solutions. this is abc 7 news. we need all the help we can get lives are at stake here. a call for more help facing spiraling opioid epidemic san francisco seeks assistance in getting it under control. good evening, and thanks for joining us. i'm dionne lim. you're watching abc 7 news at 11. mayor london breed is asking for a federal lifeline now when it comes to curbing san francisco's ongoing drug crisis, it all comes as her police department struggles with understaffing abc 7 news reporter cornell bernard with who the mayor is turning to. my hope is that we'll be able to partner and work together on trying to address this really important issue mayor london breed admits san francisco needs help to slow drug dealing that's happening every day on the streets breed just wrote a letter to the newly appointed us attorney for northern california ishmael ramsey saying the problem is beyond the city's control we definitely need some help because when we look at not only you know the fact that we

in our police department are short staff i mean because an arrest there's a whole process that goes into that and having the capacity to meet the challenges has been difficult great says the city needs additional and ongoing support from the department of justice to both the rest and prosecute drug dealers at a time when the fenton all driven overdose epidemic has brought open air drug dealing to a new level the san francisco to provide a public health tweeted it's street teams responded to more than 2,200 911 calls last year treating overdoses and providing medical health and medications for addiction in 2021 breed declared a three-month emergency over the drug crisis in the city's tenderloin using city resources to crack down on drug dealing all the various pieces that we need to make that as effective as i know it could have been weren't necessarily there, but i'm optimistic about the future district attorney brooke. jenkins says drug dealing prosecutions are increasing at her office, but says federal assistance is welcome in a

statement to abc 7 news. jenkins said no single agency or department is able to tackle the crisis of drug dealing and the impacts it's having in and on our communities alone. it is a public health calamity. we haven't seen as a city since the aids crisis supervisor. matt dorsey supports the mayor's plea for federal help. he says over the last three years 2,000 people have died from drug overdoses in san francisco if we had that many san francisco's gun down in our street. there is no question the president of the united states would have the national guard the governor would have the national guard here. dorsey says federal law enforcement have resources that city agencies don't and federal charges can bring more consequences for drug dealers. he and the mayor are hopeful of meeting with the us attorney can happen soon in san francisco cornell bernard abc 7 news. now stands the question who would benefit from federal intervention as abc 7 news reporter tara campbell discovered. you don't have to look hard to find people who could use the help.

a lot of horrible things happen to her she told me she didn't want to die. lisa rakovski is talking about her daughter who's living on the streets of san francisco's tenderloin district. she's on meth and fentanyl just a few years ago. her daughter was living what she describes as a nice life in san jose, but an introduction to street drugs turned it upside down. she's living in a tent in san francisco right now when she has a home to live in she has family that loves her but the drugs it's kind of like they're her family and they're her everything right now. it's a story this group of bay area moms knows all too. well there the founders of mothers against drug addiction and deaths the non-profits been calling for more action to stop the flow of drugs on san francisco street. there's so many drugs out in the market and they are so lethal in small quantities that cracking down on the supplies been

absolutely, you know, one of the the key pieces of our our campaign saturday. plotting mayor, london bridge request to the department of justice the mayor asking the federal government for more help getting drug dealers off of the streets. it's a big step and you know, we have felt that this is necessary for a while now last year the nonprofit put up this billboard in union square taking aim at the open air drug market. this is really where i think she's she's eventually come to because you know at the end of the day, we've got to really crack down on the drug dealing. otherwise, it's just going to continue to spiral out of control. meanwhile lisa fears for her daughter's life on these streets. they have the drugs there and they need the drugs every couple of hours. they're going to want to live on the street. they're gonna want to get those drugs tara campbell abc 7 news. tara has been covering the opioid crisis heavily.

she even traveled to north america's first ever safe injection site in vancouver, canada and put together a documentary about how it works watch injecting hope on demand on our abc 7 bay area streaming tv app. just look for it in the featured section. a series of earthquakes shook parts of the bay area today this usgs map shows the quakes were centered where that star is. that is san leandro the squares show areas where people felt the earthquake including san mateo fremont, san francisco and oakland. the first quake was magnitude 3.2 and happened at about 9:20 this morning to other 3.2 quakes happen. just a few minutes later. the good news. there are no reports of injury or damage. san jose fire put out a two alarm fire at a former mcdonald's early this morning. the vacant building went up in flames. just past 2 am at north 1st street in san jose. artificials were seen hosing down the heavy flames and a few pieces of the structure actually

fell off. officials say there were no injuries and they are still not sure what caused that blaze. in san francisco the exploratorium held a family event to celebrate trans day of visibility the event highlighted achievements and raised awareness of transgender individuals, including those working in the stem field. trans day of visibility is internationally observed on march 31st, the event included activities for the entire family from live music. to story hour a transgender photo gallery and panel discussion. we want to make sure that each person that comes here knows that they are welcome here our spaces in general here in everywhere else more. welcome to everybody regardless of how you identify. the exploratorium teamed up with its new stars program for the event which strives for trans inclusion and anti-racism in science learning. the stars program is open for all and works to expand science education field.ihe

in the east bay the city of berkeley approved its first ever high-rise apartment building according to berkeley side. the building will have a total of 326 units 32 of those will go to low-income tenants. it'll stand nearly 270 feet high at shattuck avenue near berkeley's bart station. all residents will get transit passes and underground parking garage for 51 vehicles and 295 bikes. a project is a part of the downtown area plan, which was approved 10 years ago. well much more to come on abc 7 news tonight another blow to san francisco's japan town the longtime business that is closing for good this weekend. deadly weather across the us with powerful tornadoes tearing through communities an update on the storms. just a little later. i'm stranger christian with a look at mainly dry days ahead,

but there may be some spotty sprinkles before the weekend and i'll have the accuweather forecast coming up on abc 7 news at 11:45 continues.

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a road closure to protect the new population has been denied by management at tilden park. that's according to the mercury news the recent storms have extended the newts annual migration to nearby creeks and gardens to breed park rangers requested to keep the mile and half stretch of south park drive in berkeley close as the newts cross the normally busy road in recent years newts have been found dead after the road reopens. only at 11:00 tonight if you like traditional japanese restaurants tomorrow will be

your last chance at the iconic mum's cafe in san francisco. japan town it is saying goodbye after more than 40 years abc 7 news reporter answer hasan spoke with the family who talked about some of the milestones and what they hope to leave behind. i'm coming here for breakfast tomorrow morning if people like rohit singh are already planning for sunday breakfast at mom's cafe in san francisco's japan town. it's likely going to be a big day for the restaurants closing when i was told what the place you know, i said why not let's let's make let's join the closing history at least after 40 years in business the tam family is calling it quits. my first you know some making coffee in the back, you know at age 12, you know, we need him and her three sisters worked alongside their father isador growing up is it or tam came to the us in 1981 from hong kong. he worked his way up from dishwasher to owner. she says she's proud of her father's accomplishments and the

restaurants place in the community. seeing everybody grow and you know. grow with us as a family too. she says the restaurant signature dish shabu shabu, which is like a japanese hot pot started a bay area trend. i think that's what people will miss us for the most and i think everyone the first people to do it in the bay area the reason for closing when he says her dad is 73 and ready to retire but admits the decision was sped up in part by the pandemic plus changing consumer habits like food delivery apps i think japan her eyes taking a hit since the pandemic tube. that's just awful. i mean we're here on his 81st birthday trip. and so, you know, we need to have things go not and through life smile stones from birthdays to weddings anniversaries even a few funerals when he says this is truly been a community effort and she's glad her dad is going

out strong battery bittersweet. but i mean, yeah, we have the great long run and not a lot of businesses can't last this long and i mean, maybe you won't be the end of us. i don't know. in san francisco on san hassan abc 7 news you never know. they have left behind such a legacy. well after a decade of planning a school for those with autism held an open house to welcome students to the school's new location in concord orion academy is one of the nation's only college prep schools to help autistic students school programs are designed to help students develop social skills be independent prepare for college and maintain personal and social relationships. a one-time capsule is opened after nearly a hundred years and the items inside of it gave us a look into san francisco's historic past. the capsule was unearthed today after being buried by a boy scout troop 90 years ago today city and religious leaders gathered at the mount davidson cross to host its 100th year anniversary celebration.

the capsule was loaded with old photos bibles telephone directories newspapers even mount davidson groundbreaking soil and a whole lot more it all commemorates the first easter sunrise service held at the historic site. it makes us remember and connect with those people that were here on mount davidson cross a century ago. a new time capsule was buried in the very same spot to be opened up in the next 100 years. i love those because it's such a slice of the past and you think to yourself like who was the person or the people involved, right? and what was happening in their lives at that time. i know especially accepted it really cool weather is getting more fascinating now, isn't it? i would say so after you look at what's happening outside right now under calm conditions that we have surface wind speeds under 10 miles an hour just about everywhere the bay area and our skies are mainly clear right now. although there are just a few high clouds around and check out

the 24-hour temperature change. it is much milder across the bay area right now than at this time last night up to eight or ten degrees warmer in some spots. here's the view from the exploratorium camera looking back at a portion of the san francisco skyline current temperature readings are 53 here in san francisco and about 15 to 53 54 degrees it open palo alto, san jose mountain view and half moon bay nice view from emeryville. looking back along the bay bridge and you see a little miss out in the distance there, but no no, really thick clouds at the moment we have low to mid-50s at santa rosa novato napa fairfield conquered and livermore one more live view from our rooftop camera. looking across the embarcadero. these are our forecast headlines partly cloudy and dry overnight breezy with spotty light showers tomorrow afternoon mainly in the north bay and it'll be windy and much cooler monday and tuesday. here's our forecast animation starting at midnight notice mostly clear skies overnight and going into the early part of the day tomorrow, but by about one o'clock in the afternoon tomorrow, we'll see a little bit of a disturbance developing up, but this is a very slow

animation. anyhow, very very little developed a little disturbance. we'll develop in the north bay tomorrow afternoon producing a chance for some spotty sprinkles or showers the rainfall estimates for 11 o'clock tomorrow night. all right, almost zero, maybe one or two spots will have 100th of an inch of rain. the only really measurable rain is likely to fall up in ukiah which may get four hundreds of an inch of rain. okay overnight lows will be generally in the low tonight forties a little bit chillier. and some of the north bay locations like santa rosa lakeport, which will drop down to about 36 degrees and then highs tomorrow mainly low 50s at the coast mid to upper 50s around the bay shoreline and some low 60s inland 61 degrees at conquered in antioch. 68, san jose and up in the north bay. 60 will be the high at santa rosa. here's the accuweather seven-day forecast notice mainly a windy conditions on a very windy conditions. in fact on monday. we expect gusts between 35 and about 45 miles per hour, but it will be sunny and dry. day, there are tuesday wednesday thursday.

mostly sunny skies, although there's a slight slight chance of a spotty sprinkle again on thursday, but not a strong enough chance to rain for us to put a ranking of storm ranking on it and then on friday and saturday look at the warm-up mid 70s inland next year 70 around the bayshore line and low 60s on the coast. we're talking compare with what we've had recently beach weather. i feel a slight tickle in my throat happening already. i may call in feeling too good and expect that. oh, that's a good one spencer. thank you. okay. well just a head only in san francisco after a three-year hiatus one of the city's april fool's day traditions makes its long awaited return. we'll take you to the one and only saint stupid state parade.

people took the san francisco streets today for the annual saint stupids day parade thousands dressed in outlandish costumes in honor of the 45-year april fool's day tradition it

all started at the transamerica building and ended at washington square park the crowd then followed the pop-up doggy diner heads, which apparently led them to some free food organizers for the event said it was like a stroll than a parade to celebrate saint stupid. right from baseball to basketball a very busy saturday night chris alvarez joining us now for the preview of sports. hi, chris. beyond coming up in sports fuji makes his major league debut for the a's giants and yankees go back and forth in the bronx plus final four hoops in houston how the national championship will have bay area flavor sports is next.

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sponsored by river rock casino after a rare friday off to allow for potential bad weather the giants and yankees playing game two of their three-game series san francisco looking for both their first run and more importantly their first win of the season yankee stadium we go they call the yankees the bronx bombers, but it is a giants bats wake it up in the fourth. jock peterson. there's a jock jam solo shot to right is first home run of the season t of the season. it's 2-1 game three batters later. brandon crawford. got all that one two-run shot to right. he's now homered in 25 different ballparks. three two giants. they took a three-run lead in the 9th, but a storm was brewing in the bronx giants fan yankee fan both anxious for different reasons camino duval loads the bases john carlos stanton hard ground ball the short brandon crawford starts the 643 gay men ending double play giants win, seven five. it's their first win of the year a's an angels picture shintara

fujinami making his major league debut mom. attendance and she was nervous started out great striking out mike trout here struck out four of the first six batters. he faced and mom clapping away. he was high school rivals with shohei otani and otani nearly hits a grand slam here instead of long. rbi single makes it three nothing halos fujinami eight earn runs and tuna third innings, jake lambs two. rbi not ends his day part of an 11 run inning a's lose 13-1. there were a match is on sunday final four in houston city native. darien tramel and san diego state taking on florida atlantic tramel scored just five points, but fau built a 14-point second half lead behind elijah martin's game high 26 aztecs. come back former cal bear matt bradley a team high 21 for the aztecs final seconds. fau up one they missed the shot here aztecs the rebound they have a timeout left. they don't use it lamont butler. triple dribble time winding down got to get a shot off buzzer

peter for the win got it aztecs win. 72-71 san diego state going to the first ever title game heartbreak for the owl san diego state will face the winner of this one, miami and uconn another marin native, novato and marin catholic grad. joey calcutera helps the huskies build a double digit first half lead swish never got below 10 after halftime andre jackson jr. he will finish with the hammer and yukon rolls 72.59. they'll go for their fifth ever national title monday night against san diego state abc 7 sports sponsored by river rock casino dion. much more to come on abc 7 news severe weather is leaving a deadly trail of devastation across the united states. and former and nfl football stars. get back on the gridiron today with underserved kids in the east bay sharing skills that can be used both on and off the field. i'm spencer christian some sprinkles made developed to our up around ukiah.

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weather is turning deadly once again tonight strong storms are hitting the northeast with a tornado in delaware blame for at least one death. it's the same system that rolled through the south and midwest friday more than 20 people are dead after dozens of tornadoes touch down in at least nine states. here's abc's derek dennis. a deadly tornado outbreak stretching from the midwest into the deep south and now the northeast the latest just tonight in delaware this video captured in bridgeville in sussex county where state police say one person died when a home collapsed during the storm. friday in sullivan, indiana

southwest of indianapolis homes and businesses destroyed by the time i got in there and shot that door the front window blew out and i just dropped to the floor and crawled under my bed. and that's when the tornado hit the mayor of sullivan says the city is unrecognizable devastating. i just see mass devastation. we see that on the national news weather in ukraine or whatever and that's quite frankly what this looks like is a war zone from above you can see the path of destruction and win arkansas here, you know all the debris, you know that i honest at least one ef3 tornado packing wins up to 165 miles per hour confirmed in nearby little rock the governor declaring a state of emergency west of chicago in belvedere, illinois a deadly roof collapse during a heavy metal concert when an ef-1 tornado came through more than 250 people inside including nissen and joe seek it. pitch black for a second a big

giant boom and you just smell the dust and everything in the air they say when the roof caved a crowd of 30 to 40 people began trying to lift the debris until first responders arrived. nobody knows what to do. you know, it's just a pile like wood nail sticking out. what do you do what you hear these people screaming underneath they added prior to the collapsed concert-goers received tornado alerts on their phones, but did not anticipate danger as they frequently received them derek, dennis abc news, new york. pope francis is officially out of the hospital. it was released today after being treated for bronchitis. the 86 year old religious leader wasn't good spirits. he even told reporters. i'm still alive. his release comes just a week before people celebrate the easter holiday tomorrow. he'll preside over the palm sunday mass to begin the beginning of holy week. we are days away from april's annual snowpack survey at phillips station in el dorado

county. monday's statewide survey is expected to be the highest in california's modern history. the snowpack is expected to be more than 235% of normal just for the month of april it reached 237% in 1957. however, there are concerns of flooding because all that snow is eventually going to melt governor newsom requested presidential emergency declaration for relief efforts. wow. that's a lot of snow as a last week. it was 227% of normal now it's going to be about 2:35 and you see how quickly it advance like that. yeah, so we have to hope for a measured melt not a quick call at one time. exactly right? let's take a look at what's happening here the bay area right now our forecast animation overnight shows a few high clouds mainly clear skies, but by early afternoon, we'll see a little bit of a disturbance way up north around ukiah producing some light spotty showers, but they won't amount to much and they're not expected to spread to other parts of the bay area. so on we go with a look at overnight lows mainly in the low

to meet 40s a little chilly are in the far north where we'll see some lows dropping into the mid to upper 30s then tomorrow. are mainly sunny skies with a few high clouds and a spotty sprinkler or two in the north bay highs will range from low 50s at the coast to upper 50s around the bay to low 60s inland. and here's the accuweather seven-day forecast breezy tomorrow, but a windy on monday. in fact gusts may reach or exceed 40 miles per hour on monday, but it will be sunny and dry sunny dry days through wednesday. we're starting to warm up on thursday and next friday and saturday look for a high temperatures inland to range from upper 60s to mid. seventies, it'll finally feel like spring the weather will will finally match the calendar. life he deserve. with a dual purpose was held at martin luther king jr. middle school in hayward that event raised funds for school art supplies and for children from underserved communities were they were taught football fundamentals from fly football camp?

former college and professional football players volunteered their time for today's fundraiser the fly football camp helps repair kids to play football in intermediate leagues and in high school. dion coming up in sports both the san jose sharks and earthquakes in action plus how stephen curry is giving high school hoopers a chance to shine on the underrated tour sports is next. ♪ ♪ ♪

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right now this moment in oakland it started kind of organically after i joined under armor back in 2013 and about the third or fourth year in i realized like hey when i was in high school like i wouldn't have gotten invited to my own camp. because i was a you know, two star three star recruit that's for the idea of underrated and the underrated tour became a real thing. you miss us about building all the other life skills your need connections chance at college. one thing about sports. is that teaches you a lot about yourself a lot about how to be on a team building confidence building work ethic perseverance if they can develop those skill sets in high school potentially, you know get scholarship offer. that could be a door opening to a life and any industry, but an opportunity to kind of, you know live that experience out through sports kids aren't shy either? i mean they're coming up to taking selfies, but i heard one wants to do a once a posterize stuff is that you're gonna let that happen, you know, welcome to court and say hi to everybody

what i'm saying. hey man, nice to meet you. thanks for having me out here. hey, can i jump over you and you're excited. i probably will let him do it. underrated to stephen curry for me? like obviously all the accomplishments and the success? i still carry the underrated mindset and that gene is always built into me. i'll always look at things that way, you know, but once you win a world championship, i kind of changed the conversation and now i can show you know the journey of what it took for me to carry that underrated mindset with me every step of the way. chopping at the bit to see team teal get their first three game win streak since mid november in arizona up three one after one second period his first ever game. danielle dushman scores his first ever goal and the sharks poured on noah gregor with his

first career hat trick made it 7-1 sharks fans in arizona. hey tossing the hat shorts win 7-2 just their second three game winning streak of the season just six games left in the regular season. let's kick it while dancing quakes hosting houston dynamo of see it paypal park eight minutes into this one, krishna espinoza buries the penalty kick. it's one nail quakes second half died at one another penalty kick for espinos on the other end and it's another goal that proves to be the winner quakes win, two one former. giant madison bumgarner his first start with arizona the season facing the dodgers. that's clay thompson's younger brother trace first inning grain slam dodgers of five. nothing in a flash madbum goes for innings allowing five runs trace adds to it with a three-run shot in the fifth. so he's got one two, you know, the thompson's love three. how about another in the eighth inning for trace finishes with eight rbi to three homer a game tied for third most rbi in a

game in dodgers history dodgers win it ten one abc 7 sports sponsored by river rock casino dion. chris thank you and a reminder. you can watch all of our newscasts live and on demand through the abc 7 bay area connected tv app. it's available for apple tv, google. tea amazon fire tv and roku just download the app now and start streaming for free. all right, that's all the time we have for this edition of abc 7 news. i'm dion limb a great night. it is definitely time go to sleep. bye.

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