>> building a better bay area, moving forward, finding solutions, this is abc 7 news. >> i guess the police were taking the chart from that way, and then he crashed into the bus stop. dan: we're learning more about the san francisco police chase about the stolen city truck that in a deadly crash, life of one person and injuring four others. thank you for joining us. i'm dan ashley. ama: i'm ama daetz. dan: as abc 7 news curry explains, it started a mile and a half away when -- when police responded to reports of a carjacking. ryan: two cars crash and debris everywhere. someone carjacked a city employee. >> during the carjacking, a

physical struggle did occur, and this suspect fled from the scene of that carjacking, and this is where we are now. ryan: according to sfpd, the carjacking happened at folsom and matheny streets. the police chief -- polices chase started and ended at a bus stop. a driver and some pedestrians were injured. one person died. >> a bunch of people were waiting for the bus, a normal day, getting to where they were going, and someone did not make it. ryan: hector martinez was inside his barbershop when it happened. >> we were inside working and we heard a really loud boom. we came outside, and that is what you see here, a bunch of chaos. ryan: police said they were able to keep the taste going due to the nature of the crime. that is despite the department's

policy against engaging and chases for nonviolent crimes. >> we are authorized to pursue a vehicle that was involved in a violent crime, and a carjacking, which is a robbery, is considered a violent chrome -- crime. ryan: martinez said he saw first responders giving aid to one man and believes that is the person who died. >> we seen one guy who appeared to not make it, seemed lifeless, and they could not resuscitate him. they tried, worked on him for some time, but that is how it works. -- that is how it went. ryan: in san francisco, ryan curry, abc 7 news. ama: tackling major issues involving san francisco, including crime and housing. about 70% of residents quality of life in the city has declined. mayor london breed said one way the city is trying to improve is by filling the 500 officer

shortage in the police department. mayor breed: we have a plan to reverse course and get our city back to full staffing. to fill those academy we are making san francisco the highest-paid -- highest starting pay police salary of any in the bay area. ama: 91% of san francisco residents say a thriving downtown core is key to the economy. abc 7's karina live to the chamber of commerce talking about improving the city coming up in the streaming newscast. dan: a board of supervisors meeting to end dress -- address san francisco's open air crisis is happening right now. it started outside at the u.n. plaza this afternoon for the outdoor portion of the meeting ended abruptly after attendees continue to heckle city officials.

aaron peskin says it is needed to shut down the open-air drug sites within 90 days. san francisco mayor london breed is time for change. mayor breed: we want to give people help, but we will not allow things to occur as they have been, so here is the opportunity -- are we going to collaborate and work toward solutions? are we going to let the same old thing happen over and over? dan: san francisco officials are working to adopt a pilot program to respond to the drug crisis. an individual is facing criminal charges for throwing a break during today's meeting that nearly hit a child. ama: business owners in oakland are fed up with repeated violence and are now calling on officials to make the city safer. abc 7 news reporter lena howland has more. lena: residence in the fruitvale

village said there have been shootings and people injured. >> the shootings have happened in this area without any kind of recourse. lena: taco prado says the city is aware of issues, for a violence summit last month. >> ever since that meeting, nothing happened. lena: that is why merchants have developed a list of demand for the city, including installing more cameras, parking, street changes, and adding more to the area. >> people do not care who is walking by, who is driving. you can't go to sleep comfortable. i cannot travel anywhere. i'm afraid of how itle: this mad

windows broken and is stores seven times now, not to mention an atm ripped from the wall month ago. >> i'm really thinking hard about shutting the business down. i cannot put my self and my kids at risk every day because of these same problems. lena: the councilmember says he drafted a resolution to close these --east operators objected. >> we want equitable attention to the area. lena: there are calls for long-term investment in the area of with funds to designate fruitvale village as a latino cultural district. >> there's a lotta creativity, activity in this neighborhood, and it is being obliterated. lena: in oakland, lena howland, abc 7 news.

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action on your business. zach: participants get access to bookkeeping and accounting service, all that can help people keep from returning to jail. >> folks that come out of jail and they become their own entrepreneurs have a less likelihood of going back into the system, and that is the goal, to have less folks going back into our jails. zach: in santa clara, zach fuentes, abc 7 news. dan: coming up, remembering a san francisco i conquered we will take you live to the castro theater were hundreds of people are gathering to honor a legendary drag performer. abc 7 news at 5:00 continues. david: coming up, the 19-year-old ramming barriers outside of the white house, telling the fbi he wanted to kill the president. former president trump appearing in a courtroom for he did not appear pleased.

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ama: happening now, people are beginning to gather in san francisco's castro district to remember legendary heklina. dan: streets are closed and mun is rerouting the 24 and 35 buses around that area. ama: abc 7 news reporter tim johns as there enjoys us with the latest. hi, tim. tim: dan and ama. that is right to the street here outside the castro theater is definitely starting to pick up and get more likely to die want to show you some of what we are seeing over here. you can see the theater is just finished being constructed here. we are expecting a couple of events to happen throughout the evening. at 8:00 tonight, there will be a ticketed event inside the theater there. that is sold out already. for folks who do not have a

ticket, stuff will be happening outside as well. we have a stage you hear them starting to test the music. they have screens here for folks to check out all of these a festivities, which are going to be happening outside. we are expecting that to start around 6:00 so just under an hour or so. we have been talking to folks on the street to are starting to gather about why they are here today. a lot of people saying heklina was a revolutionary figure not just here in san francisco but across the lgbtq+ community worldwide for what she did to revolutionize drag. i want you guys to listen to some of the reasons why folks think it is so important to gather for events like this. >> what is going on in the middle part of the country right now with all of the ballot measures that are so full of hatred against the trans, drag, lgbtq community in general, i think it is important that we show unified face and that we support people like heklina, who was more than an acquaintance of mine did i'm sad that she's not

here. she knew this was a galvanizing event that would bring the community together. tim: and dan and ama, like i said, we are expecting things to kick off here in just under an hour. final touches are just underway. we will be out here all evening, bringing you the very latest. for now, i will bring it to you in the studio. ama: thank you so much. coming up, shame and self acceptance make way for a graphic novel and now b aay re area

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>> it will be difficult and dangerous. dan: starting tomorrow, the new series "american born chinese" will be available to stream on disney+. it's a story of culture, identity, and family featuring phenomenally asian and asian american cast. ama: the graphic novelist began

writing the series 17 years ago. dan: abc 7 news recently sat down with him about his transition from cartoonist to executive producer. gene: i usually draw by doing this on paper first, i will scan it into the computer and then do it on the computer. my name is gene luen yang, and i am from the san francisco bay area, and i'm a cartoonist. i started drawing when i was two, and my mom told me i never stopped, i kept drawing until today. my parents were definitely concerned about building that link, you know, between their children and the place that they left. they usually tried to strengthen that link through stories. my mom told me mostly, like, chinese myths. the monkey king, she told me lots of stories about the monkey king when i was a kid. this is toward the beginning of the book. this is the monkey king

interacting with a chinese door god. i did go through a period of time when i was embarrassed and ashamed of my own cultural heritage. i was ashamed of even the way i looked, and this panel right here kind of symbolizes my childhood desire to be white. it took five years to finish the book. at that point, i was a graduate of college, a high school teacher, and i began working this stuff out. the book is divided into three different sections the one section is about the monkey king, a figure from chinese legend. the second section is about a young chinese american boy growing up in an american neighborhood, and the third is this living embodiment of the negative asian american stereotypes i grew up with. the book is set loosely in my own childhood, so 1980's, 1990's. but the show, we made the

decision that it would be set now. >> is there a gene wang here. >> wang. >> this is a new student who is chinese like you. he will tagalong to all of your classes. except math. he's way ahead of you in math. gene: i think the core of both the book and the show are the same. it is about a kid who is struggling with self acceptance, you know, he has a piece of himself that he is very embarrassed about, and the story is about how he eventually figures out how to accept that peas and even take pride in it. >> what is going on? >> i'm not from this world. gene: there something affirming about that, you know, there something that says, you are no longer a foreigner, you are actually a part of this. our stories are worthy of being on the page and worthy of being

on the screen. ama: they really are. again, the series is available to stream on disney+ starting tomorrow. dan: disney is the parent company of abc 7 news. ama: moving onto the weather. dan: let's check in with meteorologist sandhya patel. nice out there today but, as he said, little cooler. sandhya: absolutely, dan and ama. temperatures coming down today. it is really noticeable. take a look at this live picture from our mount tam cam. you can pretty much see what is the driving force, the deeper marine layer along with the wind that has helped to take those temperatures down, up to 15 degrees cooler right now in livermore and fairfield, compared to yesterday, 16 degrees drop santa rosa, down 9 in san jose. we are definitely feeling it. the winds are gusty, 31 mile an hour in napa, where you have the onshore wind. you can feel it if you step outside. we go hour-by-hour, 6:00 tonight, 25 to 30 mile an hour

winds remain with us. still gusty at 11:00 p.m. tonight. as we head toward tomorrow morning, starts off breezy, the winds increase throughout the day, and i think tomorrow, the temperatures inland will bounce back a little bit compared to today. today so far, some of our former spots are in the low 70's. i want to show you the water vapor imagery. we are generally under this area of low pressure, this trough that is driving our weather, bringing to cooler air, providing some of the lift for the monsoon moisture triggering the thunderstorms in the northern portion of the mountains, as you will notice, and also the sierra will continue to see the potential for thunderstorms over the next several days. so if you are traveling, keep that in mind. live doppler 7, well, point reyes still chocked in. monterey, nothing disappointing or surprising, we are used to the may gray. blue skies up above, 61 in the city, 64 oakland, 70 palo alto,

76 -- 66 san jose, 70 degrees mountain view. a hazy view from our sutro tower camera as we look at san francisco pianist 70 in fairfield and livermore. let's talk about graduations. tonight, it is oakland tech high school at 6:00. it will be 64 degrees. the temperature will slowly come down as you come out of the theater, and the number will drop down to the upper 50's. congratulations to those graduates. we have another graduation on thursday, skyline high school in oakland, five :00. it will be in the low 60's. temperatures will be coming down to the upper 50' to dress in la. congratulations to all of you as well as we look. from our east bay hills camera, high clouds filtering the sunshine right now, and here is a look at the forecast headline, turning cloudy with patchy drizzle overnight, minor rebound in temperatures tomorrow, and cooler temperatures the rest of the workweek. notice the low clouds putting much spreading tomorrow morning.

. we will see some drizzle. 8:00, still with us. in the clouds pull back to the coastline and hang around well into the evening hours your morning temperatures will be in the 40's and the 50's. watch out for the drizzle. tomorrow afternoon, looking at temperatures ranging from the upper 50's cosigned to the upper 70's inland. we will see if you build up surround and could see an isolated shower or thunderstorm there. accuweather 7-day forecast, morning gray giving way to a breezy afternoon could we have drizzle, below-average, diverters blotting out -- bottoming -- below average temperatures bottoming out here we will bump up the temperatures a little bit for memorial day weekend. dan: thanks, sandhya. ama: netflix's crackdown on paps toward sharing finally made it to the u.s.

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live newscasts, breaking news, weather, and more with our abc 7 bay area streaming app, on apple tv, google tv, fire tv, and don't forget roku. just search abc 7 bay area and download it. dan: nevada officials reached a tentative funding agreement for the oakland a's new las vegas ballpark. the ball team announced it is leaving the bay area failing to secure a new ballpark here. the agreed amount will be significantly less than the $500 million the a's officials requested. money will also be needed to be approved by nevada legislature before the agreement is actually final, so there is still a ways to go. ama: another prestigious honor for steph curry to the nba announced curry is the 2023 kareem abdul-jabbar social justice champion. the honor is bestowed upon someone who advances

with groups who have been historically marginalized or disadvantaged. stepping was a champion in those efforts through his philanthropy and initiative established in his lifestyle brand. dan: we have much more news ahead. ama: let's get to abc 7 news anchor karina nova for a look at the stories coming up. karina: today, we heard from san francisco mayor london breed and other officials about challenges, changes, and solutions in the city. at 5:30, we will talk to the chamber of commerce about a recent poll on safety, quality of life, and the overall state of the city. thanks for those winter storms, you can ski this weekend in tahoe. we will check in with palisades about the conditions ahead of the big event, plus where you can ski through the fourth of july. join us for those stories and more at 5:30 on abc 7 bay area tv. dan: download the app or had been to abc7news.com to join karina in two minutes. ama: on tv, world news is next.

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>> david: tonight, the 19-year- tonight the 19 year old suspect that police say ran into barriers outside the white house charged tonight in an alleged plot to kill the president. video showing the driver in a u-haul truck ramming into those security barriers, the suspects from missouri allegedly telling the secret service he wanted to kill the president and overthrow the government. authorities say the suspect pulled out a nazi flag out of his backpack allegedly saying the nazis have a great history. pierre thomas with late reporting in washington tonight. >> the raise for the waist ron desantis set to announce he's running on twitter with elon musk. the social platform donald trump once loved. jon karl standing by with what he's learned. meantime former president trump appearing remotely in a new york city courtroom today he did not lood