find new roads at your local chevy dealer. moving forward finding solutions. this is abc 7 news. a father of yet another victim of celebratory gunfire at the a's game on july 4th is coming forward his 11 year old son. had to have a full bullet removed from his elbow. good evening. i'm kristen z and i'm on a date abc 7 news. anchor dion limb spoke with that boy's father about how the team responded. it's a story you'll see only on seven. we thought it was a safe place to celebrate fourth of july that sense of security was shattered for albert cottrell the fourth and oland a's game on independence day. the first fireworks go off. and once that happens my son grabs his shoulder lift it up his shirt and i could see the whole in his shoulder. it was a crater about the size of a penny. there was me like fat from his

shoulder that was on his shirt albert's 11 year old son who requested anonymity was one of six people hit by celebratory gunfire. yeah. i'd have surge he um this past friday on july 5th oakland's police chief the a's and the mayor told the public those individuals were hit by bull. fragments it wasn't until i broke the story of this man's 26 year old daughter that opd acknowledged event goers being hit by actual bullets not fragments. she was also at the game and had a full round removed from her hand. he down to a fragment. a fragment come on. that's not right. it's not right you guys today at the oakland alameda county coliseum authority meeting officials reiterated that oakland police. say the gunfire came from a mile away officials also say there was no security breach on coliseum property. i consulted with two firearms experts including donald max knoll who spent 31 years with the fbi. he says it's nearly impossible

to determine the distance of bullet travels and you've got weather conditions and wind and there's a lot of determining all of those are variables to determine how far away that round was fired from i think is extremely problematic. could it have been as close as the parking lot? i'm sure that's possible. i reached out to the a's and opd for additional comment and police said they'd get back to me. albert says he heard from a vp with the a's shortly after the fourth, but it wasn't with a message. he wanted to hear he extended his his condolences and offered offered my son and us tickets. a's game and he would pay he would citizen once we without one game and he would buy us food for that game offended is the word that i would use albert says his son is resilient but never wants to attend a baseball game. again, dad is now asking the a's and the city to do better there needs to be some remedy offered to him. this isn't about me. this isn't about his mom. this is about the six people

that are that got shot. that's it meaning other people from getting shot in oakland dion limb abc 7 news also in the east bay the family of alexis gabe is going to look for her. once again tomorrow. the search is planned in oakley near where her iphone screen protector was found gabe disappeared at the end of january. she was last seen leaving the antioch home of her ex-boyfriend marshall jones jones was killed by law enforcement in june when police moved into arrest him in the seattle suburb and he charged at them with a knife crews have also scoured pioneer in the sierra foothills based on notes investigators. say we're written by jones. cases continue to surge. could we see masked mandates return in the bay area abc 7 news reporter lose peña is part of our vaccine team. she asked local health officials that question and also spoke with several experts about the effectiveness of vaccines against ba-5 lose. yes, kristen, the latest cdc data is placing every bay area county under the high level of

transmission category, but health officers are looking at hospitalizations and even though they're going up slightly with. five they tell me it's not high enough to reinstate a mass-mandate yet. the cdc's latest date i is placing all nine bay area counties in the red for high levels of covid transmission. the culprit is omicron's subvariant be a 5 becoming the dominant strain. not only locally but nationwide ef5 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. and 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 people 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 be somewhere between 8 to 12 weeks would be a five cases surging you supercles infectious diseases expert dr. john schwarzberg 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. in 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 red 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. now anything can change the upcoming weeks, but for now experts tell me we need to go back to the basics masking and getting vaccinated and boosted in the newsroom loose peña abc 7 news. and turning now to monkey pox the federal government announced today. it's ordering two and a half million doses of the monkeypox vaccine, but it's not clear when it will get here the san francisco department of health says it has no more doses to administer just last week the

san francisco aids foundation had 500 people. a waiting list for the vaccine today that number has grown exponentially there is concern that upcoming street fairs in the city will spark an outbreak. i wish it had learned from the previous epidemic that we had then take being proactive taking action. while the region waits the cdc says there are options other than a vaccine like avoiding skin contact with people who have rashed that looks like monkeypox. in the north bay, marin county is reporting two probable cases of monkeypox county officials. say both have all the markings of being monkeypox. they're just awaiting confirmation from the centers for disease control. marin county is also facing a vaccine shortage and has asked to the state for doses. you have questions about monkey pox go to abc7news.com to get information about monkeypox cases testing and vaccines in the bay area a collision between an amtrak train and a union pacific vehicle left a railroad worker with serious injuries

today. the worker was operating what's known as a high rail crane when it was hit by a southbound amtrak train at 50th avenue in oakland around 11 o'clock this morning. we're told some people aboard the capital corridor train bound for san jose were hurt the front of the train sustained significant damage and a hazardous materials team had to be called in to clean up diesel fuel that spilled during the crash. crews are starting to flood a marsh in contra costa county to put out a stubborn wildfire that's been causing air quality concerns sky 7 was over the pittsburgh bay point area this afternoon as the water as you see started rushing in it's burning in peat, which is decaying vegetation firefighters say this makes it nearly impossible to put out the marsh fire started at the end of may and flared up last weekend. it's been smoldering and putting up a lot of smoke we're gonna keep you updated on progress that that flooding makes all right, a meteorologist handy patel joins us now sandia the fire led to another air quality

advisory today. yeah, unfortunately and that has been extended through monday and with good reason by the air district. let's take a look at a live picture right now from our east bay hills camera. we definitely have some haze out there air quality for the bay area will be good for most areas. but as you take a look here down below air quality advisory for eastern contra costa county through monday. to the wildfire smoke from the marsh fire. we look at the current air quality and you will notice some yellows there in parts of contra costa county. it's a moderate air quality later on tonight. it could get worse just like we saw last night right now. it is 86 degrees windsor west northwest 15 miles an hour as you check out the winds. they're going to remain gusty dropping off a little bit around noon, but only to pick back up that's a windy area. anyhow, but here's the concern it's going to get hotter tomorrow and we know that some people there don't have air conditioning. but when you have that smoke you want to avoid the smoke and keep your windows and doors closed put your ac on recirculate so you might want to find a place that has air conditioning where you can be indoors and safe

because the heat is going to continue through the weekend. i'll be back with a full look at the accuweather 7-day forecast coming up kristen my great info. thanks sandia the washburn fire in yosemite national park is now the state's second largest of the season burning more than 4,700 acres containment is at 31 percent vanessa. fellows with her sister station in fresno got a close-up look today at the ongoing effort to save the park's famous giant sequoias. no, we can only do what we can to step by step steep. rocky. terrain is only half the battle for fire crews on the front lines of the washburn fire dry conditions are being met with temperatures nearing the triple digits derek sunlight, you know in it gives more fuel to the to the fire. he is more heat to us. it's just it's tiring but we got to do what we got to do to protect the wilderness here. we'll make fire captain alex reynoso is one of 1500 pairs of boots on the ground protecting the iconic yosemite national park to protect these giant sequoias to protect the the

wilderness up here in yosemite. it's a great honor his strike team was part of the initial attack on the fire. work to build containment continues because it's so thick the firefighters have to cut fire line down to bare earth so that the roots will not carry fire underneath the fire line aeroteks continue to provide relief for crews on the ground. we got our first look at the pulsa grove of giant sequoias those signs of fire are visible yosemite fire pio mark ruggero says the trees will still stand tall. we're not out of the woods, but we're closer outside of the plume of smoke. you see behind me. there are relatively clear skies, which allows for more aircraft to help fight this fire. we've seen helicopters as well as air tankers making drops to help boost containment lines. well that's going to be critical to help fire crews on the ground as we head into this weekend reporting in yosemite vanessa vasconcellos. c7 news developing news out of shasta county where wildfire has turned destructive. the peter fire is near anderson

and has destroyed at least a dozen structures so far. it's burned just over 300 acres and is 34% contained. there are some evacuation orders in place so far. there are no reports of any injuries. anderson is about 10 miles south of redding elon musk is pushing back against twitter's lawsuit to force him to buy the company for 44 billion dollars he ask court in delaware to reject the social media companies to request for a trial in september musk says, it is quote to unjustifiable and he wants the trial held in february twitter asked for the date because it says the deal has a closing deadline in october. it sued mosque after he announced last week. he was going to walk away from his bid in a filing today must attorney says twitter is trying to railroad him into closing. it was just days ago a large homeless camp in oakland went up in plains again. now caltrans is responding what is going to do starting next week. the gloves have definitely come off in the san jose mayoral race the new advertisement that has

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obviously, there was definitely a large continued to witnesses out there small businesses that may been open although early. we're still looking through all the i done facts hoping that folks who were there and perhaps have not spoken toward executives can come forward and provide their testimony. homicide detectives are currently combing through all evidence and surveillance. this is the city of san jose's 22nd homicide this year. we're months away from the november election, but racists are getting heated including the san jose mayoral race. one of the candidates says a new ad by his opponent is misrepresenting his stance on a major issue 87 news reporter zach fuentes spoke with experts about why it seems like we're seeing more of these ads and if they're effective the race for san jose mayor is on santa clara county supervisor cindy chavez and san jose city councilmember matt mahan both differ on their approaches to fixing issues like homelessness and crime one area they seem to agree on is women's reproductive rights chavez wrote an op-ed in the mercury news in support of abortion access matt

mahan telling me this friday morning. i fully support a woman's right to choose but mayhan says a new ad from chavez's campaign misrepresents that view text matt. mahon has a pro choice position. but as a tech ceo matt mahan said his company wouldn't take sides the ad uses bites from an interview mayhan did as a tech ceo of a type of social media for civic engagement in the interview the ad uses he's asked how the platform handles people pushing pro-life or pro-choice opinions. we don't want to take sides on which side of immigration abortion or any other issue we think is right. we don't think that we're very well suited to do that. i've sent her a letter asking her to stop these misleading. attacks, we reached out to the chavez campaign and have not heard back san jose state public relations professor, dr. sean. fletcher says political attack ads like this are common and work like marketing targeting what he calls the least common denominator those of us who are unwilling to go do research or those of us who are so

disillusioned by the influx and saturation of misinformation and disinformation nolan higdon a professor of history and communication says thanks to digital tools. we are seeing more political ads in years. now with data easily available to advertisers higgins says political campaigns can use its strategically and then create custom content to target that individual to shift their vote. and that's really where democracy is heading in general and that's why these attack ads are so important to pay attention to zach fuentes abc 7 news. the covid-19 pandemic set the great resignation emotion for many industries, including emts and paramedics emergency medics have lost 20 to 30 percent of their workforce every year in the past four years partly due to the large volume of calls. and burnout falk ambulance in alameda county is training more than 30 out of state medical workers to address the critical shortage. i was program is working to rapidly train medics with new high-tech crash test dummy patients. for want to be fully staffed to

the point that if anyone is anyone is to need a services that they will have those resources. very fast very quickly to make sure that they get what they need falcons offering hiring bonuses up to $60,000 for full-time hires and $10,000 for part-time workers. the disney magic is definitely back, especially this weekend wait until you hear what the park is cooking up to celebrate its anniversary.

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something. they always love her. yes. they will alma and kristen the weekend is here and let's talk about the weather. was just an absolutely beautiful day today. i want to show you live picture from our sutro tower camera while inland areas got up into the 90s right along the coast. we were in the 50s and the 60s so we pan around downtown san francisco. you could see just plenty of sun gorgeous day, but then you go and you notice that there is some fog right near the golden gate that is coming in and that's why coastal areas didn't warm much temperatures within a few degrees of yesterday's temperatures right now on live doppler. you can see some fog hanging around near the beaches. the wind is gusting to 32 at sfo where they have an airport weather warning until 7:00 pm tonight beautiful view from our golden gate bridge camera, and you can see a little bit of the fog sun mix 60 in the city 65 in oakland. ode to mid 70s around palo alto san jose 57 in half moon bay emeryville camera looking back towards the golden gate bridge. you can see the sun glistening

just really nice 85 in santa rosa. it is currently 90 in fairfield 89 in concord if you're getting away hawaiian airlines forecast, sunny and warmer at our local airports with a light breeze mid 70s to upper 80s isolated showers for honolulu 87 degrees, new york city looking at partly sunny 79 chicago a chance of some showers and thunder 81 and angeles sunny and 86 degrees ocean beach covered by a little bit of fog from our mount tam camp coastal and bayside fog overnight heating up inland. it'll be mild to the coast tomorrow and a gradual cooling trend is expected next week. we have one more night of the coastal flood advisory 11 pm tonight until 4 am saturday for those king tides. they are coming down 125 tomorrow morning just over six feet at 6.66 minor flooding is expected in the same usual spot. so just be careful if you're going to be out late at night or early in the morning. thing in the morning. you're going to see some limited fog around the coast and bay a little bit of drizzle or miss not out of the question and the fog will stay put at the coast which is why you're not going to

heat up at the beaches numbers first thing in the morning 50s 60s. watch out for that fog afternoon highs in the south bay 92 morgan hill 86 in san jose on the peninsula. you're looking at adm palo alto 62 in pacifica downtown san francisco 71 degrees north bay temperatures 88 in san rafael vallejo up to 93 in santa rosa 98. calistoga in the east bay 77 oakland 80 in fremont had inland and it's going to be hot 98 fairfield 94 in livermore 95 concord. aids walk is happening this sunday golden gate park morning fog will be followed by really nice comfortable weather when the walk begins at 10:30 and it's going to be in the low to mid 60s mild and breezy with sunshine later in the day accuweather 7-day forecast heating up inland. tomorrow temperatures will be in the mid-90s sunday inland low 60s coast and just minor gradual cooling next week will drop us into the 80s thursday friday 60s coast side. we'll take the quiet weather

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