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we reported last night, they told us the decision was made before the lease ends in september following what they describe as a comprehensive review of local business conditions. we've seen a lot of businesses struggling in downtown san francisco. what about other parts of the city? karina: we examine sales tax collections data across the city and found much of san francisco has rebounded and is thriving. larry: some parts of the city are doing better than others. reporter: empty storefronts in union square. westfield mall owners, giving up their lease. cinemark, closing its doors permanently inside the westfield. district 6, downtown san francisco, soma, and mission bay still he not recovered from the pandemic producing around $7 million less than in 2019. it is a similar story in district three. for union square, chinatown, and
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fisherman's wharf. but in district two, sales tax is now generating more than they did before the pandemic. >> the more foot traffic, the more people are coming out, we are moving in the right direction. reporter: the manager of taco bar and pacific heights believes his neighborhood's overall safety and street cleanliness may have something to do with it. >> people want to feel secure, safe. then continue to do our job. like good servers. good quality of food. and maintain our streets clean. doing our part. >> our neighborhoods are doing much better than the rest of the city. reporter: the owner of troya restaurant says his second location in soma did not survive the pandemic, but this one did. >> i feel grateful that i'm here. reporter: he credits the neighborhood's feeling of safety along with fewer vacant storefronts for bringing customers back. >> creating a safe environment
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for people to come in. that it -- that should be the number one priority for cities. if you want people to come into the city and bring your family and kids to the city, they are not going to come unless they feel safe. larry: seeking to speed up filling vacant commercial businesses, san francisco's board of supervisors approved legislation to relax zoning restrictions. they will make it easier to convert buildings that are currently designated for commercial use. here's what one of the bill's backers told us today on "getting answers." >> historically, we had multi-floor retail destinations like fao schwartz and we do not allow for the convergence of upper stories to office and production and distribution and repair. the world that we live in now calls for these kinds of changes. as well as to inject residential into our downtown core that
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historically has had little if any residential. larry:larry: the new legislation will make it easier to provide entertainment, giving stores and restaurantss more options. karina: a failed high-voltage power cable caused a power outage last night at san francisco international airport. it went dark around 9 p.m., forcing operations to shut down for about an hour. ticketing systems stopped working, baggage claim froze and passengers were stuck on their planes. an airport spokesperson says the faulty powerline is not a piece of pg&e equipment. that outage past -- that outage lasted about an hour. larry: police are searching f a shooter, this happeneround 9 p.m. last night at the saint moritz gardens apartments along washington avenue. amanda del pous-tio has the details. reporter: outside the apartments, bullet holes and blood remain. evidence of last night's deadly
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shooting that killed a 16-year-old boy and left a 17-year-old with injuries. >> i need units for a shooting in front of washington with a victim on the ground. reporter: one is believed to have fired shots around 9 p.m. with another teen outside the complex. >> we have two victims. reporter: by this morning, many neighbors were only learning about the shooting. they described being familiar with a group of young teens who would often hang out in front of the apartment building. the short distance from this sign. committing the community to the san leandro crime free multi-housing program, aiming to keep illegal activity out of the rental property. police have not released any details on a motive in the case. we have reached back out to the department, as well as city officials, but have not yet heard back.
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karina: thank you. still no date for trial in the case of the man accused of attacking nancy pelosi's husband in their san francisco home. he appeared in in san francisco. he faces a federal trial in october. the next hearing on state charges will happen september 13th. a trial date on state charges has not been set. larry: the a's owners funding for a new ballpark is slowly, and women slowly working its way through the nevada legislature. it made it out of the senate yesterday after some amendments. but now it has landed in the assembly and they are making even more changes. if the assembly approves the bill in its amended form, it will head back to the senate which needs to approve those changes. confusing? yes, very, but this is the political process.
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they go back and forth. assuming some agreement, they would need the nevada governor's approval. that seems to be kind of a formality. the a's would then need the green light from mlb to move to cincinnati. the reverse helped improve transit numbers. ridership was the second highest since the start of the pandemic. nearly 190,000 rides. 7% of yesterday's ridership. karina: happening now, the oakland city council is discussing amendments to the proposed city budget. earlier today our rally was held to demand city council not make cuts to the department of violence prevention or arts and culture. larry: abc7 was at today's rally. reporter: the safest communities do not have the most police. they have the most resources. reporter: at a rally in front of oakland city hall community groups demanded no cuts to steady funding for many programs. >> we need a living --
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we need living wage jobs. we need safe and affordable housing. when it violence prevention. reporter: oakland faces a historic deficit. that means cuts across the board including to the department of violence prevention. that department funds local community groups like cury. part of their work is helping those coming out of prison and what they call violence interrupters. >> oakland, born and raised in oakland, people who have transformed their lives and are trying to do something positive for the community. these are the kinds of folks who are going to be laid off. reporter: many of these groups are critical of the close to $40 million increase in funding for the oakland police department. >> i want to be critical of language but when we say defund does not mean that we don't need policing, we need better accountability of those
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policemen and we need better funding and more funding for those community-led approaches to how we engage our public. reporter: the oakland city council president has put forth amendments to the proposed budget. she supports a mark on brands of approach to community safety. at wednesday's budget she is proposing to increase funding for violence prevention by more than $2 million. >> find some additional revenue and make additional expenditure reductions so we can continue to move forward, alternative crisis response, sevillian -- civilianizin police department and intervention. >> and affordable city is a safe city. a livable city is a safe city. investing in oakland is public safety. larry: san jose's
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says the budget passed by the city council is a step in the right direction but feels it's not bold enough. he says he's pleased with the investments the councilmembers made but says it will make the city safer as well as fight blight and homelessness. >> we moved $27 million into new, faster solutions, interim housing, our quick build communities, and the safe parking sites we so desperately need to meet the urgent crisis on our streets today. larry: he expressed disappointment the city council were adjusted his proposal -- rejected his proposal to spend $50 million on tackling homelessnessm which he calls an emergency situation. karina: it housing developer,giving money back to some tenants as part of a settlement with the state. the state attorney general says it's the first time california's taken public action for a violation of the tenant protection act. >>
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a law and the governor signs are, it is the law. it's not a suggestion. it's not a recommendation. it's not and if you want to. it's a must. karina: swenson green valley corporation, is the housing developer, the company was accused of raising the rent of 20 employee attendance by more than 150% and wrongly evicting six others. they agreed to pay and attends regular rental lot training. swenson builders told abc7 news that has no comments on the settlement. larry: coming up, the bay area beaches with the failing rate when it comes to cleanliness. changing guidelines. why you don't need to worry about your bmi anymore. and how ai could revolutionize education. or, destroy humanity, one of the other. very different possibilities. meteorologist: don't say that! [laughter] our skies are getting
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at a program that's developed a new chatbot tutor and how it can revolutionize education. reporter: how do students solve school's toughest problems? they can search for an answer in a book or maybe even ask a teacher. at bay area-based education khan academy and labs, they are solving this themselves with an artificially intelligent tutor. >> my first step would be to use this. reporter: say hello to the chatbot an extension of a teacher. offering personalized and immediate educational help for any student. >> we've always been thinking about how to make education more personalized and how to arm teachers with more information to make their lives easier as well and make students more engaged in their learning and ai and this chatbot has just accelerated that. reporter: it has knowledge on a variety of subjects in many languages and different grade levels.
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>> i will choose to learn about evolution and natural selection. reporter: the chatbot will quiz students on the given subject matter or answer questions about the topic. you can even have conversations with characters like ben franklin or winnie the pooh to learn in different ways. the goal? guiding students towards learning and not doing the work for them. >> it wants to try to walk you through how you would solve a similar type of problem so you can later go back to that problem and use the techniques that you just saw and test it yourself and see if you can apply those. reporter: khan believes artificial intelligence could be the next evolution of learning. >> how can this be the next step of education as we know it? >> some of what we are already doing, i would've thought was a science fiction a year ago and i wouldn't have thought would happen in my lifetime. that's literally happening in real classrooms already and it'll happen for tens if not hundreds of thousands of
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students in this coming year. larry: kids across the u.s. gave their schools and overall grade of b-. gallup and the walton family foundation asked fifth through 12th graders, who assessed their school's quality in several categories including teaching, preparing them for the future and mental health support,. two thirds of the students rated their school overall an a or b, pretty good. nearly a quarter gave a c, 10%. -- 10%, a d or f they received the best grades for safety and respect. karina: the city of san jose celebrated the grand opening of a new housing development for young people who are aging out of the foster system, as well as families and seniors. city leaders and community partners held a special ribbon cutting ceremony today for a development in san jose, me terrace, with 46 units, half of
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them reserved for former foster kids. the mayor said the city is trying to go beyond quickfix solutions to homelessness. >> projects like this are the long-term solution. this is both how we stem and reduce the flow of people into homelessness. karina: this development is funded by measure a, a housing measure passed by santa clara county voters in 2016. larry: this year's wet winter took a toll on beaches across california. the beach report card shows only 56% of california beaches had good or excellent grades during the wet weather. that is worse than average. a total of five bay area beaches made the group's beach bummer list. all of tm san mateo county. here they are.
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of fecal bacterial pollution. san mateo county's beanollostate beach made the organization's honor roll which consisted of only two beaches. that is down from 51 last year. when it rains, you get all the sediments and flooding and creates all problems for beaches -- all kinds of problems for beaches. karina: let's say what the weather's like for the beach this coming weekend. meteorologist: we've got no rain in sight for the next seven days or so. here's a look at what's going on right now. you can see a big ridge of high pressure building out to sea, the dominant influence on our weather for the next several days, bringing us mainly sunny skies, pushing a wave of high clouds, giving us a bit of a brisk on shore when flow -- windflow. we've got 29 mph winds in san francisco. gusts over oakland. pretty breezy all around. we are in a warmer
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thankfully, as we move into these final days of spring. here's a view from mount tam. 62 degrees here in san francisco. 64 oakland. low to mid 70's from mountain view, san jose, palo alto, 59 at half moon bay. you can get a nice view of the low clouds stacking up near the coastline right now. 71 santa rosa, 72 no votto, 69 napa, 81 fairfield, 80 livermore, 79 concord. here's the view from the rooftop camera looking at some blue sky. these are the forecast headlines. mild, sunny days ahead as we move into the weekend. turning gusty and cooler on sunday. which is father's day. we can expect minor warming again as a summer begin -- as a begin next wednesday. we will see a few patches of low clouds near some coastal regions
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but generally clear skies as we start the day tomorrow. sunny skies throughout the day. overnight low temperatures will be in the mid-50's and high temperatures tomorrow, low 60's at the coast, low to mid 70's around the bay shoreline, mid 80's and the warmest inland spots. the maximum temperature trend for the next several days shows the warmth holding on in the inland areas friday and saturday. but on sunday, temperatures are going to tumble both near the bay and inland by about 8-10 degrees with the cold and i was telling you about. the father's day cooldown. here's the seven day forecast. nice and seasonably warm weather. that's the n sunday, father's cooler weather. so pleasant. mainly sunny skies. no rain expected with the cooldown. breezy and cool again monday, juneteenth. tuesday and next wednesday, the first day of summer, it starts to warm up again. i guess that is appropriate.
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we will hope for a little bit of a warm up. larry: a little social on saturday -- sizzle on saturday. meteorologist: i like sizzle. larry: with your state. meteorologist: or salmon. -- steak. meteorologist: or salmon. larry: it's time to move on. [laughter] karina: not to a postcard like image from mars taken by the curiosity rover. the mosaic was captured over several hours back in april. it shows how different the landscape looks at two different times of day. the color was added in postprocessing by a teamt nasa. the bullet signifies the morning while the yellow light indicat the afternoon. larry: pretty incredible. coming up -- the changes coming to drag story hour in the east bay and how they are making everybody feel a little bit more safe. karina: andy bay -- and rhe
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support them this pride month. reporter: these pictures by our media partners show protesters outside a drag story hour outside the library this weekend. last year at the same location, a drag queen with a story hour was reading to children when a group believed to be with the proud boys yelled transphobia count homophobic insults. -- transphobic and insults. they say this year was peaceful compared to last year. there were also supporters of the controversial children's storytelling event there, too. he tells me he is in san francisco this month implementing their new shields of safety marshall system. tracking nearly 500 anti-lgbtq bills in the u.s., many targeting drug performers. >> we are implementing volunteer de-escalation marshals to come into our event. like escorts at planned
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parenthood to and from the facility, we will be taking performers to one from the places outside and inside keeping eyes on our events. we are doing active shooter drill training and de-escalation practices. reporter: he tells me they will recruit and train what they are calling their royal guard or volunteers to provide support and shield at the readings and respond to threats. creating a framework for chapters across the country to implement this starting with the states most impacted by antidrug violence. you can help support drag performers this month, a virtual tip jar allows you to donate the >> performers and organizations have on their bios on social media. langtry donated $25,000 to drag story hour which started right here in san francisco. rina: the s pride parade is almost here. abc7proud sponsor.
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you can live right here on abc7 and our abc7 bay area streaming tv app. larry: coming up, a special graduation with not your usual students and the diploma may be more meaningful for them. karina: and some potential good news for the economy. the month-long streak now over. larry: and the changing roles about obesity. why your body mass
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rate hikes over the last 15 months is over. at least for now. the fed kept its benchmark rate at 5.1% now that inflation has fallen indefinitely from its peak last summer. today on "midday daniel altman explains what today's move means for consumers. >> interest rates had never gone up so quickly and steeply in such amount of time. this pause is going to mean that everybody who is suffering from higher rates on credit cards, mortgages is going to get a little bit of breathing room. karina: the important work pause, that is because the fed -- word is pause, that is because the fed may raise rates twice more this year. this led to mixed results in the market today. the dow jones falling
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larry: the american medical association is taking a step away from using body mass index or bmi as a measure of health. they want doctors to focus less on bmi but not necessarily get rid of the tool entirely. abc7 news, with the update. reporter: doctors are being urged to deemphasize their use in assessing health and obesity of patients, saying the measurement has been used for racist exclusion and caused historical harm. the main concerns found with bmi is it does not account for body composition, muscle mass, racial differences and genetics. the recommendation comes after a report recognized issues of racist exclusion because bmi is based primarily on data collected from previous generations of non-hispanic white populations. >> bmi should be -- should not be used as a stand-alone measure for health.
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unfortunately body has been used as an easy standard to say, oh, weight is the cause of chronic disease. reporter: he adds while weight although associated to chronic disease does not necessarily because it. >> that to poor quality care, specifically to black women who typically have high levels -- higher levels of bmi compared to the rest of the population. reporter: they measuring other factors among cholesterol and blood pressure which paints a better picture of a patient's health. larry: joining me more to talk more about this is dr. patel. good to see you in the studio again. how much do doctors really use this as a tool? >> in general, this is by a lot of doctors all over the world as a very broad measurement of obesity. whether or not you were other
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-- you are overweight or underweight. this is not exactly a new red flag. doctors for years have known this is not an accurate way to measure somebody's health in general. because we know your body fats can really differ based on sex, gender, body comp position -- body composition and individual factors. larry: body fat, different to bmi, seems like a much more accurate test as to whether you are really in shape. >> this message is instead of focusing just on bmi, we need to look at other things like your body composition, waist circumference, where your body fat is. individual level. people need to stop focusing just on a number and focus more on your overall health. larry: i did know math was going to be involved today. [laughter] obviously this has
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talked about for a long time in terms of changing it. it really comes down to, is there a standard method to evaluate obesity? because it is a huge problem in this country. >> you can generally say this big group of people may be overweight, underweight, or obese. on an individual level, you can have someone like yourself with a high bmi but still be very healthy. on the other hand someone could have a low bmi but still be unhealthy. people should not just be following their weight and look more at your total health. larry: thank you for the compliment. payment will be forthcoming after the newscast. [laughter] i always thought doing sports -- like the denver broncos, the whole team would be considered obese if you were to check their bmi because they are so muscular. especially offensive linemen
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and offensive lineman. the whole thing seems to be out of whack. it makes no sense at all. >> that's a great example of how this can be disruptive. we have fat on somebody's legs. has a low bmi, insurance companies may say this person has an eating disorder but you can have a higher bmi and still have problems with eating and insurance companies say the bmi is fine when that person might be at risk. larry: the location of your could determine your overall health? >> it could be one factor. this is another thing that we talk about with body composition. that bmi does not account for. if you have come from asian descent, black, hispanic, we have different body types and heights. but we are all using the same bmi scale. this is why is not accurate
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solely as a measurement, just use apart -- uses as a part of a broader category. larry: what would you look at to determine overall fitness? >> i would say let me look your bmi, your lifestyle, your diet, your genetics, i want to know about if you are eating -- other risk factors as well, a physical exam, look at your resting heart rate, where your body fat is, to a waste/hip circumference -- waist/hip circumference. larry: all those are meaningful. it's important to check. >> this is where we need to talk about access as well. larry: that's another conversation. >> that is a ted talk. [laughter] larry: i will sign on for that. dr. patel, everybody. karina: is ai going to be the destroyer of the world? we will tell you who thinks so. and a blast from the past, bu
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larry: time for the four at 4:00 . is ai going to bring about the end of the world? we talk about this all the time. count the days down. [laughter] 42% of ceo's and the ceo says ai has the potential to destroy humanity in the next decade. while there are differences of the level of danger nearly 60% say that danger is not being
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overstated. dan? what do you make of this? >> i've been reading a lot about this. we joke about this as well. it clearly poses an existential threat if not managed/regulated correctly. it could spiral into unintended consequences. people could use it for nefarious purposes. >> 10 years? that's a very short time horizon to have the end of humanity coming because of ai. but clearly there are serious issues to be addressed here and it is moving really quickly, chatgpt, which are started talking about it a few months ago. it is happening quickly. karina: so many are using it quickly. even the godfather of ai is warning about this, jeffrey henton. a recent santa clara university graduate heading to work at spacex just got kicked off linkedin for one reason -- he's 14.
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we entered this -- we introduced him to you last week. the job networking platform deleted his account because he didn't meet the minimum age criteria which is 16. what do you think about that? >> good for him for achieving what he's achieved at 14. i don't think we should set those rigid age requirements for things like that. some people are more -- mature than others? larry: he's clearly the outlier. linkedin is not like instagram -- i think the real revenge will come in a couple of years. he's clearly a genius -- when he owns linton. -- >> they can still ground him at spacex. [laughter]
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larry: now to a marin county resident who caught a bear on camer in her yard. this is how i walk in, gingerly like that. [laughter] the resident tells abc7 news the whole thing unfolded while she was seen to her daughter while she was having a nightmare believe it or not about bears. are no bears and there is no big animals like that around here and she doesn't have to be worried about it, and my phone dings, and i look at my camera, and there was a bear -- and i couldn't even understand what was happening. >> wow. >> is this a dream or is it real? that is a real bear. fortunately the bear has not been seen since being captured on video. seems like we are seeing more and more animal/human encounters. >> as the climate changes,
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animal migration changes, animals that have generally not been seen in residential areas, where people are now venturing into, i don't know where it's all leading. >> remember how much -- the increase we saw during the pandemic. in cities and neighborhoods where people were out and about and animals became more courageous. karina: let's talk about this. remember those old hungry man tv dinners? [laughter] now there a new twist just in time for father's day. life raft treats has rolle what looks like a savory dinner but all the dishes are ice cream. that chicken drumstick is crispy coated ice cream wrapped around a chocolate cookie bone. the mashed potatoes are peanut butter ice cream with a brown butter blondie and caramel sauce. not sure about the pea.
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-- the peas and the mac & cheese. larry: it looks too much like the real dinner as opposed to the ice cream. i'm not sure. >> i'd try it. i love ice cream. >> i used to love those hungry man tv dinners. they were so good. >> that was a staple for so many. your mom is not home. what are you going to do? throw in a hungry man to. spencer wouldn't do that. [laughter] >> with 12% body fat. >> i thought it was 11%. >> dan, see you at the boss' office. [laughter] strength in numbers. >> he's got the bear spray
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larry: glenn police have been pursuing -- oakland police have been pursuing an suv. it is the silver vehicle. they have been chasing this vehicle for about 25 minutes now. sky7 is live overhead. karina: our assignment desk editor has been following this since it happened. it looks pretty dangerous now that the suv is on city streets. can you tell us more about who might be on that vehicle -- in that vehicle and what might be going on? >> this seems to be a carjacking vehicle. it exited at 20 9th avenue.
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-- at i'm listening to the police dispatch as we go here. this suspect is driving through the streets of east oakland. it was driving northbound on 880. he exited here on city streets. for a time, he's been going against traffic. the wrong way. he's been mostly on city streets. he's back on city streets now. he exited the freeway. his westbound on east 12 in oakland right now. karina: do we know why police are chasing -- larry: it's a carjacking. karina: any other details? >> sky7 a little bit was zooming in on a driver and you will see him zooming back and forth, not sure what that is all about. really dangerous, larry: extremely dangerous. one other thing to look at
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is typically police don't want to press up too closely because it gets even more dangerous and you can cause the driver to make erratic moves. we do not see, outside of a police helicopter overhead along with sky7, and a presence here, how far back have they been following? >> at a distance. this vehicle is being follo very closely by the police helicopter. but the ground units have distance. they are back quite a ways and the chopper is directing the ground units to where the chase is right now. now it looks like large group of people -- like a large group of people. really dangerous, yeah. larry: police are most concerned about the safety of everybody involved. >> he almost had that car. -- hit that car.
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larry: a little more clearance there as he got to that intersection. karina: do we know which police departments are involved? larry: that was a spike strip. they were trying to throw a spike strip underneath the vehicle. it didn't work, though. maybe it did. karina: looks like the driver side tire is deflating. >> you are right. the spike strip did take. it is larry: we have seen this happen time and time again. look out. karina: now they are jumping out. larry: we know there was a driver and a passenger. the driver is running rather quickly. we don't even know if the passenger -- they could have
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just been in the car when the car was carjacked. they may have nothing to do with this person. he started running up the block. now running back toward the intersection. karina: there we go. we see the police car. the police door just opened. trying to get to that gentleman in the gray shirt. larry: the chase ends right there. you can't really see because they are underneath a tree. we lost the signal for a second. looks like this chase has come to a conclusion in oakland. the suspect essentially gave himself up, when realizing police had him surrounded. there you see his legs. probably a 30 minute chase overall? >> yeah. about a 30 minute chase that started in east oakland. you can see where it ended up again in east oakland. karina: we don't the other person that jumped out of the vehicle anywhere around there.
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but there you see the suspect, multiple police vehicles now. it looks like they have handcuffed the person that was in the vehicle that was driving. larry: the one thing we didn't see -- you can see more police vehicles closing in. we didn't see any weapon at the scene. who knows -- it could be still on the car. -- in the car. on his body. we will have more details as police give them to us. we will have those coming up at 5 p.m. karina: we'll be right back. ( ♪ ) ( ♪ ) ( ♪ ) ( ♪ ) ( ♪ ) ( ♪ ) visit your local volvo retailer to explore electrified vehicles during the summer safely
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larry: coming up tonight at 8 p.m., judge steve harvey followed by back episodes of the wonder years and then superstar aaliyah and then don't miss abc7 news at 11 p.m. these are not your usual graduates. inmates at san francisco's county jail got their ge diplomas today. our senior education reporter 's live in the newsroom with the story. reporter: almost half of the people bumped into the san francisco county jail lack a high school diploma. this is not a program to obtain a ged, those incarcerated people go through the process of earning a high school diploma and a second chance. ♪ there were feelings of excitement and anticipation on this graduation day. >> today's the first time that i
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will be graduating from anything in my life. reporter: daniel franco was one of 16 men who received a high school diploma. this was no ordinary graduation ceremony. >> my education is my my education is my life. my education is my freedom. once again. reporter: the program was started by the san francisco sheriff's department in 2003. 20 years ago. the first charter school in the nation inside a county jail. more than 4000 incarcerated people from san francisco county alone have graduated from this program called five keys. it's been so successful, it is now in 25 other county jails statewide. >> we've demonstrated a person who graduates from five keys has over 50% less likelihood of returning to jail. reporter: franco dropped out of high school his senior year. >> it is just so bizarre to me
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that i had to come to jail to do it. [laughter] if i hadn't come to jail, i wouldn't have finished my high school diploma. >> to all of us here in the jail -- all of us here in the jail want to see people succeed and we want to see nobody coming back. reporter: from here, it will continue to serve their time in jail, but now with greater chances of success. and for many, motivation to pursue college. for their families, it's a a chance to finally look toward the future. >> i can finally move onto the next chapter in my life and become that successful black man i aspire to be. thank you. [applause] reporter: his mother and wife, cheering him on. >> take your tassels. move them to the left. reporter: one of the people receiving their diploma quoted nelson mandela today, who said, "it always seems impossible until it is done." larry: thank you. great to see those guys getting a second chance.
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