moving forward finding solutions. this is abc 7 news. i heard a little rolling then i felt this the weighing i said this earthquake is earthquake. of 5.1 magnitude earthquake shakes much of the bay area late this morning no reports of damage or injuries, but some rattle nerves and an important reminder of the risk, the earthquake was centered 12 miles east of san jose and then a series of smaller aftershocks five of them in all soon followed the shaking occurred along the calaveras falls. good afternoon. thanks for joining us. i'm larry ideal and i'm kristen z. we have live team coverage of the earthquake with reporters all across the bay area. let's begin near the quakes epicenter in the south bay abc 7 news reporter zach fuentes live in campbell where everybody is talking about that shaking zach. absolutely, right. this is really been the big talker here in the south bay. of course this all started later this morning. we run our south bay bureau about to head to another story for an interview on that when we

started feeling some big two big jolts and then followed by some more rapid shaking after that. it kind of felt like the room was spinning all that within about 30 seconds now here in campbell where i'm standing on campbell avenue. this is a spot where a lot of people from throughout the south is he beenout sharingheirit exrisndhe general consensus from them is matching up with the science that this is the strongest earthquake we felt in the last eight years or so and the thankfully again, we've had no reports of injury or major damage one restaurant owner. we spoke with here said the shaking did cause some minor damage that now has them rethinking they're set up. we were making the new wine list for our restaurant and we felt a little bit of the shaking. a few bottles dropped off from the bar and from the shelves. we realized it was an article. now that restaurant owner there telling us the shaking also caused food in their kitchen to fall off with prep tables. they tell me that this is a wake-up call and they're now

going to be reimagining how they position the wine at their bar and in their storage rooms now coming up about five you're going to hear from a lot of the people we spoke with and each person. i talked to today. i asked them after this after what's happened today. do you feel that you're prepared for a really big earthquake each person. i spoke with said no in office up to that. i'm also one of those people who was really not as prepared as we should be. so again, no injuries no major damage, but definitely a reminder for everybody here in the south bay and hopefully throughout the bay area that we really need to be prepared based off of where we live right now live in campbell zach fuentes abc 7 news good reminders. i thank you the five point one magnitude shaker also caused a disruption in bay area transit bart trains. we're automatically stopped in caltrained reduce the speed of its trains as precaution. caltrain says it's trains will be experiencing delays some routes longer than other years bart has resumed service as normal after completing its track inspection. cal fire officials felt the shaking at their headquarters along the san mateo county

coast, they check for damage shortly after the quake rattle the building in el granada. just north of half moon bay. there was no sign of damage there today was the strongest quake to shake the bay area since napa's 6.0 earthquake seven years ago the destructive north bay quake in 2014 killed one person injuring 200 others. it occurred along the san andreas fault destroyed many structures with a billion dollars worth of damage at earthquake lasted 10 to 20 seconds can caused a huge impact when you compare it with the 32nd five point one shaker today thankfully no casualties this time around now people felt the shake as far north as fairfield to stockton in the east all the way south to soledad and monterey county as abc 7 news reporter leslie brinkley explains also cost some panic

for people in the east bay. my photographer and i did not feel the earthquake, but we were over in the 680 corridor in the east bay, but i immediately got text messages from friends and families 25 different people. only three said they actually felt the shaking it all depended on where they were so i was sitting there and i heard a little rolling in the rolling and all this sudden i sat there for many then i felt this the way in it's like oh, oh, okay. this is the earthquake is earthquake carla ingram was at office in alameda only when i work i was the only one that worked that felt it. i went through i said it was the earth. it was an earthquake you guys they said no, it wasn't i yes it was down in san leandro this man was lying in bed with his newborn right start feeling a little rattle and i'm like, oh gosh, you know, so i grabbed my baby and you know, but it went away as soon as i grabbed my baby. but yeah, this was a little scary. oh, i was on my way to alameda. i was driving right before the tube and i got some text messages saying that there was an earthquake, but didn't feel it. so but this man was on the

seventh floor of a nine-story apartment building in oakland. i just felt my building. just laying back and for scary a little bit. yeah, it's very scary. but nothing fell off shelves or anything. oh, no, nothing, but only lasted like a couple seconds. so but everyone agreed it was a bit of a wake-up call in alameda. i'm leslie brinkley abc 7 news. the quake made a few light fixtures shake the early warning did give people time to get video of the effects and post it to social media. this video is from one home in san jose a little bit shake. not too bad users took the chance to let friends and followers know but they felt it too. the quake the quake at the artwork swinging inside the mostly empty classroom at a stratford elementary school in san francisco. the teacher was the only person in the room and recorded this video including his own reaction there. very good now if you don't

already have it download the app my shake it's the state's first earthquake early warning system that delivers alerts to people's cell phones through an app developed at uc berkeley abc 7 news reporter stephanie. sierra is digging into how effective that app was today steph. well christian as far as tess go my shake was not only effective but efficient most people who have it reporting on social media. they got the notice before the quake hit which is what the technology is designed to do but experts are looking at two ways to make these alerts even faster. before an earthquake hits every second counts. that's why the state rolled out the app called my shake in 2019 to warn people with an alert on their cell phones before the ground starts shaking professor richard. allen is the director of uc berkeley's seismology lab where this app was developed as luck would have it alan happened to be giving an exam to 500 students when the 5.1 quake hit east of san jose during the

middle of the exam. we all love our phones went off. everybody has the my shake app downloaded so they get the early warnings. allen says his students received at most about a second or two notice before the ground started to shake. we will study pretty hard the feedback we get from people and are we alerting the right group of people do we need to alert and wider area or perhaps even a smaller area the warnings are sent through the my shake app through a system run by the us geological survey and the california department of emergency services. allen says the technology has been in the works for over the past dec. but has only been in the market for a few years. it's a test for the early warning system. the bay area has been a training ground for quake alert systems usgs scientist and earthquake consultant ross. stein says the best results provided a 10-second warning. can we create a system that gives us more than 10 seconds? probably not. because for the shaking to be really strong the earthquake needs to be really close and if

it's really close that seismic waves is going to arrive very soon with respect to our ability to identify that wave, but stein says new research is underway to advance that which we don't just use dysometers in the ground that are dedicated to earthquake early warning, but we can use everybody cell phone as another source of warning still stein says that warning will always be in the ballpark of 10 seconds a time frame allen and his team are working towards we live in earthquake country. we need to be ready for much larger earthquakes than this. and because of that the timeliness and accuracy of these alerts will become crucial as we face the next big quake and to put it in perspective for you going from a magnitude 5 quake to a magnitude 6 quake. the shaking is ten times stronger and with a magnitude 7 quake the shaking would be 100 times stronger than what we felt today. stephanie sierra abc 7 news steph, thank you. northern california is one of the most seismically active areas of the state experts. say the probability of a

magnitude 6.7 or larger quake striking the bay area in the next 30 years at 63% we want to help you prepare. you can go to abc7news.com to learn simple steps on how to prepare including how to put together a kit make a plan and be informed. and another way to stay informed is the abc 7 news app moments after the earthquake hit the app sent out an alert letting people know get important news updates. and directly to your mobile device by downloading the app and enabling notifications coming up fighting crime are the latest efforts to reduce violence in oakland actually working the police chief with an update on his 30-day plan to combat gun crimes request denied a judge today ruling against a request by the attorney for the man charged in the stockton. cereal killer case and then recognizing filipino american heroes how an empty field in san jose is being used to pay tribute to community leaders.

hey, good afternoon. i'm meteorologist mike nico. here's a look from our sutro tower camera. you can see just a few passing high clouds and the likelihood of those high clouds bringing us rain. it's looking less and less for the weekend and into halloween. i'll have seven day forecast

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the city's homicide rate dropped significantly from last month, but the situation is still very serious oakland has had more than 100 murders for three years in a row including 105 this year so far and we still have months left. in 2022 at this pace this year could be the deadliest in a decade abc 7 news reporter ryan curry explains how police hoped to keep making progress? oakland's police chief announcing tuesday a drop at homicides compared to the previous month, september 26th through today. we've had nine lives lost in a city of oakland compare that to the month before 17 homicides including eight in one week that prompted the police chief to announce a 30-day all hands-on deck approach to stopping more deaths. we know that gun violence is truly committed by a small group of people in our city, but we have to know who they are. we have to know who they're in conflict with and we have to try to get in front of these shootings oakland has seen homicide numbers surpass triple digits this year the majority of them involving guns chief armstrong says in the last 30

days they have recovered over 80 guns and arrested 120 people. he announced the same approach will happen for another 30 days. somebody is out there driving gun violence in our city. we need to identify who they are and we need to arrest them so far this year opd says they've recovered over 1200 guns last year. they recovered around 1100 they say about 30% of the guns are ghost guns. as they continue this all hands-on deck approach chief armstrong says the focus needs to be on making residents. feel safer. we're gonna keep doing our best to get people off the streets who are driving violent crime, so that people can feel safe in our city. we believe that with the number of guns that we've recovered doing this operation definitely is made an impact oakland police also announced they received a 1.5 million dollar federal grant. they say they will use to hire more police officers over the next few years. they say getting adequate staffing will help them combat crime in the east bay ryan ryan curry abc 7 news. a judge has denied a request to restrict what prosecutors and

police can say publicly about accused serial. killer wesley brownlee brownlee was in court for today's ruling he is the man charged in three of six homicides that police say are connected five of those were in stockton. the other was in oakland brownlee's attorneys had asked for gag order in the case. they say prosecutors and police made prejudicial statements to the media including saying brownlee was hunting for victims before his arrest their concerned the comments could influence the jury pool dozens of residents in east oakland hit the streets today rallying against a neighbor they claim is making the air they breathe hazardous they marched in protested outside the ab and i foundry facility near 77th avenue and hegenberger road at foundry used to make iron products neighbors say production. there's few toxic pollution into the air and this went on for decades abni foundry issued a statement saying it has ceased all manufacturing operations at that east oakland plant, but protesters the damage has already been done.

play it on the playground of acorn woodland. just have random nosebleeds headaches all the time. no i a i don' tmreat in this hill this unhealthy air. apni foundry also says he plans to vacate the east oakland property by the end of january. all right our weather today perfectly pleasant right and mike. nico is guaranteeing. it's going to stay that no. no, i can't do that. oh, okay. maybe yeah, it's definitely looking like we're stuck in this pattern for the next week or so where most of the storms are going to miss us to the north and to the east and we get well there you see a lot of high clouds and everyone once in a while some low clouds want to go back to the earthquake real quick. we've had seven aftershocks so far and that's up and that continues to increase all of them are less than magnitude 3

and as we move through the next seven days we've got about a 68% chance of having many week after shocks about an 18% chance of having the magnitude for and here's the good one. there's a 2% chance that this was a four shock to a bigger. and stronger earthquake, so that's not very good odds, and so we'll keep an eye on this for you. all right, let's talk about our weather once again by looking down from it's actually from mount tam. we're going to have clouds sunshine and seasonal temperatures most days as this persistent northwest wind will continue and that's that is that wind that's keeping our storm track to the north and east and guess what? it's doing to the weekend. we were flipping and flopping with those medium range models at least see european which is usually the more consistent model well this time. the american model gfs was probably more in line with keeping it dry the entire time. we'll show you that just a second. we're already down to 59 in san francisco 57 in half moon bay load the mid 60s for most of the debate a few low to mid 70s hanging on inland and these temperatures are cooler than yesterday and as we head through

the evening hours a few high class will continue to roam through our sky where the breezes are the fastest. they will taper around nine o'clock and look at how quickly we drop everybody into the 50s by eight o'clock and slowly drop down to around 53 to 55. so no micro climate at least not at 10 o'clock, but you can see a few of them tomorrow morning places like yukai at 40 in santa rosa at 42, but then you get to near 50 in san rafael richmond oakland san mateo half of a in san francisco some of our milder temperatures. we do have the threat of frost up in lake in parts of mendocino county and that's why a frost advisory is an effect once again from five o'clock to nine o'clock still we're in the growing season. so anytime during the growing season if there's a chance of a frost the national weather service will continue to issue this so you'll see several of them likely over the next, you know a couple of weeks tomorrow. we'll have some passing high clouds sunshine the little breezy in the afternoon 61 at half moon bay upper 60, san francisco oakland and san mateo, fremont, palo alto, san jose, everybody else around 70 to 72

degrees. so we've got two distinct areas. you can see off to our east. there's some wet weather in nevada and another storm entering the pacific northwest, but these are going to continue to miss us and we are going to get just the clouds and the breeze. so let's take a look and here's a look at what happens and you can see the clouds going away that rain coming down tomorrow morning falling apart and just a mixture of sunshine in clouds now, let's jump to the weekend medium range models and what you're seeing here. it just falls apart. this washe saturday and sunday now, it's showing sunday dry and look at this even monday dry check out these temperatures. i actually bumped the temperatures up significantly once you lose that chance of rain. we're going to be around the mid-60s to mid 70s for our bay and inland neighborhoods all the way through even monday halloween is looking like it's going to be absolutely fabulous for trick or treating there's a hint again of what weather tuesday, but that's just ignore that for now. no these hints they just get us

get our hopes up. well, you know this where they are they're like in the sixth and seventh day. so by the time those events get closer to us, obviously it changes. yeah. well at least for halloween the kids will have a good weather. that's true. yeah glass half full right. there you go. i like it. yeah the candy draw half-hole. all right children hospitals report an increase in cases of a common children's respiratory illness a local hospital says it's inundated by cases of our svd svd ahead. what local doctors or learning about the virus also an end to a lucrative relationship kanye west's ugly breakup with the gap and adidas.

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aw... building a better bay area focus is now on health and a concerning increase in cases of a respiratory affecting children called rsv. local doctors are sharing what they're learning about the virus abc 7 news reporter loose pena has that also we'll look at how

the rsv surge is impacting local hospitals. it's a common respiratory illness among babies mostly in the winter months, but now pediatricians are noticing a high-volume in cases happening earlier in the year respiratory synthetial virus. so this is a virus. we see every fall. it usually starts in november and runs through april last year. we saw it in the middle of summer this year. we're seeing it as early as october at ucsf benioff children's hospital in oakland, dr. april. zat says they're facing are earn having a situation where our beds are full so i came in this morning. i'm on one of the main inpatient teams. my team is full our respiratory unit is full and there were five to seven kids in the emergency room waiting for beds. a lot of them have respiratory illnesses things like rhinovirus enterovirus human metanuma virus sort of a potpourri if you will of respiratory viruses that are causing illness in kids rsv is a main player though according to

pediatricians what's different now is that older children are getting our teeth and testing positive for more than one virus. we're seeing indian children who are now one year two years and some three years of age one of those children is derek smith's two-year-old daughter. the whole family is sick. it started with my daughter who got it from her preschool pod, and i was about two and a half weeks ago. show cough and you can definitely hear that. there's something present in there dr. david cornfield believes covid played a distinctive role in the surge of rsv cases given the relative isolation that we've all experienced following the covenant many children who are now in their second year even their third year of life have not yet seen irish me infection so that those older children that are getting ours from the first time are more severely affected as well in san francisco loose pena abc 7 news.

still ahead why you may want to ride a little bit early if you got an upcoming appointment at one hospital in the east bay also more reaction across the bay to today's 5.1 magnitude earthquake and the f former landmarks now vacant

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ikea area moving forward finding solutions. this is abc 7 news. well, it's the question that everybody has been asking all day long. did you feel? the 5.1 magnitude earthquake rattling the bay area this morning. yeah, we've received reports of shaking as far south of santa cruz, but the good news though no reports of damage or injuries. the earthquake was centered about 12 miles east of san jose along the calaveras falls several smaller aftershocks have followed now up to seven just a few minutes ago on our 3 pm show getting answers. i talked with a usgs expert abouwhat today's quake tells us about the calaveras fault. while we think we've been living through a decade of seismic sleep, in fact the most seismically active fall in the bay area is the hayward and southern calaveras. so these are false that produce little earthquakes all the time and if we look at our history, which isn't long goes back to

about 1836. we see some very large earthquakes on this fall as well. in fact the magnitude 6.2 morgan hill earthquake occurred an exactly the same spot that this one struck. so this is an act of fall. this is a fault that could rupture in a very large earthquake and this is one we need to worry about. on our website abc7news.com. we have lots of resources to help you prepare for an earthquake and that includes a video on what to pack in your earthquake kit. do you have an earthquake kit? maybe a good place to start visit abc 7 news.com slash prepare norcal if you've got an appointment at an alta bates medical center campus in oakland or berkeley, you may see protesters. it's day two of a nurse's strike nurses want sutter health to address workplace violence in high turnover rates. some nurses said they're working overtime and double shifts due to low staff numbers in response to safety concerns the calling for a better workplace violence prevention plan from the hospital etc health says, it's

attention remains on providing safe and high quality care to patients and it hopes to reach an agreement negotiations are set to resume this weekend. filipino american history month commemorates the first recorded presence of filipinos in the continental united states in october of 1587 in what is now morro bay now recently. there's been a push for greater recognition of the contributions of filipino americans throughout history people like larry it leong philom labor organizer who would have celebrated a birthday today a proud filipina american herself abc 7 news reporter amanda del castillo shows us the effort to spotlight heroes through public landmarks. across the bay area and beyond many historical monuments memorials and more with any ties to racial injustice have been removed or renamed and with that new opportunities to dedicate public landmarks and visual markers to others more deserving of recognition in east san jose daniel lazo with the grassroots

organization lead filipino found potential and an empty field. i saw greenfield here for many years growing up and once it finally got developed and there was a park here and i heard that there was going to be a park being named. i just submitted a name out of the blue and it really garnered a lot of attention and the filipino american community that name delano monong's park delano bringing us back to the location of the delay. no grape strike in 1965 and manong an ilocano term meaning older brother used as a form of endearment. delano was pivotal and the labor movement alongside caesar chavez and dolor suerta. there was also filipino americans a part of that history such as larry it leong philip veracruz benjamin gines and pete velasco really led the movement in working towards farm worker'' rights present day. the new park is located off north capitol avenue. it's the first landmark in san jose representative of the filipino american communities

contributions to american history an informational sign shares great detail of the grape strike and recognizes the role of the monong generation that until recently many felts had sat in historical shadows the united farm workers movement during the 60s was one of what america's you know, important economic and social justice strike in history. so it's very important and monumental to our community and virginia with the filipino american national historical society of santa clara valley emphasizes public acknowledgment and representation matters, and we want our community our children to understand that we do have you know a filipino heroes or heroes she rose out there that beacon look up to and while delano monongs park may be the first in the south bay up north san francisco's filipino cultural heritage district soma pilipinas has plans for more public installations across the south of market from permanent street signs plaques and benign

inspired crosswalks. most notably a new gateway designed to be the first and largest permanent district marker within its deeply meaningful design an iteration of pugma mana or inheritance. the sun takes center stage anywhere you go it really is a representative of our sunkist people. so it'll have the sun it'll have waves to represent the water and ocean that both separate us, but also bring us together soma pilipinas director raquel redondius expects the gateway to go up at russ and folsom streets in the heart of the youth and family zone the district spans one and a half. miles honoring the 120-plus year history of filipinos in san francisco and the monumental actions of our ancestors. it's education fighting for ethnic studies housing rights. so there's so much contribution, but there's no cultural markers that really lift up this history every design and decision intentional meant to help future

generations of filipino american culture keepers find inspiration and identification. we're hoping that in seeing themselves and their families represented whether it be in murals or in these art projects that they will really see that, you know their history and their experiences important honoring filipino american history month. i'm amanda delta still yo abc 7 news well, let's face it. we all try to avoid that dreaded middle seat on a flight one airline though thinks. they've come up with a way to make that seed a little bit more alluring. we'll tell you what that prize might be waiting for you on the ford 4

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amongst older adults the cdc reports only about 72% of those eligible have kept up to date by getting their first booster in less than half have gotten their second booster as for the updated by valen booster shots, which targets the original strain into omicron subariants less than 10% of the population ages five and up have actually gotten it. so what's the thinking here? where are we at guys nama? i mean, i think that tracks just by listening to people conversations when the first you know booster came out everyone's talking about rooster or i'm going to get my food and now you just don't hear whole lot of anything, but who knows maybe people will start talking about getting it again? as we get, you know more into winter and all the bugs that are going around and you know, i think it's gonna be a rough winter. yeah. i mean the thing is a lot of people have gotten it this year. and so they've seen omicron and so i think a lot of people are thinking, you know, even if i'm

not at maximal antibodies, my body will be able to produce, you know, the t cells b cells and whatever letter cells will be able to defend and ramp up the defense against it, you know, but but i think the messaging has been really poor again as we continue throughout all this because for so many months we heard you get your booster your booster the booster was for a virus from two and a half years ago and really wasn't almost cron focus. so now that weave onehatly' goit minimized because for so long we were hearing about the other boosters and yeah, i don't know. i did make no sense to me why i would get that rather than one that's that will protect me from overcome confusion and fatigue. i think yeah. yeah. yeah. you're right. you're right two big speaking of fatigue. oh brother two, big brands today say they're dropping the rapper formerly known as kanye west and his billion dollar easy brand following mounting outrage over

his anti-semitic tirades adidas and now san francisco-based gap say today, they're both cutting ties with them. he made anti-semitic remarks during interviews as well as social media including a tweet that said he would go quote defcon 3 on jewish people. authorities warn that his anti-semitic rhetoric has been a rallying cry for extremists and you know, we see that all over the country now to me i mean part of it is an outrage but also part of his really sad kanye west if you go back, you know a decade or so. it was a brilliant performer, and that seems that that kanye seems to be long gone like there's a fine line sometimes with some performers from brilliance to what we're seeing now with kanye and it's a little muddy as to what's going on in his life and where he's going with this and did he get banned from twitter for tweeting that is that we just say he tweeted that yeah, i believe that to be the case. yeah along with some other

social media sites. yeah, who knows how long that will last? yeah. it's a shame to see someone that had such a great and early positive influence to kind of take this dark turn. yeah, and you know what? i mean, there were those protests or you know people with anti-semitic signs on the freeway overpasses in southern california, and a lot of people wonder when you see a celebrity say something does it have impact where it makes it it tells other people. it's okay for hate speech to flourish and it really isn't so yeah there needs to be consequences and looks like he got in today in terms of those businesses. all right. nobody likes sitting in the middle seat of a plane. and now one airline is offering a lottery to make that scene just a little more enticing virgin. australia is offering travelers a weekly prize from a prize pool worth about 145,000. you have to sit in the middle seat voluntarily or involuntarily during a flight to be eligible prizes include a two-night vacation in australia that includes flights accommodations and a bungee jump and flights and tickets to the

australian football league grand finale finale or final with exclusive access. that's nice. i mean, that's really great. how about just lowering the prices for those middle seats? that too anna. could we trade in the bungee jump for something else though? if we win that's gonna give you my bungee jump. oh, you're so generous. yes. i mean, yeah, you know, i'm not super tall. so i don't particle. it's not the end of the world if i have to sit in the middle being being the youngest of three girls. i always sat in the middle in the car. that wasn't a great thing on the bump. yes on the bum, but, you know wouldn't be that bad except. i don't know that i'd want to go all the way to australia in the middle seats. well, that's what i was wondering. how long is this flight have to be for us to be eligible. that's what i'm saying if it's a fly to australia, there's no way i'm sitting in that middle state if i can avoid it. that's a long flight. yeah, if it's just flights actually, even if it's twice within australia, australia is a huge country so you could be sitting there like this for

quite a period of time so it doesn't sound like there's a lot of takers if it's an intercontinental flight. yeah, it's a all right for those on a diet today. well, this is a good cheat day, but i don't know. it's national greasy foods day. we're not encouraging this but, you know, obviously everything in moderation we can always go back to healthier choices tomorrow. maybe vegans can also mark this day their plant-based greasy food, right? oh was that you going because you don't like friends? no you wait a second. we have a new four four seconds something like french fries, especially on greasy foods day. i'm anti potatoes. whoa. oh my wow. i know i can't i'm we're still learning new things. but okay those do to you mike. were you doing an eyeing over the french fries? i was just disappointed to see pizza as part of the greasy food day, but that could explain all

a lot of the vegan options. i mean, is it broccoli heavily roasted in olive oil? like what makes a greasy? i don't know. i don't know sauteed perhaps. yeah. mean when i find my little sprouts are kind of greasy, but that's what makes them good and add in the bacon. yeah. oh garlic. can we come back to this french fry thing. i don't like i'm so puzzle, but you she does something weird with yogurt too. right? i have this didn't you do or sour cream. there was something kristen that we'd had it for i'll have to think of it. i mean, i think it's a perfectly adequate substitute for cream cheese. oh, that's what it was a cream cheese. yes and okay as kind of a, you know layering cream thing on cake. yeah. i know. i never really just thinks i'm weird kristen's odd real choices on the next board my goodness. yeah. all right. oh, i thought you were on my side. i'm always mostly on your side. just taking all right, but i

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and across the state 60s and 70s for the most part has some of that cool fall air is spreading everywhere. there you go tuesday. that's what kristen was talking about. yeah that chance. thanks. mike really looking forward to tuesday high school physics taking a quantum leap forward with students using their smartphones as scientists from lawrence. livermore lab is revolutionizing how physics is taught see how next getting election results shouldn't be as confusing as all the politics surrounding these midterms abc 7 news makes it easy how you get election results. is your choice looking to cozy up with results all night and watch those local numbers coming in on your tv great. you'll need to download our streaming at first. it's available on your smart tv roku fire or apple tv get that and you can watch our live election coverage and prime time live from eight to 11 pm on your couch your bed wherever you like

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field the only tool needed a smartphone. what can i tell how many steps i took how high, you know, this acclaimed government scientist has always been awed by science and recently he brainstormed away to modernize the teaching of physics harnessing the power of all the apps on students' favorite devices and creating a class called physics for phones. we're putting satellites up into space. we're building networks and all this is being done for commercial markets never before we've been in a position where we can use that investment to teach our youth thousands of teachers across the country and around the world are already downloading the 2500 pages, of course material from the lawrence livermore lab website putting physics for phones into action. we have this interval acceleration that we can measure off the phone and we measure the length of your arm. we can calculate exactly how fast your rotating. all right. we've got your phones. let's try it.

i got. 60 ish these tools are just so powerful. almost every student has you know a phone and if they don't their friend does with school budget, it's tight. there's no need to buy equipment all. answers are already in the phones the kids at the poorest high school in the country now can now pull out their phones and do experiments that are better than what's going on at the most elite colleges in the country. it just makes it more accessible to them because it's an instrument that they're used to using all the time. it accelerates the learning of physics. sure. the response to physics for phones is spilling out of the classroom and into students' lives outside of school temperature acoustics other accelerations. it's pretty cool. so and i found myself using it just for fun. like driving a car or in an airplane. just see what the data is like just to tape it onto fast things and find that fast they go.

you'd like to see how fast yeah, yeah. what happens? the different acts axes the magnetic field out like changes. it was so cool to see how like technology that like, i didn't know. could measure so this new age physics class is simply taking the apps that already exist the phones that students already have and inspiring a new generation of scientists. we need people who are interested in going into the sciences because we've got a lot of problems in the world. need to take advantage of all of the intellectual capital that we have on the planet. i'm leslie brinkley abc 7 news. and the scientists who developed physics for phones says he believes it is the most significant project that he has worked on in his entire career. most likely coming to a school near you. all right, that's going to do it for this edition of abc 7 news at 4. i'm larry beale abc 7 news at five with dan and alma is coming

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>> this is abc7 news. >> it was sort of a jolt and not a lot of swaying, not a lot of motion, just this big bang. it seemed to be over. ama: reaction moment after a magnitude 5.1 earthquake which shook things up a bit around the bay area, including halloween decorations at a south bay home. dan: thanks for joining us. the shaking started at 11:42 this morning. many of us got a warning on our phones a few moments before. more on that in a moment. the quake was centered 12 miles east of san jose along the calaveras fault. there were a series of aftershocks ranging from 2.9 to 1.4, as you can see on this map.