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emotion. ths normal. it is human and i understand that and it's a part of the nature of the work that we do here in the da's office. what i cannot do however is base my decisions on that emotion. good evening. i'm amidates and i'm dan ashley. thanks so much for joining us tonight's top story is difficult as you heard district. attorney brooke jenkins say this is about the loss of life. it's also about our justice system and the decision not to bring charges in this case for the first time today. we're seeing what happened in those fateful moments at a san francisco walgreens on market street on the evening of april 27th, and we hearing from the security guard who fired the deadly shot against a suspected shoplifter after a struggle abc 7 news reporter melanie woodrow is in the newsroom to explain the evidence in this case melanie, dan and alma as part of the announcement the da's r comprehensive report on its website including witness statements a police interview with the security guard redacted
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police report and surveillance video today district attorney brooke jenkins encourage people to consider all of the evidence as her office has and not to view the video alone. in an unusual move the san francisco district attorney's office publicly released evidence in the shooting death of banco brown inside a walgreens last month in his interview with sfpd security guard michael earl wayne. anthony said he felt his life was in danger the whole time. we were wrestling. she's saying that she was was going to stop me. and that's what really put the fear of my heart. she walked towards the door, but then she turned around in advance back towards me. and that's what i already have my weapon drawn. and when she moved towards me, that's when i fired one shot didn't want to do that.
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why did you do that? i'll felt like i was in danger. i stabbed. i don't know what to expect after the hostility today district. attorney brooke jenkins announced anthony will not face criminal charges and at this time. there is nothing to rebut. his statements regarding the fact that he acted in self-defense. one witness previously told abc 7 news several young people were allegedly shoplifting and the security guard confronted brown jenkins encouraged residents not to look exclusively at the video but to consider all the evidence and while i understand it as a resident you would want to say well just let the jury decide that is not the standard for charging. we have to believe at the time that we charge a case that a jury of 12 would convict not let's just charge the case and see what happens. she says the release of sp to growi san fra and beyond
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san francisco supervisor, aaron peskin says he was quite troubled by the video. there's distance between them bank or brown is an armed bank of brown is outside of the store patskin says he will ask the board of supervisors to join him calling for further review. i am personally asking both california's attorney general as well as the united states department of of justice to review the evidence in this case this is not who we are stealing a bag of candy does not warrant death. jenkins says that she understands there may be an emotional reaction to what people see in that video. she also talked about how san francisco as a city is going to have to talk more now about how it deters retail theft in an ongoing conversation in the newsroom melanie woodrow abc 7 news. okay. thank you melanie and abc 7 news insider phil mature joined us on abc 7 news at five to discuss the release of the video yeah, phil talked about why the district attorney chose not to
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file charges. he's not a police officer. he's a security guard. so the standards a bit different. so you said what a person in that situation necessarily feel threatened to the point of using violence, and she said it was an open question and wasn't clear to charge. so it's a controversial decision. let's not get away from that it is and seeing the video is probably going to be controversial as well as she said it's not going to clear anything up in this case. it's the video. there's no audio of a threat no knife was found. so we're looking at those famous videos that we see all the time and making a decision only now jenkins changed it a little bit because she said i want you to look at all the evidence. she released everything. she had not just the video said let's look at the whole story. the walgreens where the shooting happened on market street closed early today shutting the doors an hour ago at 5 pm. this location is usually open until 8:00. there's been a call to protest of the store with a demonstration scheduled to start right now will keep an eye on developments and let you know
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what happens and if you'd like to know more about this story we've posted links to the police reports interview transcripts and the full surveillance video on our website. you'll find that in the main story on our homepage abc 7 news.com. you can also get there through our abc 7 bay area app which we use to send out this push alert hours ago when the charging decision was announced download the app now so you'll be among the first to know the news as it happens and an alert is how we help break the news that attentive agreement had been reached overnight to end the oakland teacher strike students were out of school for eight days and tomorrow, they will be back in the classroom for the last eight days of the school year. here's abc 7 news reporter, lena howland after seven days strike the oakland education association reached a deal with oakland unified around 3 o'clock in the morning on monday today. we reached an agreement. raise our compensation by 15% with the common good proposal already agreed upon over the
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weekend. the district says their historic compensation package for union employees over the next three years will cost around 70 million dollars district leaders say it comes with a 10% raise for all union employees retroactive to november 1st of last year and a one-time $5,000 bonus, but it also comes with investments for students like more teacher librarians counselors nurses and visual and performing arts teachers mental health is in an add-on. it is an absolute necessity but superintendent. kyla johnson tremel says to pay for it all the board may have to have some tough conversations further down the road about things such as revisiting the school consolidation plan. i would just say we all know at the end of the day the math needs to make sense, right? so those are going to have to be some hard conversations in terms of what options that the board. to have to make some decisions about board members, sam davis teher retention.ehe sch wl he wh
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and i was making teachers leave oakland because they wanted to go to another district where they could get to that top salary faster. so we shortened that and added extra amounts on the salary schedule to incentivize teachers to stay in oakland. very frustrated one day is too many but some parents like reginald mosley who crossed the picket line to drop his kids off at school all seven days of the strike says the strike could have been avoided on the heels of the pandemic and now with just eight days left in the school year. he's worried about even more learning loss. they have lost their momentum and they lost their drive. that's very important. so you have kids going in a certain direction and all of a sudden just stopped for seven days. they don't have the drive to keep going or pick up and keep going in oakland lina how land abc's 7 news the martinez amtrak station has reopened one week after mercury spill closed it down hazmat teams have finished their work cleaning up any contamination at the station. now this week the epa is taking
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over to make s mercury is removo reduce harm to the environment the health advisory will remain in effect until that work is complete in the north bay pain at the tap a huge rate increase could be approved this week for water customers in marin county where the water district is proposing raising rates by about 20% other parts of the bay area are considering smaller rating increases abc's heaven news reporter cornell bernard explains why it's happening now after a drought busting winter season. marin water customers may soon think twice about how often they turn on the tap one of the highest water rate increases in decades could be adopted this week. it means a 20% hike for the average rate payer. i think it's absolutely ludicrous. we're paying enough. everything's high inflation high. the cost of everything is going up and here we go with another bill. what's interesting to me is that we had so much rain and at this point you would think that water rates would be going down not up.
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marin water board vice president ranjeev kush admits 20% is steve and it's true record rainfall ended our trout and left reservoirs full but he says it's not enough when it comes to repairing century old infrastructure and preparing for future droughts. a lot of instability with our water supply so that requires a investments to stabilize and prepare for an uncertain future and san francisco the public utilities commission is set to vote on a roughly 8.3% yearly rate increase costing the average single-family household another 12 dollars each month on their water bill east bay mud is also looking to bump up water bills 19 cents a day starting in july bills would go up an additional 21 cents a day next year. the utility says the extra revenue would help upgrade water treatment plants replace aging pipelines rebuild neighborhood reservoirs in modernized
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wastewater facilities and more back in there's help for customers who may not be able to afford future water bills. and anybody that falls under the incompression eligible for discounts on their water rates. we also have super saver programs that that reduced rates for those of us that do very well with conservation if approve the water rate hike would take effect july first in marin county cornell bernard abc 7 news. up here next what does a move to more renewable energy mean for workers at refineries? see what it means for people who worked at the old marathon refinery in martinez and still to come seven on your side found scammers taking advantage of heartbroken owners who lost a pet. i'm meteorologist sandy patel feeling the marine influence this evening. i'll let you know when temperatures will rebound coming up when abc 7 news at 6 continues.
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renewable energy a new report from the uc berkeley labor center shows the ripple effects. it's having on fossil fuel workers the report focuses on an east bay refinery that closed during the pandemic and as abc 7 news anchor list course explains despite. hopes those refinery workers would transition to clean energy. it's easier said than done. we're driving with tracy scott. he's taking us to the marathon refinery and martinez a place. he once worked before becoming the president of united steelworkers local 5. facility for more years the refinery operated as a petroleum plant, but in 2020 it
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abruptly closed 345 of the refinery's permanent workers including scott's own daughter son and nephew were laid off people were stunned that the job that they hired into that they were told would be, you know a career that they would retire from was going away. scott says the closure signifies the broader shift to renewable energy in california as the state moves away from fossil fuels. he says those workers are being left behind. this was an opportunity to give us sight lines on the coming transition to clean energy. virginia parks is the lead author of a new report from the center that looks marathon refinery closure parks says a year after those employees lost their jobs 26% remained unemployed of those who had found new jobs many said, it came at a cost. they took a 24% wage cut. they also found themselves in
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more hazardous jobs more stressful jobs earlier this year the marathon refinery reopened as a renewable diesel plant some of the former employees have been rehired but the union says it's just a fraction of those who lost their jobs in 2020 and that for many of them three years later was simply too late. scott is hopeful lawmakers take parks's report seriously and that changes made to better support fossil fuel workers one proposal is to give refinery workers certification that allows prospective employers to better understand their skill set. he says that could help those workers better transition to jobs in clean energy. why is it not happening already? you know, i think the the cart is firmly before the horse and more cobbling together solutions. that should have been part of the plan in the beginning in martinez liz kroit's abc 7 news. i am a bit cooler today. yeah, absolutely. what does the week have in store meteorologist sandy patel is here were the forecast india. we're gonna get a one-day
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warm-up dan and alma today temperatures low 60s to low 80s right where you should be for this time of year for a change as we take a look at a live picture. you'll see why we are going to be heading in the other direction the marine layer right now is compressing. it was about 1800 feet deep, but you will notice that it's just partially over san francisco some areas running warmers some areas running cooler compared to 24 hours ago tomorrow. everyone goes up, san jose's high temperature 84 degrees. the average is 74. so you're going to run a good 10 degrees above average and then the temperatures will drop off mid-week as we head into the second half of your weekend going into early next week. they'll rise again. here's what's going to bring us the warm up. there's an area of low pressure that's spinning over the pacific. that's not what's going to bring. it's a warm up, but as it's getting closer, it's pushing up a ridge of pressure and so tomorrow we get that brief warm up until then we do have some fog near the coast. it's already starting to push across the bay and a good
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onshore breeze at sfo right now 24 miles an hour coming off that cool ocean water and transporting the marine layer as we look from our golden gate bridge camera. it is pretty much socked in across the region 60 degrees in the city 63 in oakland 70 right now in san jose 67 palo alto 57 degrees in half moon bay east bay hills camera showing you clear. eyes over mount diablo as we check out. those temperatures lows 70s from santa rosa to napa currently close to 80 there in fairfield in livermore 76 degrees in concord. so really pleasant spring weather from our san jose camera, the sun is shining over the shark tank and here's a look at the forecast headlines low clouds and fog will spread inland overnight temperatures rebounding briefly tomorrow and then cooler and breezier weather is expected for mid-week. so let's go hour by hour tonight those temperatures around 9:00 pm. the 50s 60s. you will notice the gray skies first thing in the morning temperatures beginning in the 50s, but the fog pulls back to the coast by noon.
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you're already seeing those temperatures in the 70s and 80s inland. the coast is not going to warm a whole lot, but you're going up into the upper 80s low 90s for the afternoon hours first thing out the door numbers will be in the 50s. watch out for that fog visibility will be blow especially along the coastline and around the bay as the marine layer begins to compress under the high pressure afternoon highs in the south bay. it's going to be warm 84 degrees in san jose 88 in gilroy. so warmer than today 75, san mateo lows 60s right here near the coast pacifica 61 degrees 62 daily city 69 in downtown san francisco a little breezy along the coastline north bay temperatures 84 in vallejo 82 in san rafael upper 80s, santa rosa calistoga heading into the east bay 75 oakland 81 in fremont 82 castro valley inland areas. start to feel like summer again. i know we felt it on saturday numbers will pop up into the low 90s tomorrow, fairfield pittsburgh antioch 89 degrees in
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livermore your accuweather seven-day forecast brief warm up with 90s tomorrow inland 60s coast, and then you'll notice we're out of the 90s. 90s. it's a cooler midweek pattern. temperatures will come back up towards the end of the week and into the weekend, but not major warm-up. it's just a little mini roller coaster online dan a little kiddie coaster. that's right the california department of public health has declared the month of may lyme disease awareness month. it says more important this year than ever because of the super bloom and super tall grasses housing those ticks that are looking looking for a host abc 7 news reporter leslie. explains how to protect yourself there could be an uptick in ticks along california hiking trails in the coming weeks. there are four varieties in the state. but only this one the western black-legged tick carries lyme disease the nymphs are as tiniest poppy seeds. they hang out near the ground and leaves or logs the adults climb high onto the spikes of
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tall grass that can be armpit high in places this year and they'll do something called questing which means they will hold on to the tall grass with their back legs and they will keep their front legs out in front of them so that if an animal or a person rubs against them as they're walking through the grass, they'll just let go of the grass and then they'll climb on the person starting to get itchy right now. it takes the tick up to 24 hours before it latches on which is why it's important to do a tick checking an unexpected spots like behind your ears or by elbows and knees so when you're out taking a hike anywhere near tall grass don't wear what i have on. shoes that expose my ankles on top of that don't wear shorts keep covered up and be aware ticks are around. i'm usually so hyper focused on the sun and covering all of my body from the sun that i'm not always thinking about, you know, the threat of lyme disease or ticks, but something to think
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about contra costa is one of the few counties where you can bring in a tick for official identification. i'm leslie brinkley abc 7 news. all good advice. all right. we are two weeks away from memorial day and if you're making travel plans you are not alone this year stay with us. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ you can beat it! ♪ visit youcanbeatit.org or call 833-422-4255 to ask for medication to treat covid-19.
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international airport because it's celebrating a milestone more than 70,000 travelers went through security checkpoints in a single day. not just once but twice last week, that's the highest daily number since the pandemic started in 2020. sfo is expecting a busy summer travel season, and it's already warning that parking. garages are expected to be full travelers can reserve a spot in advance aaa says memorial day weekend could be record setting and a record-second setting start to to the summer travel season. airports are expected to be packed like we haven't seen since 2005 with the number of travelers 11% higher than last year highways will be crowded as well with aaa predicting 37 million people road tripping. that's a 6% increase and gas prices are going to make it easier to travel this year at least compared to last in california gas is over a dollar cheaper now than it was a year ago. remember last may we were around six bucks a gallon around the state now, it is under five dollars big difference a new
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advantage to taking public transit bart is launching a book club. it's called one book one bart. the first book selection is a stay true by washu, which is set in the 1990s in berkeley park says the book club will include both in person and virtual events, and there's even a 20% discount at some local bookstores to buy the book. coming up next the controversy over an environmental project in san jose and its impact on the homeless. also here the plan to build a new kind of housing to help those on the streets that could make a permanent difference. we'll explain.
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moving forward finding solutions. this is abc 7 news. we're working to build a better bay area and that means working through some big issues like homelessness tonight. we're highlighting different approaches in the bay area's biggest city, san jose improvements are set to start on coyote creek. it flooded neighborhoods. just a few years ago. yeah before the work starts officials are clearing the encampment of more than 200 unhoused people abc 7 news reporter. zach fuentes. was there as the clearing god underway these flood waters in
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2017 devastated many san jose neighborhoods and put the spotlight on the need to improve local waterways. now valley water is starting a flood protection project to keep it from happening again, but up to 200 unhoused people who live along coyote creek in san jose where the work is set to start have to clear the area starting monday anyone who's still living along the work zone will be considered trespassing. it's not how we should be treating human beings. yes. we need there needs to be abatements to a certain extent. but we need to have a place for them to go and they need to be communicated. with where those places are and then help them get there as we first reported in early april valley water voted to give the city of san jose 4.8 million dollars to clear the area for the project since then advocates for the unhoused say that they have pushed the city for more insight into what the alternatives for those displaced would be but they weren't given clear answers and we asked them where's the plan?
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you're coming in three weeks, may 15th. ed ath are you going to provide tents for them? are you going to tell them where to go at a press conference pushing for the city council to approve interim housing funds san jose may or matt mahan address some of the coyote creek concerns posed by the advocates. it's the very lack of places for people to go that has me so concerned the extent that we can't offer them an alternative. it's we don't have more sites like us their fault man says his focus will be continuing to put more dollars into multiple housing solutions in the short term advocates have been working to minimize the impacts to those being displaced giving him some tense some sleep bags, and we're trying to direct them to some camps. they're not being abated and even help them get there with our trucks in san jose zach fuentes abc 7 news. tomorrow both the san jose city council and the santa clara county board of supervisors will meet to discuss two possible solutions to the homelessness
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crisis one includes turning an apartment building into affordable housing at this site along at reed street and fourth near downtown, san jose abc 7 news reporter dustin dorsey has those details this historic landmark may soon represent a future housing solution in santa clara county county supervisors will vote tuesday on whether to loan a million dollars to habitat for humanity to renovate and restore this home into permanent housing. this is a you know, really an emblematic of what it means when we come together as a community building affordable homes begins with the foundation of solid public policy. and the political will to invest in this work if approved the county will partner with habitat for humanity in a pilot program to create four condos at this home on fourth and read in downtown san jose the million dollars of measure a funds will go towards allowing low-income first-time buyers a chance to find permanent housing supervisor. cindy chavez says this pilot could expand its successful to create new affordable housing solutions in the county. we want to create pathways for people to live in our community
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and not be stuck on the street mayor matt mahan aims to move forward with a different solution tuesday more interim supportive housing and safe parking sites to get people out of encampments and into secure locations. mayhan says despite the cities continue commitment to build affordable housing in the future. he is calling on the city council to approve more funding to be used on solutions. he says have been working better for the city in the present. we literally have people dying. out on the streets we need faster more cost-effective ways to get people to safe managed environments with supportive services help stabilize them and give them an opportunity to get to a better place, but it's faster better homeless advocate pastor scott wagers admits the speed of temporary homes is a benefit, but he says many on house residents still struggle acclimating with quick build communities and don't find permanent housing. most people go into tiny homes like the ones that are built here in san jose and they leave the kind of recycle back into the streets.
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when people get into permanent housing or get housing vouchers, they stay in they stay in the atnd cit i san jose dust and dorsey abc 7 news. santa clara county has more homeless people than any other bay area county to see how the numbers have changed over the years check out this article on abc 7 news.com today the financial sector saw a rebound across the board. the materials sector was the only sector to outperform the financial sector by the way the dow jones industrial average saw nearly 48 point gain the nasdaq added 80 points and the s&p 500 gained 12 american household debt has reached an all-time high surpassing 17 trillion dollars. we're talking about debt from mortgages home equity lines of credit auto loans student loans retail credit cards, all of it a debt has grown 148 billion
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dollars or nearly one percent from the fourth quarter last year experts attribute thegr toe eases analysts anticipate credit card debt alone will pass one trillion dollars for the first time in us history president biden and the top four congressional leaders will meet again tomorrow to try to hammer out a deal over the debt limit to avoid what the treasury secretary says would be a catastrophic default the us could soon run out of money to pay its bills affecting government benefits and millions of jobs abc news reporter faith. abubay is in washington with the latest. tonight mixed messages over whether the us is any closer to avoiding a potentially devastating in a first-ever default on its deaths after days of staff level negotiations president biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy and odds over how much progress has been made towards a deal to pay the nation's bills mccarthy accusing the white house of winning a default rather than a deal. it's just there's no room the
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sources tell abc news the staff level talks h president biden 's optimistic a default will be averted. i really think there's a desire on their part as well as ours to be agreement. i think we'll be able to do the non-partisan congressional budget office warning that there's significant risk the government could run out of money to pay its bills in the first two weeks of june for the first time the president calling the meetings with republicans a negotiation after months of insisting that he will not negotiate on gop demands to tie spending cuts to raising the billing sources familiar with the talks. tell abc news that possible areas of agreement include rolling back unspent covid relief funds and reforming the permitting process for energy projects treasury secretary jenna yellen urgent congress to act quickly just the serious threat of default can lead to a downgrade of our credit rating and weakening of consumer conference confidence. we could see horizon interest
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rates drive for payments on mortgages auto loans and credit cards and president. biden has confirmed another meeting on tuesday with speaker kevin mccarthy to discuss the debt ceiling. the president is scheduled to leave for the g7 summit in japan on wednesday. and so far he says that trip is still on in washington faith. abubay abc news. it's heartbreaking when a pet goes missing, but even worse a false promise the pet has been found. i'm michael finney head on chevito on your side impostors praying on bay area pedone.
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was lost or stolen knows the heartbreak even worse a false promise that your pet has returned. yeah, but that's happening now in the bay area 7 on your side phineas here with one man's heartbreak michael. this is an especially cruel scam. i just unbelievable. someone would do this. here's what's happening imposters are claiming to be animal control staffers and they're telling owners. they've recovered a pet. next comes a demand for money. his name is squirt, and he's been missing for about two years. scott teeson has been looking for his lost dog squirt since
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2021 a half him on multiple different lost dog sites. it happened when squirt and several other dogs were inside a truck that was stolen two years ago four dogs were never found including squirt. i think about it every day wondering if he's still alive wondering if someone has them in hurting him or this is heartbreaking it. bugs me every day scott posted alerts on paul boost website listing lost animals with their photos and how to contact the owners. they send me an email saying there might be potential matches, but no luck then last week scott received a phone call out of the blue. the caller id said san francisco animal care and control. he started explaining me that someone found a dog with a flyer with my number on it. he thinks it's possibly my dog. i mean i got super excited. my heart's already racing a little bit the man on the phone said he could not send a photo of the dog because it was at the vet but the description sounded
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promising. he said he's brown. but the black nose with the white stripe on his nose. that's squirt. however, the man said scott would have to make an appointment to get the dog back and pay $79 ahead of time using cash app or a gift card, you know the cash happened. you know all that stuff that just didn't make sense scott called animal care and controlled directly and the agency is now warning. it was a scam imposters posing as animal control staff have been calling lost pet owners using a fake caller id. they claim the pet was found and the owner needs to pay ahead to claim their dog. none of it is true. it's sickening that people are out there. trying to get money off of people giving people hope that they have their animal and you know, they pay these people because they're so desperate and then they find out later that they just paid somebody and they're not gonna get their animal. animal control says it would never ask for payment ahead of time to recover your pet.
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it would certainly not demand that you use a gift card or cash app. now if someone says they're from animal control, thank them hang up and then call the agency directly. you can also check the animal control website to see if you're lost pet was recovered and is posted there. i'll post that link that you need on abc 7 news.com/7 on your side. that's also where you can go to submit story ideas despicable. thanks, michael. sure coming up. we are helping you plan for the week ahead. see san diego seven day forecast next.
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benefits. payroll. compliance. trinet. people matter. abc 7. we are highlighting six san francisco seniors who received the superintendent's 21st century award and abc 7 news senior education reporter li. mendez tells you why joshua mayorga is ready to be his best. i'm from lincoln high. my passion is art and i'm ready to be my best by doing his. best at any given time joshua mayorga is setting himself up to succeed unmasking his autism gives others the chance to
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better understand who he is once you tell them it's like oh wait. this is why i am. this is why i'm supposed to be this who i am. so like yeah, you get to open yourself more. considered by others as an excellent public speaker. joshua also expresses himself through art here. he displays how autism in the shape of a puzzle piece creates the person that he is the ink is coming out of the autistic puzzle, but it still has that shine of glow showing like autistic as bright and beautiful. so it's flowing into me, but even those flowing to me, it's still bright enough for everybody through his art. he invites people to see things differently and people say, you know, i'm not normal. i want to ask a question to you. what is normal like what is it? no one's normal. he works. whole hard, he'll go work relentlessly on something. he will email me something for feedback. he'll take in my feedback like
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all of those pieces is just it's so rewarding to teach someone who wants to be taught. his artwork has been featured hoodies and skateboards. joshua now wants to pursue a degree in art something he thought was once impossible you can do. anything you want do not let yourself tell you what not to do. don't trust your mind. don't listen to your brain because your brain is going to make it all. mix up your your heart tells you what it is. if your heart tells you what it is. then you should follow your heart because our heart will guide you what you want to be. absolutely. oh goodness. love it. great young man. all right, leanne has been reporting on bay area school issues for decades. it's why she is our senior education reporter. you can get in touch with her online on her twitter facebook and instagram, her handles are all on the screen right now, and she would be delighted to hear from you. all right feels like we waited
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decades to get some weather. welcome. a little see. i just say since you both complaining a little bit dan and all that tomorrow. we're gonna bump up those temperatures, but that warm weather and locally is fine. not so much at yosemite. here's live view from yosemite where it is sunny it is going to be in the upper 80s all week long that is going to cause warming of snow melt melting because of the warmer weather. so we do have a flood warning for the merced river at pohono bridge. it is expected to rise above flood stage close to midnight tonight to the flood warning is going for the yosemite valley area. extended period of that warm weather causing the snow melt and excessive runoff flooding of rivers creeks and streams you look at that snowpack. it has been epic 327% of average for the state as we take a look at our local concerns here. it's a fog from our mountain cam. it's there near the coast already crossing the bay on live doppler 7 tomorrow afternoon pulls back to the coast
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temperatures will rise into the 90s inland tomorrow 60s coast side, and then we're going to go down again wednesday into the mid 80s low 80s by thursday for those of you who like the cooler weather accuweather seven day forecast. we're warming it up for a day because alma and dan are complaining and then we'll jump those temperatures never a little drizzle breezy temperatures will come back up again just in time for the weekend. i was just pointing out the obvious. oh, okay that everybody else was thinking yes. all right, what in the world is going on with you? i don't know. i can't keep up anymore. larry he changes a lot from data. i'd like to point out that i was not complaining about. oh, yeah, that's the first which is kind of like a's stadium deals after spending years of negotiating in oakland. the a's are hoping to get stadium legislation passed in just over two weeks in nevada. another binding agreement announced today. what does it really mean that's
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beale. good evening. it was less than a month ago. the a's had a binding agreement to build a new stadium in las vegas. they bailed on that thing really quickly today. they announced yet another binding agreement to build at the tropicana hotel site. look slowly all baseball's coming to understand how azon or john fisher has just destroyed his own franchise heard this on
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and off the last couple of days chance of sell gone out there and created some of the fun atmosphere. they've decided to go the opposite direction now every day they bring out, all these signs and whatnot and they're they're angry. plenty of anger to go around abc 7's casey pratt leading the coverage of a's stadium issues for years now joining us live at the colosseum kc. we've seen these binding agreements come and go all over the place. what do you think is the real significance of today's announcement? i think the real significance larry is that binding doesn't necessarily mean what we think it does what it really means is they need the legislature in nevada to give them free money for the deal to actually be binding. okay, now previous stadium plans had all these grand ballpark villages with tons of retail space hotels housing you name it, but this is a small site they're now talking about is
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there room for any of that because that was supposed to drive the revenue to pay for the stadium. yeller there is room for that but not for the a's that that will go to the tropicana people the valleys people they'll get to develop their casino and the land on this site and they get to make the money on it. the a's just get nine acres to build a very tiny stadium on a piece of land. they don't even have to pay for and they're hoping the stadium will end up being publicly funded to the tune of almost 400 million dollars. so there's no ancillary development in the a's favor here. how are terminal they had 55 acres of waterfront property. they could have developed in las vegas. they get a nine acre stadium site. that is even smaller than oracle park well in 2020 hindsight if they only wanted to build online acres, they could have done that at howard terminal part of the complication. there was you're trying to build all these other things. but anyway if the new deal gets approved the a's would have to play somewhere for the next few years. i don't know that oakland would sign up for that the minor league facility in vegas has been mentioned. can you see the players
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association approving their stars playing and like hundred degree heat on a turf field in vegas? summer yeah, they have until the end of the 2024 season to play here at the oakland coliseum that lease will not be expended if they're committed to vegas, so i actually checked with shea langeliers of the a's because he just came up from the aviators playing at that ballpark trying to see what his gauge would be if they had the game's biggest stars playing on this field in vegas, and he said it is hot larry and he would rather see a place with the roof. yes, understandable. all right, casey enjoyed the game tonight and thanks as always for your insight. our warrior star steph curry has been named one of five finalists for the kareem. abdul-jabbar social justice champion award chris paul and jaren jackson jr. also among the finalists the warriors. they had hoped to be in the western conference finals right now, but it'll be the lakers and nuggets game one tomorrow in denver the lakers powered by lebron james and anthony davis ending the dubs run in a grueling six game series and
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lebron was going up against nicola yogachin company is going to be even more challenging. well, i mean as hard as you we thought level two was gonna be harder, you know this round and that doesn't take anything away from that was no. no, i've had my balance with that with that franchise. so i know how hard it is, but the both teams are you know one step away from having opportunity to play for what they started in the beginning of the year. that's the type of larry o'brien focus. that is going to be a terrific series. unfortunately, not with the warriors in it, but you know, i you know you i think people fans have really been spoiled you have four titles and nine years and everybody's like why couldn't they do with it. you don't you just don't what he does not win every single year. i mean we'd like that right and everybody loves steph and clay and then the whole group and what they've done but reality is no franchise ever. yeah just hangs on for yeah. yeah, it's i'll just we'll just win the next 10 years. yeah. good luck for the rest of you. all right tonight on abc 78. it's jeopardy masters followed
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