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solutions to the problem and silicon valley pride wraps up in grand fashion on abc7 news starts now. >> building a better bay area moving forward, finding solutions. this is abc7 news. >> when people come to san francisco they want to be able to go to a world class store. that's part of the experience today. >> that experience is changing as nordstrom bids farewell to the city. shoppers say they're sad to see it go, but one leader is already looking to the future. and what's next for retail? downtown thanks for joining us. i'm j.r. stone. happening now, san francisco's flagship nordstrom store is officially closed and today marked the store's final day in business after 35 years downtown , the doors closed for good just moments ago at 5:00, nordstrom opened at the corner of fifth and market streets back in october of 1988. the store

spanned an impressive 312,000ft■!s, occupying five floors of the san francisco center mall, according to the san francisco chronicle. the store did $2 million in business on its first day. nordstom officials called it their strongest opening in history, but that luster faded in recent years with a lack of foot traffic in the area and safety concerns. today's closure of nordstrom comes just after a month after the westfield sign was removed from the mall. that came after the owner turned over the property to its lender in june after diminishing sales. today abc7 news reporter cornell bernard talked to shoppers and city officials about the end of an era. >> it's a sad day because it's a wonderful store. it's been an anchor in san francisco. >> julie was one of the first shoppers riding that signature spot escalator sunday for nordstrom, his last day of business at the san francisco center. lesley simmons and her

daughter hadn't heard the news. >> i didn't realize that today was the last day. and i guess i'm glad that we're here unexpectedly, just to, you know, walk around one last time. >> the once vibrant store is now desolate with plenty of empty displays. >> it's kind of upsetting, you know, being a native of san francisco and just seeing how downtown is like just kind of going away. >> nordstrom announced in may it was closing the store due to declining sales. employees say they were not surprised. >> it is definitely partially due to the crime in the area and covid has a big impact on a lot of businesses. this flagship store opened back in 1988 and you better believe back then it was a really big deal. >> nordstrom can't put its finger on how many customers have crowded into the store. this weekend, someone estimated 60,000 for friday's opening. abc seven news was there for nordstrom's grand opening back in the 80s. denise remembers it well. you know, just coming up

and just, you know, the escalator there and just being excited about it today. there's a large police presence on market street, the future of the san francisco center mall is unknown. >> i will say this. you know, we have some serious issues that we have to work on here in san francisco. >> supervisor matt dorsey is optimistic. >> san francisco has always had ups and downs, but i'm going to tell you, we always come back and i'm not going to lose my optimism about my district or my city in san francisco, cornell, bernard, abc7 news. >> i was there earlier. certainly a different look. well, as nordstrom says so long to san francisco, ikea is celebrating its first weekend of business just a block away. the new store along market street opened wednesday. it focuses on home furnishing accessories and small space living. this is the first ikea to open in the bay area in 20 years. it's been a deadly weekend on bay area freeways. authorities are investigating five deadly crashes that all happened

overnight. one in redwood city, two in san francisco. and two in e rth bay. chp says in saint helena, a woman was thrown from a vehicle near nichelini winery . and in forestville, an 18 year old pedestrian was killed in a hit and run. the crash in redwood city left one person dead and two others hurt. it happened just before three this morning on southbound 280 and eastbound 92. chp says it appears a black suv hit a concrete overpass barrier, then veered back into traffic where it was slammed into by a white honda cr-v person inside the black suv died. two people in the white honda have minor injuries, according to officers. in san francisco, a person was killed along highway 101 near silver avenue just before the 280 connection. police say just before the crash, that was around 3 a.m, they received a report of a wrong-way driver on a nearby vermont street. this

crash is still under investigation and along 280 also in san francisco, chp says a pedesta syrian was hit and killed. this happened just north of the 101. connector. investigators are trying to figure out why the person was walking along the freeway, say on the heels of those tragedies. regional medical center in san jose held a valuable event today to promote safety for motorcyclists. the event gave life saving information on what riders and the general public can do to help accident victims . that included lessons on how to handle traumatic injuries that happen after a crash. >> we taught some of those bleeding control techniques how to pack the wound, how to apply a tourniquet. it all these things that can be done which will then help save a life or prevent further injury from happening. the idea came from an e.r. nurse at wrmc who also rides motorcycles.

>> soquel's. he realized that only a few of his fellow riders knew how to respond in a crash. a more after, more than a more than five hour stand off, that is with a man ended with a gun piece safely. that man had a gun and it ended peacefully in san francisco's south of market area this morning. police say the man fired a gun as officers tried to detain him at 530 this morning on brannan street near seventh street. no one was hit. the suspect crawled underneath the car where he was soon surrounded by the swat team. police negotiate was got the man to surrender without incident. at about 1030. also in san francisco, glide community gathered not far away in the tenderloin to have an honest and tough conversation about drug use in the city. this month is international overdose awareness month. today glide organized an overdose prevention panel to talk about how to confront this alarming issue in the bay area. this is not easy. >> we've never lived through a

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month, joinbc sews reporter zach fuentes and hassan as they bring you the parade live, starting at 11 a.m. on september 10th. join right now by meteorologist francis dinglasan. i will say i wanted to check out the store the nordstrom. so i walked outside the store. nothing to see there but beautiful day outside. >> oh my gosh. it's so gorgeous out side. it's one of those rare days where you don't need a sweatshirt at the golden gate bridge or anywhere around the city. so tourists in town have a bit of a treat. here's live. doppler seven satellite radar image. so high pressure is building and what it's helping to do is push the clouds away to the coast. and it's also compressing the marine layer. but it's also bringing us some unhealthy air quality for sensitive groups in parts of the north bay near san rafael's, where we see the orange, other parts of the bay area are good to moderate. so there is another air quality advisor, as you can see here from this live camera

from sutro. the hazy conditions is in the sky. so moderate to good air quality expected tomorrow with another advisory through monday. and then it looks like tuesday, we'll start to see better air quality for most everyone. temperatures right now are really warm inland. we're seeing some 90s in fairfield and 92, brentwood, 90. and it's warm. also in livermore, 89, san francisco now 64 degrees, but plenty of sunshine and temperatures have warmed up compared to 24 hours ago. anywhere from actually zero in half. moon bay 21 degrees warmer in san francisco. so and up to six degrees warmer in santa rosa and livermore. tomorrow we're going to warm up even a little bit more beautiful live shot also here from the east bay hills. you see there is a little bit of a marine layer out there. so it's a very compressed marine layer. we will get some clouds overnight, but limited spreading into the inland area. so tomorrow will be another hazy, sunny and even slightly warmer day, very hot inland on wednesday and then

much cooler. so some relief by the end of the week. lows tonight generally in the 50s. and notice not much cloud cover near half moon bay 56 upper 50s for most everyone with clear skies overnight and then tomorrow we'll start to see the mid 90s and some inland areas like fairfield and antioch, san francisco up to 74. but the breeze will keep things cool at half moon bay, 64 degrees down town. oakland 78. san jose 84. santa rosa. 92 degrees. we're going to see less of a marine layer, more sunshine monday into tuesday day. so that's going to get even warmer. temperatures really climbing. and you'll notice we'll see mid 90s by tuesday and it's going to get even warmer on wednesday. here's the accuweather seven day forecast. so another hazy and warmer day tomorrow. so the warmth builds the heat really peaks on wednesday near triple digits inland around the bay mid 80s great day to head to the

beach if you can. it'll be in the 70s so you won't need a jacket in san francisco. it's going to be warm and if you want some relief, it will be cooler and closer to average for next weekend, which is already the labor day weekend for the holiday. what fall? >> we'll just keep summer going. thank you so much, frances. chris alvarez here with the preview of sports. let's bring on faldo because i'm ready. >> i'm ready for football season. coming up in sports, just two weeks until the niners kick things off in pittsburgh and the swing of a lifetime. california kid. he won the little league world series. we'll show you in sports. >> this all new aria is an elegant easy with 389 horsepower . >> it's electric with an edge. >> get 2.99% financing for 36 months on aria, more moments are made at home, so why not enjoy them with new flooring and countertops from the floor store bay area flooring authority, our labor day sale is on now up to 50% off store wide. >> no interest for 18 months and

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purdy said they cannot wait for week one. we're so excited. >> long, pre-season, long training camp to finally be able to like kind of, you know, tighten down the hatches and just solely focus on one opponent. we're excited for it. you know, pittsburgh is they've put great stuff on film. their starters played like an entire half the other night. you know, we're very, very locked in on them. they're going to be a hell of a team. and i just really can't wait for that environment opening in pittsburgh. terrible towels are going to be everywhere. it's going to be playing great music. i haven't played there yet in the nfl. so really looking forward to it. obviously excited to get rolling for pittsburgh and to have everyone, you know, be able to play on the field at the same time, you know, with christian george deebo, be like everyone have trent out there as well. so it's something that we're all looking forward to. we're really excited about. it felt like camp has been, you know, pretty solid last couple of weeks and, you know, we're like i said, man, we're ready, ready to get this thing rolling. >> it is about that time a's and white sox on the south side. benny the bull trying to be

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