and angry residents are angry and residents are demanding answers. and so i'll remind the public, and i'll remind the residents of antioch that we are working tirelessly to bring an end to the violence. >> antioch leaders take a stand against a surge in shootings. the plan of action they're putting in motion to keep the city safer. good afternoon, and thanks for joining us for abc

seven news at three, i'm kristen z. antioch's mayor and police chief held a news conference earlier today addressing this recent spike in violence. there have been more than a dozen shootings and two homicides in just three weeks. several of them have been in the sycamore square area, not far from liberty high school. now, antioch's mayor says his office is working with the police department to boost their presence in that area. >> we're going to continue the extra patrols in and around the sycamore community to ensure that we have a strong presence there and ensure that those who are creating this havoc understand that we are not letting up and that the police department is keeping their eyes open. uh- to find you and hold you accountable. >> but antioch is down on resources with 40% of its police force on leave because of the racist texting scandal. so the mayor plans to introduce a measure at the next city council meeting to ask for $100,000 in funding to pay for additional overtime for other agencies. we have a reporter covering the

story, and we'll have much more coming up on abc seven news at four. two vallejo firefighters are hurt after pulling a man from a burning car. the firefighters were called to curtola at monterey at about 830 this morning after a camaro rear ended a vallejo water truck and caught fire. two firefighters were hurt, pulling the injured driver from the camaro. one suffered first degree burns, the other strained the shoulder. the driver had multiple injuries and was taken to the hospital. his condition is unknown. a wild scene today along the central coast in california. six people were hurt in an explosion at the santa maria courthouse. a court official tells abc news a man lunged into the courthouse doors and tossed a small bag with an explosive inside. it went off when it hit the floor just outside. an arraignment room. witnesses say the device put out a lot of smoke. five people initially went to the hospital with injuries, and a sixth went later on their own. none of their injuries are life

threatening. the suspect was arrested after a security guard chased him to his car. inside, investigators found weapons and ammunition. in los angeles, one person is dead after somebody a metro bus and held people hostage using flash bangs to try to force the suspect out of the bus. lapd says this all started around one this morning when that person the bus at gunpoint in downtown la. the bus driver and two passengers were on board at the time. the bus driver hit a panic button that displays a call 9-1-1 outside the bus. officers found the bus stopped, but it began to move when officers got close, prompting a pursuit. police used spike strips to puncture the tires and stop the bus. about an hour later, fortunately, actually, i should say very unfortunately, one of the passengers was shot and killed. police took the suspected hijacker into custody.

the motive remains unclear. today, both former president trump and vice president harris are talking about the number one issue for voters, and that is the economy. harris is heading to pittsburgh tonight to unveil more of her economic plan. while trump is talking manufacturing jobs. abc's perry russom is in washington with the latest from the campaign trail. reporter. >> today, vice president kamala harris is set to unveil more of her economic plan. so far, harris says she plans to expand tax incentives for new small businesses, create 3 million new housing units and have down payment support for first time home buyers. trump in georgia yesterday saying if he wins, american workers will no longer be worried about losing your jobs to foreign nations. >> instead, foreign nations will be worried about losing their jobs to america. >> trump says he'll impose tariffs on foreign imports. economists say that could lead to companies charging customers more to offset the tax. the top republican in the senate agrees.

>> i'm not a fan of tariffs. they raised the prices for american consumers. >> abortion rights is a defining issue for the harris campaign. harris now saying she wants to change senate rules to pass abortion rights protection laws. >> i've been very clear. i think we should eliminate the filibuster for roe and get us to the point where we have 51 votes would be what we need to actually put back in law. the protections for reproductive freedom. >> a new poll shows a wide gender gap among independent female voters. 51% supporting harris, 36% for trump. trump reaching out to women, saying he will be their protector. >> you will be protected and i will be your protector. women, women will be happy, healthy, confident and free. you will no longer be thinking about abortion. >> the harris campaign responding, saying, after ripping away our reproductive

freedom, now he's telling us how to think. and there is new polling from reuters and ipsos showing harris gaining momentum nationally among likely voters. harris is at 50%, trump is at 44%. perry russom abc news, washington. >> a south bay activist will attend the first ever white house office of gun violence event. doctor belinda hernandez arriaga, founder, alejo's. after a 2023 mass shooting in half moon bay, left seven people dead. the shooting exposed the poor living conditions that many farm workers and their families face. a loss provides resources for farm workers families, including supporting a new farm worker housing development. doctor hernandez arriaga says being invited to the white house is an opportunity to call attention to gun violence prevention and farm worker rights. now we want to get a check on your weather today. feels different, doesn't it? feels like fall, but the cool down won't last very long. there's another warm up in the forecast. abc seven news meteorologist drew tuma has your

details. >> autumn air is here today. it is much cooler. it feels crisp out there compared to the hot days yesterday and on monday. >> but don't get used to it. the heat will spike once again here on friday. it is warm to hot friday afternoons. you kind of have to keep both your fall and summer wardrobe nearby, because we have a roller coaster ride of temperatures the weekend outlook will keep those temperatures a little bit closer to average, a little bit cooler than friday. both saturday and sunday. it's a mix of clouds to sun throughout the day. here's a look at the fall feel. it's a significant cooldown. remember on monday how hot we were? even warm yesterday. san rafael on monday hit 104 for a daytime high. widespread 90s in most cities today. we're basically in the 60s and 70s. that's about a 15 to 30 degree temperature drop and our daytime highs compared to monday. so autumn has arrived for one day. here's future weather. the clouds are pretty stubborn along the coast and across the city. today, even by 4 p.m, they're already surging

back around the bay shoreline. and later on this evening, look how widespread that cloud cover is. even pushing inland at that hour. so the fall feel returns today. 70s for the most part, with low 80s in the south bay up along the peninsula 60s coast side, 60s and 70s from san mateo to palo alto across the city. today it is cloudy and cool. temperatures are in the 60s. that's it. in the north bay we get heat relief from the past couple of days. 76 in san rafael today, 74 in napa, the east bay clouds and some sun, 69 in oakland, only 73 in newark. and then inland. this feels nice compared to the hot weather we had yesterday, 79 to 82. that's your range of temperatures overnight tonight. the cloud cover returns and overnight lows dipping into the 50s. now the temperature trend over the next several days is going to be up and down across the board. let's take oakland for example. typical daytime highs in the mid 70s. watch how we go back into the heat on friday back into the 80s. then over the weekend we're closer to average. and then

early next week we're back into the heat. so it is a bit of a bumpy ride when it comes to our temperatures through the next 7 to 10 days. here's the accuweather seven day forecast. feeling like fall today. then there's that single day heat spike on friday. then over the weekend, temperatures closer to average. and then early next week, monday and tuesday. summer is back once again. we'll be in the 80s and 90s away from the coast on monday and tuesday. >> all right. the capitola wharf is celebrating its grand reopening today. a severe storm and high waves ripped out the middle of the wharf back in january 2023, and more storms last winter made things worse. but a multi-million dollar reconstruction project just wrapped up. the wharf is now wider and stronger than it was before, and it features new bathrooms, art installations and additional seating. the shops there will be in temporary buildings, at least for now. the city has started a long term study to explore options for permanent facilities at the end of the wharf. up next, the future of the san francisco unified school district. with

looming school closures due to a budget crisis, the city is sending in a stabilization team. but could a state takeover be next? our media partner, the san francisco standard, will join us to sort it out. and from the football field to your living room, nfl star travis kelce makes his acting debut in a new drama series that you

meeting to address multiple crises facing the district, including the board's confidence level in the superintendent, matt wayne. the crisis involving the budget and school closures is so urgent. the mayor is sending a stabilization team to help the district. so in an

unusual move before last night's school board meeting, superintendent matt wayne spoke to reporters about the district and his precarious situation. >> we started the year with classroom positions not being filled with issues with our special education budget, and we had to hold off on our announcement for school closures. and as a leader of this district, i take responsibility to address these challenges. and while they may have been decades in the making, they are ones we need to address immediately to ensure that our students get the education they deserve. this year and beyond. >> translation i didn't do it, but i'm going to try to fix it. joining us live now is john lee, politics reporter for our media partner, the san francisco standard, who has written many articles about the current mess facing san francisco unified. john. good to see you. >> hi, kristin. glad to be here. >> yeah. so that press conference was pretty unusual to me, right? they're clearly trying to shore up public confidence. briefly summarize for our viewers the string of hits that have shaken confidence so much in the school district.

>> yeah. so in the sentence yes, san francisco school district right now is in a chaos. there are so many crises happening at the same time. right. and you might have learned that the school closure is one of the biggest challenges. and also all the low enrollment and also the financial crisis they're facing. so all these all these things adding up together and people are not feeling so confident of the district right now. right. >> i mean, so little confidence that the mayor has had to send in a team that, you know, the board called this emergency meeting over the weekend, talked about a lot of things, including, in the end, affirming their confidence for now in the superintendent. but, you know, whenever they start to talk about it, the question of the future is always murky. there but john, tell us why. you know, you kind of explained due to enrollment drops and budget, you know, drops as a result, they have to cut some schools, right? so they got to come up with this list of schools to close. and of course, everybody has their favorite school. maybe it's their neighborhood school. so there's a lot of fighting a lot

of worries. so explain to us what this latest angst is over the delayed announcement of, you know, the list, the list of schools to close. why is that happening and how late are they? >> yeah. so san francisco school district right now have has about 50 k students, right. and that's like a big drop from ten years ago. and they're also expecting another 5000 student less in the future five eight years. so school closure is a basically non-negotiable thing that the school has to close down. some of the schools with very low enrollment. that's just the reality. but there are some teachers, some families just basically saying, you know, we can just find another way. school closure is too extreme, right? so yes, the school closure is on the top priority right now for the school leaders to think about. and as you mentioned, there is a list. but we don't know what's on the list. right. which is the school will be shutting down. so a lot of parents, teachers, students,

they're just figuring out right now. and the reason why they're delaying this, there are some reasons i heard from some top managers, top leaders at the school district. and there are, you know, insufficient neighborhood outreach because they will close down schools in certain neighborhoods, right? so they have to talk with them first. and also, the state has required them to produce some financial report, basically telling them, yes, if you close down certain schools, what's going to be the benefits, how how much budget you're going to save, right. and the third reason is just the logistics, right? how the parents commute will change, how the family will drop off their kids and what's the classes change, how the teacher will be, shift to different schools all those logistic questions needs to be answered too. >> so basically they don't have the answers to all of those. so therefore they can't have their final list out yet to the public. like these are the schools we're going to close. why is that a problem? because how close are we getting to i guess when parents would need to

know, right, to decide. maybe where their kids want to go next year? or maybe when do the schools actually need to close? >> yeah, that's exactly the painful part of this process, right? because a lot of families, they are already starting to look at schools they want their kids to go to for the next school year. right? which is, 2025 school year. they have to start the enrollment process right now. but if they look at the schools and they don't know if the schools will still be existing next year, right. so that's going to be you know, a big blow to them if they oh, i want to send my kids there. but actually it's going to be on that list. and being closed. so a lot of parents are pretty panicked right now. >> so what are they doing? because the district has got to be worried that when there's uncertainty like that for parents, they might say, well, i'm going to go look at a private school or a moving or something, right? just because they don't want they don't want to have the uncertainty. >> >> yeah i think the i think that's there's definitely a dynamic like that happening

right now. a lot of parents think you know this is enough. i cannot really just be in this confusion for, for that long. i would just send my kids to, to private school. but private school is expensive. and also there are, you know, different requirements. right? so parents are probably also scrambling to see what they can do right now. but yes, i feel like maybe, maybe there's no clear data on this right now. but the dynamic of public school families going to private school has been happening for the past several years, especially during the pandemic. >> right. okay. so it kind of feeds on itself, doesn't it? >> yes. so basically you can say this is like an education doom loop, right? so a lot of families lose confidence to the public schools and then the student drop. and then less money. so that will basically hurt the school district more. right so it's going to be like a bad doom loop. >> and if you're caught in that doom loop, i suppose that might hurt. another effort that the school district is trying to

have, which is they have a prop a, the school bond on the ballo. so talk to us about how that's looking. first of all, what is it for. right. and does it look like it's going to pass and does this current chaos affect its chances. >> yeah. so san francisco this november has a proposition a which is a 780 million school bond. and the purpose of the school bond is to renovate the school site buildings and also modernize the classroom with the latest technology. right so san francisco voters has always been very generous to school bond, if you look at the past 20 years, right, the voters always support the school bond. and with a very high voter support, like 70% of the voters will vote for it. right. and this one normally needs 55%. but this time, because of all the chaos happening right now, maybe voters will lose confidence to the school district of their financial management ability, right? so do we still want to give them another 790 million? right. so there are some

concerns and there are some polling showing. yeah. they're like right at the edge right now about 55%. so we don't know. but, some the campaign is still very confident that can pass the school bond. >> and they almost have to have it because otherwise you can't do the necessary work. then you get into that doom loop situation again where parents evaluate they want their kids to go to a school that's really run down or doesn't have certain programs. but i want to ask you, so the mayor is looking at this, right, saying, i mean, normally the mayor's office has nothing to do with education because there's a whole board for that. they're totally independent, but they've sent in this team to help stabilize the district and help. talk to us about what that means, right. in terms of who's still making decisions. and is that a vote of no confidence? and then eventually, at some point, does it get to a state takeover? >> yeah. so the school district had an emergency meeting during the weekend to talk about the superintendent's job performanc. right. but at the end of the meeting, they decided to keep him in the job. and mayor breed decided to send a team to help

with the school district. so she will be sending her department heads of the family and youth programs, and also rec and park to help basically, navigate the school district through this crisis. right? and yes, maybe the city hall people, they don't normally have direct control of the district, but maybe did have the appointing power to the school board. so a couple of the members on the school board, right now are mayor breed's appointees. >> well, we'll see what that, you know, ends up doing. and of course, nobody wants the state to get involved. so we'll see if they can stay solvent and resolve the school closures to everyone's satisfaction. thanks for keeping us posted, and thanks for that clear explainer. appreciate it. >> it's kristen, a reminder you can check out hahn's reporting and other original reporting from the s.f. standard on their website, sf standard.com.

it premieres tonight on fox. nfl star and taylor swift's boyfriend travis kelce makes his acting debut in the ten episode drama series. the series also stars niecy nash-betts. she sat down with entertainment reporter george pennacchio from our sister station in los angeles, for a look at what the audience can expect. >> this is the end of time. >> the monster is out here. >> people in grotesquerie. it falls on an alcoholic detective, played by emmy winner niecy nash-betts, to solve a very creepy case. >> there are several murders that this serial killer has committed. and, my unlikely partner in crime in all of this ends up being a nun named sister megan. so you're a nun who's a journalist covering crime. normally, my character is a one man band, but because of the faith based aspect of these

crimes, she ends up kind of like the cagney to my lacey. >> speaking of unlikely pairings, grotesquerie marks the acting debut for football superstar travis kelce. >> there's no future after this. >> travis kelce i know you've been asked this two question. i'm just intrigued because i don't know. what should i know? >> people are going to be pleasantly surprised. he's charming comes to work well prepared, is professional, and is open to learn. takes notes very well. uh- his fans are going to be very satiated by his performance. >> it's better to look at the evil than to ignore it. father. >> when we watch this show, is there going to be a lot of this? >> maybe a little. i don't know about a lot, but there may be a little. you might turn it off and want to go lock the doors and the windows just to make

sure, you know, people want evi. >> george pennacchio for abc seven news grotesquerie premieres tonight at 10 p.m. on fx and streams tomorrow on hulu. >> disney is the parent company of hulu and abc seven. coming up, what's next for workers at the oakland coliseum? the future they're facing as we count down to the a's final home game tomorrow. and remember, abc seven news is streaming 24 over seven. get the abc seven bay area app and

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the coliseum. it's been a tough week for fans preparing to say goodbye and for staff. many have worked at the coliseum for decades. >> it's more sadness, you know. it's sad that they're that they're leaving and that they couldn't hold to, on you know, everyone is a little sad. >> so we're trying to trying to get through it. >> so it's a bittersweet moment for people trying to make the best of their last days at the coliseum. >> when that final game happens on thursday. have you thought about it? do you think there will be tears in your eyes? >> yeah, there probably will be. a lot of people have been here a long time, longer than i. but we're all going to miss this place. >> workers are not only losing the a's, they're losing their jobs. possibly according to the union representing stadium employees. when the team leaves oakland, hundreds could be left without severance pay and health care benefits. a spokesperson with aramark released a statement to abc seven news saying, quote, we understand that this is a difficult transition period. we are

bargaining in good faith with the union regarding the effects of the a's departure, and are prepared to offer those impacted available roles in other areas of our organization. there are two games left at the coliseum. be sure to turn to abc seven news.com for complete coverage of the a's final home stand. as we say goodbye. thank you so much for joining us on abc seven news at three. world news tonight with david muir starts now. and i'l tonight, breaking news as we come on the air. hurricane helene now intensifying, closing in on florida. potentially a category 4 hurricane when it hits the ginger zee standing by with the new timing just in. also tonight, the deadly city bus hijacking, a passenger is killed. and a man lunging through the door of a courthouse, setting off an explosion. first tonight, the growing strength of this hurricane set to slam into the u.s., set for a direct hit on florida. multiple states will feel this, and the images coming