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firetruck if they driverless car. who is at fault? karina: a man charged with murder of a thing was a police officer who is in still that who is still in critical condition two days later. sandhya: i am meteorologist sandhya patel tracking hurricane hilary. i will have a look at the weekend forecast, coming up. abc 7 news that :00 start right now. >> building a better bay area, moving forward, finding solutions, this is abc 7 news. >> the rainfall and the flooding is going to be the real move maker with this. karina: an historic storm could hit california this weekend, and in the bay area, we could be the lucky ones. good evening. i'm karina nova. larry: and idly revealed it we are tracking hilary, which could be the worst to hit california and 83 years. karina: hilary is a category 4
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hurricane, approaching mexico. and check out the high surf in acapulco. conditions are only going to get stronger as the storm approaches. larry: farther north, officials have closed down the beach as san jose, del caldwell, and baja. some airlines allowing customers to reschedule at no cost. united airlines have issued a travel hurricane waiver for southern california airports. this has never happened travelers booked on sunday and monday flights can resedule without having to pay change fees per the nine affected airports you see on your screen, bakersfield, burbank, lax, ontario, palm springs, san diego, santa barbara, san luis obispo, as well as orange county. karina: the national park service is shutting down joshua tree for 36 hours because of a flash flood watch that starts tomorrow. larry: three major league teams
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in baseball -- the dodgers, angels, and padres -- are canceling their sunday games because of the approaching storm. instead, they will play double-headers on saturday. hilary expected make landfall in california on sunday. larry: abc 7 news meteorologist sandhya patel -- karina: abc 7 news meteorologist sandhya patel is tracking it all for you. sandhya: right now it looks like it will be a tropical storm at landfall and some of one year. let's take a look -- in california. let's take a look at the position, already lashing out at parts of cabo san lucas. it is a category 4 storm. you will notice ray bans increasing as the goods parallel to cabo san lucas as a category 3 tomorrow morning at 11:00 a.m. rapidly weakening as they continue smooth over the cooler waters of the pacific. by sunday morning, it is a category 1. it is expected to drop down
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further into a tropical storm sunday night as it moves toward southern california and into the region. for the first time ever, tropical storm watches and warnings going up for parts of southern california. that has never been done before. hurricane watches and warnings to the south across baja. as we take a look at the rainfall, you will notice the intensity of the rain picked up between sunday night and monday across southern california. here in the bay area, not out of the question to see a couple of showers here, but the majority and the boko that rain will be focused on southern california, as you will notice it will measure in inches. as we take a look here, flood watch is going up tomorrow for much of the southwestern united states, flood warnings as well. here is what we are expecting them a free inches to six inches of rain from totals of up to 10 inches. . life-threatening and possibly catastrophic flooding expected across baja and southern california. strong winds and of course baja expected to get hit with storm surge and large 12sl -- swells.
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larry: you can track hilary on my. we are monitoring the. current path, and you can do the same thing. . go to abc7news.com. karina: this is the first accident between an is on a mess vehicle in a firetruck -- an baton of his vehicle and a firetruck -- an autonomous vehicle and a firetruck. the collision happened late last night when a fire trick -- truck hit a cruise car with a passenger inside. abc 7 news reportedly had belinda's is in the newsroom with the details. -- leanne melendez is in the newsroom with the details. do we know who is at fault here? lyanne: we do not. in the meantime, that passenger we want to say asked to go to the hospital last night. we do not know that person's condition. we know this afternoon the fire chief was at city hall, meeting with the mayor and a few supervisors regarding what to do about this incident. this was the scene last night at
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the intersection of polk and church streets. >> can you dispatch a battalion chief? we've been involved in an accident versus a cruise vehicle. there was one person in the vehicle. >> did it involve a firetruck? lyanne: lyanne:, the firetruck was apparently headed southbound that had moved into the northbound lane, something trucks do to get around other cars. media, "one of our cars into the intersection on a green light and was struck by an emergency vehicle that appeared to be in route to an emergency scene." one of the firefighters involved in the accident told police what helaims the cruise vehicle did at the intersection. he says "it looks like it lurched." the california vehicleode says it is illegal in california not to yield the right-of-way to emergency vehicle voting with its lights and -- approaching with its lights and sirens.
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if i'm driving this car and i hear sirens or i see flashing lights, there is no way that i'm going to move this car, even if i have the green light. still, it does not mean they get they pass. it is the responsibility of the fire department make sure that intersection is free and clear. look at this video, shot today at precisely the same intersection. cars have already pulled over and stopped. the fire = truck most of the wrong side of the road to get past them. as the truck moves through the intersection, it moves back into his lane right before going through a cruise vehicle, which, by the way, does not immediately stop, like it is supposed to. it eventually comes to a complete stop but only after the firetruck has passed it. this afternoon, the mayor called for a meeting at city hall to hear from the fire chief. we were there. i know you are, but have you
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determined what caused the accident? >> this is under investigation. lyanne: present aaron peskin has cautioned this could happen. he was at the meeting. aaron: i am waiting for the police to determine fault. lyanne: the city is waiting to get that full report to decide what action, if any, they can take. i want to add one more thing, cruise sai cars have driven 3 million driverless miles without a single fatality or life-threatening injury. in the newsroom, leanne melendez -- lyanne melendez, abc 7 news . karina: thank you. i asked former speaker nancy pelosi if you would get in a driverless taxi. rep. hello see: i must say -- rep. peliosi: i must say w see one of them, i get a little freaked out.
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[laughter] in some respects, and i respect this, the technology, when worker, can be safer than a mistake made by a driver. but on the other hand, we have to make sure that we have every check in there to make sure that that is the case. karina: you can see what it is like inside a driverless car. lyanne melendez put both cruise and waymo to the test. you can check it out on our website, abc7news.com. larry: the california department of justice is investigating a deadly police shooting at a marijuana dispensary every -- dispensary. their presence indicates a person who was killed was not armed. police responded around 3:30 a.m. to velvet cannabis on sunrise drive. officers found multiple subjects at the dispensary, and neighbors will go to the sound of 10 to 15 shots, so that they are not used
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to. fred: we don't get too many problems here. everybody's got their cameras out. everybody is pretty neighborly. so we are reporting things that go on. larry: authorities not releasing any information about the person that died. the state department of justice is investigating, because that is a requirement in a time police shoot and kill so that armed. karina: a new round of charges related to the scandals involving the police departments in antioch and pittsburg. a short of time -- a short time ago, bribery and obstruction of justice charges were announced. five officers, four from antioch and one from pittsburg, were accused. that is a day after two people were arrested, associated with both departments. abc 7 news reporter anser hassan looks at how the indictments can impact other cases now being investigated. anser: the fbi indictments unsealed on thursday against antioch and pittsburg police officers will likely have a big
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impact on cases that are currently underway. carmella: i know the conspiracy charge from a part of the chart includes overt acts of and into use excessive force against individuals, and i believe trent allen and terryon pugh are identified. zach: carmella come on you -- carmella attorneys. eric rombough is one of the officers indicted. rombough is set to appear in court next friday in a case related to terryon pugh and realtors. the hearing will explore possible violations of california's racial justice act. carmagno wants the evidence the feds have. carmella: my hope is that now the indictments have come down and are unsealed that we can finally access the evidence they have against those individualofficers involved in my client''s case. anser: the fourth indicted claims eric romboug
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amiri, and devon wenger conspired to intimidate. officer amiri, on enjoying the day off, but -- them for -- with an officer "exactly, blood for greg: to police the police is exactly what we are asking the government to do. anser: criminal justice professor greg woodson says in an era of social media and smart phones, there has been a shift in professor was that the text messages written by peace officers though the officers' state of minds and in their own words. greg: it becomes a lot easier to prove overt act of the criminal conspiracy. anser: ellen mcdonnell calls the
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fbi investigation historic but warned more indictments could come, since the fbi says there investigation is still ongoing. ellen: it takes years and years to find justice for the victims of these officers, and of police agencies that turned a blind eye to this misconduct and corruption. anser: we reached out to the officers -- the attorneys for the officers for comment and have not heard back. in the east bay, anser hassan, abc 7 news. karina: san jose averted a strike but there is still work to be done to repair relationships. larry: later, we will be joined live by 7 on your side's michael finney. pg&e is switching strategies when it comes to preventing wildfires
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larry: in the south bay, new details released in a shooting that what they say does a police officer in critical condition the suspect in that shooting made his first appearance in court. abc 7 news reporter zach fuentes was there and has more. zach: court documents revealing more about what led up to the wednesday shooting that left a thing as a police officer in critical but stable condition. we lease were called to the san jose home by the suspect's wife for a family disturbance. now the dish of the turning really more about that woman and her call for help. d.a. rosen: a cry, pregnant woman reported that she was being assaulted by her husband. two san jose officers arrived at the same. zach: that woman's husband, suspect gabriel carreras, was drunk and said he did not want the baby.
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carreras shot one of the responding details. d.a. rosen: striking her below her bullet-proof vest and causing serious bodily injury to her intestine,:, liver, gallbladder, and spine. zach: the officer's partner full her to safety. -- pulled her to safety. d.a. rosen: she told investigators that her husband tried to punch her in the stomach and blamed the police shooting on her. zach: she told investigators she was able to escape on home during the standoff after her husband fell asleep and dropped the gun to his side, which she grabbed on her way out, a web and the 44-year-old convicted felon was not supposed to have. d.a. rosen: gabriel carreras faces life in is and if convicted of convicted murderer of a police officer, use of a firearm causing great bodily injury, assault by force likely to cause great bodily injury, destruction of a phone during an emergency call, negligent discharge of a firearm, and of
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course being a felon in possession of a firearm. zach: carreras was denied bail and his first court appearance friday. police spoke about their colleague. sgt. garib hard. the officer's status will remain critical for quite some time. zach: the public defender representing carreras did not have a comment on today's arraignment. carreras is expected back in court october 27. . in san jose, zach fuentes, abc 7 news. karina: stops ended the mixed, regaining some of the ground lost earlier in the week. however, it was not enough to make up for the worst week so far this month. here's a look at the numbers. the dow closed at 34500, up points. nasdaq was down 26 points, and the s&p 500 was flat. despite coming to an agreement and averting a strike, there are some lingering divisions in san jose between the city and its workers. abc 7 news southbay reporter
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dustin dorsey explains how this may impact relationships going forward. dustin: one of the largest strikes in san jose history may have been averted this week, but tensions remain high between mayor matt mahan and the 4500 city workers. >> we call on mayor mahan to step up and to earnestly begin the work of moving this city forward in a positive and truthful fashion. rather than whining about what is wrong. dustin: may or may hand called out his city council colleagues this week, saying they did not do their job by voting in favor of a city employee wage increase and other benefits. he said it may lead to future cups, layoffs, and deficits. this struck a nerve. >> a recent published report b working partnerships usa shows that the city is more than capable of affording competitive wages and increased benefits for our employees. >> the read review here right now, the zero-sum game, pitting
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workers, our city workers, public service against city services is complete nonsense. >> i do want to thank and congratulate the majority of this city council for doing the right thing and being on the right side of history. dustin: this report city workers are excited to celebrate a win, and they say it is for the good of everyone. >> the truth is that the city can't afford to make these investments. >> the mayor is fueling a false narrative that there is a choice between residents and the servants who provide services. this is damaging and untrue. dustin: when we asked about this working relationship going forward, mayor maya says see stancebn -- mahan says he stands. mayor mahan: we have an opportunity to be truthful to our workers and
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our community deserves to know the facts and have some sense of services will be cut and whose taxes will be raised. dustin: decisions that may be raised in the future here in thing is a few dustin dorsey, abc 7 news. larry: we get is a most upon us. a lot of people focusing on hurricane hilary. probably will impact southern california more than us. we may escape a little bit. karina: hopefully. we will see. let's check in with meteorologist sandhya patel. what's the latest? sandhya: it is still a category 4 right, and for the first time, tropical storm watches for southern california. it is expected to weaken as it approaches southern california as we get. for us, we will see higher committee, starting sunday. it's a have been muggy to humid, as you know. right now on live doppler 7, we have cloud cover on multiple levels. we had an isolated thunderstorm north of lake county. this afternoon, he has since dissipated. area of low pressure setting off because i have been drying up some of the moms and moisture, which is resulting in thunderstorms in the sierra and the northern california
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mountains. it is also bringing us what we call muggy to humid weather for the bay area. the dew point, measure of the moisture in the air have come down. we had mid 60's earlier in the week. now we have low 60's from oakland to san jose. here's a live view from our mount tam can, -- cam. 68 palo alto 75 degrees. in typical san francisco fashion, we have clouds from our pier 39 camera. 74 degrees in santa rosa and napa right now, 82 fairfield. calder, you are at 77 from the howard camera, we see a mix of clouds and sun over the shark tank. heating of england, mild at the coast for the weekend, high temperatures -- heating up inland, mild at the coast for the weekend, high temperatures. isolated showers are possible can still humid with a chance of
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showers for the bay area on monday. as we go hour-by-hour tomorrow morning, it will be a combination of fog and drizzle. tomorrow night going into sunday, you start to notice an increase in the cloud cover. humidity comes up sunday, and this is where, sunday afternoon could see nicely a shower or two, certainly a better opportunity for the bay area monday, especially in our inland communities. down south, they are loo over five inches in-home spring -- in palm springs, several inches in southern california in a short amount of time, which is why the concern is that excessive rain will lead to sick of gift letting down south. morning temperatures here, 50's, 60's, drizzle, father. tomorrow afternoon in the south bay, 89 go right, 85 -- 89 gilroy, mid to upper 60's coast
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side, so really mild weather. 71 downtown san francisco. north bay 80's for novato, san rafael, 84 in vallejo, heading into the east bay, 76 oakland, 82 fremont. 92 pleasanton, 92 livermore, and in fairfield, accuweather 7-day forecast, the warming trend for the weekend, temperatures in the mid-90's inland. humidity going up sunday into monday, and there's a possibility of showers, but nothing like what southern california is going to have to deal with. mid week, it dries out, karina and larry. larry: thank you, sandhya. karina: coming up next, one on one with nancy pelosi. she updates us about her husband
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karina: a packed house in san francisco today for a discussion led by congresswoman nancy pelosi on the topic of gender equality. the roundtable discussion focused on gender justice issues in san francisco and across america. it has been 103 years since the 90 them and that was ratified, granted women the right to vote -- 19th amendment was ratified, granting women the right to vote. i got to speak with her on issues like abortion. rep. pelosi: our children, and our grandchildren will have fewer rights than we have because of our court.
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it is sad that we are going the opposite direction of expanding freedom, which is what our country has always done. karina: we also talked about her husband paul and his recovery following an attack at their san francisco home last october. rep. pelosi: he's probably about 3/4 of the way there. he's good, knows that he is on the path, and that he has to do his therapy. we are forever grateful to san francisco general for the care they gave him that night. larry: in less than an hour, the president and first lady are expected to arrive in reno, nevada, scheduled to visit lake tahoe, and from there, they will fly to maui to assess the wildfire damage and recovery. that will be on monday, then they will return to lake tahoe and will not be back to the white house until next saturday. coming up next, the latest on the search recovery efforts in hawaii. it has been 10 days since the fires leveled in area. michael: power shut off to east bay residents with no warning. i michael finney was set on your
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♪ larry: as california braces for the peak of wildfire season, pg&e is switching strategies to avoid sparking fires. the utility is now focused less on tree trimming and more on circuit breakers to cut power to a possible damaged power line. karina: in the east bay, people say the system is too sensitive, causing constant power outages. they tell michael finney it is beyond annoying. >> we are getting a ton of complaints. the utility says it is all about wildfire safety, enhanced safety sensors that de-energized power lines if something hits a wire. locals complain the system keeps shutting down power for no apparent reason. the running joke, a mosquito must have landed on a power line. >> i hear my neighbor's generator down the hill. >> karen woke up to the sound of a power generator down the street. >> here we go again, power is out. >> it was yet another power
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outage in her lafayette neighborhood. >> in eight days, it was off three different times. >> power keeps going out at richard's home. >> happened about seven or nine times in a month and a half, two months. it's unacceptable. >> steve lost count of power outages that began in early july. >> working from home and the power has gone off, i am waiting around. is it going to come on? you don't know. >> no communication to say, hey, we are sorry your power went out, we want to tell you why. >> pg&e says it is trying to prevent wildfires in high-risk fire zones, like the woodsy areas of contra costa county. it cut back on tree trimming but enhanced powerline safety settings, or epss. if a tree branch hits a powerline, sensors would instantly cut power to the wire, preventing a potential wildfire, especially on hot, windy days.
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>> it's not a hot today, there is no wind, and all of a sudden, there is quiet. my computer shut off. >> the summer has been mild. residents say sensors seem to shut their power down for no reason. >> 's are so sensitive, if anything bumps it -- new lines are so sensitive, if anything bumps it, it turns the power off. >> did a mosquito hit the wire? >> pg&e says it is adjusting the sensors but did not say if it found any real damage to power lines to warrant outages. safety sensors control power flow to 1.8 million households across northern california. last weekend, it cut power to 8000 danville residents for six hours overnight. >> this is supposed to prevent ignitions from occurring but it is a major inconvenience on customers and also can be a safety issue for people that rely on their electricity for, you know, medical devices.
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>> katie of the utility reform networks as pg&e should insulate powerlines instead. pg&e says the sensor program is working. powerline ignitions dropped 68% last year. still, apg&e report outages went up 44% last year and lasted 71% longer compared to a five-year average. pg&e tells us the number of outages residents in this area are experiencing is unacceptable. while we are doing everything we can to improve reliability, having the power turn off at the first sign of a hazard is preventing potential wildfires. residents say strengthened powerlines -- says strengthen powerlines, do not shut them off. >> i really have no patience for this anymore. >> pg&e has agreed to meet next tuesday with residents of lafayette, moraga, or render,
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and others who have experienced repeated power outages, promising to answer questions. i posted the information you need if you want to visit that on our website at abc7news.com. if you had outages at your place, let me know about it. karina: i am sure you are going to hear from a lot of people. larry: the latest on the maui wildfires. the number of survivors in shelters has been cut in half as officials move more people into stable housing. fema says more than 1000 federal responders have been deployed to hawaii. the governor, josh green, says he expects rebuilding to cost at least $5 billion. we are getting a clear picture of the destruction today. melissa adan > on maui with a look satellite images showing the destruction in lahaina, homes and businesses in the town decimated. unofficial cause to what ignited the nation' deadliest wildfires in the last century under investigation.
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while clues have emerged pointing to downed power lines from extreme high went, hawaiian electric -- high winds, hawaiian electric conducting an investigation amid lawsuits filed against them. the state attorney general's office announcing they are working with a third party to launch their own probe. more than 100 people do not survive and hundreds more are still unaccounted for. this is more than half of the burn areas have been surveyed. the number of search dogs doubling from 20 to 40 two help speed up the grim recovery effort. as we learn more incredible stories of survival, randy sharing with abc how he was helping fight the fires while standing on two broken feet. >> i knew that my feet were in bad shape, but i did not have time to worry about myself. i go, i can do something, i can help these people, i can put out these fires, i know i can. >> three days later, randy reuniting with his son, who also managed to survive.
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the governor expected to make an address later today amid concerns about the future of the island's economy as maui heavily relies on tourism. >> for us to be able to survive, when he tourism. >> hotspots in some smoldering fires continued to burn on the island of maui as firefighters are still working to fully contain all of the blazes that sparked last week. melissa adan, abc news, maui. larry: within the next few hours, an airplane will land in the bay area carrying shelter animals from maui. dogs and cats awaiting adoption will be arriving at the airport tonight. the emergency flight part of a larger effort to make room for an influx of homeless pets at the maui humane society. about 100 animals are expected to land tonight and will be taken to shelters. >> we've got camels rating, pictures and names up. most have already been spayed and neutered. we will give them a quick time
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to decompress and we will look them over, make sure they are ready to go. we are adoption fees back to maui humane society. larry: all of t puppies you see in these pictures are available for adoption, waiting for their forever homes. there's a lot of ways you can help those affected by the wildfires on maui. at abc7news.com, you will find a list of fundraisers and charities, these are all verified, that will put your donations to good use. karina: a new effort launched to build a better bay area by ending childhood poverty on the peninsula. it involves former congresswoman jackie spear. luz pena emceed her summit and spoke to leaders who believe this plan can be replicated nationwide. >> after 15 years in congress, jackie spear has announced her new mission. >> we are going to build a new generation of kids that will not ever know poverty. >> on
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palo alto to meet some of the families she is hoping to help through her foundation. in 2022, the national institutes of health published a study pointing to poverty in early childhood impacting infants' brain activity and lower school achievement. spear is hoping to change that, starting by helping 200 families early next year. >> we are going to provide to newborns and their families in san mateo county $300 a month for a full year. we have the funding in place, the foundation is putting up half the money, and the county through two supervisors and their discretionary moneys are putting up the other. and then, we are going to raise the money for year two and three. >> families in san mateo county will qualify for what she is calling the baby bonus. everyday, stanford. -- a stanford pediatrician, lisa chamberlain, sees the need for this. >> 80% of families in san mateo county on medicaid -- >> san mateo county is the
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fourth wealthiest county in america, home to over 700,000 residents, including 22 billionaires. according to spears' foundation, 27,000 children live in poverty. a princeton professor was a keynote speaker at the summit. he believes change can come from here. >> we need to do three things, deepen our investments in anti-poverty programs, especially affordable housing in this community. but we also need to start attacking exploitation of the poor and the labor market, the financial markets, and the housing markets. we have to end segregation. we have to embrace broad, inclusive communities. >> representative kevin mullin is also breaking in a bill that would change the federal poverty formula. >> the current federal poverty line was created during the great society under the lyndon johnson administration, 1964, and it has not been fundamentally updated since then. >> spears' goal is for san mateo county to serve as a national example. >> if we could do here, we can
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replicate it around the country. >> in san mateo county, luz pena, abc 7 news. larry: up next, from a san francisco bathtub to a fish farm in norway. next, meet featuring fresh artisan bread piled high with tender roast beef, smothered with melty provolone cheese, just enough chipotle mayo and served with hot au jus for dipping. try the roast beef or pastrami french dips today. only at togo's.
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the bay area could have a major impact on a critical global food source. the system urges sophisticated cameras and artificial intelligence. larry: to test the original concept, developers used something you probably have in your own home. dan ashley gives us a sneak peek. dan: it's a lot of paddling to reach the fjords of norway from a small bathtub on telegraph hill. for one entrepreneur from the bay area, all it took was the thought of artificial intelligence and fish to make him dive right in. >> one of the ideas i was looking into was fish farming, so had a friend of mine tell me about that and started off with a prototype literally in my apartment bathtub. dan: he says his background includes helping develop ai for cancer detection. his early experiments with the bathtub fish camera convinced him that similar ai technology can also help make one of the
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largest food industries on the planet more sustainable. >> the idea being that if you can measure the size and growth of the fish and figure out how much food turned into how much fish, you could use that to optimize the production of the fish farms. dan: this is actually our current production prototype. what you are looking at here is stereo lenses of the camera. >> the results -- dan: the result is aquabyte, a start with r&d headquartered on the san francisco's embarcadero. darrell witherspoon says the dual lens camera design works with ai to monitor the fish with amazing precision. >> we are allowed the camera either horizontally or vertically ideal location and we use that location to sample fish. dan: the work has taken their team and technology to commercial fish farms in norway. besides monitoring growth, they
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say the camera system is taught to recognize everything from parasites to abnormal changes in how the fish are swimming. and they see the benefits of driving a new, healthier era of ai driven farming. >> if you look at the earth being covered by 70% water, we have only produced about 5% of our protein from the oceans, and that represents a tremendous opportunity for us to produce a lot more dan:dan: sustainable fish hoping to make a splash with a technology that all started in a humble bathtub on san francisco's telegraph hill. in san francisco, dan ashley, abc 7 news. larry: aquabyte currently working in chile, the u.k., iceland, and the far islands, which are part of debt -- and the faroe islands, which are part of denmark. who would have ever dreamed it up, right? cutting edge technology. karina: let's talk about what's coming up next. we are going to update the weekend forecast one last tim
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plus one line of free mobile for an entire year. it's the mobile made free event-happening now. get started for just $49.99 a month. plus, ask how to get one free line of unlimited mobile. comcast business, powering possibilities. larry: happening tonight, start of the third and final weekend closure of all liens in
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eastboun i-80. we mapped out t pt that's been affected from highway four to cummingskay in contra costa county. the green highlights are the detour options, so you have highway four, the cummings skyway, 680 and 780. caltrans is repaving interstate 80. it takes a weekend to repave one lane, so that's why this is time-consuming. the closure expected to start at 9:00 p.m. tonight and last until 5:00 a.m. monday. karina: tgif, happy friday. larry: yes, the weekend is upon us, sandhya patel. sandhya: it is indeed. let's take a look at live doppler 7. we still have some tropical clouds lingering across the bay area, bringing that humidity this weekend. tomorrow is hotter, inland highs in the low to mid 9 along the coast mild with cloud cover lingering. on sunday, that heat is around but the biggest thing you are going to notice as the humidity comes up, isolated showers not
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out of the question sunday as remnants of hurricane hilary move in our direction. monday a better chance of seeing showers, although not much. accuweather 7-day forecast, certainly higher humidity sunday, monday, and the possibility of a few showers towards the middle and latter part of the workweek, we will start to notice less in the way of cloud cover and dryer air, so we will start to use that community. larry and karina? larry: in sports, let's talk giants. gabe kapler not in the dugout for the giants in atlanta. the skipper has admitted frustration is rising with every loss. he was suspended for a super thin, flexible patch with maximum otc strength lidocaine that contours to the body to relieve pain right where it hurts.
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>> now, abc 7 sports with larry beil. larry: giants manager gabe kapler admits he is getting frustrated as the losses keep mounting up. he was suspended for tonight's game against atlanta because after being ejected tuesday, he went back to the dugout. returning after you have been tossed, that is not allowed. giants starting a three-game set with the atlanta braves, who have the best record in baseball. matt olson in the first, hard-hit ball, brandon crawford, got one out but could not start the double play. 1-0 braves. that's all the support that spencer strider out of columbus, ohio needed. joc pederson striking out. big swing and a miss. michael conforti, you will all get nothing and like it. strider with 10 strikeouts in
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seven innings. braves with a 4-0 win, giants held to two hits. the freeze, that's like my favorite promotion in baseball, that poor guy, he's not going to beat the freeze. 49ers are getting ready for tomorrow night's preseason game against the denver broncos. fred warner, heart and soul of the defense. they may have to rely on him more until the contract situation with nick bosa is worked out. the expectation is he will sign before the first regular-season game. warner led the nine in tackles last year. his best football ever will be on display this season. >> it's not like some type of poster i put up or some saying i say, i wake up in the morning, i am excited to go to work. how can i get better? what is something i can work on in my game? i genuinely think this is going to be my best year, you know, just because i am always trying to get better, that's it, you know. it's no secret sauce, it's just
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trying to grind. larry: guy is tremendous. steve kerr leading team usa against greece in the u.s. basketball showcase. cam johnson, nice reverse lamp. johnson finished with 13 points. with authority. tyrese haliburton, the beautiful fake and the drop off to paolo banchero. later, team usa on the move. walker-kessler during it down easily. easy victory for steve kerr and team usa. sabrina ionescu is so popular, she already has her own sneaker line, maybe two popular. she had her shoes stolen from the mgm arena in vegas. sabrina can get more of her nike branded shoes, but she really wants the insoles returned, because those are custom-made. she took to twitter to ask that the insoles please get returned. former nfl star marshawn lynch has a new job, sort of,
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courtside commentator for slam ball. remember slam ball? one thing about marshawn lynch, you never, ever know what he is going to say. >> look at the smile on his face. [laughter] little bro, i see you, little bro! little bro got me going. if this was so his coins would have been knocked out. oh, i thought we was in the game! timeout. they called a timeout, right? i am going to call a timeout for y'all. larry: marshawn lynch is a gift to broadcasting. as long as you have the button where in case something inappropriate is sometimes mentioned, beep that. that was fantastic. karina: i could watch that kind of basketball with him commentating, with the trampoline, it's pretty good. larry: you've got a bit of everything. karina: coming up tonight on abc
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from the alex trebek stage at sony pictures studios, this is the... [cheers and applause] here is our fifth group of "jeopardy!" champions-- a pension calculation developer from cary, north carolina... a consultant from plano, texas... and a meteorologist from minneapolis, minnesota... and now here is the host of "jeopardy!"--ken jennings! thank you, johnny. welcome back to the tournament of champions. in yesterday's game, 4-day champion john focht made the most of the two daily doubles in the double jeopardy! round, cruising into final jeopardy! with the first runaway game of the tournament. today we welcome three more great champs in eric, jaskaran, and jackie,
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