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they have intentions outside of our usual land-use ideas. dan: tonight, new insight into a mysterious company that have purchased nearly $1 billion of land in solano county, including right near travis air force base. it is all a bit of a mystery we are trying to sort out. good evening. i'm dan ashley. ama: and i am ama daetz. they are highly skeptical of the lack of transparency. dan: i-team reporter stephanie sierra is here with us with the latest developments. stephanie: the group, flannery associates, acquired tens of thousands of acres of land, equivalent to nearly double the size of san francisco, and nobody knows why, not even the federal government. now we know's alleged silence is sobering news to a lot. >> that's what makes it scary, i as we know nothing about them. stephanie: a mysterious 800 million dollar purchase of dry

farmland near travis air force base, one of the most critical military bases in the western u.s., has raised serious questions, and local officials say the process has gone from suspicious to intimidating. sarah: their intent is not to grow all of trees. it feels nefarious. to me, nearly all of the land, to the point where you are going to sue someone to intimidate you to sell to you, those e not farmers. stephanie: sarah donnelly is the attorney for this area. federal officials told the i-team they are struggling find out who is behind this investment group that has purchased the acreage near the base, and more importantly, what it be used for. sarah: it seems like, you know, there is something larger in the works. stephanie: the problem is, no one knows, that has raised a bigger question -- why are we in the situation in the first place? we brought this to the chair of

the house armed services committee, congressman adam smith. owners who are purchasing land near military sites or national security sites should be required to identify themselves? rep. smith: absolutely. i think we need greater transparency on that. stephanie: there was no clear reporting structures from sensitive basis to federal agencies responsible. congressman john garamendi is working to change that, adding new language in the national defense authorization act, or ndaa, that would streamline communications to the proper authorities to review these cases. rep. garamendi: if you are not and operation, why are you keeping a secret? stephanie: last year, 300 acres of farmland was purchased near an air force base in another state. rep. garamendi: to build a 400-foot silo that could look

directly into the base. wait a minute. what is going on there? stephanie: flannery associates told the i-team no group holds any significant control over the flannerys. congressman smith said that is charmingly nonspecific. if it is determined that this is connected to a foreign adversary, what do you think should happen next? rep. could i think we need to look at options and evaluate. it is going to depend. we have direct investment in this country from a wide variety of different countries. i think we need to get the information and evaluate what theest steps forward are to protect national security while also recognizing that we're going to be doing business with china. we are not going to cut it all off to do we just need to be cautious. stephanie: congressman smith added he's unaware of any specific evidence tying china to this flannery group, but he didn't make it clear we don't have the transparency in place yet to completely rule that out. dan: this is just such a strange

story. interesting. i know you will be back at 5:30 with karina to talk about this a little more. stephanie: yes. ama: if you would like to get in touch with steph and the i-team, call this number on your screen or go to abc7news.com/iteam. dan: we are hearing from the livermore police chief who says he is frustrated with the alameda county district attorney after he says she failed to respond to his letter asking that special enhancements be added in the prosecution of a violent offender who committed two robberies at a livermore shopping center two months ago. abc 7 news reporter leslie brinkley is on the story. leslie: on a sunday afternoon in may at the shopping center near interstate 580, a 21-year-old suspect assaulted a woman with his weapon in this fast food parking lot, violently attacking her as she fought back, according to livermore police. he then attacked a second woman and stole her purse at gunpoint nearby. police tracked the suspect down

using his ankle bracelet. it is a crime that terrorized residents in the suburban city, according to the police chief. responsible was currently on parole for a prior violent felony involving a firearm and was wearing an ankle monitor when he committed these crimes. leslie: according to the alameda justice department, he is facing numerous charges including robbery and assault with a deadly weapon to his next court date is set for august 11 and could include a possible relocation of parole and a diversion hearing which could open up the potential for no jail time. the pleasanton police chief was upset that alameda county's new district attorney, pamela price, did not file sentencing enhance against the defendant, which, if convicted, would make his sentence longer. chief young wrote a letter to the da on july 6, asking for accountability. chief young: we found that enhancements were not filed,

which are an important part of the case, and my opinion. that was disappointing, because i feel like that puts our community at risk. leslie: has she reached up to you or filed those enhancements? chief young: no. leslie:leslie: you've not heard from her? chief young: no. leslie: pamela price in march altered the enhancements, requiring more approval before they could be filed. price campaigned on and was elected in 2022 on a platform to take steps to end mass incorporation to restore address mass and balances. >> our analysis of the facts of the case or our decisions, they are ours to make. we are the lawyers of the people. suspect remains in jail. i'm leslie brinkley, abc 7 news. ama: two men suspected of being

on a gunfight on 880 will be arraigned on gun charges. a stray bullet killed 23-month-old jasper wu. trevor greene and ivan givens were carrying an ar-15 style rifle when they tried to another man on the freeway. the two also faced gang enhancements. if convicted, they could face life in prison. dan: that paragon bottle two vehicles near police headquarters. this was near 9th street and broadway. reports of gunfire on 11th and clay. police inside the police administration on 7th street heard the gunfire. officers searched the area, found several vehicles were hit by bullets. it does not appear anyone was hurt, and no one was arrested. ama: new details on a car ov the weekend that happened on the sanchez street stairs when a car went airborne, landing upside down at the

bottom. as witnesses rushed to help the occupants of the car, those people took off running. abc 7 newseporter suzanne phan tells u the police robbery division is investigating, and one supervisor says the car involved in the crash was stolen months before. suzanne: crews full, cleaning up the mess from a wildcard chase. tree inspectors and structural engineers were on scene monday to assess the damage from saturday's crash. >> i don't know why they would be going so fast. suzanne: people in the neighborhood are still stunned that a driver barreled through a sign and gun were -- and guard rail. >> it is a dead-end street. suzanne: witnesses heard the crash. the car tumbling down a steep embankment. >> i guess a 45 degree angle. suzanne: the car ended up upside

down. martha, who lives around the corner, cannot believe it. martha: amazing that they survived at all, and it is amazing to me that the car came through all those trees and then through the railing and then landed upside down, and he still alive. suzanne: witnesses say the driver and the people inside the car took off running. police have not been able to find anybody involved. abc 7 news has learned that sfpd robbery division is investigating the incident. supervisor rafael mandelman confirms the car involved in the crash belongs to a man who was car draft -- carjacked. a neighbor who helped people get out of the snack car told abc 7 news this -- >> we've got three minutes they arrive. a bunch of stuff came out of the car, and in the end, when they were cleaning up the scene, they also pulled out a gun. suzanne: a man pulled up after the accident. he claimed he was carjacked.

>> he said he was driving past here, they open his door, got the guy out. he said he was hit by a gun on his head. suzanne: roger said he cannot believe no one was killed in the crash. roger: two land upside down. suzanne: the crashing now a crime scene. in san francisco, suzanne phan abc 7 news. dan: breed's brother was given a shorter prison sentence today. a superior court judge said napoleon brown could be released within a year. in 2005, he was in his 244 years in prison for murder, armed robbery, and carjacking. he was sentenced to 31 years following a change in law regarding how california defines murder. the charges are now involuntary manslaughter, armed robbery, and carjacking. into thousand. ama: a jury was seated in the,

see -- in the competency t for the stabbing spree in davis. the former u.c. davis student is accused of stabbing three people, killing two and killing a third. a doctor found domingos was not competent but prosecutors disputed those findings. on the rebranding of twitter as it changes to the name x, but we will tell you what happened when crews physically tried to change the sign at the san francisco headquarters. abc 7 news at five :00 continues in a moment to david: coming tonight, a severe thunderstorm watch. er's now pacing -- treating patience with skin burns. and an unarmed

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ama: more changes at twitter elon musk continues his efforts to rebrand the company. abc 7 news anchor karina nova joins us with the latest. karina: as part of the rebrand, elon musk had plans to remove the iconic twitter sign. there was concern over whether musk had a permit for this kind of work. musk signaled last month t change is coming, shining a large x on the building, twitter's new name. matt dorsey showed up and weighed in on that change. matt: rebranding that happens, and i don't feel strongly about it one way or another. i want to make sure that if those signs are being changed, there's a remaining process for doing that -- permitting process for doing that. we don't want to have a needless

traffic jam here. this is a busy intersection. i think that is why the police came down. karina: the logo and name change or part of elon musk's bigger vision, one that he said would be to limit interactivity with audio and video as well as. grading a global marketplace. . cnet trends reporter wants to make an app that can be used for just about everything, including banking, similar to we chat. abrar: payments an that new category, so that is something they will branch into. i don't know how we don't get -- i don't know how. we don't know yet exactly what that means. that is kind of what they are leaning into. the other part of this as it will be powered by ai. again, we don't know exactly what that means. karina: it was recently announced that musk launched a company called sai, and it would be trained on public-- x

ai, and it would be trained on public tweets. by the way, right now, if you type in x.com, it will take you to twitter. live in the newsroom, karina nova, abc 7 news. dan: there we go get an update from the i-team regarding an ada seating confusion for the upcoming taylor swiss concert, there will be wheelchair-accessible seats for the kalus family. george kalus' daughter uses a wheelchair, and they were unable to purchase wheelchair accessible tickets for swift's concert. the seas were made available as part of the original on sale. following our report, the family had a call with the levi's stadium official, where they said they will work on a solution. the family has now learned there will be wheelchair-accessible seats to that available to them for the show. ama: prioritizing one east bay in pg&e's plan to underground

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dan: an effort to add parts of pg&e's fields to underground was unanimously passed, urging the utility to add an update to the plan. another letter was sent to pg&e echoing that same push. 10,000 miles of overhead power lines and high wildfire risk areas, but state regulators say the plan is to be revised. ama: bright and sunny today. dan: meteorologist sandhya patel to let us know what is in store. sandhya: we will see fog returning along the coast in the bay overnight, but, dan and ama, plenty of sunday show you in santa cruz where people are enjoying. really it was nicer today with most areas cooling off even more

onshore winds picking up today could high-pressure that brought the heat. it will return tomorrow, bringing a brief warm-up, but for the time being, we are in between those two systems. as we check out those two systems, gusting to 31 miles an hour at sfo, that onshore breeze playing a role in the cooler weather, 20 at rio vista, 23 san jose. from our exploratorium camera, 68 in oakland, 70's from mountain view to san jose and palo alto. half moon bay, not that chilly, 61 right now. from our mount tam cam, we are looking toward ocean beach come and there's a little patch of cloudiness right now. it is in the upper 80's for concord, fairfield area, livermore, 86 our warmest inland valleys got into the low 90's today, so we did not have the repeat of the

triple digits for the weekend. he a live view from our emeryville camera, and it is a lovely view toward san francisco. fog expands tonight, patchy morning drizzle looking at a brief one-they warm up tomorrow and then cooling again midweek for those of you who don't like the hot weather. tomorrow morning, we will notice that fog pushing and locally around the bay come a little drizzle to start the day, and we keep the mid and high level cloud streaming in from the south, but we'll have to worry about any thunderstorms in the bay area. temperatures thing in the morning to start of the day. watch out for the fog and patchy drizzle, which will create slippery roadways. tomorrow afternoon, the heat is back, a little but of a turnup in those temperatures. low 60's coast side and everyone else in between that range of the 60's to the 90's. for the bay bridge series tomorrow evening at oracle park, it will be very nice weather. 65 degrees at 6:45, dropping off to about 60 at nine: 45.

here's a look at the accuweather 7-day forecast, a brief rebound in those temperatures, and the cooling trend return -- resumes as we head toward wednesday, thursday, below average, upper 50's coast side, we turn those temperatures down -- around briefly for the day. really minor fluctuations in the temperatures up and down a few degrees. but nice weather, absolutely. dan: thanks. ama: in novato police are telling people to use caution after bears were spotted at miwok park. officer say it was likely a mom and her cubs. officers found beyer's cat near a playground. . bears don't usually attack, but a mother can be protective. do not run, wave your arms to make yourself look bigger and scare it away. dan: from bears to ghosts, still ahead, we will show you what

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ama: a reminder that you can get our live newscasts, breaking news, weather, and more with our abc 7 bay area streaming app, on apple tv, google tv, fire tv, and roku. just search abc 7 bay area and download it for free. a bay area rapid transit switched out its goats for sheets to be on his fire mitigation team. the goats ate away at b.a.r.t. property but now sheep will take over. it is a sustainable measure to reduce fire hazard. officials say grazing animals are more efficient and relieves

far less pollution. dan: a great goat escape had police trying to come up with a way to corral them. the goats took over shane drive around 2:00 this afternoon. somehow they escaped their enclosure. the animals are used for weed control. their owners were contracted -- contacted. a border collie went to work rounding up those roman goats. . a neighbor said it took mere seconds to get them back where they belong. ama: what a sight kid we have much more news ahead. dan: let's go to abc 7 news anchor karina nova. karina: tonight at 5:30, as you mentioned earlier, a deeper look at i-team reporter stephanie sierra's story about a mystery land purchase near travis air force base. that is where about $1 billion worth of land has been bought up a company the u.s. government knows little about. stephanie will share more details and why there is a national security concern. plus, what you need to know

about cruise insurance after 7 on your side helped one woman with her unusual predicament. join us with those stories and more on abc 7 bay area streaming tv. dan: thank you. ama: download the abc 7 app or head to abc7news.com to join karina in minutes. dan: world news tonight is next. for sandhya patel, all of us, we appreciate your time, i'm dan ashley. ama: on ama daetz. we will see you again at 6:00.

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