now on abc 7 news an arrest after a man fires a pistol inside a jewish synagogue reaction from congregants and how they plan to make the synagog. safer, we can reign causing problems on the roads including here on highway 24 and lafayette an hour by hour. look at the timing of the showers moving across the bay area. shot it, dude. they shot it. the us shoots down a chinese surveillance balloon president biden explains why the military waited several days before taking action abc 7 news starts right now. building a better bay area moving forward finding solutions. this is abc 7 news. a soggy saturday spencer christian is tracking a smattering of showers around the area. he'll let us know when the

heaviest rain will arrive and when will dry out. thanks for joining us. i'm jr. stone, maybe a bit wet out there today, but it's not having much of an impact on one of the largest cultural celebrations in the bay area a live. look now is the chinese new year parade in san francisco set to kick off in about 45 minutes organizers say it is the biggest lunar new year parade outside of asia. we'll have a live report from that area in just minutes abc 7 weather anchor spencer christian joins us now all eyes on the weather right now for the chinese new year parade spencer. how is it looking? how long is it going to last? well, jr. i'm afraid to say that we have rain now in some parts of san francisco and more is on the way but it's scattered showers. he's pointing out earlier now as you look at the live doppler 7, you can see the heaviest studies rain is over in the east bay, but all attention right now. is on san francisco for the chinese new year parade and you can see it is raining in parts of downtown san francisco and in

chinatown right now says to look at the parade route. you can see that it's it's going to be confined to that area where it looks like going to have showers off and on into the evening hours from 6pm to about 8 pm. this is a level one storm on the abc 7 exclusive storm impact scale so through are we expect rain to be a bit heavy at times but mainly showers and is to go into the evening hours. you can see another line of showers will be coming in right around 7 pm, so. people who are on the parade route just needs to be on the lookout for getting wet. i'll have the full seven-day forecast a little bit later jr. thank you so much a wet. parade is a memorable parade new developments now san francisco police tracked down a man suspected of shooting inside a san francisco synagogue this week security video shows him walk into the schneerson jewish center, wednesday and opened fire shooting blacks. no one was injured abc 7 news reporter cornell bernard spoke to congregants at the synagogue who say they feel some relief, but still a lot of fear.

i think we're still all in shock. and you know, we're still kind of taking it all in matthew finkelstein says members of the sneers and jewish center are still processing events of last wednesday night security video shows a man entering the center pulling a gun and firing off several rounds. people didn't even leave their chairs. this guy was like we holding a gun it's because they were paralyzed of fear. nobody was hurt. it's believed the shots fired were blanks the sfpd with assistance from the fbi arrested a suspect on friday police sources. tell abc 7 news that he is 51 year old dimitri mechan from san francisco. nobody knows who this guy is and no one's ever seen him before so, you know the fact that he came in here and spoke russian is very telling it seems like he obviously new where he was going police believe. he's the same man who walked into a theater on balboa street the day before and waved a gun at employees on saturday police car was posted outside the small synagogue, which serves mostly russian speaking -- finkleston explains why it took the center 24 hours. years to call police some people

ask like why i wasn't reported that night. it's because in soviet russia reporting an anti-semitic hate crime was more likely to land you in jail than the person who committed it going forward the center plans to hire private security for now. there is some relief affect is now off the streets. i'm just glad that for now the congregation is safe. i know that that every congregation in america faces like some level of vulnerability like this in san francisco cornell bernard abc 7 news a san jose police officer is recovering after a man. they pulled over opened fire on them. you can see the bullet holes in the patrol car it all started around 10:30 last night during a traffic stop near king and story road police. say the driver immediately got out of the car and began shooting at officers police say they returned fire and the driver sped away. they chased him into a home nearby where more shots were exchanged. one officer was shot in the leg and was treated at the hospital. he is expected to be okay the gunman surrendered and was taken

into custody. a gruesome discovery in oakland where police found an unresponsive person lodged inside a sewage hole fire crews were able to get the person out of the hole, but they died at the scene. it happened today just before 8 am at broadway and third street at this point investigators aren't releasing. further information developing news us forces shot down the surveillance balloon off the carolina coast. here's video of that moment there were days of speculation of what would happen after the balloon entered us airspace. it was spotted over montana near one of america's three nuclear missile silo fields china denies, its spying on sensitive us military sites abc's philipoff has more the united states bringing down a chinese balloon that was traveling across the united states earlier today spotted over parts of north and south carolina over the pentagon to shoot it down on

wednesday as soon as possible. they decided that the best time to do that was the god over water outside within our within 12 mile limit. it's successfully took it down in response the faa temporarily closing airspace for parts of the two states issuing a statement that reads in part the faa has paused departures and arrivals to support the department of defense in a national security effort. despite china claiming. it's a civil aircraft blown off course us officials insist. that is not the case, but the key here is we don't know what it's looking for is it taking pictures? is it doing signals intelligence where it's intercepting communications, but the thing that's perplexing here. is that the chinese have the ability to do these things from space where they wouldn't be violating us sovereignty on friday secretary of state blanken postponing his trip to china set for next week saying now is not the time to meet i made clear that the presence of the surveillance balloon in us airspace is a clear violation of us sovereignty and international

law the chinese foreign ministry saying we respect that pentagon officials claiming the balloon has a large bay of technology attached underneath it about the size of three buses adding. it was maneuverable philip off abc news, new york. happening now in san francisco crowds are lining the streets awaiting the start of the chinese new year parade celebrating the year of the rabbit earlier the community street fair was held in chinatown. it features more than 120 booths with lots of shopping and food as well as plenty of entertainment for people of all ages. i think it's fun. it's like getting to see people and eat all the fun food and be around everybody. the community street fair will be open again tomorrow from 9 am to 5 pm. in a matter of minutes the chinese new year parade is set to begin. here's a look at the route one that goes down geary powell post and kearney street. of course, there are a lot of street closures in the area abc

7 news reporter unser. hassan is live along the route unser. how's the weather out there? what does it feel like right now? jr. i don't think anybody's worried about the weather right now welcome to the year of the rabbit unlike years past the year of the rabbit said to be a bit more chill more reflective but not tonight tonight is going to be a huge celebration. you can see the parade floats are starting to line up here alongside me organizers want this event to entertain but also to educate so the float designs must reflect some aspect of chinese culture and tradition and of course, there will be the very popular traditional lion dances and firecrackers now according to some historians this parade goes back to the 1860s and now the san francisco chinese new year festival and parade is the largest in the world outside of asia. the parade is set to begin at second and market it goes through union square and then through chinatown now the parade

will start at 5:15. it goes about two and a half hours. so there's still some time to get down here. and of course, we'll have all the highlights coming up tonight at 87 abc news at 11 reporting live ansar hassan abc 7 news answer. thank you so much. lots of umbrellas out there. well today people in the south bay had an opportunity to speak out about their concerns expressions of grief and hope a local congressman held an open discussion in the south bay following the mass shootings and half moon bay and monterey park also, we'll check out a spell a special celebration here in the bay area for black history month a look at the crucial and often. overlooked role of african-americans in the military

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south bay leaders hosted a town hall focusing on the mental health of the asian american and pacific islander community following the mass shootings in half moon bay and monterey park. it was organized by congressman. rocana who represents the only asian-american majority district in the continental us and these shootings, even though the perfect trainer was asian american i think they triggered for so many in our community a sense of vulnerability what people are feeling the fear the anxiety the triggering from the trauma is all very real and the importance of recognizing when somebody needs help being able to talk about it is so

important. dr. singh says it's important for people to limit exposure to repeated scenes of violence, especially on tv and in newspapers. in the east bay the uss hornet ship museum kicked off a special event for black history month the celebration featured several presentations and a new african-american exhibit the national park service presented and spoke about the port chicago disaster east bay parks followed with another presentation about thurgood marshall and social justice the new exhibit african americans in the military was also a highlight keynote speaker conway jones shared why today's event is important for generations to come? it reminds people of our past but also gives this generation the future generations a challenge to move forward. if you're interested in going the museum is open to visit monday through friday from 10 am till 5 pm.

a warning about traveling to tahoe this weekend a serious storm is about to pack a wintry punch to the sierra. wait until you hear just how strong wind gusts are expected to get in the area. and looking live outside as waves of shower pass over the bay area. this is what san rafael looks like right now abc 7 weather anchor spencer christian has an update on when we can expect sunny or weather. nice and d center as the dubs on 7 return. it's a western conference finals rematch warriors and mavericks what we're live report. there's steph curry. he's ready to go on abc 7. we'll see a couple minutes.

happening tonight the national weather service issued a winter storm warning for lake tahoe and much of the sierra caltrans cameras show. the roads are clear now, but that will change a storm is expected to dump about two feet of snow and wind gusts of more than a hundred miles per hour are expected people are advised to avoid traveling to or from the area the warning stretches from 7pm today to 10 pm. on sunday join right now by spencer christian spencer last week. i was talking and talking about how bad i wanted to go to tahoe and then i don't think i'd want to be stuck in that traffic. i want to go now. it's gonna be some heavy snow and a strong gusty wind and as you pointed out heavy traffic just not good traveling conditions, you know, we had some money here in the city, too. you probably noticed that right.

yes. i felt that all around the bay area. we have a rainbow to show you and sand piper elementary school in redwood shores. this was the scene this afternoon, of course rainbows were seen in other locations as well. but this one looks so nice. just thought i'd show it to you because we've got a lot of droplets in the air that a form a little bit of a prism and show you the colors of the of the color spectrum there. so here's a look at what's happening a lot of doppler 7 right now, we've got showers spread all around the bay area is that raining everywhere heaviest rain has moved over into the east bay right now, but here in san francisco. the focus is on the parade route because the chinese new year parade is about to get underway and about oh a half hour and you can see it is rain. parts of the parade route now and reading and other parts of san francisco as well. so this is the route going up into chinatown year of the rabbit it is and we were expect showers right on through the evening hours off and on that steady showers, but it does mean that if you're at the parade, you're likely to get wet. here's a view from mount town where rain is obviously hitting the camera lens and it's rather

windy up there as well currently. it's 50 degrees in san francisco. we have upper 50s at oakland palo alto, san jose santa clara and 55 and half moon bay. here's you at the golden gateway the pavement is wet. it doesn't appear to be raining there right now, but clearly has been raining there and again later in the evening 53 degrees right now at santa rosa and mid-50s also at novato napa fairfield 59 at concord 56 at livermore and the view from the south beach camera. looking along the bay bridge where there's quite a bit of traffic coming into san francisco right now. these are the forecast features level one storm will be whether it's tonight and through the day tomorrow light rain gusty wind and occasional downpours can be expected with this storm and we can't expect dry and mild weather for all of next week, but let's talk about this storm on the exclusive abc 7 storm impact scale. this is a level one storm. so generally light storm through tomorrow, but there can be periods of heavy rain at times of this storm and strong gusty southwest winds slight chance of thunder as the atmosphere is a little bit unstable going

overnight and into tomorrow. here's the forecast animation once again taking you to the evening hours. looks like a wave of rather steady downpours will start pushing into the bay area on shore around 7 pm and then swing on through giving away to more scattered showers overnight. and through the day tomorrow before it all winds down tomorrow evening, and we expect rainfall totals to be generally under an inch, but some places will be a little bit over an inch like oakland and hayward on we go to over. low temperatures mainly in the upper 40s and highs tomorrow right in the mid-fifties not a very wide range of high temperatures at all tomorrow and here is the accuweather seven-day forecast after the showers taper off tomorrow night. we can expect sunny skies on monday, although it'll get off to a cold start on monday morning also pretty chilly in the morning hours on wednesday, but notice how they'll be a gradual warming trend going into the latter part of the week. so dry conditions mainly sunny days high temperatures getting up into the mid 60s around the bay shoreline and inland by friday lovely week ahead.

now abc 7 sport alvarez welcome to chase center the warriors back on abc let's mavericks tonight. just it's right here at chase center, dallas. will be without excuse me, their top star luca duchess as he deals with a right he'll contusions. how about the warriors will first start with a little baseball. how about brandon crawford? the giant source stop making his way over from fanfest good to see beecroft in the house as far as the warriors starting lineup steve kerr saying that boat draymond green and clay thompson probable to play. i'm watching them world right now. they look good to go golden state entering it 26 and 26 overall on a 2 game losing streak. stefan curry was probably for this game. he also is gonna go hit the floor as well eighth place over on the west currently now for context at this point last season through 52 games the warriors were 39 and 13 or tonight's game coach kurt discussing the roller coaster roller coaster ride so far. we just haven't been able to put it all together at one time.

that's what i've seen but within that the biggest thing is just not closing games. you know, we've we've had probably close to 10 games that were right there for the taking. and usually i think you have in a season. you know, you have a few games that could go you know that you win that you shouldn't and a few that you lose that you know, you shouldn't. to me that ratio seems way off this year. lakers in new orleans lebron james entered a day 63 points behind cream of lil jabbar for the most in nba history lebron laminate up warming up late in the first half dennis schroeder forced to turn around and lover on the hammer lakers fans in new orleans. loving the show. lebron is putting on lebron with nine points in the second quarter twelve of the half. so just 51 behind kareem. there is a chance he could break the record next saturday here chase center, but more than likely to happen thursday in la. we shall see lakers led 7261 to half the third quarter now

underway as lebron's pursuit of history continues. how about golf a very very windy day pelvis for the third round of the program former stanford standout joseph bramlett long birdie on five goes. he's in second two back of the lead. you're current leader is peter malnati the birdie on 12 on his 12th holiday that is makes three in a row play with suspended will resume it 8 am sunday morning and then turn him. we'll have to finish. on monday, the amateur winner will be grounded for 54 holes. you're current leader on that front. you may have heard of him cal's aaron rodgers who leads by three with seven holes left to the ice we go nhl all-star game in florida eric carlson the sharks alone representative had a goal in an assist and what a rocket bar down right there, but the second division fell to the central division six to four so the central play the metropolitan division in the finals. we have to get chuck of the florida panthers go got more goals in front of the home fans earning mvp owners the atlantic

division, excuse me won the game and that million dollar. bonus, that is you're looking sports top of the hour while our pregame showing abc 7. that's about 5:30 and then after the game larry o'donnell and the guys, i'll be here at chase center wrapping things up later tonight jr. chris. thanks so much. nothing like prime time nba basketball and abc well, are you ready for some baseball these fans are from autograph sessions clubhouse and tours exhibits and displays a look at highlights from this year's giants fan fest coming up next.

- touchdown! (group cheering) did you see that? - whoa, whoa, whoa, we scored? - yeah, we scored, we're going to the playoffs. - i can't believe i missed that! (bell dings) every time i'm buzzed, i spend too much time on my phone. - i should take your phone away. - no, no, no, i-i'll call for a ride.

wait, why does my face look like that? at 11:00. are we nearing the end of covid many restrictions are being lifted. but what about the virus itself? we ask the experts also the chinese new year parade is about to wind its way through san francisco. we'll have the highlights and all of the festivities tonight on abc 7 news at 11. diehard fans today did not let today's rain stop them from reuniting with the 2023 san francisco giants the team held its annual fanfest today at oracle park kicked off with an orange carpet ceremony, which included logan webb and brandon crawford fan fest signals. the start of spring training is near pictures and catcher's report on scottsdale on february 15th with the full squad following on the 21st the giants open the regular season on march 30th at yankee stadium. i know spencer you're excited

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