kia forte kia movement that inspires building a better bay area moving forward findings solutions. this is abc 7 news. no guns in the hands. of people that are not mature enough and capable of using them appropriately. searching for solutions to gun violence in the wake of a deadly spate of shootings in oakland tonight. we're looking at crime prevention programs implemented in other cities that could help keep people in 51st avenue and international boulevard about 11:30 last night. posters found a man who died of gunshots inside that fan during the investigation police realized that the shooting

likely happened on the freeway oakland police then turned the case over to the chp a motive for the shooting is still under investigation and no arrests have been made. this is the fifth homicide of the year on an oakland freeway abc 7 is committed to finding solutions to some of the bay area's biggest problems. your safety is top of mind in oakland following a violent few days four people were shot and killed over 18 hours. so what's the solution the states attorney general mentioned the success the gun prevention program in diego today abc 7 news reporter ryan curry looked into that program how it works and whether it could be used in oakland. attorney general rob bontes said this week, california and the city of oakland can do better when it comes to stopping gun violence his solution san diego that city has a restraining order program that takes guns away from people who may use them for harm the oakland city attorney's office can implement that now i think should that will help prevent gun violence from happening in the first

place the way it works is people can approach the city or police to investigate someone who may cause harm using a gun that person then would appear in civil court a judge then can stop a person from having or buying a gun for at least a year if they deem that person to be a threat to themselves or others. it is part of a state legislature but cities need to implement the law at the civil level. they could address situations for someone who is a threat to themselves or to others that are guns can be removed. therese. timer is with san diegans for gun violence prevention. she says san diego has implemented the laws for several years and she says it is kept people safer. there are times with domestic violence threats with threats in the workplace. there are a variety of examples where violence has been averted through the use of this law the abc7 data team compared to the number of homicides between the two cities through june of this year oakland had seen 54 homicides while san diego has

seen 30 that is 12.8 homicides per 100,000 people in oakland and only 2.1 in san diego get their hands on weapons. they're gonna use it. lisa hill is a criminal justice professor at cal state east bay. she says two things come to mind when looking at oakland's crime problem high motion. and too much accessibility gun accessibility and when you put those two together you're gonna get weapons. violations you're gonna get shooting oakland. this week has seen four homicides homicides all of them involving guns. dr. hill says oakland needs to consider policies like what is being done in san diego to help keep the city safer. the only option is to get guns? out of who are not mature enough. to use them. we reached out to oakland city attorney's office and they

declined a comment in the east bay ryan curry abc 7 news. oakland is receiving three million dollars from the gilead foundation for violence prevention. this money will help focus on stopping crime before it starts by targeting families with children primarily in middle school. the city's department of violence has been working to identify students and families who could be at risk and focusing on them. it also puts on town night this events which seek to build better relationships within the community.

oakland mayor libby schaaf has tested positive for covid-19 a spokesperson for the mayor's office says a schaff has been experiencing symptoms and is self-quarantining at home mayor schaff will follow cdc guidelines, of course before returning to public events current guidelines state anyone who's covid positive should stay home and isolate from others for at least five days in san francisco a musical theater company is reporting that the ticketing platform. they've been using for more than a decade hasn't paid them the proceeds of their latest show abc 7 news reporter lose pain. yes spoke to the executive artistic director for musical theater works and the better business bureau, which confirmed there are multiple people who are waiting to get their money back. this is a story you'll see only on seven. after a week of the accelerating show the music man by the san francisco non-profit musical theater works their team realize their proceeds had not come in. we've reached out at least a dozen times and gotten the same automatic response since may christina lasso and her team have been trying to get a response from brown paper tickets the ticketing platform. they've been using for over a decade this company owes them over $14,000 in show proceeds. so several months without getting paid. how is this impacting your nonprofit a lot? yeah. i mean, it's a substantial chunk of our income brown paper tickets easy seattle-based company musical theater works file. they complained with the seattle branch of the better business bureau and then took it a step further and we also reached out to the attorney general of washington turns out christina and her team are not alone joel hoffman with the santa rosa

non-profits compassion without borders recently gathered taking money after a year and eight months of waiting on brown paper tickets they held on to twenty thousand dollars in ticket proceeds for us. i kept email and i'm saying where's my money? where's my money this bay area comedian. had to wait a year for the proceeds of one of her shows for me to get my 281 in 2020 the washington state attorney general filed a lawsuit against brown paper tickets last year. they announced an estimated 45,000 event. resource and others would receive a total of approximately 9 million dollars from the ticketing company, but even after that lawsuit this year alone the better business bureau has received 160 to complaints against brown paper tickets on the bbb's website. they have an f rating. we're seeing that on the business side. maybe it's a business as in this case that host their production was selling tickets through brown paper tickets, and they

did not receive those funds when those once those tickets were sold, but we're seeing it from the consumer side as well. we've reached out to brown paper tickets and did not get a response now other non-profits and small business owners vanting together in search of a solution. i say just stay with it. don't let brown paper ticket. take your money in san francisco loose pena abc 7 news. a historic san francisco hotel is facing foreclosure. according to our media partners at the east bay times. the huntington hotel is in default on its mortgage. the bank is seeking to foreclose on the 56.2 million dollar loan the nob hill hotel its restaurant and spa have been closed since the start of the pandemic and remain closed until further notice. today's san francisco. mayor london breed helped celebrate the recent opening of a new housing community for young adults exiting homelessness in san francisco. the mayor toured casa esperanza located on 16th street. the mission district it features

25 affordable units each with its own bathroom and shared kitchen space as well as on-site social services. the mayor says the facility is part of her administration's effort to end homelessness for people ages 18 to 24 a place for people with disabilities who are experiencing homelanders homelessness can call home for at least a little while is about to open in berkeley a homeless action center held an open house today for a seven bed facility on hayes street that they will operate. this is the first for them the safe haven housing called almost home will provide a temporary place to live for up to seven people who are in the process of securing disability benefits. we're really excited to to work with the county to figure out who all is going to be able to be able to live here and it is a temporary placement. it's up to three months as we finish their cases and we get them moved into permanent affordable housing. jonathan marley says the homeless action center has been working and planning to open a place like this for years and hopes. it will be the first of many to

come if you're eligible for california's one-time payment to offset rising inflation. you could receive your money in the next few weeks. the first round will be sent via direct deposit between october 7th and 25th. more payments will continue to be sent through january these payments range from $200 to 1,050 based on your 2020 tax filing. all right still ahead and you study about the impact of nighttime car charging what we're learning about its toll on the electric grid and the slight modifications that could actually help abc 7 news at 5:00 continues in a mom

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building early this morning near center road and silverdale avenue one window on an apartment unit was damaged by a loose tire as well. police say when they arrived individuals in the vehicle had fled the scene police were able to find the self-identifying 18 year old male driver and two juvenile occupants the drivers facing charges of driving. under the influence the best time of day to charge electric vehicles may not be when you think stanford researchers say even they were surprised abc 7 news reporter. zach fuentes spoke with one of the researchers about why they say the habits we've developed should change. the deadline to ban sales of new gas-powered cars is looming

though. the goal is for the band to start in 2035 researchers. say attention has to be paid to the electric. grid. we need more capacity in the grid to support that charging ramrodical power was one of the authors on this stanford study it focuses on charging infrastructure access and the impacts on the already stressed electric grid as more electric vehicles are adopted they found that if a third of homes in a

neighborhood have electric vehicles and they all charge their cars at 11pm the local grid could become unstable a surprise for us. you know that this daytime charging can make a significant difference but charging vehicles during the day from work or other shared charging infrastructures could help by 2035. the electric grid will be able to tap

kevin: i've fought wildfires for twenty years. here's the reality we face every day. this is a crisis. we need more firefighters, more equipment, better forest management to prevent wildfires and reduce toxic smoke. and we need to reduce the tailpipe emissions that are driving changes to our climate.

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lower. longer. breakthrough prize after discovering the cause of narcolepsy narcolepsy causes distorted sleep and dr. manuel found that it is an autoimmune disorder that interferes with the brain neurotransmitter called orexin orexin promotes wakefulness and block sleep and the ut southwestern researcher who discovered ericsson will share the three million dollar prize these discoveries pave the way for new treatments to

prevent or promote sleepiness, depending on the patient well as we navigate our way through another fire season a new study from stanford is revealing more about the staggering toll really that wildfires are taking on public health. it looks specifically at the dangerous health effects of wildfire smoke and just how many people are now being affected by it abc 7 news meteorologist mike. nico has more watching the smoky air pour into bay area cities the potential health risk from increasing intense wildfires seems obvious, but now a team from stanford is revealing just how urgent the threat may be marshall burke is in the associate professor at the university's door school of sustainability. he says the team used in artificial intelligence model to examine the spread of a particularly dangerous form a smoke pollution. they found that 10 years ago the number of people living in areas experiencing at least one day per year of unhealthy air was in the hundreds of thousands now roughly a decade later. that number has swelled to millions what we found was that

the number of people exposed to at least one of those days a bad day or a really bad day it gone up just just mass. ively again their measurement centered on a specific type of smoke particle pollution known to lodge deep in the lungs and impact the bloodstream one of the really difficult things to study is is what happens when people are as you said like exposed, you know early on in their life and then keep being exposed. and so what is that cumulatively do to a person she believes the study coupled with emerging data could help drive decisions about safety precautions such as masking smoke filtration and shelter in place days professor burke also believes a study could influence strategy decisions, like prescribed burns deliberately thinning brush and fuel from force to lessen the frequency and intensity of the worst wildfires. that's something we absolutely need to do. we need to scale it up. it's going to be hard. it's going to be expensive. we have millions of acres that need to be treated, but it's something we can do while the potential public health threat

is staggering the stanford team also believes a study can be a call for action perhaps driving policy dec. to help combat the explosive fire seasons to come mike nico abc7 news. all right, just to put all of this in a bit of perspective the study found the number of people experiencing unhealthy air in their neighborhood increased 27 times over the last decade that really is a huge increase. yeah, it really is. all right. well summer return just in time for fall. that's exactly basically. i'm about tower breaks down, right? yeah. it's so strange how mother nature has a way of doing the warm-up right as fall is going to begin. we're just minutes away now, dan and alma i want to show you live picture from our kgo roof camera, you're seeing blue skies as we're getting ready to close out summer a nice breeze blowing as you can see there. so yes the first day of autumn is tonight the tunnel equinox takes place at 6:03.

the sun's rays will be directly over the equator and it's that time of year when the nights are cool enough to where you virus sweater in the mornings a little bit cool. not today though as you will notice temperatures are up two to eight degrees this afternoon, and we're going to keep that going as we look from our east bay hills. era towards mount diablo right now clear as skies warming trend continues through the weekend temperatures. well above average for fall and a cooler pattern sets up the middle of next week on live doppler 7. it's pretty much a quiet picture blue skies from our san rafael camera. i mean just absolutely gorgeous here 69 in the city 74 in oakland. you're in the low 80s for san jose palo alto 66 and a half moon bay as we take a look at a live picture from our sutro tower camera. it is clear over san francisco

79 in santa rosa. you're at 82 in napa 76 petaluma low 80s concord. livermore are warmest spots have managed to get up into the mid 80s now tonight some fog will reform it pushes locally inland. so right near the bay. you're going to start out with some thick fog like we have this morning and that continues through about 8am before the fog will start to pull away. i think the computer models over doing this a little bit pretty much everyone should see the sun tomorrow afternoon temperatures first thing in the morning morning will be in the 50s 60s. watch out for the fog at least near the coast and bay for the afternoon in the south bay. it's going to be warmer than today 87 in san jose 90 in gilroy 84 degrees in sunnyvale on the peninsula you're looking at mid 80s from redwood city to palo alto 72 half moon bay downtown san francisco. 76 degrees low 70s sunset district daily city north bay

numbers. you're gonna be in the upper 80s for many areas from san rafael to vallejo. so warm 90 in calistoga as we head towards the east bay 80 in berkeley 82 oakland, how about mid 80s around castro valley fremont temperatures in the low 90s for the warmest spots in lynn 92 fairfield 91 concord 90 in livermore accuweather seven day forecast the warming continues tomorrow. it's warm to hot weather to start off the weekend mid-90s inland mid 70s coast and it's still going to hold for sunday above average monday, and then those temperatures will start to trend lower closer to average by the of next week and i think we'll be ready. it's that kind of weather where you need like a pumpkin spice. latte doesn't sound good and any weather is good with a pumpkin. it is absolutely thanks and well an effort is underway to figure out how to address ongoing concerns about wild pigs in california the state fish and game commission in california department of fish and wildlife held a virtual public forum today to discuss the damage caused by wild pigs and explore ways to control their numbers. this is video from 2020 of pigs that were destroying a yard in the san jose home a 2015 report by the university of california estimated the economic damage nationally caused by wild pigs at 1.5 billion dollars. as a farmer, you know and a

landowner i seen it directly that the impact of these wild pigs can have i've seen it out in the wilderness where they destroy habitat and and they are dangerous and both to humans pets and other animals, but they're really they're impacted is can't be undereste understated. a bill allowing greater hunting of wild pigs is currently on the governor's desk. well still ahead here honoring pioneering labor leader and civil rights activist dolores huerta will tell you about the announcement from one of the uc systems research

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salonpas, it's good medicine. happy 100 first birthday to betty read saucekin. she was the national park services oldest ranger until she

retired earlier this year. she worked at the rosie the riveter world war ii homefront national historical park in richmond, and although she's retired. she continues to volunteer for a virtual chat on most thursdays a middle school in el sobrante was recently renamed in honor of soskin. happy birthday. we're still trying to figure out why she retired early, but after just a hundred, well finally tonight uc santa cruz will be renaming its research center for the americas after social justice leader dolores huerta next month the says where it says legacy has influenced the center's work over the last 30 years the soon-to-be doors where to research center for the americas is the first center in the us system to combine perspectives from latinx ethnic studies and latin american area studies dolores tuerta co-founded the united farm workers union with says our chavez in 1962 and has been recognized for her 60 years of community organizing. she's received a presidential medal of freedom in 2012.

thanks for joining us tonight. i'm on a date and i'm dan ashley for all of us. we appreciate your time. we'll see you again at 6 o'clock.

kevin: i've fought wildfires for twenty years. here's the reality we face every day. this is a crisis. we need more firefighters, more equipment, better forest management to prevent wildfires and reduce toxic smoke. and we need to reduce the tailpipe emissions that are driving changes to our climate. that's why cal fire firefighters, the american lung association, and the california democratic party support prop 30. prevent fires. cut emissions. and cleaner air. yes on 30.

tonight, breaking news. the category 4 hurricane now taking aim at bermuda. hurricane fiona, winds 130 miles per hour. a hurricane warning now in effect at this hour for bermuda. hurricane-force winds stretching 70 miles from the eye. the hurricane running parallel to the east coast. the concern from florida right up through new york tonight. we're also watching the next tropical threat, the models that show that threat could be headed for florida. rob marciano in bermuda tonight with the new tracks on all of this. tonight, former president trump suffering a major blow by three appeals court judges. two of whom he appointed. the judges deciding the justice department can go through those classified documents seized at mar-a-lago. and the former president's claim overnight that a president can declassify anything even by just thinking about it.