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the u.s. government can't solve. after eight months, therefore's has been unable to determine who is behind the company -- the air force has been able to determine who is behind the company purchasing land behind travis air force base. ama: the biggest concern is whether there is any threat to national security. dan: i-team reporter stephanie sierra joins us with the latest on a strange story. stephanie: this is a significant purchase. tonight we are digging into flannery associates. the firm just 5500 acres of farmland in solano county, including near travis air force base, nearly double the size of san francisco, yet no one, not even the federal government, can figure out who was behind it and more importantly, why. federal officials say a mysterious company has purchased nearly $1 billion of land surrounding travis air force base. one of the most critical

military bases in the western u.s.. democratic -- a democratic congressman prompted a federal investigation. >> in your briefings on the matter, do you have any reason to believe the purchase of this land is first by? >> i have every reason in the world is to believe this land is in an area in which spy operations or any other nefarious activity could take place and could detrimentally impact the ability of travis air force base to operate in a moment of national emergency. stephanie: public records show the company, flannery associates llc, began purchasing the land in 2018. investigators say those acquisitions ramped up this year. >> now literally three sides of that base is totally controlled by the flannery group. who are these people? where did they get the money that they can pay five to 10 times the normal value that others would pay for this farmland? stephanie: eight months of

investigation, yet -- >> we do not know where this money is coming from. stephanie: do you have any reason to believe china is tied to this group? >> i have reason to be concerned. stephanie: he says an attorney representing flannery associates indicated the firm is made up of a family -- made up of families looking to diversify their portfolios, including agricultural land. but the congressman is skeptical. >> we have heard scheme after scheme. that makes no sense. we will build a deepwater port. really? around travis air force base, 10 miles from the bay? we are going to farm. well, at that price you will lose a lot of money forming. we will build a city. no, you will not build a city here for all kinds of reasons. none of the reasons why the land is being acquired make any sense. stephanie: what do you think is happening? >> i don't know. stephanie: according to him, flannery associates also

acquired land around the interstate electrical grid system, from the columbia river into central california. this includes land that houses wind turbines that provide power to northern california. >> it is the secrecy. what is going on? if you are not a nefarious operation, why are you keeping it secret? stephanie: the i-team reached out to flannery associates for comment. we are waiting to hear back. the congressman says this negatively impacts the farming community in solano county. he says at least 10 land owners are being accused by flannery in an illegal scheme to prevent flannery from buying their land. there is a lot of moving parts. dan: that is the strangest thing. stephanie: it is bizarre. ama: if you would like to get in touch with the i-team, call this number on your screen or go to abc7news.com/iteam. dan: in antioch, members of the

community are reacting to the sudden retirement announcement by the city's police chief. it job and in the fbi investigation and greates -- and racist text messages scandal. the local naacp chapter has a demand for city leaders. >> thank you chief ford for accepting the task that was unseen by many. the ability to work with people who were ready to undermine your leadership for you started is amazing. >> the antioch police chief announced his decision to leave. many community groups are now reflecting on his impact. >> his ability to put system in place to support and heal the community will not go unnoticed. >> the announcement came wednesday evening. the chief declined to be interviewed and did not cite a specific reason for retiring. he praised the community and city, saying the groundwork has

been laid for organizational success and that the antioch police department has become more inclusive, equitable and a better place to work. >> he was everywhere, everywhere. from school gymnasiums to coffee shops, barbershops, pizza parlors. we facilitated much of that dialogue. >> chief ford served with the san francisco police department for 32 years. he was sworn in as antioch chief last november. since then, new probes have come from the california department of justice and the city. a new contra costa county da report shows officers involved in the racist texting scandal even directed racist comments toward the chief. in one text, this officer writes, have you met the new "gorilla emoji" chief yet? >> i had a conversation with him about the racist text messages. it is not the first time for this police department where

they said they wanted to shoot me. >> the city is still safe, they say, but there are issues the city continues to face. now looking for a new police chief. >> we will have a national search for a city manager. we are bringing on a consultant from for the recruitment of these executive level positions. >> in the meantime, community groups are calling on the city to include community stakeholders when hiring a new chief. >> it has been expressed by the community that they want to have a voice, to have a say who comes next. somebody has to begin cleaning up this mess. the community that wants to heal should certainly have a voice in that. ama: in san jose, a car into a middle school building today. a driver tore through a fence into a building where pool chemicals are kept, just north of downtown. the driver was taken to the hospital.

kids attending a summer program at the school were sent home out of caution, but were nowhere near the crash. the incident is under investigation. dan: warmed up a good bit today. an air quality advisory is in effect because of smoke from the wildfire that has now burned more than 15,000 acres in southern oregon. it is moving down here. for more on the air quality and heat, let's go to abc7 meteorologist sandhya patel. sandhya: the street was extended -- the advisory was extended. here is the fire that is burning and if you notice, it is moving in our direction as it continues to stream in due to the wind pattern. we will be impacted by the conditions. to the north near that flat fire it is unhealthy air quality in the red. in the bay area we are in the good to moderate air quality at

the surface but the smoke impacts aloft will continue not just tonight but into tomorrow. i would not be surprised if that air quality advisory in effect now gets extended beyond today. it is in effect for today and you will notice the haze from vollmer peak. also have the heat to deal with. we see unhealthy air quality tomorrow. keep your windows and doors closed, bring pets inside. if it is safe enough, these are just smoke safety tips. definitely hot in the 90's inland. 50's coast side. gets hotter tomorrow in our inland valleys and hills, which is why a heat advisory goes up for those areas. i will be back to let you know how long the hot weather will last. ama: meeting homeowners face-to-face with recommendations they can make to fire safe their properties. abc7 news reporter cornell barnard joins us with that

story. cornell: always a concern for homeowners, especially a group of inspectors that are now going door to door helping homeowners reduce wildfire risk. >> it's nice that you have a great separation from all the vegetation to the house. cornell: homeowner robert smith is getting a grantor of his own property in mill valley -- grand tour of his own property in mill valley. a defensible space fire inspector is tour guide. >> if an ember does catch that, it is connected to the house and will run into the eaves that are unenclosed and catch the house on fire. cornell: the defensible space team is part of the marin wildfire prevention authority. >> we like to think of decks and fences as fire wicks. cornell: for robert, the deep

dive around his place was eye-opening. >> i quite appreciate it. more information is better than less. cornell: though these teams are not the fire prevention police, it is a voter approved taxpayer-funded program with a mission to meet with every homeowner in the county. >> we are not out to cite everybody. the goal is safety. we are trying to give them steps to make their home safer. a lot of the things you are doing. potted plants, fire will not spread from that. cornell: lester got his home property inspected. >> it is a lot easier to prevent something than having to deal with the aftermath of it. cornell: additional funding from the state is paying for more controlled burns of tall grass and weeds. for property owners, wood chipping programs will for the bill when it comes to removing large limbs and branches. for lupe, making his community safer is everything. >> the more we can do to protect our community, the better for

the committee in the whole. cornell: owners who choose to participate can view a report of their home inspection online, make changes if necessary. the authority says 60% of homeowners took some sort of action. get this, this season they hope to make about 20,000 expections across -- inspections across marin county. dan: coming up, cutting out human error and bad behavior to make the roads safer. that is the argument from supporters of driverless car's in the latest effort to curtail deadly crashes. abc7 news at

ama: san francisco police made four arrests in a botched robbery and mass shooting in north each. one man was killed just before 11:00 p.m. on april 23.

police announced today three men and one woman were arrested this week in san francisco, oakland, suisun city and roseville. the suspects face charges including homicide, attempted homicide and attempted robbery. dan: in the south bay, one man is dead and another in the hospital after an early morning crash after 1:00 this morning near capital expressway and snell avenue. police say the men were ejected from their car after being struck by an suv. the driver of the suv was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence. the death is san jose's 28th traffic fatality of the year. now as city leaders look to make the streets safer, some believe in taking the driver out of the equation as the solution. abc7 news reporter dustin dorsey has the story. dustin: solving the bay biggest problems through technology, solutions proposed based on advances in our

official intelligence and medical technology. >> a wide range of technology that solves things not here in the u.s. only but worldwide. dustin: these solutions incorporate something like wireless vehicles -- like driverless vehicles. >> our founders, that is the problem they were looking to solve, how do we make these roadways safer? dustin: they do this through technology to identify risks before a normal driver would. this video shows one of the driverless trucks detecting and avoiding a pedestrian crossing the road hundreds of meters away. >> the aurora driver can see thousands of objects at once and determine what these objects are doing, should i slow down, accelerate, pull over. they are thinking about this at all times. we think there are german to safety benefits. dustin: though driverless vehicles are under so, they do not run red lights -- are controversial, they do not run red lights or drink alcohol.

this is the city's 28th traffic related debt this year. police say there is a problem with driver behavior, highlighted with a number of traffic tickets issued. >> not to people, but to curtail their driving behaviors. dustin: police expect to issue more citations this year, which raises the question, would taking the driver out of the equation eliminate the risk from bad driving behavior? >> we all think we are great human drivers. the fact is we get distracted easily. this is technology that takes some of that away. we are helping solve this issue of, our trucks don't get tired or distracted. dustin: that hopefully means lives don't get taken off the streets. ama: still ahead, the u.s. women's national team gets ready for its first 2023 world cup match. the local players dedicating their effort to a former stanford teammate while shining

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dan: berkeley's last or meaning movie theater will miss out on one of the biggest box office weekends of summer. the elmwood theater was damaged yesterday afternoon. no one was injured. the owner says the theater has electrical damage. the owner says this whole thing happened because of a dog in a car. >> the poodle started the driver by jumping into the front seat. the driver threw a u-turn and landed in our building, against our building.dan: today the owne repair work won't be done before tomorrow. when the elmwood was due to begin showing oppenheimer, expected to be one of the biggest movies of the summer. ama: let's talk about our weather heating up again. dan: meteorologist sandhya patel is here with the forecast. sandhya: it is noticeably warmer outside away from the coast line.

let's look at the temperature change. up to 10 degrees warmer right now in napa and fairfield compared to earlier today. eight degrees higher in san jose, up nine livermore and concord. let's check out those temperatures. inland areas are baking in mid and upper 90's right now. but look at this, still enough of a marine influence half moon bay, 59 degrees. a wide range of temperatures as expected. we have heat advisories that will be going up for the bay area's darting tomorrow until saturday night. excessive heat watches from the central valley to southern california and excessive heat warnings as well. high pressure been nudging westward and will continue to do that. the next two days it will be sizzling inland. triple digits tomorrow in our inland communities. upper 90's so far this afternoon in our hottest inland east bay

valleys. blue skies from our tower cameras but there is hayes due to the flat fire in the upper parts -- haze due to the flat fire in the upper parts of the atmosphere. on live doppler 7 we have some fog near the coastline. that is a good place to go if you don't like the hot weather. a live view from our kgo roof camera. triple digit heat inland the next few days. along the coast with night and warning fog -- and morning fog. relief from the heat arrives sunday and monday. 6:00 tonight it will still be hot inland. into 9:00 p.m., warm inland, cool coast side with that fog pushing in closer to the bay. it will not go far because it has compressed. 50's, 60's to start the morning. by lunch it is already getting hot inland into the 90's. by 3:00 p.m. in the triple digits. coast side will remain

comfortable. fire danger index. we go from moderate to moderate to high tomorrow afternoon as temperatures rise. the grasses are drying out further, so be careful. hazy skies tomorrow with areas of fog. 50's and 60's tomorrow afternoon. shortly whether in the southbank. --- weather in the south bay. 87 redwood city. mild conditions near the coast line. 70 in downtown san francisco. in the north bank, 89 in san rafael. hazy and hot around ukiah. 86 fremont. inland, it's 0=10 degrees -- it is 104 degrees in antioch. temperatures soaring well above average, bringing that heat risk. the accuweather 7-day forecast, it will still be hot on saturday inland but not as hot as tomorrow. 60's coast side.

temperatures drop into the 90's sunday and monday. at least for our inland valleys that is something we are used to in the summertime. it will be an improvement by sunday. ama: the 2023 women's world cup is now underway in the joint host countries of australia and new zealand. tomorrow team usa faces off against vietnam to defend the title and capture a three-peat. two of the players that will be part of that are stanford and have dedicated their efforts to their late teammate who died from suicide in 2019. earlier this week, one penned an emotional tribute to her. smith mentioned her when speaking to the media. >> everything that we do is now for katie. it means a lot. it's obviously it is a tough into talk about. ama: the teammates introduced a partnership with a soccer charity to launch a mental

health initiative which includes sending mental health professionals to youth sports leagues across the country after the world cup. if you or a loved one is struggling with mental health issues, we he resources to help. visit abc7newsom/takeaction to get started. for urgent mattersca the suicide and crisis lifeline by dialing

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dan: remembering legendary actor bruce lee 50 years to the day since he died. in chinatown the chinese historical society of america commemorated his incredible life and legacy with free admission to the museum. that is where you can find in exhibit dedicated to a true cultural icon. visitors will be able to view a new mural created at the birthplace of bruce lee. ama: we do have much more news ahead. dan: let's go to karina nova for a look at what is coming up at 5:30. karina: tonight we will continue coverage of the antioch police chief's sudden retirement announcement, this as the investigation into the department texting scandal has moved forward. anser hassan joins me with the latest.

plus, the story of one east bay man who was told he lost his insurance based on drone footage. what 7 on your side's michael finney says homeowners need to know about the area outside your house. join us for those stories and more at 5:30 on bay area streaming tv. ama: download the abc7 app or head to abc7news.com to join karina in two minutes. dan: or on tv world news tonight is next. ama: we will see you again at 6:00.

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