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55 cities and counties across the state. san francisco is getting just over $17 million while the city of oakland is getting nothing right. >> both cities, like many others, have been struggling with retail theft today. the city of oakland is facing backlash from community groups and merchants because of the mistake they made that cost them a chance at millions of dollars in state grants. here's abc seven news reporter answer hassan bringing in the chp to fight retail theft work says chp commissioner sean drury. >> since 2019, the chp organized retail crimes task force has recovered over $30.7 million in stolen merchandise. >> on friday, commissioner drury led a discussion about the state's largest ever single investment to combat organized retail crime with grants totaling more than $267 million. 17 million will go to san francisco, so will allow for my office to have one fully dedicated prosecutor as well as a fully dedicated investigator
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assigned to both investigate and prosecute, repeat and group offenders of retail theft in san francisco. but one california city that won't be getting state funding, oakland. that's because the city missed the application deadline. in a statement to abc seven news, the city explains that the oakland police department and other community partners submitted their materials on time to oakland's economic and workforce development department or cd unform. fortunately, d did not timely complete the submission. obviously this outcome is unacceptable to the city and the department are reviewing everything that happened to ensure it doesn't happen again. the oakland branch of the naacp responded with a statement that reads in part, we are shocked, perplexed and furious that the city of oakland forfeited millions of dollars in crime prevention funding by missing a state deadline. this was an epic failure. our elected officials and government staff dropped the ball because they were not focused it, and they must be held accountable.
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>> this is our monument to changing social values that we had to put in because the shoplifting is just horrendous. >> david larson is the owner of piedmont grocery, which has been open since 1956. the high end liquor now locked up due to theft, he says he's frustrated that the city missed out on possibly millions of dollars to tackle retail crime. >> i'm just surprised that they hadn't didn't have it organized better than. but other areas that have been happening from the city are indicative that maybe there's some lack of direction. city officials say they'll be looking at other grants to fight retail crime and the chp says oakland will still benefit from work being done in other bay area cities. >> we will be working together with all the allied agencies in the bay area and that will benefit the community of oakland. whether or not they were awarded or grant or not. we currently are doing organized retail crime efforts in the city of oakland and so that won't change here in oakland.
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>> answer hassan, abc seven news. south bay cities are experiencing a widespread at&t outage and that is causing issues for11all centers emerged tsay lines in palo ao and mountain view are not functioning. >> 911 calls f police, fire ormg rerouted to santa clara county until regular phone service gets restored. palo alto's non-emergency line is not available at this time. >> here at abc7, we focus on efforts to build a better bay area and a key part of that is making sure there's a home for people who live here. >> now, pre-pandemic, marin county saw a steady decline in the number of homeless residents. it dropped more than 20% from 2015, but the pandemic appears to have reversed that progress. at last check, about 1100 people were homeless in marin county. >> now, a new pmanent supportive housing facility is ready to open in marin county. abc seven news reporter cornell bernard looks at the project. >> michael oak plays a mean
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electric guitar. >> he's currently living on the streets of marin. i'm a musician and i got to the age where i couldn't work and i've got a couple of medical issues, so that led to me being in my camper. soon michael will be moving to larkspur into this brand new permanent support of housing space. i'm ready to get get surrounding, get get a shower. here's what the place used to look like a former skilled nursing facility which had been shuttered for years. >> so this will be one of the new homes for the residents. at 1251 south, alicia, excited to show you. come on in. >> beth stokes from episcopal community services, the nonprofit partnering with marin county, shows us one of the 43 rooms in the facility complete with a fridge, microwave and ac, including a view it has a beautiful scenery for folks who have experienced chronic homelessness for a very long
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time. >> this is going to be a really special place for them. >> the project received $12 million from the state's project homekey initiative. residents will get support and services customized to their needs. >> so this is, you know, bringing in case managers, bringing in behavioral health folks, bringing in medical folks as needed, public health folks as needed. this new housing facility almost didn't happen. >> there was pushback from some in the community. >> but i am here because i'm urging you, begging you to vote no on on project homekey there was legal action from some neighbors to keep the project from going forward. >> everybody in the community, whether they were for this project or not, understood the need for housing, for formerly homeless. >> officials estimate there are 1100 people currently unhoused in the county. michael is ready for a place to call home. he'll move in next week. michael, what are you going to do first when you move in? i'm going to shout hallelujah. >> you know, in larkspur,
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cornell, bernard, abc seven news. >> the wheels are in motion on a project designed to make san francisco's bayview neighborhood safer for pedestrians. >> eight new speed bumps are being installed along gilman avenue through the neighborhood. there are two schools, a park and a church in the area, leading to heavy foot traffic most days. the new addition was spearheaded by mom from one of the schools, and it was such a challenge just across the street. >> and so i complained to the school. i complained to the police station, and i started a street common application about three and a half years ago. so i am so excited to see this implemented. >> officials from the sf public works department say this is part of a larger traffic calming project. they plan to install about 30 more speed bumps in the surrounding area. the future of the oakland coliseum remains very much up in the air. >> today, the chair of the coliseum authority board put his support behind allowing a group of black owned investors to lead development of the site. the a's have refused an offer from that
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group to buy the a's half of the property. now, the other half is owned by the city of oakland, which already has an agreement in place with that development team. the city wants to turn the site into a retail entertainment and office complex. that is, if the a's do leave for las vegas, as they currently plan to do. now, this week, the oakland roots and soul soccer teams, they opened up ownership stakes to the fans and people bought in big time in six hours. they raised over $1 million from over 1200 fan investors. and now their total has surpassed 1.5 million. the previous record for a fan investment like this was held by detroit city fc. fc stands for football club, by the way. it took them over three months to reach a mark that the roots hit in just two days. even the roots ownership group is really surprised by this overwhelming response. >> it's been a pretty surreal and emotional couple of days. i'll be quite honest. this is just giving us a whole different insight into how people have embraced the team, how passionately they feel about sports and keeping pro sports.
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in oakland, the total number of people who have invested is the thing that i am most surprised by and most touched by. >> we promise to be stewards of that money. >> the roots ownership group says this is proof fans are willing to invest in oakland sports. >> ed sharon fans are lining up outside the fox theater in oakland right now to catch the singers mathematics tour. we saw a few dozen in line just before 2:00 this afternoon, hours before tonight's concert. >> i love it, sharon. he touches my heart. he is just one of the best people that has ever lived on this earth. >> oh, he's pretty terrific. >> it's true. one fan came all the way from nashville and she plans to be at tomorrow night's concert at levi's stadium as well. more than 70,000 fans are expected to see his concert in santa clara tomorrow. that's more than the 58,000 that saw taylor swift and the 50,000 for beyonce. sharon who's playing in oakland tonight, has the potential to top the biggest
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sellout concert crowd ever at levi's. that was 77,000 for a grateful dead concert in 2015, san francisco's public health department is urging all san francisco residents six months and older to get a flu shot, along with the newest covid vaccine. >> health officials say it's safe to get both shots during the same visit to your health care provider. the new vaccine is recommended if you have not been vaccinated within the last two months. >> we don't want to ignore the fact that we continue to have the virus among us, and we want to make sure that people understand that these updated vaccines are a key way to prevent the most serious outcomes. >> that could still happen in the new covid vaccine is expected to start arriving at doctor's offices, pharmacies and health clinics as soon as next week. >> san francisco put its best foot forward for a recent tech conference, but what now? what's ahead for the city and what needs to be done? autoworkers on strike and the plan that could help striking workers here in california and some busy beavers
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to strike in the union's history . abc news reporter reena roy has the latest. >> this could have a major impact on the broader economy and on car dealerships across the country. but union officials say they felt they had no other choice. thousands of united auto workers on the picket lines with union members walking off the job at a gm plant in missouri. an ohio stellantis plant and ford plant in michigan. >> i think people are beginning to understand that, you know, we all need to make a fair wage. >> the targeted strike officially authorized at midnight friday with no deal reached between the union and the top three us automakers, gm, ford and chrysler owner stellantis. in the hours before president biden calling uaw president sean fain and company leaders in an effort to prevent the strike, no one wants a strike, but i respect workers right to use their options under the collective bargaining system . >> and i understand the workers frustration. the union asking
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for a 40% pay increase, a return to pension plans, better retiree health care and cost of living adjustments. >> a shame. we've got to be out here right now doing this because the companies won't take care of their workers. the company is calling those demands unrealistic, offering a 20% increase instead, we're putting a 20% gross wage rate increase along with other bonuses that come as a part of that. >> so this is a very, very strong financial offer, a stellantis spokesperson adds. >> they are disappointed with the uaw decision to strike and will take steps to protect their north american operations in the company. jeff purcell, a single father of three and president of the local 3039in tappan, new york, just north of the city, which is not striking, saying he stands in solidarity with the nearly 13,000 members who are on strike. >> this used to be a great job at a working class level where you could provide for your family and provide for your loved ones. we shouldn't be in a situation where we have to live check to check right now, this
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is a targeted strike at certain locations, but more members could soon join the picket lines. >> reena roy, abc news, tappan, new york. >> a bill that would provide unemployment benefits to striking workers here in california is now heading to the governor's desk. that bill would allow striking workers to collect unemployment benefits after being on strike for two weeks. the state senate passed the bill yesterday after it was approved by the assembly earlier in the week. >> former presidential candidate and co-founder of the forward party, andrew yang, is sharing some non traditional ideas for shaking up a potential rematch between president biden and former president trump, something a new poll suggests voters are not thrilled about. yang joined me on our 3 p.m. show, getting answers today. so a new ipsos reuters poll shows president biden and former president trump tied right now at 39. in a hypothetical matchup right there. also tied in another regard, only 40% of the electorate has favorable views of each of them. take a look at this. andrew, what do you make
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of that? >> well, it's something that we all can sense, kristen. there are two thirds of americans who are not excited about a biden trump rematch. and yet we can all see that that's probably what we're going to be presented with. there'll be a combined 160 years old in 2024. it's not a high functioning process. i'm someone who thinks trump would be a catastrophe, but unfortunately, i think right now you can see that trump has a real chance to win again in 2024. >> so if you had your way, what would you advise the democratic party do? i think that joe biden should step aside and make way for a new generation of leaders or have a real primary with debates and competition and say, i'm willing to debate all comers, and then if he wins, everyone would feel better about his energy and the fact that people had to say, yang says another alternative would be having a competitive primary for vice president, opening up the possibility for someone other than kamala harris to be the
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possible successor to the presidency. he also talked with us about his new fiction out this week called the last election warning that the american democracy is fragile and needs reform to protect it. >> today is the start of the jewish new year, rosh hashanah. it officially kicks off today at sundown, celebrated through nightfall on sunday. a popular practice is to eat apples or hollow bread that's dipped in honey, symbolizing the hope for a sweet year ahead. and people were busy buying sweets today at noe valley bakery. rosh hashanah begins the high holy days, which end with yom kippur on september 25th. >> all right. sounds good. and some warm bread seems like just the thing we need for kind of a cool ish week, don't you think? >> well, let's get get the word from sandia patel on which way we're headed here. temperature wise. >> yeah, we're headed down. i mean, today we already started that cooling. and larry and kristen, let me show you what happened that marine layer was not in a hurry to get on out of town. >> and as a matter of fact, along some parts of the coast,
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santa cruz included, it's still pretty cloudy. so it took a toll on our temperatures. not everyone warmed up today. inland areas, we're comfortable and mild, but along the coast, it's been a cool day. you can see the marine layer is still sitting around near the coast. so what happened is this area of low pressure developed off our coast and it's going to sit here pretty much through the weekend and into early next week, which is why we're not expecting much change. the marine layer will stick around. it is certainly going to keep the onshore winds going. temperatures right now, compared to 24 hours ago, most of you are running anywhere from 2 to 6 degrees below where you were yesterday. and the onshore breeze is certainly helping 20 miles an hour at sfo, where you will notice there's still a sliver of some clouds there, lingering 65 degrees in the city. oakland, 69, 70 in mountain view, 77 in san jose. and it is 73 degrees in palo alto. as we look from our oakland airport camera, lots of sunshine right now as we look towards the east bay and back
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towards san francisco. 74 in santa rosa, 75 napa low to mid 80 from fairfield, concord to livermore. well you know, it's summer in san francisco when tourists are in town and it's like this up here, 39. here's a look at the forecast. widespread low clouds and patchy drizzle overnight. breezy and below average temperatures for the weekend. and that pattern is going to persist it into early next week. so as we head towards tomorrow morning, widespread low clouds there will be some drizzle, some thunderstorms expected in the tahoe area for both tomorrow afternoon and sunday as well. so if you are traveling there, just keep that in mind. your morning temperatures will be in the 50 60s drizzle to start the day and pretty cloudy just like today. tomorrow afternoon, the sun will be out for the south bay 82 in morgan hill, 79. in san jose, 76. santa clara on the peninsula should be comfortable weather 73. palo alto, 72. in san mateo, 64 pacifica clouds banked up along the coastline. it's going to be breezy, 67 in downtown san
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francisco, 62 in daly city and in the north bay, mid 70s from san rafael to napa, 77 degrees in santa rosa. sure they're not where they should be. the temperatures but still pleasant . 70 degrees in the east bay in oakland, 75 fremont inland areas , 81 in concord, 82 degrees in pittsburgh, 80 degrees in pleasanton. now as you look at sunday, not much change. i mean, temperatures in the warmest spots, even on monday, 70s and 80s tuesday, we'll continue with a similar pattern. and the accuweather seven day forecast will show you minor warming. the middle of next week and then fall arrives a week from today and we'll start to bring in a little bit of a warm up. but one model is hinting at perhaps showers. oh yeah, i know. it's very interesting. >> okay. we'd rather focus on the 86 and sunny. >> i'm focusing on the reduced fire risk. okay. there you go. >> yes, that's a good way to look at it. >> okay, excellent. everybody
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we always say we're not here to change the traditions. >> we're not here to change the story, which is here to our story. and sambal folklorico colubris is san jose's first lgbtq plus folkloric dance group on the fifth floor of sdsu's dr. martin luther king junior library. >> an exhibit displays photos, costumes and history of the group. traditional mexican folklorico dance is very gendered. san jose state research and social sciences librarian essie barroso ramirez curated the exhibit. she started dancing with the group in january. regardless of gender, members can dance in dresses or pants. >> it was like incredibly touching for me because i just i just saw it as so beautiful and empowering. and that's what makes them so innovative and amazing. >> dancers say they get to be themselves as so in being able to be part of this group, i get to represent entirely who i am. one latino said he was able to have a quinceanera, a sweet 15 birthday celebration on stage.
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>> this really touched me and to this day, i still kind of tear up about it every time i watch it. >> the exhibit is called dance with pride. they've inspired dance groups to form in mexico. >> it was just so amazing to think like we're so far apart from mexico, and yet we're being the trailblazer so that other people feel comfortable in doing what we do. >> just amazing photos of colibries dancing, just being in their in their elements and just being proud. it's a beautiful thing to witness. >> the exhibit runs until september 24th and is open to the public in san jose. lauren martinez, abc seven news checking out colombian artist fernando botero has died. >> the sculptor and painter is known for his voluptuous and whimsical figures that touch on social issues. his work fetched millions of dollars and was sold around the world. his daughter says the 91 year old died of complications from pneumonia.
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>> well, the dreamforce tech conference is wrapped up now. the question is where does that leave san francisco? why can san francisco not be like this every single day? what happens once all the visitors are gone? we look into what needs to be done to continue to build a better bay area and the return of beavers to one bay area community that hasn't had them in decades my wife magda and i have been married for 39 years. about three or four years ago, i wasn't feeling as if i was as sharp as i used to be. i wanted to try something that was over-the-counter. i saw the prevagen commercials. after a short amount of time taking prevagen, i started noticing a difference-- that i'm remembering this, i'm remembering that. i stopped taking prevagen and i found myself slacking back
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love, dad. put on its best face for the recent dreamforce convention. during the past three days, it was all about safety and clean streets. two things we haven't seen much of near moscone in the south of market neighborhood. >> the question is what happens now that all the visitors are gone? uh- abc7 news reporter leanne melendez joining us now to talk about what san francisco plans to do to keep revitalizing its image. >> well, i think on the image meter, larry, we moved slightly up, maybe a bump. that's it. so even marc benioff was impressed. but was it enough? now we'll say this, governor newsom told benioff that he is committed to keeping the moment item going, coming out of dreamforce. now,
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this time the governor used one word accountability from the people who run this city. amazing okay. >> well, we did it. >> he certainly did. mark benioff and his mega convention , dreamforce will have pumped an estimated $57 million into san francisco's economy, but not before warning the city to be on its best behavior ever, telling the chronicle if this dreamforce is impacted by the current situation with homeless and drug use, it may be the last dreamforce in the city. mayor london breed seemed to call his bluff. >> they have not had any problems hosting their conventions here in the past and they won't in the future. >> still, the mayor admitted they have never had to work so hard to clean up the city. police everywhere to clean up crews on every block near moscone. which begs the question on where are the tents and the
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unhoused people who typically hunker down near moscone center and surrounding areas streets that until recently were crammed with tents, looked somewhat pristine inside, said what we saw were many of the homeless people moving in the opposite direction of dreamforce. we asked these two unhoused men where they were headed. >> it's not a good feeling. it's kind of like it's a different kind of segregation. they've managed to keep most of the homeless people in a couple blocks area like little. >> this part of soma and the tenderloin. >> we found the homeless encampments three long blocks from dreamforce and a good distance from visitors. leah rubin manages dasha cafe and bar on mission street. >> they're just keeping a lot of people away from that area in general so that our i guess look homeless and so on and so forth . >> have you ever seen a this clean?
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>> no, i haven't actually. >> benioff echoed the same sentiment when speaking on wednesday with governor gavin newsom. >> it's amazing how clean the streets are. it's incredible what the focus is because we're sucking up to you. >> we want to keep you here. >> that may be true, but where does benioff's frustration come from? let's go back to 2017, when the city ed approximately. 6858 homeless people living either on the streets or in shelters. that same year, the non profit tipping point pledged $100 million to help those organized nations directly involved with the homeless. the goal was to cut chronic homelessness in half over the next five years, but they never anticipated a pandemic. >> so what you saw was that people became homeless and then when they become homeless and then as they're on the street longer, they become chronically homeless. >> then in 2018, benioff spent a
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lot of his own money to help pass proposition c, which taxes major companies to raise millions of dollars every year for homeless services. >> there's specific things we can do now to directly address this problem, and that's why i'm voting forroposition c. >> still, one year later, in 2019, the homeless population increased to about 8035, and the latest numbers for 2022 see a slight improvement, but still not better than in 2017. adding to the crisis is the rapid increase in the use of deadly fentanyl, which has incapacitated many who are trying to get off the streets. >> i haven't seen not too many people get off of fitting all on their own free will. it takes help. >> when we spoke to jj smith, a tenderloin resident, he had just come back from attending a service for a 23 year old who died of a fentanyl overdose. so far this ye. om january to july, 473 people have died of
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accidental overdoses. 385 due to fentanyl, and the city is on track to reach a record 800 or more deaths this year. but this week, some of those negative images of san francisco have been conveyed leniently, tucked away. >> why can san francisco not be like this every single day things have shifted. >> you've had it. you want accountable city and everybody's job is on the line. it should be and you're right to be angry about this. and it's time for cities to step up. it's no longer acceptable what's happening on the streets and sidewalks, as the governor has said, that he wants accountability from every city official here is do you think there is finally going to be change in san francisco? >> i do believe that we're going to finally have change in san francisco. but we also got to have accountability from our politicians and our elected officials. we cannot continue to
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make homelessness the number one political issue in our city. and so that one politician is trying to solve it. why another politician who wants to take their place is actually trying to undercut them, because the worse it gets, the better off their chances are. and so we need to have accountability from everyone. >> they call it san francisco politics. it's now in about two months, san francisco will host the asia pacific economic cooperation summit with leaders from different parts of the world, including president biden. it's a big deal. and believe me, the area around moscone center, it will be safe. it will be clean. but those participating in that summit are not by any means confined to their and will travel outside of that zone. and what they will see be they will write about and talk about back home much to the benefit or detriment of this city. >> yeah, because we're still trying to get the tourists from
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asia back into the city. that's right. and if you have some bad press because something happened to not just a regular developer, but a foreign leader, a government head of state, they're going to take it home and they're going to tell everybody. >> and in the meantime, you know, benioff hasn't said if he's going to return and he didn't even say on social media, hey, see you next year in san francisco. so we'll have to wait. >> well, a smart businessman maintains his leverage. >> that's right. >> exactly. leanne, thank you. sure. all right. get ready for not so happy hour and the fight against it. shrinkflation you were always so dedicated... ♪ we worked hard to build up the shop, save for college and our retirement. but we got there, thanks to our advisor and vanguard. now i see who all that hard work was for... it was always for you. seeing you carry on our legacy— i'm so proud. at vanguard, you're more than just an investor, you're an owner. setting up the future for the ones you love. that's the value of ownership.
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in their 5000 stores, adding this product has decreased in weight and the price applied by our provider has increased. we are committed to renegotiating this price. hey michael, at least they're being transparent , right? >> oh, i love that store. i would shop nowhere, but there. or if there is someone here doing it, i mean, shrinkflation is absolutely huge. i want you to go the next time you buy peanut butter. look at the bottom of the jar. it's big and hollowed out. now that's shrink inflation. i thought it was always shaped like that. >> i didn't know. >> no, no. i mean, if you look at they have like the baby cans of coke and for whatever reason , our director, chris johnson, has identified that rolls of toilet paper that used to be 4.5in wide are now only four inches wide. >> i could see i've a visual of chris measuring with a little tape that's but you know, we all we all spend our time doing different things. so i appreciate his consumer advocacy and even like brad, i mean
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sliced bread it's so much smaller. >> uh huh. >> i've seen that and thinner. so you put that peanut butter on and it goes right through. oh okay. >> all right. sobering story out of the uk, pun intended. call it unhappy hour, the largest owner of pubs in the uk is testing surge pricing. basically, if the bar is busy, the prices of drinks will go up. when it's slower, the prices will go down . this move comes as people are already starting to cut back on alcohol. both their and in the united states. all i could think of is that if i was a competing bar, i would love to for the biggest bar to do this because you're just going to send all of your customers to me. i just don't see that. first of all, michael, you strike me as a man who's bellied up to the bar maybe a time or two, maybe a time or two. >> i may be irish. yeah. here's here's what hit me is it's encouraging day drinking like
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it'll be cheaper in the middle of the day. >> i thought that's what happy hour was. you know how there's always those special mid afternoon late afternoon hours when it's cheaper. >> yeah but it's also it's so if, if the bar is crowded it's hard enough to get a drink and then they're going to charge you more for it. i can't imagine that this is going to work saturday. i know you're not, you know, a huge drinker, but just in general, your overall take on this. >> yeah, i don't think it's going to work either. i mean, i see both your point and larry's point. michael's point excuse me. your point. and michael's, we're often confused. >> don't worry. >> very confused. >> yeah. at the bar, it's capital. >> it's just. i wonder why. >> it's september 15th, but it's already beginning to look a lot like christmas. check this out. these pictures were taken yesterday at world market in oakland. you're seeing red and green racks and racks of christmas product already on shelves. we know it's not the first because we saw some christmas items in costco late last month, in august at sandia. they must not know the calendar.
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the seasons, you know, come on, it's still 80 out there. i know you know, the thing is, it's getting earlier and earlier, kristen. >> i mean, we haven't even gotten through halloween. it's september here. and, you know, all the halloween stuff is just barely starting to come out now. they've already got christmas stuff out. it's crazy. >> yeah. michael is this proven to be effective that it really bumps up sales or is this like paranoia that they think that christmas holiday season shopping is going to be less than what they hope it'll be? >> you know, it's both of those things. yes, they have. actually. they do make more money when they push it earlier . the more days that they can get you to do designate shopping days for christmas, the more money they're going to make. and that's why they do that. it's i think it's a bummer because it's like you're what are they going to do, start it in july 4th? i mean, come on. >> you just gave them an idea. >> michael. all right. >> would you like some ketchup with that? and by that we mean your decor. heinz has teamed up with the decor site known as lick to create a paint just for
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ketchup lovers. because, of course, we all know we need that. it's called red dtek50 seven, red 57. it's the ketchup signature. red only available for a limited limited time. only 570 tins are actually available . well, their advertising tagline is lick the plate, not the paint. you know what? now i like this. you guys. >> i actually really like that color. that's a beautiful red. i think it's perfect for dining rooms. what do you think, sandy? if you like red, i would do it that color. >> that's a way of saying no nicely. >> it's a pretty color, but i don't think i would want it in my dining room. >> michael, would you like it in any room in your house? >> you know, i really don't look at my walls and go, you know, that needs to look like food. i don't know. i do kind of like that color, though. yeah i'm with you. i think it's a nice
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color. that's all i'm saying. >> like, i don't think it's for me, but i can see, like, a hotel bar looking for drama. yeah, right. that's not a bad shade of red. yeah. >> yeah. or a nice, rich burgundy. yeah, like michael's thinking. ron burgundy. right now. yeah, yeah. >> now you're talking about larry's alley. yeah. he looks at me, and that's what he thinks of. >> tha try. hope. fail. no one should suffer like that. i started cosentyx®. five years clear. real people with psoriasis look and feel better with cosentyx. don't use if you're allergic to cosentyx. before starting get checked for tuberculosis. an increased risk of infection, some serious and a lowered ability to fight them may occur. tell your doctor about an infection or symptoms or if you had a vaccine or plan to. tell your doctor if your crohn's disease symptoms develop or worsen. serious allergic reaction may occur. best move i've ever made. ask your dermatologist about cosentyx®.
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trade that a young beaver has actually been spotted in palo alto. and there he goes right there. abc7 news reporter lauren martinez has a look at why this is so important to the ecosystem . >> this small ball of fuzz you see scampering across is a big deal for wildlife experts at little beaver went down there in august. bill leikam said one of his trail cameras near matadero creek in palo alto captured a baby beaver for this area. >> there have not been any beavers in this particular matadero creek for over. 160 years. >> experts say the industrial fur trade pushed the population to near extinction. to see the beaver come back on its own is a huge moment. >> that was a trek to get there. those beavers were looking for new habitat. they were looking for a new place to settle down and they found it somewhere that they probably haven't been for 200 plus years, which is just a
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huge moment for, you know, ecological restoration and bringing back a pretty awesome species to the bay beavers offer a slew of benefits to other animals and humans. so beaver ponds and the wetlands that they build are hotspots of biodiversity. there uniquely resistant to droughts and to wildfires. and they can help take the power out of flood waves so that when we have these big atmospheric rivers and other kinds of storm events, it's not so destructive downstream. >> since beavers travel upstream , dr. rick lanmon has an idea of where they could head next. >> san francisquito creek is unique in the south bay because it's not concrete. it's natural . so it could provide a corridor for beaver to get from this baylands to the uplands which is where we need them to get to, to fight fires for us. right? >> last year, bill leikam said his trail cameras captured a pair of beavers. while there's no confirmation they produced offspring, the video of the young beaver is offering researchers hope for their future.
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>> exciting. it's part of the reason why i do all this. >> this animal has been here before, but it's been so long and it's finally back. it's not that they're moving into california or moving into the bay for the first time, like the beavers coming home in the south bay. >> lauren martinez, abc seven news. >> san francisco. steinhart aquarium turns 100 years old this month. the aquarium opened september 29th, 1923. centennial celebrations include special exhibitions and programs. a 1920s themed nightlife event. it also includes a citywide scavenger hunt led by claude the alligator. yeah, yeah. who's 28th hatchday is today. there are 21 prizes hidden across the city. the grand prize is a family tree plus membership and a giant clawed plushie. hi, claude. >> do they sing happy hatchday day, claude. do you think they do that? probably not. no, i wonder what kind of weather claude's looking at for the weekend, if he's going to like it or not. i don't know. what is
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the optimal alligator temperature, but it better be good. >> sandy, because you don't want him to snap at you. >> yeah, you sure don't want that, kristin and larry, i don't know what the optimal temperature is, but it is going to be nice. s just cooler than average live doppler seven showing you fog along the coast line and low clouds. that's going to be advancing across the bay and into our inland valleys. now, our afternoon highs not exactly where they should be, but it should be pleasant inland. it will be sunny clouds, coast side, low 60s to mid 80s. category one hurricane lee continuing to churn, packing winds of 80 miles an hour. expected to make landfall somewhere near nova scotia tomorrow morning. and the biggest threat with this is going to be rain, wind and storm surge for parts of new england that are under tropical storm warnings. accuweather seven day forecast. it's a cooling trend for the weekend that will continue right on through monday before it slow slowly temperatures recover as we head towards fall larry. kristin all right. >> thank you, sandra. new movie shows the dreams can come true. >> so what's your big goal? dream
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