found 7,754 people homeless in the city. the number actually went down from the last count done prepandemic in 2019, but it's still the second highest in more than a decade now people in some neighborhoods are trying to address this never-ending problem of homeless encampments by using big outdoor planters to ward them off make it tough for them to settle in it's an effective solution, but is it the right one abc 7 news reporter land melendez is in the newsroom with a look at the community's reaction to the cities massive problem and well, dan, you know neighbors with planters told me this is not out of spite. this is out of desperation many of them have been dealing with this for years. they've complained called sf 311 nothing would change. the morning sun shines upon these outdoor plants sharing a hint of lavender along with an eye-catching view of succulents,

but they're not necessarily here for you to admire. they are purposely positioned to keep homeless encampments from becoming a permanent fixture. it was really bad terrell. joseph is head of safety for a biotech company in san francisco's mission district, their entire building is strategically surrounded by heavy aluminum planters it also the point where all this was filled up, you we couldn't really walk past there are stuff everywhere. they were out here, you know doing things they shouldn't be doing a lot of the smells through the window. this is what the outside of their building wants here's another photo of the outside of the building on 25th and capp streets today it no longer has encampments. the mission district is said to have the most planters to deter the homeless, but the castro isn't too far behind supervisor raphael. mandelman says he sympathizes with residents. i think it's a reasonable

response particularly for neighbors in areas that have been repeatedly places where people have been camping. how do the unhoused feel about these deterrence. do you think it's a little aggressive to have these planters here? if you guys away not at all, you know, there's certain locations that i guess they have them in certain locations. they don't in a nutmop with so many cliches to describe the actions taken by neighbors and businesses kicking the can down the road a band-aid solution an active desperation a call for help, but none of these things help to solve our homeless situation jim cruise you all is against having planters despite the fact that his landlord installed them next to the building sure we can put planters everywhere and and say no tense here no tense here no tense here. but then where do they just pop up somewhere else? i mean people need shelter. they have to put a tent somewhere where they die.

as soon we have a massive problem going to take a while to dig ourselves out of this in the meantime terrell joseph says he has another unexpected problem. the problem is now that people are coming by taking our plants out of here. so we have to come back that too can't win in san francisco can't win. who steals plants now back to the planters as long as they don't block access to those people in wheelchairs or families with strollers? the city is not standing in the way. there was some talk about possibly public works getting involved but supervisor mandolin says he believes they are a benefit to this city. in the newsroom leanne melendez abc 7 news. okay, it's tricky situation all the way around lee and thank you so much. san francisco apparently has a glut of empty homes a new report says sf has the highest residential vacancy rate of any other major us city overall. it's close to 15 percent.

boston is the next highest around 11% followed by washington dc a report by the city found there were about 40,000 vacant homes in 2019 is shot up to around 60,000 last year, which is an increase of 52 percent one area. that sticks out is units for rent the rental vacancy rate rose by 142% the report points to the pandemic as one of the main reasons for the increase in infectious disease experts are keeping a very close eye on several new covid variants. they could play a big role in our next surge abc 7 news reporter loose peña explains what we need to watch out for for several weeks experts have noticed a peak in covid cases both in europe and asia the majority pointing to variance xbb and bq1 scientists in the us believe that's our warning sign xpb has been spreading really rapidly in singapore for example where it's overtaken ba5 and they're both of high concern because they're highly transmissible. the cdc is already a true

reading 5.7% of cases in the us to the bq1 variant and 47 sequences to xbb according to data from an international research organization that tracks these variants, but what makes them different from other strains gladstone institutes nadia rhone explains the mutated their surface protein in a way so that the antibodies elicited by either fire infection or by vaccination that they don't work as well essentially against them. and so that's why they're so highly transmissible now, what's their impact locally? put into the cdc 5.2% of cases in california are bq1 and in our wastewater here in the bay area stamford researchers found both. we will almost definitely have a winter syringe the question is how bad will it be ucsf's infectious disease specialist, dr. monica gandhi believes. we will see more cases in the us, but she's hopeful so i would

look to the uk the ice age. just put out some data that we saw cases go up about four weeks ago. come down not very high of cases severe disease hospitalizations remained flat once your production. how will the next covid-19 wave look like here. i think that we're going to see increased. is meaning mild infections right now. we're at a covert law right now. we're getting more influenza and respiratory sensual virus then covid will take on the role of causing mild infections, but i do not anticipate that our hospitalizations will go up. yeah, dr. ganda doesn't believe we will see an increase in hospitalizations, but she is concerned that we will see more cases among the immunocompromised and older population her advice to get the latest booster in the newsroom loose peña abc 7 news. san francisco will end its public health emergency declaration for monkey pox at the end of the month the department of public health says new cases have slowed to less than one per day more than

27,000 residents have been vaccinated officials say eligible san francisco who haven't been vaccinated should be including getting a second dose for maximum protection. i will temperature set records yesterday in the bay area today the weather turned noticeably cooler true still lovely, but definitely cooler abc 7 news meteorologist sandy patel. he's here to show us just how much sandy how about double digits here in across parts of the bay area dan and alma as we take a look at a live picture from our mount tam cam. you can see what brought the cooling the marine influence is back and as we check out those temperatures down 17 degrees in santa rosa 22 degrees cooler in san carlos while the inland areas for the warmest spots did manage to get up into the low 90s along the coastline you were in the 50s and that's kind of the range that we're looking at right now. looking ahead. you see that system that is developing in the gulf of alaska. that system is going to be a bigger player in our weekend forecast and it includes more than a drop in temperatures. i'll be back with a look at that

forecast coming up dan okay. sandy. thanks a lot. breaking news in southwest berkeley a union pacific train hit and kill the pedestrian late this afternoon. it happened near carlton and streets a few blocks from san pablo avenue, some nearby intersections are blocked until the train can be moved. the crash is also delaying at least one amtrak train again in that part of berkeley. it's been 31 years since the oakland hills fire. told 25 people and destroyed thousands of homes three decades later residents are concerned that the mistakes made then are happening. again abc 7 news item reporter stephanie. sierra is here with those details stephanie. yesama will fires have raged in the east bay hills many times in the 1920s seventies and eighties but fire investigators. say the 1991 oakland firestorm was by far the most intense and destructive. so tonight we spoke to residents who lived through it and are now calling out the threats still lingering behind. i don't think we're gonna stop this thing 31 years ago the oakland firestorm started as a

small fire on a private property in the oakland hills the flames were extinguished until smoldering embers sparked the next morning and the fire exploded into a deadly inferno at the time of the fire. we all felt amazing powerlessness our complete human inability to do anything about those wind blown flames. resident. tom. grossman was a part of the search and rescue management team that walked through the rubble to look for human remains 25 lives lost more than 3,400 homes destroyed as more than 1,000 fire crews from across northern california fought tirelessly, buddy. who's police officer from hayward his name tag melted from the heat. he didn't flee he stayed there and helped evacuate people open police department lost in officer who was trying to get people out so the courage dedication of our emergency services people is astounding a community effort to protect and surf but grossman says the irony is some of the problem is detected 31 years ago still haven't been fixed. we have an evacuation route

challenge here in the hills. there's only a handful of roads that head down out of the hills. those are going to become congested and those roads are overhung by trees that are going to burn those roads will turn into furnaces people died on evacuation route during the 2018 campfire because so much fuel was left on the roads a fear facing the same neighborhoods in the oakland hills. grossman says only around one in five homes in the areas that previously burned have properly hardened their home. it's something again that people are concerned about doug moser the program director for the oakland fire safe council says, it's a real problem. this area has been designated pretty much the hills and a lot of the foothills going down west into oakland as a very high fire hazard severity zone a high fire risk zone. we're empty lots. it filled with embers and brush a lingering threat the city needs to address. we know what happened in 1991. it was tragic that those lives were lost and nobody wants of course to see that again.

now the oakland fire department says they've done 25,000 inspections to ensure homeowners are reducing their fire risk and they report a 90% compliance rate. but the fire safe council says that figure does not reflect the reality on the roads in the oakland hills. for the i-team stephanie sierra abc 7 news. all right, stephanie. thank you. and check out our emmy award nominated documentary firestorm the east bay hills fire. it's available on the abc 7 bay area app wherever you stream smoke could be seen for miles in the north bay today, but this was a controlled burn and tonight. you'll hear why there are a lot of reasons to get it done now plus what the pandemic took away seven on your sides michael. finney was able to help restore for local fan of kart racing.

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mountain for these cal fire crews their mission on this october day to start a fire. fire crews are sparking this prescribed burn across 15 acres of jack london state park all in the name of fire prevention. every step is monitored to make sure the fire doesn't burn out of control you're getting into consuming and get established and then it'll kind of go off and do its own thing as you know, we've been in a drought for the last few years. and we continue to be in that drought. so we're trying to get ahead of the head of the ball and there are acres and acres of dry brush here. this is an area of jack london state park that has not seen a wildfire in decades. this is the perfect place to be doing this type of management to control fuels improve the forest health and frankly make everything. healthier and more prepared for when wildfire does come. calfire says creating ground level fire breaks can reduce the

threat of future wildfire battles and so by consuming these fuels today an optimum burning conditions. we're bringing that good fire to the landscape that helps make this landscape more healthy for future generations researchers from uc davis for flying at drone over the fire collecting air quality data reusing drones to monitor air pollution from smoke blooms speaking of the smoke. it could be seen for miles. what was your reaction when you first saw that this morning my first reaction was 2017. mark says to smoke brought flashbacks of the 2017 wildfires. so we happen to be on the phone with my son and i said, i gotta go so i went out the front door turn left going to the park. saw the fire call 911 and they said it was a control burn. yeah cal fire alert at the public days before this controlled burn took place, but had to repost messages on social media media today after calls to 911 start. coming in lots of folks around here relieved to know this was

just a one-day controlled event in glen ellyn cornell bernard abc 7 news. all right. thank you cornell, and an effort is underway in washington to change the way federal agencies respond to wildfires legislation from san jose congresswomanzo, lofgren and california, senator. alex. padilla will allow fema to pre-deploy resources during times of highest wildfire risk and red flag warnings. the lawmakers pushed for passage of the bill in san jose today flanked by local firefighters just as we do with other types of disasters, let's get resources and personnel in position to either try to minimize the the scale of a disaster but certainly to be able to respond more quickly. this is one key piece to make sure that fema is modernized. the so-called fire act passed unanimously in the senate last month, and now goes to the house and while we're talking about wildfire danger, let's talk about our forecast. typically. this is such a treacherous time around here for us.

but let's see if that's going to be the case. yeah meteorologist. sandy patel is here with the latest for us sandia. yeah. it's definitely a concern fire danger. that is dan and amma and i'll show you why we take a look at our drought monitor no change from last week across california. we're still across much of the state in that extreme to exceptional category here in the bay area no change from last week still in a severe to extreme drought you combine that with the winds that are coming this weekend out of the north-northeast that's going to dry out the atmosphere even more we have critically drive fuels and that raises fire dangers particularly for the north and east bay hills this weekend. so keep that in mind. this is the system out of the gulf of alaska that's going to bring about the change as it pushes into the pacific northwest a cold front it will start to bring cooler air to the bay area. we're going to see the this pickup as well on live doppler 7. we do have the fog. it's already cooled off today, but inland areas made it into the 90s along the coast. we've been in the 50s right now your temperatures anywhere from 55 and half moon bay to 83

degrees in vacaville live views from our tower cameras, and you will notice the golden gate bridge is socked in parts of san francisco in the fog, but san jose cameras showing you sunshine right now. here's a look at the forecast cooling trend continues through the weekend blustery saturday possible sprinkles. there's a chance of showers the middle of next week tomorrow morning expect fog and some higher clouds upper 40s to the mid 50s. it is definitely going to feel different tomorrow afternoon the cooling continues out of the 90s. you're gonna be in the low 80s inland. so mild inland along the coastline mainly in the 60s and breezy with lingering fog now we fast forward to that cold front coming and the pacific northwest gets a good soaking. they've been dealing with bad air quality and fires. so obviously they need it. we need it too. but right now it's looking like not much here for the bay area, but the sierra we'll see. hours turning over to snow showers for the highest elevation snowed down to the lake level area saturday night into sunday, which means passes will be impacted rainfall totals about 4/10 of an inch in seattle and portland a tenth of an inch

in tahoe and here in the bay area. the winds will be the biggest concern. so saturday you're looking at gusty winds over 43-47 miles an hour going into sunday, and that is the concern that is going to bring that fire danger up, especially in the north and east bay hills for saturday accuweather seven day forecast cooling continues tomorrow dropping off even more for the weekend winds picking up elevated fire danger. so be careful and then middle of next week. we may see a few more showers. so am and dan keeping those temperatures going down. yeah. nice. thank you sandia right in the pandemic coyotes took advantage of all that empty space while we sheltered in place now, we have to learn to share space. (vo) it's a fact! two out of three americans who qualify to learn to share space. for medicare do not receive all the benefits they deserve. you could be missing out! now anthem blue cross introduces a free medicare plan checkup to make sure you receive all the benefits you qualify for in 2023. call 1-866-336-3448 today and receive extra benefits

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campbell tells us it's going to take some time for us and the coyotes to get back to normal. so i picked up my dog and i went right, you know, like acted big susan mohan is describing the moment. she saw this coyote ready to pounce on a cat. she walks in the presidio often, you know, my dog stays right by my side. i have a leash but she stays she's tiny and she stays right by my side, so i'm kind of hypervigilant. i just like this becoming almost common coyotes wandering bay area streets in broad daylight dr. michelle loot is a director at project coyote. we're seeing at least increased reports of human coyote interactions locally in certain places, and that's not necessarily. in conjunction with an increase in coyote populations, but just a change in a number of factors and one of those likely factors says dr. luke is the pandemic globally people were posting videos on social media showing

animals typically wild animals moving through main thoroughfares and well images like this. aren't going away for good dr. lute says it shouldn't take too long for the coyotes to figure it out in terms of how they might re-adapt to increased traffic again or you know changes in human behavior. they're pretty smart. in the meantime. she wants people protecting their small dogs putting them on leashes and picking them up if you spot a coyote we had a very large one come out right in front of me and i was able to grab my dog, but it's scary. have you adjusted your behavior as far as when you walk? yes, in fact today? i don't have the dog because in this area. i walk her less. i generally tend to take to the beach where it's safer and if you're wondering about your own safety, the doctor says coyote is aren't all that interested in attacking people really. this is a very very are circumstances this is when you have really really bad levels of

habituation. the animal has lost its natural weariness and the way to prevent these wild animals from becoming more comfortable is clear the biggest things for preventing conflict is to prevent any sort of unintentional feeding that's happening in your backyard. so securing compost making sure bird seed is cleaned up tara campbell abc 7 news i've got to do our part. yeah strange sight though isn't yeah for the first time ever an asian-american woman will appear on a us quarter and she has bay area connection. pool during the pandemic now, they're back in class, but they still need the internet in san jose is on a mission to make sure everyone can get connected.

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for the first time ever an asian-american will appear on a us quarter anime wong the first asian american film star in hollywood. she was born in los angeles, but her mother was from san francisco abc 7 news reporter suzanne fon found out what this means to our local asian american community. she's definitely a trailblazer a pioneer but one of a kind at the age of 17 anime wong landed her first leading role in the toll of the sea in 1922 and now a hundred years later. she's the very first asian american to appear on us quarters. it's such an inspiration to be able to see anime wong on this quarter. jenny long is with the chinese cultural center at sf and chinatown. it's just amazing to have her feature and be celebrated this way long overcame so many challenges during her time and still went on to international fame as early as you know, the 1920s she was starring in an american films, which is really remarkable. stephen gong is executive director of center for asian

america media in san francisco. it's a non-profit group that presents stories by and about asian americans in the history of hollywood asian americans and many other communities of color. we're left out of the equation. it wasn't thought of as a requirement in the it was just easy to get a white actor and put him in yellow face or blackface anime wong manage to succeed despite those challenges to know that wong will be featured on a quarter. this is quite a wonderful achievement for the whole asian american community and i'm thinking of taking $100 bill and going in and buying a thousand quarters 22,500 quarters so i can hand them out all over town. this is really a wonderful day flower drum song. i probably seen it like 30 30 40 times for retired sf please deputy chief garrett tom who loves old hollywood movies just to have a asian woman from that

era being recognized. you know, i'm just just really incredible. i think enemy wong is still very under recognized. i think there's a lot of people that don't know who she is and hopefully by having her on this coin, it really does uplift and celebrate her story in san francisco. suzanne fawn abc 7 news new details on a deadly case one of two suspects in the kidnap and murder of a merced family appeared in court today, alberta salgado pleaded not guilty to multiple felonies including conspiracy to commit robbery and accessory after the fact salgado's older brother. jesus is charged with four counts of first-degree murder. the deaths of an eight-month-old girl her parents and her uncle jesus salgado pleaded not guilty last week investigators say he was a former employee of the victims and victims and had a long-standing dispute with him. raleigh north carolina police have released new details in last week's mass shooting that killed five people and injured two others. they a 15 year old suspect

austin thompson did not know most of the victims now police believe the first victim was thompson's older brother 16 year old james thompson the rest of the victims just happened to live in the shooter's neighborhood police also revealed that thompson had an arsenal on him a handgun shotgun knives and a backpack full of ammunition. there is no information about a motive. the suspect was shot during the rampage and remains hospitalized. we'll go overseas now as you have probably heard british prime minister, liz truss has resigned marking the shortest term ever by a british prime minister trust announced she is stepping down from her role after serving just six weeks 45 days to be exact her policies caused. chaos in the uk's financial markets and in her own conservative party, she plans to remain in office until the party chooses a successor within about a week's time. tti given the situation. i cannot deliver the mandate on which i was elected by the conservative party. tressa's plan tax cuts set off a

financial crisis in the uk causing the british pound to crash against the american dollar her interior minister also quits the conservative party will choose a replacement one candidate is former prime minister boris johnson whom she replaced here in the us election day is about three weeks away tuesday, november 8th every registered voter in california gets a mail-in ballot. that's thanks to a law signed last year. you can vote by mail or in person through election day. you can still register to vote after october 24th. it's called the conditional voter registration, but your vote will still count and there are seven statewide propositions to vote on we've published an explanation for each one on our abc 7 bay area streaming tv app go to the app and check out the california elections 2022 row to stream the mall on demand on your roku apple tv or other devices expanding internet accessibility in the heart of silicon valley the city of san jose is now on a mission to provide free wi-fi to nearly 300,000 residents by next year

abc 7 news reporter dustin dorsey has the story covid has changed the way we live our lives from working at home and even schooling at home accessible at home internet is now much more than a luxury just ask evergreen high school student joshua gutierrez. it wasn't such a necessity back then but now in this grenade where everything's online everyone's doing stuff with the internet. i think it's in this day. it's really a necessity gutierrez and his family utilize the internet at home in their daily lives and thanks to free community wi-fi from the city of san jose. they are able to live without interruption. it's levels out the playing fields. the sj access initiative is one of the nation's first school district wide network that currently provides wi-fi for communities surrounding five schools in the east side union high school district. wi-fi hotspots laptops chromebooks and ipads are also available for you that san jose public libraries not just for students, but anyone in these highlighted neighborhoods, we're serving the entire community

because we know it's important also for their parents to be able to example find jobs. it's critical for the grandparents to be able to get access to health care. this is a huge economic and social barrier for too many families in this country. we're eliminating that barrier for hundreds of thousands with the recent addition of wi-fi and the andrew hill and independence high school neighborhoods nearly 160,000 residents now have free access to internet roughly as many residents. it says the city of sunnyvale the project will expand in the next year as well adding three more communities that will total out to around 300,000 residents about as many as the city of st. louis that's necessary for all of our students and all of our families to have access to wifi to engage in the resources and opportunities that the state provides and the resources that they need to be full participants in their community the oak grove high school free community wi-fi will launch by the end of this year while the mount pleasant and silver creek areas will be available by early 2023 in san jose dustin dorsey

abc 7 news. happening now a celebration of all things oakland the first annual love life day is underway at franco-gawa plaza. it's honoring people who are uplifting love in oakland and helping prevent violence in the community the free offend features live music performances and food and runs until seven o'clock. a local go-kart facility puts a stop sign up for an avid customer. i'm michael finney head on seven on your side how we turn the red light green.

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taking a live. look outside. this is the bay bridge toll plaza moving quite well tonight and we have good news for east bay drivers gas in oakland is now under $6 per gallon. it dropped five cents since yesterday to 596, san jose gas is 594. san francisco gas is 608 well a local man had to put the brakes on his need for speed when he discovered the credits he had built up at a local go-kart

facility had been wiped out. yeah, so he raced to seven on your side michael finney for help michael you guys are into there the concept here. you might say jody wong was all revved up with no where to go. we help to get him to the finish line. jody wong has what? he calls a turbo honda civic. it has some of the latest of honda's engineering and handling so it actually handles quite well jody has a fascination with cars. he posts numerous photos of vehicles on his facebook page. in july, he went into k1 speed to take advantage of the free race. it offers as a birthday promotion. he also wanted to use one of the six credits. he thought he still had on his race car. oh, i like doing things fast kind of an adrenaline rush. but he discovered he had no credits and then they said oh you don't have any credits and it's like what do you mean? i don't have any credits. i have a bunch of credits. he says during the pandemic

somehow all of his credits. just disappeared jody recalls k1 telling him it went to a new record-keeping system and his credits didn't show up in the new system. it's kind of like a gift card word. you know, they can't just erase your credit. so but they did a local k1 racing facility suggested. he'd take up his dispute with corporate. that's what jody did but he says the company again said it had no record of his credits so he decided to speed on over to his computer and contact seven on your side. we contacted k1 speed and the company blame the discrepancy on a technical issue it told us we should the credit she was supposed to have back into his account on july 29th. we sincerely apologize for the inconvenience. she experienced. apparently that message failed to get to jody until we notified him very recently. nonetheless, he's happy it's a win-win because i'll go back became win. i'll spend more money there.

win-win jodi tells us in his free time. he works with the youth at his church. he teaches them to leave their fast-driving skills on the k1 track and not to take them out onto the street. that's a good lesson. yeah. thanks mike here. all right, our weather is turning cooler and if you didn't notice it today, you will indeed notice it this weekend. sandia shows you what to expect ne

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which sanofi flu vaccine at 10:20 this morning precisely if you were participating in the great, california shakeout like san francisco mayor london breed and this eighth grade class at everett middle school. you duct covered and held on that's what we're told to practice in order to prepare for an earthquake. this drill happens every year on the third thursday of october and we have a lot of resources to help prepare for an earthquake including what to pack in your earthquake kit. of course, we should all have one a visit abc slash prepare norcount. always got to be prepared prepared for the weather as well. i know meteorologist sandy patel

is prepared with the forecast. and yeah, and we're gonna take a look at what we can expect this this winter. so ama and dan noah just issued its winner outlook they are saying that la niña for the third straight year will continue. that's the cooler than average conditions near the equatorial pacific. typically you see wetter conditions in the pacific northwest dryer in the southern tier states. they are predicting the moderate la nina this winter and so what does this mean equal chances of above below or near average precipitation for the bay area. the reason for this is during la nina years you see high variability in terms of rainfall during el nino years. there's more of a clear signature. we are expecting above average temperatures. so let's look at the winter outlook northwest is above average along with the great lakes southern tier estates is below in terms of temperatures warmer than average for the bay area much of the southern us and california below average temperatures across the northern tears states now the drought is expected to get worse out west

or continue either one of those but the exception is the bay area could see a little bit of improvement and the pacific northwest either an improvement or ending the drought because remember this is where they are being favored with higher than average precipitation this winter. so we do have speaking of the drought we do have a fire weather watch for the sierra area truckee tahoe critical fire weather conditions tomorrow night through saturday morning. gus will be strong enough with the relative humidity dropping. the fire danger will be increasing as this system out of the gulf of alaska comes in as you on live doppler 7 right now just some fog on the coast. we are expecting a mix of fog and high clouds in the morning afternoon highs continuing to drop low 80s inland low 60s coast. so forget about the 90s we had today and even cooler weather for the weekend accuweather 7-day forecast. you will notice those temperatures down to the low to mid 70s this weekend. you'll need the sweaters the jackets possible sprinkles certainly windy, and then the temperatures will come back up early next week middle of the

week one computer models hinting at the potential for rain. we shall see if that materializes dananama. so and larry will be excited to see the rain. we will indeed. yes. thank you. all right, larry bells here sports tonight. larry want to relive super bowl 54 niners chiefs. i don't think you want to but not the outcome not the outcome of the game was fun for a while until fourth quarter. we have good news on the 49ers injury front plus. what was steph curry screaming about last night waking up his son in the process. that's next in sports

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larry beale good evening. looks like the 49ers are getting healthier at just the right time with the kansas city chiefs coming in to levi's on sunday. safety tylenol who funga back on the field today didn't practice those working through concussion protocols the big man trent williams practicing for the second day in a row. he is a huge part of the offense

literally for the 49ers the matchup with the chiefs means. yes, they're forced to go back and watch the painful super bowl 54 loss to patrick mahomes and company. oh jimmy just over and through a manual sanders by three yards. otherwise the whole world would be different. anyway, that play conjure is a thoughts about what might have been emotions hit right away, but once you kind of get into it, and you're kind of thinking about the game plan the emotions kind of just fade away a little bit. so there's obviously deep down it's still there, but you just got move on when you win one you you want to get back because you know how that they're not now. i've known how it feels to lose too. so i obviously want to get back but i mean even looking back on that game and that team still a great football team. that's a lot of it that team is still there and that motivation comes and goes those feelings come and go and this season this season now, so it's just a little different. so i understand it's gonna be a challenge because i've played against them before and normally a great players they have on that defense. that is a bad man a quarterback right there last night former

warrior and steph curry's brother-in-law damian lee hit the game winner in the final seconds for his new team the phoenix suns nobody more excited than steph who immediately jumped on instagram and then woke up young son cannon in the process. begin to sleep i'm sorry. i can't it's crying. i woke him up. there you go deeply. calm down lee signed with phoenix in the offseason chris. paul was struggling last night lee off the bench scored 11 points in the fourth quarter, including that shot that decided the game as the suns came back from a big deficit to win 107105 and today a calmerce steph was asked about his reaction to d. lee's shot. did you apologize to your son for your outburst last night? my house, i was juice like that just because of how the game was going. i mean, you know, i kept saying stick with it because you know basketball games and momentum can change pretty quick and just

be ready for your moment. it was great to watch and whole family was proud for sure. that's good stuff new sharks head coach david quinn. still looking for his first win sharks off to a franchise verse owen five start they score again early the captain logan couture the rebound for his second of the year. so one other after one new york came back twice in the second, but rodney schimick ties it up at two they go to overtime eric carlson fighting his way through the net here. takes the return pass from t-mobile meyer, and he shoot. s and scores of the sharks get their first win of the season three two, you know over time and hockey's back on espn plus and hulu. our network friends would like us to invite you to check out the lightning and panthers tomorrow 4:30 pm. we have a full slate of hockey coming your way on our streaming platforms this season cool moments in the padres phillies playoff game yesterday first time in playoff history brothers faced each other in a pitcher versus bad or matchup aaron nola pitching for the phillies austin knoller. he's a catcher for the padres austin three and a half years

older rounded out in his first at that but have the rbi single on the fifth to help san diego rally and even the series the game piece. that's dad. that's dad right there who looks like he has no idea of what he's osouppsued root for in this situation? which son do i love more? yeah dangerous question for sure. but i mean, it's got to be so exciting to see both of your sons on this stage, but also nerve rackets. yeah. you're so proud, but you are i mean you just rooting for both of them do their best. yeah, by the way, i should point out. you couldn't really hear it in the steph curry video in the background. aisha was saying and who called the game-winning shot calmly she called the game. yeah. she didn't have to yell on the screen. all right coming up tonight on abc 7 at 8 station 19 followed by gray's anatomy, alaska daily air is at 10 and stay with us for abc 7 news at 11:00 that is it for this edition of abc 7 news. thanks for joining us. i'm on a date and i'm dan ashley

for sandia patel. larry beale all of us here. we appreciate your time. hope you have a great evening and that we see you again for abc 7 news at 11. you know.

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