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>> it looks like deja vu all over again. another day of poor air quality. and we're going to have to get through at least one more day before it gets noticeably better. good evening. i'm ahmad daetz. >> and i'm dan ashley. thanks for joining us today. there's a spare the air alert just like yesterday. and there will be another one tomorrow. >> yeah, air quality might look a little bit better, but it still has the potential to be hazardous to our health. yeah. >> abc seven news meteorologist sanjay patel is tracking it all for sandy. when will air quality actually improve? dan >> this weekend. we're going to notice that improvement. and alma, let's take a look at live pictures from our tower cameras that heavy smoke is still visible from vollmer peak. and you will notice from mount tam, san jose's a bit hazy, but exploratorium cameras showing you that sea breeze is bringing in some blue sky, fresher air from mount tam. you can certainly see the combination of the smoke and the low clouds. so we do have that spare the air alert extended through tomorrow as unhealthy air quality is still lingering so poor for today, moderate to poor
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tomorrow. and as we take a look at the air quality, the sensors right now will show you, most areas are in the yellow, which is moderate. it is poor for sensitive groups in the north bay and the east bay. and you will notice parts of the north bay starting to see green, which is good air quality, even if it is temporary. tsay so tonight we're going to keep that haze and smoke around this evening, continuing to see it just drifting in from time to time. tomorrow morning you may actually see another round that's a little more concentrated. so be prepared for that as the smoke settles down. and then tomorrow evening, it will still be with us as we head toward saturday, the wind starts to switch direction coming off the ocean, bringing that fresher air. but until then, the visible satellite picture. we'll show you that smoke around oregon from the wildfires. and then there's some more smoke right along the northwest portion of the state. that's where it's all coming from. i'll be back to let you know about some good news, which is good air quality. when that will happen in just a few
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minutes. alma all right. >> sandhya, thank you. eric quality can be a health concern, even if you can't smell smoke. abc7 news reporter leslie brinkley talked to experts about that looking west from the oakland hills. >> the smoke still obscures views of the bridges in the city. looking east mount diablo still shrouded in dense smoky air. >> there's just a big plume of smoke and it's, you know, kind of, you know, dropping to ground level where unfortunately we're all likely to sort of encounter it as we breathe. and aqi above 150 affects everyone, even healthy individuals, according to the director of the uc davis center for health and the environment, the difficulty and the problem that exists, whether you can smell the smoke or not, is the presence of those particles that are easily being taken into your lungs with each breath that you take. >> the wildfire smoke may be from distant fires, but the particulates in the smoke are still very damaging once they lodge in your lungs and produce
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inflammation and damage to cells , the transport of these particles from wildfires, as you've mentioned, can occur over hundreds of miles of distance and in the transport of those particles, they can also undergo different kind of chemical changes that can then potentially increase their toxicity even simply walking around outside increases. the particles you're breathing in, especially if that aqi is above 150 like it's been a lot of the week. so pay attention if you've got some nose or throat irritation, then definitely monitor aqi or maybe even wear a mask. >> we're hoping that we'll see some improvements and maybe the air quality will drop down into the good to sort of moderate range starting on saturday. but we definitely are expecting you know, air quality standards to be exceeded today and tomorrow in the east bay. >> i'm leslie brinkly, abc7 news . >> a public safety power shut
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off happened today in napa county. only seven customers were affected so it wasn't a huge deal. p-g-and-e's turned off the power to reduce the risk of wildfires in high risk weather conditions. napa was one of eight counties that was warned about these possible power shutoffs. and yocan check the weather monitor wildfires and see air quality all in one interactive tracker that we've put together for you. eck it out on abc7 news.com. we've put it on the home page to make it very easy for you to find right now from the i-team tonight, billionaire backed investment firm thas quietly acquired more than 55,000 acres of solano county farmland is revealing their plans in an exclusive interview, the ceo of flannery associates sat down with abc's seven news i-team reporter stephanie sierra to discuss his vision for the project and the future. >> yeah, she's here tonight with that story. steph, how is this? >> it was interesting and revealing tonight. we had a very candid conversation with john sramek. he's the brains behind
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this proposed new city in solano county that's focused on building affordable housing, clean energy and sustainable infrastructure. but for years, it's been kept secret. and tonight we learned why. john. for years, people have been wondering what is flannery associates and what isn't it? for our viewers who have been interested in this story, what would you tell them? >> i would say that it's definitely not the chinese. and so we have no chinese of any no chinese investors of any kind. flannery and the parent company california forever is a company that is proposing to build a new community in eastern solano county that is to be surrounded by renewable energy like solar farms and by open space agriculture and habitat. >> so a new community specifically a city, right? yes. so what is your vision for this city? what will it look like? >> we would say it will be one of the most walkable places in in california, probably in america. and it would it would be a place that has a very traditional feeling to it. there's been a lot of
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speculation about are we building a utopia? are we building some kind of a crazy tech city? and all of those things could not be or speculations couldn't be further away from the truth. >> local, state and federal officials have raised concerns about the viability of this project, specifically citing the lack of infrastructure and the lack of water. do you have specific plans to tackle those issues? >> i mean, we in the early stages of talking to those officials and to the agencies and so we don't have specific plans because we want to make sure that they are plans that are done together with all of the stakeholders and that they work for everyone involved. >> so i'm just kind of trying to get a sense like logistically how you envision this happening and do you truly think you'll have the support needed? this will have to go to the voters, of course, to make this happen. >> we are very confident that we'll have the support. i mean, i think that if anything, we've been we've been really surprised over the last few weeks at the difference between what's in the press and what people say. i see
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a lot of skepticism about this in the press. but that's not what my friends are telling me. so will this city have a name? it will eventually. we don't have one yet. >> any hints? no we actually it's one of the one of the one of the priorities for the community engagement is to is to start figuring that out. so the community could be involved. >> absolutely. we'll be involved. yeah. >> okay. elected officials told us many times this exact quote, if there's truly nothing nefarious is going on, why keep it secret? right. why did you so one of the one of the outcomes of the research that we did in 2017 is that we felt very confident that we could build an amazing project out there. >> we had to assemble a large landholding, and in order to do that, we had to be quiet about the plans so that we didn't have reckless speculation and tract home developers coming into the area. >> you'd be quiet about the plan so it wouldn't cause reckless speculation because that's exactly what happened. >> i don't think that's what happened. i think what happened is we went to a lot of landowners and we offered them a
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premium, a significant premium several times over market values. and many of those landowners looked at that and said, this is a great deal. and i would like to take it. >> do you wish you would have done anything differently? no so you don't regret not coming forward with these plans early? >> i think this project could only have happened if it was done in a very methodical way where someone could take a very long term view and that included raising capital in a way where the company could take a 40 year view on this. >> when did you plan on initially revealing all this? >> we would have been sitting here. i would have been probably sitting here with you just about now. and so we've we've we've said that we would probably put this put this proposal up for a vote of the people of solano county in november 24th. and we were just waiting for everyone to finish their holidays and come back from labor day. >> do you think it hurt the credibility of flannery's name not being forthcoming with the public about your plans because of the fear it instilled in the community party? that's what some critics argue as far as the
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public perception of all this, i mean, we would have clearly preferred to have to have done this, to have done this more openly. >> but we felt that, as i mentioned before, we would never be able unless someone acquired the property. the project could not happen and could not provide all of these benefits to the community. what i will say is once we sat down with both elected officials, community leaders, residents of solano county, and we explained why we did what we did, and it wasn't done lightly, but a lot of thought went into it. i've seen people react very positively and say, you know, you've made it more difficult for yourself, but i understand why you had to do it this way. and there was no other way to do it. >> now, jan says he hopes the city will be designed in a way where there will be old school shopping streets and everyone can live within 5 or 10 minutes of a pharmacy and a grocery store. he also added he plans to open several new offices to the public, including in fairfield and vallejo. and we're told those offices are expected to open within the next few weeks. >> really interesting guy. and after all of this time, glad to
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hear from him directly. >> exactly. >> yeah. nice job. thanks, steph. thank you. >> and to get in touch with the i-team, you can call this number on your screen or go to abc7 news.com, slash it. >> coming up next, see how you can rent in san francisco for just $700 a month. it's a choice people are making, not just because of the money. >> sfo police say they're making progress cracking down on car break-ins. see what they're doing now and what more they
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a shootout when officers arrived on scene. >> officers entered the building located a victim, encountered a suspect, and in exchange of gunfire, occurred. we are told multiple officers from the berkeley police department opened fire in the suspect died at the scene. >> it's not clear, however, who fired the fatal shots and what connection the victim may have had to the suspect. no one else
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was hurt during that incident. >> well, you already know it's pricey living in the bay area. and now some tech entrepreneur years are becoming pod people living in these tiny spaces is to sacrifice comfort for their startups. abc7 news reporter loose pena. it got a look at how they're living. >> it's small, but it's all part of the sacrifice. that's what a group of ai founders are telling themselves. when they pay $700 a month to rent a sleeping pod in san francisco. >> well, the pod is the size of a twin bed, so it's not very large, but it gets the job done. right. it's enough. you just need a place to sleep. how many hours do you get sleeping? like eight hours. i get a good i get a good rest. i mean, it gets a little toasty in the pod, but, i mean, it's like i sleep fine. >> christian louis took these photos from inside his pod a week ago. he moved to the city from illinois to keep growing his ai company. >> i actually pushed off coming to san francisco for a really long time, but it's been absolutely net positive without a doubt. like just within the
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first couple of days, i met some of the smartest people i've met in my entire life. so that's the reason i came and that's the reason i'm staying and that's the reason why i'm living in a pod. >> one of louis sleeping pod neighbors moved to san francisco a month ago from canada. also for ai, it's much, much better to have a diverse group of people that you could work with that can help bounce off ideas, brainstorm, and actually be able to make something that's probably a little bit more reliable. these founders say that's what they're finding in san francisco, a community who's building the latest ai companies. >> it's just more of a place to meet people that are ready to get their hands dirty and get actually get down and work also inside their building, they have counted about 20 people renting sleeping pods, with many being ai founders or people who are working in the space, as everybody here knows each other. >> and so everybody can kind of introduce you to other people like smart engineers, investors and they're not wrong. >> san francisco is a hub for artificial intelligence since san francisco is the ai capital of the world because of the 20
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top companies anywhere in the world, eight are right here in san francisco. we showed mayor breed what these founders are doing. >> so this is it. would you live in a place like this? >> you do what you can when you know you have a product that's going to make it so that you don't necessarily have to live in a place like that for the rest of your life. >> for these two founders, the sacrifice is worth it. at the end of the day, they're not staying in these pods. the whole day. they're working in the common areas and networking, sacrificing now so i can build a better life in the future. >> i'm in my 20s, so it's probably worth doing that. then when i have kids and san francisco is hosting its second ai conference this year on november 15th, bringing to the city about 350 of the leading leaders and investors of this space to san francisco in the newsroom. >> louis pena, abc7 news and it will be a great success story when you make it having sacrificed like that. >> good for them. >> all right. so how is our weather and our air quality? >> yeah, the air quality is
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still a little spotty. >> sandy yeah, it's still suffering, no doubt about it. because of the smoke from those wildfires up north. dan and let me show you a live picture right now. good evening, everyone. we do have better air quality coming our way, but from our sfo camera, you can see just how hazy and smoky it still is at this hour. so the spare the air continues through tomorrow so poor air quality will linger for parts of the bay area. it will be moderate elsewhere. but notice the shift in the wind bringing good to moderate air quality saturday and as that sea breeze strengthens, we're going to see good air quality for the entire area on sunday and on monday temporarily, you may see an improvement because of the onshore winds right now gusting to 25 miles an hour in napa. but the winds will pick up over the weekend and that's what's going to bring us fresher, better air quality. so saturday, it's the start of the shift, but on sunday, notice the west southwest winds, that's what's going to push that smoke eastward out of the bay area. so
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we will get a break from this smoke that we've been dealing with as we look at the sierra nevada, they've had some showers, some thunderstorms, even some very high elevation snow flurries up there. it's all in association with this area of low pressure that brought gusty winds to the bay area this morning for the hilltops, that is parts of the north and east bay hills. winds gusted 50, 52 miles an hour. those winds have really subsided. that red flag warning was dropped so that trough is going to continue to shift off to the east. and as it does, high pressure will briefly build in and bring us a little bit of a warm up as we take a look from our east bay hills camera. hard to see anything with a combination of low clouds and the smoke. 63 in the city, oakland, you're at 67 degrees. mountain view, palo alto, low 70s. san jose 74 degrees. today's high temperatures were at or slightly below average for this time of year from our san jose camera. still a very murky view because of the haze that's
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still around 65 in santa rosa. it is currently 67in napa, low 70s really comfortable in concord and livermore are the warmest spots by the way. got up to the low 80s from our exploratorium camera. this is nice to see some blue sky showing up hazy through tomorrow . better air this weekend. fall arrives tomorrow night at 11:50 p.m. and we are looking at a chance of showers late monday going into tuesday morning as we go hour by hour, the low clouds will redevelop. they'll push right in across the bay area tomorrow morning. we start out with gray skies. tomorrow afternoon, we're going to see the sun come out again. but it is going to be a little bit hazy as we look at those morning temperatures. you will notice that the season is about to change, especially when you start to see temperatures dropping down in the coldest north bay valleys in the upper 40s, mid low to mid 50s. elsewhere so you might need to layer up tomorrow morning, tomorrow afternoon, hazy skies will still linger across the bay area. those temperatures are going to be in the mild range,
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low 60s to low 80s. a check of the accuweather seven day forecast and fall arrives tomorrow night at 11:50 p.m. temperatures are going to go down for the first weekend of fall, but it's still going to be pleasant. low 60s to the upper 70s the good thing is the air quality will start to improve saturday and by sunday we're talking good air quality for everyone in which will be nice to be outside. and then monday, continuation of good air quality. thanks to the first rain of the season coming in monday night into tuesday morning. and that'll bring us some wet weather which obviously we can use from a fire danger perspective. sure, it takes that fire danger down, so that'll be good. on monday. >> all right. thanks, sandhya. >> new details now on the death of rising star and oakland native angus cloud, best known for his work on the hbo drama euphoria for the alameda county coroner says that cloud died of an accidental overdose. they found traces of methamphetamine, cocaine and fentanyl in the 25 year old's system. his autopsy
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also found benzodiazepine cloud was found unresponsive live in his family's home near lake merritt. that happened on july 31st. his family said that he had been heartbroken over the recent loss of his father. if you or someone you know is struggling with drug addiction, depression, grief or other issues, you can find a list of local resources on our website. just go to abc7 news.com slash, take action. >> coming up next, a heads up about a traffic project. caltrans says it will cause a headache in the short term, but it'll be worth it in the long
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entire highway will be resurfaced with new pavement. that's good for another 20 years. curb ramps will be upgraded and improvements will be made to an adjacent bikeway. the weekend closure will allow caltrans to condense three months of work into a single long weekend. >> we're going to be saving time , potentially three months, by doing the work during this full weekend. it's also going to reduce all the overnight nighttime lane closures or nighttime work that can impact the community. >> the highway will reopen no later than 5 a.m. monday. a closure of the southbound lanes is scheduled for the weekend of october 20th. >> gas prices have jumped in the last week. you probably noticed san francisco drivers now pay 5.67 a gallon on average. that's nearly $0.40 more than last month. triple a says oakland gas averages 5.61 and it's 5.57. in san jose. home prices continue to rise last month even as home sales dropped, according to the national association of realtors. the median price nationwide for existing homes in
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august was $407,000. that's nearly 4% higher than a year ago . this is the second month of rising home prices with low inventory. buyers are competing for the few homes available. >> coming up next. we're only nine days to the deadline to keep the government running. see what lawmakers are up to and why they haven't reached a deal yet. >> california's insurance commissioner announced major changes in the state's insurance regulations. it will affect you. michael finney coming up on seven on your side. i'll
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in san francisco. as you know, they literally happen hundreds of times a month. >> yeah. and people want to see something be done about it. abc7 news reporter lena howland looks at ideas coming from an inter-agency brainstorm today that could help build a better bay area. >> nine and a half months into the year and san francisco police say there have been more than 15,000 car break ins so far
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this year, down by about 500 at this time. last year. >> we want people to be able to come to san francisco and not have to worry about this. but but that ain't going to happen overnight. >> supervisor dean preston calling for a coordinated response across all city departments to cut down those numbers. >> in my opinion, the path to reducing car break ins cannot rely on any one strategy to the exclusion of others. >> san francisco police say they're making progress on a daily basis, with 37 arrests made so far this year in relation to auto break ins. this on top of adding more officers in neighborhoods where break ins are happening, even using bait cars to catch thieves. >> i think it shows the good work that we're doing based on the challenging, you know, things that we're dealing with as far as apprehending some of these suspects. >> challenges like current policy, not allowing pretext stops, things like pulling over cars for no plates for tenant windows, sfmta says they're working on a pilot program to update parking meters citywide with digital warnings on meters
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and on the pay by phone app to not leave any valuables in your car. supervisor preston wants to see an upgrade to the city's park smart program, which has similar warning signs up around the city. but san francisco mayor london breed says it needs to be more than that. >> it's not just park smart, it's everything. it's awareness. it's ambassadors. it's police, it's arrest, it's accountability . it's not just one thing to deal with this real epidemic, not just here in san francisco, but all over the bay area. i feel all very buoyed just to hear that attention is even being paid to the issue. >> andrea. carla michaels, the woman behind lost and found san francisco.com reunites people frequently, tourists with their lost belongings after smash and grabs. >> it's one minute to shatter someone's vacation and dreams >> she's happy to see more attention on the problem, but believes there's a long way to go. as fpd says, they are also
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working to break apart the groups who commit these break ins because they say a single group could be responsible for dozens of break ins in one day alone. in the newsroom, lena howland, abc seven news. >> all right. you can get the full picture of public safety in your area with our abc7 news neighborhood safety tracker. it shows you a wide range of statistics for san francisco, oakland and san jose. you'll find it right on the front page of our website abc7 news .com. >> a third straight day of losses for the major stock indices. they were all down more than a percent. today's drop comes a day after the federal reserve hinted at another rate hike by the end of the year. the dow closed down 370 points, ending at 34,070. the nasdaq dropped 245 points. the s&p lost 72 points. the risk of a government shutdown is looming. large after lawmakers left washington for the weekend with no deal. a funding bill needs to be signed by midnight on
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september 30th to avoid a shutdown. but a handful of hard right republicans are demanding steep spending cuts. the group of five handed house speaker kevin mccarthy, a big setback today by joining with democrats to vote down a bill. >> this is a whole new concept of individuals that just want to burn the whole place down. that doesn't work. >> the associated press reports tomorrow the white house will tell federal agencies to prepare for a shutdown. that is standard procedure when a disruption is seven days out, getting property insurance in california will be easier. >> that's the good news. but the costs could be going up and going up substantially today, major changes were announced in sacramento. >> seven on your side's michael finney has been keeping track of all this and joins us with more. michael >> yeah. citing global weather change, governor gavin newsom and insurance commissioner ricardo lara today handed a huge victory to the insurance industry, one they could not win in the legislature the day started with the governor signing an executive order
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urging insurance commissioner lara to take swift action to address issues with the insurance market and swift he was this afternoon, the commissioner announced a major overhaul of california's property insurance regulations. >> as you know, there's no doubt that california is at an insurance crossroads, making california making insurance more available is becoming critical for our entire economy. with the climate crisis. coupled with historic inflation, we are truly living in unprecedented times. >> among the changes, insurance companies will be able to base their rates on what could happen as seen through computer modeling rather than what has happened in the past. it charge consumers for the cost of reinsurance. if the company chooses to reinsure in crease rates faster in return, the companies will offer discounts for hardening a home against loss guaranty insurance companies will offer insurance to at least 85% of those in
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wildfire areas and work to decrease the amount of homeowners stuck in the insurance of last resort called the fair plan. here's consumer watchdogs jamie court. >> if these proposals go through , people will be paying much more money for their home insurance. i mean, reinsurance costs could add 30% to the cost of home insurance. >> insurance regulators are extremely complex. a tweak here over there makes a major difference. i'll be keeping track and i'll report back on how things are going to go for you, whether or not you're going to pay more, will it actually be more available? we don't know that. >> we don't know. what did jamie say? maybe 30% more. >> that's just for reinsurance. that's when you pay an insurance company and you think they're insuring you. not all the time. a lot of times they'll take half the burden, more or less. and yeah, and spread it around well before that was considered a cost of doing business. wow. >> all right. thank you, michael. >> sure. all right. back at the bargaining table, the writers guild of america and hollywood studios are talking for a second
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day in a row. writers have been on strike for almost five months. report for rob hayes from our sister station in los angeles has a look at the latest on the discussions. >> writers may be used to dealing with some of hollywood's biggest names, but the ones that are facing today are reading from their own scripts. the heads of some of the biggest entertainment companies in the world, nbc universal, warner brothers, disney today all sitting in the same room as negotiate. members of the writers guild of america. after months on the picket lines, is trying to the players seem to share one familiar phrase cautiously optimistic, cautiously optimistic. >> cautiously optimistic. >> entertainment attorney and journalist jonathan handel has been following the to strike since they began. for the writers, that was more than four months ago, putting the big studio heads at the table is a good sign. the presence of the ceos is absolutely required in order to get a deal done. >> the ceos should have been hands on. you know, 120 days or
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more ago. so this is the second day in a row leaders of both sides have been in the talks. >> down on the picket lines. that alone is improvement. >> negotiating is a lot better than not negotiating. so after 100 days of them stonewalling us, any movement in that direction is positive. >> sag-aftra actors just hit day 70 of their strike. no negotiating has happened since they hit the picket lines, but movement between the studios and writers has certainly caught their attention. >> we don't want to get too excited and we want to hear it straight from the wga, but from what we are hearing, it's feeling encouraging. >> meanwhile, the clock keeps ticking. >> if we don't get deals with both unions done within in the next, you know, three, four weeks, the window closes for getting a deal done. this year because of the holidays. >> no comment from the studios today. but the pressure is rising for them. some are running out of new content and
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there is practically no new scripted fall tv material at all in los angeles, rob hayes, abc seven news coming up next, new details on that big refinery release in martinez last thanksgiving. >> the risk assessment report has finally been released. >> also coming up, why the company that owns arrowhead water is being ordered to stop taking so much water from a spring in southern california after more than a century
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on monday starts at 6 p.m. at the contra costa county administration building. >> the company that owns arrowhead bottled water has been ordered to stop using some of the natural springs that it's relied on for more than a century. reporter alex charney from our sister station in los angeles explains why the vote is unanimous and the order is adopted. >> after eight years and dozens of hearings. >> on tuesday, the california water board voted to approve a cease and desist order on arrowhead water, limiting the amount of water the company can take from the san bernardino mountains. community groups say arrowhead water never had the right to take the water from public lands. >> while the trust resources of the people of california were depleted over the last hundred years. blue. blue trident and its predecessors and interests were raking in profits and misrepresenting their right to the water in strawberry canyon to the state, to federal agencies, and to the public, as well as their customers. and that's unacceptable. >> lawyers for blue triton brands, who own arrowhead water argue there is ample evidence
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the company has been taking water from natural springs in the mountains since well before 1914. before the state began regulating water use. still, the water board says blue triton has no such right. this is a really big deal. >> understand that a huge amount of money and business is at stake and but it also is important for us that no matter how much money is involved, that reoing to ensure that the laws of our state are upheld and that they apply to everybody. >> blue triton brands said in a statement, quote, blue triton brands will vigorously defend our water rights through the available legal process. btb continues to comply with all state and federal laws as they apply to our water rights in california. we look forward to continuing to work closely with the local communities near our operations. the order does not completely ban the company from taking water from the mountains , but it does significantly reduce how much it can take. blue triton says they will appeal the water board's order.
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trending wet as of late. do you want to show you the rainfall projections? you'll notice this computer model, which is the gfs, is keeping that rain line, san francisco northward a few hundredths to about 2/10 of an inch higher totals in places like ukiah. but you look at the european model and that's pretty much bringing everybody some wet weather with higher totals in the north, lower away in the southern part of our viewing area. accuweather 70 forecast at least it's an opportunity for rain. that's how i look at it. the season's changing. tomorrow night at 11:50 p.m. and for the first weekend of fall it's going
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to be nice. mild weather below average for this time of year. good air quality coming your way this weekend. and then that wet weather opportunity next week. dan and emma. >> that's great. and larry was saying earlier that the air quality down at levi stadium is pretty good. >> not bad. it's certainly not dampening anyone's spirits as the 40 niners have their home opener tonight, larry. >> yeah i mean the skies are clear air is not a problem and it's not a problem for the 49 ers on the field. we'll update you on the score. plus, i've been waiting so long for this opportunity. i apologize to the legend al michaels for the time i took him for a really bumpy ride. i'll give you the explanation, coming up next. in
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home opener, it's literally a who's who of stars on the field. before the game, we spent some time hanging out with jerry rice , richard sherman, who is now doing tv, as well as the big linemen. jesse sapolu my buddy from hawaii. and on my way out here actually to do this live shot, i ran into roger craig, the star, running back on some of those glorious 49 ers teams. and i also had the privilege of talking with broadcasting legend al michaels, a man i first met, shall we say, a few decades ago . i'm going to go way, way, way back to the first time we ever met. and i pray you do not remember it, because i was about 21 years old. my assignment was to pick you up from a fancy hotel in hawaii and take you to a tv studio. and i showed up in what looked like a modified hearse and the look in your on your face was just like, oh, what am i doing here? and we bounced down the hallway boulevard and i was thinking, well, this is big time television. oh so please tell me
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you have no recollection of that. >> zero. good >> all right. all right. i've been holding out of my conscience for a long. >> the only thing that's true is i must have been at a luxury hotel. right. >> well, that is true. let's talk about 49 ers, because part of your job is you have to look at the rosters of every team in the league. they appear to be stacked. and if they stay healthy, is there anybody with a better roster? >> well, right now, i don't think so. i mean, you take a look at they have so many stars on on both sides of the ball. they pay their guys appropriately. they are very fortunate that they have a quarterback who's making, you know, less than a million bucks, not that we're going to throw any charity functions for him, but right now they are as good as any team in the league in terms of when you look at that roster, one up, one side and down the other. so now it's a matter of, you know, look, we all know it's about injuries. we all know it's about good fortune to the running back position has been devalued in the nfl yet the 49 ers are kind of a throwback
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with christian mccaffrey looks like they're targeting like 25 touches a game. >> what's your take on you know, it's tough being a running back now. you can't get paid and you do get hurt. >> well, the thing with mccaffrey, though, is he's a guy who can catch it as well as run the ball. so, i mean, you take a look at a guy like derrick henry, he's not going to be a threat coming out of the backfield. so when you have a guy like mccaffrey, i mean, you look at him, you've got to go back to like roger craig, who played here for so many years, marshall faulk, that kind of a guy. so mccaffrey is more than just a standard running back. and you know, you look at his numbers and everything and he's worth every penny right now. absolutely. look i want to make things right. >> if you need a ride after the game. i got you. i got you this time. >> aloha. >> he doesn't want my ride. no way. it's great seeing you. oh, my god. >> yeah. be good. >> i love al michaels. he is fantastic. i've got to give you a baseball note. brandon crawford went on the injured list today after tweaking his hamstring yesterday and the loss of arizona. that pretty much
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finished off the giants playoff hopes. in fact, that game may have been his last appearance ever in a giants uniform. crawford's contract ends after the season. he's hitting only 197 crore, could potentially make an appearance in the season finale october 1st at oracle park. we looked up his career earnings. it was over $100 million. i think he's going to be all right if he decides to step away from the game again. 49 ers leading at the half 17 to 6 on touchdowns by christian mccaffrey and ronnie bell, a rookie who's playing because brandon aiyuk is hurt. so we'll have all the complete highlights for you tonight at 11:00. and al michaels is still going strong, guys. he is 78 years old and razor sharp and thankfully had no recollection of me giving him a ride. that's good. yeah, he he blacked it out. >> thanks, larry, very much. all right. >> coming up tonight on abc seven eight generation gap at nine, the prank panel, shark tank is at ten and then abc seven news at 11. that is it for
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this edition of abc seven news. thank you for joining us. i'm ahmed. >> and i'm dan ashley for sandy patel. larry beale. al michaels. all of us here. we appreciate your time. we'll see you again tonight at 11. >> this is abc. 724 >> live in san francisco, live in the south bay in san jose, in concord. live in oakland. yes >> you're watching abc seven news live. many time anywhere we are. >> we are. >> we are. we are. we are. >> we are. where you are. >> never miss a moment of the news that matters to you. download our abc seven bay area streaming app. join us and start
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