finding solutions, this is abc 7 news. pretty much everything about this whole acquisition has been unprecedented. 50% is an extreme number. it seems to have moved very quickly. it just speaks to have a dire the situation is mass layoffs at twitter one week after elon musk's take over of the san francisco-based company today without access to their work accounts the tweets came fast and furious from employees now out of a job. good afternoon. thanks for joining us. i'm larry diehl and i'm kristen z today is your last working day at the company. those are the words that thousands of twitter's workforce received in an email about 50% of employees were impacted. that is about 3,700 people and it comes just one week after billionaire elon musk took over twitter abc 7 news reporter suzanne fawn live in the newsroom with the impact of today's layoffs suzanne. what a tough tough day for twitter employees today. they found out by email if they

were staying with the company or if they were being let go and also today some of them have filed a class action lawsuit because of the way things laid out one week after elon musk took control of twitter a 44 billion dollar company layoff notices went out to 50% of the company's staff on this friday at twitter headquarters. all offices were closed and badge access suspended. it's horrible. and then like, you know what about their families? i think it's really hard to lose your job on a friday and in the manner and as far as i've seen reported without much severance half of the staff got word via work email that they're staying the other half of the twitter workforce got word via personal email today that they're being laid off. learned some employees were notified at midnight and locked out of their work accounts. cutbacks happen to cross the board sales marketing engineering even a group working to make twitter's algorithms more transparent and fair, ironically some of the people

who work for twitter who were laid off hopped on the social media platform today some of them hopped on and posted quote. well, my entire team just got locked out officially in x-tweep. it's been a wild ride hashtag one team employees are now finally a class action lawsuit in response to the mass layoffs. they say the company violated the federal and state law by not providing the required advanced notice ian sure editor at large at cnet explains. what musk might be doing to get around that there is a california law that says you have to give 60 days notice. so he just pays them those 60 days and he doesn't have to warn them of the layoffs beforehand. so i imagine that we'll probably be what happens this time around but it still it indicates that people are not happy with the way. he's running things for those now. out of work industry experts say here's something to consider tech company jobs generally are still in high demand. so it may be that people will find a place to land in the end.

twitter is going under a lot of changes right now. it's definitely one of the big tech giants. i personally work at a startup. so it's good news for me. so i'll probably go poaching some of their their folks. and his first company-wide email musk explained the massive cutback saying it was quote to put the twitter on put twitter rather on a healthy path. now we reached out to twitter for comment we have yet to hear back from them live in the newsroom suzanne fawn abc 7 news suzanne. thank you meantime, i spoke with los angeles-based trial attorney about the legal ramifications on our 3 pm show getting answers as an employee writes lawyer. i know the california law was not followed here. we have a very strong worker protection law. it's called the warren act w a r n and it provides that if there are mass layoffs at big companies employees are supposed to get 60 days notice twitter is a big company. no question that the law applies to them. she went on to say and this has

been reported that twitter is keeping on some employees like paying them for 60 days through the beginning of january. they won't actually be working right but they get the salary benefits, but she says even that doesn't get them out of the 60 day warning notification law employees are entitled also to $500 per day if the warn act was violated. state senator scott weiner called the mass layoffs at twitter deeply concerning releasing a statement saying quote while companies periodically engage in layoffs to acknowledge economic realities firing a full half of employees goes well beyond that i see trouble ahead for twitter its users and our democracy. now there is a push for advertisers to pull their ads from twitter and today representatives from seven organizations, including glad and the anti-defamation league started the stop toxic twitter campaign saying musk's layoffs put brand safe guards and content moderation standards in jeopardy. given the actions in the past few days and especially the math playoffs today.

it's become clear that he will not that he's not going to continue to moderate content. or at least not to the effect necessary. so we are calling for a global pause. well today musk tweeted twitter has had a massive drop in revenue due to activist groups pressuring advertisers, even though nothing has changed with content moderation. was not just twitter zendesk has warned san francisco city officials that it will be laying off 84 employees in california on january 6th yesterday lift and stripe announced layoffs in amazon said it was freezing hiring in addition. dapper labs is letting 22% of its staff go dafra has developed nft platforms for the mba and nfl this comes on top of a mixed jobs report 261,000 jobs were added in october. that's the good news, but despite that the unemployment rate climb slightly to 3.7% even

worse the labor force participation rate rose to 62.2 percent in a healthy economy. more people are joining the workforce and looking for work. the report is also a sign that the federal reserve will likely keep raising interest rates in the coming months. we're hearing from speaker of the house nancy pelosi for the first time since the attack on her husband paul. it's part of a videotaped message ahead of the coming elections. she shared a brief comment about the incident. thank you. thank you. thank you for your kind words your prayers and your good wishes for paul. he surrounded by family. so that's a wonderful thing. it's been one week since the attack on paul pelosi today. the preliminary hearing was scheduled for december 14th. abc 7 news reporter loose pena was in court learning more details on what the prosecutor and defendant may be planting in this case lose. yes, larry. this was the first step ahead of a potential trial on december

14th district. attorney's office will have to prove they have enough evidence against a pap for a trial. this is all happening in the same day speaker of the house nancy pelosi updated her supporters on her husband paul. today for the first time since the attack house speaker nancy pelosi spoken camera about the status of her husband's health this a week since david to pop allegedly broke into the pelosi's home and hit paul pelosi in the head with a hammer. it's gonna be a long haul but he will be well and it's just so tragic haven't happened, but nonetheless we have to be optimistic. he surrounded by family. so that's a wonderful thing pelosi was speaking to her supporters in this video today in court a judge set the date for the preliminary hearing in this case at this point. we will be determining what witnesses we need to call whether we call a victim whether we call the 911 dispatcher

whether we present certain evidence san francisco district attorney brooke. jenkins said they have strong evidence against a pop to take him to trial including body camera video from the two officers who responded to the 911 call last friday the police observed mr. to pat pull that hammer away and then strike mr. pelosi. the pop was not in theeliaurf ne judge revealed today that she had worked with christine below see in the 90s. we are unclear at this point whether that judge will hear any evidence in that. you see hastings law professor george bisharat was he trial lawyer for the office of the public defender in san francisco. he gave insight into what david perhaps defense team may be planning in this particular case. it appears possibly that there may be a mental defense. so the defense attorney is likely to ask any questions to elicit testimony that substantiates that the defendant

was acting bizarrely now david the pub faces 13 years to life in prison if convicted of state charges which include attempted murder burglary and elder abuse the pap has entered a not guilty plea to all these charges in the newsroom loose peña abc 7 news luce thank you new abc news, washington post poll shows nearly nine in 10. people are worried that political divisions are increasing the risk of politically motivated violence the poll shows 31% blame the republican party 25% blame the democrats and 32% blame both parties equally just 11% blame neither. in the north bay of vandal is suspected of taking all the air out of the holidays giant inflatables slash and an affinity scene damaged abc 7 news reporter cornell bernard looking at why store employees and customers are determined not to let this ruin their holiday

spirit. has all the best stuff all the best stuff for the last six years sebastopol hardware has been serving up christmas with all the sparkle and their holiday market tent and i come here and i say, oh i can't wait to see what they have because they always have such great stuff here. it's an exciting time for us and it is exciting time. we think for the community too, but i'll see someone didn't didn't feel that way. gm dan allen ham says early sunday morning eight giant holiday inflatables outside the tent where vandalized snowman santa's gnomes the figure slashed and spray painted with anarchy symbols and pentagrams vandals also took black paint at the stores nativity scene. most of the pain has been removed and got the call from my sister manager and i was shocked and i said you're kidding right? and so i drove down here and came back and took a look myself, and i was just amazed that someone would go through and do that allingham says store

security cameras caught a possible suspect walking around the tent before dawn looks like a long pair of red here. they refer to me is miss claus mama christmas employee dora avila has a lot of nicknames here, but she's trying not to ruin the happy vibe despite what happened very sad and it's somebody wants to deface something. that's so joyful. we're just trying to make the community happy for people to do that. especially with the way the world is these days and it's really disappointing. it really is. i i hope they get caught you better believe he's inflatables are pricey worth about two grand total as for repairing them. that would be a holly jolly. no inflatables are total loss for now. he says a new display will go up soon to replace the fallen holiday heroes our whole point

and all this is that you know, we're not let someone like that deter. holiday cheer and our time we were super celebrating here in sebastopol. we're going to continue doing what we do and rock about someone spoil that it's sebastopol cornell bernard abc 7 news. ore managers say are re secity cam footageo fy t sideshows newoes to fe turn back those clocks but is time running out on daylight saving time and a young musical prodigy the impact this 17 year old is making in the world of opera. i'm spencer christian an extended period of rain is coming our way. i'll have all the details of my accuweather forecast in just a accuweather forecast in just a moment when abc 7 news ♪music playing♪

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it's how it brings us together. is stepping down after just three years with the department earlier this year the vallejo police officers association issued a no-confidence vote about shawnee williams. they claimed his failed leadership was the reason for mass exodus from the police force deputy. chief. jason taw will serve as interim police chief while the city work. hire a permanent replacement sideshows have become a big problem in the bay area really all across the state and now there's a new law set to go into effect on january 1st that will go after the drivers in these side shows reporter sid garcia with all the details. a new law according to i

auorill g the drivers charging them withll be known as ryan's law will give judges in district attorneys the power to charge drivers involved in street takeovers racing and sideshows with felony manslaughter if their actions leads to someone being killed those events are not just casual traffic infractions. when they take somebody's life those are murdered. the law now says that the new law goes into effect january 1st. it's named after ryan coppell. he was 16 when he was killed by a reckless driver in august of 2020. his parents are relieved. this new law will have harsher penalties for reckless drivers who caused someone's death today. for him so that his legacy will live on in this bill by making sure that future.

future drivers that kill somebody don't just walk away with a slap on the wrist there needs to be harder consequences when you break the law and kill someone law enforcement refers to the cars as weapons when the drivers are showing off during street takeovers or racing the new law will pay to put more officers on the streets to go after these drivers. there's about 100 million dollars in the new state budget. each and also pay for overtime sid garcia abc 7 news a long-time park in oakland's chinatown now has a new name madison park was officially renamed today in honor of the late alameda county supervisor wilma chan. the honor comes almost a year to the day of chan's death. she was struck and killed by a car while walking her dog chan served oakland as a state assembly member before joining the county board of supervisors a new exhibit at the new museum los gatos celebrates native american heritage month, san

jose state faculty and graduate students the moekma olony tribe mosaic america and numu collaborated on the exhibit. this is an interactive art display designed to share and preserve the moet tribes culture and history. we're teaching our youth you know that to be proud to share our story and to get out there and partnerships like with the new moon santa rosa state having exhibitions like it really helps us. the exhibit features photographs interviews and a supplementary bilingual course for fourth and fifth grade classes will be open through sunday, may 21st. right time to talk about the weather with a weekend upon us and alzheimer's walk. yes this weekend spencer has all the details on your forecast. that's right tomorrow the walk to end alzheimer's the walk here in san francisco kicks off in the early morning hours. and as you can see on the forecast here, we're going to have partly cloudy to partly sunny skies in the early morning during registration, but by mid morning, we'll see cloud of your conditions. we don't expect rain to fall here in san francisco until

around noon or even later so should be pretty good conditions for the walk right now. we're looking at relatively calm wind, but we expect winds to increase as we get into the weekend is that frontal system comes in that's going to bring us the first wave of stormy weather right now though as we look across embarcadero. we see partly mostly cloudy skies 59 degrees here in san francisco. we have low to mid 60s at oakland palo alto, san jose and santa fe and 55 degrees at half moon bay. nice view from emeryville. looking at clouds stacking up near the coastline and these are some other current temperature readings mid 60s right now, santa rosa, nevada and napa 67 at fair. at 66 a piece at concord and livermore and looking down on the low-level clouds and up at the higher clouds from mount tam. these are our forecast headlines. mostly cloudy overnight with morning showers arriving early morning in the far north bay. we'll see light rain and showers continuing and expanding through the bay area tomorrow and sunday and this wet wintery pattern will continue into next week overnight as the clouds thinking and the rain begins to push into

the northernmost part of the viewing area low temperatures will be mainly in the mid to upper 40s in the north bay and about low 50 is generally in mons the bay area highs tomorrow about 59 and a half moon bay 62 here in san francisco low 60s around the bay shoreline for the most part and low to mid 60s inland now, let's talk about the approaching storm on in the abc's abc 7 exclusive storm impact scale the approaching storm ranks one for saturday and sunday. we expect breezy conditions showers and periods of light rain. best chance of rain is in the evening hours and generally a 10th of an inch to half an inch in most locations. it's a forecast anim starting at midnight tonight early tomorrow morning about 8 o'clock or so. we'll see the first wave of rain developing in the far northern part of our viewing area. it'll be mainly in north bay event until early afternoon, then we'll see the rain expanding pushing southward eastward reaching other parts of the bay area then a break occurs late tomorrow night into early sunday followed by a wave of stronger steadier more vigorous rain developing late sunday night, and that system will continue producing rain for the

bay area into the middle of next week. now rainfall estimates assyrian sunday, we expect to be generally under a quarter of an inch but up in the north bay a bit more perhaps up to a halnd m wi b for the sierra from noon sunday into wednesday morning and here is the accuweather seven day forecast notice how many days of periods of rain and that can not steady continuous rain but periods of rain all the way through next wednesday, so this is much needed rainfall and it's even going to rain on election day. so if the results of the election don't dampen your spirits the rainfall will and don't forget clocks moving back right back an hour saturday night into sunday falling back to standard time. yes, so as usual i should call you at 1:59. am on saturday night. i always you want you want to be on the list too. i'll call you too. oh both of you just to make sure you get the clock right? i'll turn my ringer off. yeah. yeah the same. yeah expenser the i team digs

into complaints about donations and the groups backing a controversial measure in san francisco and the powerball jackpot jumps up again, kristen. why are we not buying tickets? because we're not gonna win. that's the largest jackpot ever maybe right.

now to power ball fever, you've got a bad. oh the jackpot now up to 1.6 billion dollars and that's the largest jackpot ever. we don't even consider playing unless it's over a billion. right? exactly. don't wake me up until it's over. yeah abc news reporter trevor all has a look at the jackpot and now some former winners spent their money. so are you ready to become a billionaire? how do you spend 1.5 billion dollars? i don't know the long shot odds 1 in 292 million are not stopping the excitement about winning. what could be a lump sum payment

of 745 million dollars nearly 500 million after taxes. you could buy a million dollar city apartment and a million dollar country home in every state in the country and still have half your winnings left over we go huge policy situation from you know, a large percentage of the us population. once the jackpot gets really big and that's what drives these big increases timothy schultz won the powerball in 1999 when the jackpot was only 28 million dollars at the time the former gas station worker says his life made a complete 180 after winning one minute. i was working for a little over minimum wage at a gas station and you know almost instantly just from a ticket i didn't have to do that anymore. and i was arguably, you know, sort of retired and in 2012 brian lozen his wife winning 202 million dollars and in addition to buying themselves a new house. they used the money to give back

to their town in, iowa. well the next right this is riveted into this. how do i win? how can i do this? what kind of house do they get you the next but what would you said? it's like 292 million to one. it's almost like getting hit by lightning. yeah, because that's one in a million right 300 times being hit by lighting that. so it's a real good you just go ahead and buy those tickets. yes. all right next drawings tomorrow night, by the way, if you want to know the powerball numbers, all you have to do is download the abc 7 news bay area app allow the notifications. we'll send a push alert as soon as kristen's numbers come off. we'll be right back. building a

better bay area moving forward finding solutions. this is abc 7 news. we're just days away until the midterm election and in san francisco political monitoring organizations are looking into whether two nonprofits supporting proposition. jay may have skirted the law in their efforts to fundraise and after the abc 7 news i-team started digging into the matter one of the organizations removed content from their website it

reporter stephanie. sierra has the story it's a battle between two opposing ballot propositions in san francisco, prop j and prop i both deal with the future of jfk drive in golden gate park and whether or not it should be open to vehicle traffic prop j is pushing for a car free space and probi is not yet the controversy brewing between the two campaigns isn't just opposing opinions, but allegations of a potential campaign law violation website screenshots captured by the abc 7 news item show two nonprofits supporting prof jay attempted to solicit donations to fund support for the development measure. both advertising all donations are tax-deductible yet a complete letter filed by the sutton law firm on behalf of access for all the political committee supporting the competing measure prop by alleges. those actions are against the law. so we brought this to anne ravel a former federal elections commission chair under the obama administration and current

elections law professor at uc berkeley, what is your overall take on what they are alleging while they may have easily. violated the law i wouldn't call it tax fraud rebel says there are two kinds of issues that relate to 501c3 nonprofits when they are supporting or opposing ballot measures. it depends if in advance they indicate that they are going to do about measures and going to be spending some money on trying to convince the voters in what either to vote for or vote against there's a way that you can make some of the agreement with the irs. do you think the prompt j campaign crossed a line here? it's hard to know because that we don't know whether they had. filed those papers with the irs in advance or not, you know, i don't know but what rebel can say for certain is neither

non-profit can promise tax deductible donations unless they're set up in a certain way with the irs and that's what was advertised on each organization's website and a newsletter. that one does seem to be a problem clearly because you shouldn't be signaling that there is going to be in that way, especially when they're asking money saying that it is going to be a tax deduction. the it made multiple attempts to speak with walk sf the san francisco bicycle coalition and the yes on prop jay campaign, but none of them agreed to an interview walk sf provided a written statement, which said walk san francisco was allowed to work on ballot measures as a 501c3 nonprofit organization and take all related legal and tax requirements very seriously our spending and staff time on the yes on prop j l and n campaigns fall. well within legal limits the accusations from the access for all political action committee

are baseless. an hour after receiving this statement the i-team found the paragraph soliciting donations was removed from walk sf's website. we followed up with questions, but never got a response. what does that tell you i think it may reflect. that they recognized that perhaps they were not fully in compliance with the law because of your questioning based on those issues. they might have gone back taken a look at at what the problem was and that's why they removed it from the site three weeks later the san francisco standard reported that walk sf's executive director acknowledged that they crossed a line in its campaigning and reporting but the organization has since returned about $5,000 garnered from the fundraising emails and filed the proper disclosures the san francisco bicycle coalitions executive director, janelle wong

told the i-team our organization did not commit tax fraud nor is the filing of the reports and admission of any wrongdoing adding that out of an abundance of caution the refunded all the money donated and response to the email in question describing the email as allegedly confusing the sutton law firm sent to follow up letter to the fair political. this is commission alleging. walk sf and the san francisco bicycle coalition effectively admitted they violated the law but the san francisco bicycle coalition denied it saying there is nothing nefarious at play. meantime opponents of prop j are frustrated. it's wrong in a lot of ways. it's number one. it's just not playing fair. this is a hardship for everybody and it's a band for people like me. how are chadmore and victoria brucker are disabled. they both want jfk drive to be open to vehicle traffic so they can access all of the park the measure backed by mayor london breed and many san francisco board of supervisors advertisers. it will keep the jfk promenade

safe and accessible for everyone including seniors and people with disabilities, but chad moore and brooke are argue. it will shut them out just not. it's not kind. i always thought that the park would be there as a solace for me and it prop j passes. i won't get to any of those places except the arboretum and the tulip garden for the rest of my life stephanie sierra abc 7 news. and on 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 watch that with our abc 7 bay area app on your or smart tv. and here on regular tv, you can watch abc 7 news at 4 and at five we'll have live abc network coverage of the national elections with live local cut-ins every 30 minutes. so get you caught up on all the props and then abc 7 news at 11pm with a full recap of all the local results. get ready ready to set those clocks back.

clocks back. before this is what voting yes on prop 31 means. yes on 31 ends the sale of candy flavored tobacco products. yes, stops big tobacco from targe k yes, protects kids from nicotine addiction. vote yes on 31.

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yes, protects kids from nicotine addiction. vote yes on 31. 4. oh everyone's favorite subject. don't forget to fall back this weekend dan spencer daylight saving time ends on sunday. so if shifting your clock has you thinking about reaching for another couple of joe you're not alone when you lose an hour or gain an hour you're playing with your body's clock overall and this can cause a lot of different consequences. so doctors recommend adjusting your sleep gradually by 15 or 20 minutes a day and is tempting as it is don't reach for that extra cup of coffee the caffeine now the majority of americans really don't like the flip-flopping, but it's a huge debate a battle over whether we stay on daylight saving time then as the senate actually passed a billboard, but you know stalled and probably not going to happen or stay on standard time, which the mexican

center has just voted for like which is actually better. what do you guys like dan? well, you know, i've mixed feelings about this i suppose if we're going to stay on one i would vote for daylight savings time as the one to stick with. i'm gonna be the contrarian. i don't actually mind the time change that much. i mean i'm fine if we get rid of it, but i you know what to me. it's sort of a rite of passage of the seasons. i like it when it stays light in the summertime and i don't mind it when it gets dark early in the winter time. it kind of cozy and i don't know i don't mind it either way spencer. i don't mind it either notice. my lips didn't seem to be moving while dan was talking because i feel say really? i don't know. it's not the greatest inconvenience in the world to go back and forth. but if i had to pick one, i'd probably pick daylight saving time because i don't like to see it get dark at 4:15 in the afternoon. well, yeah been more on mountain time. yes all the whole time right then that creates some otr issuesyeah. they're not leaving it up to us. fortunately they do that hawaii.

they just yeah, they just leave sorts of arizona as well. yeah, that's right in arizona true. yeah. the faa is considering regulating airplane seat sizes. this move is in response to thousands of complaints about the shrinking size of seats congressional committee asked the faa to study the impact of seat size in an emergency the flyers rights organization proposes a minimum of 32 inches of legroom the industry standard the average is currently 30. i'm not too extra inches. i'm not sure that's kind of matter that much but i think certainly we would all like to be more comfortable. i think some are even 28 if i'm not mistaken. i could be wrong about that dan. we're going to leave you out because you're always up in first. yeah, you will talk about it, but there's a reason i try to go to first class because i have long legs and i'm usually uncomfortable with the legroom that is giving income. yeah, right and spencer and i are all and our producer stacey just tells me that legion is 27

inches. wow, you know, this is why i think the answer to this problem with the ought to do is is just force people to stretch more because they could probably go down to 22 or three inches if we could just get our knees closer to our chest and for hours at a time question is i'm okay. yeah, you know maybe in the pre-boarding process you have an instructor there stretching you out so you'll be okay. so absurd now, it's just airplane yoga. yeah. course. wow. yeah, okay that calls for this now to a tropicana is calling the perfect mimosa maker. it's basically a spray bottle that spritzes juice into your champagne. the bottle has several settings. let's take a look whisper spritz and shower so you can add your preferred amount of juice. you can only get one by winning it though through tropicana's website. this is clearly a solution to a problem that does not exist. just say that exactly i mean, i'm pretty good at actually just pouring liquids.

i don't know about everybody else, but i don't need a spray bottle to make the mimosa. yeah. well, you're finished. really? yeah when you're finished put some household cleaner in it and use it. what a funny it's a obviously sort of a marketing gimmick. i would think yeah. he's gonna gimmicky and who determines. what's the perfect amount right tastes very widely. are you two spritzes spencer or three? yeah, maybe about one sports guy. no, i just drink the plain old champagne. i'm yes. i'm in whisper mode. you probably heard stories about iphone and airpod thefts. probably not like this one though. check this out. this is a reporter in chile mining his own business. no way has this airpods stolen by that bird watch closely. oh, that's a pretty good looking here, right? theft oh live tv. so the parrot during his live report landed on his shoulder and then just it's okay. grab the bird is that person trying to help you? no, i always he looks like he's

trying to feel. it back and do the photographer. well, yeah the hunts continues our exceedingly clever director. chris said he tweeted about it later. oh, excellent, but i'm bomb that's at least the crime was caught on camera. yes. we know what that looks we know the perpetrate. oh aggressive. i love just like i'll take that. you don't need that still work with one. oh my gosh. that's hilarious. yeah. well, there's something you don't see every day. that's fantastic. yeah. hope you got it back. all right time for a few more spencer puns with oh, that's enough. don't you guys tired of my friends? i don't want to see like a bird brain just right now. oh my brother friends just reeling us in yeah, right. that's it

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if you know bayer in music history, you're probably really familiar with sheila e. what a talent grammy and emmy award nominee. also in oakland native and the queen of percussion joined us on abc 7. midday live to talk about her new music and the series of shows coming up in her hometown. oh my gosh, what have you been up to? a lot a lot. yeah. i have a couple of projects i'm doing right now. i have a my first ever salsa record that i'm doing some very excited about that. we'll have special guests. that'll be out next year, but i went back to to my roots with my

band the e train which allows me to play drums most of the time on the show. so we're playing yoshi's november 11 12th and 13th in the bay area coming back home to play and i wanted to announce that. friday the 2nd show that's november 11th, friday the 2nd show only pajama party. so be in your pajamas because ondaybestbe i sdaayripajamaartye rize f the best white all white outfit or friday. second show pajamaonna have a gt time and we love that sheila and we want to point out that half out right now. so the early show today and saturday gone those tickets starting at about 54 dollars for the pajama party on the 11th, and they all white party on the

12th. very cool. yes. by the way, she also has a master class on drumming. she actually taught us a little bit really during the program as well. she's amazing. well, so nice too very cool and she scheduled to receive a star on the hollywood walk of fame next year. so talented so good spencer is trying to figure out the talented which no, he's figuring out which pajamas wear for the party. they're jealous japanese pajamas at whatever. yeah, let's take a look at the weather. that's more interesting whether you say with john was up pajamas the storm approaching us this weekend ranks one on the exclusive abc 7 storm impact scale storm of light intensity, but tomorrow and sunday we can expect showers and periods of light rain. it'll be breezy best chance of rain will be in the evening hours both days and most areas will receive probablyalan inch. he's a rain starts to develop up in the north bay first tomorrow morning and we can find mainly to the north bay until about noon or early afternoon and then we'll see areas of rainfall pushing southward in eastward moving to

the peninsula the east bay the a into tomorrow evening then a break overnight tomorrow night into early sunday, but late sunday into the evening hours. we'll see a wave of steadier heavier more far-reaching rain moving into the bay area and that's going to be the beginning of a spell of a wet weather that will continue into the middle of next week as you can see right here on abc 7 storm in impact scales. it's seven seven-day forecast is what i'm trying to say. i'm so taking with the storm impact scale because we've got ones all the way into the middle of next week now, don't forget to fall back to standard time overnight tomorrow night and election day too. it looks like it's gonna be a wet one, kristen. all right. thank you spencer. the artemis one rocket is ready for lunch. once again, the unmanned rocket made its way back to the launch pad today the new launch date november 14th. nasa officials are keeping a close watch on the storm then they head toward florida, but say they feel confident weather won't prevent the launch artemis is a focal point in nasa's plans to have humans return to the moon. all right, lots of young girls dreaming of being cinderella.

one teen stream is different than most. yes. she's composed a new version of the old fairy tale and is preparing for it to open at the san jose opera. san jose opera. this is what voting yes on prop 31 means. yes on 31 ends the sale of candy flavored tobacco products. yes, stops big tobacco from targeting our kids. yes, protects kids from nicotine addiction. vote yes on 31.

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the british composer pianist and violinist leading an orchestra musicians older than her composed her first piano sonata at five at seven. she completed a short opera and rhoda violin ncto now, she's in jose her conducting debut of the opera. she started creating as an eight-year-old a new take on cinderella. some people may remember me from five years ago because that cinderella was performed also in san jose in the opera, but then i was playing the violin the violin and playing a piano. and now it's so exciting because the opera is back again, but i'm conducting so i'm boss. i'm in charge of everything and i can get it to sound exactly how i wanted to sound don't you says at 17 leading a room of adults doesn't intimidate her. she's been doing it since she was seven. i remember they would always in the beginning thing. it's a little bit strange that little girl comes and tells orders, you know, how it should sound like but always when they when they actually got to know me and got another music then

they you know, then they understood it's not just deutscher's conducting that makes opera san jose's production of cinderella unique. it's also the way she wrote the story instead of the prince finding her with a shoe. it's a little bit different as a twist. he actually finds her with a melody. which she sings as she flees and then he searches the whole kingdom an sgshe beginning of the melody and he thinks only the girl who can finish this melody because he remembers it was haunting but he doesn't know what it was. only the girl who can finish it is the one he's looking for as for what's next deutscher says she's working on a new opera the emperor's new waltz set to debut in austria. come back to us here in the bay area. i hope so. i hope so. why don't we can do the new opera next year or something? while zach fuentes reporting how talented is alma i mean all these instruments and conducting. wow. she says her biggest. hope is that people will come see the production and we'll get the music stuck in their head opera san jose presents cinderella runs, november 12th

through 27th. that'll do it for this edition of abc 7 news at 4. i'm larryville. abc7 news 5 is next.

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