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another day in court for uber now at five. the civil lawsuit being brought against the san francisco company by sexual assault survivors. the war in gaza having an impact across the us. >> now, some americans are taking legal action against the federal government in an effort to help citizens safely evacuate the war zone. plus we do have a war on fentanyl. >> it must be removed from our streets and it will be tough talk from san francisco's district attorney. >> the latest program being launched to rid the city of fentanyl and a health warning for anyone who's visited an east bay casino in the last five years. good morning, everybody. we made it to friday, november 3rd. >> yes, we're starting with a check of our forecast with drew. >> so we're going to finish the
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week how it's been all week. a lot of warm temperatures this afternoon. we have sunshine on the way. it's a nice finish to the week. here's a live look from sutro tower. we have good visibility out there. we have clear skies from this vantage point. but our marine layer, it has returned to the coast and the onshore flow is actually creating a bit of a warmer morning compared to the past couple of mornings. we are in the 50s for the most part. so you step outside, not quite as chilly the next couple of hours. a light jacket certainly take it, but we'll be warm again later on this afternoon. here's future tracker temperatures. watch what happens. we get you into lunchtime am and we're back into the 70s. basically for everybody. and then we continue to warm and today may be a few degrees warmer than yesterday. 80s pop you up in concord and san jose. a lot of 70s around the bay shoreline. so enjoy the warm finish of the weekend. it is mostly sunny today. we'll go to 75 in oakland, 73 in the city, 80 in santa rosa. a warm 81. in san jose, 80 in concord and fairfield. but we do have some showers to talk about this weekend. we'll show you that coming up in eight minutes. but
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let's check in with joe and how traffic's doing this morning. >> thank you to good morning, everybody. so we do have two sig alerts that we're following this morning. the first is going to be in fairfield where we have a head on collision on state route 12. and that's going to be right at nursall road. so all lanes are blocked in this area. so far this morning, we don't have an estimated time as to when that will reopen or at the richmond-san rafael bridge, we are entering or ending. i should say, week four of this closure, three westbound lanes closed in this area on 580 and no wide load vehicles allowed. >> kumasi thank you, jobina. this morning, secretary of state anthony blinken has arrived in israel on a diplomatic mission to protect civilians in the crossfire of the israel-hamas war. and it's coming as israel claims to have surrounded gaza city. here's abc news reporter justin finch. >> this morning, israeli troops pressing deeper into north gaza. the israeli defense forces says its ground operation is expanding, reporting his troops have completely encircled gaza city and are locked in face to
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face battles with hamas military force. israel intensifying air assaults on hamas targets across gaza, demolishing densely populated areas. civilian survivors, including children rescued from the rubble. the biden administration calling for humanitarian pauses to allow more aid inside gaza. we do not support a cease fire and that that gives time for hamas to regroup, which is something that, again, would put israeli citizens and others in danger. a senior us official telling abc news the us is also flying unarmed mq nine reaper drones over gaza to assist israel with locating more than 200 hostages. hamas is holding captive. secretary of state antony blinken said for more meetings with top israeli leaders today, we will focus as well on steps that need to be taken to protect civilians who are in a crossfire of hamas is making american maha
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al-banna an aid worker from new jersey, now safe and well in cairo, speaking to our maggie rulli. >> i have ptsd. i've been through a lot. if i hear like a loud noise, i jump. i had a panic attack. it's unbearable. so you can't really escape it. >> on capitol hill, a house republican majority passed a $14 billion. israel aid package paid for with money earmarked for the irs. but it also leaves out ukraine defense funding. that bill likely dead on arrival in the democrat led senate. and the president has vowed a veto. justin finch, abc news, washington. >> bay area families are urging the us government to intervene and to bring their loved ones back home. they filed a lawsuit hoping that their family members would be evacuated faster. abc7 spoke with the man whose grandmother is a us citizen stuck in gaza the last time he talked with her was on october 26th. she hid and ran for cover as bombs were going off near
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her. as she said goodbye. >> she's just crying. she didn't know what to say. i didn't know what to say. i mean, imagine having your grandmother telling you, i don't know if i'm going to survive this because we might die from a bomb that's nearby. >> the government has 60 days to respond to this lawsuit. the white house announced 74 us citizens are on their way home and they should arrive in egypt soon. but the families we spoke with say that they don't know if their loved ones are a part of that group. >> happening today, the first hearing for a nationwide civil lawsuit filed on behalf of people who say they were sexually assaulted while riding with uber. the case is being heard at the federal court in san francisco. it involves 22 victims from 11 states. an attorney for the victims says uber failed to take safety precautions after becoming aware some drivers engaged in sexual misconduct and assault on passengers. >> we think the big problem with this with uber and its system is
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they are not removing drivers from their system when they have evidence that there are sexual misconduct acts occurring on their system. >> in an emailed statement, an uber spokesperson tells abc7 news sexual assault is a horrific crime and we take every report of this nature very seriously. while we cannot comment on pending litigation, we are deeply committed to the safety of all users on the uber platform. the attorney for the victims says one of the goals of the litigation is for uber to make changes that will increase riders safety on the platform. >> if you've spent time at the california grand casino in the in pacheco in the past five years, you might need to get tested for tuberculosis. the contra costa county health department says they've identified ten cases of tb in customers and employees at this casino. the bacterial infection can live in the body for months or years without symptoms. i want to point out that nothing about the business themselves
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has put individuals at increased risk. >> there's really just a factor of how this bacteria is spread. they can spread it through coughing, talking, laughing to others. >> tb, as she said, is spread through those ways. contra costa county hasn't yet identified the ongoing source, though, of transmission at the casino. it is working with management to keep up testing for its staff. >> a federal law enforcement is now joining the fight against fentanyl abuse on the streets of san francisco is being called the all hands on deck program. it's in an effort to crack down on fentanyl distribution in the tenderloin and soma neighborhoods. abc7 news reporter lena howland is live to break it all down for us this morning. lena >> jobina the biggest thing to take away from this is that street level drug dealers may now face federal charges if they're caught. and here in san francisco. so they're focusing on fentanyl dealers. here's how it's going to work. the all hands on deck program involves police officers, sheriff's
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office deputies, chp officers, dea agents and fbi agents on secret and select days. once a week, the us attorney's office will charge arrested street drug dealers with federal crimes. then they'll fast track the cases where judgments are decided in less than three weeks. they'll also file charges against those suspected of dealing near federal buildings. already, the feds have brought charges against more than 30 people, with more than 40 others facing local charges. >> my office is using targeted wiretaps, arrest and searches throughout the bay area to stem the flow of drugs and dealers coming into san francisco from nearby counties. >> we do have a war on fentanyl, so it must be removed from our streets and it will be. and this is how we will get it done. >> charging these suspected dealers with federal crimes keeps them behind bars and pushes the cases forward right away. district attorney brooke jenkins, who you just heard from, says that her office has
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filed 300 motion to detain suspected drug dealers in jail while their cases are open, but get this, only 30 of those were granted by local judges. the us attorney's office says they would prosecute all of these cases, but they just don't have the resources to do so. live in san francisco, lena howland, abc seven news. thanks lena. >> time now 509. this morning we're looking at live doppler seven along with satellite. we have mainly clear skies this morning. our marine layer has returned along the coast. so we have some shallow fog this morning along the coast side. we'll keep it there all day. but what we're watching now is this system, this front is approaching for the weekend and it will bring about some light showers saturday night. and into sunday. but today we're continuing the trend of sunshine warm temperatures. we'll find a nice day on the way. here's a live look at san jose where we do have clear skies. so sons up here at 737, it is mild midday and then it's just warm sunshine later on. look at those low 80s
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and our warmest spots inland around the bay shoreline, quite mild in the mid 70s and along the coast thanks to that marine layer. it's a little bit cooler compared to the past couple of afternoons. we'll stay in the mid 60s. now looking at the three day forecast, warm sunshine today. changes come our way over the weekend. tomorrow night, there's a chance of a shower in the north bay, but then a better chance for some of us to see light showers. but we did remove the storm impact scale on sunday because it looks like this system is coming in a bit drier. we also have to switch our clocks back one hour, a standard time begins this weekend. so your saturday sunset is 607. but by sunday your sun's going down at 506. so it's getting darker a bit earlier. we're going to go hour by hour in future weather. show you those showers, jobina coming up in about seven minutes. >> thank you, drew. a life saving effort caught on camera showing all of us the benefits of narcan. and still ahead here, you will see the story only on abc7 news. plus as the cryptocurrency industry might be new, the players like sam bankman-fried might be new, but this kind of fraud, this kind of
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by the mass shooting there that left 18 people dead. a vigil was held in the town last night just over a week since the shooting. and days after students returned to school. meanwhile, maine's governor is putting together an independent commission to look into the police response and the numerous red flags about the gunman that were missed. abc will carry the president's remarks live from the bowling alley, which is where some of the victims were killed. that special report is expected this afternoon around 12:30 p.m. our time. >> time now is 513 fdx founder
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and bay area native sam bankman-fried has been found guilty of fraud by a federal jury in new york. the jury deliberated for just four hours after nearly a month of testimony in the case. prosecutors say bankman-fried stole at least $10 billion from customers and investors to fund his other company. and a lavish lifestyle that included a $40 million penthouse yachts. and $2,500 lunches. the mr. bankman-fried maintains his innocence. >> and we're going to continue to vigorously fight the charges against him. >> bankman-fried now is facing more than 100 years in prison. he is set to be sentenced in march. elon musk is suing to avoid testifying in a lawsuit against his company, formerly known as twitter. he filed his counter suit in a san francisco federal court yesterday. the us securities and exchange commission subpoenaed musk for more information on his $44 billion purchase of the social media site. his legal team
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called the sec subpoena duplicative and harassing demands. >> as a group of south bay business owners are taking matters into their own hands to block unhoused people from parking rvs in front of their buildings. they put up these large concrete blocks on both sides of jury court in san jose. the business owners say they're trying to combat growing issues, including arguments and break ins on the street. some housing advocates say the move is a, quote, shame and a way of mistreating the unhoused. mayor matt mehan blames the issue on a lack of resources. >> we've got to build out these alternatives to encampments and lived in vehicles and we've got to do it faster. we've got to do it more cost effectively. >> mayor mehan says he's working on a shelter crisis declaration to get things moving faster. for now, the businesses will have to remove the blocks. >> a traffic alert in the east bay this weekend. a section of southbound interstate 680in pleasanton is going to be closed for repairs. so the closure goes
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, as you can see on the map here between the connector of i-580 and i-680 to state road 84. it starts at 9:00 tonight. it'll go until 4 a.m. monday morning. crews are replacing a deteriorated portion of the roadway northbound on i-680 is going to stay open. if you need to drive through that area, there will be detours available. >> san francisco leaders have approved making the car free promenade in mclaren park permanent. the promenade stretches is from mansell street through john kelly drive. it has been closed to traffic since the pandemic. car access and parking at places like the jerry garcia amphitheater will be open to vehicles. are you ready for an extra hour of sleep? because we definitely are. yes, indeed. on the shift this weekend, we fall back. >> thank goodness. and we're changing the clocks back to standard time sunday at two in the morning. but a lot of people are not really happy about this. here's abc news reporter lionel moise this morning. >> the debate over daylight
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saving time is raging again, with americans preparing to fall back one hour to standard time early sunday morning. while it may not seem like it's a big deal because it's only one hour can actually have an effect on our body because it can affect our sleep. recent polls show most americans support eliminate the seasonal time change and the american medical association agrees is. >> so any change that affects your sleep cumulative over time can with it bring all the detrimental effects of sleep loss so that can include mood disorders, loss of focus, loss of judgment and even some long term issues such as changes in your blood pressure, your blood sugar and more doctors argue daylight saving time puts our physical health at risk. >> they say under standard time it gets darker earlier at night, setting up better sleep cycles. >> our internal body clocks follow the light and dark pattern, not a number on a clock, but people in favor of daylight saving time say the
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later sunshine allows us to be more productive after work. >> 19 states have passed legislation or resolutions supporting no more clock changes. ■if congress will allow it in washington, the political fight over daylight saving time has simmered for years. >> we have sunset in rhode island at 450. in 415, in of last year, the senate passed the sunshine protection act into produced by senator marco rubio, which would have made daylight saving time permanent. >> we can get this passed. we don't have to keep doing this stupidity anymore. >> but rubio's bill failed to be taken up in the house as other matters took precedence, including the war in ukraine and inflation. rubio reintroduced the bill in march of this year, but it failed to gain momentum in congress. lionel moise, abc news, new york. i just wish people saw you when you found out about it this weekend before you realized we were falling back.
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>> no, i thought we were springing forward and i was like, oh god, i lost it. >> you're like, no. >> i'm like, oh, please not. you're falling back. you're falling back. >> thank goodness. extra hour. >> and i know i don't know if you all feel this way when it's darker earlier, it's easier for me to go to bed when i'm supposed to go to bed. >> yeah. those curtains are drawn. seven, eight? >> yeah. >> during the summer. honey, it is like ten. >> yeah. >> easy. ten. 1030. yeah, yeah, yeah. >> the sun's still out. you're like, oh, no. oh, no. right. it is 10 p.m. i always find myself, though, like waking up, though, early on that sunday, even though really i do my body like can feel the alarm is supposed to be going off and it's like, oh god. 4 a.m. oh, no. >> hopefully you enjoy your extra hour. >> yeah, enjoy it. daylight saving time coming our way. let's talk about some wet weather this weekend. it's not a lot, but we do have some showers in the forecast. here's a live look outside from our exploratorium camera. it's a quite nice morning. we have clear skies out there, mild temperatures. most of us actually beginning the morning in the 50s. so it's one of our warmer mornings this week. we're
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on our way to a mostly sunny and another mild afternoon. the next couple of days, we'll see cooler weather move in. so enjoy the warm temperatures today. 75 in the city, 75 in oakland, 80 in santa rosa, wiget, 81. in san jose, 77. in napa, 67. in half moon bay. overnight tonight. cloud cover is going to thicken ahead of a front that will move through here over the weekend. so we'll turn to mostly cloudy skies and temperatures in the 50s. let's talk about that chance for rain. here is future weather. much of the day saturday, it's just cloudy. we're dry on saturday. the best chance of finding a shower is likely in the north bay as that front gets closer here saturday evening. but you see outside of the north bay, we are totally dry. so outdoor activities for the most part on saturday are just fine. during the day on sunday, we have removed the storm impact scale because the front gets moving a lot faster and it comes through a lot drier. yes, there is the chance of some scattered showers. midday on sunday, but you can see they're very light and very isolated in nature. rainfall totals are very low with this quick moving front, highest
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amounts in the north bay where we have those showers a little bit longer than those numbers really drop off. just a few hundredths of an inch outside of the north bay. so here's the accuweather 70 forecast. the next seven days for you warm today there's those shower chances over the weekend even a continued chance monday and tuesday but again they're very isolated nothing widespread but those temperatures below average for the middle part of next week. ladies thank you, drew. >> good morning, everybody. so we are starting with a look at mass transit here. bart, muni and all running on time at the moment. we are bringing in the map because we do have a couple of issues we want to point out. the sig alert of a head on crash in fairfield state route 12 at nurse road. all lanes are blocked there in emeryville. we have a live picture showing you clear traffic in the west bound direction. for the most part, it's busy but clear. so it's moving at the limit. and then we will end here with our dry time. slow tracy to dublin. it'll be about 35 minutes. thanks jobina. >> coming up, the seven things to know this morning. >> i'm a native. i grew up here.
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think twice before selling drugs in the city. they're launching a new operation called all hands on deck. it includes prosecuting more low level drug cases in federal court. >> number two, today is the first hearing for a nationwide lawsuit involving 22 people who say they were sexually assaulted while taking an uber. uber is accused of failing to take safety precautions to protect riders. uber says it is deeply committed to the safety of all users. >> number three, secretary of state antony blinken in israel this morning. he's speaking with leaders about the ongoing offensive against hamas and steps that need to be taken to protect civilians. >> number four, president biden will travel to maine today to pay respects to the victims of last week's mass shooting. he'll
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also meet with victims families and first responders as. >> and number five, we've got a warm friday out there. enjoy the sunshine, the mild temperatures. we've turned cooler over the weekend. a chance of a shower in the north bay in the evening tomorrow and then sunday, some light scattered showers moving through the rest of the bay area . >> number six, our biggest issue is going to be a head on crash. we're following in fairfield state, route 12 at nurse low road is closed in all directions and number seven, ford, gm and stellantis have agreed to pay striking workers for their time on the picket line. >> workers will get about $100 a day. the pay is a part of a new contract agreement reached with the united auto workers union. >> some bay area school districts are making affordable housing for teachers a priority. they say it's one of the keys to retaining educators and staff. but cities including san francisco, are behind and can't build housing fast enough. the old francis scott key annex in the outer sunset. it will be turned into housing with 135
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units. lottery application options for teachers and district staff will be available early next year. it was supposed to be complete by 2022, but the pandemic set the timeline back. now it's set to open in late next year. teachers will be able to stay in their unit as long as they are employed by the school district. >> i feel like all teachers that live in their school area, like benefit from being so close, not only from like getting to know the community at like a very personal level, but also to be able to represent the community in several other projects are underway to build more affordable housing for teachers throughout the city. >> coming up here it is shaping up to be summer 2024, summer of tours. we shall see the tickets on sale this morning that are sure to deliver a nostalgia boost. >> yes, and a bookstore burglary all caught on camera. the thief making off with just four books.
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but that damage very costly. the message the store owner now has for the city of oakland. >> and a live look outside here at 526 checking out sfo. we will be right back. this is abc 724 seven 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 from anytime 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 watching
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>> the city now reprioritized the fight to get fentanyl off the streets. how the district attorney and the chief of police are planning to do it. >> a dilemma at the de young. the reason behind the museum's refusal to lend out its defibrillator to a person in distress. >> good morning, everybody. it is friday, november 3rd. >> yes. let's check in on our forecast with drew. good morning. hey, good morning. >> we have a warm day on the way today. it's a lovely finish to the week. we'll take a live look outside. here's our rooftop camera at kgo along the embarcadero. we have calm winds. the flags on top of the piers are not moving, but we do have a warmer morning. onshore flow has returned a bit of a marine layer along our coast this morning. so that is creating temperatures a bit warmer in spots by about 4 to 8 degrees depending on where you are right now. temperatures, we are starting out mainly in the 50s. so it is definitely one of our warmer mornings this week . the light jacket certainly needed, but you can get rid of it once again later on this morning and into the afternoon because temperatures going back above average. we'll see temperatures in the 70s and 80s
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once again under sunny skies. so enjoy the warm sunshine, mostly sunny conditions 70s and 80s for daytime highs. but we do have some rain in the forecast over the weekend. we'll talk about those showers coming up in eight minutes. but let's check in with jobina and see how we're doing with traffic. this morning. >> thank you, drew. good morning, everyone. so we are going back to the maps and zooming into fairfield. you see that purple line there showing that all lanes are currently closed on state route 12 at nurse low road due to a head on collision. we don't have an estimated time as to when all the lanes will reopen there. our second stickler is going to be at the richmond, san rafael bridge where we have three lanes blocked and that is due to a crash that happened for weeks ago. and we do not know when this will reopen. kumasi >> all right, thanks, jobina federal law enforcement is now joining the fight against fentanyl abuse on the streets of san francisco. it is being called the all hands on deck program, an effort to crack down on fentanyl, distribute in the tenderloin and in soma neighborhoods. abc abc7 news reporter lena howland live to break down the details of this program. lena kumasi so far
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because of this program, the feds have already brought charges against more than 30 people. >> the all hands on deck program is made up of police, sheriffs, chp, dea and fbi agents on secret and select days. once a week, the us attorney's office will charge arrested street drug dealers with federal crimes and their focusing on fentanyl dealers. then they'll fast track the cases where judgments are decided in less than three weeks. they'll also file charges against those suspect of dealing near federal buildings. here's san francisco police chief bill scott. >> so if you think you're going to outlast us, you're wrong. if you think you're going to adapt and outsmart us, you're wrong. if you think you're going to go away and let you continue to kill people in our city in record numbers, you're wrong. >> you can stop dealing or you will face the consequences of your actions as the us attorney says, in the last four months, authorities have seized nearly
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50 kilos of fentanyl and 12 kilos of meth off of tenderloin streets. >> district attorney brooke jenkins says that her office has filed 300 motions to detain suspected drug dealers in jail while their cases are open. but only 30 of those were granted by local judges. the us attorney's office says that they would prosecute all of these cases but don't have the resources to do so. live in san francisco, lena howland, abc seven news. >> thank you, lena. a convicted sex offender who offered free fentanyl for new users at his encampment across from a school in san francisco appeared in court. joseph adam moore is facing charges of being a public nuisance. moore set up camp more than a year ago and recently put up that sign. the i-team's dan noyes spoke with moore. he told dan that unhoused people sometimes gave him fentanyl. in exchange for blankets or food and he passed the drugs on to other homeless people who wanted
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them. he recently had a confrontation with a parent from the school and now faces a misdemeanor battery charge. for that, he is also under probation after firefighters got a restraining order against him. the prosecutor asked the court to keep moore in custody while his case moves forward. >> we want to be very mindful of the surroundings of where his conduct occurred and make sure that we are keeping the community safe. this guy is annoying because he moves around this particular area a lot and he's annoyed quite a few people. >> and i feel like because of that reason, because it's sort of an isolated area of san francisco, that he's being treated differently. >> moore has a bail hearing next week where his attorney will try to make the case that he should be released while his case moves through the courts as leaders try to stop the fentanyl crisis. >> every day we are hearing about the life saving nasal spray narcan. it's rare we're
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able to see it in action, though, saving someone who really needs help. recently, abc seven news reporter tara campbell was there when the spray was used outside of san francisco's civic center. >> sheriff's deputies on the scene of a potential overdose at san francisco's civic center. >> he's got a good heartbeat. >> deputy barry bloom trying to decide whether to give a woman narcan the life saving nasal spray that can reverse an opioid overdose. there's no need to give her narcan because she is speaking and breathing. >> so we're probably going to call her in an ambulance just to make sure she's okay. and i was with her. >> she's my she and maybe offer services if she can be alert and get up and stuff like that. >> well, i'm i don't want to arrest her or anything. >> i'm not she doesn't take anything. >> i'm just concerned for her safety. >> but as he continues to assess the situation, an the deputy decides it's best to give her narcan. >> i think i'm just going to give her some narcan just to be on the safe side. >> that's probably a good idea. >> thank you for looking out for
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her. yeah. hey, we're going to give you some narcan. hello? >> hello? hello hey, hold on. >> can i give you this. >> and a couple of minutes later, the woman responds, oh, here we go. >> hi. >> look at that. >> but one dose may not be enough. >> yeah, i mean, just to be on the safe side, i might give her. >> and that's what deputy bloom decides to give her another go. >> there we go. beautiful 700 people over there you go. >> and the woman you hear clapping, that's the security officer who called for help. so you called the sheriff? >> i called into the security office and then they had them to come up because they're stationed here to help us in the library. what did you think when you saw her wake up that she's okay now? she's because she wasn't responding at all. the first even the guy over there, he rubbed her sternum. she moved a little bit, but she just wouldn't get up at all breathing. >> and san francisco's
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department of public health says scenes like this show just how simple and safe it is to administer naloxone spray. >> people are often surprised by the fact that it's a very simple process. it's a very simple training to go through, to learn how to save a life. and so far, this year, the city's handed out more than 70,000 doses of naloxone spray, more than double last year's number. >> and it's upping up efforts to train more people. >> it was several years ago that we trained the sheriff's department, but that's also an ongoing relationship up today i am doing a training with the staff at the federal building. >> meanwhile, back at civic center, the paramedics arrive. >> sure you don't want to go to the hospital? >> they offer the woman's services, but she walks away. >> you want any social services? >> tara campbell, abc seven news. >> well, in san francisco, one man is making it his mission to ensure that life saving defibrillators are always
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available when they're needed. this comes after staff inside the de young museum did not share theirs. while a man was having a medical emergency outside md gary hobish was at the weekly lindy in the park event in golden gate park on sunday. friends say he suddenly collapsed and hit his head. that's when tim o'brien ran to the music and asked to borrow their aed. as soon as he hesitated and handed it to me, i said, here's my phone, here's my watch. >> here's everything from my pockets. you can have it all. i was like, he's dying. he's ours. collapse. we're doing cpr at the moment. we have nurse on staff or we have nurse here ready attending to him. we needed immediately. can we can you run? and then he's like, i need to check in. and he got to know. >> medics arrived and tried to save hobeish, but he died. o'brien says businesses should reevaluate their policies if an aed is not allowed off their property, something the de young
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says they are doing. in a statement to abc seven news, the de jong explained, quote, when asked for help after mr. habash collapsed, staff at the de young museum tried to determine the best response they could make within museum policy. as they understood it, running out to the park to assess what was happening when they reached the scene within five minutes of the initial request, they found that an ambulance had arrived and was providing immediate care in the east bay. >> owners of a small oakland bookstore are dealing with a really bizarre break in. >> you can see the suspect well dressed, caught on camera, smashing out the window at marcus books, which is near the macarthur bart station. the thief used a 10 pound piece of asphalt to break the window and the store's owners say all that was taken was for books. >> the window was $1,200. the books were about 80. i don't know. i don't think he was on drugs. i don't think he was
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drunk. he was black. so hopefully he's not a hater because marcus books is a historic black bookstore. >> the thief also damaged a piece of art, a stained glass panel. unfortunately, this isn't the first break in that happened. their owners, blanche richardson, says that her family owned her family really deserves more from the city of oakland in terms of security. her parents opened the store in the 60s, one of the first bookstores in the bay area to feature works by black authors in vallejo, there's a metal theft mystery brewing at city hall, a metal bust of the wife of the city's founder was stolen from in front of vallejo city hall recently. so the bust isn't the only item recently stolen in. officials say metal letters from the city hall sign and handrails have also been stolen. and the metal busts of mariana vallejo and chief solano have been moved to storage. so they are safe. city
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staff is looking into improving security or just permanent moving. this art in the north bay community and culture come together this weekend in san rafael for the annual dia de los muertos event. >> abc7 news anchor ama daetz has a preview. >> uh- ultra viewing arts and crafts and cultural performance will welcome the community to the 35th annual dia de los muertos event in san rafael saturday. the multicultural center of marin is hosting and expects a couple thousand people to attend. families taking time to honor and remember the dead, a tradition dating back to mesoamerican indigenous times says it's a special way to honor the deceased or lost loved ones. >> it's a very solemn event. so, you know, we do like to be respectful about, you know, making sure that we keep it culturally accurate, even if you don't celebrate a dia de los muertos, it's still okay to come. >> maybe learn about another culture. oh, absolutely. >> yeah. we encourage it. it's beautiful to share our culture
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so that you know, everyone has the right to honor their lost loved ones. however they feel appropriate and the culture will be on full display with food vendors, face painting and live music. >> it's all happening at the albert j. burrow community center at pickleweed park from 3 to 9 p.m. ama daetz abc7 news. >> that event is free to attend, but there will be vendors for food, so bring cash because it is cash only and you can find a schedule of events at day of the dead sr.org. >> rebuilding in paradise. still ahead, the movement, the improvements still being made after the mountain town burned down five years ago. >> a rare, lucky year for california winemakers as they wrap up their 2023 harvest season with no major setbacks. drew i can't think of the last time this happened. >> i know it feels like it's been quite some time. that's great news to hear. we're talking about a warm end to the week. here's live doppler seven along with satellite quiet
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across california, but things will change. this is a cold front that's going to move through here over the weekend and bring us some light scattered showers. neither day. this weekend's a washout, but some wet weather is in the forecast. here's a view of the golden gate bridge this morning. we are clear, but we do have a little bit of fog along part of the coastline. a marine layer has returned. it is creating a bit of a warmer morning out there. we're starting out mainly in the 50s right now. we'll have mild temps midday, warm sunshine. we're continuing that trend for another day. we'll see temperatures above average 70s and low 80s away from the coast later on this afternoon. but the three day forecast shows you changes come in the form of increased cloud cover over the weekend. saturday night. there's a chance of a shower in the north bay, but by sunday there's a chance of a scattered light shower around the region. we have removedrmhi front is moving through a bit drier air and a bit faster. don't forget your clocks go back one hour as standard time begins over the weekend. we do have the walk to end alzheimer's in the city tomorrow morning, our own reggie aqui will be emceeing the event. and we do have great
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are looking to move into that area. a lot of progress has been made, but city officials are still threatened by major insurers pulling out of the state insurance is a huge challenge. >> it's one of the biggest challenges i think we're facing right now. and it's something we've been talking a lot about, a lot of people are being forced onto the fair plan. >> the campfire was the deadliest wildfire in the state's history. >> after a few years of uncertainty due to fires, droughts, smoke, taint and frost . all the things 20, 23 is turning out to be a great year for california wine. amador county is more than 50. wineries say they have more grapes on the vines this year compared to last year. they also had favorable weather conditions, though harvesting was pushed back due to slow ripening of the grapes, which could cause a little trouble for some growers. >> for the stuff that came in late or the stuff that really had a hard time getting to ripeness levels might be a
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little bit more difficult. so some wine growers predict they will bring in their last crop by next friday. >> it's not even 2024 yet and some music fans are already looking forward to some artists heading to the bay area. so get ready for some nostalgia. yes >> so yesterday we told you about green day. they are coming to oracle park next september. and now a group that's got the right stuff, new kids on the block. the tickets go on sale this morning. they're going to be performing at shoreline amphitheater on july 3rd. and get this, they got paula abdul and dj jazzy jeff, who will be joining them as special guests. this is about to be a good concert. >> i went to a party, the dj jazzy jeff did, and it was really, really fun. >> it was good saying yes, same. >> all right. because he was at blue note jazz festival and that's the night that nas performed. and then nas came and was like, all these people there. so it was so live, right? isn't he just it was so chill with it. he's just like you're
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like, oh my god, this, this, this song. >> yeah. so do you feel like he's going to be first and, like, get the crowd going to start out? i would think so. and we've got paula. yeah. and then we'll have new kids on the block. new kids on the block was just a little before my time, but i don't know what song was going to ask jobina sorry, sorry to jobina name one i don't know to these men. i don't know. there's five of them. >> i don't know. i don't know. >> we don't know one song. >> you would know it. you just don't know it off the top of your head. well, you would like like, what's the name? >> i'm trying to think. >> i know you're going to ask me. >> you're going to ask me. do you know? thank you. >> sorry. we know they're very popular. the fans do know they're very popular. and i know a lot of people are excited to go there, but they're hitting a lot of different groups. you know what? >> not true because you have paula, i do want to see pj. dj got them. okay. >> all right. more concerts, more coins. here's a live look at the abc7 oakland airport camera where where we are seeing clear skies up above. it is dry on the tarmac. no travel troubles here locally. if you
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are going out of any of our airports today, mostly sunny and it's mild kind of feel like a broken record this week. we're just seeing those temperatures staying above average. so we're going into the 70s and 80s later on today. feels quite nice overnight tonight, though, clouds will be on the increase as we track a cold front approaching that keeps temperatures elevated. we're mainly going to stay in the 50 soquel's heading into saturday. here's future weather. you can see saturday's just a cloudier day during the day. we're totally dry. we'll find any chance of rain in the evening. mainly in the north bay. and you can see that chance continues even through 9 p.m. outside of the north bay on saturday. it's a dry day as we head into sunday and early sunday. some light scattered showers here. you can see this is your best chance by about noon on sunday of finding some wet weather where you live. but you can see it is so isolated and so light in nature that we took the number, the storm impact scale off of sunday . regardless, though, there will likely be a few drops hitting here and there. but it's very quick and it's very light. so here are the rainfall estimates as we head through the weekend.
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some higher totals in the north bay around ukiah, clear lake, that's where some of the heavier showers will linger saturday night into sunday. but then outside of the north bay, those numbers really drop off. we're just measuring this in a couple of hundredths of an inch. so here's the accuweather seven day forecast. there are those chances for rain over the weekend. your clocks go back one hour, standard time begins even monday and tuesday. we stay unsettled but again very late very isolated and temperatures below average midweek. high jobina. >> hi, drew. thank you. good morning, everybody. so we are still continuing to follow this major sig alert in fairfield. a head on crash state route 12 at near slow road. all lanes blocked there at the bay. bridge toll plaza. while it doesn't look like it metering lights did flip on this morning so you aren't going to face a slowdown there but they came on so that was at 541. and then we will end with our drive times. tracy to castro valley, 43 minutes, everything else is running on time. new here at six and this is kind of interesting because i think i've experienced this have you? not yet. okay, i'm ready. hopefully you do. so the reason some flights to the east coast
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her husband and then writing a children's book on grief. here's abc news reporter eva pilgrim. >> in this morning's gma first look, an abc news exclusive. >> as a couple, they were very much in love. they were very happy. >> for the first time, we're hearing from the mom and brothers of cory richards together for cory. the utah mom accused of fatally poisoning her husband, then writing a
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children's book about grief. >> my husband passed away unexpectedly last year. it completely took us all by shock. >> now, this morning, richards family is speaking out in her defense, i do not believe in my heart cory could ever not just kill eric, but kill anything or anyone. >> it's not in cory. >> they weren't probably the best spot that we've seen him in in a long time. at the time of his death and we'll have much more of this exclusive interview coming up at 7 a.m. with your gma. >> first, look, i'm eva pilgrim, abc news, new york. >> new developments involving the bay area pilot accused of trying to shut down the engines on a flight heading to sfo last month. three passengers on that flight are now suing alaska airlines, claiming they suffered emotional distress. they say the pilot should never have been allowed in the cockpit because he was suffering from depression
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and a lack of sleep. alaska airlines says its reviewing the complaint. the us senate confirms three senior military leaders bypassed one republican senators except massive blockade of hundreds of promotions yesterday. the senate approved general david alvin to be chief of staff of the air force. lieutenant general christopher mahoney as assistant commander of the marine corps and senate. the senate also confirmed admiral lisa franchetti as the first woman to lead the us navy. >> on this vote, the yays are 95, the nays are one. and the nomination is confirmed. >> all three were nominated for promotions months ago, but they were delayed by a hold from republican senator tommy tuberville. he's trying to gain leverage in a fight over government funding to cover travel costs for operation texans excuse me, costs for abortions for service members and their dependents. >> 556 this morning. let's take
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a look at the dog walking forecast or maybe you're going out for a run this morning. you could see clear skies. temperatures hit their minimum right around 8 a.m. and then we're off to the races. we see lots of sunshine today. temperatures this morning on the mild side. we're basically all starting out in the 50s. so not as chilly as it has been the past couple of mornings. it's a warm afternoon. lots of sunshine, 70s and 80s away from the coast. kumasi. thank you, drew. >> new at six, two major tech companies decided they are not going forward with a joint plan to develop campus sites here in the bay area. >> then you'll have to set your clocks back this weekend. and once again, not everyone is excited about daylight saving time and honoring tupac. >> the street in the east bay being renamed to celebrate the rap legend. a victory that is there for the taking. grab it. now that was a great halftime speech. let's go win. [jim valvano] don't give up. don't ever give up®
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