carmeniani is still in the hospital abc 7 news reporter liam. melendez has more on this attack and video of the man arrested. cell phone video shows the man san francisco police say brutally assaulted former fire department commissioner don carmignani with some type of metal object. right literally right here here around the corner in front of the gas station. he almost beat the man into the street with all these cars that you'll see passing by it was it wasn't one in one location. it was moving several people witnessed the attack which took place in several spots on magnolia and laguna streets in the marina district within a few paces from where carmignani lives the man arrested his homeless and neighbors here say he befriended these two other homeless people who have made this area their home. we spoke to one of them nate roy who gave us more details about the weapon that was said to be used by the alleged attacker it

wasn't for what was it? it was it was two round pieces of metal that has been broken nate roy who was with him claims. they were sprayed with bear mace because carmignani didn't like that. they were hanging out near his home. why why had somebody over the head like that and attack him as he was really this respectful we oh disrespectful. there was a big old hair old man was being disres. and then but is that enough to beat him up? sometimes these types of brutal attacks in these type of brazing attacks, and these are the type of things that have people anxious about what's happening. well other crime statistics remain steady or have gone down. the police chief is right according to the abc 7 news neighborhood safety tracker so far this year the number of robberies has gone up by 14% compared to the same time last year and assaults also on the

rise by 2.2 percent carmignani remains at san francisco general hospital with injuries to his head and face, joe elioto visited him and as we were interviewing him, we were interrupted by someone incoherent in san francisco. don't have a mechanism to take care of people who are having mental health issues. and so as and here we have a very good example of this. i'm from the east coast i moved here because i love this city and it's becoming more and more disturbing to live here. and the supervisor district catherine stephanie issued a statement in which she says, please know that i share your outrage and your commitment to creating a safer san francisco. stephanie was one of the supervisors who supported allocating an additional 25 million dollars to pay for police overtime given that there is a shortage of officers on staff. the newsroom leanne melendez abc

7 news leanne, thank you. and of course this attack in the marina district comes as police are still investigating the stabbing death of tech executive bob lee these images obtained by the daily mail show lee stumbling along main street in san francisco early tuesday morning lee can be seen through the front glass doors of the port side apartment building. we now know minutes later. he was walking toward a police car and police tell us they are continuing to follow up on leads. the stabbing the attack in the marina and the other series of car break-ins and burglaries have people concerned as you're gathering here about the safety of san francisco, but is it real or just a perception? well, you can find out for yourself abc 7 news is building and working to build a better bay area. it is looking at issues like crime. we've been we've created the abc 7 news neighborhood tracker safety tracker to help. you know, what's happening in your neighborhood. you can break it down by city and neighborhood crime. you can even compare year to

year to other cities as well. you can find the neighborhood safety tracker on our website. just go to abc7news.com the san jose police officers association executive charged in a drug distribution distribution scheme has officially been fired the police union has finished the first phase of an internal investigation involving joanne segovia abc 7 news reporter. zach fuentes has more it's been a tumultuous few weeks for the san jose police officers association. the poa's executive director. joanne segovia was charged with attempting to import illegal synthetic opioid drugs specifically a form of fentanyl from overseas federal prosecutors say it was part of a year's long scheme to distribute them in the us investigators say segovia used her personal and office computers to order the drugs and agree to distribute them elsewhere in the country. the poa says they had no knowledge of it and have been conducting an internal investigation on friday the announce the first phase of it is now over as a result. we have terminated her

employment the poa would not elaborate on what findings in that investigation led to the firing. we reached out to segovia's attorney and have not heard back the poa says the next phase of the investigation will be bringing an outside independent investigator or looking to identify. someon record someone that's an expert to be able to come in. take a look at our overall. protocols are procedures things that we have in place. could there have been something that was in place. that would have identified this type of behavior sooner but least accountability groups and human rights advocates raised questions wednesday about the years-long drug smuggling case do not have the po. a to say we're going to do an internal investigation. that doesn't work. the poa says they're searched to bring in an external investigator was planned and is not in response to cause from the community groups. we plan this from the very good go we have taken it.

is a serious as we possibly can for minute one from the time we were notified. until this very moment and continuing to move forward. the poa says they have no target date for when an independent investigator will be hired and there's one reason why we don't and that's to ensure that we're doing this the right way. we don't want to just rush through something segovia's next court appearance is set for april 28th in san jose zach fuentes abc 7 news. former theranos executive ramesh sunny baloney will soon be headed to prison the one he was convicted of carrying out a blood testing hoax with his former boss and lover elizabeth holmes. he was sentenced to nearly 13 years in prison a late thursday the ninth circuit court of appeals refused balwanee's requests who further delay the start of his prison term. a tough firefight for crews today in san jose ablaze inside a massive underground homeless encampment near minetta, san jose international airport. the soils and stable the structure was substantial.

it was wood columns with rafters covered by plywood and plastic and dirt and we just don't know how big it is the contents of the shelter. we have cooking appliances. we can see car batteries. we've had propane propane tanks explode and we just don't know what's in there this situation became so dangerous that after five hours cruise decided just to let the blaze burn itself out officials say firefights and places like these are too common now, see it every day and some of the fire department along freeways overpasses the creeks. we see trees tree houses. we see things like this bunkers extensive bunkers. some of them have booby traps for to keep for their own security. and cruise found nobody in the bunker officials say the site will eventually be bulldozed. right. let's turn now to the weather as we hit the holiday weekend rainy morning into the afternoon, but it is moving out. ah, so what is ahead for the

easter weekend for those egg rolls abc 7 news meteorologist. sandy patel is here with the first look at the forecast. yeah, kristen and dan is gonna be nice looking weather for the holiday weekend. let me show you some live views right now and you will notice there are a lot of clouds still hanging around but the rain has moved on the sierra saw some snow showers that front that weather this morning and there were a few lingering showers right around the lunchtime hour. now we're looking at a lot of cloud cover, but they're starting to see some sun up in the north bay. it is a little breezy especially over our hills right now 29 miles an hour amount m&m oakland hills 23 as we check out the hourly forecast five o'clock tonight 50 60s grab a jacket if you have plans this evening tomorrow morning, we're going to start out with 40s and 50s fog in clouds and then by the early afternoon, we're starting to notice. those temperatures are trending higher. i'll be back to let you know. how warm is going to get for easter coming up dan okay. sandy. thanks very much now to a political showdown of the tennessee state capitol the first partisan expulsion in the

state's modern history affecting one man from the bay area. justin jones is from oakland. this is video of him from 2013. he and another democratic lawmaker were voted out for allegedly violating tennessee house rules when they joined protests calling for stricter gun laws abc news reporter faith. abubay has the story. the fallout after the republican supermajority in the tennessee state house took the extremely rare step of ousting 2 of their democratic colleagues expelled from the house of representatives of the 113th assembly of the state of tennessee a third democrat representative gloria johnson narrowly surviving the explosion it might have to do with a person a white woman joined her two black colleagues representatives justin pearson and justin jones last week in a protest on the house floor demanding stricter gun laws in the wake of the nashville christian elementary school shooting that killed six people including three children the move bringing house business to

a halt triggering the republican-led explosion vote on thursday accusing the three democrats of violating chamber decorum we call for you all to ban assault weapons. and you respond with an assault on democracy president biden weighing in writing in part rather than debating the merits of the issue. these republican lawmakers have chosen to punish silence and expelled duly elected representatives of the people of tennessee former president barack obama also sharply criticizing the tennessee republicans who voted to ounce their democratic colleagues writing in part silencing those who disagree with us is a sign of weakness not strength and it won't lead to progress the tennessee house the republicans speaker defending the move. there are consequences for action. i voted for all three. obviously. i thought all three should have been expelled. this is the fourth time since 1866 that tennessee legislators have been expelled. the two democrats will get a chance to once again run for their seats once a special

election is announced. washington faith the blue bay abc news and this is video from today as vice president kamala harris arrived in tennessee tonight to meet with the expelled lawmakers. attorney general robbanta is backing new legislation from a san diego lawmaker that aims to protect victims of predatory businesses vonta joined assembly member brian mayshine today to call attention to a bill that would establish a victims of consumer fraud restitution fund. it would be funded by the penalties paid by businesses that violate the law even if they become insolvent. with the new restitution fund we'd be able to recover ill-gotten gains from consumer from corporations who break the law and help make whole people who've been used abused left in the dust of a crumbling company. mainshine says the bill will not only help consumers but also deter businesses from wrongdoing. a lot more coming up a close call today at the masters.

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ahead of today's 2023 home opener. that's right, because opening day is a time for optimism. so yeah, not even dark clouds in the sky because spoil the excitement for the 40,000 plus who took in the game. yeah, not a chance abc 7 news reporter suzanne fawn took it all in she's live from outside the ballpark where the game just wrapped up. hi suzanne. oh, man. oh guys. they let a day out here. so many people a lot of energy out here. i can tell you, you know, it's a good thing that the rain stopped you can actually feel the sun out here right now and thousands of people are leaving the stadium right now. they didn't get the ending they had hoped for but they all tell me opening day is a day not to be missed. let's go giants. was a sea and oracle park today fans were loud and proud for the giants home opener loud and proud was represent. check out their kicks a giant's exclusive says rudy sanchez.

we are only one of them to the games. they're not very comfortable, but there is oranges. i want him to be fans packed into the stadium to see the san francisco giants play the kansas city royals sharon. jansen has been a fan for more than 35 years. we come whether they win or lose because we want to see our home boys beat them. of course. pride for the san francisco giants love for the game marking an ongoing tradition. so many reasons why people came out three generations of the rojo family came out from sacramento for the big game ron rojo came with his son scott and grandson emmett. we had teach him about all giants history father and son have witnessed plenty of giant history. it was the met cain perfect game or the world series and the world lord all three three plenty of people. hope the giants have that magic this year. it's going to be a long season plenty of games. lefood

d delicious. it's not just the hot dogs or the fact that this year the beers cost $5 less. not everybody knew i did not but i'm taking advantage already this year. it's also about the crab fries. so you got the crowd fries. was it worth? oh, as it's wonderful. yeah. i love it. i like it better than the crab sandwich. i saw that they were gonna have the crab fries and i thought i wanted to try them and they were right there and i love guinness back to the game so much fun not to be missed. it's awesome to be here san francisco the whole feel of it opening day. it's amazing. sun came out this afternoon you can see the orange and black passing bias now because of course the game is over no fans. tell me opening day was a lot of fun, but they say it would have been much much better if the giants won so this weekend the chance would be playing the royals again saturday and sunday and then they'll be playing

their long time rivals. we're live at oracle park suzanne fawn abcs. everyone is still so energized suzanne. thank you so much. well a scared today meantime during the masters in augusta, georgia, two large pine trees came crashing down in high winds near the 17 team. oh, oh, wow. yeah landing near a group of spectators as you can see, but nobody was hurt announcers with our sister network espn believed the cracking of the trees gave spectators time to get out of the way boy, obviously, somebody could have been killed easily. thankfully no one even entered we know an awful lot about falling trees in this part of the woods, right? hopefully, we won't get anything crazy that could induce more trees to fall in the near future is here with the holiday weekend forecasting yeah, i think it's gonna be calm you don't have to worry about falling trees this weekend because the storm has moved out dan and kristen. let's take a look at live doppler 7. yes. there's some leftover clouds,

but what is exciting is is you're starting to see some breakthrough in the cloud cover right there in the north bay. so some sun is starting to peek through rainfall totals. well, let's just say it was nothing to go right home about a hundredth of an inch in redwood city 4/10 of an inch in santa rosa didn't expect much didn't ch l twoil in concord in half moon bay. so keep this in mind if going out and about this good friday as we take a look at a view from our exploratorium camera, the clouds are stacked up mid to upper 50s oakland san francisco right now. it is comfortable in palo alto in san jose 63 64 half moon bay 52 in half moon bay. excuse me as we take a look from our sfo camera also a cloudy view 60 degrees in santa rosa napa and livermore currently fairfield in concord 58 degrees and from our kgo roof camera, the winds are not an issue. there's a little bit of a breeze out there. mostly cloudy and patchy fog overnight tonight warming up for the holiday weekend and a

cooling trend begins next week. so let's check out our 12 hour. planner for easter 7 o'clock in the morning. it is going to be in the low 50s the sun comes up at 6:43 for those of you who go to sunrise services the sunshine and warmth will be with us for the afternoon hours. look at those temperatures mid 70s inland low 60s coast side. so it is going to be warm for easter and then the sun goes down at 7:39. those temperatures will fall but for those egg hunts. kids are good to go and the adults too temperatures in the 30s and 40s first thing in the morning with the fog will be patchy a lot of cloud cover to start the day and then for the afternoon the clouds will begin to thin out. it is going to be a mild one inland areas will bump up into the upper 60s right along the coast upper 50s in places like half moon bay as you check out the accuweather seven day forecast the warming begins tomorrow easter warmth for you on sunday. i mean temperatures will soar into the 70s inland. so enjoy that warmth that some of you have been waiting for we'll keep it mild to warm to start off the work week low 60s

to mid 70s, and then the temperatures trend down for your tuesday as well as wednesday is the breeze comes back in now thursday numbers come right back up and then friday we've got sunshine. it's starting to look more like spring with some warmth in the forecast kristin indian, very nice. yes, so, you know a follow-up right now to a story we first told you earlier this week san francisco's chinatown merchants association is getting some central help now in restoring those iconic red lanterns damaged by recent storms, alaska airlines has committed to matching all gundme datns tord the restoration up to $20,000 the donations will help pay for repairs toe lanterns, right and for. well, we are talking trash and ways to keep it out of the landfill and why some of your favorite candy disappear from store shelves

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food. it's a huge problem because when it gets trapped between layers of plastics and other trash it releases the worst greenhouse gas. methane studies have shown that the climate footprint of food waste is larger than the entire aviation industry. you can reduce at least a third of your food waste by just taking your foodstingep ts litt binerentile're ready outside. it is still gonna release carbon dioxide when it breaks down but far less harmful than the methane it'll produce if it went to a landfill. next priority get rid of plastic less than 10% of plastic gets recycled properly and plastics in the environment break down into microplastics that then end up in our oceans the fish we eat and eventually our bodies some studies suggest that this could cause health problems dishwasher pods are big right but they still have plastic. there are ones that don't instead of the throwaway sponge. we've had the silicone sponge. don't add me for two years.

you just wash it in the dishwasher. i have a big goal plastic free in the shower. so i've still got some leftovers that i'm slowly but surely using and we'll never buy again because now i have bar shampoo bar conditioner bar face soap and bar body soap no more plastic. earth month we have partner with abc news and national geographic to take an in-depth. look at our nation's aging water infrastructure the first installment of our three-part series our america trouble on tap will air on earth day april 22nd at 9pm here on abc 7 to learn more just go to abc7news.com slash our america a state lawmaker wants to throw out some of the ingredients found in one of the most popular easter candies peeps a bill by san fernando valley assembly member jesse gabriel would ban

five chemicals found in peeps as well as skittles and starburst among others gabriel says two of the ingredients have been linked to cancer and our band in europe the national confectioners' association says us regulators have determined the chemicals are safe. however, despite recent layoffs. the job market is still looking good. just ahead. we've got help if you're looking for work here in the bay area and salmon fishermen now struggling after the season was canceled this week. we'll have a look at their story as we continue.

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coast is to protect the dwindling chinook salmon population, but the effects are being felt across the fishing industry abc 7 news reporter cornell. bernard says the bay area lawmakers are hoping that federal disaster funds can help. what am i going to do this summer? you know, what's the what's the buyers gonna buy? you know, it's it's really rough bay area 7 fisherman say they're facing the perfect storm when it comes to their livelihood on the water much like covid. there there will not be people who make it to the end of this disaster. they say that disaster is the cancellation of california salmon fishing season the official recommendation happening this week by west coast fishery managers the vote meant to conserve the dwindling chinook salmon population. there's a lot of fear and panic all up and down the coast. with families trying to figure out how they're going to pay the bills this year because there's no salmon commercial and recreational salmon fishing season typically spring lasting to the end of

summer, but this year there will be no season a fisherman have an extremely broad set of skills, and we are pretty good at thinking quickly in an emergency. things happen at sea and we can work with that. but this one is bigger than that. we need help representatives nancy pelosi and jared huffman stood in the rain at this news conference founding to ask congress for 300 million dollars in federal disaster relief to help those impacted by the shutdown. we can't afford to wait years and in fact, we've got to bring this disaster relief home in a matter of a few months. we have a good case and these stories that we heard today. they are the most powerful the most powerful arguments to say the least. it's been a challenging year for anyone trying to make their living here in the pacific waters last month the state closed commercial dungeon is crab season to protect the humpback whales where i expect to lose in excess of two million dollars this year pro shop owner can't eli says he's laid off ten employees from his business. it's not me.

i'm worried about it's my employees and their families others are calling for better state water management in areas where salmon go to breed. i think we all deserve tables we deserve salmon in our restaurants. this is a public resource and access to it, it's san francisco cornell bernard abc 7 news. well the us unemployment rate last month fell to its second lowest level in five decades today the labor department reported the rate hit 3.5 percent after employers added a solid 236,000 jobs in march the numbers just above the 53 year low of 3.4 percent set in january and san francisco is trying to connect workers with employers at an upcoming job fair lauren acevedo with the office of economic and workforce development is joining us with details lauren. thanks so much for coming on great to have you with us. thank you so much dan for the opportunity to be here today. we are delighted to talk with you at tell us about what you about the job fair and what people can expect to attend.

sure, so the city is really excited to be hosting our second annual hospitality and small business job fair next wednesday at the san francisco ferry building downtown. that is fantastic and employers will be there trying to recruit and entice potential workers. what kind of jobs are they looking for? give us the range. so we'll have a positions available at the fair from entry-level roles all the way to top-level management positions at restaurants hotels positions and security transportation and retailers including a couple couple of the very building merchants. so they're really it's a diverse group of industries lots of opportunities potentially. how many people do you think will attend or are you hoping will attend? at our last event. we had a close to 500.

we're hoping to have a similar result this year and the city's hosting these types of events in support of mayor breeds economic recovery plan, which is seeks to help businesses hire skilled workers downtown and across the city and let's talk a little bit more about their mayor's economic recovery plan and that effort and how job fairs like this can help. i mean, it's it's instinctive you think of it as an opportunity for potential employees, but really in large measure this is designed to help employers people who are doing the hiring phil gaps that positions that are tough to fill these days. it's hard to find workers. definitely and the future is bright dan the san francisco is a vibrant and resilient city and we want to make sure that we are preparing employers to be staffed up for

the uptick and tourism that we've seen and ensure that tourists and local residents. have a great experience in san francisco. outstanding or a lauren acevedo with the office of economic and workplace development. thanks so much. lauren the job fair next wednesday at the ferry building lauren. thanks so much. thank you so much, dan. see you soon. the founders of the oakland-based company cincha will be on abc's hit show shark tank tonight sanchez cells fun. stylish travel accessories ash sharma and james baker will try to persuade one of the sharks at least to invest in their flagship product the sentra travel belt. they joined us on our midday show today to talk about their company and tonight's big appearance. you probably have dealt with heavy bags flipping and sliding through the airport. our travel belt secures your personal bacteria luggage so that you won't have any more bag slips while you're running to the gate. like a good idea decent travel belt comes in several different

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recent undercover sidekick gig driving for uber dara koshrel shawnee told the wall street journal that he spent some time behind the wheel late last year under the alias dave kay shuttling people around san francisco. he says one trip took him across the bay bridge and he got stuck in rush hour traffic. he says he'll never do that. again. it's part of a growing trend of ceo. sometimes working the jobs of those employees in the company, so they kind of get a better feel for what they do and the challenges starbucks. ceo has also worked in the stores at the store level recently michael. what do you think? i think it's a stunt. i think it would be more realistic if they took the pay of one of their average workers which tends to be 364 times and less than their pay how about if they took that for a day or a week or a month then maybe i would be impressed but they go do that same work and pay themselves hundreds of thousands dollars. i'm not impressed. i mean, that's a good point. it's a good point.

i mean on one hand, maybe they see what's happening on the ground if they're really determined to do that but on the other sounds like a stunt often, doesn't it? yeah, i gotta tell you it doesn't really feel real to me even a little bit, you know if y'all if i went out and drove an uber for a day, that's a lot different than having to do it every single day. oh sure. absolutely. absolutely. he's still got the insurance that he's got versus, you know, yeah exactly, right. we have some jobs we want you to do around here in the midst of mass layoffs at several of the biggest tech companies some executive x employees are admitting they got paid to do very little work one former recruiter for facebook and instagram's parent company meta so she made 190,000 a year, but spent much of her time in meetings that didn't accomplish anything recently other former tech workers have posted videos about collecting paychecks without doing very much and sometimes sand. start with you and then michael you can comment as well, you

know sitting in meetings. don't get much done you don't i mean, how could you if you're going from meeting to meeting to meeting dan but also, you know during the pandemic i think that there were more tech workers hired to help people out working from home, and i'm just wondering if that's why they didn't have as much of a workload and then they're just in meetings, you know. yeah, and they yeah, they did hire michael. of course, they hired a lot of people during the pandemic and there's a look, you know. pretty pretty fat at some of these firms which are now trying to downsize i mean meeting creep is a problem in almost any business that it's you know more fun to talk about what you're going to do that actually go out and do the work. yeah, right and especially, you know managers have to say they've done something. well since they don't do the actual work some of them resort to that just doing a bunch of meetings. i'm gonna tell you around here at the station back in the day. we used to have too many meetings. we don't anymore, right? you know, i think you know, we're pretty slim down and people go to work everyday. i'm impressed. of course the four of us

wouldn't know anything about that because we're the officer right no time for the meeting because we're so busy just all the time. what happened at the tell us i flip phones have become popular once again over the past few years new data found the foldable. smartphone is the fastest growing category on the market, but one group appears not to be impressed according to business insiders many gen ziers say the high price tag. just put them off for example samsung's galaxy z. fold four dollars that's significantly more than an iphone. you know, i was kind of a skeptic, but i saw my friend had one and she just has so much surface space there to work with and then you know with my eyes going bad. i'm starting to be kind of what do you think sand? yeah, you know. i can see how this would become. a popular mean first of all, you have the bigger screen, but it

is compact. so i you know in the purse, of course, you know when you're carrying two phones, you're just like, oh gosh so i can see how that would be. those phones are thicker some of the ones i've seen then you think though when you fold them up, which is why because i took a look and then michael one of the other problems is is you have to transfer everything over to a different kind of phone. it seems like a hassle. yeah, i got to tell you people that have them love them. you know when you first when they go i've got to flip phone the first thing i think about is like grandparents of razer phone or whatever and then you go. oh no. no, okay. you're right. they're too thick for me, but boy that big screen is way cool right when you say grandparents, we had those phones not me. you're talking about. it days away from easter and according to the national retail foundation americans are expected to spend $24 billion dollars celebrating this year when it comes to spending easter candy is right up there one of the favorites according to several surveys are those races eggs in an instacart survey that's followed by starburst

jelly beans and hershey's milk chocolate a retail me and not me not survey was slightly different chocolate bunnies came in second followed by cadbury eggs jelly beans peeps we have some different eggs. i've got a cadbury egg here with me. i easter is one of those word times. i love chocolate on occasion and those chocolate easter bunnies. you don't have them but once a year and they're kind of irresistible. mmm, where you guys think and i have a favorite candy. i've got the number one. most popular one here. reese's peanut butter eggs, and these are both fun and always yummy. let's be clear. there is an order here one is hollow easter bunny is where you get to eat their head two. reese's are bunnies are absolutely phenomenal and in three the chocolate eggs cadbury eggs cadbury. yeah. you're right. any other order is just fighting words, too.

starbucks love starburst, but i still think hershey's chocolate. is like my number one? yeah, it's okay to bash peeps here. is that okay? no, you can pass them. absolutely. yeah to me that just pure sugar like just biting into nothing but fluffy sugar. honestly, there was there's something in the newsroom buyer simon desk last night. i thought i'll try one. i had a peep. yeah fine. i just said one. there's not my favorite. i'm with michael the chocolate easter bunny. yeah, because you only do it once a year. definitely fight too much over this people. usually fight hard over which one is the best easter candy, right? thank you offered me that way. all right, that's this addition of the ford four. we'll be right back.

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pups. they're larger mammals. they're so you know, they're more like us thaorm or frt fly. they also live in our environments they share our food. they are the closest. animals to us kind of lifestyle-wise, you know, we walk them we walk with them. they're drinking the same water. we're drinking and dog years matter you can do studies with dogs and really get answers about the effect on lifespan and life expectancy and longevity in a matter of years. whereas you did the same studies in people it would take decades one study is examining the life experiences of dogs over 10 year period and using a smaller subset of pooches for a clinical trial of repumycin a possible human longevity drug. another is testing a new kind of gene therapy on canines so far data shows diet and exercise matter. they have very good evidence from this. is that physical activity really

is protective against cognitive decline later in life. another study found that one daily meal is better than frequent feeding, but no matter we learn mankind once what's for its best friend. americans have 77 million dogs, we love our dogs and any drug any kind of diet that would help our dogs live better is a great interest to lots and lots of us. and to learn more about how to nominate your canine companion to participate in one of these studies at natgeo.com/health. of our dogs right. let's turn back to the weather forecast to rain earlier today. we'll have hang around this weekend. oh, come on. let's push it out. push it out. yeah. pushing aftern is gone. so dan and kristen take a look at live doppler 7 a lot of cloud covers still lingering around the region that is going to thin out as we had towards tomorrow

afternoon and it is going to warm up as high pressure builds in upper 60s inland low to mid 60s around the bay and the coast 57 degrees and half moon bay should be a nice day and look at sunday easter sunday is going to include warm weather. i mean, we're talking mid-70s inland and even into monday those 70s will continue. we're gonna fast forward to next week any opportunity for rain now staying well to our north so right on through a week from today. we are looking at a dry pattern accuweather 7 day forecast. it is pleasant for easter. you will notice the warmest. and then temperatures will trend lower as we had towards the early to middle part of next week, dan. okay, sandia. thanks a lot nasa's james webb space. telescope has captured really a brilliant new image of the planet uranus the infrared image shows greater detail in the ice giants dramatic rings and planets atmosphere uranus has 13 known rings and eleven of them are visible in this web image. it's not stunning. it's a 12-minute exposure with

just two filters and experts say it only hints at webb's overall capabilities. that's what researchers say. i mean the hubble changed everything this telescope is going to blow that out of the water. that's just amazing. all right now to celebration in a galaxy far far away the star wars celebration underway right now in london and there are a few surprises.

at eight. it's shark tank followed by 2020 at 9. then don't miss abc 7 news at 11. more celebration 2023 is underway in london, and they've already been lots of announcements including three new star wars movies and a 2024 release date for the second season of andor abc news reporter george panaccio has the details. hello from star wars celebration this year in london england this convention which happens every two years somewhere is the ultimate fan event for people who love star wars and the stars of various star wars projects always show up to be a part of the fun. i normally work and stuff that you you wish people would like to see and here is the opposite. they remind you every day that they're here to see more that they want more and it's a lovely match. it's the place for super fans to be the first to know about what's happening in the star wars world besides all the

merchandise on the convention floor and there is a lot of it. there are also panels celebrating the latest star wars projects. after the panels the press lines, it's all for the fans and and i have a career because such a gift to be able to support the work that i do you are half actress and half fan today. that was the plan i love to cosplay and i was like i couldn't go to a convention and not do it. every one of us is doing what we want to do because we want to be the focus of our whatever, you know, so they stand up. i love it man. i love it. people are just so generous. and of course we're in in a show that people are loving and grow goo is dragging us along on his coattails, you know, making us all look good. how can you not love that to trust us to just allow us to be

able tell these stories? but then to come back years later and have them having seen what we did and then show that appreciation. this is the this is the toughest crowd you're going to get when you make in star wars these people have the most invested and they have high standards. so the fact that they appreciate us as much as we appreciate them is really rewarding star wars celebration is the ultimate event for fans of that galaxy far far away. it's just so nice to see everyone else sharing in the same. joy that we have addressing office your favorite characters to be a part of it. i think more than anything. it's it's meeting other fans, you know talking about star wars admiring their costumes and you know them admiring ours taking photos with people's and stuff and just really enjoying star wars all together in one place in los angeles george panaccio abc 7 news the new star wars movies include one that will go back to the dawn of the jedi in another with daisy ridley

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