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plus, it is a big music weekend across the bay area, from outside land to the san jose jazz fest. we hear from a young man trying to keep jazz alive for all generations. and good morning to you. it is saturday, august 10th. i'm zach fuentes. it definitely is shaping up to be a big weekend across the bay area. so meteorologist lisa argen is here with the forecast. we hope it's a good one. >> yes, it is going to be good. in fact, we have cooled down enough that we're getting into what you would expect for summertime, maybe still a little bit warm for our inland valleys. but that changes for the second half of the weekend. low clouds and high clouds bringing mostly cloudy conditions to start out. your weekend. and we'll look for that clearing for the mid-morning hours. but from pier 15 there, our roof camera, a little bit of a breeze and the low cloud deck 54, san francisco 61 in san jose and from our sutro tower camera, the deck of low clouds there 54 santa rosa, a chilly north bay this morning
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while our east bay is in the upper 50s, so you can see the 4 degrees cooldown. novato. elsewhere just a few degrees warmer due to the cloud cover. so 9:00 we're gray with 60s and as we get towards the 11 30 hour, we're sunny in our inland valleys with some mid 80s by about 1:00. but by the afternoon we're back into the mid 90s inland, upper 70s around the bay shore. we'll talk about that cooldown in detail for your sunday in a few minutes. zach thank. >> vice president kamala harris is making her first trip to the bay area since she became the democratic presumptive nominee for president. harris has been speaking in front of huge crowds all week, but it's going to be a much more intimate affair when she appears at a fundraiser in san francisco tomorrow. that event is going to be at the fairmont, and tickets to that fundraiser start at $50,000 for a photo with harris. half $1 million gets you at the head table with vice president harris. former san francisco mayor willie brown is going to be there tomorrow, and it comes
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as he shuts down claims from former president donald trump. now, trump claimed that he and brown were both on a helicopter when it made an emergency landing. >> i have never traveled anywhere with jerry brown or even them. the good man that's running for the republican nomination in any kind of a helicopter. never happened. period. and i think my memory is probably better than his. >> now, the question came up when trump was asked about brown's relationship with harris in a news conference thursday. the new york times reports trump may have been referring to former governor jerry brown, while politico says he may have been referring to nate holden, a black lawmaker from los angeles who says he was in a near helicopter crash with trump in the 90s. well, new this morning, former youtube ceo and one of the first google employees susan, susan, susan wojcik, has died. she's one of the most prominent women in tech. the
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santa clara county native stepped down from her role at youtube in 2023, a position she held for nine years. her husband confirmed his wife's death in a facebook post, saying she had non-small cell lung cancer for two years. she was also involved with google from the earliest days, when two of the founders worked out of her garage. the current google ceo said she was core to the company's history. she was 56 years old. also new. this morning, a longtime east bay politician has died. ellen corbett spent decades in the political world, most recently as the ward four director for the east bay regional park district. she was also the former state senate majority leader, as well as an assembly member. she served as the mayor of san leandro as well. according to the east bay times, flags at the park district's properties will be flown at half staff in her honor. the cause of death wasn't announced. she was in her late 60s. this morning. we're taking a look at the results. two weeks after governor newsom issued an executive order that led to multiple homeless camps sweeps.
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the order came on the heels of a supreme court ruling that gave cities more leeway in clearing encampments. we've seen tents removed, rvs told to go someplace else, even a directive to offer people bus tickets. abc seven news reporter tara campbell has more on a key court ruling in the north bay. >> across the bay area and beyond. scenes like this are intensifying, governor gavin newsom doubling down on his executive order from two weeks ago, directing the state to clear encampments thursday in southern california, putting pressure on cities to do the same or lose critical funding. >> i want to see results. i don't want to read about them. i don't want to see the data. >> but as the push continues, so too does the push back. friday in the south bay, homeless advocates gathered in san jose. >> how can we have a governor that says we're going to reduce the prison population, but at the same time, we're going to criminalize someone being unhoused? the organizations promising to start legally fighting the governor's order next month, while also advocating for more affordable housing. >> we're supporting the regional
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housing bond, which will build thousands, tens of thousands of affordable housing units, which is the real solution to homelessness. >> and in san francisco, as shelters fill the mayor's prioritizing a program to bus unhoused people out of the city, we offer services. >> we offer shelter, we offer. we make several offers. we also have the journey home program, where we will offer, if they're from somewhere else, and they want to reconnect with their family and friends back home for wherever they're from. we'll help get them there as well. >> and in the north bay, the city of san rafael is upping its efforts after a year long court battle. >> we recognize that folks on the street or on the street for lots of different reasons. there are a lot of reasons. their own personal safety net failed them. >> a federal judge this week dismissing an injunction filed by homeless advocates last year, the city now free to resume enforcing an ordinance aimed at limiting the size of encampments
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and homeless advocates say they'll be watching closely the whole dissolution is based on the representations by the city that they're going to let people have a safe place to be, and so we're going to monitor that. meanwhile, back in san francisc, dozens of people living in rvs along zoo road are being forced to move again. authorities began citing vehicles this week, letting owners know they must be out by this sunday. owners upset telling us they don't know where else to go. tara campbell abc seven news. >> and it's worth noting the governor's executive order to clear encampments only applies to state agencies and workers. he doesn't have the power to order cities to follow suit, but it does add some pressure. well, the man charged in the death of popular oakland baker jen angell will go to prison. an alameda county judge sentenced ishmael burch to seven years as part of a plea bargain. this is a photo from last year. burch was driving a getaway car when an
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accomplice grabbed angel's purse. she tried to get it back and was dragged some 50ft. she died days later. the sentencing comes despite the wishes of angel's family and friends, who wanted a restorative justice framework for the now 20 year old. they issued a statement yesterday saying, quote, we know that jen would not want someone involved in her death, whether complicit or not, to waste away in prison for decades. and we take some comfort in knowing ishmael has a chance to repair some of the harm he has caused. a former rising star of the san francisco political world, now charged with rape, will stay in jail for now. john jacobo was back in court for the second time this week. a judge will revisit his bail at a hearing next week. the former nonprofit director resigned from his job in april over sexual assault allegations he's accused of sexually assaulting a housing rights activist. three more women filed police reports against jacobo. his attorney claims the charges are politically motivated. >> a previous district attorney's office looked at this case and decided not to file. so
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there really is a lot of problems in terms of the lack of credibility of the alleged victims that have come forward, mr. jacobo is innocent and he asserts his innocence. >> in a statement, the attorney for the victim wrote in part, quote, when survivors make the brave choice to come forward, it's essential that we believe them and that we empower them to understand and enforce their rights as victims of crime. otherwise survivors will not feel safe to come forward. all right, a lot more news coming up and weather as well. let's check in with lisa. >> all right. good morning to you. looking at a gray alcatraz but nothing new here, right. the low clouds, the fog, mist and drizzle at the coast. but it does clear today is the warmer day out of the weekend. and then we begin a pretty robust cooling trend. but it doesn't look to last that long. i'll have the details coming up. >> lisa, thank you. and also ahead, tragic video that captures a plane filled with passengers falling from the sky in brazil. what we're finding
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out is authorities investigate what went wrong. and the first day of school takes an unusual twist how east bay students showed up to class just to find
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this deadly plane crash. you can see the plane go down quickly in a brazilian neighborhood. everyone on board died and there are still questions about what happened before that plane went down. as abc news reporter alison kosik tells us, the aircraft didn't communicate any emergency before the crash. >> this is the horrific moment a plane carrying 61 passengers and crew plummeted to the ground in brazil, killing everyone on board. new deals. meal deals. >> meal deals. meal deals. >> the two engine turboprop from local airline vo pass spinning
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out of control and crashing into a residential neighborhood. witnesses horrified this man emotional, saying he was running late and missed the flight. now grateful to the airport worker who wouldn't let him board the flight, taking off from cascavel in the brazilian state of parana, bound for the airport in sao paulo, shortly before it was scheduled to come in for a landing, the plane dropping 17,000ft in just one minute. >> usually this sort of thing occurs because the flight crew was not able to maintain or did not maintain enough airspeed. clearly it was stall spin. how they got into it is what we don't know. >> the fiery wreckage, large parts of the plane smoldering in a residential neighborhood. debris littering yards. one person on the ground was injure. brazilian aviation officials say the aircraft did not communicate any emergency on board. the focus is on examining those
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black boxes. the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder, which will be crucial in the investigation. alison kosik, abc news, new york. >> the fda is turning down the use of the psychedelic drug mdma and assisted therapy for ptsd, at least for now. now, the agency formally rejected the treatment, asking for more studies on the safety and efficacy. it's a big setback to the san jose company lycos. it's also a setback for the overall movement to bring psychedelics into mental health care. lycos ceo says it's deeply disappointing because conducting a new study will take several years, and big changes are coming to a critical hospital in east san jose, and neighbors are fighting to stop it. come monday, regional medical center will be downgraded to a level two trauma center. it's not the full closure. the hospital had originally planned, but it does impact the kind of surgeries they can treat. neighbors and health care workers held another rally, asking the hospital to back off on its plans in the
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east bay. some parents are frustrated after their kids went to school for their first day of the year to find out there was no instruction happening. the north oakland community charter school was ordered to shut down in june, osd said. the school hasn't met academic goals now. the school sued to keep operating and a judge denied their motion. but they still opened yesterday. but while students were on site, there was no instruction happening. that's not known what's next? as families may be forced to relocate to new schools. >> mike, as a parent right now, i'm walking up to drop off blankets and pillows for my tc child and i found out the school is closed on the first day. imagine how you would feel. i have three children here without an active charter. >> the school's not legally permitted to operate and will not receive state funding to do so. well, two former cal basketball stars are teaming up to make a big investment in black businesses in oakland. boston celtics all star jaylen brown and hall of famer jason kidd are launching oakland exchange. the initiative aims to
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address the wealth imbalance by funding black businesses, including business incubators, launching programs for local artists and purchasing property to create generational wealth. brown launched a similar effort in boston. >> he did win the championship on the floor, but we can also create championships off the floor and i'm here to support that. >> oakland is rich history and tradition, entrepreneurship, so it's not like i got to come here and start something that ain't been done already. >> oakland exchange has started looking at where it can make its initial investments, and also into how to attract more investors. the first ever us national wing foiling championship took off in the waters off crissy field. look at this video. this speed racing sport combines windsurfing and kitesurfing. it was a foggy, windy day yesterday in san francisco, so not ideal for summer, but perfect for these athletes. people came from all over the country to the san francisco bay for a chance to take home the prize. competitors chase that first ever title in choppy waters between golden
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gate bridge and alcatraz island in the south bay. the annual jazz festival in san jose continues for its second day, provides not only an economic boost, but a showcase for young musicians. abc seven news reporter lauren martinez spoke with an oakland teen who is going to be featured this weekend. reporter 17 year old ibrahim is a rising star in the jazz world. >> this weekend, the oakland teen will hit the main stage at the 34th annual san jose jazz summerfest on friday. he gave attendees a little show as they waited in line. >> i'm really just excited. yeah, i'm excited to, like, share my music with the rest of the crowd. >> on monday, the saxophonist starts his senior year of high school and then takes off to headline a week long show in cuba. i mean, it's cool being a trendsetter in a way. >> like specifically in oakland. i know there's a lot of different scenes out there in
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the world, but specifically like black teens, there's not a lot of musicians like picking up jazz and like keeping it rolling with our within our community. so it's definitely cool to like, keep doing you. i can see i can do still in the drummer. >> the three day festival branches out from cesar chavez park. there's nine stages total, five that are outdoor and four indoor. we spoke executive director brendan rawson. we have people from about 25 different states that travel to the festival each year. >> organizers say last year, san jose jazz summerfest brought in more than 34,000 people. >> we generate about $17 million in economic impact to the city of san jose, uh, with this event every year, and it's, you know, and we have about probably 3000 hotel rooms that are filled with guests for this. so, you know, the arts can be an important driver, economic driver for downtown. >> these friends from college say this is their 12th year coming to the event. >> i love that we are here and it's expanded and it's like the
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most beautiful time. i brain takes to the stage. >> on sunday. i was giving them joy and my name actually means joy in yoruba. >> so it's just like really crazy fulfilling what i was born to do in san jose. >> lauren martinez, abc seven news. >> there is a lot of music playing in the bay area this weekend. the second day of the outside lands festival is today. the rise of fame pop star sabrina carpenter headlines today, and the killers headlined and closed out last night. festival organizers are expecting around 225,000 people to attend this weekend. they have a whole range of goodies out there, from food to cocktails. cannabis. it's expected to bring in as much as $75 million to the local economy. so if you're planning to attend, city officials are encouraging people to use public transit because we know that the traffic is going to be a headache because there's just so much happening here in the bay area, which is a good thing. and also good hopefully will be our forecast. >> that's right. you know, in fact, we could see temperatures come up a couple degrees inland
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today, the much warmer day compared to tomorrow, but that's inland along the coastline. it will still be cool today, tomorrow. but at least we'll get more sun today. less of that sea breeze for outside lands. but it does change for you too as well as we get into the second half of the weekend. but as for today, the morning fog starts us off and then we get into some sunshine with upper 60s. those winds kicking up throughout the afternoon. it's cooler for your sunday. the clouds will take their time clearing and that sea breeze is going to kick up in the south bay. it's the san jose jazz festival 10:00 today will be about 70 degrees with those clouds clearing. then it's a sunny afternoon with low 80s throughout the early part of the afternoon. some mid 80s around 4 or 5:00, dropping into the low 80s 6:00 and then the evening to start out is clear. and then the low clouds pulling. moving back in. there's a look at the high clouds as they move in across the low clouds right now. and so
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really we're looking at a gray start mostly everywhere. even the cloud cover getting into our inland valleys. look at the peninsula. it is socked in there from sfo where we're looking at 54 downtown, 59 in oakland and hayward with upper 50s in redwood city. and from mount tam that 621 sunrise setting at 807 today, 54 santa rosa. it is 56 in napa and those upper 50s inland with some cloud cover. so air quality will remain on the moderate side. we have an advisory today, not a spare the air alert like yesterday. some hazy conditions for our coast in the central bay. our inland east bay and the south bay. due to the ongoing fires to the north of us. but overall, we're looking at not a big deal in terms of impacting us here. but you'll notice once again, a bit of haze out there. this is through 11:00 tonight. the concentration then east of chico into the sierra nevada. and as we go through your sunday, those stronger winds pushing more of
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that smoke to the east of us. so that's the day with the better air quality san jose in the distance. there coastal fog and drizzle this morning looking at sunshine hazy this afternoon, especially towards sunset. and then we are mild to warm inland once again with those warm temperatures returning the ridge of high pressure bringing us all that warmth. slowly fades away as we get into the second half of the weekend. breezy and below average. that's a look at the cloud cover. you'll notice that we break out into sunny conditions today. the marine layer returns with a stronger onshore flow for your sunday, and then we'll get into that cooler afternoon tomorrow, 94 in concord. today, look for 84 in napa with upper 70s from fremont, and we'll see a few low 80s towards redwood city. 85 in san jose. morgan hill is hot with 94 the accuweather seven day forecast. so today will be the warmest day out of the next seven with those mid 90s inland, mid 70s around the bay shore,
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started off? thanks for being with us this half hour. we want to get a look at the weather with meteorologist lisa argen, because there's just so much happening this weekend. >> yes, and it is going to clear
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up. it's awfully gray out there now with some mist and drizzle at the coast, but a buffet. we have a beautiful sunrise from our sutro tower camera. that marine layer and the high clouds there. 54 in san francisco, 59. oakland, hayward with 61. in san jose and the fog reaching our east bay hills from vollmer peak there. 54 santa rosa 57. in our inland valleys around concord, notice the moderate air quality from the east bay to the south bay and advisory today, despite our sea breeze, will still be in the mid 90s inland and looking around the bay shore, some low 70s with clearing towards mid to late morning. and at the coast we'll see some sun, but the sea breeze keeping us in the low 60s. there we'll have more aggressive winds for your sunday. a much cooler day, especially east of the caldecott tunnel. i'll detail that for you and the week ahead in a few minutes. >> zach. we'll see you soon. lisa. thank you. today vice president harris will arrive in san francisco ahead of a fundraiser tomorrow. she's currently on a tour of west
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coast cities with a stop in las vegas today. yesterday, she was in the pivotal swing state of arizona with her running mate tim walz in front of a packed arena. she told voters she's still the underdog and that there's still a lot of work to do before election day. at one point, pro-palestinian protesters interrupted her speech. >> so let me say i have been clear now is the time to get a cease fire deal and get the hostage deal done >> now is the time. >> meanwhile, former president trump was in montana for a rally. he was more than an hour late because of mechanical issues with his plane. while montana is not a swing state for the presidency, it is the home of a key senate race. trump pushed back on claims that republicans are weird. >> we want to have strong borders. we want to have good elections. we want to have low interest rates. we want to be able to buy a house. we want great education. we want strong
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borders. i think we're very actually, i think we're the opposite of where they're weird. >> trump will also hold fundraisers out west with events in wyoming and colorado. you can find the latest on the presidential race and find all of our election coverage heading into november. right now at abc seven news.com, or wherever you stream us. scientists here in the bay area are making an important discovery about covid 19. the local scientists found a key link between covid 19 and a mysterious severe illness that was sending children to icus across the country. abc seven news reporter luz pena went to the lab where this discovery took place. >> it was 2020, and doctor aaron bodansky kept seeing a high number of children coming into the icu with a mysterious inflammatory disease. >> they had severe inflammation of all of their bodies. but in particular their lungs and really their hearts. >> turns out this was happening to children across the world, and no one knew why the illness came to be known as multisystem
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inflammatory syndrome in children, or mis-c. >> the only thing we knew was that they had previously had a sars-cov-2 infection. >> as cases intensified, doctors suspected the severe inflammation was connected to the immune system to keep children alive. medical personnel acted on that hunch. >> we used medicines to suppress and calm their immune system, which thankfully worked extremely well to save their lives. >> doctor bodansky remembers reaching a breaking point after seeing one of his patients. >> we had to put a breathing tube in and put on medicines to essentially induce a coma. it was really hard to look the parents in the eyes and just tell them that we had no idea what was happening, and i didn't want to have to keep doing that. >> after this, he contacted some of the top infectious diseases experts and scientists in the area the pivotal figure, doctor joe derisi. together, they collaborated with the cdc and hospitals across the country to
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collect nearly 200 blood samples. >> this has been a puzzle that researchers and clinicians across the country, and in fact, across the world, have tried to figure out. and yet it has eluded almost everyone until now. >> after years in this lab, they cracked the case. >> so the moment was realizing that that unusual reaction to covid matched something in our own immune system. so it acquired a target against covid that matched us. so it was attacking both at the same time. >> now they're hoping to use their findings to advance science, knowing that a virus can provoke an autoimmune reaction later on. >> and having this proof allows us to potentially develop therapeutics and diagnostics for anything like this that might occur in the future. >> luz pena, abc seven news. >> as homeowners across the bay area struggle with the rising cost of insurance, the state will let companies raise rates
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faster. insurance commissioner ricardo lara is bypassing lawmakers to enact the policy. the division of insurance will have to act on rate hike proposals within 120 days, and that's much faster than the current system, where approvals can take more than a year. lara says he's trying to fix the wildfire insurance crisis and keep insurance companies from leaving the state. happening today, governor newsom is in the bay area to commemorate the start of caltrans new electric fleet. these trains are aimed at making the commute easier and faster for those users. the ceremony starts at 9 a.m, and the upgraded fleets are part of a $1.3 billion project. first ride for passengers is tomorrow. still ahead on abc seven mornings, wells fargo workers waiting for you to get out of the way before they can go into work. a deep dive into what this is all about. and here's a live look from our sutro cam. look at what a beautiful, beautiful day it is shaping up to be. the sun in the sky. that layer of clouds
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home because of safety concerns. well, it turns out they may not be the only ones. san francisco based wells fargo is taking it a step further, asking that you move out of their way so they can go to work. abc7 news reporter lyanne melendez found out about this security policy and what's behind it. >> the time is 8:40 a.m, 20 minutes before this wells fargo branch in the financial district is set to open to the public. the way employees enter the branch resembles something out of a spy movie. each worker is positioned a distance away from the entrance. they constantly check their surroundings and wait until they are given some kind of permission to enter. otherwise they are not allowed to proceed. this wells fargo employee starts walking towards
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the bank, but then retreats and waits behind this column. a few seconds later, she makes her move. this other employee circles the entire building before he enters from the right side of the building. several minutes later. bizarre. somewhat but what happened next took us by surprise. customers are not allowed to stand or wait within a few feet of the door while employees are entering. even though this is a public space, the man sitting near the entrance, an abc seven staffer, was asked to move away because the employee you see on the right of your screen is about to enter the bank. good morning sir. >> how are you, we're letting some members in, and we were just for a brief period of time, and you said to wait. just for a brief point in time so we can get all our team in. >> why do i have to move? it's like a public plaza. >> we then approached the wells fargo employee to ask why the
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unusual policy? >> excuse me. >> excuse me. i'm with abc seven news. my name is lyanne melendez we'd like to know why you have this security policy. is is this wells fargo in general? throughout the country? at a different san francisco wells fargo branch, a young man standing next to the entrance was asked to move away and to also stand clear of the atm. but this time, the wells fargo employee explained the company's security policy as employees enter. are you with the bank? >> yeah. wells fargo correct. is it a policy that people have to step away from the door? yeah. and who instituted that policy? >> our security for our safety. for the safety of our team members. we can't have anybody standing by the door or by the atm in case there's an ambush and try to get in. we can't have anybody in this area. so due to the safety of our team. >> okay. is this a national policy or is it applied just to san francisco? why, just because
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we're curious. >> she then told us to call corporate headquarters. wells fargo said the policy applies nationwide, but would not answer our specific questions about this unusual procedure of moving people from public places for their employees, but sent this statement, quote, the safety of our employees and customers is our top priority to keep our employees and customers safe, the branches surrounding areas must be clear before employees can enter the branch. we apologize for the inconvenience this may cause. our valued customers. according to san francisco police, incident data, there have been only eight bank robberies this year in the city in random places. police told us most robbers don't carry a weapon and end up giving tellers a note. we asked other banks if they followed the same procedure, only bank of america responded to what wells fargo was doing by stating, quote, this sounds like an industry
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security procedure and advised us to contact the california bankers association. they wrote, quote, specific opening procedures can vary depending on the branch location. we send someone to monitor a wells fargo bank in new york city. this is the branch on east 14th street near union square. it's 843 in the morning, and the bank has not opened to the public. and employees are arriving. >> i will be seeing if the same policies exist in san francisco as they do in new york. at wells fargo, i will be standing outside near the door and see if they kick me out before opening. >> the person stands next to the door and engages with another customer, who is also waiting in front of the entrance. meanwhile, wells fargo employees wait for the branch manager to open the door. the customers standing outside in the path of the employees are never asked to move. when the bank opens to the
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public at 9:00, they are greete. good morning. >> they can't actually usher people off of our sidewalks in front of their business. anyway, the president of the board of supervisors told us he is concerned with wells fargo's security policy and the negative image it might portray. >> they do it in san francisco. they're headquartered here. yeah. what does that say about wells fargo? what does it say about the city? >> it says it's time for me to pick up the phone and call the head of wells fargo, because the reality is, the streets of san francisco are safe. they're as safe as any city in this country. they're safer than our conditions, are safer than most of the cities in this country. >> in san francisco. leon melendez, abc seven news. >> now you heard the word ambush in that report. wells fargo would not say if any of their employees has ever been attacked or ambushed. now, police told u, to their knowledge, they do not have any reports of a wells fargo employee being ambushed. all right. we got a whole lot more coming up. let's check in with lisa.
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>> all right. it is awfully gray out there, but a few peeks of sun. this is walnut creek, where you can see our marine layer and some high clouds reaching concord. even livermore, with partly cloudy skies. temperatures in the upper 50s here. a sunny and pretty warm day again on the way. mid 90s here. what about the rest of the bay? the rest of the weekend?
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aiyuk, who wants a new contract or a trade? here's abc seven sports anchor larry beil. >> good morning everybody. the giants opened up a seven game home stand against the tigers last night, and the giants without their best relief pitcher, camillo duvall, sent down to triple-a an all star closer last year. duvall has struggled to find the strike zone recently. giants hosting the tigers on an orange friday. you want to be a ball, dude. maybe not. oopsie. fell down.
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giants being no hit through six innings until tyler fitzgerald singles up the middle. he would later score on a michael conforto sac fly. keep track of the sac flies here. bottom eight tigers still up two one patrick bailey, pinch hitting line drive caught with men at the corners. another sac fly. we're tied at two a piece. we go to the bottom of the ninth. drama bases loaded for mark canha, former a former tiger until like a week and a half ago. the man who once said, this is my house. deep to left, i thought that ball was going out, but conforto scores. good night. game over. drive home safely. the giants score three runs on three sacrifice flies and they win three two. that is so giant. all right a's in toronto visiting the jays. a's fans still wearing the team colors. top of the third. new a's shortstop darrell irons, with his first career big league home run. and we are tied at one a piece. but jose berrios was a problem throwing smoke seven innings fans eight. in fact, the
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only run that he did give up was the home run we showed you. two one jays in the eighth. speaking of home runs, spencer horowitz hi deep and aloha. i thought that was going out of the rogers center. jays beat the a's three one. the 40 niners play their first preseason game tonight in tennessee. with the looming question being what is happening with wide receiver brandon aiyuk and his contract. first, the 40 niners wanted to do the extension. then they got frustrated with aiyuk having his hold in and they worked out potential trades with the patriots and browns. these were done deals, except aiyuk rejected both of them because he doesn't want to play in cleveland or new england. so now the 40 niners have reportedly resumed talks again to keep aiyuk in red and gold. the whole thing is absolutely exhausting at this point, i'm going to say the sweet spot is like 27 million a year somewhere around there. meanwhile aiyuk took to twitter himself, posting niners be in the media every day lol. it's two options out there pick one and stop dropping reports. simple. sounds like a man who's
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getting tired of this. all right, team usa women's hoops advancing to the gold medal game at the olympics 8564 over australia in the semis. breanna stewart had 16 to lead the way. the u.s. women talk about dominance. they've won 60 straight games in the olympics. the americans will play for an eighth consecutive gold medal against france on sunday. that's a wrap on morning sports. everybody have a great weekend. i'm larry beil and so much happening this weekend. >> so let's get a check now. the bay area forecast with meteorologist lisa argen all right zack good morning to you. >> we have some high clouds over those low clouds. here's a look at live doppler seven. and we zoom in. and these will filter out throughout the mid morning hours making for a sunny afternoon across the bay. okay. right now with the stacked up cloud cover it is 54 downtown, 59 in oakland and hayward, as well as redwood city and from our east bay hills camera atop vollmer peak. you'll see in the distance there, the cloud cover. so it has reached our inland valleys with upper 50s for you
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in concord and livermore, moderate air quality today for the coast, the central bay and the inland east bay, as well as the south bay, a lot like yesterday, maybe even a few degrees warmer, though. but the air quality, hazy conditions because of the ongoing fires to the north of us. so while we have our sea breeze, we still are looking at those hazy conditions and that air quality turning moderate at times, getting into your sunday, the stronger sea breeze allowing for better air quality, although with less wind overnight that haze and smoke wants to kind of concentrate in one area, but then it gets blown to the east of us. certainly by tomorrow afternoon. so coastal fog and drizzle this morning in the distance. a cloudy look at the shark tank throughout the day today. that hazy sun, mild to warm. i think we're going to bring up the temperatures inland. so numbers will be once again almost on the hot side. but breezy winds take over for your sunday. we will be below average monday and tuesday with a trough hanging out to the
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north and west of us. but things do look to change by the second half of next week. 85 in san jose today. so a beautiful day today for the san jose jazz festival. low 80s in sunnyvale on the peninsula once again, low 80s redwood city 75 in san mateo and then along the coast. we do get a little bit of afternoon clearing for those mid 60s in the sunset upper 60s downtown. so for outside lands it will be cool, but it will be bright throughout the later afternoon. upper 80s in novato with those mid 90s arriving. so yesterday it was on the cooler side, temperatures warming up today for wine country. so if you're heading to the north, even lakeport and calistoga mid 90s. so that's a hot day. how about 86 in vallejo? that's warm for you on the east bay. temperatures from the mid 70s from oakland, 79 in redwood city. so we're warming up as you head towards castro valley with some low 80s inland. we're back into the mid 90s today. so it was warm yesterday. continuation
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of that for the first part of your weekend with temperatures in the mid 90s from antioch, 94, in concord with pleasanton checking in at about 90 4:00 this afternoon. the accuweather seven day forecast for mild to warm inland today, with 70s around the bay shore to the upper 70s there. mid 90s inland. big cool down for sunday. we're below average monday not much change on tuesday. and as we get into wednesday that minor warming trend and then thursday looking at that seasonal range. so pretty nice for the week ahead. certainly not like that july forecast where we were well above average, but another warm one
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reporter lauren martinez shows us, it's the future of the modern sports experience. >> the nfl league office is rolling out facial ticketing for credentialed people. they've teamed up with the company wicked, a facial authentication platform provider. ceo jeff beam tells us wicked started in the height of covid when the cleveland browns were looking for a way to get fans in instead of manual barcode scanning. fans who have enrolled can show their face to validate their ticket. >> fans opt in to use this solution in order to gain the convenience of faster access to a stadium, or even faster concessions, or faster access to an event, beam said. >> browns fans are now getting into the stadium four times faster when you actually take a picture and you take a selfie at home to register for the system, and then when you show up, there's a camera that is used, typically an ipad, to access the event. >> those pictures are immediately uh- changed into a mathematical representation that
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is then in turn, encrypted. >> the nfl tells us. for now, the facial authentication program is only available for the team game day personnel, vendors and media fans are not included. every nfl team can use the new technology. levi's stadium had no comment. the mlb, for example, just launched their go ahead entry program this past spring at oracle park. giants fans who are 18 or older can enter using a camera at designated gate. we spoke to anil jain, a professor at michigan state university, about this growing technology. >> when you enter the united states, it used to be fingerprints, but now it is face recognition, jain suggests people who voluntarily register for similar systems know if the company will sell or not sell their information to third party applications. you know, will you get some specific emails from advertisers? you know, you know, it's one of those things where
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it should only be used for the purpose, for which it was being collected. and you agreed. >> and beam said, that's exactly what wicked safeguards are. their data is not centralized. it's not sold or given to any third parties. your face is your payment method. >> your face is your credential. it's a much easier and more secure method. and i do believe this is what the future will look like. >> this program is completely optional in san jose. lauren martinez, abc seven news. >> final check of the weather. >> all right. it's nice out there where we'll see a warm temperatures today in our inland valleys mid 90s. and then the cool, down, breezier conditions. that fog lingers throughout much of the mid morning hours for the second half of the weekend. and then as we get towards the early part of the week, we are below average. our warm up comes midweek. it's a modest one, so temperatures at seasonal averages or slightly below sounds good. >> lisa, thank you so much and thanks to you for joining us. i'm zach fuentes, for lisa and
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