a nightmare on the freeway. a driver going the wrong way at 100mph. now in court on murder charges, the suspect's nine mile

long dangerous drive through the south bay ended with a mother and son dead. good afternoon. thanks for joining us, i'm kristen z. let's begin with the first court appearance for that wrong-way driver accused in a deadly crash. investigators say the driver was under the influence when he raced down highway 85 last week. the santa clara county district attorney's office says duncan mark mcquarrie was driving southbound in the northbound lanes for nine miles, swerving through all the lanes and topping speeds of 100mph. he slammed into a tesla, killing 47 year old rebecca olson and her 14 year old son, charlie olson. prosecutors are sharing new details about what happened just before the collision. one witness reported seeing mcquarrie parked in the center divide. they say he walked into the road, standing with his arms up for several minutes before getting back into his car and driving the wrong way again to imagine the senselessness of this crime.

>> the recklessness of it, and the tremendously horrible impact that it's had on this family, is, i think, what's moved many of us. >> mccrary was released from the hospital yesterday and immediately booked into jail, where he's being held without bail. he was arraigned today on charges including murder, dui and more. new at three. investigators say they know who is responsible for multiple racist deliveries left at a dog walker's home in san francisco. we follow this case from the very start. terry williams showed us the threatening packages left outside his home near alamo square. the packages contained a doll with a noose and other messages so foul we cannot show them on tv. san francisco police say they've identified a suspect in the hate crime case, a 67 year old woman who lives in san francisco. but they say they can't arrest her because she is missing. police say the family of april martin chartrand reported her missing

two weeks ago. they're asking anyone who's seen her to call 911. we continue to follow the story of the ricky pearsall shooting. the start of the forty-niners season is just three days away, with monday night football, and the rookie wide receiver is going to miss at least the first four games. take a look. pearsall was on the practice field yesterday in santa clara. that's him in a gray shirt and pants, holding a football, walking around and talking to his teammates. pearsall was shot in the chest six days ago in san francisco's union square, in what police call an attempted robbery. this is video of him walking to the ambulance. only abc7 news has the surveillance video of the suspect running and dropping the gun shortly after the shooting. the 17 year old is due back in juvenile court on tuesday for a pretrial conference. he's charged with attempted murder, assault with a semiautomatic firearm and attempt to second degree robbery. da brooke jenkins told us it will be at least two weeks before she

decides if she will ask a judge to let her prosecute him as an adult. crews are cleaning up glass that appears to have fallen from a high rise in san francisco's financial district. the city sent a dispatcher to the scene outside the salesforce east building at 350 mission. they say it appears the broken glass is related to construction. luckily, no one was hurt and no other property was damaged. a whale is swimming around the harbor in half moon bay, and it's drawing quite the crowd. this remarkable video shows the whale at pillar point harbor, pretty close to the marina there. the marine mammal center says the humpback is healthy and just following the food. they're keeping a close eye on it to make sure it doesn't get stuck and swims back out to sea. if you see the whale, the marine mammal center says to give it some space. now to your accuweather forecast and the final day of triple digit heat in the bay area. looking live out across the bay ahead, some of the big changes ahead. we do have a breezy weekend on

the way with cooler temperatures to many people's delight. abc seven news weather anchor spencer christian has a look at your forecast. >> let's move around the bay area. take a look at how high temperatures will shape up this afternoon. we're expecting a high of 92 at san jose. 99 morgan hill 95 at los gatos. up on the peninsula, 89 at redwood city. almost 90 and some low to mid 80s in most other locations on the peninsula, so it will be warm there and mild on the coast with highs in the upper 60s to near 70 at half moon bay and pacifica. downtown san francisco will top out at 74 degrees, about 78 down in the south. san francisco in the north bay. look for highs of 93 at novato 90, petaluma 95 at santa rosa over to calistoga, 96 degrees and 91 at napa. east bay highs 87. orinda 83 san leandro castro valley 89 degrees and then over the hills and into the inland east bay. it will be pretty toasty. lots of triple digit highs showing up again today. as we have seen for virtually all of this week. 100 at fairfield, concord, pittsburgh and antioch.

102 will be the high at brentwood and upper 90s in all the other inland locations in the east bay. now a reminder that the heat advisory that has been in effect for the last several days remains in effect until 8:00 this evening. so there's still the risk of heat related illness from overexposure to these excessively high temperatures. here's the accuweather seven day forecast. so today, up to about 100 in the warmest or hottest inland spots, temperatures will drop about ten degrees or more tomorrow from the levels we'll experience today. so saturday and sunday, low 90s inland, mid 70s around the bay shoreline. further cooling going into next week. by next tuesday or wednesday we'll see inland highs only in the mid 80s and mid low to mid 70s around the bay shoreline. so back to a not even a seasonal range but below average for this time of the year. more fall like than summer like. >> all right. now to a big update in former president trump's hush money case. a judge is postponing trump's sentencing until after the presidential election. trump faces up to four

years in prison for his conviction on 34 felony counts. his attorneys argued a sentencing before the election would amount to election interference, and a judge agreed. the ruling came as trump was in court for a different legal fight. abc news reporter perry russom has the updates from the courtroom to the campaign >> former president trump in court appealing the $5 million decision for sexually abusing and defaming columnist e jean carroll. the appeals court appearing skeptical of trump's push for a new civil trial. telling trump's lawyers it would be very hard to overturn the jury's verdict. >> but this is a disgraceful case. >> trump, later speaking at trump tower using similar defamatory language against carroll. he was held liable for. >> but she made up a story, a fabricated 100%. i never met her. i never touched her. it's a made up, fabricated story by somebody. i think initially just looking to promote a book. >> carroll's attorney listening

in telling abc news all options are on the table. trump mentioning another sexual assault accusation against him from the late 1970s, where a woman says she was molested by trump on a plane. it didn't happen. >> and she would not have been the chosen one. she would not have been the chosen one. >> trump's legal issues front and center with election day less than two months away. today, the judge in trump's felony hush money trial delaying his sentencing until november 26th after election day. yesterday, trump's legal team pleading not guilty on his behalf and his revised election interference case. no trial date has been set. meanwhile, the harris campaign is launching an outreach program in michigan for those who voted for nikki haley during the republican primary there. about 300,000 people voted for haley in michigan. perry, russom abc news, washington. >> in the east bay. budget cuts have alameda county court workers going on furlough. the superior court says starting today, almost every employee will start taking one unpaid day

off every month. the court system says it lost $4.3 million in funding from the state. it says it had a choice between layoffs and furloughs and went with the latter. furloughs will happen on two fridays each month. the court says all courtrooms will remain open, even with almost half the staff gone. governor gavin newsom is vetoing a plan that would have made undocumented people eligible for the state's first time home buyer program. the bill would have allowed undocumented californians to apply for up to $150,000 in down payment assistance through the california dream for all program, except the program doesn't have any money right now. newsom pointed to that in his veto letter, saying, we have to manage our resources effectively. teachers are facing huge challenges outside the classroom, and one school district is working out plans to help. the latest push to help teachers get housing. affordable housing and the bay area solutions inspiring it. plus, an unusual visitor in the heart of one city. the search for a

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allow push to ensure that teachers can afford to live here. the district has a newly formed task force that just met for the first time to plot out a strategy for increasing the housing stock and affordability, specifically for educators. why is that necessary? well, the district study shows 535 out of 636 teachers may qualify as extremely low to low income, while the average rent here requires that they earn about $62 an hour to afford it. obviously, the math doesn't add

up. joining us live now to talk about the latest efforts, armando sanchez, executive director of heart san mateo county, a nonprofit founded as a public private partnership to create affordable housing. armando, thanks for joining us. glad to be here. i understand your group is working with the san mateo county office of education to develop teacher housing. tell us how dire the situation is. >> oh, it's extremely dire. you know, as you noted, the cost of paying rent in this county. the rents are extremely high, and teachers in particular are having a very hard time, especially the younger teachers going into teaching, being able to afford the rents to pay for housing in this area. so anything we can do to help them would absolutely be welcomed. >> right. i mean, because we understand a lot of the teachers have to live, you know, more than an hour away. not sustainable. i know there are retention issues as a result of that. just real quickly though. we show that graphic that showed you really need about to make

$62 an hour in san mateo, foster city, right. to be able to afford the average rent just we're curious, how much does a typical teacher make per hour? what's the shortfall? you know? >> yeah. >> new teachers, depending on the district, especially in the northern county, they make a lot less. some of the starting salaries there are probably in the 50,000. it's maybe 60,000 in the south county where the districts are a little bit have better revenue. the starting salaries could be maybe 70,000 or a little bit higher, but that is nowhere near enough to 120,000 that is needed to rent in either locations, particularly uh. as i said, it's rough in both north and south counties. >> right, right. okay, so this new task force formed by the san mateo foster city school district, just met for the first time. what are the initial ideas and proposals for housing? >> you know, a lot of the proposals being tossed around right now are about developing housing in other words, take excess land, school property,

land and build teacher housing. a number of districts have done this, like the jefferson union high school district and the jefferson elementary school district in daly city, and those projects have been tremendously helpful. but developing housing is extremely expensive and very complicated. so i'm hoping that this, you know, the foster city, san mateo high school district takes additional steps to look at other alternatives, such as acquiring existing housing, maybe converting hotels that are no longer profitable into housing or office space. we need to look at new ideas, not just development, because development is expensive, as i said, and it could take 3 to 5 years before anything happens. so we need to find other solutions. yeah. >> i mean, you're right. daly city has done a pretty well. i know the jefferson school district, as you mentioned. we've reported on them. they just opened up last month. a 56 unit apartment for staff on the grounds of brown elementary. and i'm not quite sure why they were

able to do it. but in terms of san mateo, foster city, you know, are we still looking at school sites or, you know, sites they own? are we looking at conversions and for all of these, what funds like, is this a bond measure or is this, you know, get a charitable organization to say, we got the money, we'll give it to you. i mean, how does this work? >> you know, i believe the foster city san mateo school district is probably looking at land development. >> and the way it works is generally they projects are financed by two sources. first, what three sources? first, the district has to provide the land. usually second, voters usually have to pass bonds that cover half of the cost. and third, they the district will issue a third bond that is a revenue bond. in other words, a bond that is paid by the rents generated by the project that is built. so most likely they will have to look at all three of those scenarios in order to develop a project. if that is the route they choose. >> have recent state laws made it easier to do some of this? >> i think some state laws that

have been proposed are helpful. they will be helpful in the long run. they've provided some funding in some situations, but it doesn't address the real problem that districts have, and that is that they don't have the technical experience or the bandwidth to manage these projects. as i said, they take 3 to 5 years to develop, and it is really challenging for them to sustain that effort through the years and find the money to do it. so i think we need to i think we need more help from the state, more help from local jurisdictions, and certainly help from corporations and foundations to help projects really move forward, you know, in a way that works. >> what other models would you like to see tried here? what innovative ideas have you seen elsewhere, maybe even in other countries? >> yeah. you know, you haven't seen too much in terms of innovation. the innovation has been to develop housing on school sites. i think, as i said, we need to move beyond that. i think we need to look at acquisitions of existing buildings that will be a faster

solution. i think we need to look at, you know, potential conversions of some buildings into housing. so we really need to explore new solutions. and most of all, we need to collaborate more. you know, as i said, one district tackling an issue is very challenging. but if several districts work together, yeah, you get the scale right and you can bring the cost down. >> exactly. i mean, but if you do it right, i mean, i think daly city, they're able to offer the housing to teachers one, 2 or 3 bedrooms for like half of the cost, that of market rate. so obviously that gives teachers an incentive to, to stay. okay. so the districts that have moved to provide this kind of housing, talk about what they're telling you in terms of their recruitment and retention. >> oh, you know, the district i've most heard from is jefferson union elementary, and i think i don't know the exact numbers, but i heard something dramatic from uh- the year before they opened the housing. >> they had like 80, 90 vacancies. and the year after they opened the uh, the housing, they had like half a dozen

vacancies. so the impact has been dramatic. the teachers i have heard the teachers are extremely happy to be there. and now that district is a very desirable district to work for simply because they're providing housing. >> all right. armando sanchez, executive director of heart san mateo county, working with san mateo county office of education to develop teacher housing. thank you so much. thank you. lots of excitement ahead of a weekend of pride in oakland. we're getting a sneak preview of the

and i know joe is very actively involved, involved in pride. we're very honored to be recognized as one of the grand marshals. as i said, partnering with joe since the beginning of the center. we raised money doing drag shows for them over the last several years. i think we've raised over $30,000 for them. we've also partnered with the alameda food bank. the pacific center here in berkeley, as well as some other lgbt organizations like the lavender seniors, before they were acquired by the oakland lgbt

center as well. >> and these are all fantastic causes, really meeting the lgbtq community in the east bay, where they are and making sure they're not only surviving, but thriving. so it is a huge honor for you all to be named grand marshal for this year's pride parade. and festival. what does that honor mean to you? >> it means a lot. it really means that over the last 35 years, we've done our our work, and we've done what the community has needed of us. as i said, being an organization for 35 years doesn't seem very long, but when you look at the average lifespan of some of our organizations and honestly, our queer owned businesses, it's dwindling very quickly over the last few years. and covid, unfortunately caused a lot of organizations to really be financially strapped for somebody like our organization to come in and do a drag brunch or a drag show and raise money $1 at a time, and then give it

back to those organizations really shows, what we can do. and having the pride recognize us really is, is something that i touches me to the core as a as an individual of the community. >> well, we're so excited to see you out there on sunday. really quickly. just a few seconds left. but talk to us about something that you're personally excited to see at this year's oakland pride festivities. >> i'm actually looking forward to seeing the crowd, i have been involved for several years, and i'm looking forward to seeing the crowd back out there and really showing their support over the over the last few years, the crowd sizes kind of dwindled and i'm really looking forward. this year seems to be a really exciting and energized year. >> we're claiming it right now. we're going to have one of the biggest pride parade and festivals ever. the crowd is going to come out the community is going to be fantastic, and the energy is going to be even better, sister annie cacl2, we really appreciate your time and we look forward to seeing you

out there on sunday. thanks so much for joining us. >> thank you. >> all right. so abc seven will live s stream the paradeeam stag at 11 a.m. on sunday. this year's theme is rooted in pride. head over to abc seven news.com/pride for information on the parade routes and more. tune in sunday wherever you stream abc seven news. some people reaching out to 40 niners. rookie ricky pearsall are reaching the wrong number. the 12 year old probably family. family, why is that? buenos dias, buenos dias. la comunidad es el corazón del barrio. pues sin ella no hay vida, no hay esperanza. everything that i'm doing is for my family.

yeah. las mismas cosas que yo quiero para mi hijo las quiero para los niños de la comunidad. (♪)

an update now to the work to build a better bay area and a cleaner planet. a critical project to tackle trash in our oceans is docked in san francisco today, sharing an update on their next steps. the

project. the ocean cleanup is focused on clearing the great pacific garbage patch, the largest accumulation of trash on earth. the floating landfill is bad for ocean life and sends harmful microplastics into our waters. six years ago, the ship set sail from san francisco to research and craft a strategy. today, they dock near the exploratorium, carrying tons of trash. project leaders say there are years of research shows they could completely clean up the garbage patch in five years at a cost of $4 billion, ahead of four will have a deeper dive into the possible solutions. the well-wishes are pouring in for 40 niners. rookie ricky pearsall and his recovery from this weekend's shooting. just after ask a 12 year old in arizona who just got a new phone number. lincoln schreck got hundreds of text messages meant for the niners rookie wide receiver. it turns out lincoln's number is pearsall's old number when he lived in tempe. lincoln is now getting well wishes for pearsall from old friends.

>> ricky, i'm sure you probably have a new number. praying for you tonight. i was responding wrong number to as many as i could, and after a couple of them, one of them responded that it was a it was the former number of an nfl player. >> lincoln says he wants pearsall to know that his former classmates are thinking about him, and he's getting more support than he may even realize. the niners kick off the new season with monday night football against the new york jets at levi's stadium. if you don't have tickets to the game, don't worry, you can watch it right here on abc seven. our coverage starts at 5:00. join us again at 4:00. i'll see you then >> david: tonight, breaking news as we come on the air. did the fbi halt an alleged terror plot targeting jews in new york city? what we're just americaning. also tonight, the dramatic scene in court today. the 14-year-old