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around for a little longer than expected. could we see more hot days to come? good morning everybody. it's sunday, october sixth and it is the seventh day of this heat wave. least we have a bit longer to go. yeah. >> you know what? really? just today we're going to see an onshore flow return. but we are starting the day warmer. so because of that we will be just just as hot inland and around the bay. you can see some clouds there streaming in. and we still have our advisories right along the coast. and our excessive heat warnings inland. that's in the red. so once again today we're going to warm up quickly. so right now we're in the 60s and 70s even on the peninsula 59 sonoma 65 in vallejo. and so with that 24 hour temperature change, warmer, 6 to 7 degrees warmer from the city to the san carlos airport. and this is the plan today as we go through about 9:00, we're already near 80 inland. and then by about 12 1:00 90s inland 80s on the peninsula to near 90. look at the seconds, half moon bay, but
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we will get a bit of a sea breeze at the coast, so temperatures will come down there, but elsewhere, expect once again over 100 degrees inland. this is 4:00 and we've got 90s into oakland and still some 80s before the sea breeze. so we'll talk about more dramatic cooling into the week ahead. coming up, stephanie, all right, lisa, thank you. >> well, speaking of over in the east bay, it was a scorcher. it felt more like summer than fall. and people sought ways to beat the heat. we continue our coverage with abc seven news reporter anser hassan. >> heather farm in walnut creek was a hot spot for this hot october saturday. >> i've grown up in the area and this is like the hottest it's ever been in the summertime. >> it's so hot today it's hot, but it's not the summer. the east bay continues to be hit with an october heat wave. alder is competing in a swimming tournament at heather farm, but she also swims the san francisco bay, so she likes the heat because the bay, the bay water temperature is now a little bit above 60, so it's really nice. >> but some people think we're crazy.
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>> so what most people think is crazy is the triple digit temperatures in october. you could not get in this air conditioning fast enough. >> you're not lying, buddy. i'm melting out here. big time. >> a red flag warning was issued for the east bay hills through saturday morning, and an excessive heat warning for the entire bay area. you like the hot weather? >> i like it when it's like in the 80s. but the 90s is too muc. >> sarah coloma with cal fire says the current heat wave could have a big impact on the extra vegetation on the hills from this past wet winter. >> the fuel moistures that we're seeing right now are not out of the ordinary or ordinary, but they are, you know, they're particularly low. >> saturday evening, hundreds attended the sold out pirates of emerson haunted house theme park at the alameda county fairgrounds. some say regardless of the heat, it's that time of the year to celebrate halloween. the heat. >> yeah, it's 100 degrees, but it's actually kind of pleasant. it's nice. we like we're enjoying it. not a detractor.
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all right. thank you i appreciate it. you got it in the east bay anser hassan abc7 news. >> and as the bay area sizzles in this october heat wave, many folks were mapping out a plan to keep cool. and that meant heading for the coast for some beach time. abc seven news reporter cornell bernard was there 200 runners braving the october heat for the headlands women's half marathon near rodeo beach in marin county. >> race directors say lots of safety precautions were happening on the course, and we have eight stations also in two points. >> so they have water, electrolytes, food in the middle of the way. >> runner patty saijo came from sacramento. >> in fact, that kind of worked as my advantage because i had heard it was going to be warm here. so that was helpful. it's been 100 last week in sacramento down on rodeo beach, families were pitching tents to escape the heat, a cool spot if you could find parking spaces were basically nonexistent by 11 a.m. >> i think it's the warmest it's been. i mean, we're usually down
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here in sweatshirts and hoodies up at the marin headlands. >> it was downright hot. some tourists checking out the golden gate bridge were left wondering what happened to the fog. so you're wearing a sweater? were you expecting cold weather up here today? >> expecting cold weather. and now i'm using the sweater to keep myself from getting sunburned. but it's just. yeah, i was expecting it to be a lot cooler here today, but it's just we did not check the weather here in san francisco. >> it's early afternoon and i don't even need a jacket that tells you how warm it is. lots of people flocking to ocean beach temperatures were flirting with 90 degrees today is nice. >> no jackets. >> stephanie jimenez and her do, buster posey came to the right place. surfers were loving it. hot weather making the pacific feel almost warm. >> i was talking with my friends and we were like, oh, we couldn't try without wetsuit and probably doesn't feel that cold. so yeah, because of this. amazing. >> how often do we get a day like this? >> oh, not often. >> it's not sweater weather yet. warm temperatures continue on
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sunday in san francisco. cornell, bernard abc seven news. >> a reminder you can track the heat wave with the abc seven bay area app, and you can follow the forecast with the same live doppler seven tools that lisa and our weather team use. and there you'll find tips to stay cool. we're following developing news in sonoma county. a wildfire broke out just after 10:00 last night near highway one, 16 south and lone pine road. the national interagency fire center says flames have been burning on private land. there's currently no containment status as of this morning, and the cause of the fire has yet to be determined. we'll give more updates as we get them now, further up northeast. we're tracking another wildfire burning along the nevada placer county line. the so-called dutch fire has burned at least 45 acres this morning. mandatory evacuation orders have been issued in this area. the fire is burning near forebay dam, not far from blue canyon along interstate 80, now west of that area and lake county. cal fire
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says two homes were destroyed and another one was damaged by the so-called glen haven fire. that 400 plus acre blaze broke out friday, forcing evacuations in the community of glen haven. helicopters and retardant dropping aircraft helped stop the spread of the fire. by 10:00 that night, the fire is currently about 30% contained as of this morning. a mandatory evacuation order remains in effect in the north bay. stony point road is back open after a deadly crash saturday afternoon. it happened just after 2:00 at rohnert park and expressway at stony point road. chp officers say one woman was declared dead at the scene, according to reports from the press democrat. a man and a baby were also in that same car as the woman and were taken to the hospital. the paper reports that three cars may have been involved in this crash altogether, including two that were engaged in road rage, but the crash is still under investigation. now to the november election, there is
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another high profile endorsement in the recall effort of alameda county district attorney pamela price. the group leading the effort says every law enforcement union in the county is now endorsing the recall. that includes the unions representing sheriff's deputies and officers with cities such as oakland, hayward and fremont, just to name a few. >> and what do they see in this community? they see a continued practice of pamela price releasing the violent criminals that they are catching. >> earlier this week, east bay democratic congressman eric swalwell announced his support for the recall. in a statement, price responded by saying, for too long, d.a.s have been beholden to these unions, and the result has been a system that neglects the needs of our community and is riddled with racial disparities. i promised to change that, and i'm delivering on that promise. this kind of backlash is to be expected in the north bay. a lot
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of eyes will be on sonoma county's measure j. if passed, it would limit the size of dairies and poultry farms, and the impact could go well beyond the bay area. abc seven news reporter tara campbell has a look at what's at stake in november. >> quite a few of your farms, as you know it, will cease to exist. >> frank zamboni is talking about measure j, a sonoma county ballot measure that would phase out what are called concentrated animal feeding operations, or farms where large numbers of animals are confined. >> the big, big changes to most all the ranches in sonoma county. >> he says downsizing would prove devastating for family farms like his, leaving them unable to pay the bills. >> yeah, your dairies, a lot of your operations, they won't be viable that way. >> and this group rallying saturday in santa rosa agrees. gathering in opposition to measure j. >> we all came out to support our ag community and to make sure that our ag community can still stay in business and keep
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us well fed with local, delicious, healthy food. >> all right, lead the way. >> meanwhile, those in support of the measure were also getting their message out saturday in santa rosa. >> factory farming hurts all of us. it hurts our environment. it hurts our public health. it pushes small farm, small family farms out. and it most of all hurts the animals. >> measure j garnering attention far beyond the borders of sonoma county with the outcome potentially impacting farmers across the u.s. >> very important. not just for protecting the environment. here in sonoma county, the animals and everyone here, but for setting a precedent that can launch the end of factory farming all over the country. >> berkeley will also be voting on a similar measure in november, but it's a symbolic effort, as the city has no commercial livestock farms. tara campbell abc seven news. >> all right, let's check in with lisa. how's it looking out there? >> it is a warmer start out
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there, so that means temperatures really aren't going to budge too much from what we saw yesterday. we're going to get a late day sea breeze, but that's only going to help our friends out at the coast. so we'll talk about more triple digit heat and the cooldown, which arrives to start the workweek next. >> lisa. thank you. also ahead israel. one year later, the somber anniversary of the
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at the bay bridge this morning. it's 512. the cal bears played the miami hurricanes on saturday, but the outcome of the game is probably secondary to what happened earlier in the day. espn's college gameday made its first ever visit to berkeley, and it was wild. take a look at this video. it was taken just after midnight, where you see crowds storming the barricades at memorial glade in order to get into position for that broadcast. and while some described it as chaos and
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criticized the lack of security, in the end the university is calling the overall event a success. abc seven news reporter j.r. stone shows us the fired up cal fan base, who we held the most cal, cal. >> oh, espn college game day personality pat mcafee hyping the cal crowd with nfl great and cal bears alum marshawn lynch. >> beast mode all for the first time ever in berkeley. >> we're here all day, all night. and there's nothing that's going to stop us from having a great time. go, bears! >> that interview came during one of our live shots on abc. seven mornings. i saw you're done with your breakfast sandwich. you came for the food earlier? >> yes. it's fun to be out here. i mean, it's awesome. like, they didn't think that cal had any fans. this proved them wrong. >> thousands showed up. but
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perhaps the most energetic and diehard fans. the students. what time did you guys get here? >> we got here at 1130 and we're pumped. >> let's go. >> you got no shirts on? you think they have a chance? you think cal's got a chance? >> of course, of course we got jayden. we have fernando mendoza. >> we're winning this game. let's go. fernando! go, bears! >> i'm so excited. this is amazing. i have never seen so much spirit. so many people show up for cal. >> and when you get excited, you get the muffins out and you're like, let's do this out. >> so spirits are high. love it. >> bayern los osos, which means go bears in spanish. >> welcome to california. there's nothing that's going to stop me from having energy from 6 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. we were born and raised to have a great time. let's go bears! >> but it seems that some who got here friday night didn't quite make it through to the 6 to 9 a.m. college gameday broadcast. maybe next time, my man. after seeing this turnout
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and these signs which said things like you couldn't get into cal, and if we lose all protest, i think there's a good chance the crew will come back a second time. >> it's pretty wild to see so many people just from the bay area. go, bears! yeah, exactly. this is super exciting. i also really wasn't expecting this many people to show up, but i'm really glad. >> i'm sure they'll be happy. >> j.r. stone abc seven news. >> yeah, a pretty remarkable crowd. now did you see this field goal worth $1,000 kicked by a cal student wearing vans. that is daniel villasenor who made up that 33 yard field goal on his second attempt during the college game day broadcast. according to our media partners at the bay area news group, he is a civil engineering major, and he told the mercury news that he used to play soccer for livermore high school, but had never kicked footballs from that distance ever before. so that kick also raised $600,000 for
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hurricane helene relief. amazing to see daniel. and of course, marshawn lynch was the celebrity guest picker on game day, aka beastmode. and of course he arrived in style. you see that golf cart? he arrived on? this is a call back to 2006, when he actually drove around the field at memorial stadium on a golf cart to celebrate a win. so much fun. well, san francisco's fleet week starts tomorrow. one of the city's most notable events is returning for its 43rd year. residents and visitors can prepare for a variety of week long events highlighting and honoring the u.s. military. some activities include ship tours, fleet fest, the silent drill platoon, the parade of ships, and, of course, the popular air shows. events kick off tomorrow and will run until monday, october 14th and tomorrow. it comes with the heat at least the last day of this heat wave, right? and is there more to come after that? >> well, you know what we saw
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the forecast getting hotter and hotter over the weekend. so we'll keep those numbers into monday more or less. some cooling into monday. but the short answer is that no, we're going to see the relief continue slowly and then it will take us through the week. and then i want to show you the possibility of some showers into next weekend. here's a look at the clouds that are moving up from the south. and those will be with us from time to time. toda. not doing much to help us trim that solar radiation, though. 66 in livermore. it is 76 right now in san rafael. this is fillled 5:00 in the morning. and look at all these 70s. so with that warmer start, we'll be looking at that hot finish once again. there's our sutro tower camera hot bay and inland. now i left the coast out because you're going to warm up quickly. but we're expecting that sea breeze to return. so looking at that patchy coastal fog late tonight, allowing for temperatures to peak into the 80s at the shoreline. but then we'll see that afternoon sea breeze develop. so that's really going
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to determine obviously how hot the coast gets. and then relief this week with much cooler weather inland on tuesday there's a look at that cloud cover throughout the morning hours and then another patch of it throughout the afternoon. and then we'll see a return to the patchy fog overnight. still more clouds into your monday morning. and then eventually we get that marine layer building. and then that will be really the source of our inland cooling on tuesday. here's a look at that system for monday through the early part of the workweek stopping this on wednesday. so we certainly have temperatures dropping back towards average erasing that triple digit heat in our inland valleys. as soon as tuesday and for the rest of the week. and then look what happens as we get closer to next weekend. there's a batch of moisture here offshore, obviously way too early to say whether or not we're going to see some rain, but the possibility exists saturday in the north bay. at least for some sprinkles and this cool down to continue. so that's some good news. here's a look at what you
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can expect tomorrow. now, it doesn't look a whole lot different because you see those hundreds inland. but it's not 105 103. we've got 99 in danville. and then we're back into the 80s over in oakland. still today, it will be in the 90s along the bay shore, and we've got temperatures in the 70s at the coast, so it's not a dramatic cooldown until we get to tuesday. monday still looks rather warm. there's a look at tuesday near low 90s inland, and then by wednesday, check it out. a big change there with 60 to 70. so the castro street fair really warm 11:00 80 degrees upper 80s throughout then. and y we get a return to the west northwest wind and that patchy fog with a warm breeze out ther. so highs today ranging from the 80s at the coast to the upper 90s in fremont. 102 in concord. look at that 104 by the delta. and then of course, tomorrow i should say today 105, one of the hottest games, probably the hottest game ever at levi's stadium with 100 degrees by later on in the afternoon. so
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the accuweather seven day forecast. we've got the hot weather that continues inland tomorrow, but not as hot. and there goes the trend with the cooler weather. and in fact, a lot cooler into next week. >> yeah. welcome relief weekend. >> yes yes thank you liz. >> just ahead a woman water bikes to the largest seabird nesting colony south of alaska. and it's right here in the bay area. the inspiration behind her
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is by fighting climate change in an innovative way, by creating renewable energy. a plant located next to keller canyon landfill near pittsburgh is supplying power to thousands of people by converting large waste into renewable natural gas. how it works. organic material is dumped to convert the landfill or into electricity. basically, on the site that electricity is then used to power the renewable
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natural gas plant. eventually, the renewable natural gas is piped to a p-g-and-e's receiver station about three miles away, and from there it enters the utility's massive pipeline system. it's a strategy designed to repurpose a dangerous greenhouse gas. experts say the conversion system is a first of its kind. >> this renewable natural gas project is the largest in california, and it's also the first one to be powered by a landfill gas electric plant. so it is unique in that aspect that it's the only one doing that in the united states, potentially even the world. >> this project is a step to combat climate change by decarbonizing gas systems. well, a history making journey took place this week from sausalito to the farallon islands by a local woman via water bike. and as abc seven news anchor dion lim found out, this was a ride for a greater cause. >> i think a lot of people thought i was crazy. >> that could be said about jessica schiller's dream of starting a water bike company
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ten years ago, and definitely about her latest life challenge. >> the first ever bike ride to the farallon islands, 60 miles from the golden gate bridge to the southeast farallon islands. >> a water bike challenge. no one has taken on before for a reason. >> i knew that there was going to be rough seas, strong currents, wind. and of course it's great white shark migration season. >> so starting before sunrise friday, schiller began her grueling trek. >> the equivalent to this on land would be like doing probably 150 miles straight on land with a special someone always on her mind, pushing her forward. i call this naomi's ride in honor of the promise i made to my daughter naomi, who sadly passed away from a fentanyl overdose in july of 2022. >> that promise came true in ten hours. >> i felt her when i was there, when i had made it to the islands, and i really my first, my first emotion was i broke down and cried. >> proceeds from schiller's ride will go toward the nonprofit shatterproof, which fights the addiction crisis in america. but
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beyond that, schiller hopes her journey serves an even bigger purpose to all. >> i hope the lasting impact from this is that it just inspires people and inspires people to get out of their shell, to do something that you didn't think was possible, to really step out of your comfort zone. and that's the way we grow as human beings. >> an inspiring journey that was diane lim reporting. you can learn more about jessica schiller and her water bikes and fundraising efforts in this story over on our website, abc7 news dot com. now, one way to beat the heat with a good cause. a fundraiser that ended with a dip in the bay yesterday morning. a nonprofit group called here to stay led a fundraiser at crissy field here in san francisco. the event started with a walk and ended with a large group taking the plunge into the bay to raise money and awareness around the devastating effects of hair loss that can happen during chemotherapy. those funds will go to low income cancer patients, so they will be able to afford treatments like scalp cooling therapy.
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>> they can then go and save their hair, which means they can also save their identity and their privacy and their sense of normalcy and have a little control in an otherwise very overwhelming situation. >> so far, hair to stay has raised funds to subsidize 6200 patients across the country. remarkable. well, still to come this morning we are live in tel aviv. on the eve of the anniversary of the october seventh attacks. the state of escalating conflict in the middle east, and former president trump returns to the scene where a gunman tried to assassinate him in july, and where vice president kamala harris will be this week on
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>> oh, that's all we talk about, right? i particularly like yesterday. just couldn't cool down. yeah. i mean, even if you were right in front of that fan, you needed the mr. i mean, it was just brutal. and today it continues with our excessive heat warning for most of us. and the advisory right along the coast. there's our numbers inland in the upper elevations and around the bay, so you can see how hot it is in the upper areas where the relative humidity is really bone dry. so this morning, with 60s and 70s at the surface, we're two to, oh, probably 5 or 6 degrees warmer. and the red right here indicates our excessive heat warning until 11:00 tonight. the advisory just along the shoreline. but even so, we're going to warm up into the 80s at our beaches today. 9:00 70s inland upper 90s noontime and around the bay. we're back into the 90s. oakland. berkeley. upper 90s around union city. and then at the coast. we climb into the low to mid 80s, and then by the afternoon we do have a wind shift. and that's going to allow for not only a sea breeze, but
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hopefully a little bit of patchy fog. how about a little late? right. so monday we're going to focus on a little bit more cooling and then dramatic cooling. and we're going to talk about maybe some showers in our extended outlook in a few minutes stephanie. >> all right lisa thank you. we're following developing news now out of the middle east. israel launching an attack of missiles in southern beirut overnight. it went on for several hours. and you're seeing new video. witnesses saying that they saw at least eight missiles, including some near the airport. israel has been expanding its actions in lebanon, warning residents to flee that area. and new reports from hospital officials in gaza say an israeli strike on a mosque and a school in central gaza killed 25 people overnight. the israeli military says the hamas command center was in that compound. now, all of this comes on the anniversary of the october seventh attack, where hamas invaded and murdered hundreds of israelis in their homes. abc seven news reporter
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josh iyengar, from our sister station in new york, is in tel aviv right now, and he tells us the latest on the state of the country one year later. josh. >> stephanie, good afternoon. now from tel aviv. it is 330 in the afternoon on a sunday afternoon, and ordinarily the streets would be very busy. it'd be crowded on the beach, people would be out and about, but they aren't. we're only a few days after that big attack from iran. people are still saying, very close to home, you've got the war intensifying against hezbollah in southern lebanon. you have even more strikes today against gaza in against hamas in gaza. and all of this, of cours, less than a day from the one year anniversary, as israelis mark the day their world change. >> fankhauser in the place now and forever known as hostage square. >> commemorations for the anniversary of october 7th are taking on an especially muted
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tone, with large gatherings across israel curtailed under the threat of attack from iran. but a full year after the hamas massacre, after 1200 people were slaughtered, 100 are still in captivity in gaza. seven of them american. >> on one hand, it's like a year, but it's more like a groundhog day that you wake up each day and it's a continuous day over and over and over again. >> ruby han's son itai among them. the idf believes the 19 year old dual national, a soldier on the border, was killed when hamas fighters poured across his body, carried back to gaza today, his dad and other families met with u.s. ambassador jack lew with a crucial message. >> at some point, you need to think of maybe different ways to get to the objective of all the hostages, but specifically the us hostages that this administration has an obligation to get them out. and we urge the administration to think of everything possible to get them out. >> but it's no easy task as the
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region inches more and more down the path to all out war. overnight, israel pummeled beirut's southern suburbs in its ongoing campaign to destroy hezbollah, and the middle east is bracing for prime minister benjamin netanyahu's response to tuesday's onslaught of iranian ballistic missiles fired into israel's densely populated center. so the fact, the whole world right now is holding its breath to see what benjamin netanyahu and his war cabinet choose to do next vis a vis iran. will they perhaps strike iran's oil fields or supply? will they strike iran's nuclear capabilities, or will they go for something that's less inflammatory and less likely to escalate this war even further? all that is clear is that whatever happens is likely to happen very soon. and that, stephanie, is why so many people are off the streets and close to home here in tel aviv, where we are live. josh einiger, abc seven news stephanie yeah, josh certainly a lot developing. >> where do negotiations stand between idf benjamin netanyahu
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and forces for a ceasefire >> so when you talk about a ceasefire, there actually are so many different venues where a ceasefire is needed. of course, most recently there has. hezbollah. and there's the incident. the issue going on in southern lebanon. there has been for months an agreement for hezbollah to be pushed north of the litani river, which is in southern lebanon, but far enough away from the border that their rockets wouldn't be able to terrorize people who've had to evacuate their homes in northern israel. that's been on the table now for months in fact, it harkens back to a security council resolution from 2006. but that has stalled. there's also the cease fire and hostage release gaza that has been on te table now also for months. but there's been no word back from hamas on whether they will accept it. and clearly they're not. and all of this happens, of course, as things heat up with iran. so the short answer,
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stephanie, is that there really is no hope anytime soon for a cease fire, certainly one that would bring hostages home a year after all those people were taken hostage, 100 of them still being held in captivity. >> all of this as we mark this somber anniversary. josh, thank you for your reporting. there. all right. thousands of protesters have taken to the streets around the world ahead of the war's anniversary. demonstrators gathered in franc, indonesia and germany overnight. many pro-palestinian protesters marched with flags and held signs calling for a cease fire in the middle east. several major cities across europe are on high alert amid concerns the escalating war could inspire new terror attacks. pope francis has called for october 7th to be a day of prayer and fastingor peace. the pope is scheduled to visit the basilica of saint mary major ahead of the one year anniversary of the start of the israel-hamas war. now, a commission of bishops from the european union have also rallied around the pope's calls for
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peace. the group says it's concerned with the resurgence of anti-semitism, radicalization and xenophobia since the start of the war. in the middle east. now, turning to your voice, your vote. as election day nears, both campaigns are focused on key swing states. former president donald trump returned to butler, pennsylvania, for a rally, this time with more security. and vice president harris visited north carolina to see hurricane helene's destruction firsthand. abc news reporter chuck sivertsen has more. >> former president donald trump returned to the site of his first assassination attempt in butler, pennsylvania, on saturday. >> i want to just let you know that tonight i returned to butler in the aftermath of tragedy and heartache. >> heightened security felt across the fairgrounds with visible secret service snipers poised on top of buildings. trump thanking them for saving his life. >> and in that moment, those agents displayed a devotion to
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duty that cannot be described. and they did it. yet again less than three weeks ago. >> meanwhile, vice president harris traveled to charlotte, north carolina, on saturday to survey the devastation left behind by hurricane helene. after a briefing at the charlotte air national guard base, she visited a local donation center. >> and we're putting just all hands on deck. thank you to make sure that you and your family and your neighbors and everyone have everything that they need. >> former president trump also visited areas hard hit by helene, appearing with georgia's republican governor brian kemp, on friday for the first time since trump bashed him for standing by georgia's 2020 election results. chuck sivertson, abc news, new york. >> vice president harris and her running mate tim walz will go on a media run this week. some of those major media interviews will include the howard stern show, that is the view and the late show with stephen colbert. the stream of interviews take place before they head to the west coast for early voting. now coming up on this week after
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hurricane helene devastated the southeastern u.s, abc news anchor george stephanopoulos interviews fema administrator deanne criswell about ongoing rescue and recovery efforts you just heard about. you can watch the full interview on this week with george stephanopoulos at eight this morning, right here on abc seven. well, still ahead, an east bay park that served as a chemical dumping site. now, a new survey is examining the risk and how drones are being used to detect radiation. and we'll take you outside atop our roof camera for a look at the bay bridge this morning. it's 538. lisa will have more d
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for signatures of radiation to understand how it may have wound up there. you have to turn back the clock to a dark time for the san francisco bay and follow a detailed paper trail. abc seven news anchor dan ashley has the story. >> they identified dry alum, mud insolubles neighborhood activist sherry padgett is holding a smoking gun. >> documents that detail dumping by the former stauffer chemical company, later acquired by zeneca. the site, along the richmond shoreline, has been the focus of cleanup efforts for decades, but now invoices obtained by the california department of toxic substances and state water boards suggest some dangerous materials may have actually wound up miles away from richmond. >> they had been dumping for 50 years into the shoreline, so they were looking for other places to continue to dump. >> one apparent site, the former
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berkeley municipal dump, pictured in a recent public presentation by city officials. the dump was also located on the shore of san francisco bay, next to the berkeley marina. finally closed in the 1980s. it was later filled in to create what is now cesar chavez park. the question today, how much industrial waste did stauffer chemical actually dump at the site? and did any of it contain unsafe radiation? while the documents provide clues, some are concerned they may not tell the whole story. >> so we don't have a lot of confidence that this is an accurate depiction of the quantity of material that was taken. it may be a hint about the types of materials that were dumped there. >> to gauge the risk, berkeley is teaming up with the university of california to launch a high tech aerial survey. pilots will fly over the park using a drone equipped with a sensitive spectrometer able to detect radiation.
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>> we feel like they've got a good technology they're leveraging, but we also got to plan to validate the results. and yeah, this would be phenomenal. >> the survey is scheduled to last most of the week. different sections of the park will be closed off as they're being surveyed. several park users told us the inconvenience seems worth it if they want to use the spectrometry and the drone to check the levels here, and then if that could be ameliorated as appropriate, then that would be wonderful. activists like sherry padgett also welcome the survey, but also warn there could be significant detective work ahead. >> and it's gps coordinate coordinates. so you know exactly where you're getting a higher level than others. and yes, it is reassuring on the surface level. >> the city says park safety is the first concern, but in a broad sense, the survey could also help document the potential effects of a toxic legacy that stretches for miles along the
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east bay shoreline. a ghost from the bay area's industrial past buried half a century ago. dan ashley, abc seven news. >> all right, this heat wave continues. how's it looking out there, lisa? >> well, we've got some high clouds, but we also have a warmer start to your day today. so we're going to add in a bit of a sea breeze, the high clouds and still excessive heat. so that brings some minor changes. but the more dramatic changes arrive later tomorrow and certainly into tuesday. so we'll do a 180. that's how we do it around here. i'll talk about it coming up. >> lisa thank you. also next, an acc showdown in bear territory. a big home game for cal that came down to the wire.
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ask a retina specialist about fda-approved treatments for ga i'm the only one that's not smiling. even though i'm with my close friends, i felt alone. i didn't feel pretty, i didn't feel confident. when i got invisalign, i built my confidence. it was the best investment that i could do. abc seven. new york takes on las vegas in game four of the second round. coverage starts at 1130,
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with wnba countdown, followed by tip off at noon. then in college football, cal san jose state and stanford all played games here at home in the bay area this weekend. here's abc seven sports anchor chris alvarez. >> good morning. what a saturday morning it was in berkeley. it began really, really early. bears fans arrived around 3 a.m. to get ready for espn's college game day. the broadcast started at 6 a.m, and for the first time ever, game day was at cal and it was awesome. as for the actual game, about 18 hours later, cal hosting number eight miami. they're undefeated entering the game. second quarter bears down 1410. they go for it on fourth and one. fernando mendoza rolls out and finds jayden knott who finds all kinds of space 67 yards to the house. bears led 2110 at the half. mendoza had 350 yard passes in the first half. in the half, excuse me. first cal quarterback to do that since aaron rodgers in zero four. opening possession of the third quarter. miami quarterback cam ward. just a terrible pass across the field. no. williams
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has it and he's going the other way. pick six bears led at one point. 3510. but the hurricanes oh they hang tough. a furious rally late. ward looking looking. it's going to tuck it and run 24 yards untouched to the house miami pulls within six. cal fans uh. oh. cannot believe what they're seeing there in berkeley. less than a minute to play now miami still down six. get it to elijah arroyo. and he just reaches across the goal line. and that after the extra point is the game winning score. miami pulls off a stunner. 3938 over cal. san jose state coming off their bye week hosting nevada. and how's this for home field advantage. spartans in the shade. hey, let's put the wolf pack in the sun. it was hot down there in san jose. second quarter emmett brown 24 yards over the middle to nick nash, his ninth touchdown of the year. already a new career high as a little double clutch bobble. but he got it 21 all at the half.
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spartans down three in the final minute. and they go to the bag of tricks. it's a backward pass to the former quarterback nash. and he finds a wide open jabari bates for the go ahead score. it's actually nash's second touchdown pass of the year. coach ken niumatalolo loves it. they need one final stop on fourth down robert rahimi with the interception. the only turnover of the game seals it for the spartans 3531. the final four and one overall two and oh in the mountain west. stanford hosting virginia tech. former cardinal running back toby gerhart honored he's going into the college football hall of fame this fl. a field goal on the opening drive. second drive is justin lamson trying to score. hit hard. fumbles the football. hokies recover. stanford was down 14 at the half. missed opportunities. third quarter now. stanford on defense. almost pick it off, but instead it's a 55 yard touchdown for daquan felton. 21 nothing. va tech. and then late third. stanford finally on the board. halfback
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pass to elic ayomanor for the score. another great catch for him. he's having a good year. reviewed and upheld stanford falls 31 seven. they're two and three overall one and two in acc play. aloha means preseason basketball. warriors taking on the clippers in hawaii. stephen curry started made a couple shots. didn't hit a three. finished with nine points in 14 minutes straight to the end. 1.6 seconds to go down. two lindy waters for three in the win. he got it. warriors win 9190. training camp in hawaii is over. game in sacramento wednesday and then they'll host the kings friday night for the preseason home opener. that is your look at sports. have a great sunday. let's send it back to you. >> all right. thanks, chris. lisa. it's going to be a hot one for the niners today. >> you know what? steph? probably the hottest game ever in santa clara as we hit 100 degrees in the stadium by the afternoon. by the early part of the afternoon, 96 degrees. so maybe you want to change your mind or really be prepared. it's going to be a scorcher out
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there. we have a batch of high clouds right now, and we'll continue to see those visit us throughout the day. but it won't inhibit the heat, the sun, the heat is already with us. we're already started out warmer than yesterday, so it's in place. we're just going to build from there. the cumulative effect, as you know, really gets tiresome. and we're already in the 70s from san francisco, san rafael, actually, we just never cooled off from yesterday's 90s. it was 96 in san francisco yesterday, 101 concord livermore, santa rosa. it was 106, in san rafael. so we're looking at more record heat today, although we are looking at a late day sea breeze and a return to an onshore flow right at the coast. so potential records again around the bay and inland at the coast once again in the 80s. today that will be early on and hopefully getting that sea breeze in a return to the patchy fog tonight. but it's going to be shallow, so we'll have to wait another day and a half before we get that building
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marine layer. and that will allow for the cooler weather. that's going to arrive slightly on monday, and then throughout the entire workweek. here's a look at those clouds. you can see another patch of them throughout the afternoon, and the fog wants to form. but there's another area of cloud cover, so we'll be watching that southerly surge come up from santa cruz throughout the day and also still forecasting highs in the 90s in santa cruz. but obviously that depends on when that fog moves in. here's a look at the sea breeze that will actually be a sea breeze today. so noontime half moon bay could have reached your high temperature. and then notice by about 5:00 we've got winds over 20 miles an hour in san francisco. so that will be a warm wind. and then as we get into your monday, the winds are flat and boy, do they pick up again. more so into monday afternoon. so certainly this will help us out and trim and hopefully erase some of that triple digit heat. look at the beaches today. how about stinson at 90? you've had several days at or above 90 degrees there.
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and then the sea breeze will kick in. so we'll get some 80s around half moon bay, pacifica maybe shy of that. and then that southerly surge that wants to bring that sea breeze and the cooler air. 100 today, san jose, we talked about santa clara there. 97 in redwood city. it was 99 yesterday. so about the same low 90s south city up in the north bay, the high clouds with 100 in sonoma and on the east bay mid 90s in hayward. you are in the upper 90s. it could happen again, but close enough. 102 in concord, 103 in livermore. the accuweather seven day forecast. so hot. spare the air again today and then temperatures coming down a bit tomorrow at the coast, around the bay and then certainly on tuesday. that's the trend for the rest of the work
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creative conquered art and music jam. welcome back. artists and art lovers alike at todos santos plaza to celebrate community, art and culture. the festival is featuring original artwork on canvas as well as dozens of musical performances over the weekend. it's a free and family friendly event that runs noon to six today, and all of the proceeds from this art sold will go directly to the artists. still to come this morning at 6 a.m, it is hot out there. what to expect for highs today. almost a week into the october heat wave. as we are officially a week now. stay tuned for your accuweather forecast and a lot of eyes will be on a ballot measure in the north bay. we'll explain how it could have a huge impact on the farm community and potentially across the country.
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at jack, every bite's a big deal. welcome to jack in the box! my late father-in-law lit up a room, but his vision dimmed with age. he had amd. i didn't know it then, but it can progress to ga, an advanced form of the disease. his struggle with vision loss from amd made me want to help you see warning signs of ga, like: hazy or blurred vision, so it's hard to see fine details, colors that appear dull or washed out, or trouble with low light that makes driving at night a real challenge. if you think you have ga, don't wait. treatments are available. ask a retina specialist about fda-approved treatments for ga and go to gawontwait.com
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