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melanoma, or lactose intolerance. but with kaiser permanente you can choose your doctor who works with other best-in-class specialists to care for all that is you. >> a car chase for a gray s.u.v. ended moments ago in east oakland. >> the driver ran stop light, sometimes driving on the wrong side of the row and narrowly missing pedestrians and other cars. >> the chase ended on a 2 minutes about in the -- ago in the fruitville district when police threw a spike dissage
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that s.u.v. and the driver roone into the car at an intersection. >> one person tried to run away with you police surrounded them. guns drawn and they finally sundayered. good evening, i'm ana. dan: and i'm dan ashley. in other news, balancing the bottom line in a search for sloughs to create morehouseing. ama: in san jose the mayor says the gun passed by the city council last night is a step in the right direction but isn't bold enough. mayor mahan says he's pleased with the investment the council made nap he'll fight blight and homelessness. >> hell moved -- we moved $27 million into new, faster solutions. interim housing, our quick-build communities and the safe pasching sites that we so desperately need to moment the urgent crisis of our streets
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today. dan: the mayor chez zest disappointed that the council rejected his approach to spend $50 million on tackling homelessness in san jose. ama: a new housing development ceremony today. mesa terrace will house young people who are transitionening out of the foster family along with seniors. it has 46 units and half will go to foster children. the mayor again ced says the city needs bigger strategies to target homelessness. >> programs like this are the long-term solution. that is how we reduce the flow into homelessness. ama: this is part of the affordable housing bond passed in 2016. dan: san francisco residents are expecting that budget deficit of nearly $800 impact for the next
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two years. families living in single family homes rallied today against cuts that could affect them. we took a closer look. reporter: up two flights of stairs, she takes us into her tiny unit that her family rents in san francisco's chinatown. >> there's no choice because they're low income and they don't speak english. >> as many as 40 people share a single kitchen and a single bath ram -- bathroom, through a translator who explains. >> we are low-income families and we cannot afford anything else else out there, which is so expensive. >> there are about 250 families in san francisco's chinatown that live in rows like this one.
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that's down from critical outreach programs. now those outreach programs are in danger of being cut because of the mayor's budget proposal. the their proposed a $5 million cut to the housing program helping residents deal with problems like -- >> habitability. mold, roaches, broken ceilings and stoves. things that impact the daily lives of our residents. >> the s.r.o. clap a actives have been helping residents of s.r.o.'s navigate the system for many, many years. >> s.r.o. potential nantz and community outreach workers rallied today before taking their concerns to the san francisco board of supervisor's bunt committee hearing. the theiraid "in order to deal
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with the mhallenges san francisco is facing mak significant progress on closing the doesn't deficit as well as maintaining critical services and future needs, tough choices had to be made but people lining wu are concerned and counting on support. >> if we don't have s.r.o. and the c.r. programs anymore, i don't know who to go to when we need help. >> in san francisco, abc news. ama: san francisco is relaxing i'm sorry stoning restrictions to make it easier to fill the vacancies in the downtown area. it was approved yesterday and it should help cut through some of the red tame. aaron netted that some of the restrictions have been around for decades and this will also open the door for residential space downtown. dan: the cinemark theater in westfield mall is the latest to
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announce its closure. the decision was made before the lease was up. there are no movie showings scheduled for friday or beyond. recently nordstrom, one of the anchor stores of that mall announced plans to crows and earlier this week westfield said it is vendering its lease and walking away from the downtown mall. ama: we were crunching adapta from downtown's sales tax numbers and comparing it to other parts of the city. reporter: empty storefronts in union square. westfield mall owners giving up their lease and now cinemark closing itself doors permanently inside the westfield. sales tax data show that district six still hasn't recored from the pandemic, producing around $7 million less than in 2019 and it's a similar story in district three.
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for union square, chinatown and fisherman's what i ever. but in district 2, including pacific heights and marina, their sales tax is generating more than before the pandemic. >> the more traffic is coming up. yeah, i think we're moving in the right direction. >> antonio, manager of taco bar in mask heights says he believes his overall street security an and:liness may have something to do with it. >> people want to feel safe. good quality food and maintaining our streets clean. >> while burt, owner of troya restaurant, also in pacific highlights, says he has second location in soma did not survive the pandemic but this one did. >> i feel grateful that i'm here. >> and he celts the neighborhood's feeling of safety along with fewer vacant store
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fronts for bringing customers back. >> creating a safe environment for people to come in. i think that could be the number one priority. if we want people to come into the city and bring their family, kids to the city. they're not going to come unless they feel safe. reporter: abc 7 news. dan: continuing to track the latest in the a's stadium saga. last night affects's fans packed the coliseum, drawing more fans on a random tuesday night than opening day. ama: their message was sent. casey pratt was there for all of it. how do the fans feel with the current team owner away trying to secure a deal somewhere else? >> while they were away, a's fans were here and packed that place. they had nearly 28,000 fans with a bunch more stuck trying to get
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in. the gail -- tailgate was intense, so many people there giving these sell shirts. they raised enough money to print 7,000 shirts and give them away to fans. the scene was electric. they were chanting sell the team, sell the team. the a's won their seventh straight became game. it was an amazing atmosphere but having that specter in nevada was all in the pack of their winds minds all night. dan: let's talk about what's going on in the nevada case. obviously the imminent threat that the team could go away but it's been kind of quiet in las vegas. casey: it was very quiet until right now. on my phone, i found out they're about to meet. it is red-alert time. there are more amendments, i talked to a source in nevada who said it had been quiet because
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the assembly is adding amendments. the governor of nevada is a republican. he vetoed some bills that the democrat wanted so in the senate they put those things back in inned ballpark bill. so at this point in time, the assembly is also adding amendments. they have some things they want. they might have to go back to the senate for another vote. it could be two more votes. dan: used to call that pork belly. casey: exactly. is this bill starting to get crushed under it own weight? ived adding too many things? that's the only hope for a's fans right now, that they're adding too many things to stomach. ama: i feel like you might have a little bit of home because you're. no wearing black today. casey: i wore my funeral black yesterday and everybody liked it. not today. dan: the a's are donating all open the ticket revenue from
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yesterday's game to the alameda food bank and the oakland fund. but critics are quick to point out that one of the sticking points in the nevada deliberations was the team's commitment to the community with some opponents calling it inadequate. an amend was added to force the team to commit 1.5 million to the community was the ballpark is completed. ama: and bart says more than 1 9,000 rode bart yesterday. the second highest ridership day since march of 2020, in part due to the fans who attended the a's game. but still, that number is only 46% of pre-covid ridership levels. the highest riding day was june 20th when more than 100,000 took
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the train to san francisco for the warriors' championship parade. dan: one bay area institute is ordering medical care. ama: plus, we are learning the cause of the power outage at s.f.o. >> coming up tonight, multiple tornadoes on the ground. electrical outages. in new york state, the outside worker struck by lightning, saved with
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from xfinity. dan: a failed high-voltage capable is behind san francisco's special's airport power outage last night. the outage lasted about an hour.
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terminals had to rely on emergency backup lighting and some passengers were stalled on incoming planes for several hours. the failed power was part of a nearby power line from a substation. ama: right now there are so many ethical questions about the role a.i. plays in medical care. stood stanford medicine make a big announcement about a tool they hope will address some of them. reporter: concerns rounding a.i. have grown rapidly. last month, leading figures released a power state. >> we're concerned that airport of a.i. could potentially cause human ex-tinges. >> though a.i.'s reach covers multiple fields, medical professionals are spacial concerned. >> the concerns are many but at the top of the list is our
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notion of previewcy. >> dean of the university school of medicine says they have good rules in place but they were developed long before a.i. >> for example, a simple querrey for a 40-year-old person, just traveled to africa, has a high fever. that querrey has no identifiable information in it but yet, in a large social media outlet leases' information, it's not incon she'll that a person could be affaired. >> stanford has announced a new platform for people at stanford and beyond to use providing a look into ethical standards, safeguards and more with a.i. and medicine. >> one goal of the platform of raise health is to convene people, and broadly speaking the public, to come up with a
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structured way to look at these ethical concerns. >> right now the initiative is in it infancy with no specific target date announced. all next steps will be taken with urgency as the technology continues its rapid growth. >> we have to make sure we focus on the positive and mitigate and understand the negative so that the negative doesn't get out in front of the positive. dan: a doctor facing several attempted murder charges will be blocked from practicing medicine while awaiting trial. darmesh patel is accused of deliberately driving his vehicle off a cliff in an tempt to kill his wife and family. they remarkably all survived the 250-foot plunge. prosecutors want to keep him away from patient.
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their request was approved by the judge. ama: still no federal trial date for the man accused of attacking nancy pelosi's paul, her husband, back in their home in october. the suspect faces a central trial, scheduled for october and then the hearing is scheduled for a state case. a trial date on those charges hasn't yet been set. dan: still ahead, a private beach front property get closer to becoming the peninsula's newest coastal
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jackie: community schools are so important to us. this is truly what students need. cecily: no two community schools are alike because it goes by what is happening in the community. rafael: we want this to be a one-stop shop for our families that puts parents and students first. kenny: the health and wellness center is a part of our holistic approach. terry: medical, dental, vision, and mental health services. we're addressing the students' everyday needs. kenny: what we do allows them to
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be the best version of themselves. narrator: california's community schools: reimagining public education. ama: breaking news out of nevada where the assembly minutes ago passed the bill to fund a ballpark for the a's in las vegas. the vote was 25 in favor with 15 against the bill. since the assembly made amendments, the bill has to go back to the senate for its approval. if the senate is ok with the
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changes, the bill would head to the governor. assuming all of this goes through, the a's would then need major league baseball's approval to move to las vegas. dan: so here we go. let's turn our attention to the forecast. ama: hi, sandhya. >> we have some good-looking weather as we head towards the weekend. our camera pang around. it's a little has because we have fog down below and higher clouds up above filtering the sunshine right now. this is what it looks like as we held towards summer. certainly didn't feel like it. we're a week away from summer. the numbers are coming up. it's a little bit more like what we would expect around this time of year so most areas were a little warmer compared to yesterday by a few degrees. six degrees warmer in livermore. winds are still playing a part. 27 in san francisco, 26 in
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fairfield and as a result we're not expecting a heat wave anytime soon but as this high pressure has been getting closer, the trough has moved on, we did experience a little warm-up today. at the sierra nevadas south of tahoe, thunderstorms once again today as we expected. they are getting the rain with those. higher clouds passing through the bay area as you can see on live doppler 7. down below, fog that never quite cleared the coast so still around the san matteo coast lineup. looking towards mount diablo, a little bit of cloud cover above but the hills are starting to turn brown so this is the dime of year where we're concerned about fire danger. fortunately we don't have any hot weather in store. 61 in san francisco. hatch moon bay, 57. san jose, fittered sunshine.
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livermore, 79 degrees. our warmest inland valleys have already made it to the low 80's. vintage high school graduating tomorrow in napa. 2 degrees at 6:30 as the ceremony gets underway. congratulations to all the grates as we look at a live picture. nice day to be out sailing. combines of fogs and clouds tonight. gusty and cooler for father's day and monday. hourly forecast 6:00 tonight, high clouds with us. still comfortable at 9:00 p.m., 50's, six. -- 60's. it's going to be a warmer day. inlands and 60's coastside. in the 50's, limited fog, dense in spots. accuweather seven-day forecast featuring mid 80's through the first half of your weekend.
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father's day, nice but just windy and cooler so prepare accordingly and then a as we hed towards journal teem, still going to be pleasant. dan and ama, a week from today summer begins and we'll start to warm it it. danically knew it, we're going to miss spring all together. right to summer. on the pens la, san mateo county will soon begin construction to revamp this comes on a bile approved by the board of supervisors last night. it was -- it will be the newest
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ama: this afternoon we're hearing from the marin county woman who caught a bear on camera in her yard. she tells abc 7 news that the whole thing unfolded while she was comforting her daughter, who was having a nightmare, about bears. >> i was telling her that there aren't bear and is she doesn't have to be worried about it and
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my phone dings and i look at my camera and there was a bear and i couldn't even understand what was happening. ama: that is so crazy. caitlin immediately called authorities but no one believed her. the bear hasn't been seen since. officials are advising residents not to leave garbage or food outside of their homes. dan: more news ahead. ama: a look at the stories coming up at 5:30. >> thank you. we're continuing our coverage on the a's stadium saga. just moments ago nevada lawmakers approved the bill. sports anchor casey pratt will be back with the latest developments, plus, fair-- fare evaders. new data and the exchanges riders could soon see on trains and buss. ama: you can download the abc 7
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app. to join karina in just two minutes. dan: and world news tonight with david muir is next. we appreciate your time. i'm dan. ama: and i'm ama. see you again at 6:00.
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to your blood sugar? at kaiser permanente all of us work together to care for all that is you. tonight, multiple reported tornadoes on the ground. the images coming in at this hour. and the severe thunderstorm watches across several states. damaging winds into the night. and outside new york city, the worker hit by lightning. at least six reported tornadoes from texas to georgia tonight. what the national weather service is calling a particularly dangerous situation across several states. in the northeast, the storms blowing through, disrupting air travel. and the video showing the moment a worker was struck by lightning outside a school in new jersey. a police officer racing to give
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