dock, the cruise ship has not left san francisco. so you could see it's still here, still in port with passengers on board. many since 1130 yesterday morning. good afternoon. thanks for joining us. i'm larry beil and i'm kristin zee. but there is bad news for passengers. just a short time ago, they were told the ship won't leave for alaska until sunday. and the problem is obvious. you can see significant damage to the ship's hull. there's a hole there after the ship ran into pier 27 while docking yesterday morning. repairs were made overnight and this is what it looks like right now because that hole is patched up and it's been inspected by the coast guard. here's another live look at the ship for you or the crew. and passengers are still on board despite just learning they will not depart until sunday. abc seven news reporter cornell barnard spoke with passengers today. he joins us live with the latest cornell. hey, kristen and larry, can you say frustration? a lot of that going on here today at pier 27. and, you know, a lot is

happening with this cruise ship, which is now 24 hours late, leaving san francisco bound for alaska. the captain telling passengers just moments ago that repairs on the ship will take another 24 hours and this ship will not leave port until sunday, july ninth. and that frustration that i talked about started growing hours ago. take a look. so as you can see, people are carrying on as normal as if it's ship time eating. anita lawson from reno says eating is about the only thing to do on board. the ruby princess has passengers wait to depart. anita shot this video on board friday afternoon and she spoke with us from the ship's stern. it's only been a day so everybody's okay at this point. but i think that a, i think people are starting to get a little antsy and ready to go. 3300 passengers were ready to set sail to alaska at 4 p.m.

thursday, but before the cruise even began, as the ship was arriving, it made contact with pier 27 as princess cruises puts it, the collision damaging the whole of the ship and the dock passenger shared this video of the crash with abc7 news, which captures the moment the giant cruise ship struck the dock. the impact felt throughout the vessel. we saw crews from the port of san francisco and coast guard inspecting the hole in the vessel and the repairs which have been done so far. an eta for departure still unknown. we don't have a timeline at this point. our main concern is to make sure that the vessel is able to transport passengers safely and to operate safely. you know, they do say work is being done, but obviously i'm standing up here above the hole. i cannot see the hole, but i do see that nothing's going on with it. passenger dan fittings from livermore shot this video on board. he says he's trying to keep his cool, but says it's not easy

watching your vacation tick away. we've been planning this trip since january, so it's been a long time. you know, you count down the days on your calendar. oh, i got two more weeks to work. all right. and then we're going to be going. it'd be a good time. good time. and, well, not not that great of a time yet. i mean, i feel if we're sitting here tomorrow, i'm going to be down with the guest services desk trying to get my money back. get off this boat. anita telling us she can't wait to see alaska. but of course, she wants the voyage to be safe. oh, my gosh. with all the issues going on with that submersible and that tragedy and all the titanic talk. yeah, this was not the time for this. you know? yeah. and again, the new estimated time of departure is sunday, july 9th, about 4 p.m. i have to tell you, my phone is really blowing up with tweets or texts from passengers with words like bummed out despite disappointed,

frustrated. just those are the words that i can say on tv for sure. but a lot of people very frustrated. and there is a hole still exposed on the hull of the ship. so, of course, there are just a lot more repairs to be done as far as compensation goes. that is being discussed with passengers, what kind of compensation they will be receiving if they want it remains to be seen and also remains to be seen is whether or not they can get their money back if they want to get off the ship completely and just go home and maybe schedule another cruise for sometime in the future or not. back to you guys. now. so, cornell, a question here, because with your interviews, we can just hear sort of the temperature rising with everybody getting really frustrated here. can they at least get off the boat to enjoy pier 39 or north beach or something and not just be stuck on the. yeah, i just got a text from

anita who we talked to on our story. she said they will be letting passengers off the ship shortly so they can walk around, see san francisco. but it is your option to take it off the ship, come back on sunday or stay on the ship until sunday. we are told it will be in a abbreviated cruise, just two stops, and the ship will return to san francisco on sunday, july 16th. so we will see what happens. cornell, thank you so much. let's take another live look at the ruby princess. still stuck at pier 27. at least until sunday. just to give you an idea, i mean, this is an enormous vessel. we're talking about 3300 passengers and more than 1000 crew members. so it's almost like its own little city on the sea. and so a lot of logistics involved just to try to get all the food required and all the other things you need to go on on a week long sail. but we'll continue to follow the story, bring you the latest as soon as it happens. body cam video released today by

richmond police shows the methodical room by room search of a harbourside home last week. in the minutes before officers shot and killed a man they say pointed a semi-auto rifle at them as they open the door to the last bedroom in the house. now we're going to show you an edited version of that video. and while it's not graphic, it may be disturbing to some. here's abc seven news reporter lena howland. what's your police department's search warrant opened the door just five hours after arresting 63 year old jose martinez for brandishing a weapon on two occasions pried open. richmond police got a search warrant for his home where they went looking for his other firearms while he was in custody. police knew that his roommate, 66 year old kevin mcdonald, lived there from police department. can you hear me? once inside, officers announced their presence multiple times. kevin, this is the richmond police department. make yourself known. up until opening the door to the last bedroom of the home, which

is where they found mcdonald sitting on a bed. they say he was armed with a loaded armed 15 rifle. richmond police keep your hands over your head. gun. richmond police chief lisa french says mcdonald pointed the rifle at officers and that's when two officers shot and killed mcdonald did. yeah, okay. once inside, officers found a bizarre scene, a mannequin dressed like a soldier ready for combat with a firearm around its neck. pictures on the wall that depict the same thing with shelves upon shelves of equipment and multiple weapons. unsecured. 53 firearms were recovered from the home. police say 48 of them were in mcdonald's bedroom and 17 of those were ghost guns. police say there was gun making equipment in the home. well over a thousand rounds of ammunition were recovered alive. piney chapel, hand grenade and a gun manufacturing equipment were

all recovered from the residence. mcdonnell was pronounced dead on scene. the homeowner, an elderly female relative of mcdonald, was also home when this happened, but wasn't hurt or injured. we had no information regarding the large cache of weapons that we ultimately found in the house. the only information that we had was that mister martinez did illegally possess three additional firearms, and the original intent was to go to retrieve those firearms from his bedroom. back in the neighborhood where six bullet holes in the wall of the suspect's bedroom can still be seen from outside. neighbor pat stinson was shocked to learn the details. it appears to me that was appropriate, considering how many weapons he had and what was his plan. police say at this point, it's not clear if mcdonald was selling weapons out of the home. as far as what mcdonald could have been planning before the shooting. the atf is now investigating and

richmond police say there are two officers involved are lucky to be alive. it speaks for itself. you can see the pictures of the numerous weapons. you can see the weapons that are in plain view and readily accessible by mr. mcdonald as they enter that room. this could have been very bad for our officers were very grateful that they weren't injured. in richmond, lena howland, abc seven news in oakland, 911 service was restored overnight after the city experienced a power outage at its 911 communication center on thursday. the city is still working to restore 911 automated dispatch system. so dispatchers are manually routing calls to fire police and medical services. backup generators failed shortly after yesterday's power outage, impacting both the 911 phone system and automated dispatch support system. today, officials are reassuring the community that all emergency calls will still be answered, although responses are slower than usual. lawmakers want to know who's behind a land grab near travis aiforce base in solano county.

according to a wall street journal investigation, there's a group called the ry associates. they've purchased $1 billion in land in the last few years. flannery is now the largest landowner in solano county. government officials are concerned the group could be masking some foreign owners. the air force is a foreign investment risk review office has been unable to uncover exactly who's behind this group, flannery previously told solano county officials it's made up of american, british and irish investors. more record breaking heat for the fourth day in a row. the average world temperature set a record yesterday. the global average daily temperature climbed to 63.1 degrees. data only goes back to the mid 20th century, but scientists at the woodward climate research center in massachusetts say this is probably the warmest the planet has been in more than 100,000 years. that boggles the mind, isn't it? yes. and it obviously suggests

manmade involvement that is creating this, although some may want to dispute that. but it seems to be kind of obvious what's going on here. but when records are being more broken more frequently. right. that is an indication. and the weather is getting more and more extreme, although here it's pretty nice and cool. let's check in with abc7 news meteorologist sandhya patel. hey sandia. yeah, larry and kristen. it is below average here in the bay area. but let's talk about that record global heat. so the four hottest days on record were the last four days. 4th of july was the hottest day on record with an average global temperature of 62.7 degrees. doesn't seem like it's that high. but the concern here is when you look at the daily sea surface temperature anomalies, this is from july 5th from the noaa. you will notice that they are higher than usual. one of the things that is contributing to that is the last three years we've been in in a la nina. and so all this global heat energy has been stored below the surface in the ocean and now that we have moved on to el

nino, all of that energy is being brought up. and this is what is concerned is we are going into a period where, unfortunately, the possibility of more heat records being shattered will continue. certainly hot in phenix 109, las vegas, 102 degrees. there are heated advisories, excessive heat warnings for much of the us. and as we look out ahead, excessive heat watch for parts of southern california already getting issued for next week. i'll be back with a look at our local weather and how we're going to be in on this heat coming right up. larry. all right. thank you, sandhya. continue light traffic on the golden gate bridge means financial peril for the agency that operates the bridge as well as bus and ferry service between marin county and san francisco bridge crossings are down by 15% from pre-pandemic levels and down 30% during morning commutes. that's 100,000 fewer bridge crossings per day. we talk with the spokesperson for the golden gate bridge, highway and transportation district on our getting answers show today at three bridge tolls

account for more than half of the district's operating revenue and help subsidize the transit services that the district provides. however, when bridge traffic declines, we still have enough money to maintain the golden gate bridge. but we're missing some funding that we had before the pandemic to subsidize our bus and our ferry transit systems to avoid falling off a fiscal cliff. the golden gate bridge, highway and transportation district is being forced to reduce expenses by scaling back on bus and ferry services is coming up. the effort to stop those self driving cars right in their tracks. how some are throwing a wrench into expansion plans. plus, celebrating 150 years of san francisco's cable cars. and later, have the robot wars begun? what aa robots told the united ♪ non-drowsy claritin knocks out symptoms from over 200 allergens. without knocking you out. feel the clarity and make today the most wonderful time of the year.

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more and more common on san francisco streets, but they are not without problems. we've shown you autonomous cars that have been stopped in the middle of streets, stoplights. some of them have even crashed and now plans are in the works to let more of these vehicles take the road. we've got this situation some protesters have come up with kind of a new novel way to stop the cars right in their tracks. they're placing these just normal traffic cones right on top of the vehicles, and that stops them almost immediately.

abc7 news reporter ryan curry spoke with the group that claims these cars are a danger. no one's in it. marking autonomous vehicles as traffic hazards. the group safe street rebels is placing cones on cruise and waymo cars as a way to temporarily stop them. they want these cars off the road permanently expanded and basically unfettered access to the city streets is a really bad idea. this person is a member of the safe street rebels and asked us not to share their identity. the group calls the protest the week of cone. it is happening ahead of next week's vote by the state public utilities commission on whether to allow cruise and waymo to expand their services in the city. residents never actually got a chance to have a say in this and never really consented to being used as human guinea pigs. abc7 has documented issues with cruise and waymo just recently, two waymo cars stalled near the pride parade downtown, backing up traffic. the san francisco fire department has criticized crews for cars blocking emergency

units, according to the group, using a traffic cone on top of the car disables it. and since they feel like they are traffic hazards, they think using a cone is a good way to send a message. as a pedestrian, i feel a little uncomfortable with them as a cyclist. i also feel uncomfortable around them. waymo told abc seven news. not only is this understanding of how avs operate incorrect, but this is vandalism and encourages unsafe and disrespectful behavior on our roadways. we will notify law enforcement of any unwanted or unsafe interference of our vehicles on public roadways. a spokesperson for cruise told us cruises fleet provides free rides to late night service workers without reliable transportation options, has delivered over 2 million meals to food insecure s franciscans and recovers food waste from local businesses intentionally obstructing vehicles gets in the way of those efforts and risks creating traffic congestion for local residents. safe street rebel says the risk of these cars operates is not worth it. they say if cars can easily be

disabled with cones, having more of them on the road is a hazard for residents. even if you have the perfect driver, which is what these are kind of pitched as, like there's still something fundamentally unsafe at moving at speed with a two ton metal box through the city. ryan curry abc7 news. an autonomous shuttle will soon be on the move on treasure island. treasure island mobility management agency launched a pilot program called the loop to bring autonomous shuttle to the island. it is still undergoing testing but will be available for passengers later this month. shuttle service will be free and will pick up passengers along a fixed route with seven stops. no autonomous weather. all human all the time. 100%. yeah. and it's a good thing. she's a very accurate human. there you go. sandhya patel. what's happening this weekend? all right, i'll pay you guys both off after this show. kristen and larry, what's happening is we're going to see a continuation of what we're looking at right now from our

oakland airport camera. you can see low clouds are still lingering across parts of the coast and the bay. but some areas are seeing the sun as we look at live doppler 7, most of the bay area have seen the clouds pull away. there are still some low clouds hanging tough near the coastline. and as we look at the winds, the winds are gusting right now, 36 miles an hour at sfo. notice the direction of the winds, 39 sustained in san francisco, 26 in napa. with that onshore wind. it's not going to warm up much. i mean, we are in the 50s to 70s for most of you right now. winds will remain gusty. 5:00 tonight, over 30 mile an hour winds. 10 p.m. it's not only gusty along the coast, but breezy inland as well. and tomorrow morning, we start out with lighter winds, but those winds increase later on in the afternoon. and the evening. blue skies from our exploratory camera. it is a little choppy out there as far as the waters low to mid 60s from san francisco to mountain view to oakland right now, 68 in san jose, 59.5 moon bay from our san rafael camera,

you're seeing the sun right now but it is a bit breezy out there. 78 in santa rosa, 72 in napa. you're in the upper 70s in places like fairfield, a good ten, 15 degrees below average in some of our inland areas. 68 right now in livermore and from our san jose camera, bright skies over the shark tank cloudy overnight with spotty morning drizzle cooler than average through the weekend and our summer heat returns next week as we go hour by hour, we're going to see some areas of low clouds tomorrow morning going into the afternoon. you will notice just like today, many areas will see the sun with some patchy low clouds lingering. your morning temperatures will be in the 50s. it is certainly going to be cloudy to partly cloudy depending on where you are tomorrow afternoon in the south bay, you're looking at a nice mild day. 77 gilroy, 70. in san jose, 68, sunnyvale on the peninsula, 67 in palo alto, 58. pacifica breezy to windy right near the coast, 59 in daly city, 62. downtown san francisco. these temperatures are below

average for this time of year is 75. in vallejo, 80 in santa rosa, 74. in san rafael in the east bay 66. oakland, 70 in castro valley. had inland and it will be a nice mild day, 80 degrees in fairfield, 73 in livermore, 76 degrees in concord. now some people are saying they love this weather where you get a break from the hot conditions in the middle of summer. july is one of our hottest months. here's a look at the accuweather 7 day forecast. and it's breezy and below average both days. low 80 inland upper 50s coast. if you don't like this pattern, just wait till next week because it's going to start to warm on monday. and larry and kristen, we're going to turn up the heat tuesday through thursday. we're talking about 90 inland. don't worry, 60 side. oh, okay. okay. okay. and i wonder if that means this year's aids walk will be warmer than usual. you know what happens usually at aids walk, it's cloudy. it's usually. usually, usually. w'll see. this year aids walk. san francisco only nine days away. sunday, july 16t golden gate park. the fundraising walk benefits

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celebrating 150 years of cable cars in the city. the first successful cable car had its first run in 1873. more lines were added over the years, and then they slowly went away. now they're just three. now there's a lot of upkeep just to keep these cars running. abc7 news reporter luz pena got a tour of what it takes to restore them and to lose. since you mentioned the happy birthday. i'm going to go feliz cumpleanos. i see that duolingo was paying off. i love that. good job. well, let me tell you, it's truly a magical place full of so much history and depending on their conditions, you can take sf, mta carpenters 1 to 2 years to restore a cable car, the one they're currently working on is 130 years old in an unassuming

bronze building in san francisco's dogpatch neighborhood is a workshop full of history. welcome to the mta cable car carpentry shop. this is where cable cars are born and brought back to life. they've survived earthquakes. they've survived fires. they've survived depression, you know, and they just keep trundling up and down the hills. every piece built by hand and assembled here. truth is, like keeping them on our tracks is a labor of love. these mta workers are not only carpenters, but some may even call them history friends. so this car arrived here about a year and a half ago to honor their history. this year, san francisco is celebrating 150 years of cable cars opening the doors of their carpentry shop to the public. when we got here, the tour was sold out with 50 people in line. i don't think they let anybody in. this is only the first friday of the month for three months, and

this is the second one. so there's one more time. i think in august and that's going to be it. we sat with the youngest cable car enthusiast on the tour. i mean, do you think the cable cars look 150 years old? they pretty much look like they look like six door cable cars were the first real technological innovation in the history of san francisco. many others followed after that, like computers. we chatted with young karina, who was happy about both of these innovations. what did you think when your mom told you you got tickets to come to the tour? i felt neutral because there was lots and lots of coding things that i was going to do. but then it's fun to get out and turn off the screen for a while. this shop is like a time machine, and despite the century that has gone by, the cable car breaks remain the same. there are three sets of brakes.

these are very high tech. you can see they're they're wood after all. everyone who gets to see them getting restored. apple close needs to document it. what has been your favorite part of this tour? well, sweet. taking pictures. and even though the tours are sold out, the president of the market street railway promised to open a couple more after our story. so good luck getting in. you can visit mta's website for that in the newsroom. luz pena. abc seven news. wooden brakes are still right. they changed them, you know, 3 to 4 days. so i hope so. fascinating history. make you want to take a ride even more. thank you. lose thanks. lose. yeah. some good and bad news for the economy. what the latest jobs report means. plus, a guaranteed income for some high school students. been an addict for, you know, almost 30 years. i was pretty much just sleeping in a bush or sometimes under a

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moving forward, finding solutions. this is abc seven news. now for the latest on the economy. the june jobs report shows strong job growth, but things are kind of slowing down a bit. employers added 209,000 jobs last month. the unemployment rate fell slightly from 3.7% to 3.6. that's near the lowest levels in five decades. santa clara county leaders unveiled what they're calling a bold initiative to help homeless teenagers. today, they announced a program that will provide a guaranteed income for unhoused students after high school. the program will launch next

summer and provide a $1,200 monthly stipend to 50 homeless students. these target programs provide a solid financial footing for a limited time. typically as folks transit another aspect of life, a more productive life. and with students, that is typically going to mean education or career. according to cortez, the stipend will essentially maintain federally mandated benefits. the students received while they were in high school. all right. now to a former correctional officer and chef who has created a free culinary program in napa valley. it teaches essential skills needed in the kitchen and beyond. go home. the napa valley culinary training academy is a program that brings adults out of homelessness, out of addiction, out of incarceration. it trains them, gives them life

skills, houses them to give them the best foot forward. now that they're on this road to recovery, it's a full time job. so we're trying to create that. and and train them in in the field dishwashing to inventory, prepping. we go through all of the techniques, all of the cuisines. i have 100% job placement if they graduate. so when they graduate this program and get into the hospitality industry, these are friendships and connections that last a lifetime. i have been an addict for, you know, almost 30 years and ended up doing a six year prison term. i'd been praying, please god, you know, i know you haven't brought me this far to give up on me. that application came and i was like, this is a sure sign, right here. you know, i worked for some really very nice restaurants there in napa. i was the head chef at a drug

treatment center there in napa. i couldn't have done any of it without chef. and the chance that he gave me to build a new life, you know, at the age of 50 years old before this program, i was pretty much just sleeping in a bush or sometimes under a bridge. and not really having any direction in life. once chef paul started giving me all these acknowledgments and praises for cooking good food and working really hard, it kind of switched to light in me. i just woke up one day and was like, maybe i can actually bring something to the table now i have value. when i left corrections, i knew that i wanted to be part of a program that would help folks. i didn't know what that would look like. the culinary program shows and proves to families, friends that there is hope. there is a second chance for

their loved one. it just validates that we are making a difference and we're making a difference one life at a time. wow. that's awesome. yeah. second chance. the napa culinary training academy is a 12 week program and it's part of the salvation army. coming up, the newest social media app continues to dominate. plus, buy those home renovation shows could be making american homes. well, looking kind of

it's time now for the four of four with dion and sandy joining us today. so the new threads app continue to soar in the first 48 hours. the new social media app has surpassed 70 million signups. as we told you yesterday, twitter has already threatened a lawsuit with meta saying no. former twitter employees are on threads in engineering team. now there are concerns that threads could propel meta to even more digital dominance. i know there are a lot of people who are ambivalent about this. what do you think, diane? i mean, digital dominance sounds a little bit scary given it's meta, but i have to say i signed up last night and it was really easy because if you already have that instagram account, you just basically link the two. so i don't know. i still haven't used it yet. so that's a whole other question. so would you still tweet or are you just going exclusively threads at this point? no, i don't think so. i think i'm so used to tweeting, but yet so many people feel ambivalent about twitter kristen sze.

so this is very, very true. i mean, i know a lot of people were looking for an alternative, many more people have left twitter. so this is kind of like the right time and possibly right product. what do you think, sandhya? i absolutely agree. i mean, i think it was easy, just like diane. i set mine up yesterday. it was simple. i was able to send out do an actual thread, i should say. that's right. that's right. you say tweet, right? yeah. i will continue to use twitter for the time being, but certainly threads has potential. that's what i think. all right. we'll see if you aren't scared by ai yet. this might do it. ai enabled robot voice told the united nations they could run the world better than humans. i believe that humanoid robots have the potential to lead with a greater level of efficiency and effectiveness and human leaders. we don't have the same biases or emotions that can sometimes cloud decision making. we should be cautious but also excited for the potential of these technologies to improve our lives. okay. i am totally freaked out right

now. i dispute that they don't have biases because they're a trained on the data that contain human biases. right? whoever puts the data in the robots were part of the un's today. ai for good global summit in geneva. oh boy. what happens when the robots decide, yeah, not only can we run the planet better than you humans, we don't even need you humans anymore. we got this. i'm going to one up this story because over the weekend, a producer showed me an ai weather anchor sandhya. this was being used in india, and it looked very real. she didn't have very good hand movements, but yours are better. hers are great. look, dian, i mean, it's just not reality that ai is going to start to take over more and more parts of our lives. and if a you know, a robot is standing here doing the weather in about ten years, it was meant to be that way. larry would agree. no, sandhya, stay, please.

yeah. forever. forever. we don't need the ai. keep them outside. who do you pick on if you weren't here? sandhya, that's true. christian good point. i take me now. all right. our networks like hgtv of ruining our homes. a study by researchers at bucknell and queens university found that home makeover shows are shifting people towards standardization. white kitchens are more popular, as are gray walls. one researcher says homeowners today are focusing on the home as a marketplace asset rather than a focus on individuality. you guys agree with that? yeah. is that what we're doing now? this is what we'll resell. yeah. yeah. because, you know, if you style it in a way, let's say you really like i don't know, dark red, dark black. and you. well then you know, you have an open house a few years later and everybody goes, okay, so we got to redo this, redo that, redo this neutral seems to be the way most people want to go if they think they might not be in that

that house for the rest of their lives. sandy, do you think these shows make us more homogenous? i mean, they can, but look, i mean, like larry said, if somebody likes a certain look, the next person may not agree that that's what they want. i mean, it's such a personal thing. right. and so i think neutral is probably better if you want to try to resell later on. you know, we could have the eye weather bot pick the colors. now we're talking kind of expand the eye decorator. i don't see any threat from an eye weather bot, that's for sure, because there's nothing like the human touch. yes. you are so like in tune with yourself, sandy. yeah. you know what you bring to the table? that's what i love about you. thank you, diana. just the bosses are not listening to any of this. all these compliments anyway. you probably seen a lowrider or two, but this one takes things to a new low. check this out. oh, well, when i first saw this, i was like, what is going on here? they're like, i don't know,

little hamsters under there. what's going on? it's the the fiat panda. it's the world's lowest car that you can actually still drive. it was cut in half, re-engineered at the carmageddon collective, which is such a great name. there you saw the guy get in. i mean, he's driving the thing, but it's so tight. the steering wheel is more like a video game controller. this reminds me of that sub with the controller thing. but anyway, but it actually has wheels and tires i guess underneath there it's got to roll somehow. but could you imagine. like you're here he is. uncomfortable. i was going to say, it's not the most spacious ride i've ever seen. oh, yeah, i got so. all right. do you want this or do you want one of those self driving vehicles? what's your pick? the guy? i don't know. why would we want this? right? that was a question that was not asked. you know what? we have way too many potholes for that. no, thank you. yeah. all right, that's

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the stingray population is surging. along the california coastline, especially. noticeable in southern california. it's seal beach, where hundreds of people actually stung by those rays every year. reporter leanne suter from our sister station in los angeles has the details on the hunt for one of southern california's most prolific sea creatures. right. other there. here we go. here we go. stingray rays, tens of thousands of them along our shore, some spots. so thick you can't even see the

sand. the stingray population is probably at an all time high. we are talking about stingray capital of the world here, and it's mainly round stingrays. so we have four species that are found in nearshore. waters. round stingrays are by. far the most abundant, and they have the behavior that makes them most likely to be stepped on, making them the most dangerous for those walking in and out of the water as rays are quick to react with their barb tails. you could actually feel it moving up your leg. it's like a burning pain that starts at the puncture site and just kind of works its way up. researchers from the shark lab at cal state, long beach have been studying these copious creatures for more than two decades. all right. start walking. they use a beach scene or net to pull in a sample of what is hidden beneath the waves. the team working in conjunction with seal. beach, a notorious spot as ray bay. we have more than 30,000 of them just right in this area at the san gabriel river. the hall revealing just how abundant the round rays are. 200 stingrays in a matter of

minutes, their record 800 pulled in in september. prime stingray season. so they're way more abundant in the summertime. they love the warm water. so the warmer the water is, the more likely you are to encounter a stingray. chris lowe, head of the shark lab, says over the last 50 years, the stingray population. has been skyrocketing. and with. it serious risk of we estimate that there could be as many as 10,000 stingray injuries in southern california alone. that's probably the most anywhere in the country. seal beach lifeguards average over 500 incidents a year. if you think about it, 500 victims. that's more than one a day to treat those victims. it's about it's on average an hour per victim. so it's really it's staff intensive. this one's probably not as hot. this one's hotter. hot water is the treatment as the heat breaks down. the toxin released by the stingrays barbed not the wives tale of urinating on.

the for victims. it is welcome relief. it definitely gets worse as time goes on, not better. the stinging kind of spreads out a little. that's a big barb. tell me when you're ready. ready? the team uses pliers to pick up the rays and clippers to cut off their dangerous spines, saving the barbs for research. the spines are attached to a machine, a fake foot and high speed cameras measuring the speed of the strike. and when the rays will whip their tail, we took our fake zombie foot and we stepped on different regions of the ray. so we. found out that the only really strike either. vertically or from the side or some other angle, if you literally pin them down in the center of their body, if you pin them down right in the center in the mid region, they're most likely going to strike about 85% of the time. the stingrays stay close to the beach from the water's edge to the surf break. lowe says the stingray shuffle is how you stay safe. so what is the stingray shuffle? well, it's just that shuffling

your feet like this as you enter the water. when the rays are buried and you're shuffling your feet, your goal is to nudge them, not step on them. so if you nudge them, they'll. skitter away. they're really sneaky. they're really well camouflaged and they're flat that we call them the sea pancakes. so they stay at the bottom and they blend in with the sand back on the beach. the rays are collected and quickly measured. 16.5 16.5 mil before being returned to the ocean. losses. several factors, including climate change and better water quality, have contributed to the record number of rays, but says the main reason has been because their prime predators had disappeared. the record return of the white shark may turn the tables. we suspect. we're going to start to see a control. of the stingray population. the partnership between the shark lab and seal beach is key, sharing all of that information to ensure that everyone stays safe while enjoying the beach.

the goal is that everybody gets to share the ocean, including the animals that live there. leanne suter, abc7 news. the shuffle thing is good advice, but i'm just going to a different beach. how about that? yeah, there's that. or. we'll all be doing the stingray shuffle soon. yeah. all right. coming up the daily grind. but this one is not about work. well, not for most people anyway. up next, we'll take you to a popular north bay coffee shop that's about more than just coffee. it's come on. ideas, people. ♪ spicy sauced and loaded chicken sando, curly fries, taco, sprite... and a baked brownie. ya dig? i was just gonna say that. same. snoop dogg: my munchie meal, only at jack in the box.

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it's a great start to the day. wasn't until like i coffees that were roasted a little bit lighter that i thought, oh wow, there's so much flavor in this. i started roasting basically on my back porch on a camp stove with a hand-cranked popcorn popper, thinking about like, trying to provide a cup of coffee for town that, like, i couldn't get here. the black oak tree. it's this big, beautiful tree that grows like on the shoulders and the western hills. it feels like a stately tree. it feels like a tree that has lasting value in the community. and like, that's the philosophy that we wanted to have around operating a business in a community, which is to produce lasting value. when you come here, you know you're getting quality. it always starts with good quality green coffee. so we evaluate our raw material, which is like this super interesting, diverse

agricultural crop. we taste it and say, how do we want to apply our technique to produce like something which is art, which is like an expression of the flavor is represented to our palates and that's like the fun of it. coffee roasting was just kind of another art form for me. the flavor that we want is the art we have to taste and then translate that taste into technique. science, sound and smell with temperature. and some people go by feel and then some people go by like rigid numbers. and i just try to blend both of those. an artist has to have technique. we have to have our roasting machine, our machine is from the 1950s. it's kind of a tank of a roasting machine. you know, i love the machine so much that i got it tattooed on me. you can do everything perfectly, but if you come up to the counter and you're not treated in a welcoming, open way by the person that's serving you, you're not going to enjoy that cup.

whenever you're catching up a friend and you say, hey, let's grab a cup of coffee. nobody's asking where they're getting coffee. i mean, everybody knows you're just coming here. it's more than likely that you're going to see people that you know in the community, which makes it even more special. it's small town. it's big time. it's everything you want. the best thing i hear from people is like, i go to sleep thinking about having a cup of your coffee the next morning. it just goes beyond and the coffee shop, you know, it's friendships. it's it's everything. and that's going to do it for abc7 news app for abc7 news a

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