moving forward finding solutions. this is abc 7 news. prior criminal drug convictions in alameda county and early exposure to gun violence on the streets of oakland tonight. we're learning new details about the man suspected in the stockton serial killings. good evening. thank you for joining us. i'm dan ashley and i'm a dates 43 year old wesley brownlee was arrested over the weekend police. say while out hunting for more victims abc 7 news reporter liam melendez is in the newsroom with a very latest on this disturbing story land. yeah, and we're finding out more about his past according to records obtained by our media partner the east bay times brownlee lost a brother early on

to gun violence. he was later arrested in alameda county on drug charges twice in 1999. and then in 2001, he served time and was released in 2003 police are now trying to understand what may have led him to allegedly start killing people. police arrested wesley brownlee on saturday at 2 o'clock in the morning near a park in stockton as officers made contact with him. he was wearing dark clothing around his neck. there's also armed with a firearm when he was taken into custody. we are sure we stopped another killing the district attorney there believes the weapon in the first two shootings in april 2021 was then used again. we then have a dormant period with the weapon and then it becomes back in use this summer and is involved in the five homicides. the first person killed was 40 year old juan vasquez serrano shot in his car in east oakland in april 2021. his sister told abc 7 news. the family is relieved 14

yesterday for mirmano, marie chui vasquez. serranos says justice has been served her brother is resting in peace and so is the family the second person shot and the only one to survive is natasha latour and they already had the gun out. and they and they just started shooting it was her description of the shooter that helped police link the man in this surveillance video to the shootings that followed all of them in stockton, but by now five more men had already been killed even though police knew they were probably looking for an african-american serial killer the assumption. is that most serial killers are

white men a sort of negligence that endangered always professor allen branson wrote the book the anonymity of african-american serial killers can't make any assumption about any group. oh this group only does this group only does that that's the danger. so the point being that if you don't make assumptions you can cast a wide net now a lot of the credit for capturing this alleged serial killing an elder and gabriel natalie yort to have their verdicts overturned and their last chance to get out of prison elder was on vacation in rome when he stabbed a police officer to death elder currently has a 24-year prison sentence his friend natalie ort of marin county has a 22-year sentence as an accessory to murder terrible

story in the east bay a hit and run suspect who is being chased by oakland police this morning hit and killed another driver who had nothing to do with the chase this all started friday afternoon with a hit and run on 73rd avenue at international boulevard. police. say jonathan hernandez flashed a gun at the victim of that crash and started making threats the victim de-escalated the situation and called police fast forward to this morning officers. say they spotted hernandez around 7 am they say he tried to take so they chased him the chase ended with the suspect crashing into a pickup truck and killing the driver at 69th avenue and san leandro street. not far from friday's hit and run. is perceived is being investigated by the department and at some point when the investigation is concluded this pursuit review go before a review board to determine whether it complied with policy or not. the suspect was arrested and the officers involved in the pursuit have been placed on routine administrative leave. time to say police are looking

for the person who drove on to a school campus today and opened fire with a paintball gun police say several students and one faculty member at willow glen middle school were hit none was seriously hurt classes resumed and school officials credit students for staying calm. today convicted theranos founder elizabeth holmes was back in a federal courtroom for a hearing on her request for a new trial now this comes after the prosecution star witness made an uninvited post-trial visit to holmes's house abc 7 news reporter dustin dorsey was there and explains what today's hearing means for holmes' sent. in one month theranos founder elizabeth holmes could face her sentencing after being convicted of conspiracy and wire fraud in january today a moment legal analyst stephen clark called her final stand in attempt to request a new trial this hearing today was very important to the defense team to show that the prosecution star witness may not have been reliable on the stand

in the testimony he gave at her trial that witness dr. adam rosendorff the former theranos lab director shown here sprinting away from the federal courthouse today. he was back on the stand after attempting to visit holmes following his testimony rosendorf explained that he went to holmes's bay area home to seek self-healing as he was feeling distressed about the future of holmes's child and possible soon to be newborn. despite a series of questions regarding his health and mental well-being from the defense rosendorf facts what he previously said under oath and said holmes needs to pay her debt to society at this point. it appears that dr. rosendorf isn't wavering from the testimony he gave at trial which was very important for the government's case in reaching a conviction. the judge is expected to decide in two weeks at the testimony was inaccurate or incomplete or if rosendorf was in fact feeling bad as he he said today if the motion for fails homes will face up to 20 years in prison. the next question will be the status of holmes's pregnancy clark says accommodations can be made for pregnant prisoners, but

homes will fight to delay sentencing again. she'll be asking for bail upending appeal not just for her but for her unborn child as well and saying i can't start custody. i'm pregnant. i need to deliver my child and spend time with my child before my sentencing starts if no further delays occur. sentencing will begin on november 18th in san jose dustin dorsey abc 7 news. seven people are under arrest after san jose police busted an illegal gambling ring. they say underground casinos were operating in two homes one near north capitol avenue and avenue b the other near marchant court and fleming avenue police called the underground casinos hubs for a variety of illegal activities, including buying and selling stolen property drug dealing and of course gambling. it essentially looks like a mini casino in a converted garage in a converted back room. these were not described to me

as a traditional slot machine but more of a video game type of situation where you would bet when and lose money. now detectives recovered several thousand dollars in cash stolen property and multiple casino machines. they also linked one of the operators to a stabbing that happened last month. right now secretary of state antony blinken is in the bay area earlier today. he met with tech leaders and future tech leaders about how technology will shape the future of our national security abc 7 news. anchor liz kroitz has more on how and why the state department is investigating or investing rather. excuse me in silicon valley. tech is the future of our national security. that was the message from

secretary of state antony blinken today during his visit to silicon valley. we are at our best. when we're in search and manufacturing, he began his day by joining speaker of the house nancy pelosi at the slack national accelerator laboratory and menlo park for a tour highlighting groundbreaking research in biotech and climate change blinking called the lab, which is home to a two-mile-long particle accelerator and the world's largest camera a national treasure that could help solve some challenges from climate to public health. we are reinvesting in ourselves. we're reinvesting in basic science. we're reinvesting in research and development. this is how the united states maintains this leadership around the world. it's technological leadership. we're going from detecting the tiniest particles that we just saw. to the biggest camera just get the biggest view. how remarkable during his visit lincoln also went to stanford where he held a conversation with former secretary of state condoleezza rice and a recruitment event to encourage young people to join the state department's new bureau of cyberspace and digital policy. he said the us needs to take on

a greater role in the global semiconductor industry in order to protect its national security and ease its reliance on foreign countries. he is hopeful that bay area tech companies can help make that happen part of that means actually getting back to the business of manufacturing not just inventing not just designing the technology, but actually making it here in the united states at stanford liz abc 7 news. still ahead here new details about the long-term effects of covid and the correlation between the viral infection and the aging process abc 7 news at 5 continues in just a moment.

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saving kids from nicotine addiction. vote yes on 31. newsom's office today. it was announced california's covid-19 state of emergency will end on february 28th. that's close to three years after it began on march 24th, 2020 according to the governor's office. this four-month timeline will give the healthcare system flexibility to handle any potential holiday surge next month. use some administration will ask the state legislature to codify some of the flexibility provided by some of the rules from the state of emergency including rules that allow nurses to dispense covid-19 therapeutics and provisions to make sure lab workers continue to have the ability to solely process covid-19 tests santa clara county received its supply meantime of the new bi-valent covid booster to vaccine today

for ages 5 and up the county's public health officer. that's dr. sarah cody says the new booster will help increase protection against the new sub-variance and reduces the length of the infection our research shows that less than 9% of people living in the bay area's nine counties have gotten the booster shot so far. if you had covid chances are several of organs could be aging three or four years faster abc 7 news reporter loose peña spoke to the lead scientist behind a long covid study who says getting infected multiple times could also make that aging process even worse. after over two and a half years of covid research scientists are finally seen the first data points that prove a dramatic change in human organs after a covid infection so you can start thinking about getting covid almost an excellent to aging almost as a and this is the divided infection accelerates the aging process in people dr. sia ali director of the clinical

epidemiology center at washington university in st. louis gathered data from millions of people across the country their studies on kidney outcomes in long covid long covid in the brain and long covid in the heart had similar patterns all point into multiple human organs aging faster after covid the majority happening among people who were hospitalized but also some with mild covid symptoms. almost about three to four years in the span of just one what we've seen it a people are losing about three to four percent kidney function in the year that follows that infection that will usually usually happens with aging, you know in actually four or three or four years of aging so there's a group of mission bay. we took these findings. so dr. michael peluso infectious disease the specialist at ucsf his team was one of the first in the country to begin long covid research in april of 2020. now what we're trying to do is

actually figure out why what is the biology of what causes those long-term effects dr. pelusa said his team has an idea of why some organs may be experiencing aging or injury after covid some of the theories for what might be causing long covid symptoms include persistence of the virus. so the virus instead of coming and going it might stick around inflammation autoimmune problems changes in the microbiome the good bacteria that are in our bodies even though more years of data are necessary dr. al ali believes this increased aging process will eventually stop so my huntress from the data and sort of also my hope that this really will eventually flatten out and and there are some early indication that this really maybe the case in san francisco loose pena abc 7 news. coming up here nearly two decades of effort to curb greenhouse gas emissions in california wiped out. we'll tell you how and the new details of a study on air

pollution just released stay with us. naomi: every year, the wildfires and smoke seem to get worse. jessica: there is actual particles on every single surface. cooke: california has the worst air pollution in the country. the top two causes are vehicles and wildfires. prop 30 helps clean our air. it will reduce the tailpipe emissions that poison our air. kevin: and helps prevent the wildfires that create toxic smoke. that's why calfire firefighters, the american lung association, and the coalition for clean air support prop 30. naomi: i'm voting yes on 30.

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climate change researchers. say climate change is the primary cause for the fires because of higher temperatures and drier lands. double-edged sword there. absolutely. well, we've kind of a cloudy weekend. it wasn't cloudy little cooler as sandia told us it would be but now it looks like it's warming up a bit sandy. absolutely and dananama. we're gonna actually keep the warm up that started today going the next couple of days really didn't see a whole lot of sun most of the weekend if you were fortunate. maybe you did but certainly was cooler than average live view from our santa cruz camera. we're panning around showing a beautiful view of the sun shining best time of year to hit the beaches and even the boardwalk is this time of year. so here's the blue skies there from our camera temperatures are up compared to 24 hours ago 13 degrees warmer there and fairfield 11 degrees warmer in santa rosa up 12 in livermore up five in san jose three degrees

warmer oakland not too far behind san francisco two degrees warmer. all right, the average high for san francisco is 70 degrees. we're gonna be well above average in the mid to upper 70s through wednesday before the temperatures start to slide and we drop average for the end of the week and into the weekend. here's a look at the satellite in the radar this system here is sending up some of those higher clouds today that's been filtering the sunshine, but the fog got blown away high pressure is going to command and control our weather the next couple of days, which means that warm up will continue you can see some of those high clouds on live doppler 7 right now and from our live view from our golden gate bridge camera as i step aside, let me show you the beautiful view san francisco 65 degrees upper 60s oakland palo alto. it is 74 in san jose and 72 in santa clara from our sutro tower camera and lovely view of san francisco a little hazy out there 76 in santa rosa. it's in the low 80s for fairfield 74 napa 78 in livermore and a lovely view from downtown oakland from our emeryville camera. we are looking at a warming trend to continue through midweek above average wednesday possibility of a few records cooler and breezier for the

upcoming weekend. now, let's talk about fire danger because we do have offshore winds, but fortunately we have had enough. drizzle at times to add a little moisture to the fuels now as we look at tomorrow afternoon the fire danger index because the winds aren't going to be strong will be in the low category isolated moderate as we head into wednesday the possibility of fire danger increases a little bit so there will be more areas under that moderate fire danger index. just keep that in the back of your mind, you know, this is a time of year when we are concerned about that higher clouds filtering the sunshine tomorrow, maybe some patchy fog and that's about it to start off the morning a lot of high clouds temperatures in the 50s tomorrow afternoon in the south bay. we're going to warm it even more 84 and morgan hill 82 in san jose on the peninsula 80 in redwood city 70 in pacifica, san francisco 76 degrees. it's going to be a beautiful day in the north bay 84 napa and novato 83 san rafael in the east bay filtered sunshine 79 oakland 81 fremont had inland in the low

to mid 80s 84 concord 85 livermore accuweather 7 day forecast the warming trend that started today continues tomorrow. birds are possible wednesday when we get up into the low 90s in lynn low 70s coast, and then the warmth will begin to ease so we will notice a cooler pattern as we head towards the end of the week and into the weekend ama and dan one concern we do have for the weekend is the winds will be picking up as a system passes through so the fire danger may increase once again, and there might be a few sprinkles in the north bay saturday, but we'll see if that materializes. thanks. well today marks 33 years since aloma prieta earthquake the 6.9 quake rock the bay area and other parts of northern california commemoration got underway a short time ago at 504 pm. that is the exact moment. the shaking started the san francisco fire department says commemorating loma prieta gives the city a chance to recognize some of the ideas that stemmed from the quake. the floating fire station the above-ground water system the inception in genesis of nerve

the neighborhood emergency response team. those are just a few of the items that we learned and we grew from the 1989 earthquake. sf fire in the marina earthquake monument committee are hosting the ceremony at fire station 35 along the embarcadero. we'll have new video from that coming up on abc 7 news at 6. stay with us. we' what's it like having xfinity internet with supersonic wifi? it's fast... like beyond-gig-speed fast.

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brought you last week the effort to get new backpacks for students of bay tech middle school in oakland. this comes nearly three weeks after six people were injured during a gang related shooting at neighboring rudsdale high school during the chaos and student evacuation of the shooting an orange backpack with the bay tech logo provided what

proved to be helpful in keeping students and staff together. well now the oakland chinatown improvement council says they have helped race $20,000 to present baitek with 400 new backpacks. that's great. that is great. well, finally tonight a cross-country roadside zoo rescue saves 65 animals. yeah, oakland zoo team members partnered with peta on a four-day road trip to save animals that tri-state zoological park in maryland. yeah, the east coast zoo surrender to all of its animals after a failing to provide a safe living environment. this comes after peta's campaigns and two lawsuits against the establishment oakland staff assisted in rescuing the reptiles those reptiles will go to sanctuaries on the west coast while two of them will have a new home at the oakland zoo's sanctuary there. he goes she yeah. all right. well, we want to thank you so much for joining us tonight world news tonight with david muir is coming up next. thank you for joining us. i'm on dates and i'm dan ashley for san diego. tell all of us here. we appreciate your time. we'll see you again in half an

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