>> building a better bay area, moving forward, finding solutions, this is abc 7 news. ama: barricades began today along cap street in san francisco's mission district. this is part of to curb the ongoing problem of alleged prostitution in the area.

good evening i'm ama daetz. dan: and i'm dan ashley. people are concerned that steel barriers could affect response times during emergencies. ama: abc 7 i team reporter stephanie sierra joins us with details. stephanie: the new barriers will be a collapsible steel, replacing the cement eric eads that were put up -- barricades that were put up two months ago. this comes after a huge push in the area of people who were fed up with the alleged sex work, noise, and violence on the streets. out with the old come in with the new, in an effort to curb alleged sex work, san francisco's capp street is yet again getting a barricade upgrade, from traffic -- trample traffic barriers to graffiti's cement walls, there were also talk of water-based barriers, but after all that, the city settled on steel.

these will replace the existing cement barriers. san francisco public works began drilling eight holes in the ground that will house them along four blocks of capp street, from 18 to 22nd. neighbors could not be more excited. >> there's local shopping, people feel safer. stephanie: how will the new system work? >> the barriers can be removed within a matter of seconds to one minute, depending on the circumstances and who is present. stephanie: lieutenant jonathan baxter says the fire department is concerned about any impact a response time come as emergency crews take four minutes to six minutes to arrive before patient care starts to deteriorate. in the event of an emergency, first responders will be able to use a remote device to collapse the barriers within a minute, so emergency crews can enter. >> it looks kind of bad

this cannot be a permanent solution. stephanie: fed up with alleged sex work, crime, traffic, and noise, this group says the barricades have improved the safety of capp street over the last four months, something they say is necessary. >> there were easily 40 women working, now maybe 10 or less as a whole. >> peace and quiet. peace and quiet for everybody. >> let's return our street to a family community. >> people are beginning to feel safe again here. stephanie: overall, alleged sex work has been reduced by at least 60% around capp street since those barricades have been installed, and while some residents have seen the improvement, others say it is impacting 21st and shot well. ama: when will these new steel barricades be fully installed?

stephanie: within two weeks. right now, they are preparing for that full installation by checking the utility complex, but as far as how long they will be there, we are told for the foreseeable future. ama: stephanie, thank you. dan: the san francisco board of supervisors is meeting right now and expect expecting to call in the district attorney's office to release video and other evidence in the killing of bagel brown. a security guard -- banko brown. a security guard shot and killed brown. d.a. jenkins says a final decision has not been made on whether to file charges. the board has not taken up a resolution. ama: the family of a murder to 64-year-old woman is speaking out after she was stabbed multiple times, allegedly by her next-door neighbor. the family requested to abc 7 news anchor dion lim that we only use her last name.

she was going to the triangle apartment friday morning when she was stabbed three times and tried to escape into a stairwell but was not discovered until about an hour later. ss paid -- sfp as, whose family lives in the same building in the unit next door. despite their pain, sharing what happened is important. >> he said he did not want to speak out, probably he can be released after, and his mom died for nothing. >> reminder that we have problems in our society, in san francisco. ama: esparza was booked on multiple charges, including murder. dan: breaking news in oakland where there is a three car crash involving two oakland police cruisers. this happened just after 4:00 this afternoon near sixth and

jefferson streets, about two blocks from oakland police headquarters. there's no word yet what led up to the crash or whether anyone is hurt, but we are on it. and in oakland chinatown, today kicked off a unique new safety measure for the neighborhood, which has been hit hard by vandalism and theft. abc 7 news anchor dion lim how volunteers are coming together to bring shoppers back. dion: signs are back as the patrol group kicked off their first joint patrol in chinatown tuesday, a job police and a number of other volunteer patrol groups have been doing since early 2020, but never together. >> they have been patrolling entire towns since the pandemic as of today. this marks their 800 day. dion: the joint effort includes multiple officers and volunteers every first tuesday of the month, a direct response to a spring of brazen burglaries in chinatown early this year.

for some business owners, it means hope for a desperately needed economic boost. >> because it happene ago, we lost a lot of our outside customers. they say, "i'm afraid to come out." we want traffic to come back. dion: in februar department and mayor tao partners together. >> there has not been a lot of major crimes in the chinatown area. our statistics compared to last year, compared to two years ago is a lot less major crime and violent crimes are down. dion: it is a step-by-step effort that cannot come soon enough for this neighborhood. in oakland, dion lim, abc 7 news . ama: now to our developing story

on the oakland teachers strike. there is no deal between the teachers union and the district, and the strike is expected today tomorrow. the main sticking point is the common good goals in the contract. abc 7 news lena howland has the latest. >> step up, ste is a uniontown. lena: teachers spent their fourth day away from the classroom on strike. the oakland education association holding firm on their goals to include, good items in the new contractor >> we want a new contract. policies change. when you put it in a contract, then we can hold the district accountable to doing that. lena: assembly member in the, who supports the union, says they are achievable for the good of all students. >> with focusing on an opportunity to use housing, house our homeless kids, that we have that have a shared governance model. dion: some believe the union has

taken it too far. >> i believe they've done in the wrong way. dion: fed up with multiple strikes in the last few years. >> you cannot hold kids hostage in order to make progress on these things. dion:dion: jesse has two kids in the district and crossed the picket line to bring his third-grader, but says common good goals have no place in a labor agreement. >> i know the unit is advocating for stuff so many of us believe in around, like, justice and homelessness and equal access, stuff that does not belong in a union contract. this is stuff they can be worked out as a community and in many cases by our elected leaders. >> personally, i believe it is all connected. dion: other parents, like josh connor, whose five-year-old and six-year-old daughters, made their own signs to join their teachers on the picket line tuesday, says common good items need to be part of the contract. >> at the same time, i feel like

the teachers are fighting for all of us in oakland, so those common good goals are part of that, and they can't teach well if the kids are hungry, if they don't have somewhere to sleep at night, so they are fighting for those things so we can all have a safe place to learn. lena: in oakland, lena howland, abc 7 news. dan: in the south bay, one of the first narcan thinking machines was unveiled today, and it comes on national fentanyl awareness day. abc 7 news reporter zach fuentes has more on one of the latest strategies to try to save lives. >> do you want to learn about sentinel and how to save a life? zach: santa clara university students working hard to get out that critical information. now they have a way to get narcan to the community. this vending machine is dispensing them free of charge. when used correctly, the kits can reverse the effects of an opioid overdose. >> we are one of the first to have it, so we are proud. zach: dr. jamie tang is a

professor of public health at santa clara university. she and her students played a key role not just getting them ascending machines on campus but how to use it. >> if you want a recovery -- >> we are overwhelmed by the positive responses already. zach: tragically, stati the need for more to have and use narcan. in 2021, there were nearly 6000 deaths related to fentanyl overdoses. the san francisco county experienced 435 opioid-related deaths. alameda county saw 233 and santa clara county 154. the department of public health saying synthetic opioid overdose deaths may be largely related to fentanyl. they would link and then punishments for these crimes.

narcan is available in public school district, and in san francisco, governor gavin newsom called and the chp and california national guard to work with local far -- law enforcement to combat the crisis, albeit with mixed reaction. the goal is to get it out to the community and beyond pure >> have narcan on you. you never know when you will be in a situation where you have a stranger in a life and death situation circumstance, and you are the answer to saving their lives. zach: and santa clara county, zach fuentes, abc 7 news. ama: there were calls for her to resign due to her extended absence, but now nearly after three let's wait covering from shingles, senior senator dianne feinstein is ready to get back to work. dan: plus, a verdict in t di

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dan: in the east bay, the martinez police are investigating a mercury spill that forced an amtrak station to investigators are trying to determine how the spill ended up in the gutter outside the amtrak station. crews were cleaning up the spill until 3:00 this morning and returns today to do for the cleanup and try to figure out the contamination. amtrak passengers were forced to get off at a nearby station. the contra costa health apartment has this message for anyone who may have stepped in that substance or come into contact with it. >> if you do see visible contamination, just slowly and safely remove shoes and clothing, place those in a bag, and then seal it, place it in another bag, seal that bag, so

double bag it, and then place the back outside. once you do that, contract the contra costa county health apartment on hazardous materials. dan: authorities are still advising people to stay away from that area until further notice due to health concerns of people breathing in mercury that has evaporated into the air. it is nothing full around with, obviously. ama: definitely not. have we switched over to shorts yet? [laughter] dan: we are still in that transition every period, right, sandhya? sandhya: i have to tell you, i'm really getting tired of people complaining about this weather. we will take the temperatures up in a big way later this week. i'm all kidding, of course. let me show you live doppler 7 right now. first, let's talk about this happening right now. we do have some thunderstorms that have fired up to our south east and to our east over the sierra, northern california. those thunderstorms are being triggered by an upper level low. that trough is what has been

responsible for keeping us cooler than average. another one came through. when you have a low brother -- low-pressure system dominating the weather, the slow is going toward southern california. one tickets on out of here over the next couple of days, we are going to move on over to a change in our weather. right now, the onshore winds are gusting to about 32 at sfo, 26 and san jose, 29 in oakland. . as we go hour-by-hour, 6:00 tonight, it is going to be breezy. tomorrow morning, still breezy. even though the winds will let up, they will only pick up again tomorrow afternoon and evening. that will prevent us from getting warm tomorrow. from our santa cruz camera, you can see it as a bouncy view, choppy waters out there. 59 san francisco, 60 seven san jose, mountain view 64 degrees. most areas, the temperatures did come up a few degrees. seeing some blue skies from our exploratorium camera right now. mid-60's novato, napa, fairfield

one of our warmer spots, and livermore at 64 degrees. you want sunshine? you will get it later this week, just in time for mother's day weekend. gusty winds this evening, areas of morning fog. a bit warm up by the end of the week. we are talking warm to hot weather for most of the mother's day weekend. as we go hour-by-hour come of the winds are going to stall out some of these clouds tonight, but by tomorrow morning, as the winds ease a bit, the reestablish himself between 5:00 at 8:00 a.m. we will see sunshine tomorrow afternoon. watch out for the fog. your afternoon high in the upper 50's to low 70's. those numbers coming down a few degrees, and it will be breezy along the coast. by friday, temperatures will go up to the 80's inland. saturday, we are talking summerlike come in the 90's. for mother's day, we will hang onto the warmth inland, 60's coastline -- co-side.

rain stays well to our north all the way to the weekend, but by sunday, we could see another low coming back from land bringing some snow, snow showers, showers to the sierra. we are talking the potential for a few showers here. stay tuned. accuweather 7-day forecast, a minor dip in temperatures tomorrow, they rebound on thursday, and then you will really feel that heat as we go to the 90's mother's day weekend inland. don't worry. we have all the micro -- microclimates, moms can go to the coast. you can enjoy your time they are milder come in the 60's. ama: unless they like it hot. sandhya: that's true! some moms do like it hot. ama: thanks, sandhya. reportedly struck a new deal to help finance a home stadium for the team in los vegas -- in las vegas. they have an agreement in place for the team to build a $1.5 billion stadium on a portion of the tropicana las vegas site. this is a different site and

deal than what was announced last month, keep in mind. this new deal would reportedly reduce the amount of public financing needed by the team to build this new ballpark. the newspaper reports bal will demolish tropicana and build a retractable roof stadium on nine acres near the southern end of the las vegas strip. ama: joe cap has died. he was the quarterback on the last berkeley team to appear in the rose bowl in january of 195930 help to get the minnesota vikings to the super bowl. that famous berkeley win in 1982 against stanford. the hall of famer fault i summer's -- thought alzheimer's and dementia -- fought alzheimer's and dementi

that's why i take osteo bi-flex every day. it's clinically shown to improve joint comfort in 7 days, and continues to improve over time. kinda like us. osteo bi-flex. because i'm made to move. dan: a quick reminder, get our live newscasts, breaking news, weather, and more with our abc 7 bay area streaming app, on apple tv, google tv, fire tv, and roku. just search abc 7 bay area and download it. ama: dave chapelle is coming

back to san francisco for a last-minute show. he will take on the masonic auditorium this thursday. he has a show tonight at the punchline comedy club. chapelle is no stranger to the city could he performed at chase center lassa timber with fellow comedian chris rock. he also produced a yet unreleased documentary at the chase center. tickets are on sale now. alright, we have plenty more head on abc 7. dan: let's go to abc 7 news anchor karina nova for a look at the stories coming up at 5:30. karina: tonight we will dig into the oakland ransomware attack now that the fbi is no longer in negotiations with the ransomware group. our i team reporter stephanie sierra joins me with details on what happens now to people's informion on the dark web. plus, sports director larry beil joins us and an in-depth analysis of the warriors going into a much -- must win game

against the lakers tomorrow. join us for those stories and more at 5:30 on abc 7 bay area streaming tv. dan: thanks so much. ama: download the abc 7 app or head to abc7news.com to join karina in minutes. dan: watching us on tv, world news is next. for sandhya patel and all of us, we appreciate your time. i'm dan ashley. ama: i'm ama daetz. we will see you again at 6:00.

>> david: tonight former president trump found liable for sexual abuse and defamation, ordered to pay 5 million. also breaking, the new york congressman just charged by the justice department. president biden speaking moments ago on the debt ceiling