>> it's newer than naloxone and could be better at bringing users back from potential fentanyl overdoses. more quickly and effectively than ever before. >> always live abc seven news starts right now. think back >> remember when the bay bridge toll was only $4? drivers haven't paid that price in five years, and in the next five years, bridge tolls could hit $10. good evening. >> i'm ama daetz and i'm dave ashley. thanks for joining us. i remember when it was $1. look how it's changed, right? bridge tolls are going up next year. and today we got a look at the proposed toll hikes for the five years after that we're talking about the state owned bridges in the bay area. that's all of them except the golden gate. you're looking live at the richmond bridge, bay bridge and san mateo bridges. >> the current toll is $7. it will go up to $8 next year. that's the final step of toll hikes voters approved back in 2018. so what about after that?

>> abc seven news reporter zach fuentes explains how quickly they could rise. >> bay area bridges are iconic landmarks recognized around the world, but they're expensive to maintain. >> many of those bridges are now, again, to put it in human terms, they are now senior citizens and to pay for the maintenance, preservation and operation of the bridges. >> the metropolitan transportation commission and bay area toll authority are looking to increase tolls. >> the thinking is that rather than uh- a one time, $2 and 50 cent increase uh- to roll it out, introduce it over five years in smaller chunks that the pain would be felt less acutely. >> tolls are already set to rise from their current $7 to $8 in january. that's the last increase under voter approved regional measure three. the new hikes would start in 2026, adding $0.50 a year for five years. tolls for fast track users would hit $10 in the year 2029. paying by registered plate

or invoice would cost more. many bay area commuters have strong opinions about the proposal. >> it's going to make it too expensive for me to get to work. it's already too expensive to pay to park here. >> on the one hand, they want return to work on the other hand, they want to raise the price so that it's almost prohibitively expensive for people to come to work. they've got to pick one of the two. this is outrageous. is what i think. >> goodwin says public input is part of the process moving forward, including a public webinar on november 13th. he says he expects this to be the last price hike drivers will see. >> for now, the long term modeling does not include another toll increase. >> the bay area toll authority is also considering changes for carpool lanes on the bridges, offering discounts for three or more people during peak times. the bay area toll authority plans to take action on the proposal at its december meeting in san francisco. zach fuentes, abc seven news. >> there really is no free way across the bay. bart from west oakland to embarcadero and back

is $7.50 total. san francisco bay ferry charges 940 round trip to trans bay fares on ac transit busses cost $12. drivers can avoid bridge tolls if they drive via san jose. that's nearly 80 miles. for comparison, the bay bridge is about eight miles long. >> former alameda county district attorney nancy o'malley is backing the recall effort now of current d.a. pamela price. nancy o'malley says price is using the office to intimidate and discriminate against people who oppose her. and o'malley says price is not doing enough to help victims. o'malley also claims price canceled restorative justice programs simply because she started them. >> she has undermined all of these programs that we put together, and basically she has taken this district attorney's office to a place where it cannot function. >> o'malley served as da from 2009 to 2023. price lost to o'malley in the 2018 election,

then won in 2022 after o'malley retired. price says she took over an office rife with dysfunction. the future of school closures in san francisco is in limbo, at least for now, with the appointment of a new superintendent. the closure plan is halted for at least a year, but the district needs a balanced budget soon to avoid a state takeover. the debt is really significant. abc seven news reporter monica madden pressed leaders about the possibility of future closures at yick wo elementary. >> you'll find handmade signs of protest from students who don't want to see their school closed. >> a lot of people in a city that's very transient are looking for community. >> parent christy sampson has two young daughters at the school. >> it's been a whirlwind, to say the least. it's we kind of felt blindsided at first. >> she's hoping new leadership will mean different approaches to the district's multimillion dollar budget deficit. >> to get rid of small schools, you're getting rid of communities inside san

francisco. there needs to be solutions. and with maria su coming in, i'm actually very hopeful that we can see some change in the district and that i believe in her. >> understandably, students, family and faculty have had a lot of questions about the future of their schools. that's why we decided to come along with the mayor and the new superintendent to hear exactly what questions the students had for their leaders. >> oh, goodness. >> mayor london breed and new superintendent doctor maria su, touring on wednesday after announcing the district is pausing its closure plans, taking questions from those most impacted. >> we're not closing and explaining complex school finance questions on a fifth grade level. >> for example, when you're doing decimals, you don't know what the answer is. you have to go through the problem to help solve it to get to the correct answer. >> we asked su if she's found that answer yet. can you feasibly promise to them that this school isn't going to close or merge? >> going forward, i need to have more data and more information, as well as to make sure that

we're having deep and honest conversations with our school community before we move forward with anything. >> for parents like sampson, need to make sure that we have the stability. she's still looking for signs of certainty about the future of the community. her family loves. in san francisco, monica madden, abc seven news. >> drama in a san francisco courtroom today in the bob lee murder trial. lee is the founder of cash app, who was killed in april of last year. tech consultant nima momeni is accused of stabbing and killing lee. the trial took a turn with the defendant's sister, hasar. momeni was called as a witness for the prosecution. abc seven news reporter melanie woodrow has been following the story since the beginning, and tells us what unfolded. >> prosecutors spent much of the day attempting to discredit hasar momeni, their own witness, by questioning discrepancies in her answers to them versus her answers to nima mckinney's defense attorneys. the prosecuting attorney gave hasar

example after example of questions he had previously asked her, where she responded, i don't remember during direct examination, but during cross-examination, when nima, mommy's attorneys, asked her the same or a similar leading question, she would respond yes. one example involved texts azar had sent her brother nima, after bob lee's murder, in which she called him psychotic. a lunatic, and texted him, you scare me. when the prosecution asked about those texts, she said she couldn't remember them. when her brother's defense attorneys asked her on cross if those same texts weren't about bob lee's murder, but rather about jeremy boivin, who allegedly sexually assaulted her. she responded, yes, that's what those texts were about. prosecutors also called into question his credibility by digging into her testimony from yesterday. during cross-examination, when she told nima moments defense attorneys that bob lee's family had threatened her. prosecutors introduced into evidence the texts she was referring to, and

after much back and forth, hazar concurred. the text sent by bob lee's ex-wife krista, wasn't sent directly to her. the text was asking for help in playing detective to find hazar, so that she could be served with a subpoena to testify in court. it also referred to her with a derogatory word. >> it was not directed towards her at all. so. and we'll let the. we'll let them do what they have to do. >> and what do you think about how the government is doing? >> my husband was murdered. she has no right to take her. she has no right to make herself a victim in this. when our family was the one that got murdered. so she can go herself. >> this afternoon, bob lee's family returned to court without krista, who told me the judge barred her from being in court for the remainder of hussars testimony, and that testimony did wrap this afternoon with other witnesses now beginning to take the stand. reporting in san francisco outside of the hall of justice melanie woodrow abc

seven news. >> all right, melanie, thank you. fire officials in the east bay cities of orinda and moraga are considering new defensible space rules. that would be some of the strictest anywhere in the country. and they say it's part of an effort to convince insurance providers to come back into their communities and provide coverage. but as abc seven news reporter tim johns explains, there is pushback. >> homeowners in moraga and orinda could soon be subject to some of the most stringent, defensible space rules in the country. the rules are being proposed by the moraga orinda fire protection district and would require homeowners to uproot plants, take down wood fencing and remove all other combustible materials within five feet of structures. >> there are many ways to prevent fire hazard. i don't know why they're wasting time to pass this kind of policy. it's ridiculous. >> outside her home in moraga, karen cheng told us she strongly opposes the new proposals. cheng says if they're enacted, she worries about how much money it might cost her family. >> and not only money, also time. who has the time? unless

retired people retire, people doesn't have enough strength. >> just to get an idea of what five feet actually looks like. i got my handy tape measure here. we're going to measure against karen's house. and if that five foot proposal becomes the new rule, this is the amount of space that folks would be dealing with. the fire district says they're anticipating pushback from some members of the community. however, chief dave whitaker says keeping the status quo is not an option. >> even a home that is fully compliant with our current standards continues to have potentially a significant amount of combustible material. >> whitaker says beyond keeping homes and people safe from potential fires, the district's new proposals are also aimed at trying to convince homeowners insurance carriers to come back into the community. orinda mayor darlene gee says this area has been one of the hardest hit amid the ongoing crisis, and insurers dropping coverage. >> it was a huge impact, probably at least a third, if not slightly more, of our residents lost their homeowners insurance. >> whitaker says if passed by

the fire district, the new rules would be implemented in stages, probably beginning next june. in the meantime, he says, he and his colleagues remain open to listening to all concerns residents may have in moraga. tim jonze, abc seven news. >> coming up next, seven on your side investigates a check that never made it to the irs. how did it get cashed, anyway? i'm meteorologist sandhya patel. >> october warmth with us today. next up, fire concerns. hour by hour. forecast is coming up and we need real experienced leadership. we need mark farrell. our interim mayor who got things done. who showed we can clear tent encampments, fight crime, and address the drug crisis. who will make the tough choices for our city's future.

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tried to pay his taxes, but his check never made it to the irs. >> and that's when i realized something is seriously wrong. >> how did it happen? it's raising questions about security protocols at wells fargo bank. >> seven on your side anchor stephanie sierra is getting some answers tonight. steph. >> yeah, so many things went wrong here. and the frustrating part is it could happen to any of us. we all have to pay taxes and many of us write checks to do it. the problem with this story is how the fraud occurred and the lack of accountability

that followed. >> so this is the check that i wrote. >> like any law abiding citizen, jeff yates paid his taxes with a check addressed to the internal revenue service for $3,268. it was mailed in an envelope with proper postage in april of 2022, but unfortunately this time around, unbeknownst to me, the irs never received my check. according to his wells fargo bank statement, it had been cashed, but it wasn't until a year later during the next tax season, that he realized it ended up in the wrong hands. yates was eligible for a refund, but the irs told him, well, sorry, you're not getting your money because we never received the check. >> where is this money? >> yates first called wells fargo to figure out where his funds went, but he says the bank refused to help him, stating too much time had passed to inquire or file a claim. how many times did you reach out to wells fargo? >> at least three times that i escalated it or had it escalated to an executive level complaint,

and all three times they denied my complaint. >> meantime, he tried getting answers from the irs after being on hold for hours, getting transferred and disconnected again and again. he says he showed up to the irs field office in san jose twice to explain his situation. >> and that guy said, sorry, i can't help you. >> unfortunately for yates, wells fargo could only provide a blurry copy of the cash check, and the irs could not make out the locator number on it to help. and to make matters worse, there is no signature. >> like usually. i thought you were supposed to write your signature when you cashed a check. >> yes. in fact, wells fargo requires that consumers depositing checks in store or via their mobile app must sign the back of the check before cashing in, according to the consumer financial protection bureau. generally, banks or credit unions will not accept a check that's not signed or at least return it to you. but that did not happen here. >> somebody just dropped the ball. >> we brought this to thomas tarter, a 50 year veteran of the

banking industry who's been retained in more than 2000 cases involving big and small banks, including some about wells farg. >> wells fargo internally would have a system to locate it, give details necessary for the consumer to give to the irs. >> jeff mailed the check at the local post office on april 6th of 2022. 12 days later, it was cashed. yet his statement didn't show by whom or where. after getting no help from wells fargo, yates filed a report with the san jose police department. a search warrant uncovered his check was cashed in anaheim through a wells fargo atm, and was quickly transferred out of the account. police say the individual had a criminal record. when you have the search warrant with evidence of what actually happened, and you share that with wells fargo, and they say what they didn't really address the fact that this money was stolen from their atm machine. >> somebody made a mistake. >> tarter says in yates case, wells fargo is at fault.

>> wells fargo should have taken immediate steps to refund the money to the customer. >> but again, that didn't happen. on october 8th this year, yates received a letter from wells fargo stating his third claim was denied because it was, quote, untimely reporte. could you please call me back? seven on your side investigates reached out to wells fargo for an interview, but the bank was unavailable to go on camera. >> i really felt that wells fargo was complicit in this theft of my money. it's money that, you know, goes to feed our family, and we just can't lose 3000 plus dollars. >> now, wells fargo did send us a statement saying they empathize with the customer's situation and never want to see anyone fall victim to fraud. yet the bank did absolutely nothing to help jeff here, and never even admitted to the fact that their atm was used as a part of this fraud. the bank just added customers must file timely claims for any fraudulent transactions on their account. as for jeff, the only thing he can do now is take this up in

small claims court. >> what a hassle. so frustrating. >> yeah, one mistake after another. yeah. thanks, stephanie. >> of course. >> all right, let's get to our weather. beautiful evening behind us. >> absolutely fantastic. getting dark earlier and earlier. >> and it is indeed. i mean, have you noticed it is also feeling a little crisper at night? dan and ama. let me show you what the 24 hour temperature change. look like. sun, by the way, sets at 620, just a couple minutes away here in the city, seven degrees warmer in the city and santa rosa along with livermore, up five in oakland and san jose. look at these gorgeous views from our tower cameras from all across the bay area. we did have some high level clouds passing through the bay area right now. we are seeing mainly clear conditions, so there was a cold front that went through the pacific northwest and parts of northern california. they did get some precip up to the north and across far, far northern end of our state, but we ended up with just a beautiful day. winds are onshore right now, gusting to 20 and half moon bay. that wind direction is going to switch to

offshore later tonight. and that's what's going to bring us fire weather concerns. temperatures at this hour 60s and 70s. just beautiful outside san jose. camera showing you clear conditions late tonight. early tomorrow morning. breezy with higher fire danger tomorrow a little cooler, mainly sunny skies. and for your sunday we are looking at a chance of drizzle and showers. the computer models are starting to come into alignment. let's talk about the winds. so the winds are blowing from the ocean to the land. that is going to change come 11 p.m. more of a northeasterly wind 36 miles an hour. fairfield 22 napa. calistoga. that is going to dry out our atmosphere even more than it is right now. that goes into tomorrow morning. and that's what's going to raise our fire danger, especially with the critically dry fuels we have out there. so when you look at the fire danger index, it's not so much that there are strong winds or we have red flag warnings. it's just what is going to happen. so as we head into late tonight, we are looking at yellows and blues indicating moderate to high fire danger. tomorrow morning. that area of

moderate to high fire danger increases across other areas as well, like the east bay hills, the santa cruz mountains. so definitely stay aware the fire danger will subside later on in the day. we're looking at this evening mild conditions at 620. 60s and 7910. we're looking at temperatures coming down and it is a cool to chilly start. first thing tomorrow morning. high clouds will stream across our skies a lot like today, tomorrow afternoon and it is going to be a cooler day. mostly 60s and 70s. maybe fairfield getting up to 80 degrees first thing in the morning. bundle up upper 30s to the low 50s. chill in the air tomorrow afternoon. you're looking at 80 in fairfield, 66 and half moon bay and most other areas in the seconds. it should be a pretty nice looking one. and then friday, a system starts to approach. it doesn't do much for us other than throw in some more clouds. sunday is when we're looking for this system to bring us some drizzle in the morning, and then a better chance of seeing some showers sunday afternoon evening. certainly we'll see rain in

northern california and a rain snow mix in the sierra for sunday. now here locally for sunday we're looking at anywhere from a few hundredths of an inch, possibly up to 1300. santa rosa, ukiah higher totals the accuweather seven day forecast a little cooler tomorrow. we're going to turn those temperatures around a bit on friday, but it's not going to last over the weekend, we see more cloud cover and drizzle and shower chance on sunday. staying on the cool side on monday before we start to notice brighter skies and a little milder weather. and halloween is a week from tomorrow and goblins and whatever else you're dressing up as. ghosts. hopefully we'll not get wet. ama and dan right now is looking dry. >> ghost goblin i haven't decided yet. >> yeah, i think you'd look good in both. thanks, andy. all right, well, i is transforming college applications and admissions now. >> two former nasa engineers have created an ai platform specifically to help students land a spot at

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for fraud and wage theft. because of that, one group of voters is calling on him to drop out of the race. abc seven news south bay reporter dustin dorsey has the story. >> questions of trust surround city hall. the community wants dependable city leaders who hold themselves to high ethical standards, not those surrounded with legal troubles and residents who represent various unions, coalitions and associations are speaking out against san jose city council candidate tam truong. >> we collectively call upon tam truong, a candidate for san jose

city council and district eight, to publicly end his candidacy. >> truong is a sergeant with the san jose police department, but has been on administrative leave and has had his officer certification temporarily suspended. truong is charged with grand theft for allegedly using his position as a cop to defraud mortgage companies of more than half $1 million. the private security firm he owns was also sued over alleged wage theft. >> how can we let someone with this disgraceful history seek a position of power? >> his pending criminal case will make it impossible for him to effectively represent his 100,000 constituents in district eight. >> truong's campaign office sent us a statement saying this is just a political ploy. quote, it is clear to the people in our district that these political operatives are targeting me because of my strong stand on safety and because i am demanding greater accountability on homeless spending. despite the allegations and loss of key

endorsements like that of mayor matt mehan, truong is remaining in the race. the santa clara county registrar of voters office says more than 100,000 ballots are already being processed, and truong remains a candidate at this point, it's too late to have him removed from the ballot. >> the election still happens. we still certify there's a winner. write the winner. if they want to resign, they can. if somebody wants to recall them, that's a different process. but the ballots still count and we still certify the election as is with the ballots that already went out. >> so at this point, the future of san jose's district eight rests in the hands of voters in san jose. dustin dorsey, abc seven news. >> the justice department has sent a letter to tech billionaire elon musk's super pac, warning that it's $1 million daily giveaway in battleground states may violate federal law. musk claims the million dollar prize is designed to increase voter registration in battleground states. the founder of tesla is supporting former president donald trump and is spending millions of dollars on his candidacy. so fa, more than 24 million americans,

24 million americans have already voted in the election. that's according to election lab at the university of florida. for perspective, the 2020 election had a record turnout with more than 154 million votes. >> california voters have ten state propositions to decide on. prop two is about bonds for public, school and community college facilities. as reporter gabe ferris from our sister station in fresno explains, it's worth $10 million as voters cast their ballots, they'll decide whether the state should borrow $10 billion to build and repair public schools and community colleges. >> every student in the state deserves to be in a in a classroom that's worthy of being educated in. >> yuri calderon is the executive director of the small school districts association. proposition two would directly impact the campuses, calderon represents those with less than 2500 students. >> the vast majority of school districts in the state of california. there are over 65% are small. >> calderon says those schools

are often overlooked and underrepresented in state funding and grants because urban schools are better equipped to apply for the money. >> that's why these provisions are in this bond measure to ensure that at least a portion of those funds end up in our rural and small communities. >> the state would distribute proposition two money through matching grants, requiring districts to contribute from local funds. the prop wouldn't automatically raise taxes, but the state will need to find about $500 million a year to repay the loan. >> it's just that these school boards are not living within their means. >> critics like francisco alaniz with the libertarian party point out the bond measure will cost taxpayers much more than the proposed $10 billion interest will cost $8 billion over 35 years to repay this this bond, it's going to increase property taxes. >> and i'm not just talking about homeowners renters as well. >> proposition two goes before voters. as calderon says. some school facilities are in poor shape. >> when you see places that don't have clean drinking water that they don't have a sewer

system, that that's fully operational, that their bathrooms look like you know, worse than a station bathroom. right. these are schools here in california. >> alaniz says proposition two is an expensive ask that's not needed in the first place. >> school districts have a budget, an annual budget. so if these repairs were really needed, these repairs should be budgeted in their annual budget. >> proposition two comes four years after voters rejected a $15 billion bond proposal for schools in 2020, the last time voters approved borrowing money for schools was in 2016, and that was reporter gabe farris. >> there are fewer than two weeks, just less than two weeks, to election day. officially 13 days. as you can see in the countdown clock on your screen, if you still need to fill out your ballot. hey, we're here to help. go to abc seven news.com/election for a summary of the state propositions on the ballot, as well as election headlines from around the bay area and across the country. >> better than naloxone. the new

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held today over concerns related to big tech earnings and political uncertainty. uncertainty as the election draws nearer. the dow lost over 400 points. the nasdaq dropped nearly 300, the s&p 500 was down 54. despite so many medical strides over the past few decades, hiv remains a public health issue. this week is prep awareness week. prep is a preventative medicine. it stands for pre-exposure prophylaxis. this morning on abc seven at seven. we spoke live with doctor kimberly smith, the head of research and development at viiv healthcare, about options and resources available to prevent hiv. >> well, there are about 1.2

million people living with hiv in the united states, and there are roughly 32,000 new cases every year. and so it just is a reminder that this is still a significant public health issue. a lot of people think that it's gone away, but it's far from that. and so what we want to do is, is minimize the number of new cases. and the way that we go about doing that is have everybody get tested so that they know their status. if you test hiv positive, there are great medicines that are out there that can suppress the virus and allow people to live a long and healthy life. and people who are on hiv medicines with a suppressed virus don't transmit to their sexual partners. >> health insurance can cover prep, sometimes with no co-pay required. >> more medical news. bay area researchers say they've come up with a new drug that could have a major impact on the ongoing fentanyl crisis, bringing users back from potential overdoses more quickly and effectively

than ever before. abc seven news anchor julian glover explains how it works. >> for years, first responders have relied on the drug naloxone also known as narcan, to prevent overdose deaths from heroin and fentanyl. it works by blocking opioid receptors from absorbing the drug. but now, researchers at the lawrence livermore lab say they've developed an effective treatment that works differently. >> our molecule is different in a way that it goes into your bloodstream, and what it does is like a pacman molecule. it catches fentanyl before it reaches the target. >> chemist carlos valdes and biologist mike malfatti were part of the team that developed the drug, called subutex. rather than blocking receptors, they say it actually binds directly to the opioid itself, effectively neutralizing it and allowing it to be flushed out of the body more quickly. in non-human testing, they say it cuts specific recovery times in half from a little over 35 minutes to about 17 minutes for

fentanyl. >> if you come across someone who has overdosed, you can also use this drug to sequester the fentanyl and get it out of the body quicker. >> they say the drug stays active for much longer than narcan, preventing a potential relapse without a second dose. but since the drugs worked differently, the team believes there's even a potential to use them in combination. a powerful new weapon in an ongoing public health crisis. >> so that's where the lab kind of came in and was interested in is, you know, can we use this, you know, in, in a larger scenario at lawrence livermore? >> julian glover abc seven news. >> now, keep in mind the livermore drug is not currently approved by the fda, but researchers say it was developed from another drug that is fda approved. and that can typically speed up the process. if you or someone you know is dealing with issues like substance abuse, there is help. we've put together a list of local resources. you can find it at abc7 news.com. slash. take action. >> mild fall weather will give way to clouds and even a chance

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thanks to a san francisco tikto, abc seven news anchor dion lim went to rohnert park to discover why strauss cream top milk is now going viral. >> i am so excited and i was so perplexed at the social media phenomenon you're about to watch. oh, that's thick. that's san francisco resident peggy hsu using a spoon to scoop out the thick cream atop a bottle of milk. >> wow, that looks so good. you know how it goes. >> cheers. but not just any milk. her favorite brand, petaluma based strauss. and because of her enthusiasm for the cream that rises to the top. >> do you see the cream top? >> her videos have gotten millions of views and started a tiktok dairy revolution known as

milk talk. >> well, i never expected it to take off like this. and yeah, it's been so awesome seeing that it's had an impact on strauss too. >> so of course, we had to make the trek up to sonoma county to get to the bottom of what this cream top really is. at a strauss family creamery facility in rohnert park, 25,000 gallons of milk get processed each day. >> so this is your tip top famous product. >> the minimal processing and lack of homogenization or fat distribution means the cream rises to the top. it's how albert strauss has made milk for 30 years. >> i really appreciate and am excited by, you know, people discovering that, you know, cream top milk is good for you. >> that discovery has led to massive demand. orders for their half gallon have doubled on the west coast. we are getting requests from around the world. >> it's been fantastic. never had anything like this before. >> albert hopes his newfound virality. it's really thick is a chance to share the strauss

mission with the world. >> tiktok and things like that is an opportunity for us to be able to really talk about our model of a carbon neutral dairy farm model that's being replicated all over the world. >> as for peggy, who ironically has a touch of lactose intolerance, really, it's very mild compared to what it used to be. she plans to keep working her 9 to 5 tech job, all while spreading her love of strauss milk around the globe and expanding into content that helps other food related businesses. >> i genuinely just wanted to share something that i loved with other people in sonoma county. >> dion lim abc seven news. >> that looks good. >> yeah, it's interesting. >> it's really catching on. all right, let's update the weather forecast. a lovely week ahead. >> yes. sandhya patel is here with the latest sandhya. >> yeah, it definitely is going to be a gorgeous week ahead. ama and dan. let's talk about some changes that are ahead. first, the almanac, san francisco today. 74 degrees. average high is about 69. we take a look at san jose. it was a warm day, no doubt about it. 82 degrees. the average is about 74. so six

degrees above the average. we haven't had any rain this month in october, but that's going to be changing. live doppler seven showing you just a few passing high clouds tomorrow afternoon, mid 60s to the low 80s. i think a touch cooler than today, but still plenty of sun around. come sunday we have a chance of drizzle and then showers later in the day. heading into monday it looks like a few hundredths of an inch, just enough to dampen the ground here, but over an inch around crescent city and eureka. accuweather. seven day forecast a little cooler tomorrow and then then a bump up on friday. but over the weekend temperatures will drop, the cloud cover increases, and we bring in the possibility of some wet weather on sunday. keeping it on the cool side to start the workweek below average and then a little bit milder mid week. so looking good. >> yeah, into the low 70s. yeah. thanks, andy. >> all right. can we get the niners looking good again larry. yeah, right. >> it's not up to me. i'd make changes. no, no. 40 niners. why am i not coaching in this league? 40 niners. and another

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obviously they're all 40 niners and none of them practice today because of their injuries. kittle has a foot sprain. deebo had pneumonia and jennings has a hip injury. now the good news regarding samuel samuel is he was released from the hospital after being admitted sunday night with fluid in his lungs. deebo suited up this past sunday, could only go in for plays. he was at practice today, but off on the side. niners hosting dallas on sunday night. abc seven's chris alvarez with the preview from santa clara. >> well, for the third time in the last four seasons, the 40

niners sit at three and four through seven games. the previous two years they reached the nfc championship game. now, with all the injuries and the outside noise, it's easy for things to get astray. but not with this group. >> we've got a group that a bunch of good people that don't blame each other and know what you got to do after stuff like this. there's only one thing you can sit and talk and evaluate all this stuff, or you can get to work and find a way to be better the next week. >> we've shown that throughout the years and been able to bounce back after tough starts, so i don't see why that won't happen this year. >> it's not these grandiose fixes, you know, that people probably think is going on kumbaya or whatever, whatever you want to call it. it's just, you know, small, small changes that make the biggest difference. >> how have you grown in appreciation of the niners cowboys rivalry since your rookie year to now? >> we've we've won. i think all of them. right. so yeah, it's been good for us. >> now if you include the playoffs, the 40 niners have won three straight games over the cowboys. a win this weekend would put them at four and four

entering their bye week. and then the hope is that christian mccaffrey could make his season debut in week ten at tampa bay with the 40 niners in santa clara. chris alvarez abc seven sports. >> thank you chris. some 40 niners fans are probably wondering whether the niners might bring back their old defensive coordinator, robert saleh, who was recently fired. he was the head coach of the jets. well, the green bay packers beat the niners to the punch, hiring saleh as an advisor. saleh's good friends with green bay head coach matt lafleur. in fact, he is staying in lafleur's house they used to room together years ago. all right. the warriors open a new season with two road games starting tonight in portland. then friday at utah. then the home opener is sunday night at chase against the clippers. going to be interesting to see the rotations that coach steve kerr uses. he basically has too many good players to use. hard to play like 1213 guys outside of steph curry and draymond green. we really just do not know what the starting lineup is going to look like game after game. jonathan kuminga, moses moody, buddy hield they all figure to get some pretty good minutes. the goal overall remains maximizing the final few

years of steph curry's career to contend for yet another championship. >> i truly believe we can be championship relevant in the sense of we're not probably not going to be the favorite in any conversation. to add to that would be amazing. i think it's realistic to build towards that. i think for me, that's literally the only thing i'm playing for at this point now. >> steph grew up in charlotte, so he loves the carolina panthers, who are terrible. they have a record of one and six. arguably the worst team in the league, and the subject came up with steph on sportscenter with scott van pelt. >> absolutely. go, panthers! >> good luck with that. >> i mean, what am i supposed to say, man? keep pounding. they're not they're not great, steph. they're not great. >> i just want i wanted i wanted to see where you went with it. >> yeah. good luck with that. yeah, yeah. they're terrible. sports on abc7 is sponsored by smart and final. >> i can't even imagine the

warriors without steph curry. yeah. they don't want to. >> nobody in the warriors organization wants to think about that. one final note. never heard of this happening before. but the cowboys they have a kicker by the name of brandon aubrey. okay. he was selected for jury duty. so he's he's got jury duty this weekend. we don't even know how long the trial is going to be. >> and the judge let him out of there. well, no. >> the judge said they will work with the kicker to ensure that he's got to do your duty. yeah. i mean, if he misses, like, three field goals, it could be him when the season's over. >> yeah, well. you think. thanks, larry. that's funny. all right. tonight on abc seven at eight, the golden bachelorette, 930 is abbott elementary. >> what would you do at ten? and then us at abc seven news at 11. remember, always streaming 24 over seven so you can get the abc seven bay area app whenever you want, wherever you are. thanks for joining us. i'm ama daetz. >> and i'm dan ashley for sandhya patel larry beil, all of us here. we appreciate your time. t

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