window period so within the first 40s after exposure it can help you not even get disease within the first one to two weeks after exposure. it can help alleviate less than the symptoms that already have so that's the secret about the vaccine in monkeypox that's different from covid. dr. jin hong says you're only infectious when you're symptomatic so patients who have lesions and are not feeling well need to quarantine. do you want to know more about monkey pox? we invite you to visit abc 7 news.com to get information on cases testing and vaccines in the bay area. meanwhile new numbers out today on covid-19 show deaths or back up in the us 10% more people have died in just the past week this according to data compiled by the new york times, los angeles county. ring the most deaths in the nation. and the cdc says nearly 85% of

americans are living in areas that are at medium or high risk for covid transmission. the agency is now urging people to reconsider masking indoors if they're high risk for severe covid-19 as cases continue to surge the question now, could we see mask mandates returning here in the bay area abc 7 news reporter loose pena part of our vaccine team asked local health officials that question also spoke with experts about the effectiveness of vaccines in particular against omicron ba-5 lose. yes, larry the latest cdc data is placing every bay area county under the level of transmission category, but health officers are looking at hospitalizations and even though they're going up slightly would be a five. they tell me it's not high enough to reinstate a mask mandate yet. the cdc's latest data is placing all nine bay area counties in the red for high levels of covid transmission. the culprit is omicron's

sub-variant be a 5 becoming the dominant strain. not only locally but nationwide if i is the large component of what we are seeing now 65% of infections in the us now our ba5 scientists at the mayo clinic released new data. that suggests be a 5 is hyper contagious. four times more resistant to covid-19 vaccines from mutations that this particular saw variant has that makes it a little bit easier to evade the immunity that you can get from either vaccination or even prior infections. despite be a five evading vaccines their study found that getting vaccinated is still imperative according to their data on vaccinated people are about five times more prone to getting infected that who've had the first booster a better off than people who only had two doses? and the people who've had the second booster a better off than

the people who just had the one booster and how long it's going to last is probably somewhere between 8 to 12 weeks would be a five cases surging you supercles infectious diseases expert dr. john schwartzberg says masking is key now need to say if we don't want to get infected. and we don't want to infect other people we need to be wearing masks now. and frankly if people would do that in a much higher level. mandates would be unnecessary. we contacted all nine bay area counties to ask will mask mandates for indoor places be reinstated as every county is currently in the bread according to the cdc. they all said no, but the majority recommended to mask anyway, there's really no reason to consider doing it for us. but obviously if the state decides to implement it we will do at the state requires solano county's health officer said their hospitalization numbers are still and therefore they want to be making any changes,

but they're still keeping a close eye on the surge and i don't think that that the peak is done yet to search and i think that we'll get an even bigger surge in the winter. anything can change the upcoming weeks, but for now experts tell me we need to go back to the basics masking and getting boosted in the newsroom loose peña abc 7 news. well, thank you developing news in san francisco where police have just ended a five-hour standoff in bernal heights police. first got a call around 10:45 this morning about a man who had some kind of weapon officers determined. he might be experiencing a mental health crisis a crisis assistance team is there the man has been detained and transported to a hospital for observation a union pacific workers in the hospital with serious injuries after maintenance vehicle. they were driving was hit by southbound amtrak train in oakland. crir ai bou happened

rinifan and a hazardous materials team had to be called in to clean up diesel fuel that spilled during the crash now to the washburn fire burning in yosemite national park it grew to more than 4,750 acres overnight. it's just 31% contained the highway 41 entrance remains closed. that fire is also cross. to the sierra national forest prompting more road closures park officials say so far. no giant sequoias have been burned the cause is under investigation, but fire officials say it appears to have been started by a person. in the east bay efforts to put out the marsh fire in eastern contra costa county stepped up today the marsh which has been burning for about six weeks now is being flooded in an effort to put out. the fire pete is burning in the could burn for months and air quality advisory has just been extended in the area through monday due to smoke

from the fire now, let's turn to abc 7 news meteorologist. mike nico for a look at the air quality in that area right now mike. all right, kristen. yeah this morning. it was unhealthy once again because of the cap on the atmosphere the high pressure coming in and putting that lid and you can see right there that we had places like pittsburgh and antioch and brentwood that were unhealthy for not only those sensitive but also for all of us where you see the red there now as we lift the lid off the atmosphere every afternoon into the allows that smoke to six vertically into the atmosphere so it's not so concentrated at the lower levels and that we're going to see that repeat over and over through at least monday. now the other concern is just how much hotter it's going to get this weekend for those folks that don't have air conditioning and need to close their windows. we're pushing 96 to 98 degrees come tomorrow, and we still have the breezes out there that will continue to feed this fire with fresh air in humidity levels. that'll be very low most of the

time so we've got to continue to do what we've been doing at least through monday larry. hopefully things will be a little bit better next week. all right. thank you. mike inflation impact housing prices down grocery prices up the inflation impact on the one thing that's not being affected right now also ahead retail theft cracking down. just what can be done about this and an investigation underway on those cruise autonomous cars. we'll tell now you can save big on supersonic wifi from xfinity. can it handle all of my devices? all that. and it comes with a 2-year rate guarantee. what?! ok! no annual contract. no equipment fees. oh, and a free streaming box. i like streaming. it's all just $50 a month when you add xfinity mobile with unlimited data.

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in the san francisco district attorney's office today da brook jenkins announcing some promotions as well as some layoffs joining us now to break it down as abc 7 news insider film material phil jenkins named four new members of her management team. so what do you expect from them? what expect from them is to bring experience and also sort of a more moderate approach to prosecutions in san francisco just about dean was a very to reformer on the progressive end didn't believe in cash bail. he didn't necessarily believe in putting people in jail for non-violent crimes like shoplifting even repeated or drug dealing now, that's a change brooke. jenkins is going to be bringing in a harder line and to help her with that. she's also brought in some experience prosecutors not the least of which is ana gonzalez. she was a prosecutor under bodine's predecessor who bodine fired and she's back and she's going to be handling some of the heavy cases.

nancy tung who is a assistant district attorney over in alameda county, but who ran for district attorney in the same race as chesapeodine is coming in also to help on spit head up special prosecutions. now what that says is experience it also it's kind of a smart political move for jenkins because nancy chung was possibly thinking of running for district attorney herself. so not only is she bringing in a prominent chinese woman. she's also probably taking somebody off the boards that could against her this all comes is she also removes some of bodine's top assistance not entirely unexpected. this happens a lot of the times when people come into the offices to equate it with sports if you come in as the new general manager of a team, there's bound to be some changes in the coaching staff. all right. well along those lines, what are we hearing about the people that are no longer with the da's office? is it safe to assume they were says camp oh, yes. yes. definitely what we're talking about is alicia hurtado rebecca

young the spokesperson for the office. yes. they were in chessa's camp, you know district attorneys in assistant district attorneys in san francisco aren't in a union. they don't have civil service prediction they serve at the will and so a lot of women who chessa boudin brought in were actually former public defenders. they didn't even have prosecutorial experience and larry it's you know, your intentions could be good, but fact is you got to know how to make a case and drive a bus and you got to know how to how to be a prosecutor prosecutors put cases together public defenders pick them apart. so it's kind of like trying to if you bring them to somebody that expert at demolition to build your house. it doesn't necessarily all it's not necessarily going to work out. so i think we're going to see more of the construction people coming in to build this new da's office. so would you say this is a bigger shake-up than usual or anytime you get a new boss there. there's going to be changes. yeah. well, there's two of changes one is when you take over from somebody that you're friendly with. all right, in which case these transitions are usually very slow and you bring in your own

team and your own appointees second one is when you take over from somebody that you are opposed or are in sync with and that's what happens. let's say when you have a new governor or a new president you bring in your own people. this is happening quickly. and i think the reason to that is brooke jenkins doesn't have a lot of time. she's having to hit the ground running and she wants to make sure that she has a line in front of her that's going to help her out whether you agree with her or not remains to be seen. yeah and with an election that she's right in in november and a tenderloin that she has to clean up and violent crime situation, especially against asian american elderly that she has ■o get a grip on as well. all right phil as always. thanks for your insight. have a good weekend. all right. san francisco's presidio tunnel top park will officially open this weekend. sunday's event was six years in the making the 118 million dollar project began with the construction of the presidio parkway, which opened in 2015. there are fourteen acres of park with thousands of native plants

benches made from fallen trees and a playground. anybody want to get rich? don't silent silence. i i guess you guys have enough money, but tonight's mega millions jackpot an estimated 480 million dollars. that's among the top 10 largest jackpots ever the biggest jackpot. this year was back in january when a 426 million dollar prize was claimed in los angeles tonight's drawing will be held at 8 o'clock in all likelihood. will be here at 8:01. and and 802 and 803 and 804 and 805. and your point is we're not gonna win. i know that yeah who's gonna be? picking the numbers like we used to have someone who coordinated this and now we don't yes. maybe you should do it since you seem no, you know what mike is the number guesser. that's true point the predictor the prognosticator he's going to tell us about the temperatures.

he might as well pick our lottery numbers. yeah, i can take a detour down to san jose on the way home because no one wins out where i live in san jose. it seems like alright, let's talk about this weekend. we do have some pretty big numbers and here's a look from our east bay hills camera. you can see the air looks pretty clear out there and as we pan around we're going to see that it's really a pretty ice afternoon all in all but i want to talk really quickly about what happened in june. it was our sixth warmest and 143 years of global record keeping 1.57 degrees warmer than average and it was our 450th consecutive month of above the 20th century average temperatures and if you're wondering about rain for the early season 66% chance of a lot nina in october through december, so let's try to talk about some good news about that. we have some thin clouds. too fog the next few nights and that'll lead to wide range of high temperatures throughout the weekend a slow cooling trend next week as the marine layer

will slowly reestablish the clouds get a little bit thicker and maybe even some drizzle in the mornings. we had a little more cloud cover at the coast. so expect it to return a little bit faster during the evening hours. but again, it will be very thin temperatures 61 in san francisco a lot of 60s around the bay because of the breezy conditions 70s in the south bay 80s and 90s in the north bay and east bay away from the fastest winds as you can see gussing the 32 at sfo. it could be a bumpy ride in and out of sfo airport weather warning for those gusty winds through at least seven o'clock this evening temperatures as we look at the bay glistening with those choppy conditions starting around 60 to 80 at 7 o'clock down to 57 to 66. so you'll definitely need a jacket if you're going to be out past say nine o'clock going to the giants game. it'll be a little breezy 63 to start 7:15. so a little later tonight down to 58 by the end of the game now with those thin clouds there could be a little bit of fog and temperatures. comfortable low to even a few upper 50s possibly even 60 around san jose and the 63 in antioch and san jose will be 87

tomorrow antioch 97. look at that 99 in fairfield some 90s up in the north bay. we'll have 70s and 80s around the bay that'll stretch into san francisco, but clouds will cling to the peninsula coast once again keeping you at about 61 degrees for aids walk sunday morning. we're looking at a little bit of fog and 80 today the clock about 57 degrees. we'll see increasing sunshine and breezy conditions by 2. about 64 degrees now if you're traveling around the state the san joaquin valley hundred and 109 tomorrow through monday, so please be careful if you're traveling through there if your car breaks down if you're going to visit someone make sure you have plenty of water. all right, so warmest tomorrow and then you can see we taper a little bit sunday monday back to average by tuesday wednesday and even thursday and friday possibly a little bit cooler than what we should be for this time of the year, but let's go back to that aids walk and sit over to for more about that. all right, mike indeed. we're just two days away from this year's aids walk san francisco. it takes place sunday, july 17th

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of collectible dolls are missing after being stolen. a bay area home the owner and artist devastated. the collectibles known as blythe dolls are often. associated with big eyes paintings of the 1960s abc 7 news reporter jr. stone explains for this oakland woman. there's no replacing that history. if you're not familiar with these so-called blythe dolls, don't feel bad. they're not sold in many stores, but take a good look at them because all 12 of these were stolen from a home in oakland. they're very unique. they're about as tall as a barbie doll, but they have a large head with unique eyes that really have a lot of emotion and character the dolls belong to kirsten seymour of oakland who is a collector and these dolls have quite the history originally released.

1972 as a rival to barbie, but inspired by betty boop with influences o thoseig eyes paintings created by late bay area artists margaret keane ones that had swept the nation in the years prior to seymour though. this is her passion creating scenes for her 12 characters showcasing that on social media and in schools part of my life my work and my art and they actually brought a lot of join happiness to a lot of people and kids especially during the times of covid in less than two hours during a family move her dolls her characters her loves stolen. well the life dolls only lasted a year in the 70s due to concerns over them being too scary for children. they made a comeback according to blythe expert and collector lauren ganos in 2001 and it became a much bigger deal in japan. they are all about the american culture they love big eyes and

everything and they could found appreciation for it and nowadays kenners depending on their condition can actually range anywhere from $500 less than that if you're lucky and you find one at goodwill, otherwise, they can go all the way up to 3,000 4,000 5,000. yeah, so they are worth a lot of money. see more says many of her dolls were custom made by artists in ukraine poland and spain to name a few. she's offering what she calls a large reward and remains optimistic that the thief will have a change of heart the dolls have this whole life in these suitcases and now they've been stolen stolen it's like they've been kidnapped. and please somebody. no questions asked please return them jr. stone abc 7 news. hopefully they are returned this week. we showed you video of a courtroom full of stolen goods hundreds of thousands of dollars worth.

so what's being done to try to put an end to theft? and while inflation is rising there'

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down 3% from there may peak now as we focus on building a better bay area the economy is a key focus and now there's some positive news for the city of san francisco. yeah tourism numbers have been steadily rising for months. we've seen a dramatic surge since the start of summer abc 7 news reporter. tim johns taking a look at what this means for the people who live and work here. after a two-year pandemic break, they're back everywhere from down on the streets to high above the city skyline as inflation and other issues cause worries about them is proving ta bright spot for san francisco. the pandemic was hard on everyone and everything and certainly business most specifically small business. marisa rodriguez is the head of the union square alliance. she says over the past several months the numbers of visitors come into the city has exploded that means support for thousands of jobs around the bay area as well as more money going towards the city's general budget. they're coming to our businesses the frequenting our shops our

restaurants staying in our hotels the uptick in visitors. has been noticeable at local hilton properties too says cindy ramesh figures from sf travel show hotel room occupancy in the city climbing from around 30% is back in january to nearly 75% in june growth that rommer says is broad-based at the beginning of the year. yes. it was pretty much all domestic tourism. and so now we're seeing a nice little uptick coming from europe, especially from the uk right now, but beyond the economic impacts the return of tourism brings to the bay area rodriguez says, it's also about the intangible things too making the cit gg b many haven't felt e 2019. it's purchase the morale of the city as we're coming out of a very challenging pandemic and kind of moving forward in san francisco tim johns abc 7 news. well, the tourism may be good, but this next story is not because we know retail theft has gone up the last few years in san francisco. the abc 7 news iot team is digging into just how pervasive

these crime rings are and and are there behind the thefts or is it an individual at work? how does this all work on the streets? what's being done to crack down item report is stephanie sierra? here with some answers stephanie. yes, larry. there's a reason it's called organized retail crime because it is highly organized these individuals often plan months in advance how to steal where to resell and at what price so we're looking into how you can tell if what you're buying online is not stolen. it was a bust that surprised many a san francisco man was able to steal stock and resell $200,000 worth of stolen goods in his apartment and police say there are many other operations like it across the bay area this one arrest from wednesday could result in opening cases on several other open investigations and lead to several more arrests san francisco. police sergeant adam lobsinger says,so how do they really work?

volve using middlen the people who try to offload still an items as fast as possible and they're about you know, they're selling hundreds of thousands of dollars of goods online nationally according to an analysis by the senate judiciary committee. there's more than 500 billion dollars worth of stolen and counterfeit items sold online worldwide each year and in some cases it's the online retail. tipping off investigators as fpd lieutenant scott ryan says ebay contacted them about wednesday's fence suspect we followed up. there was no crazy undercover process to it, but we followed up with what they saw saw the same thing and took steps with working with everybody to identify who he was. so what's being done to crack down state. senator nancy skinner introduced a bill that puts more responsibility on the online marketplace tightening requirements for sellers the market. has to get information like

their business license their the receipt of goods those kinds of things to prove that they are the owners of these goods in a legitimate way and they haven't been stolen investigators. say these organized crime rings operate on everyday sites. we all use like ebay craigslist and even amazon. so what should we look out for we brought this to seven on your side's michael finney you want to look for? is it a seller? who's and knew they've never sold anything before especially if it's an expensive purse and expensive watch something like that or if it's a bulk if it's brand new bulk a whole case of astrid you have to ask where did they come up with a case of aspirin and so just if it doesn't pass the smell test? passing the smell test now another tip from michael is if you buy an item that's stolen. you could be subject to legal prosecution while that is unlikely, especially if you bought the stolen item a knowingly it's important to

remember legally. it's not yours as for senator skinner's legislation if it passes it will help protect both consumers and retailers it already passed the senate and is now moving to the assembly. and larry is stephanie. thank you. the dea released these images of what it's calling the largest fentanyl seizure in california history a million counterfeit pills discovered at a house in inglewood. multiple agencies have been investigating all los angeles area. drug trafficking organization, which they believe is linked to this in aloha cartel the dea estimates the street value of the pills at between 15 and 20 million dollars. coming up handwriting versus typing so which one is best a new study might have the answer

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and help californians the four at four we have michael and we have mike today. it's michael mike. okay, we begin with the story about stadium naming rides. that's causing some definite controversy the california state university board of trustees voted to change the name of bulldogs stadium at fresno state to valley children's stadium. it comes after the university and the healthcare network agreed to attend year 10 million dollar naming rights deal. money will be used for a scholarships. youth programs as well as stadium enhancements oh thumbs up thumbs down. what do y'all make of it? who wants to start? yeah, you know, i will because

you know, i like bulldog stadium a lot more. i liked candles shake, but boy that is easy money. it's hard not to take it. i wish they wouldn't but it's easy money. to all the stadiums are doing it right larry, but it's just bulldog stadium is so iconic for and fresno cares so much about their football their fresno state, you know, yeah, i agree, but they would also like a million dollars a year. i guess the question that i would have is what's the real value? do you remember when candlestick for a time was renamed monster park? oh, yeah, i mean monster cables. yeah, i so these things come and go you i guess you know mike you pointed out that you know, it's a little questionable when you're talking about a healthcare organization. could they use that 10 million to you know instead of marketing to help inside their don't know. i understand. is that particular health care facility has a lot of fundraisers. so they're asking the public to

give them money to help with their care at their hospital. i don't know if it's for profit or not for profit. but i think that's what's rubbing people the wrong way. i would like to know what is the percentage that's going towards the stadium upkeep and what is the percentage that is going towards the scholarships and helping the welfare of the students at fresno state. it's just not all lumped into the sports. and and you know enhancing the stadium it's also helping those kids and if you look at the kids that are usually on sports scholarships a lot of those wouldn't be going to college or they would not be able to afford to go to college. so in that respect it is helping some of those that are less fortunate. yeah, we should point out that 10 million over 10 years is pretty low in a naming rights deal. so we'll see how it all shakes out taking notes by hand could improve your kids grades a new poll found while typing is more popular than writing by hand students who write out their notes tend to have a higher. a the study also found 53% of parents say their child's grades have improved since 2020

however, parents of long hand writers have noticed the most improvement kristen you've got kids that are still in school. yeah. this makes total sense. to me because when picking up a pen putting it on paper the act of writing it down. it's imprinting that information and content and knowledge into your brain in a way that i don't think is nearly as deep when you just type it but who else things that might be the case, i agree. i totally agree. i'm on that way, but those of us who were older that's all four of us here tend to write things out on yellow pads that you know the kids just go. right. what's the sticky notes? that's it to me. yeah. yeah. i i show take notes, but with a pin and i know it helps me remember that i rarely have to actually refer back to my notes when i'm working on a story.

yeah, because it's imprinted in my brain, but i'm writing down a figure. i remember that figure when i type it out. i don't yeah. here you go. okay. hasbro is launching a new way to turn fans into action figures. it's called the hasbro selfie series hasbro teamed up with form labs to create personalized six-inch action figures using 3d printing this includes your face on characters from g.i. joe power rangers marvel and even star wars the series will launch this fall kristen kristen. i think i just found your christmas present. i don't think i'd want to see myself as an action figure. well, he didn't mean your shelf. he's going to send you one of him. the larry action figure yeah, michael. are you suggesting that there would not be demand for that? is disney not marketing that right now they should be we have

valerio brian trophy that's given away in the nba the this only my of that for christmas, you'll all be proud recipients. yeah, you don't do well though, i think kids like oh, well, you can see your own face on a gi, joe or a selfie generation. oh, yeah. absolutely. no question. that's that's gonna be a winner. i think you can catch the espys next wednesday right here on abc 7 when you think about sports and entertainment movies come to mind. we asked some of our sister stations for their favorite sports movies take a look and see if you agree with some of their picks. i'm gonna have to go a 2004's miracle that team usa taking down the soviets in 1980 and who doesn't love how michael's call on that because i'm a formula one fan. it's the movie rush which chronicles the 1976 season and the battle between niki lauda and james hunt and how loud i came back from having his face burned off and almost dying at the nurburgring my favorite

sports movie space jam a basketball classic kid, michael jordan bugs bunny. me and you saw klay thompson the warriors superstar in the second one. i'd like to think there's a third space jam. how about our espysos? stephan curry? that'd be a pretty good choice my favorite sports movie. is an easy one major league? it's the best sports movie going. it's a baseball movie about an underdog team that goes on to win it all we can all appreciate that the best sports movie. beats the sandlot. i mean not only is the sandlot a great sports movie. it's it's pretty much the perfect. it has sports history a killer soundtrack romance. hello wendy peppercorn. it's just full of nostalgic don't an l7 weenie the sandlot best sports movie period oh, so good major league hats for bats. i like any given sunday the al pacino speech the inches. we need are everywhere. so what are you gonna do? all right.

al pacino is not worried about me mike. i was gonna make a joke and say it's talladega nights the the ballot. thank you. probably a major league stands something around balls baseball whether it's major league sandlot the league of their own which i don't ever think it's enough accolades. that was a fan. they're all good. i'm so glad you said telegraph dega nights because that made me feel better about my own choice, which is a little embarrassing the benchwarmers the rob schneider, you know, yes forming baseball team, and i thought you were. highbrow sophisticated, but oh, no you may have just give you that idea. well five twenty years of working with you michael real quick. i like any sports movie where a dog or a monkey is the best player actually moneyball moneyball mobile, right? no bad choices here. no you get a special look by the

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his 44 billion dollar merger case. the san francisco company is seeking a four-day trial in september arguing the deal faces on october deadline to close musk wants a trial date. no earlier than mid-february. time now for consumer news. yes seven on your side's michael. finney is back with today's headlines michael. yeah, the first one is kind of odd the california public utilities commission has launched anesgation after receiving an anonymousom a soura employee of crews the robot taxi company the letter writer claims to be concerned at general motors, which owns crews is opening its driverless taxi service to the public too soon the letter mentioned. chance where the cruise cars would stop unexpectedly and block traffic and that could include firefighters and ambulance drivers as cpuc issues driverless car permits. the better business bureau has issued a scam alert warning car choppers to be on the lookout

for fraudulent used car listings the bbb warns online car sales scams have skyrocketed along with vehicle prices the agency warned if the price is too good to be true, you know, it's likely to be a scam also. be sure to contact the seller directly see the car in person and ask for test drive before buying and do all of that at a police station if possible. the wallsodn y cons som itsike amazon basics all to appease regulators the online retail giant and nizab and it has received plenty of criticism for creating in-house products said that prie label products only account for one percent of its entire retail sales. you know, they have everything it's too yeah. thank you michael sure. our facebook is testing out a new feature that lets users have

up to five profiles. there will be a main profile by the name. the person regularly goes by the others can be used for a specific interest or relationships like foreclosed friends co-workers or hobbies facebook says of the user violates guidelines on any of these profiles it can impact the entire account moving scene at the open championship in scotland tiger woods are waving taking it all in as he walked up the 18th fairway at saint andrews tipping his cap. and i mean this was really emotional you could see him fighting back the tears tiger at nine over par after two rounds so he did not make the cut could be his last appearance at the legendary saint andrews course where he won two of his three open titles. would have liked to see him go farther, you know. all right, a tiny little shell that's stealing hearts. actually only two of us now myself and my grandmother nana connie. meet marcel the shell who's gone from youtube to the big screen.

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we're on it with jardiance. here on abc 7 8 o'clock shark tank followed by 2020 at nine then do not miss abc 7 news at 11. i'll say you're looking for something to do this weekend. you might want to check out a really sweet new movie marcel the shell with shoes on started as a series of short films on youtube and now his world has expanded reporter david. daniel has a look at what makes this character and his journey so unique.

all right, so i'm making like a little documentary. it's like movie but nobody has any lines and nobody even knows what it is while they're making it. mmm. no marcel the shell with shoes on goes from the web to the big screen creators jenny slate and dean fleischer camp first went to the big studios before taking the indie film route. it became clear to me pretty quickly that they were really just interested in grafting marcel onto a more familiar tent pole franchise kind of formul. we really liked how he was and we would have much rather have just kept making internet shorts if it meant to keep it the way we wanted and what we wanted to express and the world we wanted to show it's actually only two of us now myself and my grandmother and anna connie isabella rossellini who voices nanakani says she was not familiar with the youtube sensation. but as soon as i said to my children i've been offered to play the role of grandmother in

a shells they might sell to share with crazy, but can't forget. about the adventure marcel's quest to find his missing relatives takes him out into the world and on to 60 minutes marcel michelle and the for a family reunited. marcel how long is it been since you've seen your family? gets bigger and louder. it's the story of every family in a way we all a bit of shells you are beautiful. you must be so many others like me in hollywood. i'm david daniel. well, that just looks so adorable marcel and the voice is perfect. abc 7 news streaming 24/7 get the abc 7 bay area streaming tv app and you can join us whenever you want. wherever you are. all right, that's going to do it for this edition of abc 7 news at 4. i'm larry beale abc 7 news at five is next as we leave you

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