have a lot of work left to do. good afternoon. thanks for joining us. >> i'm dan ashley and i'm kristen sze. >> we'll have more on these top stories in just a moment. but first, we had a final warning of rain before heading off into a stretch of dry, sunny weather. that was is coming. this is the scene in downtown san francisco today. the umbrellas were out as the rain was just pouring down. the storm that drenched the bay area dumped heavy snow in the lake tahoe area. this is new video now shared by palisades tahoe. the ski resort says it's received nine inches of fresh snow in the past 24 hours, bringing the total so far this season to 56in. not bad. >> yeah, and now we're looking ahead to thanksgiving and what's in store for the rest of the holiday week forecast. >> we are meteorologist sandhya patel is here. sandhya. yeah. >> and dan and kristen, we're going to be seeing some beautiful weather in the days ahead, including thanksgiving. let's take a look at a live picture right now from zephyr cove, where you will notice a few raindrops on the lens.

tahoe, by the way, is reporting light snow right now. it is 34 degrees. if you are heading to the mountains, the winter storm warning just expired. still snowing though in the sierra and you will notice that we are still seeing the rain showers to our south right around the big sur coast. also right around the central coast. the sacramento valley area has cleared out. we have cleared out, but certainly will continue to see a narrow band of moisture south of monterey into the central valley through the next hour, hour and a half, and then it's all done. so if you are traveling, look at the clearing expected as we head into tomorrow. so speaking of tomorrow, 37, in tahoe, 64, in santa barbara. looking beautiful. if you're heading up to tahoe, 48 degrees on thursday, 73 in los angeles, and on friday it is still looking good with really dry conditions up and down the state. here's a look at your thanksgiving forecast. it's a chilly morning, 30s and 40s, but a lot of sun highs will be in the 50s. i'll be

back with a full look at the holiday forecast coming up. >> kristen. all right sandy thank you. an employee of san francisco's fairmont hotel was arrested for taking a loaded gun to work while vice president kamala harris was staying there. san francisco police say a metal detector set up by the secret service detected the firearm this morning. the employee had moved from texas recently. a background investigation found he had an arrest warrant pending out in tarrant county outside dallas. harris left the fairmont this afternoon with no incident. the secret service says the vice president was not a target or under any threat. >> an animal rights activist suspected of several bombings in the bay area more than 20 years ago has been caught in the uk. daniel andreas san diego is suspected of detonating bombs outside two biotech companies in 2003, one at the chevron at the rather pardon me, the chiron corporation in emeryville and another at the shaklee corporation in pleasanton. the fbi says san diego targeted the firms because they worked with another lab that had conducted

experiments on animals. reporter lena howland will have more on the arrest in wales and bay area reaction to it coming up on abc seven news at five. >> one year ago today, crews finished installing the suicide deterrent nets below the golden gate bridge. today we're learning more about how the barriers are saving lives. the golden gate bridge highway and transportation district tells the chronicle. as of november 21st, eight suicides have been reported. this year. that's significantly less than the yearly average of 30 suicides. speaker nancy pelosi championed the project, and today she thanked the advocates who pushed to make it happen. >> when we had the dedication, i wish everyone could have heard the families of those who had lost their loved ones. they advocated for this protection. they felt ownership of it. >> golden gate bridge officials are reportedly using the suicide deterrent nets as a model for

bridges across the country. >> starting tomorrow, the california highway patrol will be out in force, making sure drivers are staying safe over thanksgiving. starting at 6:00 tomorrow night, chp officers will be checking for impaired driving and speeding. the maximum enforcement period lasts until midnight on sunday, when so many folks will be on the highway heading back home from the holiday weekend, and for making the highway safe to your shopping experience, you may notice increased chp presence at stores on black friday and through the busy holiday season. the governor's office announced today that organized retail crime task force will patrol shopping centers to crack down on retail theft. teams will work with local law enforcement to make arrests and keep store employees and shoppers safe. newsom's office says the task force has made more than 1200 arrests so far this year. >> your p-g-and-e's bill could be going up again. if approved, this would be the fifth rate hike this year. abc7 news anchor dion lim is following the story

and explains what the money is for. >> it's a death by a million cuts. it's just this nonstop rate hike after rate hike. >> already this year, p-g-and-e's has requested and gotten approval for four rate increases. the most recent resulted in an average increase of $6 on customer bills. this new proposal by the utility to the california public utilities commission would raise rates another $4.33 to cover $592 million of vegetation management costs. >> right now, you're paying an average of $50 more than from the beginning of the year. >> rates have been going up long before this year. this graph from the cpuc shows that p-g-and-e's average customer bill has doubled from january of 2018 to january of 2024. >> it's so expensive for people to live in california. period. and then you add these ever increasing electric bills on top of it. it's not sustainable. >> senator scott wiener has long advocated for p-g-and-e's reforms. in 2020, he authored a

bill for a public takeover of the company. >> this all stems from p-g-and-e's failure over many, many years to invest in its basic infrastructure, which led to wildfires and other problems. and the company just is it's a it's a real problem. >> last year, wiener proposed legislation to speed up the process for utility companies to connect to new construction, such as public parks and homeless shelters. p-g-and-e's wasn't available to speak on camera, but tells me funding will allow them to connect to 13,000 new customers this year, compared to 9800 last year. turn suggests customers continue to speak out against the frequent increases showing up at public hearings. i also asked senator wiener what else could be done. >> the legislature certainly has the power, along with the governor, to set rules around p-g-and-e's rates and to tell the public utilities commission what to do. the question is whether the legislature has the political will to do that. p-g-and-e's uh- and its

supporters still have a lot of power in sacramento. >> the puc is set to consider the latest rate increase on december 19th. if approved, p-g-and-e's says it won't be reflected on your bill until 2026. in san francisco, dion lim abc seven news. >> ousted now comes filling her seat. there will be a special election to replace her, and there's a long list of things people want to see the next mayor focus on. there's also one person the recall supporters don't want to see run for mayor. >> abc seven news reporter anser hassan has been following this story and takes a look at what's next in oakland. >> oakland mayor tao has already conceded defeat, but the recally campaign is staying in the fight to help elect a new mayor and lay out priorities for what they want. the next mayor to do. >> the top of the list is going to have to be renegotiating union contracts. we got to start there because that's where a lot of the money in oakland is

going. >> retired alameda county superior court judge brenda forte, who goes by judge brenda, says oakland's massive deficit will require concessions by the union on pensions and benefits. they don't want cuts to public safety and are calling for a full audit of all non-profits who get city money, and you stop giving money and demand payback of those of those those organizations that have gotten money and haven't accounted for them. judge brenda is also contemplating a run for mayor after having lost the race for city attorney, although she says that's unlikely. but one person she doesn't want to see run for mayor. outgoing u.s. congresswoman barbara lee or anyone who didn't support the recall, such as barbara lee, who said that the recall was anti-democratic. >> it's one thing to say, don't recall her because she's doing a good job, but to say that no matter what kind of job she's doing, it's anti-democratic for you to try to recall her. that's an entirely different message

than an unfortunate message. >> reverend gerry mccann is with the nonprofit ibase, which is a champion of workers rights and housing justice. he doesn't like the idea of limiting a candidate who did not support the recall. >> i think that is that is going to be a telltale of who who, you know, candidates are receiving money from and who they are championing, championing in this moment, because we understand that the power of the dollar is still a reality and is still concern how big money that backed the recall may influence who joins the race for mayor. >> mayor tao will step down once the votes have been certified, and city council formally accepts that certification. probably mid-december. a special election will be held most likely in april. in oakland, anser hassan, abc seven news. >> san francisco's incoming mayor is an outsider who's looking to shake things up at city hall. but mayor elect daniel lurie knows san francisco is still very much a democratic stronghold. coming up at 430. abc7 news reporter monica madden sits down with laura's new senior adviser on labor

relations to talk about issues affecting local workers. >> coming up next, a major new development today in the middle east. israel and lebanon have accepted a cease fire deal. seven on your side is back with a follow up on a cryptocurrency scam. what they found that grabbed the attention of state regulators and building a better climate with food plant based foods. stanford researchers are working to bring that change to your table. stay drop everything and get some magic of your own during the xfinity black friday sale. xfinity internet customers, our best deals of the year are back! switch to xfinity mobile and get your choice of a free 5g phone, plus your next unlimited line free for a year. get amazing savings and connect to wifi speeds up to a gig

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alternative meat could have a significant impact on our ability to stay climate ready. and now a team of researchers at stanford is working to unlock an important secret to making that happen. taste. just watching someone bite into a burger, you can probably imagine how it tastes, but there's more to that memory than flavor. there's also the experience you get biting into it, pull it apart like, oh yeah, yeah, you can see that. and now our research team at stanford is unraveling the role that texture plays in how we experience, taste and the foods we eat. and their discoveries could ultimately help alternatives like plant based meat to seem a lot more like the real thing. >> the chewiness, the way it responds to biting, how you break it, the viscosity, how much water comes out of it when

you bite. so all kind of the rheology, the mechanical properties of it. >> professor ellen kuhl says the team is studying a variety of processed meat and meat alternatives, mixing mechanical measurements with ai to map their characteristics. >> and we can say, okay, if we want this certain desired properties, can we have an ai that gives us the formula for the product? so if you tell me i like the taste of this, ideally we want to design an ai that tells you, okay, this is exactly how we have to make the product. >> when we test, we create something like this a nice square sample. >> team member skyler saint-pierre sliced up a quick sample to place on a benchtop stretcher. the instrument delicately pulls the slice on all four sides until it finally tears streaming data on its strength into a software model monitored by colleague jeremy mcculloch. >> and when you see the force go down, that is how you can tell that the materials failed by using a number of instruments to pull, squish and analyze. >> the team is developing a kind

of three dimensional database that startups and alternative food producers could leverage to improve their products. >> and what we try to do is we make it open source so that little startups can jump in and can produce something, and they can compare it against a whole library of data that we've collected and make it open source available for people to participate. >> for the student team, it's a mission to change the world we live in by changing the food we eat. >> so actually, some of the products people did not like that much, but that's actually an opportunity for us to come in and say, hey, maybe this is the reason that people don't like them. maybe they're too soft, maybe they're not soft enough. >> yeah. so for me, it was really more thinking about the environment, especially as americans. we're known for eating and overconsuming meat relative to the rest of the global population. >> eating habits they hope to tweak by discovering why we enjoy the foods we do. and while the engineering team is focused on texture, they say other labs could potentially add data on

chemistry of flavor, creating an even more detailed artificial intelligence recipe book for alternative meats. and this technology and engineering continues to advance. >> yeah, got to get some of your recipes for plant based cooking. all right. sure. why not? yeah, absolutely. kristen and dan, you know what? i have a lot of them, but i don't actually write them down. i just kind of throw things in. oh, that doesn't help me. no, you have to. just secrets, i know. right? i make it up as i go. oh, right. that's good. you got to have some skills to do that. just boom boom bam. yum. absolutely. and sometimes they come out good, sometimes they don't know. i've been a vegetarian my entire life, as you both know. yeah. never had meat in my life. but i think they've come a long way with improving plant based foods and making them tasty. yeah, absolutely. yeah. and the weather is getting better to improve. yes. not tasty, but beautiful. yeah. nice. yes. let me show you what it looks like right now. outside. let's go up to the mountains because people are traveling up to the

mountains. and it is such a beautiful view from the sierra where it is snowing right now. i mean, this really is starting to look like christmas is around the corner. take a look at live doppler seven. we do have scattered snow showers in the mountains right now. they are requiring that you carry chains on 8-80 even though they're not required right at this minute, because things are still a little dicey that winter storm warning was just dropped. now, as we take a look at that moisture stream south of monterey, they continue to see some showers also into the central valley, where they're seeing a mix of rain and snow and a few showers all the way down to los angeles. so if you have travel plans heading in those directions, keep that in mind as we look at our local live doppler seven northern part of our viewing area is seeing plenty of sun, the southern part still hanging on to some clouds. we do have a beach hazard statement that goes up tonight at 10:00. it runs until 10 p.m. thursday. it's a long period southerly swell that's going to bring us a risk of sneaker waves and rip currents. so even

though the wave heights are not that high, the conditions are going to be dangerous to swim and surf. so use caution, obviously, and stay out of the water if you can. a frost advisory is going to go up for the north bay valleys, east bay valleys and hills for both of those locations starting tomorrow night until thursday morning, temperatures will drop down near freezing and that means frost is going to form a gorgeous view from our exploratorium camera right now. san francisco 55 degrees. it is in the 50s from oakland to san jose, 54 and half moon bay. and look at this beautiful view from our emeryville camera looking at the port of oakland, south beach camera. excuse me, temperatures in the 50s from santa rosa to concord. santa cruz camera showing you a lovely view as well. next two nights cold with areas of frost. thanksgiving bright and sunny and our holiday weekend will feature morning fog and then a milder afternoon. so as we go hour by hour this evening, not just the cloud cover around, but tomorrow morning we'll have some patches of fog around, along with higher clouds, and then boom, it clears out quickly. we are in for a nice sunny day. your morning temperatures.

even though the frost advisory doesn't start till tomorrow night, it's going to get chilly and we're going to see some patchy frost. so low 30s to the mid 40s. as we look at your afternoon highs. it's going to be in the 50s and the 60s wall to wall sunshine from coast to inland. here's a look at the accuweather seven day forecast after that chilly morning. do look for a sunny day and we'll keep the sunshine going for thanksgiving dry for black friday shoppers. and then really, as we head into the weekend, we turn the page to december and we're going to bump up the temperatures not so much inland on saturday as there will be a little bit of fog around, but sunday notice and monday and tuesday your numbers are going to be in the low to mid 60s. the warmest areas will be right around the bay, so get ready for some milder weather. kristen, we are ready. thank you sandhya, christmas has come early. black friday may still be a few days out, but hulu and disney plus are already offering quite the deal. >> announced exclusively on good morning america today, there's a way you can now get hulu with

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investigation is catching the attention of california state regulators. an 83 year old east bay woman believed her grandson was in trouble and lost nearly $50,000 to a crypto scam. the scam happened nearly a year after the governor signed legislation into law limiting the amount of transactions at cryptocurrey kiosks. yeah. >> and now there are questions about how or if the scammers circumvented that law. for seven on your side investigates. here's abc seven news reporter melanie woodrow with the story. >> in september, seven, on your side investigates brought you the story of an 83 year old east bay woman named lois, who lost nearly $50,000 to a scam. at this coin kiosk in rossmoor. >> a man said, i have your

grandson. he was so distraught and crying. >> over the course of three days in august, lois fed $100 bill after $100 bill into this machine, believing she was paying her grandson's bail and legal fees while someone on the other end of the phone gave her the cryptocurrency account numbers to send the money. >> they just destroy people's lives. they're despicable people. >> the department became aware of abc7's reporting on this matter. >> john king is an attorney in the enforcement division for the department of financial protection and innovation. >> i saw it personally on the news. >> the fbi could not confirm nor deny an investigation into lois situation. lisa, lois daughter, says the agency contacted them. >> they were just interested in the whole process of the transaction. >> lisa says her mom provided the fbi with these voucher receipts generated by the coin machine. after every thousand dollar transaction. a california law sets daily limits on the amount any one customer can accept or give out at a crypto

kiosk. >> one of the key protections in our new crypto asset law is that a crypto kiosk or a crypto atm, as they're also known, cannot accept or give out more than $1,000 in a single day by email. >> coin tells seven on your side investigates. coin me complies with the thousand dollar transaction limits imposed by california law. the scammer, using a sophisticated ruse, exploited this individual by convincing her to deposit funds into over 50 different accounts over several days in order to circumvent coinbase's safeguards. the author of the legislation, california state senator monique lemon, tells seven on your side in an emailed statement. the law, quote, does not make exceptions based on how many accounts that customer may use to transact. >> i don't know that there'a loophole. >> robert harrell is the executive director of the consumer federation of california, a major proponent and sponsor of the legislation. >> these crypto kiosks, they are not humming 24 over seven. so for someone to stand there for hours on end, presumably to do

$1,000 at a time, that's very concerning. >> in its emailed statements to seven, on your side investigates, coin writes in part, quote, we encourage all users to pay attention to the three warning screens presented during each transaction on coin enabled coinstar kiosks. the company also says users must complete an identity verification process as part of its know your customer program. as for how the scammers accounts got past kyc? coin writes in part. quote scammers can sometimes bypass safeguards using stolen identity information from data breaches and phisg scams. scammers also recruit mules who knowingly or unknowingly allow their identities to be used to create accounts, making it harder to detect suspicious patterns. there is no know your customer at the kiosk. according to coin me, meaning lois didn't have to verify her identity. >> i think the bothersome thing for me is that there there was no effort to identify who was sending this money. she was never asked who she was, and she

was not asked to open an account with coin. maybe for the transactions began. >> that's because, according to coin quote, the accounts the victim used were not created at the kiosk, but by the scammer who utilized criminal methods to use multiple accounts. as for who was collecting the money on the other end, coin writes quote, in the event of suspicious behavior, our systems trigger additional review steps and alert our compliance team, potentially leading to account suspension or further investigation. in this case, it was lois who contacted coin me to alert them about the scam. coin says the scammers circumvented the company's safeguards also that the company is continually enhancing its technology and processes to stay ahead of increasingly complex tactics. bad actors use coin. he says the scammers accounts have now been permanently closed, and that the funds are unrecoverable because transactions are instantly sent outside of coinbase's platform. >> fraudsters and scammers are always advancing their techniques and trying to stay ahead of the law. >> state senator lemon writ, quote, it is my understanding

that the department of financial protection and innovation is investigating this case. i will refrain from speculating on the outcome of an ongoing investigation, and i expect a briefing from our law enforcement agency once their work is complete. >> i think it definitely brings to light that some changes need to be made for seven on your side investigates melanie woodrow, abc seven news. >> well, one of the immediate challenges facing san francisco mayor elect daniel leary will be solving the months long hotel strike. >> abc seven sat down for a one on one interview with laurie's senior advisor on labor relations to ask about their plan to resolve the dispute and what san francisco workers can expect from the incoming administration

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a significant new development in the war in lebanon. big development fighting between israel and hezbollah will come to an end in less than two hours. >> president biden announced a cease fire deal this afternoon. it goes into effect at 4 a.m. local time, with a 60 daya.m. ceasefire. israel has agreed to withdraw troops from lebanon in that time and hezbollah has agreed to leave the southern part of the country. the u.s. hopes the cease fire will urge israel and hamas to them, put an end to the conflict in gaza. >> and back here at home, two weeks after election day, we're getting a better idea of what san francisco mayor elect daniel lowrey's agenda will be. >> laura is naming advisors to his transition team that includes his senior advisor on labor relations, james araby, who's a longtime labor organizer and abc seven news reporter. >> monica madden sat down with araby one on one to get a look at the administration's priorities for workers rights. >> yeah, well, more than 15% of california's workforce are part of the union, so it's one of the highest shares of unionized

workers nationwide. it's why araby says workers rights should be top of mind for leaders. >> my role on this is going to be to help the mayor elect really navigate the politics of the of the labor movement here in san francisco, in labor politics, union groups were split on their choice for san francisco's mayor, despite not endorsing lurie, ufcw local five leader jim araby will now advise him on labor relations. we represent a lot of the grocery store workers and macy's workers and other retail workers. literally the day after election day, i got a call and people asked if i would be interested in coming on as a senior labor advisor to mayor campaign. and i said, absolutely. >> talk a little bit about what his administration's priorities are going to be, and you know how you will advise in that aspect. >> there's a lot of big things facing the city of san francisco around the state. the city budget. you know, the issues related to hotel workers and the strikes going on right now. and then, you know, as, as the mayor

elect, you know, stays to his commitments of openness, transparency and really making the city work for all san franciscans. you know, labor is going to be a big part of that. >> one immediate challenge resolving a months long standoff over contracts for some of the city's hotel workers. >> you know, i think he needs to make sure that, you know, the people in the city are taken care of and that employers understand that this is a union town, but also to make sure that the that the hotels continue to operate at a place where these people can be employed. >> araby is optimistic that lurie's priority of bringing business back downtown will in turn, benefit those workers. >> i think this mayor elect will be able to really think through not only getting business in the right place, but making sure that workers that are here are protected as well. so he gets what the working people in this city are facing. and i'm just happy to be here to help him navigate the labor part of that, because i do i do believe with his connections, he's going to be able to be successful at bringing business back to the city.

>> mayor elect lurie has yet to announce permanent positions for advisers in his administration, but likely he could be looking at members of his transition team like jim araby. so we'll we'll see what happens. >> interesting pace of play is picking up here. >> exactly. >> thanks very much, monica. >> from seat upgrades to priority boarding, airlines love to nickel and dime customers. these days, and it seems all those fees are adding up. plus, are you a costco connoisseur? if your answer is yes, you can get paid to shop there and test some of its signature products. we'll explain drop everything and get some magic of your own during the xfinity black friday sale. xfinity internet customers, our best deals of the year are back! switch to xfinity mobile and get your choice of a free 5g phone,

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all right. it's time now for the four. for today. we have karina joining us and sandhya. so this is going to be fun. you guys. zoom is getting a rebrand. the company that helped make work from home possible is renaming itself from zoom video communications to just zoom communications. it's part of a push to embrace artificial intelligence. last month, zoom launched a new set of tools and productivity apps similar to microsoft office and google docs. zoom has had to evolve as more people are returning to the workplace. okay, does the word video suggest old school these days? is that what it is? >> you're zooming. kristen i guess you're, you know, going via video source. it's sort of redundant. >> yeah, i think it's so inside

baseball, though. nobody calls it zoom video communications. i have a zoom. yeah, exactly. >> but isn't it funny? before the pandemic, did you guys know what zoom was? no, no. right. and now it's so commonplace. everyone's like, oh, let's get on a zoom. and we're just using it every day. but it was interesting. the ceo of zoom was saying that he wants this new a, you know, their partnership with ai to make it so that people can work only four days a week. so pretty much letting ai take over be able to lessen your load and make it like a four day workweek, which i'm all for. >> exactly. me too. yeah. i mean, maybe it can get so good that we only have to work three days a week. yeah, now you're pushing it, you guys. >> you guys keep trying. i admire the optimism. all right, well, all those little upgrades you're probably paying for. for to visit family over the holidays is generating a fortune for the airlines. a congressional report found five airlines made more than $12 billion. just on seat selection fees over the past five years. and get this the report even

says that airlines paid employees $25 billion in incentives to spot passengers who tried to avoid carry on bag fees. can you believe that? i guess they have found that as a real profit center. those little fees that they hit us with and it adds up. >> you ever find a really good deal on a flight and then it's like, okay, a bag, a carry on bag or a checked bag. oh, do you want to upgrade your seat? do you want to buy snacks? and you know, $50. great deal. flight. you know, it's almost a teaser rate, right? yeah. >> that's why i never do basic economy. because then you don't get to pick your seat. you don't get to, you know, bring a piece of luggage and all those things, and then you decide, oh, you don't get to change. so if you need to do one of those things, you end up paying more than if you just bought regular. >> yeah, yeah. >> that's true. >> i keep waiting for, you know, it'll get so bad you'll sneeze in the flight attendant will come up five bucks, right? >> yeah. >> the eyes watching you. >> okay. >> you even start to get a

little tickle in the nose. that's like a quarter right there. yeah. all right. are you the ultimate costco connoisseur? that's the question one online gambling website is asking as it launches what's being called the kirkland signature suite life challenge applications are being accepted right now. two very lucky participants will each get $1,500 to spend at costco's. so that's three shopping trips. but here's the catch they'll have to live on as many kirkland signature products as possible for one week after the experience, they'll get a $1,000 cash bonus and a free year long executive. costco membership. all right. are you done with that? i would do this. >> you would think it would be fine. >> very easy to live on costco. everything for a week. >> yeah. they have so much variety too. you know, i assume it's not just the food, right? >> it's like the furniture, the pillow. >> you big screen tv. >> yeah, they have wedding dresses. i mean, if you have a wedding that week, you got that covered. they have wedding

dresses at costco. >> yeah. >> vacation. i mean, you name it. yeah. >> you name it. >> underwear and socks, dental care, probably everything under the sun. >> all right. dictionary.com is out with its word of the year and no surprise. here it is. drumroll, please. demure. the word went viral over the summer, when tiktok creator jules lebron used the phrase very demure, very mindful. it describes refined and sophisticated appearance or behavior, like at the workplace. dictionary.com says the word saw a 1,200% jump in digital media use from january to the end of august. i i've always heard demure used in a different context, but this is fascinating how it's taken . >> yeah, actually, isn't this a little kind of like fighting back against the whole idea of demure? it's like, yeah, it's like lots of confidence, lots of. and then you're calling that demure. but it's actually sort of like a reinterpretation, right? right. >> yeah. it's giving that word a new power. >> yeah. >> exactly. isn't it crazy how one post turned into all this? >> right. yes. over one word.

just one word. >> yeah. one post. >> yeah. right. >> and i will say it's a word you hardly ever heard. you know, you did you read it? maybe. but no one ever used that word in conversation until this. no. >> interesting i know. well, it's you know what? this year's word next year. what do you guys think the word will be? >> who knows? >> i'll have to think about tha. >> all right. that's going t

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americans are expected to hit the roads for the thanksgiving holiday, according to triple a. that's 1.3 million more travelers than last year, and even surpasses pre-pandemic numbers. when 70 million people drove for thanksgiving in 2019. if you're one of the many hitting the roads for the holiday, you might be wondering about gas prices. here's a look at the latest numbers. the highest average cost in the bay area is in sonoma county, 469 a gallon there. the california average is 443. the national average is 306. and if you're planning to drive between now and the next few hours, be prepared to sit in traffic. triple a says the worst time to travel is between 1 and 7 p.m. your trip along eastbound i-80 from san francisco to sacramento is going to see peak congestion at 730 tonight. actually, a triple a anticipates that drive could take you a little more than three hours. that measurement to sacramento is new this year, and triple a says it

could be because people have moved outside of the bay area. that happened a lot during the pandemic. and taking a live look now at sfo, where there's expected to be a 15% increase in holiday travel compared to last year. the tsa says it will screen 18 million people at u.s. airports over the thanksgiving travel period. >> workers are putting the finishing touches on the iconic floats of the macy's thanksgiving day parade in new york city. seven of the 20 gigantic floats are new this year, and there's a lot that goes into each one. workers spent 100 hours just to create wednesday addams for the next netflix float that is promoting the show. the bronx zoo float will have life size replicas of the animals. there will also be a disney cruise lines float, with many doing a special performance for the crowd. disney is the parent company of abc seven. another sign of the season. the yule log we're streaming it once again, so you can cozy up to a fire anytime, anywhere, visually anyway. look for it on abc seven news.com and

the abc seven bay area app. there are versions with and without music. >> there's something about that that is so soothing, isn't it? i know, i know. >> and you know, but thankfully we don't have, you know, any more rain in the forecast that you feel like you need the fire for now, which is nice because we've had we've been cooped up a lot. >> so the next couple of days, sandhya will be nice over the thanksgiving weekend. >> yeah, you'll be able to get outside dan and kristen, that's for sure. so let's take a look at the thanksgiving forecast in the morning. it is going to get chilly on thanksgiving. we're talking about a frost advisory 30s and 40s. that advisory for the inland valleys and the eastern santa clara hills. mainly sunny at noontime. the temperatures will be in the 50s and 60s at 4 p.m. and clear and chilly later on at night on live doppler seven, you will notice that the rain is gone. just some clouds lingering around the region. tomorrow afternoon. it's going to be a bright sunny one 50s and 60s as we look ahead to thanksgiving. specific temperatures anywhere from the 50s to the 60s, it is going to be really a nice looking bright

skies day on black friday, 50s and 60s as well. and as we head into saturday, a little bit of fog may knock those temperatures down inland. but for the rest of you, we'll stay in the comfort zone. here's your accuweather seven day forecast. we have chilly start tomorrow, but a lot of sun in store, including for thanksgiving. really nice looking weather as we head into the weekend and the start of a new month into december. milder weather is awaiting with temperatures coming up above average low to mid 60s. kristen. dan. >> all right. thank you. sandhya. abc seven has partnered with the men of aging to bring you a new series called the abcs of a. it focuses on programs and resources that serve older adults, adults with disabilities, caregivers, and residents in long-term care facilities across the state. >> you know, over 4 million caregivers in california provide unpaid care, and now is the time to honor them. during national family caregivers month. >> so if you're about to see the california department of aging provides many resources, tools

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our season finale of dancing with the stars, starting at eight. then stay with us for abc seven news at 11 tomorrow. the much anticipated animated film moana two hits theaters. our parent company, disney, is releasing the sequel eight years after the original came out. reporter alicia vitarelli with our sister station in philadelphia. sat down with the creators for a look at how they're bringing this sequel to life. >> this is a call from the ancestors. it feels like a coming home. truly, we are k

on motunui and moana is now three years older. >> she has a little sister, and she's happily leading her people. but when she gets a call from the past to save her future, this time she's reluctant to go beyond the reef. so the first time we meet her, she's she's dying to go. and this time she's like, okay, well, it's different. >> i think as a 16 year old saying i need to leave or my island will be in danger, but i know i'll come back. this one is your 19. you're going, well, i might never come back and so on. and this one's really in a tough situation where there's no easy answer. >> moana now has a brand new canoe crew to help her journey through dangerous, long lost waters. and her old buddies are back, too. >> can i get a chai hoo? >> the first one i thought was great. a lot of people loved it around the world, but this one couple. yeah, just a couple. just a couple. we have not only new music, but also just the messaging behind it. and how important it is. i go beyond abigail barlow and emily bear wrote that new music. >> in doing so, they're making

disney history. breaking barriers. youngest first female duo songwriting team. like, i mean crazy stats. >> but at the end of the day, like, we just love what we do and it was the right fit for us because we understood moana so well and we could see ourselves so clearly in her shoes. >> for the directing team. this sequel is personal. >> as a samoan person, moana was the first heroine that we ever had. and she's just she's strong and she's empathetic. she cares so deeply about her people. and so to see moana so beloved by so many people, it's really empowering. and to now be a part of telling her continued story is really it's really a privilege, but also a responsibility to who we're meant to be, who i'm meant to be >> voyaging the sea.

>> that was alicia vitarelli reporting live action version of the original 2016 film is also in the works, with actor dwayne johnson reprising his role as the demigod maui. once again, moana two hits theaters tomorrow. i was kind of singing and dancing to it. abc seven news is streaming 24 seven. get the abc seven bay area streaming tv app and join us whenever you want. wherever you are. that's going to do it for abc seven news at four. abc seven news at five with dan and ama is coming your way next.

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