♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ if you are happy and you know it ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ clap your hands ♪ >> happy faces in oakland today as the new school year got underway. good evening. >> thanks for joining us. it is another year, of course, living with covid. another year experiencing teacher shortages, but despite these issues, students and team fors all ofly excited about the first day of classes. >> when there news room with day one. reporter: guys, do you know what this means? it means summer is over. but let me tell you, kids in in oakland start the school year

early. the tradeoff is they finish before a lot of other districts in may. now the school we went to was bustling with ends that you asm then a desire to have a normal year. >> are you excited about the first day? >> yeah. i can't hear you. >> yeah. [cheering and applauding] ♪ ♪ >> reporter: there race newed sense of optimism for a normal school year in oakland despite shortage of educators in the district. >> we have 90 vacancies, but they are actually fully covered by central office staff, that are ser at this time call ited. reporter: recruiting teachers is a priority at oakland unified while mass bees are nong lower required in schools. many are still wearing them because covid is still our reality. we had about 38 absences today as we know covid is still, you know,ar n active part of the ecosystem. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

reporter: nor transitional class at montclair elementary, the first day was about going with the flow and making new friends. >> i just hope all of us will grow and learn and kids will know they are safe, they are wise and they are loved. ♪ oakland sea mayor has made it tradition to be here on the first day of school. >> from all of us who had very hard few years, seeing the resilience, the excitement of our children is what is always going to give us hope. >> reporter: there will be her last as mayor because she well be termed out. >> oakland unified says it is looking for passion aith educators to join them. they are asking foam contact recruitment at ousd. org. now issue here is, of course, the other districting facing the same problem, and they are competing with each other, so it is not an easy task. on the newsroom, abc 7 news.

>> that slip, not. thank you. let's take a look at the start dates her to or big school districts thun bay area. students in unified head back to class saturday, this saturday, what am i talking about? thursday, the 1th then next tuesday followed by francisco annex wednesday. >> of course, the return to school comes years after questions. things are looking up. abc 7 news reporter dustin dorr six plains how to schoolar is likely to start off with fewer covid issues. reporter: as the days on the calendar turn from july to august, the season turns from summer to school. for the third year in a row, the schools across the bay area welcoming students back made the pandemic. san jose yoonfied doesn't have the same restrictions as last fall but still approaching the year with caution due to the unpredictability of covid. we don't know what to expect exactly and we are still seeing

community spread, we are seeing covid in the community. as long as it in the come tin we know it will be in schools as well. we want to make sure we are minimizing the transmission within thele schools as much as po possible and will do this through health and safety guidelines this week including recommend das on masks, the doctor says mine ty could make the start of this school year smoother than in year's past. this school year is a lot df rent because we have a lot more tools look we done adults. i think the biggest difference for this school year compared to last school year is a lot of kids have gotten covid naturally. reporter: in fact, a lot of people have gotten covid naturally. the doctor says the mix from infection and vaccination gives us all a high drid i man toy the virus the ba5 variant continue to be the dominant strain cove individual in the come in this. you if you got it, you should be farley safe from rein fex. they have at least lemonts off if it is dominant. if we get a new variant, or sub

var yip, thele radios may change and maybe a shorter window period. but for right now, it is at least three months. possibly longer. reporter: the doctor says hybrid immunity allows the bo are bod dow better fitting off and the protection should help for the bells ring for another school year. we are signing into relatively good start of the school year because the curb is coming down the area right now. so it may be a good period of time where kids can kids. reporter: but dilt unt doesn't mean you don't navigate the world cautiously. reporter: in san jose, abc 7 news. >> happening now, a rally is being held outside of this health and human services office a the federal building. activists are demanding more action to slow the spread of monkeypox. they want more test, tream, vaccine doses and while they say local and federal emergency deck rations are the first step they want official look ahead to longer term needs like increasing vaccine production. this comes as the san francisco be about blick health department

is confirming a report by the san jose mercury new on contact tracing and monkeypox. today the media partner reported they are pulling back on the contact tracing efforts the health department now says it shifted from direct contract tracing to encourage self referral of contacts four weeks ago. adding "we continue to outreach to some contacts that provided then focusing the case investigation effort to pacific groups that may signal something nup the epidemiology including youth uber 18 years of age, then any person who could become pregnant and people whole are pregnant among others." >> tonight, we are learning more about the suspect arrested in the random assault of a former long time commissioner abc 7 news anchor brought the story for you last week and joinings now live with update on 7. reporter: well, i have obtained images captured by cameras of the suspect arrested for the attack. on the heels of his and other

high-profile attacks on asian american, i asked brook jenkin what is next. when i visited with him friday, he was in bad shape. got punched in the face. kicked, beaten. reporter: greg, who is in the 70's, had been assaulted across the street from his foam at 30 folsom tuesday evening. he suffered broken bones and could not munsterth to flange the hospital gown days later. >> he hit me so hard. you i know, i was doesn't on the ground. i didn't know what mend. reporter: i also broke the news sunday afternoon, an arrest had been made. officers from the station used surveillance video mainds like these in their investigation to locate and arrest 34-year-old derrick yerby when i checked in on greg today. he was relieved. >> i was not expecting that. such a situation. i was quite delighted that happened. reporter: in response to craig's attack and robbery of 70 year odd at the north beach houting

complex. the aapi community held this rally sunday. multiple groups demand action. something the new district attorney book brook jenkins aknocked today. want the aaip community no know regardless of whether or not we are able to charge a hate crime. this is, this is still a very serious violent attack. that will be treated as such. reporter: yerby doesn't have any prior arrest from the passing 90 days but though complete record will be stent the da. jenkin says priors into karling will be a priority. a people want to see that hays in peeing. they have been struggling with the fact for the last two and a half near yearest there not seen it shall so i want to be transparent and upfront with them about what we are doing to make sure the types i have a takes stop. reporter: as he continues to heal, he hopes other victims will become vocal like he did and prompt more action from the cripple call justice system. it is kinds of awaking to me. also, an awakening for other people who may have had

experiences like that in the past and, like my gosh, then speak out. it its pretty much and crisis. reporter: we should point, that earlier in the day, jenkins filed paper to work run to keep her job in november and told me give in the public's concern over cases like greg's she is working on a vulnerable victim's unit which will with specialize in cases can involving hate crimes in olders something the da's office never had in the past. then newsroom, abc 7 news. >> en colleging. glad greg is doing belter. thanks. four homicide, one attempted homicide, sideshows with hundreds of par tins pans and a burglary call police could not goal. though are making of another violent deadly weekend win oakland now the police chief issued a call to the come. people are going to have to speak out. people are going to have to say something. you can not relay on the police department to solve everything. we won't in able to do. we don't have the resource.

>> chief armstrong says the department is so short staffed, they simply don't have enough officers to keep up with the crime. he approximately gised to the owners of the cannabis business after officers were unable to respond to a call of reported burglary. the chief says they were overbecomed at the time of multiple scenes in including a shooting, a sexual assault, a barricade suspect. >> police have busted a metal recycling business in free month accused of buying stolen car parts. investigators say arrow recovery has been knowingly buying stolen cat la tiltic converts for several months and repeatedly sold cut converts to arrow recovery that were marked stolen or other markings suggest they had been aisle lyle obtained. police found more than 300 converts and other evidence on the property. investigators say, they have seen a drop in catalytic converter thefts since the initial bust in june. there is some breaking news about fommer president donald trump. multiple sources confirmed to abc news, that the fbi raided trump's marrow lag go resort

home today. just a short time ago, former president trump put out a statement saying investigators even got into the safe. neither trump or any member of his family were there. souringses tell abc new, the search was related to 15 box of documents,ment trump took to marrow lag go. some of which the national archives has said were marked as "classified." >> after the break, cool it be a win-win solution to bring more housing to the south way? a flon generate new source of revenue then create hundreds of apartments and jobs. abc 7 news at

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housing. >> david louie shows us how it could be a win-win situation to build more housing while generateing a new source of revenue for dta. reporter: the seven and a half acres at the light rail station can help san jose with the housing needs and allow to raise additional operateth praying funds. a develop envisioned building 328 apartments, comingmersion space, a community room, as part of a vision to put housing and johns where people will have easy access to public tran sit. vta says kite raise $30 million by leasing 140 acres of surplus willing land it owns in seven cities. can prove for connection, better connects to the station, it is capital improvements that can provide for operations for the system. revenue is something every transit agency needs to sustain operations. due to the fall-off in ridership during the pandemic. vta bus service at 61% prepandemic levels. the plan comes can up before san

jose city council tuesday. housing advo cation support the proposal. >> it is so important to take that under utilized land and build housing on it. then create transit riders. which with whatever think about transit as taxpayers we want to see people using our system, paying for our system, supporting our systems. reporter: once approved, project can like this can in delayed due to short age of construction workers. however, the first step is city approval of the environmental zoning so the developer can preside. they would invest in construction drawings. they would be working with the city to get their building permits. i think you would see a groundbreaking in 2024. 2025. reporter: in san jose, david louie, abc 7 news. >> all right. after the break, an alert for twitter users after recent data breach and it is being called fee flation. what should keep an eye on the next time you go to a restaurant. restaurant. we will

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>> time now for scenelines including a scheme tricking airline passengers. we begin with restaurant fees that you should be wear of. 7 on your side is here with those details. michael. reporter: hey, when you check into a hotel, you know you are going to get hilt with extra charges , resort fees and such when you buy airline ticket, you flow are a bunch of fees to navigate. window seat fee, baggage fees, al the rest. the restaurant industry is learning how to stack fees, too. it is being called fee flation. covid fees where extra money is collected for employees on top of your tip. health tax fees in san prans doe cover unemployment or i should say employment rules requiring health care for workers and the mandatory tip, you note it is common for parties of 6, 8, or more are now turning when 2 people are dining. restaurants must notify you about the charges before you

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>> that is frustrating all right. michael, thanks. >> yeah. a population bay dine ter is shut certificating after two decades bin bus negotiation. rudy sea camp fail cafe announced the immediate closure on facebook today. the post didn't offer specifics but says it is time for rudy to pass the torch the diaper was owned by other location in uptown oakland closed in 2018. >> all right. monday kick off another week. yes, our meter ol lotes gis here for the forecast. mike. mike: yeah. really nice weekend spilling into this week. yeah. a nice day today. we do have a little bit warmer weather. as has been the case since we put june in the rearview mirror. there is nothing extreme coming or way. let's talk a look to show what is going on and what you are ing to see. there is a little bit of a breeze. it is that breeze that is going to hang around until 9:00 that continues to keep us in this cool pattern. at least slightly cooler than average. now if you look to the distance

from the hills. you can see the thunder boomers over the sierra. man, is it electric over there once again. thankfully the rain is reaching the ground and so far we have not heard of any fire starts. mostly cloudy by morning all week then minor buy and coast changes that means temperatures will fluctuate a degree or two every day and a slow warming trend for the inland neighborhoods then need to turn the air concern back on and aum cov days away. look at this. 62 degrees then it was so warm. the ocean that it kept san reasons' low 61 degrees yesterday which with is a record warm low temperature and right now, tied for one that dropped to only 60 this morning. which ties a record warm low temperature. so that is what that look of upwelling with is doing then at least close her to coast in places like san francisco then 67 now. then 70's everywhere else around the buy and inland neighbor-the breeze is shaking in emery ill and the areas under the small craft advisories so be careful

out there then going for the evening walk enjoy clean air. if you are thinking about doing yard wor order gapping comfortable temperatures. there is a thunderstorm erupting over the sierras the high pressure continues to be stationed far enough away that we are not having to deal with any dry thunderstorms in fact it is this low that kind of took the lid off the atmosphere today. then washed out the line and we saw so much sunshine at the coast today you. >> the broken deck of clouds come back the mid 5's to low 60's tomorrow, 77 to 82 through the south bay. mid 80's for morgan hill and gilroy. 70's mid to upper 70's with afternoon breezes once gain then mid 60's along the coast. then, to it upper 60's downtown san francisco the 74 in south san francisco. 69 and then 77 to 82 in the north bay then you head to east bay then a lot of low to mid 70's then even some 70's as you head to the inland neighborhoods then 80 to 86 degrees so here is a look at the acuwatt we're

seven day. a couple of degrees warmer away the coast tomorrow then thursday. then that is about as warm as the bay is going to get around 80 then you can see, it tapers a little bit a couple of degrees high with the inland neighbor host warm friday, saturday, sunday, monday to the low to mid 90's. nice. wr warm but not extreme. thank you. you bet. remembrances are pouring in as fans are remember olivia newton-john who pass away today at her home in southern california. the grammy-wrinning superstar reigned on dance charts with with hits such as "physical" she won countth hears playing sandy opposite of john travolta in a block buster film version. newton-john moved to all yale when she was five. in addition to the performing career, she was well-known as tireless advocate for breast cancer research in early detection and nationed with disease in 1992 and returned in 2013. then in 2017, she was diagnosed with with spine cancer.

1:00 olivia newton-john was 73 years old. john travolta posted on stain gram saying: "you made all of our lives so much better." your impact was incredible. i love you so much. we will see you down the rad and we will all be together again. yours from the first moment i say you and forever. your dandy, your john. well be a brights.

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