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they lost their power and are dealing with all kinds of inconveniences as they wait for pg&e to fix the problem. good morning, everybody. thanks for joining us here on this sunday, april 30. i am liz kreutz here with lisa argent. a big shift coming. lisa: we have felt it with the fog and the breezy wind, and you can see that feature offshore with areas from low pressure from the gulf. you can see the deck of low clouds, 51 in oakland, 40 nine in san francisco and for mount tam, clear skies with that marine layer being disrupted but it is cold. mid 40's in novato, 50 in concord. as we go through the morning hours, you will feel the wind, 35 mile per hour gust at sfo. you will see the golden gate
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bridge with some fog and clear conditions throughout the afternoon, only in the 60's. upper 60's inland, low 50' it is feeling cooler than it should be for the last day of april. liz: starting tomorrow, there will be new state level support to crackdown on drug dealers in san francisco. we are learning what that might look like. the chp and california national guard will support work already underway by the police department. >> we are learning more about san francisco's plan to crackdown on drug dealers and combat the fentanyl crisis. >> our focus needs be on drug dealers making this happen and that is exactly where our focus will be. >> the police chief and mayor join california highway patrol, the national guard, and city officials to offer details on the plan.
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governor newsom announced it last week there were many questions left unanswered. >> what is the national guard and the chp's role? >> monday, chp will deploy officers to high crime areas including the tenderloin and south of market. >> just the mere presence of our officers with the sfpd officers we believe will disrupt criminal activity. >> the national guard general explained their role. he says they have a team of 14 national guard members who will work behind the scenes to gather intelligence on cartels and drug trafficking. >> what i want to do is dispel rumors that the california national guard's presence will not be boots on the ground in san francisco. >> that comment in response to concerns some have raised. the san francisco supervisor called it a military intervention and said it is a way of "confirming war on a
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diverse, low income neighborhood." we asked mayor breed how she responds. >> we will continue to invest heavily and providing opportunities for people and second chances and all of those things which is different from what was in the 1980's program services, second chance opportunities but also accountability. what has been missing has been accountability and that's what about >> a big question is how will the success be measured. the answer is vague and officials did not get specific goal post, but chief scott says the most measurable change will be on the street and he expects to see "media changes." if you or someone you know needs help dealing with issues like drug addiction, you can find local resources at abc7news.com/take action.
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frustrations are running high this morning for some san francisco residents waiting days , for pg&e to get their power back on. ewald fire knocked out -- ewald fire -- a vault knocked out electricity. some cases, they are waiting for a generator. here is abc 7 news reporter tara campbell. tara: flames flying up wednesday and saturday, frustrations still running high. >> i would like for pg&e to communicate more with us and give us a better idea of when things will be back on. tara: andrew lives in the gateway apartment complex, not too far from montgomery and clay street's, where an underground transformer fire left thousands of pg&e customers in the dark. gateway management scrambling to get at least some power to its multiple towers. spanning blocks. andrew: the generators, they rolled those in a couple of days ago. there are three or four generators here, and they kicked on and turned the lights on. tara: andrew says he feels for
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some of the seniors living here. andrew: there are quite a few of them but have less mobility, that maybe don't have the means to go eat out or whatever, and the loss of resources for them is definitely significant, especially the time they were without elevators. david: pg&e evidently has just dropped the ball. tara: david burnett has lived in the complex 40 years, 83-year-old climbing four flights of stairs amidst the outage. david: people had to climb up and down the stairs and that got old. the other thing is of course you lost all the food in your refrigerator. tara: pg&e said it would have power restored here just after midnight wednesday, but one update after the next, pushing that date back. you got the email today saying now monday, what was your thought? >> i could not believe it. i regret not leaving the city when i thought about it on friday, because i could have made plans a
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this. tara: a pg&e spokesperson said in an email a pg&e spokesperson said crews have completed , repairs and restored power to customers impacted by wednesday's equipment damage but are now investigating a new outage at the gateway location, leaving these generators to keep pumping out the power. tara campbell, abc 7 news. liz: federal regulators are racing to seize and then sell san francisco's first republic bank as soon as this weekend. abc news reports the fdic is exploring two options, one to control the bank and the second to sell it off, then to take -- to take full ownership of it second,. last month, fdic took control of first republic bank and silicon valley bank, both of which were failing. customers had withdrawn $100 billion in deposits. in the south unified school district is facing a teacher shortage. it needs to hire 200 teachers for the next school year, according to the latest numbers from the california department of education. the district faces several challenges, including nearby
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districts that can pay significantly more anteaters simply not being able to afford to live in the bay area. there are 26,000 students in the school district. marathon negotiations between the oakland unified school to -- and the teacher's union still has not produced any results, and negotiations are set to resume today. yesterday, teachers and supporters spent today making signs in anticipation of a possible strike. those who have been at the bargaining table representing teachers tell abc 7 news reporter anser hassan that there has been very little progress. anser: signs like these that read "ready to strike" tell much of the story. >> our commitment is to get a deal, and we are willing to strike for our students if we have to. we need the district to continue to come up with proposals, and that has been our biggest frustration. anser: the president of the teachers union says negotiations have been nonstop all saturday. anticipating talks likely late into the night and again on sunday. >> we have not seen a completed
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a salary proposal, a completed special education proposal, so we are still having conversations, but we are still waiting for the district to provide concrete proposals so that we can get to the finish line. anser: oakland teachers have been working without a contract since october. the teachers union has 21 proposals on the table, issues ranging from class size to school safety to teacher salary. the union wants a 23% pay raise. the district is offering 22%. but the union says that 22% requires that teachers work an extra two hours per week and would only be given to certified teachers, not for all positions, like school nurses and psychologists. the union says that means 66% of the membership would not be eligible for a salary increase. >> to us that is a divide and , conquer strategy that we are absolutely not willing to accept. anser: teachers say it is never a good time to strike, but she says it is important for the community to understand that any teacher strike is also about the
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needs of students. >> the learning loss will continue into next year if we do not have a fair contract, if a high percentage of teachers keep leaving our district, if we do not get the facilities repairs and support services that our students need. anser: the oakland unified school district did not return requests for comment, but has previously pointed out that any salary increase will require funding and is concerned about a strike so close to the end of the school year. >> i am hopeful that this strike won't happen, but if it does, we are ready. anser: in oakland, anser hassan, abc 7 news. liz: an oakland little league will now be playing ball on a newly renovated baseball field. the remade caldecott field was rebuilt from a grant from the ballpark of dreams initiatives. $20,000 in funding provided new bacas anmore forne and a me to v
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place for our kids to play, on hopefully well-manicured fields, so they can grow their love of baseball, and this grant helped our program grow. liz: the north oakland, south oakland little league says they will be able to host more games because of the funding. let's take a look outside. lisa: the camera atop ballmer peak, we are looking at the fog in concord, 51 degrees with a south wind at 22. you see that poll moving about. say goodbye to the 81 degrees temperature yesterday. maybe 70 yesterday -- today, more likely 60's. liz: thank you, lisa. it was not quite the big melt the forecast had predicted. portions of yosemite national park will reopen. also ahead, pg&e is planning to bury over 10,000 miles of power lines, all in the name of safety. why one neighborhood in the oakland hills has been left out
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liz: we are following some news out of southern california this morning. several light earthquakes have struck near niland, california early this morning. here the earthquake map provided by the usgs. you can see they are clustered in those locations where you see the orange dots. seven quakes ranging between 2.9 and 4.3 all happen after midnight. the latest one happened about 90 minutes ago about 4:45. that one measure 3.0. this is east of l.a. so far, no word yet of any
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damages this morning. people came together in the ebay -- in the east bay to say goodbye to blake mohs. he was shot and killed while trying to stop an alleged shoplifter at a home depot in pleasanton. abc 7 news reporter cornell barnard tells us it was a day of moving tributes. >> ♪ somewhere over the rainbow ♪ cornell: music and prayers to honore young man who loved life. >> blake cared for people, he cared for us, and i'm sure he cared for every person here today. cornell: hundreds filled fremont community church to remember blake mohs, who was shot and killed earlier this month while trying to stop a theft at the pleasanton home depot store, where he worked as a loss prevention employee. his coworkers wore their orange aprons as a tribute to blake. >> some saw him as a trainer. some saw him as a great asset protection specialist. some saw him as a wonderful associate. i think all of us saw him as a friend. >> right now, the entire familyg
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cornell: chili davis is talking about blake's boy scout family. he joined the scouts when he was just 14 and lived the scout motto every day, be prepared. he did that as a friend and hjust lit up a room, and the kid could eat food. kid could eat food. >> he shared, though. [laughter] >> not my spaghetti, he didn't. >> i truly believe that blake has left so much behind in a positive way. i mean, he is truly going to be missed. cornell: his family said blake had big plans for the future. he was getting married this summer to his fiancée, casey, and was hoping for a career in law enforcement. >> it is our turn to carry a torch that blake lit for us, his courage, his wisdom, his compassion. ♪ cornell: in fremont, cornell barnard, abc 7 news.
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liz: our hearts go out to his family and friends. one person is dead after a house fire in san francisco yesterday morning. this happened at a home on dixie -- bigsby street in the ingleside neighborhood. fire crews said they rescued a victim, but that person died a short time later. no word on the fire pot because. -- on the fire's cause. nearly 32 years ago, fire tore through the oakland hills. 25 people were killed and thousands of homes were destroyed. in the wake of recent wildfires, pg&e is finally set to bury thousands of miles of power lines across the state, but one -- the oakland montclair neighborhood is not part of the plan and they want to know why. 1300 people have signed a change.org position, asking pg&e to bury power lines in mount claire. abc 7 i-team reporter melanie woodrow has the latest developments. >> i was born right here in this area. melanie: cynthia's family has lived in the montclair neighborhood of oakland hills for years.
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>> we worry about fire risk every single day. melanie the 1991 oakland hills : fire is a painful memory for many here. >> it would be a catastrophe if this happened again. melanie: it is why she started a change.org position to bury powerlines. she had more than 1300 signatures in less than three weeks. >> for us, fire is a matter of life and death. melanie: pg&e says its 10,000-mile undergrounding program is aimed at making the program safer by prioritizing areas where it can have the latest -- largest effect on reducing wildfire risk. montclair did not make the list. >> we are trying to understand pg&e's logic here. melanie: he bought his home here. he says the transmission lines, and addition to transmission and service lines, which crisscross the neighborhood, is especially concerning. >> very old infrastructure.
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very high-voltage. we thought we would be a shoe in. melanie: a spokesperson with pg&e said it met with community members to discuss wildfire risk reduction in the neighborhood and continues to invite their feedback. pg&e says since 2018, it has completed two overhead system hardening projects and one undergrounding project in mount claire -- montclair as well as , inspecting electric equipment and installing devices to better target safety related setoffs -- shut offs and installing a , high definition camera to monitor and respond wildfires. the utility says it has also added three weather stations to better predict severe weather and installed enhanced powerline safety detection settings, that can automatically turn off power within 1/10th of a second if a fire weather days. >> they know they have a problem. that is why they are doing all these things. melanie: pg&e tells the i-team its under grounding plans do not include montclair, because there are higher risk areas. >> you have to understand that
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this is one of the most densely populated, high fire risk areas in the state of california, and if they are noseei tt, theiris n a limited number of ways to get in and out of this neighborhood. >> this is a fire trap. melanie they say during a : meeting with pg&e reps, they were told pg&e's risk model does not factor in egress, but in a statement to abc 7 news pg&e says it uses a team of local safety fire specialist with knowledge of ingress and egress considerations, to validate its risk models. >> prove it. melanie: joe tabriz coordinates for oakland. >> we were told this area was not a high priority area, and we take exception to that. and honestly, if none of those wires were above ground, none of them would release a spark that would cause a wildfire. melanie: since 2017, pg&e has been blamed for more than 30 wildfires. it's 2023 wildfire mitigation
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plan does not sit right with montclair residents, who say they have seen what has -- what could happen. >> i do not want to have to tell the story to my kids and grandkids, again, that we knew what would happen, had a perfect example, and not had anything -- and not anything done about it. melanie: for the i-team, melanie woodrow, abc 7 news liz: yosemite valley reopens this morning at 7:00 a.m., after flooding fears and the big melt did not live up to the forecast. the national weather service of toncerns.d services.aus a full reopening is scheduled for tomorrow morning. the big we went from snow melt snow arriving so pretty much whiplash, doing a 180 for the week ahead. we have it all on hold because
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temperatures well below average today and into the week ahead, there is a trough offshore. an area of low pressure out of the gulf of alaska will send much colder air our way. the coldest day with thunderstorms arriving potentially will be tuesday. we have it all going on with the low cloud deck. ramping up but we also have clear and windy conditions. 49 san francisco, 48 palo alto, 51 in oakland and mt. view. mount tam, a beautiful view. very windy today, already upper level wind over 30 miles an hour. we have had wind gusts through the delta at about 43. 47 san francisco, 46 novato, livermore at 45. you can see the bay not looking too churned from with the wind building, some whitecaps out there.
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below average the last day of april and the first entire week of may, 72 santa rosa, 73 in san francisco. 1:00, the wind over 30 miles an hour building throughout the day across the bay and this will take us through monday. yesterday was the last day to enjoy that mild air. we are sunny throughout the late morning hours. the early afternoon. and then the high clouds increase and we will be looking at not only the clouds but the wind and temperatures really being held down throughout the day. high pressure has shifted to the east, that trough moving through, bringing windy conditions. early tuesday, of course it's a tuesday, rainy conditions arriving. we could see the thunderstorms, temperatures only in the 50's, snow levels down to 4000 feet. big sur come of the sierra
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nevada. if you are underneath the thunderstorm, .2 inches. thisitve stable air and snow chances continue all week long with two to three inches for mosty and cn the mid to upper 50's. 63 in oakland, five degrees from yesterday. we could top off close to 70 but not without wind. the wind will be gusty, very breezy. temperatures coming down steadily. a level 1 system tuesday-wednesday. some areas could see some hail and marsh our chances at the end of the week. liz: back and forth weather. just ahead, a massive manhunt is underway in texas after neighbors asked a man to stop
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liz: in san francisco city , leaders and community members celebrated the 30th annual cesar chavez parade that was filled with music, cultural performances, and a low rider show. the celebration commemorates the life and work of chavez. e civirighisarorkers association, now known as united farmworkers. yesterday's parade was followed a festival with food, arts, and craft. yesterday the bay area celebrated the asian-american/pacific islander heritage month. that thunderous performance from
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liz: a huge manhunt is underway after investigators in texas say a man turned a rifle on his neighbors. president biden: i have a lot of ron desantis jokes ready but mickey mouse beat the hell out of him. he got there first. [laughter] liz: the white house correspondents dinner brings laugh and jokes but at the same time, a serious message from president joe biden about journalism. good morning. thank you for joining us. let's get a check of the forecast. lisa: gray skies outside our window from our roof camera. we have a nice shot. it is kind of moving or temperatures are cool from the upper 50's downtown. the golden gate bridge is breezy, low cloud cover. 70 in santa rosa, 49 in the
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delta. a couple of degrees cooler for most of us and this morning, warmer and the north bay. concorde 22 miles an hour, the airport 35, so a breezy to windy afternoon with partly cloudy skies to start out. enjoy the early morning, -- morning, early afternoon sun if you can. maybe a 70 towards the you will have the wind and increasing clouds in the north bay. the weather has changed. we are going into a much cooler week with the thunderstorm potential. -- uer overnight in texas after a gunman killed five people could this started when neighbors asked a suspect to stop shooting a rifle because the baby was trying to sleep. here is abc news reporter lionel moïse. lionel: the tragedy unfolded friday evening. deputies called to way home
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clayton, texas about 50 miles , north of houston following a harassment call. multiple 911 calls came in with reports about an active shooter at the location. there were 10 people at the home in time of the shooting. >> five are deceased and five are alive, no physical injuries. lionel: investigators believe the suspect was intoxicated and began shooting an ar-15 on his front porch when the neighbors asked him to stop because a baby was trying to sleep. numerous agencies joined sand has scinto county sheriff's department in the manhunt for the suspected gunman, francisco oropeza. >> the fbi has brought in investigative resources, tactical, and victim services resources to assist in this investigation. lionel: his wife and among the victims. he said the children -- the shooter went room to room and two women who were killed pr
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n. thviims ra from 8 to 31 years old. authorities say they located oropeza's cell phone, finding it abandoned. >> there was some articles of clothing laying around. tracking dogs from the texas department of corrections picked up the scent, and then they lost that scent in the waters. lionel: the fbi is asking anyone with information on the suspect to call 911. >> we consider him armed and dangerous, and we are not going to stop until we arrest him into custody. lionel: in a statement, the local school district says it is heartbroken to learn of the death of one of its students, and says counselors will be available for any staff or students you need. lionel moïse, abc news, new york. liz: a tornado ripped through the northern part of palm beach county, florida, leaving thousands of residents without power saturday night. >> that is a tornado. liz: the tornado caused trees to couple over roadways and homes. -- topple over roadways and homes. this video captured a moment a car was lifted into the air and tossed on another vehicle. police are warning people to
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areas with extensive damage and downed power lines. president biden with a strong message at the white house correspondents dinner, journalism is not a crime. the president drew applause from the crowd when he called on russia to release a "wall street journal" reporter. he has been detained inent bid:c hoagor wngfulldetainpp lso cogned wnba player bttne griner, who was released in december from russian custody during a prisoner exchange. the audience gave her a round of applause. president biden also took a moment to poke fun at news networks and other politicians. pres. biden: we are going to have some fun tonight, but please be safe. if you find yourself disoriented or confused, it is either you are drunk or marjorie taylor greene. [laughter]
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it is great that cable news networks are here tonight. msnbc, owned by nbc universal, fox news owned by dominion voting systems -- [laughter] but the job is not finished. i mean, it is finished for tucker carlson. what are you booing about like that? you think that is not reasonable? [laughs] give me a break. [laughter] liz: "daily show" comedian roy wood jr. closed out the night and he had some pretty funny jokes as well. we are week away from the coronation of britain's new monarch, king charles iii. during the ceremony, he will wear the crimson and purple colored robe worn by his grandfather. it was last worn by queen elizabeth during her coronation 70 years ago.
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liz: welcome back. here is a live look from zephyr cove in lake tahoe. hundreds gathered for a night of fun to support a san francisco organization helping the most vulnerable residents. the show of hope gala brought r e n o comm al whichal car a support to thet fundraiser and there was no shortage of support and generous donors. >> we know the tenderloin community is a pretty resiliewhs to provide services. folks want hope and want
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members of our team were there to support because. reggie emceed the event, joined by jobina, kumasi, and drew. is getting off to a slow start because of all the rain. one farm in gilroy is days away from opening. abc 7 news reporter laura martinez has the story. >> we've got a lot of different stuff, strawberries, blackberries, raspberries. laura: berry island farms in gilroy has a variety of fresh fruits and vegetables. their biggest seller is strawberries. >> in a normal season, we would start in mid-april, but unfortunately due to the cold storms,hey ng, we are basically nobee ele e end of decemr.orllye
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bbage, iso ae pntatlle sicallgg stig fwi laura: now with the warmer weather, their first berries are turning red. >> you can see they are nice and healthy. leaves, so that means they have plenty of nutrients. business ia you pick farm open to the public. the remaining 10% comes from purchases from local restaurants. >> wou laura: delicious. >> the best strawberries in the bay area. laura: despite the three weeks of picking the farm is losing out on, walton does not plan on increasing prices. one pound of berries will remain five dollars. >> right now, you know, we are trying to keep the same prices as we did last year. on the longer-term, i don't know yet. laura: on wednesday, walton planted his summer crops that included peppers and eggplants that will be ready after the , fourth of july.
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>> it's weird, three weeks ago, part of it was still standing water and now we are out there, it is like 90 degrees. laura: despite the anxiety driven season it has been, he considers his farm very lucky. he a lot ssoms. sgle eisoi t a. i' i wasoihio lo laura: the season opener for berry island farms will be saturday, may 6. in gilroy, lauren martinez, abc 7 news. liz: is.lisa: you are glowing, a gorgeous shot. santa cruz 56 degrees and it will be windy. temperatures much cooler. we manage some 60's but then rain is on the way. several days to talk first week in may. chris: coming up in sports, the giants and padres put on an international power display in mexico city, plus the dubs are on 7 for game 7.
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chris: good morning. the warriors and kings has easily been the most entertaining first-round series in the nba playoffs, so why not play 7?ren c 'n fox a the kings ine a chancet game six at the chase center. kevon l domantas sabonis got a little , bit of a shiner. after the home team first four games it is the road , team answering g6.es the kings had 17 three-pointers in game six and the warriors a step slow all game long, so now it comes down to this, a winner take all game 7 later today in sacramento.
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>> a sense of composure is a big thing especially on the road, because you know it will be hostile, the crowd will be into it, stay locked in, stay composed, but it is just basketball. just play. >> it is no pressure for us because ain't nobody think we would be here. just closing the game here and going back to sac just gives us more confidence. >> everybody doesn't get to experience a game 7, but not everybody gets to experience game seven in sacramento so i , know it will be rocking. >> i know we will respond, i know these teams, i know these guys, and i know what we are capable of, and we will respond like the champs we are come sunday. chris: so here we go, game 7 today. tip-off 12:30, followed by "after the game." larry and the guys in the studio. i will be up in sacramento. gian a padres playing the first major league baseball games in mexico.
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the highest altitude ever in major league games and the ball was flying out of the yard. both teams had back-to-back home runs not once but twice, just the second time that has ever happened in major league history. 10 different players homered, tied for the most in one game in history. mitch hanna good or -- haniger actually had his first for the giants, and manny machado had not one, but guess what? he had two for the padres, including the final go-ahead blast for the seventh, 11 combined homers in this one, giants lose a 16-7. sparky got a foul ball at the top of the second. top of the seven, kevin newman flies at the right, ramon mariano chases it down, makes the catch. tyler stephenson tried to tag it in the third, but look at the throw, out by a mile. what a play for defense. the a's were and out away for a win. jake fraley doubles back, and the a's lose a heartbreaker 3-2. they are 0-12 in day games. that is a look at sports. enjoy game 7 between the
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warriors and kings later today on abc 7. now back to you. liz: just so you have it, the warriors winner takes all game seven is on abc 7 today at 12:30. it will be followed by after the game. tensions are high. lisa: they sure are. we are looking at a pretty unusual week so hopefully he's been following the forecast because instead of the summerlike weather continuing through may, it will be all about and about-face with a winter forecast noonnext pew dae week ahead. -- next few days but the entire week ahead. gusty wind, a cool start, sun in the city. 48 in palo alto. you can see the fog moving in over the golden gate bridge. 49 by the delta. 51 concord.
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we have sun in but wind over spreading the peninsula. the inland valleys, this will continue throughout the day with the wind strengthening. as we look outside, the wind is, blustery today. below average, not just rain bst 1:00 and for the afternoon, the purple indicates gusts well over 30 miles an hour, but all through the bay they are running fast, transporting that cool marine layer air. we have already felt it the peninsula. sun early part of the day and some of this fog not clearing at all a chance of
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thunderstorms which could ring in a couple of hundreds the mountains, we are talking snow. we are worried -- we were worried about the snow melts and now we are doing a 180, ringing in half a foot. 1/10, maybe one third of an inch. the focus is from the peninsula to the santa cruz mountains, a quarter of an inch, and lesser amounts to the north. it all depends with -- where the thunderstorm sets up. it will be cold, temperatures may be at 40 degrees but the snow levels allowing for a couple of inches. blue canyon, six inches incline. the latest snow we had was about may 16 so the kind of year it has been, not surprised.
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temperatures well below average, windy and cooler. a blustery afternoon. 63 across the bay. five degrees cooler and 15 degrees cooler inland. a few 70's early on but then clouds increase in the north bay. windy and cooler today. monday, cloudy, cool, breezy, maybe a shower. could see a storm, level 1 system. thursday and friday still unsettled with maybe some showers or snow in the mountains. hopefully we warm up by next weekend. some folks were like, is it over? it is not over. liz: i was just getting used to this nice warm weather. lisa: maybe people getting right -- getting used to the rain. next, making dreams come true. -- liz: next, mg dreams come true. disneyland getting in on world ey
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blacksmiths are working to auction off their work to benefit those in ukraine. a created sculptural pieces in functional objects. this is a video they shared. all of the proceeds are going up for auction -- a new study is now revealing that one of the largest patches of pollution on the planet is also teeming with life. with the help of researchers, trying to learn what it means for the ocean and possibly our own coast. abc 7 news weather anchor spencer christian has the details. >> this is a frog fish. >> aren't they cool? spencer: this marine ecologist has always considered the humble frog fish a remarkable sea creature, but not for the reason that has her attention now. instead of its normal habitat, this one was plucked from a man-made environmental disaster
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, mastretch inhe pacific ocean known as the great pacific garbage patch. abouthe rbage pah it is essentially made, re-created the that has that three-dimensional structure that a lot of these coastal species depend on and it has sort of become a substitute environment. spencer: a substitute environment made up of estimated 80,000 tons of plastic, fishing nets, and trash floating in the pacific. we got a close-up look last year when the recovery ship returned to sausalito, with its cargo hold overflowing. >> you name it, it is in there. spencer: mary crowley, the founder and executive director ocean voyages institute, which organizes the cleanup missions that have now expanded into an unexpected program of scientific research and providing specimens. >> we have discovered a tremendous amount on the expeditions, and then, you know, if you look closer, you can see
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things that are growing out there. >> yes, so this is a mussel. spencer: growing and in some cases thriving. back at the smithsonian environmental research center in tiburon, they are helping to identify specimens from at least 46 different species, everything from tiny crustaceans to larger fish. floating along with them are several critical questions. if those mountains of elastic can support life, can they spread quickly intoerps carry invasive species from one continent to another? >> if these coastal species that are only found on one side of the pacific associate and are able to live out their lives and reproduce and perhaps grow a number on this floating ga patch, they may get closer to the other side of the pacific to our coast. spencer: many of the key questions are still left to be answered. in the meantime, mary crowley says her organization is hoping to add a new vessel in the near
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future, joining a fleet that now has a dual mission, to help understand the ecological effects of a massive floating garbage patch at the same time they are working to clean it up. in sausalito, spencer christian, abc 7 news. liz: fascinating. let's get a check of the forecast. lisa: good morning, a little foggy in spots, the wind kicking up throughout the day. mid to upper 50's from the beaches to san and the wind spraying across the bay. 70 but it will be breezy to windy everywhere.n arris, cybe a e.r a liz: we will brace for it. i am liz kreutz along with lisa argen. news continues at 9:00 a.m.
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