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i'm christine. >> and i'm dan ashley. thank you for joining us. dianne feinstein is being remembered as a political giant whose legacy began with tragedy in san francisco, of course, and led to influence and power in the nation's capital. today, people stopped by the senator's home in pacific heights, leaving flowers paying their respects. >> we have team coverage this afternoon beginning with abc7 news reporter cornell bernard live at san francisco city hall where feinstein famously turned a gut wrenching crisis into action decades ago. cornell >> yeah, christine and dan london breed said at just a few hours ago you really can't think of san francisco without thinking of senator dianne feinstein. check it out. all the flags around city hall at half staff today where feinstein once served as mayor many years ago during a time of triumph and tragedy. today, many are reflecting on her very long and illustrious career. >> find. stein was a badass in
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san francisco. >> diana vanderveer from san francisco, speaking her mind about a woman she respected. >> she kicked doors open for my tax bracket even though she was not in it. >> diana and others came to city hall to sign this public condolence book for dianne feinstein. tanya chacon wrote this message about meeting feinstein as a little girl and how it inspired her to be a strong woman in her community as a woman and in that role of leadership, she paved the way for so many women. >> yeah, and i'm here at city hall now, and i remember that. i think about that, that legacy. >> people have been leaving flowers at feinstein's statue inside city hall. >> you can't think about at san francisco without thinking about dianne feinstein. >> mayor london breed paying tribute to her predecessor, the first woman to lead the city at a dark time following the assassination of mayor george moscone and supervisor harvey milk. she worked hard for this city. >> she was a beacon of hope and
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inspiration during a very dark and tragic time, which cemented and cemented her legacy as an extraordinary leader for our city and for our country. >> breed says feinstein was instrumental in rescuing san francisco's cable cars by raising public and private funds to save the railway. she also helped build pier 39in the late 70s. now one of the city's top tourist attractions. >> as dianne was the kind of mayor who would show up at fire scenes in the middle of the night and she there was no part of the government that did not have her thumbprint on it. >> supervisor matt dorsey says feinstein was a champion for the lgbt community during the aids crisis at a time when the reagan administration wouldn't say the word aids. >> dianne feinstein was leading the nation on that san francisco's budget on hiv and aids was bigger than the federal government budget. >> i will miss her trying to tell me what to do. former mayor
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willie brown believes feinstein's greatest achievement was the federal assault weapons ban signed into law in 1994. >> it expired in 2004. brown dismisses critics, which called for feinstein to step aside due to age and declining health. the fact that she was able to convince her colleagues on the republican side of the aisle to embrace the idea of an assault weapon ban. >> those are the kind of things that she will be remembered for, not that she got to be old and feeble. >> for diana, it's a day to pay respects and say goodbye. >> say thank you, dianne feinstein. i'm truly grateful. >> yeah, we heard a lot of thank you's to senator feinstein today, but you know, what we heard the most is from just about every official we talked to is that that feinstein really never stopped being mayor of san francisco. mayor london breed said she would also check in with her giving her a quick call to talk about white trash pickup
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or a broken sidewalk, public safety. she said she was still micromanaging the city she loved. quite a legacy here. we're live in san francisco, cornell bernard, abc seven news. >> cornell, thank you. feinstein served in the senate longer than any other woman today. flags were flown at half staff in memory of her at the white house . in the house, california congressman nancy pelosi led a moment of silence in memory of feinstein law makers in both houses paid tribute. >> speaking with great sadness and emotion about the loss of our great senator, our senior senator from california, senator dianne feinstein. i do so, as i say personally as a friend, neighbor and fellow san franciscan. i all of us do so with great pride as the great senator. she has been to our state. >> we look at that desk and we know what we have lost. we also give thanks, thanks to someone
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so rarefied, so brave, so graceful a presence served in this chamber for so that someone like that served in this chamber for so many years. >> i want to say a brief word about senator dianne feinstein, who passed away this morning. she was a historic figure, a trailblazer for women and a great friend. dianne made her mark and everything from national security to the environment and to gun safety to protecting civil liberties. the country is going to miss her dearly, and so will jill and i. >> so many fond remembrances. and one of the most emotional tributes to feinstein came on the senate floor today from california's junior senator, alex padilla. >> the day i was sworn into the senate in 2021, under the most trying of circumstances, covid pre-vaccine. two weeks after january 6th, she honored me by
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escorting me down the center aisle to the rostrum, stood behind me as i was sworn in. as soon as the votes were over, session was over, she grabbed me by the hand and said, come with me. pretty much right past reporters to her hideaway. immediately i wanted to continue the dialog of how can i help you ? how can i help you? mustered up a little bit of courage and said, dianne, i love you, but i want to call my wife. i've just been sworn in to the senate. so i called my wife. angela answers and my boys are there and dianne says, give me the phone. just been sworn in to the united states senate and i'm watching senator feinstein. feinstein with my kids. so proud of your dad. when are you coming to
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washington? i will buy you lunch . watch that was dianne feinstein. may she rest in and may her legacy continue to inspire us all. >> senator padilla, so moved today. governor gavin newsom will now name a replacement for senator feinstein. and there is pressure for him to do so quickly as the federal government shutdown looms. newsom released a statement this morning saying dianne feinstein was many things a powerful, trailblazing us senator, an early voice for gun control, a leader in times of tragedy and chaos. but to me, she was a dear friend, a lifelong mentor, and a role model. not only for me, but to my wife and daughters for what a powerful effect of leader looks like. she was a political giant whose tenacity was matched by her grace. she broke down barriers and glass ceilings, but
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never lost her belief in the spirit of political cooperation . and she was a fighter for the city, the state and the country she loved every race she won. she made history. but her story wasn't just about being the first woman in a particular political office. it was what she did for california and for america. and with that power, once she earned it, that's what she should be remembered for. there is simply nobody who possessed the strength, gravitas and fierceness of dianne feinstein. jennifer and i are deeply saddened by her passing, and we will mourn with her family in this difficult time. >> the governor and we're hearing today from former southern california congressman jane harman, elected to the house in 1992. the same year as feinstein. harn met with feinstein just yesterday at the senator's me in d.c. the two posed for this photo. she says she is grateful to have such a meaningful memento. >> well, first of all, i was one of the women who came in with
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her in 1992, in the year of the woman elected in california in a seat from los angeles. and i knew her when she was mayor. so i just lucky me in this sad day . i probably had the last meeting with her at late afternoon yesterday. i went to her home, her study. we spent an hour together looking at old pictures and talking about the future. and as we were leaving her housekeeper took this beautiful picture. i want everyone to remember dianne this way. strong young, elegant. no one is like her. i loved her very much, and i'm so glad i got the last hug and kiss. >> the last hug and kiss. harman says she's pleased to see bipartisan tributes for feinstein, describing her as a true leader. >> a few bay area reporters cover feinstein in's career as long as abc7 news insider phil matier that is very true and phil is here with us. >> let's begin with your personal reflect. phil, having seen her over the years, i would
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have to say tough. >> yeah. you know her nickname and her staff when she was mayor in san francisco was iron pants . and that was because she was tough. and, you know, we have these expressions, trailblazers breaking the glass. this a legacy tsay of politico political giant. you can be that from anywhere. right? okay. but she wasn't about winning elections. she was about a person who speaks of a time and her time ranged from the vietnam war to the civil unrest in the 60s to the gay revolution, to the jonestown, to the assassinations at city hall, through wars, through an aids epidemic, through all of that. and she stood tall. now what she she did was more than politics. it was cultural as well. she held together a city that was on the verge of collapse. and then when it finally healed, she held
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it together. the second time when the aids epidemic hit and she led the nation when people were even afraid to touch aids victims for fear that the gay plague would stretch out, she said, no, this is a health issue and we will respond to it. and then when she went to washington , she angered everybody there by turning around and demanding reports and an investigation into the us treatment and interrogations following 9/11. and that was a taboo subject that both barack obama and george bush didn't want her to do. she was. she did it. yes, she absolutely. so she not only was historical, but she went through this wave of history. and that is an incredible some of the biggest moments in our history in the last several decades. >> exactly. >> there she was right out there. and she was unwavering. >> do you think she forced the nation to look at san francisco and women differently? >> well, she what she did was she got the nation to look at san francisco the way she wanted it to. she wanted to be cable cars. and she repaired the cable
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cars. everybody had abandoned her. people don't realize the cable cars could have shut down. they were falling apart. so she went and got money for them to be rebuilt. she brought her. san francisco was the san francisco of tony bennett, and that's what she made sure came back of the 49 ers. yes and so she gave that image. she loved the city, the skyline. you know, she would fight tooth and nail for it if a building was ugly. she didn't want it. so she she helped define the city. she helped define the bay area. and in a larger scale, the nation. she you know, there's she wasn't a senator for the sunday morning talk shows. right. right. okay. she wasn't always running for something or trying to get the name in the lights. she was trying to get the job done. and that didn't make her always the most personable person to be around. >> that's true. >> and she wasn't sort of always on television. always. she was always doing the work behind the scene. >> and she always seemed to have something on her mind. >> well, let's talk about the future. >> i know we're talking about her legacy, which is just beyond
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compare, but it is now up to gavin newsom. gavin, governor newsom to select a temporary replacement. any thoughts on what might happen? >> well, the governor has is under pressure because of the tightness in washington. he's also on some self-imposed pressure because initially he said when kamala harris was elected vice president and he appointed alex padilla, who, by the way, used to work with dianne feinstein as the california senator, nationally, people said, no, you've taken the only black woman out of the senate. you should have replaced her with a black woman. he said he would. and so but that was now now he's sitting there going , i've got to find somebody that's going to do that. but he has a black woman. barbara lee, running for the senate. and so the question is he's saying now, i want to put an interim in, and that's kind of tough. that's a that's a tough one. and certainly the interim has an advantage in the election. but he wants to pick somebody that's not going to run. right. but then how do you get that person to seen that happen before? >> yeah, it's probably going to
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be an up and comer or someone who is past their political prime. >> maybe we don't know what it's going to be. we've never seen this sort of criteria. you know, in the past what you might have done is taken the chief of staff and say, hold the fort for 12 months. until we do that. right. but but we know it happens to women. this is california. we this this california. we're going to have more drama and that's going to be the next one. >> thanks very much, phil, appreciate it. >> our coverage on the life and legacy of senator dianne feinstein continues. people are paying tribute at san francisco city hall today where her iconic political career began.
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i am feinstein from 1994, debating conservator firebrand pat buchanan over her assault weapons bill. arguably her definitive piece of legislation in the us senate. feinstein's history with gun violence span her career from the senate to her time on the san francisco board of supervisors. >> it did her position on
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assault weapons rose from the 101 california tragedy in 1993, a mass shooting at a san francisco high rise where eight people were killed. but it really all began in november of 1978 with the assassinations of mayor george moscone and supervisor harvey milk. and that chilling moment when she broke that news to san francisco and the world. >> as president of the board, i'm i'm as president of the board of supervisors, it's my duty to make this announcement that both mayor moscone and supervisor harvey milk have been shot and killed. the the suspect is supervisor dan white. i remember it actually as if it were yesterday at and it was one of the hardest moments,
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if not the hardest moment of my life. plus the year that followed and maybe two years that followed were the hardest years of my political life. if it was a devastating moment for san francisco, it was a day of infamy. this time i would like to ask earlier that day, feinstein, who was president of the board of supervisors, had told a reporter that she would not make a third attempt to run for mayor and was considering actually ending her political career die when feinstein was an ally and a trailblazer for the lgbt plus movement. >> but her history with the community was more complicated than many people may have realized. here's abc7 news reporter suzanne fawn. so all right. >> all right. >> it takes a small army of volunteers to replace a giant rainbow flag flying over the castro district today. >> as we lower the flag in memoriam for dianne feinstein,
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we raise the rainbow flag as a beacon of hope for people everywhere. >> for senator feinstein had become a huge champion of the lgbt rights. >> i think she will always be known as somebody who brought the city together at a time. i'm right at the burgeoning of the modern lgbt movement. when harvey milk was and mayor moscone were assassin hated, cleve jones was there when mayor moscone and supervisor harvey milk were assassinated. >> i go way back with senator feinstein, back to the 70s jones explains the relationship. >> feinstein had with the lgbtq community. >> she was very adept at sending signals to the community that she supported us, acknowledged us at a time when very few politicians did at all. but it would only go so far. she was willing to host and perform commitment ceremonies, ceremonies for same sex couples in her home, in her garden. but yeah, it was one of the very last significant democratic
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party leaders to really embrace this full marriage equality. >> she was out there and fighting for equal rights and social justice all the time. i know she did have a complicated history during the aids crisis. senator scott wiener described the senator's efforts during the peak of the aids crisis in the 1980s. >> san francisco, under dianne feinstein's leadership, little italy created the model for how to fight hiv aids, a model that's been now replicated throughout the world. >> and that included a controversial decision early to mid 1980s. >> i think there was there were a lot of debates about how to best fight hiv. and our department of public health did decide to close the bathhouses. that was a terrible mistake. dianne feinstein listened and made that commitment and many, many lives were saved as a result. in san francisco, suzannephan abc7 news tonight. >> flowers left on the senator's seat at the us capitol. our
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but there may be some isolate areas that pick up a little bit more than that. in the sierra, this is turning to snow above 8000ft this weekend, expecting a couple of inches of snow tomorrow morning. you're looking at temperatures in the 50s, 60s, certainly windy at the coastline. just have your umbrella handy if you have any plans for saturday and keep them around just in case you need them for the rest of your day. breezy to windy high temperatures will be below average. low 60s to the low 70s your accuweather seven day forecast any outdoor plans sunday is your better day. it's a level one for tomorrow with those spotty showers and then next week we're going to see a warming trend that pushes those temperatures into the 90s inland 70s coast side. so it's going to be the october warmth that we usually experience around this time of year. dan and kristen, one of the best times of the year. >> it is indeed right. >> just ahead here, we'll continue our coverage of the life and legacy of dianne feinstein. >> yeah, we'll take an in-depth look at the definitive moments that shaped her incredible political legacy.
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i won in california in a big state with five and one half million votes. i won by 17% margin. i won among men. i won among women. i won in every age level. i won in every ethnic group. now, what that says is that to me, the fact that i'm a woman is there. but it's incidental. i think people believe that i can be an
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effective united states senator . >> dianne feinstein in 1992, after her historic victory in california's senate race, the political trailblazer died today at age 90. and we continue our coverage on the passing of dianne feinstein. >> you know, few people have had a bigger impact on the bay area's political landscape, a career, more than 50 years long marked by achievement and tragedy. here's a look back now at her remarkable life and career as the lead democrat on the judiciary committee. >> first woman. >> her career was marked by many firsts. >> senator dianne feinstein was the first woman president of the san francisco board of supervisors, the first woman mayor of san francisco and one of two women first elected to the us senate from california. >> dianne feinstein right from the start was an icon for women in politics. >> six she's a legend, a legend in california as the first woman senator. a legend in this
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senate. she she was the leader on so many different issues. >> swease feinstein was born. dianne goldman in san francisco on june 22nd, 1933. >> her mother was russian orthodox father, jewish. she worshiped at temple emanuel synagogue and graduated from a roman catholic girls high school . >> that school was san francisco's convent of the sacred heart. there, feinstein was in the glee club ballet camera club and athletics. she went on to study at stanford university, where she graduated in 1955. feinstein was married three times. she had her only daughter, katherine, with her first husband, who she divorced after three years in 1962. she married her second husband, bertram feinstein, who died in 1978 of colon cancer. just months before feinstein became san francisco mayor in 1980, feinstein married her third husband, investment banker richard blum. she remained with him until his death from cancer in 2022. feinstein's first foray
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into politics came in 1960, when then-governor pat brown appointed her to the california women's parole board. but it was in 1969, at the age of 35, that feinstein first held public office, winning a seat on the san francisco board of supervisors. former san francisco mayor willie brown was in the state assembly at the time. he recalled meeting feinstein during those years. >> i remember that i was trying to get a house here in san francisco when they wouldn't allow black people easily to get houses and there was a demonstration on and this angular, tall, great looking white woman pushing a baby stroller with a little kid in it whom nobody knew anything about , came out to participate in the protest. that was diane feinstein. and that was that long ago. and so i am a great admirer. >> in the 1970s, while serving
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as the first female president of the board of supervisors, feinstein ran twice for mayor but lost. she had decided not to run again when tragedy struck the city. it's been seven hours now since that 38 caliber pistol went off nine times and took the lives of the two leaders, both mayor moscone and supervisor harvey milk have been shot and killed. >> oh, jesus. >> the tragic assassination of san francisco mayor george moscone by supervisor dan white in 1978 put feinstein in the job . in 1979, feinstein won her first full term as mayor and began reshaping the city during the decade she served. she survived a recall attempt led mostly by detractors of her proposal to ban handguns in san francisco. she oversaw the remaking of the city's skyline, which some decried as the manhattanization of san francisco oversaw a raucous 1984 democratic national convention and saved the city's cable car system. >> the cable car is still
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running because of dianne feinstein rose to power as crisis gripped the city's gay community, a disease that would later be called aids, killed thousands of gay men, hoping to save lives. >> feinstein ordered the city's bathhouses closed, a risky move considering the political power of the gay community at the time. under her watch, the city's health department created the global standard for aids health care at san francisco general hospital in 1990. feinstein set her sights on a higher office, running for california governor. she lost to republican pete wilson, but still made history again as the first woman in the state to win a major party's gubernatorial nomination. then in 1992, a turning point during what was dubbed the year of the woman, feinstein was elected to the us senate alongside bay area congresswoman barbara boxer. >> i feel a little bit like i just got married. it was a very special ceremony to be in the chambers, to be in this room
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with the history in congress, feinstein served as the first woman to chair the senate rules committee and the senate intelligence committee. >> she authored the 1994 federal assault weapons ban, leading to a ten year restriction on certain semi automatic weapons. the legislation was prompted by the 101 california street shooting when a gunman opened fire at a law firm in san francisco's financial district, killing eight people. i worked with republicans and democrats alike, ten republicans along with 46 democrats, voted but voted in favor of the amendment. >> dianne feinstein is the only member of congress either on the congressional side or on the senate side, who has ever been able to get a controlled weapons ban signed, signed into law. dianne got that in 2014. >> feinstein released a report revealing how the cia was detaining and interrogate potential terrorists. sometimes
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torturing the suspects. the release of the report led to anti-torture legislation. >> this program was morally, legally and administratively misguided, loaded and that this nation should never again engage in these tactics. >> feinstein is legislative legacy also includes creating federal coordination of amber alerts, the national child abduction warning system, passing the california desert protection act, which protected millions of acres of california desert and created the death valley and joshua tree, national parks reauthorizing the violence against women act to protect women from domestic violence and sexual assault and authoring the 2022 respect for marriage act to enshrine marriage equality into federal law simply put, americans should be free to marry the person they love regards less of sexual orientation or race at times, senator feinstein faced criticism from some in her own
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party, some of the worst came in 2018 after she initially declined to make public a letter from bay area professor christine blasey ford during the supreme court confirmation hearings for justice brett kavanaugh. >> ford had said kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when they were in high school. uh- two years later, some democrats also criticized feinstein for appearing too cozy with republicans during the confirmation hearings for conservative supreme court appointee amy coney barrett. still, throughout her career, feinstein was seen as a trailblazer for women, someone who broke barriers, juggling, being a wife and mother while navigating a career in the male dominated field of politics. >> dana is unbelievable in terms of how she sets her mind into her program. on doing something , and it gets done in feinstein's later years in office, concerns were raised about her mental fitness and ability to serve. >> she was the oldest sitting member of congress in late february of 2023, at age 89. she
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was hospitalized with shingles. that health scare coming the same month feinstein had announced she would retire from the us senate when her term was up in 2024. she told reporters it was time, you know, go times for all things under the sun and i think that will be the right time. senate majority leader chuck schumer said. feinstein teared up when she told her democratic colleagues about her decision, and she got a standing ovation that lasted minutes and minutes and minutes. >> one of the longest i've ever seen, which shows the love that our caucus and our country have for this wonderful, wonderful leader and legend, dianne feinstein, former congresswoman jackie speier reflected on dianne feinstein legacy, calling this a truly sad day in the bay area in california and across the nation. >> speier says feinstein was a mentor and inspiration. this morning's fair shares some memories. she had with the former senator.
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>> we became friends in part because we both lost our husbands early in our political careers at one point said, i love your lipstick. where did you get it? and so i made sure that she got the same color so that she could wear it as well, speier says. >> feinstein was fierce and had a backbone of steel, but also added the senator could also enjoy being a girls girl. at the end of the day, die. and end of the day, die. and feinstein was 90 years old. for just 6 bucks means your day is off to a good start. ♪ and i serve them all day, because i'm not here to judge what time your day starts. ♪
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drive by shooting near the las vegas strip, and his death has gone unsolved for nearly three decades now. police say a suspect is in custody months after las vegas officers searched a home connected to the man. >> now we are going to shift gears because it is friday, the weekend coming up. you've got to know your forecast. >> it is the weekend. meteorologist sandy patel is here. fall has been here for a few days and it really feels like it today, sandy. >> it does indeed. a big change in the air today. dan and kristen, let me show you live doppler seven right now. good afternoon, everyone. you will notice a lot more cloud cover.
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the marine layer has rapidly deepened and yes, we are tracking a few sprinkles up around mendocino county right now as we get you in closer across laytonville, we're going to show you the wider picture here because there's a trough. it's a light level one system with a cold front that is going to come through the bay area late tonight, going into tomorrow. and that's what's going to bring us some showers. so right now, you might be seeing some mist and drizzle around the region. that's going to continue through the night as we head into tomorrow morning, 4 a.m. those showers enter the picture here, continuing at 9 a.m, very scattered. so it's not going to be rain everywhere at all times. very scattered in nature, even in the early afternoon, there will be some showers with a few more trailing through here in the evening hours. in terms of your temperatures, they're going to be below average only in the low 60s to low 70s breezy, inland windy coastside. and if i were you, i would just keep the rain gear handy as we check out the hardly strictly bluegrass festival forecast for the weekend. a few showers tomorrow. certainly will be windy. i would
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take a jacket and an umbrella if you're going mid 60s in the afternoon and then sunday is actually sunnier after the morning clouds, it will be a bit gusty mid 50s coming up into the upper 60s. soquel's accuweather seven day forecast. for those of you who like the damp weather we have spotty showers for your saturday and then sunday if you like sunshine it's milder and sunnier and then we'll warm it up for you into the 80s. early next week for the warmest spots getting up into the 90s by the middle and latter part of the workweek inland 70s coast side kristen and dan thank you, andrea. >> all right. >> well, this is a bittersweet day for us here at abc7. >> yeah, because a true kgo goat is beginning her well-deserved retirement. this afternoon we bid farewell to our friend and colleague joanne young wohlers. she's been abc7's go to person for 43 years. joanne's finger prints have been on the most important pieces of the news gathering process since she first joined us in 1980.
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>> all these years, she has worked as a satellite coordinator, transmission operator, videotape and film librarian, and of late, a zoom concert that sort of came about during the pandemic. of course, she is just a bright spot in our day and we will indeed miss you . joanne. congratulations we'll be right back. i'm quite harmless, really. and when people ask,
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people who are loving and supporting these folks, and we are a whole entire other movement. >> you build agency self-determination an empower the possibilities are limitless when you come here. >> it's really important that we are bay area natives because the young people that come in like i don't walk the same streets that you did when you center the most marginalized folks that disproportionately are impacted by harmful institutions, violence, you actually invest in the freedom and liberation of all. >> my name is julia arroyo and i'm the co-executive director of the young women's freedom center , the young women's freedom center is a leadership and advocacy organization for girls and trans youth of all genders that have grown up in poverty, experienced violence. you get the tools to be able to build community with each other. you
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also get involved with civic engagement, so you inform me what structural change can look like in your community. so folks don't have to experience the same things that you had to experience. i'm i'm of mexican and filipino descent. i come from migrant people that have traveled the world to be able to gain resources. as i didn't find the center the center found me because they meet folks directly to where they're at. and we still do that to present day. they met me in the streets and they continued to build with me over time. i'm. on main youth speakers pretty much represent like the youth because i am one of the youth. >> i am formerly sisterly, impacted people from the outside looking in. they're going to look at us as you as a criminal. i'm going to look at you as somebody who's trying to get their life together and trying to survive and that's why i feel like the bond be so deep between like participants and like people who work at the center because we understand them. >> teenage mothers, we don't get
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enough credit. >> we don't we get looked at shamefully. we get bashed. but no, it's really empowering and very powerful to be a young mom to do this type of leadership work with other young women and transgender youth, youth >> this is to acknowledge the 35,000 people that have come through this organization nation and built it and made it what it is. and also to celebrate the legacy of all the folks that are doing things inside of the community, because this has been shown and been proven to be a leadership incubator. i really to decarcerate girls and trans youth of all genders throughout the whole state of california. we want to drive alternate lives and we want to address the root causes of what
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impacts young people struggling. and we want to be able to free our people by 2030. >> we're hoping that we're ending the big mass incarceration of young folks. and if folks just keep seeing what we're doing as this model, it'll it'll happen. >> a lot of us are profiled, just by the way we look, by the way we talk when people see me. i'm just a black girl, but they wouldn't know like, you know, i graduated with a 4.0 gpa. i work here at the center. i am important. i am the youth. i am the future, the ability to be able to navigate whatever is put in front of you. >> and for you to be able to have economic freedom is the gift that we want people to walk away from. this place with. abc7's allies in action is sponsored by dignity health. >> it recognizes local people
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