era for the party and the country's political landscape and with great confidence in our caucus. i not seek re-election to democratic leadership in the next congress. the speaker reflecting on her historic rise becoming the first woman to serve as house speaker in 2007 today getting teary talking about her husband paul. he still recovering from an attack at their san francisco home weeks ago and more emotional moments caught on the floor the speaker seen picking up east bay congressman eric wallwell's daughter. president biden tweeting out this when i think of nancy pelosi i think of dignity history will note her as the most consequential speaker of the house of representatives in the history. she is she is first last and always for the people america owes her a debt of gratitude for her service patriotism and dignity. we are losing an extraordinary

leader. she is without a doubt the most powerful most effective speaker of the house ever and speaker pelosi will continue to serve as speaker until january when newly elected members of the house are sworn in and republicans take control. they have nominated california representative kevin mccarthy to be the next speaker tara campbell abc 7 news. sorry tara. thank you. well pelosi's rise to power has a lot to do with another formidable political force in san francisco. it was former congresswoman salah burton the late representative for san francisco who said on her deathbed in 1987. she wanted nancy pelosi to succeed her before that pelosi was a behind the scenes player in the state democratic party former mayor. willie brown was california assembly speaker at the time salah said in no uncertain terms. nancy is the right person.

in washington pelosi's prominence soared becoming the top fundraiser in democratic party history and a force to be reckoned with in 2007. she became house speaker the first time a woman has ever held that position. and today i'm getting answers abc news political director rick klein said nancy pelosi will be forever linked to how she handled the trump presidency. she can be proud if she's not at the top. she's near the top as she goes out and i do think that a lot of people are going to remember those battles with with the former president as defining ones at times where the house speakership was more important than ever that upholding. the institutions of democracy were more important than ever and and just an incredible little capstone of a remarkable career. all right, let's dig a little deeper get a big picture perspective joining us live is abc 7 news insider phil mateer phil always great to have you nancy pelosi is 82 years old as you know nearly old bay area members of congress are age 70

and up. obviously phil age can be a double-edged sword. what role do you see at play here? well, let's first of all it takes time to get power in washington like it or not. we're on a seniority system. so the longer you serve the higher you go up in the ranks and in committee assignments and putting together budgets and things like that. so that naturally means the older you are the more power you have the double edged sword. is that once you step out you don't get to transfer that power to the person coming in they start back down at the bottom. so when people talk about who's going to replace let's say a nancy pelosi or jackie spear or any of the other half dozen congressional members of the northern california that may be stepping aside in the coming years. you're not going to be able to replace a jackie spear because she has the seniority. she has the knowledge and she has or any of the other south bay congressional women or men because they have the the seniority and they'll be going in like eric squallwell did a couple years ago and you have to

start climbing back up and making your mark making your moves. test that most the talent we have does that and like anna esu here moves up and becomes a prominent player barbara lee for example may be in line to replace dianne feinstein as a us. senator if dianne feinstein should leave early marcus sonier from concord a solid member who staying in there despite the fact that i got to tell you. it's not the greatest jobs. no, it's not an easy job lot of travel a lot of time and it's you're running for office constantly pelosi's let's talk about her replacement lik successor as the democratic leader is hakeem jeffries. he would be the first black person to lead democrats nancy pelosi, of course the first woman to ever hold that role he represents new york. so here's the question phil could california lose something by no longer being represented by the speaker of the house. well california will be represented possibly by the speaker of the house put on the republican side kevin mccarthy

from the bakersfield area appears to have the votes to take pelosi's place. so there's here's the catch. we have a democrat who would be sympathetic. let's say to the bay area's priorities versus a california republican that wouldn't so dan. that's that's the nature of politics. but right now it's going to be a question of like can california will continue to be the atm that funds the democratic machine and so we will be a player one way or the other but i'm not sure we're going to get that money for let's say high speed rail or some of our other transit projects that nancy pelosi made sure we got okay. we got a 15 20 seconds phil talk about she just won't re-election about san francisco has never sort of politically intrigue obviously pelosi stepping aside here from leadership already has people in the wings. will she serve the full two years of her new term and who is lining up to replace her? that's that's the big question dan because considering paul pelosi's recent tragedy where he was hit with a head with a hammer by an intruder his recovery is going to be a long one and it's going to be a tough

one. will she serve out the full terms already. people are saying speculating maybe. yes, maybe no and as far as replacements go they were talking before she even said goodbye and they include state senator scott weiner and possibly her own daughter christine pelosi. we shall see. thank you phil very much. we use the abc 7 news bay area app to send out this push alert with pelosi's news just moments after she announced it. so download the app now so you will get the alerts when news breaks you can customize notifications for the topics and the places that you're most interested in. now to election news anna shoe who was appointed to the san francisco school board following a recall vote earlier this year conceded this morning in a video posted to youtube. she was defeated by alita fisher shoe came under fire over the summer over comments. she made on the candidate questionnaire that were deemed to racist. she apologized but refused to step down after multiple groups called for her to resign. in one of the closest racists in santa races in santa clara

county anthony becker conceded yesterday to incumbent mayor lisa gilmore in the race for santa clara mayor gilmore won the election with 51% of the vote abc 7 news reporter dustin dorsey spoke with gilmore today after an incredibly heated. in every election there are favorites and there are underdogs but incumbent mayor of santa clara lisa gilmore says her race for city mayor was different. i wouldn't even assess it as a david versus goliath. i would assess it as a david versus the death star mayor gilmore said santa clara councilmember anthony becker texted her wednesday conceding the race an incredibly close election throughout despite gilmore saying she's been out spent eight to one two and a half million dollars of which coming from the san francisco 49ers santa clara and saw through all of this multimillion dollar negative campaigning and really voted for what's best for the city. so it was more than just me winning this race. it's it's keeping our city intact and not owned by a special interest the 49ers in santa clara including gilmore have been in odds over financial

management of the stadium for years, but gilmore says she still plans to work with the team following her re-election. i believe they need to work with us honestly, and they're not going to be able to buy their way out of this like they thought they would so it's really time for them to be real partners with us and work cooperatively. i'm willing to do that and they need to do it as well. the 49ers sent us a statement saying in part. we will move forward in the spirit of collaboration and partnership and look forward to working with the mayor the re-elected city council members and all local officials to support our community san francisco chronicle reporters ronchick. and lance williams have been following the 49ers involvement in local politics since they contributed 2.9 million to get becker and other candidates elected on the council in november 2020 the team put another two million behind two city council candidates who got elected this year, but williams says gilmore's victory speaks. loudly. it's a interesting achievement. and a rebuke i think of the

49ers involving themselves politically in this way. perhaps voters want the football team to intervene politically in a different way in santa clara dust and dorsey abc 7 news. now to the latest numbers in the oakland mayor's race, very interesting the race getting tighter and tighter another nail biter. really city councilmember lauren. taylor's lead over fellow council member shang tao is now down to just 464 votes razor. finn boats are still being counted with a margin this slim the race obviously far from over civil rights attorney. pamela price has widened her lead in the race to become the next alameda county district attorney. she leads challenger terry wiley now by a full four percentage points. that's about 14,000 votes. wiley is a veteran of the da's office and with races still outstanding you can check results as they come in find every race and measure now on abc 7 news.com/election. able to come tonight from the abc 7 news i-team the answers uncovered after months of digging into what should be a

simple question are the fire hydrants in oakland working. i'm meteorologist sandy patel wins going up and so are temperatures to end the work week. i'll let you know. what's in store for the weekend when abc 7 news at 6 this is gloria.

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people were killed. obviously. we had a lot of questions right now. you know, how the vehicle got on the road the question we received a lot is our alcohol and drugs involved. we don't know that yet. that's part of our ongoing investigation. the chp is asking anyone who may have witnessed the crash or was in that area before the incident. please give them a call with their information still no arrests by antioch police in the case of a teenager. who's for the right thing and ended up losing an eye 19 year old at bianca palomara is the assistant manager at a habit burger grill in antioch last weekend. she intervened when a man at the restaurant was bullying a special needs teenager who is related to a co-worker and you see it right there the man just hit her several times as a result. she is losing her right eye. now the family started to go fund me to support her and since we first aired this story yesterday donations have just poured in they now top 40,000

incredible effort by our viewers if you'd like to donate you can find a link to it within this story on our website to abc 7 news.com. she deserves every penny and more is a terrible thing. she's trying to do the right thing. absolutely. all right, let's turn our attention now to the weather forecast as we inch to the weekend. yeah, not a lot of snow here, but everywhere else and yeah, it's coming down. yeah back east you can definitely find it dan and i want to show you live doppler seven right now. there is a system that is going to work. way down across the inland portion of california. it's what we call an inside slider once that system comes down high pressure is going to build in and that's going to set the stage for a windy pattern tomorrow. we're looking at downsloping winds gusty offshore winds developing strongest over the hills, but as those winds kick up the fire danger will be elevated down in southern california where they do have a fire weather watch for saturday. it starts early in the morning runs until saturday night. they also have a wind advisory that is going to be going up this weekend. so in case you are traveling

down south keep that in mind it will start to get windy tomorrow down in southern, california 72 in los angeles 60 in vegas if you're heading down there at 37 and tahoe and plenty of sun and eureka 57 degrees monterey 59 degrees live view from our suture tower camera. san francisco is just sparkling tonight 55 degrees in the city oakland palo alto 54, san jose 60 52 and half moon bay. temperatures were lower than yesterday most areas came in and a low to mid 60s and from our golden gate bridge camera visibility is good right now low 50s from napa to santa rosa. it is getting chilly in fairfield 46 52 in livermore a live view from our abc 7, oakland airport camera, and right now it is looking good there. so gusty winds in the hills warmer tomorrow afternoon chilly mornings and cooler days this upcoming weekend and we are looking at a slight chance of showers in the north bay on tuesday. days, let's talk about the hourly forecast the winds tomorrow afternoon coming out of

the northeast picking up a 20 to 30 mile an hour winds. those winds will remain gusty tomorrow night as well now right now the reason why the fire danger is limited here is the national weather service is saying we still have enough moisture in the levels so that kind of mitigates the fire danger, but stay tuned in case things change because this wind pattern does dry out the atmosphere the winds ease as we had into saturday and by saturday at noon things are looking quieter temperatures tomorrow morning mid 30s to the upper 40s. we'll have a combination of higher clouds and fog around tomorrow afternoon in the south bay. you're looking at mid-60s for gilroy morgan hill 66 san jose 64 sunnyvale on the peninsula the sun will be shining. it's going to be a nice day 64 degrees in san mateo 61 and half moon bay san francisco. looking at 64 daily city 60 degrees north bay numbers 70 in santa rosa. so really pushing your temperatures up novato as well 69 in san rafael in the east bay upper 60s, oakland castro

valley, sunshine, inland 68 concord 70 in fairfield 68 livermore accuweather 7 day forecast gusty winds a warmer day. we're looking at winds easing over the weekend and the temperatures will drop off also chillier mornings expected over. a weekend and into monday now the chance of showers on tuesday. best chance is going to be in the north bay and that's not looking very promising either dry for thanksgiving and dan and alma as of right now, maybe end of november. we might have a better chance at seeing some wet weather. we will hold our breath and wait, i think sandia today governor newsom was in napa county highlighting recent efforts to fight wildfires possibly contributing to a quicker response and a less severe fire season, governor newsom says 2022 had more wildfires than 2021, but this year's fires burned far fewer acres 2.8 billion dollars from the state budget allowed cal fire to hire 3,000 seasonal firefighters and add to its fleet with new firefighting

helicopters. buyers are growing faster. they're burning more violently than they have in years past and we want to be able to respond to that. so we've increased our responses. we've added firefighters to our forces. we're continuing to hire and we're on a four-year track right now to become one of the largest fire agencies in the nation the governor and city leaders praised firefighters for their bravery as the drought continues knew some says the state is working to invest more in wildfire prevention. coming up next what impact empty offices and remote work can have on san francisco city services in the long term. that's coming up and keep this in mind the 49ers take on the arizona cardinals in mexico city on monday night football. you can watch it right here this monday on abc 7 coverage begins at 5 pm monday tune in for that but stay tuned now we'll continue in a moment.

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news reporter. zach fuentes. spoke with a labor law attorney about whether they'll have a case. it was a tough ultimatum sent to twitter employees via email elon musk saying in part that to build what he calls twitter 2.0. they need to work long hours at high intensity. the email went on to say that if employees want to take part they can click yes on a link provided anyone who didn't buy 2 pm pacific time thursday would get three months severance pay. i think it's a really unfair choice to put to employees when they have very limited information about what the company is going to look like going forward. michelle lee is an employee attorney and partner at rudy excel rod. zephan low in san francisco. she says her concern is that the email could be coercive what you know, whether or not if people don't resign now, are they going to be terminated in a different layoffs slowly in a way that you know try to ding them for performance because they weren't working every weekend and in that case, you know, what are their rights? and so i think workers are operating now and a lot of uncertainty which i think is

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the city losing 200 million dollars in property taxes over the next five years now if that happens a list of services across the city could be affected abc 7 news reporter loose pena spoke with several experts about this dire situation. san francisco could face. it's a dramatic side effect of the pandemic vacant office spaces all across downtown san francisco a sign of an evolving work culture but to a city of san francisco. it's a cry out for help iceberg is about to hit the city of san francisco the city relies millions of dollars in property taxes as more offices become vacant i don't think folks fully understand even even the folks that are that are fully committed to 100% remote work. i understand people have gotten comfortable with it, but even a hybrid schedule helps. to support our city right now

under the most optimistic scenario. san francisco could lose about a hundred million dollars in property taxes the worst case scenario 200 million by 2028. these projections were presented by the city's chief economist ted egan. he's numbers show that 200 million dollars is only a glimpse of the impact the vacancies will well go down by 2028 under our forecast, but the problem is the rents are going to be lower than and so property income will be and property values will be less in that year than the assessed value for many properties. that's property taxes means the city would need to start cutting. services a lot of them have to do with directly cleaning our streets keeping our cities safe historically in the great recession. we saw cuts to substance abuse mental health and homeless programs and we're still seeing the effects of that today.

so we're really nervous supervisor. safaiis is one of the plants it's a tapping to other industries to move downtown san francisco like why but the visibility of that is still unclear tegan is urgency leaders to act fast. the previous benchmark was the.com crash. this is worse than that in san francisco peña abc 7 news. it's been more than 30 years since the deadly oakland hills firestorm for months. the i-team has been searching for answers to a critical question our fire hydrants in the area working darn it. i wish they would just do the job. this shouldn't be that hard next what the it has uncovered about what works and who's responsible to make sure it does.

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i had team reporter stephanie sierra joins us to expose the lack of accountability from the city to address. this problem's death. that's right and dan this story started with pictures like this fire hydrants covered up hard to locate or disguised in the brush scenes like this got us wondering how often are these hydrants inspected and more importantly in the event of a major fire. well, they work, please we're having some technical difficulties there, but we will have this story air later for you. we also will have available shortly over on our website. and you know the story really incumbent says the lack of accountability from both the city of oakland and how the there's a misunderstanding between who is responsible for

maintaining these hydrants? that is a responsibility. that's held by east bay mud, but currently the fire department is also involved, but we will have more on that story posted over on our website and dan. and thank you stephanie, and we hope to bring you your complete story coming up as well moving on for now though the la county sheriff's office thinks that the driver who ran down a group of 75 police recruits yesterday. did it on purpose deputies. say 22 year old nicholas. joseph gutierrez was driving on the wrong side of the road when he smashed into the group injuring 25 of them. the driver passed a field sobriety test and the sheriff initially said it seemed like a horrible accident police are investigating other factors, including drugs and distracted driving five of the recruits are said to be hospitalized in critical condition for are being treated for moderate injuries and 16 have minor injuries. keep it here. keep it here. we'

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we want to get back to the report. we tried to bring you just a moment ago with a little technical glitch. we've solved and i-team investigation into fire hydrants in the east bay. yeah here stephanie crs stephanie. yes, alma and dan this story started with pictures like this fire hydrants covered up hard to locate or disguised in the brush. like this got us wondering how often are these hydrants inspected and more importantly? the event of a major fire will they work? lessons learned and lessons lost

it is concerning oakland hills resident doug. mosher doesn't want to live through another mistake to have that water supply is crucial to be able to fight a fire. one of the most important lessons learned from the 1991 oakland firestorm is access. 31 years ago oakland's fire hydrants were different than most across the state. this limited the help surrounding agencies could provide because they didn't have the adapters necessary to access the water supply. that problem was fixed in 1994, but 28 years later residents are now left with a different question. are these hydrants even working? we'd like to know the east bay municipal utility district or east bay mud told the i-team their responsible for maintaining more than 31,000 public fire hydrants across alameda and contra costa counties the abc 7 news. i team discovered only a fraction are regularly inspected a fraction as in 2.5 percent.

that's 800 hydrants per year. i don't think they should the issue. seriously, perhaps maybe they didn't take me seriously. it's one of many reasons former oakland hills resident nick vigilante moved out of california after 22 years. in september 2020. he asked east bay mud if hydrants are routinely inspected. maybe you should take this seriously the agency told him we do not have a proactive program in place right now to inspect and repair hydrates. we are launching a preventative maintenance program in october. the next month that didn't happen public records obtained by the i-team show after repeated requests from residents the fire preventative maintenance program eventually launched a year later in october of 2021. our goal is to inspect 800 fire hydrants. every year is inspecting these hydrants a priority in high fire severity zones. yes, certainly, but high fire duty a fire, excuse me, high fire severity zones are a priority for us, but the data

seems to tell a different story. there are more than 32,000 public fire hydrants in the city of oakland the 19 filed public records request to see the total number of hydrant inspections conducted by east bay mud an areas with the highest fire risk in the oakland hills an area identified by cal fire as a high fire hazard severity zone this included 46 roads that burned in the oakland firestorm in 1991 after waiting nearly three months for the documents the team found only 17 inspections in these areas since 2019 darn it. i wish they would just do the job. this shouldn't be that hard neighbor. tom. grossman is tired of taking pictures like this showing hydrants that look to be deteriorating according to east bay mudd's fire hydrant preventative maintenance program plan. the hydrant should be visible from all approaches. there should be no brush tree limbs structures or soil that could interfere with anyone

accessing connecting hoses or operating the hydrant. but if you ask grossman dozens of neighbors complain, that's not the reality on the roads. how many have you seen like this in the past two weeks? i've seen too just writing my bike around. i'm not even looking so we did and within 10 minutes we found several hydrants like this covered up hard to access and some missing the blue street markers that are placed on the road to help fire crews identify hydrant locations. this is the hydrant we met with oakland fire chief heather mos dean to show her some of these pictures, but she told us it's not a big issue. we very rarely run into a hydrant that we think is working and doesn't work. it's very rare yet according to abc 7's analysis of thousands of repair records. there were at least 78 leaking issues involving hydrants from 2019 through june of this year the majority reported in oakland a handful of those leaks were due to hydrants crashed into at least 83 hydrants were hit

mainly by vehicles like police cars and deliver. rocks more than a dozen of those hydrants were hit in high fire risk areas and had damaged that took more than a month to repair and replace in another case this hydrant and castro valley a cocblter ftook more than six months to repair they tend to be overlooked to often people drive by hydrants and don't really pay them too much attention. so who will pay attention we brought the issue back to the two agencies directly involved. east bay mud and the oakland fire department vegetation management inspections chief mosine explains the department conducts residential vegetation management inspections to ensure homeowners are reducing their wildfire risk. do those teams also check the status of the hydrants. it's not part of the the residential vegetation management inspection does not include fire hydrants wouldn't it make sense to have that be a part of it? and as i said before east bay mud, the hydrants are east bay muds. we just get to use them. so we shared these photos with

east bay mud spokesperson nelson rodriguez with this concern you you know, i can't say because it could be that you're accessing the water from here or there. i don't know what the proper who's who owns this property east bay mud told the id the hydrants the agency overseas are painted white some may be red to indicate lower water pressure. we shared these photos of white hydrants with rodriguez. some of them are covered or they have brush around them. they're not as visible. i can't say if that's a problem or not. this is what it looks like around it if that's okay or if that's not okay. yeah. i'm sorry. i can't i can't tell you whether that's okay or not, but the requirements in the california state fire code can the code is explicitly clear. it states the fire department shall not be deterred or hindered from gaining immediate access to fire hydrants and that access shall be maintained at all times. plus three feet of clear space shall be maintained around the circumference of fire hydrants. ultimately it should be clear around. i mean ideally it should be

clear around. well, you know, it's it's difficult to say some people, you know, they they plant their plants around it. we don't maintain hydrants. they're east bay mud and somehow the fire department says it's not their problem. they're all playing, you know point the finger past the buck eventually. there's gonna be a fire engine that rolls it up and they can't get water really government should should be more effective than this. now deputy chief mosine told us there used to be an agreement between east bay mud public works and the fire department identifying a plan for maintaining fire hydrants across the city and county. she says the fire department even used to have a crew. that was solely focused on checking these hydrants, but with budget cuts and a staffing shortage, they don't have the resources anymore. what this is really interesting stephanie two quick questions what happens now first and who is ultimately responsible here. yeah, you know that's what we're looking into now following our story oakland city leaders are discussing how hydrant inspections can be prioriti a formal agreement between the two agencies is necessary to ensure

that happens. okay. keep us posted stephanie. thank you. check out our emmy award nominated documentary firestorm the east bay hills fire. it's available on abc 7 bay area app wherever you stream there's limited fire danger tonight. sandia has a look at whether that's changing in her seven- t o

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at oakland international airport. so i was waiting. now i was waiting for the plane. and i was looking. looking and then playing their soul not. alma galvin is with the better business bureau. she says consumers are often enticed with cute photos of puppies stolen from someone else online a lot of the scam websites that we see use really really good enticing photos were obviously we all get warm and fuzzy inside when we see a really cute puppy judy newhouse found her corgi abby on a website for sale. now that puzzled her because abby had been euthanized following a fight with cancer. she thinks someone stole her photos off her facebook page that's degrading to show. my beautiful dog pregnant on a hill for somebody to scam people out of money. a scam doesn't end there the bbb

says a scammers what require a large upfront deposit daphne says that people who sold her a puppy demanded additional money for a special crate and other fees 18 months later. she still has not received her puppy. he's happening and happening because again people want that puppy so bad. now fortunately for daphne she caught on and did not pay the additional fees. however, she never received a refund for her deposit be very very careful look close to home. think about a restaurant what a mean things. he goes to the airport if thank you michael. well sunday is the transgender day of remembrance a time to memorialize those kill due to anti-transgender hatred in honor of that day. we're releasing our latest abc 7 original being gwen a life and death story the true crime documentary tells the story of bay area teenager gwen araujo. she was killed 20 years ago and her murder still impacts us today.

the story tells the story of not just the murder of gwen which was a very brutal but also just her life and you know, she was 14 years old when she made the transition and her mom was very accepting at the time and and said, you know, i'm gonna make you you know if you want to be live as a woman, you know, i will support you but even she at that time didn't know what transgender meant and she was at the time calling her eddie when she was being interviewed. so she also went through an evolution through that, you know, the transition of the community went and talked to educated her about what being gender was and then she went on and she became an advocate for the transgender community. being gwen a life and death story will premiere on our 24/7 streaming channel tonight at 7pm immediately following abc 7 news at 6. all right, let's turn back one last time to the weather forecast. yes meteorologist sandy patel has the latest sandia. yeah, alma and dan we've seen a slight improvement in the

droughts since last week take a look. it's minor improvement primarily that exceptional drought category that has shrink enough, but the other categories have also seen a downturn as far as the amount of drought coverage minor improvement here locally, but still in a severe to extreme drought as we take a look here our next chance of showers. mainly north bay is next tuesday computer models are now going drier and drier thanksgiving is dry, but i'll tell you what even though nothing showing up on live doppler 7 here. we have a multi-day event a lake effect snow event from the midwest to the northeast unfolding they will be measuring snow in feet multiple warnings or in effect. the area could be paralyzed. so if you're traveling keep that in mind locally breezy and bright tomorrow is certainly warmer accuweather seven-day featuring cooler conditions this weekend and thanksgiving is dry, dan and alma. all right. thanks sandy. all right, larry. i know what's the deal? yeah, like i'm responsible for this. we're gonna say about after

blame someone. hey steve kerr. thanks you. all right. so everybody's asking what is wrong with the warriors? how much time do you how do you lose when steph? hurry goes for 50 points in one game. it starts with defense that'

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night, but no doubt. wanted to after he watched steph curry. magnificent going for 50 points and the rest of the warriors combining for 69 a demoralizing loss in phoenix last night. i mean steph looks like he's getting better every year which is pretty amazing for a guy who's 34 years old curry is single-handedly carrying this team, but he needs some help and a better come soon because the dubs dropped to oh and eight on the road. they're got blasted by the suns just like a million issues clay shots selection second unit young players not progressing, but just look at the defense or lack thereof. it's all about the defense the worry seem disinterested in this concept and they're paying the price with the six and nine record losses mounting, you know, it's a struggle right now. keep it real we have to you know understand it's gonna be really hard to dig yourself out of the situation that we're in because there's a lot of issues. oh, but it's not anything we can't overcome. we're just scattered.

we're it's a pickup game. you know, it's a pickup game out there everyone can't wait to play us and kick our you know, if you really compete together shots go in calls go your way breaks fall your way and we're not earning any of that stuff. that's why we're winless on the road. that is a frustrated group. the band is on the field. the band is on theonic phrase ty used to describe the madness of cow's last second win over stanford in 1982. yes, five laterals and kevin moen runs over the trombone player of the end zone this weekend's cal stanford. big game. will mark the 40th anniversary of the play and today i had a chance to talk with the man who's call of that moment has become legendary joe starkey who's actually retiring after this season, joe realized the magnitude of that call when he was on vacation in italy and happened to be in the same hotel as the hulk lou ferrigno and charlie watts of the llg i got lou ferrigno on my left. i got a rolling stone on my

right. i'm in the middle where in the shallow end and a guy jumps in at the other end of the pool. and charlie says he says, you know you soon would be nice if you could just go somewhere where people don't bother you and just just relax for a little while and the guy kind of swims up to the three of us and looks us over and says aren't you that cal football announcer that called that play? so help me god. fantastic the 49ers playing in mexico monday night. i decided to train it altitude in colorado probably weren't counting on snow with temps in the 20s next stop mexico city where it's in the 70s reminder catch the niners and cardinals monday night football kickoff 5pm right here on abc 7 baseball mvps announced today cardinal paul goldschmitt national league aaron judge won the al mvp after putting up monster number 62 homers. 131 rbis judges a free agent. good timing yankees want them back. there's some reports that the mets might have done some tampering. oh and the giants obviously want them as well judge non-committal

today. sounds like he's enjoying the free agent process. yeah so far so good so far so good. it's a different. it's a different process, but you know hoping to you know get the job done here soon, and we'll see what happens. just come on home aaron. just come on home. he turned down 30 million a year with the yankees. so imagine what it's going to take to sign him plenty by the way, so good to see joe story. he looks great 81 years old razor sharp. i asked him. what are you going to do next fall if you're retiring? yeah, he was like i don't know. they're probably going vacation with his wife and for him well, but he's earned it great health. that's that's most important. excellent. thanks, larry, right? all right tonight on abc 7 at 8 the movie enchanted followed by alaska daily at 10 and stay with us for abc 7 news at 11. and remember if you're watching us on our streaming tv app, stay right here because up next we'll stream our latest abc 7 original being gwen a life and death story the true crime documentary tells the story of a transgender

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