rise on the best way to keep the city safe with those executives think needs to change . good morning to you. it is saturday, september 23rd. i'm gloria rodriguez. it is the first day of fall and we have rain in the forecast. so here to tell us what we can expect this

weekend is meteorologist lisa argen. lisa, are we talking a little rain or just a little rain? >> not everyone's going to see it, but it'll bring much better air quality. but we're going to get into the better air quality as soon as tomorrow. another spare the air alert today is lingering haze and smoke will be with us this saturday. we've got some rain clouds to the south in southern california and that cold front on the way to the north. so today, we'll call it partly cloudy. we have the air quality that is just not what we're used to. right. but, you know, it's been a little bit better into the afternoon. but still covered in blue here. that means that we're going to have hazy conditions all throughout the day. sea breeze is going to be with us. so we'll continue to see and feel that which could improve at some point, allowing for some better air quality in spots. but you'll notice the north bay, the coast and central bay may get hit with the worst air quality, 59in oakland. good morning. novato 48 for you. 58 in fremont. and we'll go through the morning hours with the fog peeling back, partly cloudy to

mostly sunny as we get towards noon and then some hazy skies mid to upper 70s inland about 70 around the bay shore and 60 at the coast. we'll talk about the second half of the weekend and that first early season. cold front coming into play on monday gloria. all right. >> sounds good. thank you, lisa. you can monitor the air qlity in our online interactive tracker. so check it out on abc7 news.com. we've put it on the home page to make it easy to find a two. year-old died following a shooting in vallejo. few details are available right now, but we are told it happened on alhambra avenue yesterday morning. police say that a family member brought the boy to the hospital. the toddler had at least one gunshot wound. they say the shooting happened at a home, but the circumstances are not clear. no arrests have been made. a six year old, jeremy stoner, was assaulted and strangled. a suspect was arrested but later cleared. and jeremy's murder went unsolved until this week. abc7 news reporter tara campbell tells us

how police finally cracked the case and what we know about the suspect. >> footage from more than three decades ago. abc7 news there for the funeral of six year old jeremy stoner abducted near his family's vallejo home in 1987. his body found days later on sherman island in sacramento county. >> we are in the process as we have been for the last several days of going throughout that area and looking for suspicious people. anything that may be suspicious that has come through that area that year. >> police did arrest and charge a man with murder and kidnaping , but the case was dismissed and the investigation then went cold for decades. that is, until this week. solano county district attorney krishna abrams announcing friday a new suspect in custody. i identified using dna technology pg. in a statement, she said, i am so thankful to have such dedicated cold case investigators that no matter how much time goes by,

they remained steadfast in their commitment to solving these horrific cases. jim hammer is a former san francisco assistant district attorney. >> the second level is think about the guy who was wrongly accused of this. i mean, a man had falsely accused of rape and murder of a young boy. i can't imagine a worse false accusation. >> now, this week, investigators arresting fred kane, the third, at his home in central point, oregon. he'll be transferred to solano county to face a murder charge. he's also accused of kidnaping and. >> but if dna is collected proper, he and everyone follows procedure. there's in my mind, no better evidence in the world because it can prove conclusively who committed this crime and perhaps soon some long awaited closure for this community. >> tara campbell, abc seven news. >> governor newsom is urging the supreme court to reconsider a ruling that block cities from clearing homeless encampments. he filed a brief yesterday warning the high court that

cities are paralyzed by the decision. newsom's filing comes following what's become a hot issue in san francisco, where the city is fighting an injunction that keeps it from clearing camps. district attorneys in sacramento and san diego have filed a similar briefs. elon musk has pledged to donate $100,000 to defeat one progressive san francisco supervisor during next year's election. it comes after the supervisor got some pushback for comments that he made about the city's problem with car break-ins. but as abc7 news reporter tim johns tells us, there's a lot more to this story. >> a post from san francisco supervisor dean preston. now going viral online on wednesday. preston taking to the social media platform formerly known as twitter to urge the city to launch a campaign telling visitors not to leave things in their cars. the supervisor saying the move would dramatically reduce car break ins. the tweet getting noticed by several of preston's political opponents, including elon musk, who said he'd donate

$100,000 to help defeat him in the next election. >> and that's not instead of enforcement, right. the police department and the da will work on the enforcement side of it. >> during an interview, preston said his tweet was taken out of context by musk and others. he tells me he believes the city needs a multifaceted approach to tackle the car in epidemic. that's why he hosted a special hearing thursday bringing together several city agencies to try and find solutions to the problem. >> let's actually have real signage with graphics that are clear to people, no matter what language they speak. let's have community ambassadors who are out there handing a similar flier to people as they park. >> san francisco has averagedber break-ins a year since around 2017, a fact that perpetuate negative perceptions of the city for both locals and visitors alike, says sharky laguana. >> when visitors come here and their windows are broken and their luggage is stolen, their passports are stolen, their computers are stolen.

>> uh, it doesn't make them want to come back. >> laguana is the president of the american car rental association. he says leaving a car empty doesn't always help, but it's certainly no guarantee . >> i've had my car broken into many times, and it didn't have anything in it. >> laguana says san francisco has been trying the same failed methods to prevent car break-ins for years, and that city leaders need to find new solutions. >> and this is where we're coming up short. we're just unable to catch these people doing it in san francisco. >> tim johns, abc7 news. >> could san francisco see more presence from a private security service that started during the gold rush? one police commissioner wants to see it happen. abc7 news reporter lou pena looks at what it would take to revive the program of patrol specials. crime in san francisco is trending up. >> according to the latest city police data robberies over the last 12 months are up 6% compared to the annual average

over the last four years. vehicle thefts are also up 19% compared to the yearly average. city officials are now getting creative, looking at the past to stop future crime. they're considering something called patrol specials. >> a patrol special is a modified private security. so this also will free up our police officers to actually fight crime. >> san francisco commissioner deborah walker presented this proposal to the police commission this week, hoping to officially bring back a squad of this type to the city. >> is an existing program that began back in the gold rush days when we didn't have police. but it's always operated sort of side at the same time as our police department. >> currently, there is only one patrol special still active in san francisco. he urged sfpd's chief and other commissioners to revive this program. >> when i became patrol special in 1977, it was 450 patrol

specials that was assistance and beat owners. >> sfpd is about 600 officers short patrol specials would be assigned to specific blocks where businesses request their services in the past, they have been armed and their uniform is very similar to that of an officer. >> we have our ambassador programs. we are looking at using police reserves and paying them. >> there are about 260 businesses in fisherman's wharf . the community benefit district says safety is a major concern in the patrol specialist program is crime prevention through presence. >> and that is what what we're asking for just having them around will give tourists. they'll make them feel safer as the police commission irons out the details, supervisor peskin is also worried about why they disappeared. >> the police officers union was never big. fans of the patrol special. they saw them as competition. we're no longer in those days. we're short several hundred police officers, so hopefully those issues will go

away. now we also contacted the san francisco police union for comment and did not hear back. >> there's also an issue of fairness because some neighborhoods will be able to afford patrol specials and some want. for now, the police commission is working with sfpd to define what the training and strategy will be moving forward in the newsroom, lou pena, abc seven news. happening ne start of a highway shutdown that will last alleekend. >> the northbound lanes of y 87 in san jose closed arting at 9 p.m. yesterday. it's between julian street and highway 85. this is for a major lane resurfacing project. the closure is expected to run through 5:00 on monday morning. another closure will take place the weekend of october 20th, when the southbound lanes will be repaved. and. and now let's get a preview of your forecast with lisa. good morning, lisa. good morning, gloria. >> partly cloudy skies for oakland, but we're looking at a cloudy skies for much of the bay area and fog in napa. quarter

mile visibility there. we will look for more haze in the afternoon. a nice looking sunday as fall. it came into a our lives yesterday. did you notice we'll talk about rain chances for monday. so a lot going on stay tuned. i love fall. >> all right. thank you, lisa. and also had a wet spring smoke skies and rain. winemakers have really dealt with a lot this year. now it's harvest time. plus, happening today, check out what it will take to put on the first ever pride event in martinez

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. it's happening at the waterfront park from 11 to 2. abc7 news reporter lena howland is taking a closer look at what this event means to the community. for the first time in martinez history, the city is holding its first pride celebration on saturday. >> i went to school in martinez and i remember there was nothing available for pride. >> cristian aguirre is executive director of the rainbow community center for the lgbtq nonprofit serves people of all ages. in 19 cities across contra costa county. this year, it's the main event sponsor for martinez pride. >> we really want to elevate that message to create awareness , and also to allow people to feel welcomed everywhere they go in our county. >> and for the main organizer, for sarah tucker, it's personal . >> it just it helps as a parent and as a queer person myself, it helps to know that our community is behind us. martinez is now one of several smaller community us that have adopted their own pride. >> instead of relying on events

in larger cities. tucker says with a rise in anti lgbtq legislation across the country this year, pride has never been more important. >> there are lgbtq folks everywhere and we like to see it in our communities. we want to know that our local businesses support us and our city council supports us. and so it's important to have representation. it's important for our kids to have representation. >> martinez mayor brian zorn says the event is also proudly backed by the city, with a $2,500 cultural grant. >> in addition, it really shows our lgbtq community living in martinez that they're seen and that they're loved by their martinez neighbors. >> but with future grant funding uncertain, the rainbow community center is still seeking more sources of funding to make sure pride can continue next year. >> so we're trying to bring more community members to step in and also build a donor base for us to sustain throughout many years

. >> and if they can contribute to this group, then that will ensure that we're able to have this event annually. >> uh- in martinez, lena howland , abc seven news in san francisco this weekend. >> you can expect to see a lot of leather in the city's soma neighborhood. the 40th annual folsom street fair is going on sunday. the event draws thousands of kink and leather enthusiasts to the city every year. there will also be food, drinks, live music and, of course, local businesses out there. folsom street fair will go from 11 a.m. until 6 p.m. on folsom between eighth and 13th streets in the east bay. tens of thousands of people are expected to stroll the streets of lafayette this weekend for the art and wine festival that starts at 10:00 this morning. it features hundreds of vendors as well as live music and kids zones and it takes over several blocks of mount diablo boulevard. you do have to buy your drink tickets in person if you're going. this is the largest annual festival in contra costa county in the north

bay. the wine grape harvest is off to a late start because of a cold and wet spring that delayed the ripening. and now, with potential rain in the forecast, many vineyards are moving to pick some varietals quicker. but despite all of these weather roadblocks, many are optimistic that 2023 will be a good vintage . abc7 news reporter cornell bernard has the story from wine country. >> i'm really happy with the way the my crew has gone through and balanced this canopy. >> it's a busy week for steve letson, a fifth generation winemaker in kenwood. >> i'm up at 3:00 in the morning and getting people organized and i'm out in the vineyards checking fruit and stuff. >> it's harvest time for many white grape varieties. most of the picking happening overnight to keep the fruit cool. >> we picked a day last week. it's a small block up in mt. terraces. it's just incredible. we only make 50 cases of an incredible wine and so now we're looking at chardonnay and sauvignon blanc. >> steve says the 2023 harvest

has been delayed 2 to 3 weeks after a cool wet spring which slowed grape ripening. and now there's more weather challenges ahead. all the smoke in the air from wildfires up north. not a huge concern to steve and his crew because the particles are so high in the atmosphere. but rain in the forecast is a different story for grapes still on the vine in our red grapes cabrillo, all the reds, that won't really bother them that much. >> that's not going to do anything but, you know, white grapes. what can happen, especially if you have tight clusters, get the matter some mildew bunch rot and stuff like that in there. >> the approaching rain is accelerating. the picking of the grapes. >> normally this time of year, we're we're in the 80s and even in the 90s in mid september. so that's been a concern. it's kind of stalled the ripening process . >> this brooks painter from bay city winery in saint helena says his priority is harvesting white grape varieties at the label's vineyard here in the anderson valley, which could see three quarters of an inch of rain in the coming days. >> last thing you want is a heavy rain right at the end of

harvest when we're essentially ready to pick the grapes. >> i've been doing this my whole life since i was a little kid, steve says. >> as farmers, you have to pivot with changing weather conditions. and he believes when the harvest is done, they'll be something worth toasting to. >> as far as the vintage quality, i think it is going to be one of the best. just incredible. >> and kenwood, cornell, bernard , abc seven news. >> spooky season is approaching and the winchester mystery house will send people back in time for an interactive halloween experience. unhinged house warming has returned for his 100th year in san jose. the haunted mansion is experience has a roaring 20s theme this year. guests can go on a tour of the estate and they'll find strange things happening throughout the place. it also features some scare zones and sideshow entertainers. a halloween museum where it looks like they have some creepy dolls in active games, food and

drinks, night with unhinged. >> we are going back to 1923 and hollywood couple will to do just purchase the estate and they're going to open it up for the very first time on halloween night. >> tickets are limited and unhinged. will only be available on select days, primarily fridays and saturdays. and it's really that time of year where there's so much going on here in the bay area. lisa. i mean, it's just we're talking about all these festivals and it's just a really great time of year and hopefully great weather too. >> yeah, we're going to see a big pattern change come the end of the weekend, but also some big changes for your sunday, which most of you certainly will be looking forward to. that's better air quality today. we still are under some haze and a spare. the air alert is moderate. air quality lingers throughout the bay area as we can't quite get into that new air mass until the winds totally shift. so there has been some rain in southern california to the north and west of us. this front arrives on monday. we'll

be getting the tail end of it. and in between that, we still are looking at those hazy conditions around the bay area. the smoke with the northwest winds gets pushed offshore and then the sea breeze pushing it back onshore, allowing for the haze to stay in the atmosphere. this is tropical storm ophelia with winds of 65 miles an hour, really bringing some pretty good rain. from raleigh, north carolina, to virginia, all the way up through new york and cape cod for a really gray day here, anywhere from 2 to 4in of rain. and so we'll be looking at a very soggy scenario here for much of the atlantic and back home, it's dry and we'll get into southerly winds tomorrow. temperatures have been certainly cool, well below average. that continues again today. but we'll get back into a better fall pattern, which we're more used to the end of this coming workweek. we'll say about actually wednesday. how about the middle of the workweek? 55 in concord. it's 53 in martinez.

and temperatures pretty cool consistently in the 40s. the last few days up in the north bay, 43in novato, 48. napa, 47 pacifica and a little bit of fog up towards napa, a quarter mile visibility 8-80. it is milder in livermore this morning with cool temperatures from santa rosa four degrees cooler. compare to this time yesterday and napa is seven degrees cooler. so we talked about our spare the air, the hazy conditions today, better air quality tomorrow. chance of rain coming in monday afternoon. here's the way it's going to look today. waking up to mostly cloudy skies. the fog pulls back, but we'll get into some high clouds around the bay into tomorrow morning. more in the way of cloudiness. that front is just upstream. here it comes into monday afternoon from ukiah to cloverdale down through sonoma county and then just kind of falling apart late in the day on monday for some spotty light showers across the bay. here's a look. another look at it really winding up in the pacific northwest. and as we go into the early morning hours of tuesday,

pretty much out of here, rainfall amounts focused in the north bay, maybe 8/100 there, 2/100 in novato, maybe san francisco. elsewhere, not so lucky, but we will be looking at that big pattern change that i think we're all looking forward to with some better air quality. 60 two half moon bay mid 60 in san francisco. look for 75. in san jose, we should be 81 this time of year in the south bay the accuweather 70 forecast hazy cool and breezy tomorrow more clouds better air quality chance of showers into monday. we clear on out on tuesday behind the system getting much warmer. i think you're going to notice the difference inland around the bay mid 70s that's more like it for late september. and then 60s on the coast. so we get a taste of winter and then back to seasonal readings. >> a little bit of everything this week. and you were saying the rain is kind of rare to have it this early. >> yeah, we could go right through halloween with nothing. so yeah, good for us. i guess. yeah. >> i think a lot of people are

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farm in the state. it's being called a first of its kind space . s it's on north winchester boulevard in santa clara, n the border of san jose. abcsever zach fuentes was at the grand opening and has more. >> sweet potato, parsley, bell peppers and so much more are growing right in the middle of this santa clara neighborhood. just a short walk away from westfield valley fair mall in santa ana row in the south bay. it's an urban farm called agrihood. >> this is the first urban agrihood in a city of this size or in any in any city in this country. and it's got an agricultural working farm here. >> but that's not all. agrihood is also the site of affordable housing, with a focus on seniors and veterans, providing not just

a place to live and access to produce, but also a community with farmers markets and gardening lessons. >> it's going to give them something to do, places to be. we're going to have 50 pop up events a year here, so they're going to meet each other, have fun together and really enhance their quality of life. >> community member kirk vartan was one of the driving forces behind the project. he started encouraging the city 20 years ago to revitalize the former uc davis agriculture site. >> i started connecting and we started engaging community and we started having meeting. >> after meeting millions in funding from 2016 missouri affordable housing bond and the city of santa clara helped fund agrihood, bringing in a master developer called the core companies. 165 affordable units have been allocated for older adults, including 54 units of permanent supportive housing. for us, it was really important to look at what are we building and who are we serving? >> and we know that our homeless population is aging and agrihood is responding to that need. >> residents are already moving into units with more expected and though the housing is key,

those behind this urban farm stress that the brand new space is for everyone, not just for the residents. >> it's for everybody. and that's that's really the goal is so this is a this is a community public asset. how does public space serve the public? and that's really what i think this will do in santa clara. >> zach fuentes, abc seven news. >> still to come on abc seven mornings, the governor siding with i and vetoing a bill banning autonomous truck driver. this as the auto worker strikes continue. plus, the tourism boost from dream force. how many people visited san francisco for the major tech conference and what they had to say about it we handcraft every batch of our delicious popcorn. like our cretors cheese and caramel mix.

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so whatever helps us get that good contract, i'm all for it. >> now, a 530, we're checking in on contract negotiations in the united auto workers strike and the planned visit from president biden next week to join the picket line. good morning to you. i'm gloria rodriguez. we're starting this half hour with a look at your weather. good morning to you, lisa. hey, gloria. >> good morning to you. we are looking at less than 30 minutes to sunrise. it's hazy out there, cloudy in most parts. another spare the air alert, moderate air quality today, that sea breeze not really helping us out because the smoke is offshore. so when we get into our sea breeze, still looking at those hazy skies for your saturday, but not for sunday. so we have an improvement for the second half of the weekend outside here , you can see it doesn't look great, right? 57 downtown. it is 58 in palo alto. and a look from our exploratorium camera, partly cloudy skies. look at those 40s from novato to napa. pretty chilly there. 54 santa rosa fog in napa at quarter mile

visibility. so today poor air quality. north bay coast in central bay. it gets better tomorrow the fog will erode back to the coast by noontime. but then we'll get some high clouds late in the day. 60s to mid 70s for most maybe a couple upper 70s and then we'll see a cold front head our way once we are behind that cold front, we will see more seasonal temperatures, but we'll talk about rain potential as well coming up in a few minutes. gloria, all right, lisa, thank you so much. >> new this morning, governor gavin newsom vetoed the latest self-driving truck bill. the senate backed bill would require a human operator in autonomous trucks over 10,000 pounds for the next five years, according to the sf chronicle, governor newsom opted not to sign the legislation, calling it a necessary. the teamsters union represents 250,000 members and rallied in favor of the bill this past week. they argued that not signing the bill could risk thousands of jobs being lost.

united auto workers are entering their second week on strike. employees walking out at 38 facilities say that some progress has been made in negotiations with ford, but not with general motors or stellantis. as abc's lionel moise reports, president biden says he will join them on the picket line next week. we are the union. >> we are the union. mighty, mighty union. the mighty, mighty union workers at an ac delco parts distribution center in memphis, tennessee, part of the 5600 automakers joining the united auto workers strike friday against the three big us automakers. >> the uaw increasing the pressure on general motors and stellantis friday, expanding its strike to all 38 parts and distributing facilities across 20 states. we will shut down parts distribution until those two companies come to their senses and come to the table with a serious offer. >> still, antis issuing a

statement saying that it questions if the union's leadership wants to reach an agreement in a timely manner, accusing the union of pursuing their own political agendas rather than the best interests of employees. >> the union is asking for more than a 40% wage increase over four years, a 32 hour workweek for 40 hours of pay and a restoration of traditional pension plans for new workers. so far, the companies have offered a. little over half that amount a according to uaw president sean fain, ford is showing progress on issues like cost of living increases, profit sharing and security during layoffs in a statement, ford saying there are still significant gaps to close on the key economic issues. >> nobody wants to be out here. we want to be in there working. we want to be, you know, getting parts to our customers and to the dealers. but it comes to a point where you had to draw a line in the sand. >> and next week, the workers will have some company on the picket lines. president biden

saying he will travel to michigan tuesday, saying on formerly twitter that he wants to stand in solidarity with the men and women of uaw as they fight for a fair share of the value they helped create. lionel moise, abc news, new york. happening today, hollywood striking writers and the major studios will meet for a fourth straight day in a statement yesterday, the writers guild of america. >> the wga confirmed to its more than 11,000 members that talks will continue into the weekend after weeks of inaction face to face negotiations between the writers and the alliance of motion picture and television producers resumed this week. the meetings have been bolstered by the presence of four top studio executives, as new developments now, a federal judge has ruled that california cannot not ban gun magazines. of more than ten rounds. it comes after the supreme court last year set a legal standard on interpreting gun laws, relying on their historic context, as opposed to

public safety. the ban will likely remain in effect while california's attorney general appeals feels the ruling pg customers will likely see their bills increase in the coming months. the cpuc is expected to vote on two proposed rate plans in november. one raises rates by 9. the other by 11. p-g-and-e's says that an increase is necessary to put 2100 miles of power lines underground and to reduce wildfire risk. >> when you put those lines underground, it reduces the need to do things like tree trimming and maintenance around those lines. and it also far increases reliability. p-g-and-e's wants to put most of its many of its power lines underground. >> that is far too expensive an approach for wildfire safety. the much better approach is to insulate the power lines, which is a faster and cheaper way. >> state senator scott wiener released a statement saying that the rate increase will place an absurd burden on customers for

upgrades. he says should have been performed decades ago. despite ongoing public safety concerns in san francisco, dream forest sun influx of attendees. more than 40,000 people attended sales forces dreamforce conference last week, according to sfgate, the costar group reported an average of more than 93% hotel occupancy during the tech conference's peak evenings. some hotel officials say that downtown restaurants and businesses were also packed during this time in july, the city's hotel average was 66. san francisco is preparing to take the world stage this november for the asia pacific economic cooperation summit, or apec. the city is trying to raise 20 million extra dollars for apec. it is the biggest international event that the city has hosted in decades. the money will help host multiple events around the

global summit. political and business leaders from across the world are expected to go to apec, including president joe biden. mayor london breed is also set aside a $10 million budget to pay police and city employees overtime. during the event, thousands of extra officers local, state and federal will also come to help out. >> are we ready? yes, i think we're ready. i think san francisco is a great place to hold a apec with our large asian population. >> as many as 30,000 visitors are expected, and that includes two dozen heads of state. 1000 ceos and hundreds of foreign journalists. still ahead on abc7 morning, 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. and let's get a live look outside this morning. it is a nice morning so far. we'll get a check of your forecast with lisa argent in a few minutes to see

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bring several enhanced agents to the wharf like binoculars, new benches and lighting and shade structures. this is all thanks to government funding. the restoration will replace all the decking and it will widen and reinforce the pier. leaders of the project hope that it will be back better than ever by this time next year. on the east coast. tropical storm ophelia has strengthened and as it's expected to make landfall today. the storm prompted a hurricane watch warning in parts of north carolina and you could see it's already caused some powerful surges as strong winds and flooding ring around the outer banks. the national hurricane center says the storm is bringing the maximum sustained winds of 83mph with higher gusts . and let's get a check of your forecast right now with lisa. good morning, lisa. >> hey there, gloria. 55 right here in santa cruz. we have hazy skies. spare the air alert today. later on today, upper 60s, better air quality tomorrow, maybe even a few

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morning sports. >> good morning, everybody. the 40 niners may have the best roster in the nfl and the men responsible for that are being rewarded. coach kyle shanahan and gm john lynch both receiving multiyear contract extensions. terms of those deals were not released. now the niners are going to enjoy a nice weekend off after their 3212 win over the giants in thursday night football. christian mccaffrey scored a touchdown for the 12th game in a row. that ties jerry rice for the niners team record . so what is it like being mentioned with the greatest of all time? >> yeah, that's a huge honor. you know, obviously scoring touchdowns is a team thing. you

know, o-line did a great job blocking and just had to hit the hole. but yeah, that's a huge honor to be mentioned with somebody like that. >> friday night football, mountain west conference opener for san jose state hosting air force. let's dance. it's friday . first drive of the game. chevan cordeiro not dancing, but sprinting untouched from ten yards seven nothing san jose state it looked like this was going to be all sparty kyree robinson two touchdowns in the first half. this is a 29 yard burst carrying people running through tackles. spartans led 2010 at the half and that's when things went terribly wrong. air force john lee eldridge the third spinning and then hurdling. this is a fantastic run. he's carrying people get off of me. air force scores 35 straight and they stun. sparty 4520 on a baseball brandon crawford on the road trip in la giants under 500 for the first time since june, trying to get back to even with a win over the dodgers. no score in the fourth.

mike yastrzemski high deep low ha his 15th to nothing. g-men three one in the ninth. rookie tyler fitzgerald made his major league debut on thursday night, and on friday night, his first major league homer. now the fans la dodgers fans. right? they threw it back. but that's good. he gets the ball for his trophy case. five one giants the final there back at 500. although the wild card hopes are on life support, how about the a's trying to snap an eight game skid? well this is sweet roses for ushers in appreciation of their work. first pitch of the sixth inning. here it comes. there it goes. all star brant rooker, a towering drive deep to left center for his team, leading 29th of the year. a's and tigers knotted a two. and then later in the sixth, shea langeliers pinch hitting with two on bangalis a three run homer, his first career pinch hit dinger. a's snap the slide to win a22 and avoid tying the 79 squad for the most losses in oakland history at 108. that's a wrap on morning sports. have a great weekend, everybody on

larry beil. >> you already know that it is pricey living in the bay area. now some tech entrepreneur years are becoming pod people while they're living in these tiny spaces as to sacrifice comfort for their startups. abc7 news reporter lou spina spoke about how they're looking. well, she took 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 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 so for ai, it's much, much better to have a diverse group of people that you can work with that can help bounce off ideas, brainstorm and actually be able to make something that's probably a little bit more reliable for 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. >> 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. >> san francisco is the ai

capital of the world because of the 20 top companies is anywhere in the world. eight are right here in san francisco. >> we showed mayor breed what these founders are doing. >> so this is it. what do 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 at 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 and 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. >> thank you. lose lisa. i have so many questions about these pods. i want to know where they're keeping all their stuff

, their bathroom situation. i just have like so many questions. yeah. very minimalist. >> right. all right. good morning everybody. we have a cold front on the way, remember? yeah kind of odd for september. very odd. we could go all through october and not see any rain, but nothing has been typical about this past summer. it has been humid and even rainy at times in southern california for much of the summer. and once again, they picked up raindrops yesterday. hey, this is tropical storm ophelia. they moved into north carolina at 530 eastern time. now it is with winds of over 60 miles an hour, about 65. moving to the north at 13, bringing rain as far north as cape cod. so today and tomorrow, boss boston could pick up over a half inch of rain. so it really looking at a good amount of rain there. it is clear in concord, hazy in napa this morning. and waking up here in san francisco, not very quickly. right. check it out. it is a gray scene here. and we'll be looking at those hazy skies again as our spare

the air alert continues. 57 downtown. it's 55 in mountain view and half moon bay. and another look outside that sun coming up at 658 from our exploratorium camera. quiet, but the mid-level clouds will give way to those hazy conditions today 54 in santa rosa and some higher clouds later on in the day, mid to upper 40s novato and napa. it has been chilly here with temperatures in the mid 50. s cloudy skies in livermore. the golden gate, though look at that. not much in the way of a marine layer. so spare the air hazy skies looking at that better air quality for sunday chance of rain moves in mid day monday. here's a look at the weekend. the first weekend of fall. the fog or the clouds pull back. you notice they linger in santa rosa through noontime. some sunshine, some haze. the clouds increasing for your sunday day. this is sunday afternoon. we'll call it partly to mostly cloudy as just upstream as this cold front. it is going to bring a couple inches of rain to the pacific

northwest coast. the tail end of it pushes through the bay area, falls apart. but much of northern california will not only get better air quality, but the fires finally putting some of those out looks pretty likely as the heaviest rain will be to the north of us. so there's a look at tuesday day. it disappears and we'll get into a cool breezy afternoon. the rainfall will come in on monday, a couple hundredths from central to southern marin to san francisco. even santa cruz has a chance of a few raindrops, but the most will be up in sonoma, napa, maybe 1/100 upper 70s today in livermore. it's a good five degrees below average. breezy downtown 66 in richmond, partly cloudy out there. the accuweather seven day forecast so hazy and mild today. sunnier good air quality sunday chance of light showers on monday and then by tuesday we're behind the system still below average, but by the middle of the week it looks pleasant. still no extremes out there, but you know, this air quality issue is

been strange and happy to have it behind us tomorrow. >> yeah, it was so bad a few days ago. yesterday it felt better. but you're saying today it's kind of coming back? yeah. yeah okay. well, thank you, lisa. >> tomorrow's a good day, though. >> that's good to hear. good day to be outside. well, next up, it's time for a relaxing morning cruise for these two kitties. coming up, we'll show you these cats that enjoy getting out on the water

but his vision dimmed with age. he had amd. i didn't know it then, but it can progress to ga, an advanced form of the disease. his struggle with vision loss from amd made me want to help you see warning signs of ga. like straight lines that seem wavy, blurry, or missing visual spots that make it hard to see faces like this one, or trouble with low light that makes driving at night a real challenge. if you've been diagnosed with amd and notice vision changes,

don't wait. ga is irreversible. it's important to catch it early. talk to your eye doctor about ga and learn more at gawontwait.com two cats named fisher and sailor are doing just that. their family shared this video. their human mom says that fisher and sailor really like the outdoors. it looks so relaxing. speaking of relaxing, it pays to be a couch potato. at least it might if you enter this contest online . casino.com is looking for someone to binge watch shows on

netflix. the online ranking service promises to pay $1,500 to the lucky tv enthusiast who gets the job. and that gig is to identify the most binge worthy show on the streaming site. i wonder how much time that takes. that sounds like a pretty good job. >> i always just ask people around here what they're watching. yeah, that's easier too. >> i feel like i'm so behind on all the shows right now. >> oh, i'll tell you what's up. >> okay. i'll get the list after . all right. >> good morning, everybody. we're looking at the hazy conditions. another spare the air alert today. cool again, partly cloudy out there. 68 in oakland, 75 in san jose. and the accuweather seven day forecast, we get into better air quality. a sea breeze tomorrow and then monday some raindrops especially in the north bay still cool on tuesday but getting a little bit milder for wednesday and thursday feeling like late september with more mid 80s inland. >> and as far as today, the air quality outside. if you're going to a festival or something moderate, yeah, i would say it's a lot like it was yesterday.

>> nothing horrible, but it's still not ideal. okay. >> thank you, lisa. and thank you all for joining us today. and of course, we will be back here at 8:00 this morning. so tune in then. have a wonderful morning. >> 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 anytime, anywhere. >> here 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 watching running is awesome. but her moderate to severe eczema would make her skin so uncomfortable.

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