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commitment here at abc7 as we work to build a better bay area. now, the next step in san francisco is to deploy a fleet of new mobile security cameras. you've probably seen these cameras around the bay area, but this is the first time that the san francisco police department will put them to work. >> these cameras are funded by proposition e, which voters passed earlier this year. abc7 news anchor dion lim joins us with a look at how the technology is aimed at curbing crime. dion. dan and kristin. these live view technology cameras have indeed been around for years. you may have even seen them in shopping plazas or in other bay area communities, but for the very first time, san francisco officials will have access to this technology, something city leaders from different agencies hope will make the city a better place to live. >> you are trespassing. please leave the area. this area is under video surveillance and you have been recorded. >> that strong message blaring from this mobile surveillance unit aligns with the message city leaders shared at an unveiling of these new live view
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technology or live cameras monday morning. >> a note to people who commit crime. the day is over. >> mayor london breed and police chief bill scott, along with district attorney brooke jenkin, touted the passage of prop e in march, allowing san francisco to use drones and install 400 license plate readers to fight crime. they say the results show the technology is working. >> we've seen within july and june of the past two months, and over 70% decline in car, break-ins, with open air drug dealing, sideshows, you name it. this new technology will also lends itself to making things a lot better and san francisco, fortunately, is seeing a record low in terms of crime. the lowest crime rate we've experienced in ten years. >> breed believes these new cameras will lead to even more success. san francisco has three of these units. one will be deployed to the mission. the second one to the mid-market area, and the third to be
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determined. all of these units are completely mobile and depending on how well they work, more of them could be on the way. >> this is a big force multiplier for our customers. ten x reduction of what it might cost to have a guard or a, you know, police sitting on site. >> lee says 15,000 of these 22 foot high camera systems are already being used across the country by both municipalities and private property owners, in addition to flashing lights and messaging, the units can also be monitored live depending on the situation. we spotted this one along zanker road near the vta in san jose. >> we see a 50 to 75% reduction in incidents. >> d.a. jenkins says when a crime is committed, the cameras will make it easier for her to prosecute. >> i want to be able to walk into the courtroom knowing that i can prove my case and being able to have technology that captures an incident, that captures an assault that captures an auto burglary, so that i can demonstrate to the jury what exactly happened. but we have to make sure that people
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fear a consequence on the back end. >> something else city leaders emphasized today is balancing privacy with effective crime fighting. chief scott says the decision to implement the law came after community discussions and input. no word yet whether this technology will be used during the upcoming dream force gathering in the newsroom. dionne lim, abc seven news. dan. >> all right, dion, thanks very much. now for some added perspective on this. let's bring in abc seven news insider phil matier. >> and he joins us live from zoom. phil, this is not the newest technology, but is there new thinking in the city surrounding this technology and other forms of technology and kind of like a new situation here. >> that's exactly what we're seeing. this is three cameras, six cameras portable around the town. that's one thing. that's a quick press conference today. but the real change has been with the public and with the politicians at city hall over the last 3 to 4 years. you know, in 2007, then mayor gavin newsom had cameras installed around the
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city in high crime neighborhoods. but there was a catch in order to comply with people's privacy concerns, they weren't watched in real time. in other words, they were only good after the fact. now, after the passage of proposition e by voters in march, the city is opening the door to real time looks at these cameras. so if they see a crime, they can record a crime. if they see somebody selling drugs, they can put the camera on them and get the evidence, arrest them, and then have the evidence to take it to court. it's a seismic change where the public in san francisco and in berkeley and in oakland are saying, we're putting public safety over privacy for right now. >> phil, the event that dion attended today with the mayor and the police chief felt a little in the da should say, felt a little bit like a campaign appearance in some respects, with a lot of focus on progress during her administration. does that tell you anything about how things are going politically for the mayor there going tough? >> it's going tough and we're going to probably see more anything involving public safety, we're going to see a whole profile presentation by
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the mayor. her opponents in the race are attacking her on public safety. that's one of the key issues out there. her record. yes it has improved, but it also got worse when she started in office for a number of different factors. so she's digging out of this hole and people are judging her on that. so yes, anything involving public safety, she's going to be out in front of and not just for the election, but for also the image of san francisco in the country and in the world as well, which is also taking a beating. >> you know, there's the stats, which actually look pretty good right now. right but then there are the incidents that people remember, like the ricky pearsall shooting and then and also put it in context of this week, right, with dreamforce, because last year, marc benioff talked about the improvements the city needed to make. how is it how important is it right now? >> well, first of all, on crime data is statistics involve other people. when it happens to you, the statistics go out. the door. so things have gone down, crimes have gone down. but if you still
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had your window broken into or your house or business burglarized that we're still seeing, then it hasn't. and that's the perception. the other perception is, and we're seeing it is that they are really beefing up security around union square. they're trying to hold it. and if anything, expand it. and one of the things is we have the huge dreamforce convention in san francisco. again, the world is watching. and again, we're having the police out in record numbers. all hands on deck. we're having the ambassadors in the downtown this year. we've even added, i've been told by sources, some 50 california highway patrol officers. the governor has sent in to even beef it up more because they want salesforce to come back for the economy. they want it to come back for the image, and they want to come back with the message that it's safe. >> phil, you know, this is obviously an election year we've talked about, and mayor breed has some really serious challengers in the race this year. >> if this was not an election year, any other year, would the city and the mayor's office be acting any differently? do you
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think? >> you know, you know, 5 or 6 years ago i would have said we would not necessarily have even had a press conference like this. we wouldn't have gotten this far as to having this technology. it wasn't on the table at that time. the question was, are the police effective in a social context? it was the defund the police. dan it was not increase them. now, we have not only this technology, we have license plate readers throughout the bay area. we have drones being used in san francisco that wouldn't have been heard of before, but has uh, it being an election year, amped it up? yes, but it's interesting. it's all amped up in one direction. we're not seeing the resistance to it that we saw in past elections. somebody saying, no, this is going too far. it's turning us into a police state. we're not hearing a lot of that this time. >> it seems like we reached a tipping point the last couple of years with crime in this city, where even those who normally might have resisted some of these efforts have said, okay, enough is enough. it's gotten so bad. >> and that was evident today as well. there was we had a district attorney by the name of
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chesa boudin, who was a progressive uh- reformer who was out to reform the judicial system. he didn't want to put people in jail for nonviolent crimes or have severe penalties for that. he wasn't all that interested in prosecuting drug dealers. now we're helping the feds deport them. dan, it has been a big, big change. and that was one of the things that was pointed out. they said the team that is in place now, whether it's the district attorney, the police chief and the mayor, they're all on the same page. and it's a decidedly different page than the one we were reading a few years back. >> yeah, it sure is. all right, phil, thanks very much. >> we want to help give you the full picture of public safety, where you live with our abc7 neighborhood safety tracker. our interactive tool has a wide variety of data for san francisco, oakland and san jose. you can find it all right there on the front page of our website, abc7 news .com. >> all right. we have some developing news now on the latest apparent assassination attempt of former president donald trump. secret service agents say a man with an ak 47 rifle was on or near trump's
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palm beach, florida, golf course on sunday. the suspect was in court today facing two gun related charges. >> the first step by prosecutors in their investigation. abc's perry russom has the latest from washington. keep walking. >> new police body camera video shows officers in florida detaining ryan wesley. ruth, the man accused of apparently trying to assassinate former president trump at his golf course in west palm beach. >> we do not have information that he's been acting with anyone else at present. >> this morning, ruth, in a federal courtroom charged with possession of a firearm as a convicted felon and possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number. he did not enter a plea. he is expected back in court to be arraigned on september 30th. more serious charges could follow, according to court documents. cell phone data tracked ruth at trump's golf course for nearly 12 hours yesterday, starting at two in the morning. >> agents found a digital camera, a backpack, a loaded sks style rifle with a scope and a black plastic bag containing
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food. >> a secret service officer spotting the barrel of a rifle sticking out of the shrubs along a fence as trump was just a few hundred yards away. >> the subject, who did not have line of sight to the former president, fled the scene. he did not fire or get off any shots at our agent. >> federal investigators have not determined a motive. sources familiar with the investigation say they are looking into whether ruth had any frustrations with trump's position on ukraine on social media. trump blaming president biden and vice president kamala harris, saying the would be shooter acted on their rhetoric. biden and harris condemning political violence. >> no place in political violence for political violence in america. none zero. never. >> investigators are crediting a witness for helping them track down ruth. police say the witness took a picture of the license plate of the car he got into, and that was key to his capture. perry russom, abc news, washington. >> another day in court today
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for 26 people accused of being part of a huge protest that shut down the golden gate bridge back in april. the group was protesting israel's bombing in gaza. abc seven news was in court as eight of the people faced felony conspiracy charges, in addition to misdemeanors for trespassing and false imprisonment. 18 other demonstrators face just the misdemeanor charges. their attorneys plan to file motions at the next hearing to dismiss these charges. they accused san francisco district attorney brooke jenkins of working with the israeli consulate to punish their clients. >> parents of san francisco students say the district's decision to delay an announcement of which schools will close or merge next year has only prolonged their anxiety. the school district said this weekend that it would delay the decision until october to review the plan. the district faces declining enrollment, staffing shortages and a projected $400 million deficit by 2026. >> closing schools in san francisco will not save money. there are no costs to be saved.
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this does not close the deficit. what it has done is cost us a lot of stress. >> superintendent matt wayne says the closures are meant to improve the remaining schools, not just save money. san francisco has lost 4000 public school students in the past decade. >> new concerns after a popular north bay beach closure. why business owners say they're worried the impact could be long lasting. seismic safety on bart. the major upgrades to the transbay tube to get it ready for the big one, and dreamforce kicks off tomorrow in san francisco. the closures that you need to know about, if you'll be moving around the city this week, all of that's coming up. >> i'm spencer christian, our summer and fall trading weather identities. i'll have the answer to that. and the accuweather seven day when you have moderate to severe eczema, it's okay to show off. with dupixent, show off your clearer skin and less itch. because you have plenty of reasons to show off your skin.
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over the closure of a popular beach after human waste was discovered leaking from a nearby cliff. >> abc seven news reporter cornell bernard has more from the town of bolinas, where many locals are hoping the problem can be fixed and the beach reopened. >> when i heard that there was sewage coming down, it kind of is a little terrifying. >> craig fagan says it sounds as gross as it is. human waste recently discovered by marin county crews seeping from the
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cliffs above bolinas beach. the beach is now closed off limits to people and pets. >> uh- makes me a little sad because i do like to surf out here at bolinas, which is sort of why i came out today, but it is now closed right here at the break, so probably won't go in. >> this map shows the beach closure, which stretches about a mile and a half from brighton avenue north to agate beach. so we've been in bolinas for the better part of the morning, and so far i can't smell anything weird, but signs everywhere definitely tell you that something dangerous is happening. >> after testing a few different sources along that bluff, we found that the substance was actually wastewater. it contained e-coli and other bacteria that aligns itself with human waste. >> county officials say the sewage flow is happening at several dozen locations. >> three of those together would result in about 43,000 gallons of wastewater delivered to the ocean daily. >> officials say most of the releases have happened during high tide. the biggest question
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is where is it coming from? that's still unclear. >> we do know that that community is on septic systems. however, we haven't concluded if that's the exact cause. is it a failing system? is it something else? you know, we also have to look at natural causes. if there's shifting of the soils, if there's erosion. >> at a recent community meeting, neighbors were very concerned about how long the beach will be closed. the community a very serious event. >> we're all really concerned that this could turn into a three year beach closure. >> local businesses are feeling it. bolinas beachgoers are an economic driver during summer months. >> like i said, it's very concerning. we don't know much. it has been pretty quiet. >> testing and mitigation measures continue at the cliffs. it's not clear when bolinas beach could reopen. in marin county. cornell, bernard. abc seven news. >> a pretty good beach. weather around the bay today, but it rained a little bit. >> yeah. interesting. definitely want that taken care of. spencer. by the weekend after, when it starts to get warmer again. right. >> oh, you've taken a sneak peek
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at my weather forecast, but this morning was rather on september. like, we had some light rainfall across the bay area, which is very rare in mid september. here we had just trace amounts in napa airport and livermore, but two hundredths of an inch at mount diablo, eight hundredths of an inch at mount hamilton. so you can see that it was hitting the higher elevations for the most part. and down in the santa cruz mountains, la honda 15 hundredths of an inch and ben lomond 17 hundredths of an inch. and here's why we had that rain, that low pressure system spinning here around counterclockwise fashion. and you can see clouds just swinging through bands of clouds through the bay area. and some of those clouds contained enough moisture to produce rainfall. right now we're looking at winds much calmer than at this time. yesterday we had gusts up to 50mph at times yesterday. right now, the 16 mile per hour surface winds here in san francisco and most locations around the bay area are 3 or 4 degrees warmer now than they were this time yesterday, which was a pretty cool day. let's move along. take a look at current readings 62 degrees here in san francisco. oakland 6971, in hayward, san jose, 7466 at redwood city, 61 at half moon
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bay. we've got clouds returning a few to the golden gate right now. the sky had been quite blue. there for much of the afternoon. other temperature readings right now 74 in santa rosa, 70 apiece at petaluma and napa, 72 at fairfield and concord, and 70 at livermore. and a nice view from mount tam looking down onto the bay. we have clouds at different levels of the atmosphere right now. overnight, we can expect morning clouds to develop and produce a little coastal drizzle in the early morning hours. wednesday will bring our next chance of light. maybe even measurable rainfall, but for the remainder of the week, as kristen pointed out, it will be sunnier and much warmer going into the end of the week and into the weekend. here's our forecast animation starting late tonight. going through tomorrow when we'll have a few clouds passing by. partly sunny tomorrow, then the next wave of light rain. we it looks light at the moment. we expect it to be light will swing through on wednesday. it may produce some measurable rainfall in some spots, but after that we get rapid clearing and a fairly rapid warm up. so overnight lows mainly in the mid to upper 50s.
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highs tomorrow. low 60s at the coast, upper 60s to close to 70 degrees around the bay shorelin, mainly mid 70s inland. so once again another day that's cooler than average for this time of the year. but the warm up begins thursday and friday. by friday we'll see inland highs in the low to mid 80s, especially over in the inland east bay. we'll see some mid to upper 70s around the bay shoreline. then on saturday, getting closer to that 90 degree mark in the inland areas, which will warm up to upper 80s on saturday, up in the north bay mid 80s and around the bay shoreline up to about 80 degrees on saturday and then sunday it starts to feel like summer all over again. even though sunday will be the first day of autumn with high temperatures reaching into the low to mid 90s. so let's take a look at the accuweather seven day forecast here. as summer and fall sort of change trade positions. here's a look at tuesday and wednesday when highs will still be below average. mid 70s will be the highest readings inland. the next two days. thursday sunnier and milder. that warming trend begins on friday. and look at sunday and
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monday inland. highs in the mid 90s, low to mid 80s around the bay shoreline and up to about 70 uh- on the coast. so the beach might be the place to go as fall begins. yeah, it looks like it. >> yeah, i won't peek next time in advance. it's okay. >> i don't mind if you take a sneak peek. >> thanks, spencer. >> all right. >> a new fight in the new step in the fight against soaring prescription drug costs. what a california bill is calling for in an effort to keep prices in check. >> and another hurdle in the state's fire insurance crisis. seven on your side investigates follows the votes in the california legislature to show us what's complicating the process.
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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. (♪) california governor gavin newsom to sign a bill that would regulate pharmacy benefits managers. now, these are essentially go betweens who
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manage prescription drug programs for health plans, employers and medicare and play a huge role in determining what drugs your insurance covers or doesn't cover. >> what pharmacy your insurance lets you shop at, how much your pharmacist gets paid, and how much you pay for your drugs. >> a congressional hearing last month looked into the role pharmacy benefits managers play in increasing prescription drug costs. sb 966 would add more oversight for pharmacy benefits managers and require they be licensed in the california, something 25 other states already require. the federal government is launching a new health initiative to increase access to government research funding at san jose state and other california universities. u.s. secretary of health and human services xavier becerra joined san jose state and csu officials, as well as congressional members anna eshoo and zoe lofgren, in a tour of medical research labs at san jose state university this morning. becerra signed an agreement to provide future
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funding to cal state universities for research and training in health professions at san jose state. nearly a third of the student body is latino and federal officials say it's important to provide this funding in the effort to make education more equitable, to specifically target our resources to innovators who have not historically had access to dc, to r&d dollars, and to make everybody have an opportunity to be part of the solution. funding will also go to community organizations to address specific health needs in that particular community. >> salesforce is giving $23 million in grants to help schools, and a portion of that money will focus on ai education. these grants will support high schools and middle schools across the country, including san francisco and oakland. salesforce says it wants to give every student the opportunity to develop the skills needed for success in an ai driven future. 40,000 people are expected to attend dreamforce this year. the event
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starts tomorrow, but street closures around moscone center are already in effect. if you need to drive in that area, keep in mind howard street is closed through sunday between third and fourth streets. fourth street is also closed between mission and uh- howard streets from 6 a.m. until 8 p.m. other road closures will vary depending on the day's events. of course, dreamforce generates $93 million for san francisco, so it's a huge impact. >> a legal challenge to a long standing rule of the miss america pageant and another setback in california's fire insurance crisis. >> it's very unfortunate. >> it's shocking. >> we don't know what the alternative would be. >> the state legislature killed two bills aimed at helping homeowners. seven on your side investigates. following the votes and the money trail. for a look at what's really at play here and highlights from the biggest night in television, we have the post emmys reactions from hol
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property insurers, like state farm and allstate, have either dropped out of california or only providing limited fire coverage. >> and as seven on your side. stephanie sierra found out two bills that aim to reduce insurance costs for consumers just failed in the state legislature. >> so stephanie joins us now with more on the money trail behind the votes. stephanie. >> yes, kristin and dan, there's a lot of it. supporters say these two bills would have paved the way for more transparency and lower costs to californians who are putting in the work to reduce wildfire risk around their home. but both of these bills failed. and as we found out, the group of lawmakers who opposed them are getting millions of dollars from the insurance industry. >> this is where the palm tree was. >> tom grossman lives in the oakland hills. he's transformed his palm tree property from this to this. >> it went right up and the leaves were into the window. we have the five foot noncombustible zone adjacent to the house, very few oily plants. keep these cut back really
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tight. >> $15,000 worth of fire mitigation. >> we don't want our house to burn down. >> when he first moved here in 2017, our old insurance company in danville refused to touch any houses in this area. now, seven years later, getting insurance up here is difficult to impossible. he says six of his neighbors have already been dropped by their insurance provider this year, despite investing tens of thousands of dollars into their property eyes. two bills that aim to prevent that failed in the state legislature this summer. no assembly bill 2416 would have rewarded homeowners with insurance discounts if certain mitigation efforts are met. senator becker and senate bill 1060 would have required insurers using risk models for underwriting to not only account for mitigation efforts, but require the insurance department to make the reports and evaluations public to enhance transparency. but the critics of these bills argue they're too complicated and confusing. >> like be our feelings.
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>> state senator josh becker, the author of sb 1060, told seven on your side. he did not bring it up for a final hearing because it didn't have the votes. we found becker received more than $417,000 from finance, insurance and real estate industries since assuming office. that's according to nonprofit and watchdog group follow the money, an organization that tracks campaign contributions funneled to candidates from individuals and political action committees. >> i think the companies didn't want it to pass. they don't want any more burdens on them. >> it's very unfortunate. >> seven on your side. investigates. found eight state senators voted no on becker's bill, with three others absent for the vote. that group of 11 lawmakers received a combined total of more than $4 million from finance, insurance and real estate industries since assuming political office. that's according to an i-team analysis of a report compiled by follow the money. >> a $4 million, an awful lot of
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money in a state legislature to give to a less than a dozen legislators, because the contribution limits are so low, it means that they really, really mobilized. >> seven on your side found all of the legislators who voted against senator becker's bill represent districts with high fire risk areas where insurance companies have dropped or restricted issuing policies. >> it's shocking if you're not taking into consideration those type of wildfire prevention tactics, then what are you modeling? what are you doing? it doesn't make any sense. >> the politician who received the most money, more than $866,000 from those industries, is state senator janet wynn, who represents district 36, encompassing parts of orange county, including laguna niguel, where at least 20 homes were destroyed last year during the coastal fire. we reached out for comment as to why she voted against the bill, but have yet to hear back. another lawmaker
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who voted no, state senator brian dolly, whose district encompasses areas of the 2015 butte fire. the 2020 bear fire. the 2021 dixie fire. and the deadliest fire in the state's history. the 2018 camp fire. senator, you know firsthand the struggle your constituents are facing when it comes to getting home insurance. why did you vote no on sb 1060? well, 1060 is a very complicated bill that didn't really make sense. >> uh. and it was basically the author pulled the bill because he he didn't have the votes because it wasn't something that was going to help californians. well the bill would have required insurance companies to factor in mitigation efforts for homeowners. >> how is that not helping californians? >> there's a lot of things in that bill that, a lot of moving pieces. it was very complicated and somewhat not workable with what the governor was trying to do through his executive orders. and that's why the bill died, and that's why i voted against
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it. >> the governor's office told seven on your side. that's not true. we received the following statement saying the governor supported sb 1060 and any current executive orders would not have conflicted with this legislation. senator dolly has helped secure millions of dollars for wildfire prevention projects and has introduced legislation to support fuel mitigation in his district. but he says he doesn't believe mandating private companies to do more is the solution. >> but at the end of the day, putting more onerous restrictions on companies and the legislature is not the answer. >> according to follow the money. senator dolly received more than $570,000 from finance, insurance and real estate industries since assuming office in the state assembly in 2012. that's 56% of all the money he's received while in office. at any point in those discussions with insurance industry representatives. have you ever felt they've influenced your decision on any vote? >> not at all. i want to drive
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down the cost. you can only drive down the cost, and when you take the risk away. >> so you're talking about driving down costs. do you agree that mandating insurance companies to factor in mitigation efforts would help with that? >> you can require them to do anything you want, and that happens here every day. but they just stop writing policies. they just move out of the state. that's not an option either. >> you know, senator, i don't feel like i got an answer to that question. do you support the idea? >> look, i've been supporting the ability to do preventive maintenance. i think that's a great idea. >> that idea is currently underway in oakland with the fire safe council, a volunteer group that works to reduce wildfire risks in the neighborhood. tom's neighbor, marty kaplan, is doing things like removing all the highly flammable juniper around his property. >> substantial cost at least $100,000 to do that work. and it makes us wonder what about people who can't afford these mitigation efforts and the people who can't even get insurance? >> now, north bay assembly
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member damon connolly, the author of the assembly bill that failed, says it received bipartisan support and he didn't know why the bill was not heard for a final vote in the senate. but we did some digging and found the senate majority leade, lina gonzalez, filed the move to squash that bill before its vote, and she received more than $200,000 from insurance related industries. and we're still waiting to hear back from her office. but we do know from both senator becker and senator assembly member connolly, they plan to reintroduce those bills next session. >> okay. well, everywhere i go, i hear from people concerned about the insurance. >> yeah, i know this is so eye opening. and then the follow up is what now what do we do? exactly. thanks, jeff. >> thank you. stephanie. >> all right. if you have an issue you'd like to have on seven on your side to investigate, go to abc seven news.com/7 on your side. that's also where you'll find this impactful story right here. >> still to come here a major update that could save lives when the next big quake hits the bay area. the upgrades finally completed. completed in bart's transbay tube and it's shogun's
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as always, there were plenty of big names and big winners. >> entertainment reporter george pennacchio, from our sister station in los angeles, has the highlights. >> shogun. >> shogun started emmy night with 14 wins, all from last week's creative arts emmys. the drama series added four more for a total of 18 trophies, from a staggering 25 nominations, the most of any show this year. the series stars and new emmy winners anna sawai and hiroyuki sanada were proud to represent their show. >> i still feel like i'm trying
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to process what happened. i think in any moment i can cry, so i won't do that, but it's really unbelievable. i think i'll wake up tomorrow and i'll think this was all a dream. >> another drama that won big baby reindeer, with richard gadd taking home trophies for acting, writing and producing. this year's outstanding limited series or anthology. >> i kind of just feel a bit overwhelmed right now. i wasn't expecting this. i'm just so glad that the show has touched the lives of so many people, and that the academy of have have acknowledged that in this way. it's the greatest, greatest night of my life. >> but there are so many categories at the emmys, including the comedy shows that make us laugh. hacks snagged the win for outstanding comedy series, and jean smart won her third emmy in a row for lead actress in a comedy series and sixth overall for her portrayal of stand up comedian deborah vance. >> i think i've been fortunate in a sense that my career has been a very gradual kind of climb. i wouldn't have minded if
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it was a little faster, but, you know, it's better than starting here and going down, down, down, down, down, down. so i'm very grateful. >> the bear's jeremy allen white took home his second emmy in a row for lead actor in a comedy series. his costars, ebon moss-bachrach and liza colon-zayas also won trophies for their supporting roles. >> everybody does such beautiful work on this show and, and yeah, to see them recognized, it just, it makes me so happy and so proud. >> with 11 emmy wins sunday night, the bear also broke its own record by one for most wins for a comedy series in a single year, with 11. in los angeles. george pennacchio, abc seven news. >> some good shows on new york. woman is challenging a long standing rule of the miss america and miss world beauty pageants, excluding mothers from the competition. the woman says she was not allowed to enter the pageants because she has a six year old son. her lawyer, famous
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attorney gloria allred, sent a complaint to new york city's commission on human rights. she says the pageant's rules deny and exclude mothers from an important business and cultural opportunity, simply because of their status as parents. no one from the florida based miss america pageant or london based miss world pageant has responded to this claim. >> a bay area airport is making changes to go green, and it's working. >> and bart gets a seismic upgrade. the agency's announcement today about making the transbay tube safer for riders and the stars are out for celebrity family feud. >> the showdowns you can see right he
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tube, and today the agency announced an update to a major earthquake retrofit. >> abc seven news reporter gloria rodriguez shows us how it's getting bart ready to serve the riders of the future >> bart is sharing new video from inside the transbay tube announcing monday morning that it's now retrofitted for an earthquake. the transbay tube is an underwater rail tunnel about four miles long, connecting san francisco and oakland, and transit leaders say it's reinforced before the next big disaster strikes. >> the transbay tube now has a
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stronger steel lining. it has a more powerful and robust pumping system that will protect itself against even stronger earthquakes. the type of earthquake that is projected to occur only once in a thousand years. >> the transbay tube and bart system withstood the shaking of the 1989 loma prieta earthquake, and the system served the public on a 24 hour emergency schedule less than 12 hours after the quake hit. >> one of the, predictions is that if there were some sort of earthquake that was very, very powerful, there could be small cracks that could create some minor flooding. and so this pumping is designed to remove that flooding. >> this closes out bart's earthquake safety program, which retrofitted more than 74 miles of the original track, 34 original stations and other infrastructure. it cost nearly $1.5 billion, and part of it was
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paid by a $980 million bond measure that passed in 2004. in the studio, gloria rodriguez, abc seven news. >> samtrans riders are getting free fares today in recognition of rider appreciation day. the transit agency says they want to thank their riders and spread the word about its new reimagined samtrans campaign. it created new bus routes, faster service to key areas and more frequent service. free rides today apply to all services, including fixed route ride plus and paratransit. rider appreciation day falls right in the middle of the bay area's transit month. >> the air is getting cleaner around san francisco bay. oakland international airport. the airport was awarded a level three certification by the airports council for lowering carbon emissions. that means it was able to cut greenhouse gas emissions by altering activitie, including how planes take off and land. the airport plans to reach zero emissions by the year 2040. that would be quite
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something. >> all right, let's turn our attention one more time. back to the weather forecast. >> i know it's a cool one, spencer. >> it is a cool one for a few days, and then it will start to warm up a little bit later in the week. but right now we're looking at this in our weather headlines overnight. morning. early morning clouds and some coastal drizzle. then on wednesday we have our next chance of some light rain. you may recall we had some this morning, but the remainder of the week will bring us sunnier skies and a significant warm up for tomorrow. look for partly cloudy, partly sunny skies. highs will range from mid 60s at the coast to upper 60s around the bay shoreline to mid 70s inland. and as we take a look at the accuweather seven day forecast, you see the next couple of days will remain below average in terms in terms of the temperature range mid 70s inland up to upper 60s to about 70 around the bay shoreline, low 60s on the coast. but then on thursday it gets sunnier and a bit milder. and the real warm up begins at the end of the week. and through the weekend, we'll see high temperatures inland climbing into the mid 90s around the bay shoreline. we'll see some low 80s and that starts that big warm up on sunday,
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which actually is the first day of fall. so the first day of fall, of course, we fall back to summerlike temperatures. that makes sense, right? yeah. oh, absolutely. >> total. thanks, spencer. >> all right. tomorrow is the second most important holiday on the chinese lunar calendar. >> that's when the mid-autumn festival, also known as the moon festival, takes place. the celebration in san francisco kicked off early with events over the weekend traditional observances, including lighting lanterns. dan look at this. isn't that pretty stunning? yeah, eating moon cakes and gathering with family to admire the full moon at its brightest. kitty loo from hungry panda, an asian food delivery platform that began service in the bay area. as of this year, joined us today for abc seven news at three to share more. if folks on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month in the chinese calendar, when the moon is supposed to be the fullest and brightest throughout the whole year. >> so for chinese, it's a time for family and friends to gather together and admire the moon, which symbolizes unity and completeness, traditionally, you know, on that particular day we
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will admire the moon, and share, make and share mooncakes with the loved ones, as a gesture of to emphasize to togetherness, hungry panda delivers mooncakes in a variety of different flavors, as well as a full menu of dishes from asian restaurants here in the bay area. >> that's fantastic. and a reminder, abc seven is now the proud sponsor of san francisco's chinese new year parade. we'll be bringing it to you live next year, and you can watch right here on abc seven and everywhere you stream on february 15th. stay with us. abc seven n ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ get exclusive offers
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has a preview. we've got the cast of abc's hit show 911, oliver stark, ryan guzman, aisha hinds, tracie thoms and bryan safi are ready to hit that buzzer in celebrity family feud. >> or are they? >> you know, we had a little practice round beforehand and i froze up. i couldn't it was a name of cartoon character, and i couldn't tell you a single cartoon character ever created. >> but the truth is, we like to keep our audiences on the edge of their seats. that's true. >> they're competing against eddie modica, susan burger, david brown, maria russell, cassandra blair, and ronald gladden from jury duty, who also put in some work. >> well, i loved it. i think we all had a great time. everybody here did absolutely phenomenal. >> also tonight we'll see golden bachelor royalty going head to head, including our golden bachelorette joan vassos. we'll also see the star trek cast beamed up against the deadliest catch. let's go meet the legend
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team and chrissy teigen and john legend head up a team going against chrissy and dave. dine out costar and chef david chang. george pennacchio for abc seven news. >> i got to check it out. abc seven news is streaming 24 seven. get the abc seven bay area streaming tv app and join us whenever you want, wherever you are. and that's going to do it for abc seven news at four. abc seven news at five is coming your way next. bye bye
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