breaking news and that breaking news in santa clara county former sheriff. lori smith has been convicted in her civil corruption trial good evening. i'm on a date and i'm dan ashley. thank you for joining us smith was found guilty on all six corruption and misconduct counts in her civil corruption trial. abc 7 news reporter zach fuentes is live in san jose with details sac. now this has been something we've been following for quite some time not in the news of the verdict just coming down a couple of hours ago this afternoon only days after smith resigned from office. we'll take you to some video now of her walking into the courthouse today. now the accusations were brought by the 2021 santa clara county civil grand jury smith was accused of providing concealed carry weapons permits in exchange for political donations or other favors not reminder.

this was a civil corruption trial. it's meant to remove her from office. but as i just mentioned she resigned on monday just before this verdict was issued. so what this now means legally remains to be seen her attorneys tried to have the case thrown out after she resigned but we're not successful still she could be facing criminal charges in the same issues now just about an hour ago. we heard from santa clara county district attorney jeff rosen who reacted to this verdict take a listen to what he had to say. we're gratified that the jury considered all the evidence from our lengthy and detailed investigation and found all of the allegations against the sheriff to be true. we look forward to working with the next sheriff and all the hard-working honest men and women in the sheriff's office to serve our community with honor and integrity. the sheriff's office. it's now being led by acting sheriff ken binder who released a statement that said in part. we respect the jury's decision and remain focused on our

mission to continue to provide the highest level of public safety and service to our community that statement goes on to say that they're looking forward to the sheriff election happening next week now we did reach out to laurie smith's attorney who said he would not be offering any comment in light of this verdict now later tonight. we're going to hear more from the district attorney jeff rosen and also at least one of the candidates running in that sheriff's election right now live in san jose zach fuentes abc 7 news. right zach. thank you so much. now to developing news paul pelosi was released from sf general today nearly a week after he was attacked inside his san francisco home. here's a look at that house. paul. pelosi is back home recovering his wife house speaker nancy pelosi released a statement late this afternoon saying the pelosi family is thankful for the outpouring of support from around the world and express gratitude to first responders who helped save her husband's life. the house speaker says her husband is under a doctor's care and recovering abc 7 will continue to bring you the very latest developments.

big tech giants in the bay area are announcing major layoffs across the board leaving thousands of workers concerned that they could end up jobless soon. yeah abc 7 news reporter suzanne phan joins us live to explain how these cuts will have a ripple effect on everyone in the bay area suzanne. well today bay area based stripe announced that it will lay off a thousand people and list says, it's going to let go of 700 people and we can't forget about twitter more companies are downsizing saying that they're blaming economic conditions market downturn or restructuring. this is an unusual day. i have never seen so many layoffs announced on the same day. that's ted egan chief economist for the city and county of san francisco lift the ride-hailing giant and stripe a fintech company each plan on cutting their workforce by 14% and of course, there's also twitter owner elon musk has announced plans to slash 3700 jobs. that's half the company's headcount since january the san

francisco standard has been tracking cutbacks with its layoff tracker. 16,772 workers have been laid off at 138 san francisco companies many of them happen to be tech companies, california is known for its tech industry. we've got to be careful that we don't want to destroy our economy. we talked to economics professor daniel venzel at san francisco state university about the overall layoffs, but this is a deliberately created recession by the federal reserve bank because that's the only way we can end inflationary expectation. it's just one of the tragedies of a monetary and fiscal policy is we have the tools but it's like using a shotgun to kill a mosquito. it's it's too bad. that's the only tool in our arsenal. even though there are concerns about the economy slowing new data on this thursday shows companies are still hiring that there are two jobs for every one worker. there are charts out there

indicating that unemployment has dropped and that there are a lot of jobs out there. that's because they're different sectors. that some firms may be hiring. temporary workers for the for the holiday season so but but the labor market is balkanized. the reality though is tech is a major major driver of the city in the regions economy, and if you have thousands and thousands of tech layouts, that will have ripple effects on other industries and the unemployment rate will not stay at a record low. it's going to have and chief economist ted egan says that september was the first month where san francisco and the san mateo area saw a loss and tech jobs since the very beginning of the pandemic. we're alive in the newsroom suzanne fawn abc 7 news suzanne. thank you, california. governor newsom is putting one billion dollars in funding on hold because he says local governments plans aren't aggressive enough to curb homelessness in their communities governor newsom says

the collective plan submitted by counties would only reduce homelessness statewide byt four. the governor says the counties approach needs to accelerate to provide relief to the unhoused crisis state lawmakers committed to spending 15.3 billion over the next three years to combat homelessness the california department of justice completed its first mandatory criminal investigation of a police shooting a state law passed in 2020 requires the doj to investigate all deadly police shootings involving an unarmed person. it's first case was about matthew james sova. he was shot and killed by lapd officers in july of 2021 sofa was holding a lighter that looked like a pistol when he was shot by police the do-g-j determined that there wasn't enough evidence to file criminal charges against those officers. in that spirit we've embraced a fair impartial process. where the california department of justice follows the facts and nothing else as we seek to

ensure every californian is afforded equal justice under the law. now attorney general banta co-authored the law when he was a member of the state assembly before being appointed to the attorney general job. voter in california now gets a mail-in ballot in millions have already been returned. we're tracking returns statewide the latest numbers show less than 13% of ballots have been returned. you can also track ballot returns check out our election ballot tracking tool on our website abc 7 news com slash election. and on the election night, we'll be live streaming results as soon as the polls close for three hours straight from 8 to 11 pm. you can catch that with our abc 7 bay area app on your smartphone or smart tv and here on tv. you can watch abc 7 news at 4 beginning at five. we'll go live to abc network coverage of national elections with live local cousins every 30 minutes then abc 7 news at 11. we'll have a full recap of local results. hope you'll join us for election day next tuesday now around

50,000 uc workers are planning to go on strike members of three different unions voted this week to approve the strike over a lack of pay from the university system abc 7 news reporter. ryan curry was at uc berkeley today speaking with leaders of the strike. union workers at uc berkeley are getting each other to sign up for strike pay thursday. this comes as three different unions prepared to walk off the job as early as november 14th. we've done our best to try and reach a fair agreement or bargaining in good faith. the university is not given us that same courtesy tonsil chaudhary works as a graduate student researcher for the lawrence berkeley lab he along with potentially 50,000 researchers teaching assistants and post doctor workers across the state will leave their jobs because they claim the university of california system is not paying them enough. i know some people are making as little as 24,000 a year show the recess his job with the berkeley lab requires him to do numerous tasks, but the school only pays him for 20 hours of work a week. he says he is constantly

exceeding that i'm regularly working over 40 hours. sometimes when things are you know, really hectic i'm working 560 hours to get all that work done the unions involved or asking the uc system to raise pay to help meet growing housing prices and inflation. toward theri says the strike will put a burden on the schools. we do the vast majority of the teaching work here at this university. right? we also do almost all of the research work of this university, right? so if you know that works stops, we walk out where we're on strike. i don't think this university can continue to function without us. we reached out to university of california president's office. we're waiting to reply you see berkeley. however said that if the strike does happen, it will have a serious effect on how it goes about scheduling undergraduate courses in a statement. you see berkeley said clearly if all postdocs academic researchers academic student employees and graduate student researchers decided to stop working. it would have a significant impact on the campus including the potential for various courses and or sections not

being taught. uc berkeley went on to say they are ready to work with other faculty to limit some of the issues show the recess the union members are ready to fight for what they want the demands that we're making the proposals that we've made are what we really need to be able to work here in berkeley ryan curry abc 7 news. a new healthcare education facility is coming to downtown oakland mayor libby schaaf, let a ceremony today announcing plans to build the new campus of samuel merritt university on the very last section of open space on the city center site at 12th and broadway merit is a private university focused on health sciences founded back in 1909 tense court battle is brewing in san francisco, but this court drama doesn't feature a judge in a jury. it's a showdown over tennis and pickleball abc 7 news reporter tara campbell explains. what's in play during a highly anticipated town hall tonight. it's one of the fastest growing sports in the country and

pickleball players in san francisco want more courts. it's really number one really impossible to book pickleball courts in the city. there's not enough tennis courts can be used to play pickleball by painting in the proper lines and setting up shorter nets, but the push is on for more dedicated pickleball only ports like the ones here at goldman tennis center. what's it like booking times to play on these dedicated courses hard to get time. i think it depends if you're if you have a flexible schedule when i've looked early morning or even later in the day. there are quarts of elbow san francisco wreck and parks has a proposal to put in eight dedicated pickleball courts at stern grove where two tennis courts were recently destroyed by a water main break. so i've seen from the map there were two tennis courts here that were dual-lined for pickleball which made for six pickleball court martha arafeld co-chairs the tennis coalition of san francisco. we understand the pickleball is

exciting growing sport and we support it. we just don't support converting any tennis courts permanently to pickleball court right now. there are only 11 dedicated pickleball courts in all of san francisco half of the time the tennis courts here are empty during the week and yet, you know, we can't use them to play pickleball but tennis players are quick to make the same case. it's nearly impossible to get a court reservation during the prime times and you know, frequently, i'll still see when i try to reserve a court that pickleball. are still available as well and both sides are expected to make their voices heard this evening at a town hall where reckon parks is putting the proposed courts at stern grove up for debate tara campbell abc 7 news. a vaccine maker is seeking to target covid and the flu with one vaccine. we'll show you the progress. they've made so far abc 7 news at five. we'll be

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extra trip to the pharmacy the company announced phase one of its us clinical trial to test an mrna flu and covid combo vaccine. we're right in the middle of actually helping develop a lot of these new combination treatments. i'm adrenas on the same mission dr. kenneth came with our clinical research in long beach will start testing moderna's version of a combo vaccine in december. he says the mrna technology makes it possible to code proteins for four different flu strains and two covid variants. that is the beauty of the platform that you can actually put multiple proteins on a single vaccine platform. is there a downside that's what researchers want to find out in the us more than 600 million mrna vaccines have been administered the track record is there but what happens when you mix various types of viruses, you don't know what they'll be some decrease in efficacy. there's a possibility of different side effects that could occur because there's multiple vaccines in there side is expect to have these answers

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neighborhoods. the city's grant comes from transformative climate communities program funding. sorry, let's turn our attention to the weather and submarine. yes, it's nice day today sandia. it was a beautiful day today after you got past that chill and the frost this morning, dan and i want to show you another gorgeous view. this is from our zephyr camera. you will notice one thing and that's well besides the fact that people are enjoying the nice view. there's snow on the ground and there is more on the way. here's the latest from the climate prediction center 8 to 14 day outlook above average precipitation out west across the central us near normal in the rockies and you will notice below normal for the pacific northwest in parts of the south. so we look at the western us and we fall in that above normal category will take it 33 to 40% chance of above normal precipitation. that is starting next week, november 11th through the 17th now recent rain hasn't done a whole lot no change in our drought. this is the latest drought

monitor update. it's still showing extreme to exceptional across of the central portion of california here in the bay area. we are in that severe category and the area shaded in red which is parts of the north and east bay in the extreme category high pressure in control of our weather right now, and that's why we're seeing this northerly wind flow. all the moisture is in the pacific northwest atmospheric river is expected to impact them really continuing over the next few days as we look at a live view from our golden gate bridge camera blue skies out there. it is 54 in the city. so a nice recovery after a morning 58 in oakland 60 in san jose temperatures this morning fall fell into the mid and upper 30s for many of our official sites will get the official reports later on tonight oakland airport. this is our abc 7 news oakland airport camera. you see some high clouds looking back towards the city 61 in santa rosa novato 60 in napa 62 concord 60 in livermore a live view from our san jose camera, and you were seeing mainly sunny skies another chilly night with

patchy morning frost showers return over the weekend wet weather continues into next week solano county under a frost advisory tomorrow morning temperatures down to 33, which means frostco damage sensitive plants, make sure you take the necessary steps upper 30s to the upper 40s, i think with the high clouds around not as cold as we saw this morning, but we're still going to see some patches of frost upper 50s tomorrow afternoon to the upper 60s with the mix of sun and high clouds. so temperatures will continue to rise. it's a light level one for saturday light showers under a quarter of an inch for most of you breezy. times that this is exclusive storm impact scale to abc 7 news little drizzle saturday morning saturday afternoon is the main event when we'll see some showers moving through the region between two and nine pm and then it pretty much starts to wind down late saturday night in terms of rainfall totals generally speaking a couple hundreds of an inch to just under a quarter of an inch winter storm watch already posted for the sierra sunday night into wednesday morning one to four feet of snow is expected

stay tuned accuweather 74 forecast. morning milder afternoon. we have some afternoon showers with a light level one saturday evening sunday and then wet and gusty from monday election day lingering chance into wednesday. don't forget fall back one hour sunday morning we go to standard time. so we get that extra hour of sleep mom and dan. oh, yeah about that. we'll call you at 2 o'clock. all right. thanks sandia. well with the holidays just around the corner now a local police department is hard at work to help bring holiday cheer to children in need. hula be teaming up with to make that happen. we'll hav

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walgreens and san francisco police are teaming up to make sure it is a happy holiday for kids. yeah. they've joined other community partners to launch their annual holiday toy drive starting today. you can drop off a gift for a child that any of 40 walgreens stores across san francisco. all of the toys collected will go to children in need across the city families have been experiencing even more challenges through the impacts of covid and the cost that have increased over the years. so please just as you come through there's plenty of opportunities to drop off toys in the bins at greens, but also at every police department location now if you'd like to donate if you have until december 16th to drop off a new unwrapped gift at a san francisco walgreens location or at the police department if that's more convenient. yeah, it's a good thing as a family to teach the young ones about giving back that is so true. did that when our kids will deal with mine? all right world news tonight with david muir is coming up next. i'm on a date and i'm dan ashley forsettia patel all of us here. we appreciate your time.

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tonight, several breaking stories as we come on the air. the suspect in the attack on nancy pelosi's husband, was he in the u.s. illegally? and speaker pelosi with a new statement moments ago. in new york city, the woman attacked, sexually assaulted. news coming in on an arrest tonight, now linked to multiple cases. and the fbi's new warning about synagogues and security in new jersey. first tonight, the suspect in the attack on speaker pelosi's husept he was in the u.s. illegally and what we've now learned. and news just coming in on paul pelosi and his condition. what speaker pelosi has just revealed. mola lenghi in san francisco. just five days now until the crucial midterms. growing concern tonight about increased threats against election workers. what was discovered in a mail-in ballot i