>> it's all about building a better bay area in oakland today, new funding and some new events could help bring much needed foot traffic back downtown and across the city. obviously that would be a big boon to businesses. it's not just about money though. abc7 news reporter answer hassan with a look at what's behind this new program and so excited to actually be here today announcing active bay oakland in an effort to support local neighborhoods and businesses. >> activate oakland is an attempt to encourage community driven events to drive up foot traffic. when we activate our streets. >> this is how we keep each other safe. we get to know our community and of course we deter criminals from coming in. and at the same time we are pumping the economy with funding. >> the city is allocating $400,000 to fund the program with money earmarked from economic and workforce development department grants of up to $10,000 are available for music. in the park is an example

of what the city wants to see. other activities include block parties, movie nights, pop up shops and dance or exercise events. we have the oakland museum celebrating tilly summerfield hosted a dance battle in february for black history month through a similar type of program, i was able to pay all the dancers. >> i was able to give away merch from the black panthers. i was able to, like, really give back in a tangible way. and so through these opportunities, we are able to activate the space in a way that's it. that gives the power back to the people. >> the city says, activate oakland also has an equity component to make sure events are held across the city. >> we've been really intentional of making sure that these dollars are going to communities that have not received them before because all of our all parts of oakland are beautiful and we need to make sure we amplify that. >> the application process is now open. the deadline to apply is october 12th. the event must take place between the end of october and august of next year in oakland. anson hassan, abc seven news. >> well, san francisco put its

best foot forward for the mega tech conference dreamforce. so now the question is if the city can transform for visitors, why can't it be like this every day ? abc7 news reporter suzannephan took the question to mayor london breed to get her reaction. suzanne so kristin, mayor breed pushed back. >> she said the city did not go through a major transformation just for dreamforce. she says san francisco is cleaned up for every single convention and overall things are getting better. it's the final day of dreamforce, so-called trailblazers are still trying to get as much as possible out of their experian bounce. >> a lot of i talk. i think that was the word of the day. it's been absolutely epic. great event, less than 24 hours earlier, salesforce ceo marc benioff sat down with governor gavin newsom to talk about what he's seeing in san francisco. >> this is probably the cleanest i've ever seen san francisco. >> it's amazing how clean the streets are. listen to this. why can san francisco not be like this every single day? >> the governor replied that it

is possible. he said it's up to the city of san francisco and its leaders. we asked mayor london breed to respond to that and benioff's claim that dreamforce s made the city's transformation possible. >> it's not just because of dreamforce. there are other conventions. this is what we do for every convention that comes to san francisco, breed says conventions are key to the city's economic recovery, and she claims things have improved. so my push back is, you know, that san francisco is changing, things are getting better. the mayor admits that the city still sees challenges in the tenderloin and south of market. part of what i am doing is not pointing the finger at anyone but rolling up my sleeves to take full responsibility and do everything we can to address those issues. >> issues like drug use, homeless and crime. >> and we are seeing some impacts, especially with daytime open air drug dealing, using and other issues. but we are aggressively doing everything we can. and i think over time we're going to see some significant

improvements in fact, i feel like they're already happening back to dreamforce. >> i think san francisco looks great. yoshinori and megan aguayo live and work in san francisco and attended this year's dreamforce. they noticed a big difference in and around moscone center. >> yeah, i think they did a good job cleaning up for dreamforce hjorth's to be honest, i think people would like to exaggerate how bad san francisco has gotten. >> dreamforce attendees from all across the globe have had varying impressions of san francisco. i heard things, but it was everything was fine. >> it is sad to see some of the things that are happening in the city, but you know, this is kind of like i think it's just having everywhere. >> mayor breed says jpmorgan chase hosted its convention in san francisco and wrote about its incredible experiences in the city. breed also says many other companies have signed on to hold their convention in san francisco in the coming years. live in the newsroom, suzannephan. abc news. >> suzanne, thank you. new developments now on california's plan to fight organized retail crime. today, the board of state

and community corrections officials approved a plan to send millions in grant money to 55 cities and counties all across the state. now, fresno is getting the most with more than $23 million going to its police department here in the bay area . the biggest chunk is going to san francisco 17.3 million in state funds. the majority of that money, $15.3 million to be exact, will go to the city's police department. that will be used to hire more officers and boost crime prevention efforts. the rest is going to san franscs district attorney's office. the other bay area district attorney'ces each getting $2 million apiece. those offices are in alameda, santa clara and sonoma counties and three other local law enforcement agencies are getting money as well. $15 million to the san mateo county sheriff's office. $11 million to the santa clara county sheriff's office and $8 million to the san jose police department. new developments with a water main break that opened up a massive sinkhole in the middle of san francisco's cow hollow neighborhood. >> the city now says it will

take up to six weeks to repair everything. the hole opened up late sunday at the intersection of fillmore and green streets, while the broken pipe is fixed and inspection has shown there are all sorts of other problems that need to be dealt with. crews also need to replace sewer and gas pipelines. >> part of our mission every day here at abc7 is to highlight the efforts to build a better bay area. and today san francisco literally did that mayor london breed signing a new law to speed up housing projects. this will unlock funds make it easier to get these projects approved and then start construction much faster. the mayor says there is still a lot of work to be done here. >> this is a very, very important first step. we know we have to do so much more. no, it is not everything. we need to do to get to the 82,000 units that san francisco needs to build in order to fulfill our commitment to the housing element. but it's an incredible start. >> today's signing took place in a market on third street that's going to be turned into hundreds of units of new housing.

>> san jose mayor matt mehan says painful cuts could be coming after the city approved new contracts for its workers earlier this week. >> we are already making modest cuts this year, but it's really the projections next year and the year after where our budget office tells us we will likely need to cut $20 million in ongoing spending. that's going to be painful. and sadly, it will disproportionately impact our most vulnerable residents unless we get very lucky and have higher than expected tax revenue. >> so mayhem was the only person who voted no. all the other city council members voted yes. and that agreement is with two unions representing 4500 workers to pay for their raises. san jose is looking to cut school crossing guards and may reduce the number of days for the bike and pedestrian friendly viva cal mayor mehan says san jose's parks and rec department is looking to outside fundraising to keep viva cal going. >> a new study out today says immigrants provide a crucial and profound beneficial impact on

life and business in santa clara county. today, county leaders hailed that report, compiled by the american immigration council . that is a washington based nonprofit that and advocacy group the study looked into the role that immigrants play in the region's labor force business sector, as well as consumer spending. >> the silicon valley right here offer our immigrants opportunity of hope. and in return, these hardworking immigrants do more than their share in terms of contributing to the economic boom of the county. >> according to the study, immigrants make up 40% of the county's population. but contribute 54% of its annual gross domestic product. in 2021, immigrants accounted for 67% of the region's science tech and engineering workers. 64% of its manufacturing workers and 56% of professional service workers. >> this afternoon, bart's board of directors will be getting an update on the next generation of its faregates. here's a rendering of what the new gates will look like. the agency hopes

they'll cut down on fare evasion. you can't just jump over that gate, right? and provide better access for riders. bart awarded a contract for 775 of the gates last month. the first ones will go up at the west oakland station in december and will be tested for several months. if all goes well, installation system wide will begin next year and be completed by 2026. >> we've been working on this for a long time. coming up, a piece of star wars history could soon go the way of the death star. the fight to keep it intact. nasa uncovering more than just the secrets of the universe. the new report that came out today. and a peacock looking for a new home. the story behind wingo star. >> hi, i'm meteorologist sandhya patel. mild to warm this afternoon, but changes are on the way for the weekend. i'll have the forecast when abc7 news

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a light and magic that was founded george lucas. it's going away. >> it currently houses 3210 stios. the old facility is new. owners are retiring, but one employee would like to save the studio's history and legacy . >> abc7 news reporter cornell bernard with more from marin county. >> now the creators of the biggest smash hit of all time bring you the next episode in

the star wars saga. the empire strikes back. >> you might be surprised to know that classic and hundreds of other films were created inside this nondescript building on kerner boulevard in san rafael. >> film making and television changed forever in these facilities. >> now, home to 3210 studios, this is the former campus of industrial light and magic, the special effects company founded by george lucas. >> right after the success of star wars. george wanted to remove himself from the hollywood system and so he moved the industrial light and magic shop, which was down in van nuys for star wars up here. >> longtime employee sean howes says many props and models from movies are still here. the millennium falcon, an anchor from pirates of the caribbean, even a model of chewbacca's head . >> that's a paint and sample section of the trestle from the lone ranger up there. >> lucas relocated his campus to the presidio in 2005, and he took the original door with him now on display. after a decade,

the studio's new owners are calling it quits. they tell us 30 to 10 is simply going out of business due to adverse business conditions, including the declining use of miniature practical effects in film production and also a halt in production due to the hollywood strike. sean howes says the landlord plans to repurpose the building. >> it's a travesty. i mean, this is a historic place. the other part of it is it's a tragedy for the bay area filmmaking community. >> we reached out to the building's owner but have not heard back. sean howes says he's launching a campaign to save the campus and continue its film making legacy. >> we are in the process of setting up a go fund. me so this is probably the coolest hidden gem of this property. >> this is the original theater. it's where that cool theater sound quality was born and tested. in fact, the speakers are still on the wall. sean howes hoping to preserve all the history. >> i would encourage if people do care about this place and they care about their film and

everything to show their support of the continuation of this facility in san rafael, cornell, bernard, abc7 news. >> and disney is the parent company of industrial light and magic. and of course abc seven news. >> cruz wants to make its autonomous taxis more accessible to people in wheelchairs. and today the company unveiled what it says is the world's first wheelchair accessible self-driving vehicle. they call it the wave. people who were invited to check it out at an event today say they were impressed. this can open so many opportunities. >> basically like to have more accessible alternatives to move around. hopefully like better prices because normally like accessible transportation is much more expensive. this is very exciting to the disability community. >> cruz provided us with this video of the wave, which was designed over three years in cooperation with general motors. the autonomous car company hopes to launch it next year, starting with a pilot for a small group of users. san francisco wants a decision to allow driverless

cars on city streets to be reconsidered. and the city attorney's office formally applied for a new hearing on the california public utilities commission vote that granted an unlimited expansion of autonomous vehicles that request came after multiple events, including when a cruise car hit a fire truck injuring its passenger. >> one of a kind pet is up for adoption on the peninsula. meat wingo star, an adult domesticated peacock. a few weeks ago, he was running around a school parking lot in east palo alto. rescuers captured him . vets examined him, and he was given a clean bill of health. >> an ideal situation is that he's in a relatively predator proof environment that can protect him, but he has places where he can jump up to and maybe fly, you know, because they'll fly to like low branches and things. you know, perhaps if there's like a tree or even like a house tree or something like that. the peninsula humane society is only looking to adopt wingo star to somebody who's an experienced bird owner.

>> it's also important to know what kind of food peacocks eat like chicken feed nuts, vegetables and fruit. his adoption fee is just 20 bucks. you might want to check with where you live, though, to see if that's are they allowed everywhere? canaries are really. >> i don't think it's like the canaries. i don't don't know. i guess you can. they say you can domesticate a peacock, but mostly what they do is they come into your yard and eat your flowers and then fly away. so it's an acquired taste, let's just put it that way. >> and they're so proud about it, you know what i mean? >> they're beautiful when they unfurl the feathers. >> yeah, for sure. i don't know. need to ruffle your feathers over the weather forecast. it's perfectly pleasant. sandhya. yeah it is absolutely pleasant. and larry and kristen, let's take a look at the winds right now, gusting to 32 at oakland, 20 miles an hour at san mateo. it's an onshore wind that is helping to bring us good air quality just about everywhere right now. and that is going to continue. take a look at this live picture from our oakland

airport camera. here's a look at the forecast the next three days. we're looking at good air quality to get outside and enjoy. well, if you like the fog, you have it right now, golden gate bridge is not even visible there. barely visible because of the fog. 66 in the city, 68 in oakland, it's 73. in mountain view, really pleasant. san jose, 81 degrees and half moon bay, you're at 61. the marine layer is already pushing across the bay. tonight, an indication of changes ahead. low 80s novato santa rosa. it is 74. in napa and in the mid 80s for concord and livermore on live doppler seven right now, the marine layer has been with us most of the afternoon near the coast and it's going to stick around. no rain on our radar here locally. but let's talk about the rainy season. so the climate prediction center issued an el nino advisory this morning . warmer than average sea surface temperatures near the equator continuing. so el nino continues and they're saying there's a greater than 95% chance for this event will continue through winter. the odds of a strong event has

increased to 71. but the climate prediction center is cautioning that just because it's a strong event doesn't mean it's strong impacts locally. we have seen variations depending on the strength of the el nino and even from year to year. so stay tuned. we'll see what happens this winter. a live view from our pier 39 camera. we know one thing's for sure, people, visitors are enjoying the weather. we have right now. the marine layer expands tonight. patchy morning drizzle, sunny bay and inland tomorrow afternoon and we're looking at cooler than average weather and breezy conditions this weekend. so 5:00 tonight, the fog is already there. our temperatures inland still in the 80s, comfortable inland, but cooler along the coast at 7 p.m. and notice the expansion of the low clouds and fog. so tomorrow morning, we're going to start you off with drizzle and gray skies. tomorrow afternoon, you're looking at 80s inland, similar to today, 60 soquel's coast side. your morning temperatures in the 50s, 60s once again, watch out for some areas of poor visibility because of the drizzle. tomorrow

afternoon, we'll call it warm and sunny inland mid to upper 80s there for the afternoon hours. it's still going to be breezy along the coast with the clouds just hanging around most of the afternoon as we check out the accuweather seven day forecast near average temperatures for tomorrow. the weekend you notice the drop off in those numbers and this continues right on through monday. low 80s inland low 60s coast well below average. we'll turn it around the middle of next week, but we're not expecting any major heat waves. and for a rosh hashanah tomorrow evening for the celebrations, i would just have an extra layer, kristen and larry, for any celebrations outdoors. all right. that's right. >> thank you, sandra. >> looming deadlines for two major strikes affecting autoworkers and health care workers. >> plus, a terrifying swim for some kids in texas. get out of the water

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time workers at all of the big three automakers are on strike. at the same time, abc news reporter reena roy has a look at what's ahead. >> the clock is ticking down to a potential strike by the almost 150,000 member united auto workers union. that could have a major impact on the us economy. >> for the first time in our history. we may strike all three of the big three at once. >> the union's president announcing plans to strike with no deal in sight, despite weeks of negotiations with the big

three us carmakers ford, gm and chrysler owner stellantis. >> we do not yet have offers on the table that reflect a sacrifice and contributions our members have made to these companies. >> uaw members are calling for a 40% wage increase over the next four years. a figure they say matches with the ceos for the companies earned a return to pension plans. retiree health care and a four day workweek. it looks on paper like we're asking for a lot, but a lot of people have been left behind. union members pointing to a decade of record profits for the automakers and huge ceo salaries in their fight for a better contract. >> i don't mind them making that money, but i think we need to take care of the employees. but the companies saying the union demands are unrealistic, especially as the industry struggles to transition to electric vehicles. >> we're literally fighting for the future of automotive manufacturing in our country. >> the deadline is at midnight. the union plans to strike at targeted auto plants across the country. reena roy, abc news, new york.

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extraterrestrial origin. but we don't know what these uap are. >> 33 pages long. put together by scientists and experts poring over encounters like this from military and commercial pilots. meanwhile, reports of alien life continue to make headlines around the world, like these so-called nonhumans rolled out before mexico's congress earlier this week. and in july, a former us navy pilot telling the house oversight committee about his run in with a uap off the coast of san diego. look at the fly, the technology that we faced was far superior than anything that we had. but because the mysterious flying objects are still a mystery, nasa will continue investigating them and has appointed a director of uap research, which nasa says the upgraded efforts will work hand in hand with other government agencies and use ai to search

the skies for even more evidence. rob hayes, abc seven news. >> yeah, you think they're out there i to the rescue or are they out there. i think some intelligent life form is out there in this vast universe somewhere. >> i would hope more intelligent than us at this point. >> a lot more. there are stars and then there are super stars. >> astrophysicist neil degrasse tyson spoke with our to tumor today on our new streaming newscast abc7 seven at seven. i think i got an extra seven in there, but you know that's fine. >> anyway, alien would have gotten you right. >> yeah, you're right. smarter aliens need to do the news anyway. he's got a new book. it's called to infinity and beyond. it's a journey of cosmic discovery. the goal of the book, which is an extension of my podcast, the startalk podcast has three strands of dna. >> there's the science. then there's pop culture, and then there's humor. and what we found is that when we stitch those together people and deliver the science, that way people come

back for more, more. and that was such a successful experiment that we created an entire book showing the journey of us humans on earth's surface, looking up, not only wondering what's there , but saying, can we get there? like, how would you get to the moon if you didn't have rockets? or maybe you have a balloon? well, a balloon gets you to the moon. so. so these dreams, however impossible they may have sounded at the time, would some would have to wait for science and technology and. but is it waiting or is it pulling the science and technology behind it ? and so this is this is an exploration of this spirit journey of the human quest to leave earth. now, personally, i happen to like earth, so i'm not one of those who wants to just escape. but throughout there's scenery, right? there's a topic that we saw covered in a in a movie. and i'll talk about how they did in the movie. did they do it right? did they do it

wrong? could they have done it better? and that's the pop culture dimension that guides you along, keeping your interest . >> can you share maybe 1 or 2 things that you found just so fascinate while writing this? >> oh yeah, just the two way to connect things back to you. just for example, if we talk about living on planets on earth, we're earthlings, right? and if you're on mars, you're a martian . if you're on venus, you know, you'd say you're a venusian. but the actual way to turn venus into being a venus is that's not the right word. the correct word of being a venus is venereal. okay the problem is, neil, the medical doctors got to that word before we did because venus is the goddess of love and beauty and all that goes with that right? yeah. so? so so, so these are little tidbit. they're like biscuits that you taste along the way. they just to see what these fits and starts have been

in. in our attempt to understand the universe. and then i'll talk about some stuff when we talk about the density of things. i said, well, wait a minute. the hulk starts out as david banner and then he just he expands out to become the hulk. and is it the same mass as david banner? if so, then he's really low density. he'd be like a beach ball and you could just flick him and he'd bounce down the street, but probably he has mass. so where did he get the mass from? all right. these are questions you can ask and bring to bear on our pop culture stories. and but the biggest question about the hulk is how come his pants still fit? >> that's i was going to say, that's the one i never understood that. >> i need to know the answer to that question. i mean, the hulk storyline would be completely different if you could just bounce him away like a beach ball. >> that would just be completely different movie. >> the breeze kicks up. yeah, some fans, you know. and there's the hulk floating. >> yeah. hulk does not do beach well. he's like, i got us away from the coast. that's not great. how much do we still just

not know about the universe? us? >> yeah. so so you might have heard of dark matter and dark energy. dark matter. we can measure it. it's 85% of the gravity of the universe, and we don't know what's causing it. it's not black holes or dark star. it's. we don't know it is not any of what is familiar to us. it's a mystery. dark energy, this mysterious pressure in the vacuum of space, forcing the universe to accelerate in its expansion. we don't know what's causing that either. if you add those up, it's 96% of what is driving the universe. so we know enough about the universe to quantify our ignorance and everything you know and love the laws of physics, chemistry, biology. we are in 4% of what is driving the cosmos. that that is in incredible. >> we know so little. we know so little. >> it's humbling. yes it really is. but i find it exciting. some

people are terrified and they got to have an answer. when i was a kid, nine years old, my first night sky was my local planetarium. i grew up in new york city where there is no night sky. so you have to fake it with a planetarium. but that was my first night sky. what attracted me was not how much we knew, but how much we didn't yet know. and as a scientist, you have to at some point learn to love the questions themselves. yeah, because that is your driving force, right? >> and he's right. the more you know, the more you realize how little you know. neil degrasse tyson's. >> believe me, i know all it. all i know neil degrasse tyson's book, to infinity and beyond is available now because you remind me every day what's in a name. the controversy over a kal versus cal berkeley christian has a lot to say about that. and the long lost drinks after work. what happened? ford

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most americans don't know that cal and uc berkeley are one and the same. and what the heck? >> whoa! oh, sorry. go on. it's my read. >> and this is hurting the university alma mater. i know academically and athletically. so to remedy this for you, kristen, they are recommending athletics should be branded as cal berkeley and academics should be referred to as just berkeley. and i will just say before you jump in on this, virtually every person i know involved with cal athletics thinks this is a terrible idea. >> everybody else go first because i don't want to usurp all the time. no, i want to hear what you have to say. kristin i mean, that is your alma mater, so go for it. go for it. i'm giving you my time. no okay. i just think. no, we all know it's cal when you're at the football game. basketball game, you're not going to go. yay, go. cal

berkeley. it's cal and we all know berkeley's reputation internationally. it's berkeley. so i never knew there was a problem. are we trying to solve a problem that doesn't really exist? i mean, who's correct? are you see, and here's the problem connected to the problem that doesn't exist. >> you're spending a lot of time and energy on something that's largely irrelevant when you should have been spending time on making sure that your football team and all your other sports teams were in a conference that's not across the country. i know you were all asleep at the wheel at cal, and that's why your cal and that's the problem. >> dude, you didn't have to get that personal. >> sorry. i'm just telling it like it is. that's why. that's why they're in the acc numbers. >> but i do feel bad for the athletes who have to fly. all yeah, i did. >> yeah. >> okay, larry now to a terrifying swim, right? yeah. >> this is this is bad. a group of kids swimming at huntsville state park. they had an unwelcome visitor, to say the least. that's an alligator right there. you see, he got running into the water to pull the screaming kids to safety. luckily, nobody was hurt. there are signs around the lake warning of alligators they

rarely chase people, but rarely is not that comforting. sandy, when the one time he's in the water, he's chasing you. >> yeah, exactly. especially when the kids are so young and they're just having a good time and all of a sudden, here comes that alligator that is terrifying. >> you know, the saying, you're either a gator or a gator bait. you've heard that. yes it's a reference to florida football, but at least nobody was hurt, karina. right. i mean, that's the most important thing. >> yeah, nobody was hurt. that was fine. but i don't know if i'm seeing signs that say that there are alligators here. i just i wouldn't go in. but i know you can't do that, especially if you live in florida or, you know, places with alligators. i mean, i'm surprised we don't see videos like that more in some of those states. you know. all right. it seems after work, happy hours are becoming a thing of the past. a report in the wall street journal finds the new attitude is five and one and i'm done. experts find out, what time are you off? 501. i'm done . experts find after an initial burst of post-pandemic happy hours, most us workers are now opting to clock out and head

home. more people are trying to draw better boundaries between work and their lives outside of it. yeah. what do you guys think? >> i'm not sure. i believe that. i just know, let's say younger people, especially the tech community. yeah, they are. they're still going out. they're still enjoying. well, it depends . >> if they're all in the office, it's so much easier for if you're all in the office and then at 5:00 you're like, hey, let's go get a drink or happy hour somewhere. if everyone's working from home, everybody lives in different places, you're not going to, you know, try to find a meeting spot. it's just easier to go after work if you're already at work. right? and part of the question here, i think, is, does everybody stop working at 5:00 sharp? i think not. i mean, i could be wrong, but i think a lot of people with the pandemic, everything, you just kind of work a little here, work a little there. and it's kind of, you know, as opposed to following the clock, you know, plus the commute time. i think the commute times have grown, you know, bigger and bigger. and so i think maybe people are just

anxious to get home. yeah. okay. you guys. glad we saved time for this. forget drinks. how about dinner? because it's tasty. thursday. and today we're introducing you to mama. who? or mama who? who? i guess a fast casual chinese restaurant co-founded by james beard, award winning chef brandon zhou, who is amazing. they have some standards like sweet and sour chicken, but also chicken sandwiches and even soft serve. >> and joining us now is founder and mao's son. thanks so much for joining us. we have a veritable feast here and kristin is educating me about all of the different dishes. but i mean, this is like orange chicken. i assume. >> hi. yeah, that you have. there is our sweet sour chicken. >> oh, okay. all right. >> i'm going to take is going to do the taste test here because i'm the official abc7 taste tester. >> well she's chewing. >> tell us the origin of the name because in chinese christian was telling me the name can mean a lot of different things and i'm just going to put it that way. >> yeah, the, the name is a, a,

a proverb in chinese and it started out because our original menu actually was based on this idea around creating something that is sort of a, a tongue in cheek take on what it means to be not so perfect in this kind of food world where a lot of things are taken as something that, you know, you strive to be really excellent. and it's sort of like a self-deprecating joke that we have in the beginning that sort of stuck. and it's one of those words in chinese and mandarin that a lot of folks kind of learn in the very beginning, and they sort of sticks in your mind. and so that's sort of the origin of the name. and we can i just say, i tasted it. >> it's so crispy and the flavor is just right. there's nothing mama juju about it. okay but tell us about it, because i know you have brick and mortar restaurants in addition to, you know, kind of prepackaged frozen

things. you can buy. >> yeah. >> so we just actually launched these new plastic birds that are made with rice and flour wrappers. and we have two flavors. the pork and purple cabbage and our tofu and mushroom that's really thanks. >> so question you have, what, three restaurants we have three right now. >> yeah, we have one in the inner richmond and one in marin and another one in nuevo ali. >> can i just ask you, is all this locally sourced the potstickers have a resource from a variety of partners. >> one of them is hodo tofu based out of east bay and for our pork, we work with a really special producer called kleeman farms that makes a really amazing hair. >> this sandwich, by the way, this is huge. i would bite into

it on the air, but i'm going to just wait till the commercial break. this is an amazing chicken sandwich. ooh, i got save a bite for me. but can i just ask you also like obviously brandon ju, michelin star chef. right. and we often associate that with kind of cuisine talk about, you know, what he intended being a part of this. >> yeah. >> ben and i and brandon met back in 2016. ben and i were working on our organic foods company that started actually in shanghai for many years. and we really connected over how how we grew up eating a lot of chinese-american food. it's very quintessentially american. and we found that because we were so deep in the organic world, we were really looking for something that had these flavors that was really focused on how things were made and what they're made with. and we met brandon through a mutual friend. he had just started mr. jus doing something really special with the cuisine and we connected over how this is

something that we really love to see in the world, something casual, accessible, something that people could really resonate with as a food that they grew up eating. and so we decided to go on this journey together and that was it's been a few years and we so far have seen that people have resonated with it. >> yeah. so you've got it's interesting. i want to see the whole menu because i don't think of a chicken sandwich is a traditional chinese meal, but you have sandwiches, you have soft serve. that's new, right? >> it is, yeah. that's part of our fall menu. we have the chicken sandwiches. yeah. it's not a quintessential chinese-american dish. we try to take things that pay homage to this cuisine in ways that really also put an interesting twist on things sometimes. and the chicken sandwich was really born with this idea of taking our students, our chicken, which is made with a rice batter that's like really extra crispy and figuring out a way to bring it

forward with something sweet. and that's where the pineapple bun came in. and so we released these two this year just the month ago, and we have the spicy, tingly, spicy one and the honey hawk one. >> oh, my gosh. wait the chicken sandwich is made with bolo mian? is that what you're telling me the bun is? >> yeah. boulevard. >> okay. amazing. thank you so much, mama juju. appreciate it. all right, that's it for the for or quality of life? you deserve both. and with kisqali, a treatment for people with metastatic breast cancer, you can have both. kisqali is a pill that, when taken with an aromatase inhibitor is the only treatment of its kind shown to both help people live longer and improve or preserve quality of life. because you shouldn't have to sacrifice one for the other. kisqali can cause lung problems, or an abnormal heartbeat, which can lead to death. it can cause serious skin reactions, liver problems and low white blood cell counts that may result in severe infections.

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is a ten. then stay with us for abc seven news at 11. a new murder mystery opens in theaters tomorrow. it's called a haunting in venice, inspired by one of the genre's greatest writers, agatha christie. reporter sandy kenyon from our sister station in new york has our preview tonight. >> we are all afraid. >> a great director has assembled a terrific cast to tell a story filled with twists and turns. >> a haunting in venice has that sort of not in the stomach edge of the seat quality. >> and kenneth branagh also stars in his own film. >> how cute is on the case? the belgian detective was the most famous creation of the mystery writer agatha christie, who wrote a character based on herself into a story that inspired this film. >> i am the world's number one mystery writer. >> she's played by tina fey. luckily for me, playing a desperate female writer is sort of in a wheelhouse that i'm already inhabiting inhabiting

with humor, of course. but fey shows new depth as the person who lures the detective out of retirement. >> provocative, entertaining, naughty, playful. and tina brings all that to the role. come with me to a seance conducting the seance is a medium played by michelle yeoh. >> this one will be very sad, but. >> but poirot isn't buying her routine. >> i will not believe in such things. >> he was saying. >> michelle brings to joyce reynolds that quality that has the audience lean forward from the moment she appears. >> i love a good murder mystery , but this has got that horror air that something is lurking behind every shadow. >> performers spoke on set during filming, which took place long before the current actors strike, allowing moviegoers to now enjoy a haunting in venice. >> expect the unexpect acted. >> i'm sandy kenyon, abc seven news.

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