people spotted huddling with key holdouts. >> the tellers agree in their tallies that the total number of votes cast is 434, of which the honorable mike johnson of the state of louisiana has received 218. >> johnson had been adamant there would be no backroom deals to gain the support of far right members, instead leaning on the importance of this moment and the need for republicans to make the most of unified government. >> i'm grateful for this nomination. i'm grateful for this election, for the confidence this chamber has placed in me. >> the stakes were high for the incoming administration. the house would have been at a standstill, likely unable even to certify trump's election or swear in its members until a speaker was chosen. nicole d'antonio, abc news, washington. >> we continue now with the developing news in new orleans, where bourbon street is back open to the public today with some tight security in place. we

now know that president and first lady jill biden and doctor jill biden will be visiting there next week. the fbi now says the suspect in this week's attack acted entirely on his own. they also say he rented the truck that he used in that attack on december the 31st and drove from houston, texas. the city reopened bourbon street yesterday, just 36 hours after that attack and 30 minutes before the sugar bowl game kicked off after the game was postponed today. the game began with a moment of silence for the 14 people killed as new flowers, candles and crosses dot the french quarter. >> man, after all this happened, coming back to bourbon street, it just have an eerie feel to it. but looking around, the tourists look happy. they just walking around and they look like they enjoying themselves. law enforcement on every corner. so it feels safe. >> abc news is reporting bomb making materials linked to the attack were recovered by law enforcement yesterday at the suspect's home in houston. authorities say he originally planned to harm his own family,

but decided that would not get enough attention. investigators are still trying to determine how the suspect, a us born army veteran, was inspired by isis. former former 40 niner dana stubblefield will need to wait a couple more weeks to find out if he'll be released from prison. his attorneys were in court this morning seeking his release, a week after his 2020 rape conviction was overturned, but the court is delaying a decision due to some confusion over jurisdiction. stubblefield's conviction was overturned after an appellate court determined the prosecution violated the racial justice act in that case. that act, which makes it illegal to convict someone on the basis of race, ethnicity, and national origin, went into effect a year after stubblefield's conviction. well, we got a bit of a wet start to the day, but we are seeing some sunshine this afternoon. abc seven meteorologist drew tuma has your weekend forecast. >> we are looking at rough surf developing later on this evening. a high surf advisory

will begin at 9 p.m. today, where we could see breakers through sunday morning exceeding 18ft. that is dangerous swimming and surfing conditions, and that means we could see some minor beach erosion as well. currently have a winter storm warning in effect for the sierra. this until 10 p.m. tonight. above 5500ft, probably 8 to 12in of snow. our highest peaks could see 16in of snow, along with gusts of 50mph. that could create some tough traveling throughout the evening. here's a look at the snow forecast. you can see lake level through tonight. probably see 2 to 4in of snow. there are those higher accumulations across the highest peaks over the weekend. the weather is a lot quieter. sunshine is back out saturday and sunday, so here's future weather later on this evening. it's rather quiet. it's a mix of stars and clouds by 10 p.m. so your friday night plans? you will be good to go. it does get cool out there with temperatures in the 40s and 50s. first thing

tomorrow morning may have a little bit of fog pushing through the carquinez strait. we will see partly cloudy skies throughout your saturday, but it's a nice looking day. it's a mix of sun and clouds. tomorrow afternoon really quiet. dry weather is back for the entire weekend. it's a similar story on sunday. it will be partly sunny out there, but we do remain dry. temperatures actually a little bit warmer on sunday than they are tomorrow, so looking at future tracker temperatures on saturday slightly below average 50s low 60s out there, we'll start to see some warmer weather arrive here on sunday and especially into monday. it will feel mild with full sunshine here early next week. temperatures mainly in the mid 60s, so today we do have increasing sunshine. those temperatures going into the 50s later on this afternoon. overnight tonight it is cool out there. we'll have a mix of stars and clouds and overnight lows will generally be in the 30s and in the 40s. sunrise tomorrow, coming at 725 in the morning.

now, as we take a look at the next seven days, we had some morning rainfall. that storm system has exited and now we're looking ahead. and the next seven days we are going to enter a bit of a dry stretch. that's not unusual. in the winter. we can typically have 1 or 2 weeks of dry weather before the storms pick back up, but through the weekend and into next week, we are looking at no measurable precipitation. so it looks like we take a brief pause on any of the storms. so here is your accuweather seven day forecast. some sun today. rough surf along the coast. developing this evening over the weekend looks very nice. saturday a little cooler than sunday but we have a lot of sunshine both days. this weekend we will find that dry pattern continuing into early next week, and with that dry pattern, we will start to see some warmer weather move in here, especially tuesday and wednesday. temperatures above average, sunny and mild on thursday. >> two oakland fire stations will close on monday because of the city's ongoing budget cuts.

station 25 that's located on butters drive in station 28 on grass valley road, will close. station ten is already closed for remodeling and will not reopen. the closure is for a period of six months. oakland's fire chief says the temporary closure is happening while fire danger is low. >> we're not directly in wildland season. this was an opportunity to use a couple of our hill houses that normally are in our high fire severity zone. we feel like we can cover these districts adequately. >> chief damon covington says the fire department looked at data and picked these stations for temporary closures because they are not as busy. oakland's firefighters union says the closure will slow emergency response times in san francisco soma neighborhoods. some say the homelessness and open air drug use near sixth street is reaching a boiling point. it's why supervisor matt dorsey is calling for more arrest of drug users, and a new strategy to keep and clean up neighborhoods. abc news reporter monica madden

spoke to him about it. >> some say drug use in the sixth street corridor is worse than ever. look around and you might see why. while crackdowns have focused on dealers, san francisco supervisor matt dorsey wants to take it a step further, making interventions that get people under arrest into drug treatment. and it's personal for him. >> something i consider nothing less than the obligation of my own survival as a recovering drug addict. we do need to be making arrests of drug users with an eye toward making sure that any criminal justice intervention we make is a medical and life saving intervention. >> it would be a significant shift in the city's approach, which has long focused on harm reduction strategies. >> what may have worked in the heroin era is not working in the fentanyl era. we are facing drugs that are deadlier than ever before in human history, and we're seeing levels of addiction driven lawlessness that we have never seen. >> with prop 36 now in effect. authorities can charge repeat drug offenders with a treatment

mandated felony, giving people the option of rehab over prison time. >> nobody is asking for draconian sentences like, you know, the bygone era of the drug war. what we are asking for is for people to be held accountable for drug driven lawlessness. >> what's that going to cost? >> i think the answer is that can we afford not to solve this problem? >> it's not the first time the city has tried this. in 2023, mayor london breed directed sfpd to make more drug related arrests. forced treatment wasn't welcomed by all. >> their risk of overdose sometimes sort of paradoxically, goes up. we've said you can't use humane and created a situation where they're not using opioids. their tolerance goes down and a relapse can be deadly. >> the ceo of san francisco's aids foundation telling abc seven news, in part, decades of research have shown that criminalizing people for their health conditions or circumstances perpetuates harm

rather than fostering recovery. >> all of it comes back to public safety, a city that is premised on being welcoming and safe and clean for tourists and conventions, and shoppers and commuters cannot lose sight of how valuable it is to solve these problems. >> monica madden, abc seven news. >> still ahead, the cancer risk linked to drinking alcohol. the new warning out today and apple busted. the iphone maker agrees to pay millions for what siri might have been doing secretly that iphone users did not know

joining us live now with what you need to know is cindy cohn, executive director at the electronic frontier foundation. cindy, thanks for being here. >> thank you. >> can you start by walking us through the cases that were brought forth in this lawsuit? what did the plaintiffs claim that their phones did without their knowledge? >> well, the centerpiece of the claim is this idea that the that even before you said the words, you know, the wake up words. hello, siri. the phone sometimes would start recording people and they, they, they called these accidental or kind of unintended triggering of the listening. now most people know that, you know, once you say, hey, siri, the phone is actually listening to you. that's how it responds to you. but the centerpiece of the case is really about the fact that things were being recorded

even before those those starter words. >> i think the lawsuit even alleged that someone zipper even turned on the function. so the phone started listening. and we do want to apologize for everyone who has an iphone, because we're probably going to activate it several times during this interview. as we say, the key word siri, right? we should point out, cindy, that apple denied any wrongdoing in the settlement, and that made me think about the most recent ios update, that new chatgpt integration with siri. should people be even more concerned about what their device could be doing with their data now? >> well, i think it's really important that we pass comprehensive privacy law. these companies should not be operating in a context in which it's really about good faith or whether we catch them. and did we catch them at one thing or another? we need a pretty serious, comprehensive privacy law in the united states to try to really set the ground rules for this, because people do like voice activated technologies. and one of the things that apple's going to have to apple

definitely denied that it was using these unintended captures to target ads. the case settled before we really got evidence, one way or the other about that claim. so we still kind of don't know about that. but, you know, it's important that we all have the understanding of when these technologies are listening to us, when they're not, and then what's going to happen with that information. and one of the things that apple's going to have to do is give you a chance to opt in if you want these any kind of unintended or use that that happens to be used to help, you know, train the technology further. this is one of the allegations is they'd use these little faults where there it was a zipper or somebody's name to help train up the phone, but the users didn't know that they were part of the training. >> and cindy, just that quickly, we're out of time. but before we go in 15 seconds or so, any tips for our viewers out there as to what they might be able to do to

better protect their data and secure their privacy? >> well, always install the updates, look at your privacy settings and use them. but most importantly, we need to pass a comprehensive privacy law. this isn't something that should be put on users to have to protect themselves. >> sure. >> yeah, the onus being put on the consumer. the user shouldn't be the way to go here. cindy cohn, the executive director at the electronic frontier foundation. we appreciate your time, as always. >> thank you. >> coming up, the u.s. surgeon general wants to slap warning labels on wine and other alcoholic drinks. it's to prevent one of the leading causes of death in the u.s. and it's not

and it comes at a time when the u.s. surgeon general vivek murthy, called for warning labels to be placed on alcohol due to the link between drinking and cancer risks. earlier today,

i spoke with doctor stephen tate, clinical assistant professor at stanford, about dry january and the concern that drinking alcohol could lead to cancer. and doctor stephen tate joins us now. doctor tate, thanks so much for being here. of course, we'll get to the rise in dry january in just a moment. but i do want to start with the new news coming out today that the u.s. surgeon general is calling for a cancer warning to be placed on alcohol. what evidence is out there that drinking can actually lead to cancer? >> yeah. so i think the surgeon general very helpfully pointed out that about 20,000 deaths per year. cancer deaths per year are attributable to alcohol, which is actually more than the traffic related fatalities per year attributed to alcohol. so i think it was very helpful for the surgeon general to highlight just how big of an issue this is. >> certainly an eye opening, news making headline coming out from the u.s. surgeon general today that i know a lot of folks will probably be doing some self-reflection about. is it just heavy drinking that folks

should be concerned about, or is even drinking within the current guidelines of one a day for women, two a day for men? should those people also be concerned? >> yeah. so i think one thing the surgeon general helpfully pointed out is that a large proportion of these cancer alcohol related cancer deaths are actually in people who are drinking at the recommended limit. something about a fifth of these cancer related deaths. so there's still a risk of increased risk of cancer if you drink according to the dietary guidelines. okay. >> so that is certainly something that i think all of us should be thinking about, right? even if you are drinking moderately one a day for women and two a day for men, that you should be concerned about this potential link to cancer. now, of course, the surgeon general is calling for those warning labels to be put on bottles of alcohol, for example. do you think that this could actually be effective in curbing drinking habits nationwide? >> yeah, i mean, i think the first step is just knowledge about this, you know, public

understanding of this risk. one thing the surgeon general also pointed out was that very about less than half of people in the us appreciate that alcohol is even associated with cancer compared to something like tobacco, where the majority of people know this association. >> certainly those warning labels that we have been seeing for decades when it comes to the cancer risk related to tobacco, as you mentioned, has curbed the number of folks that we see smoking nationwide. but there is this period that we're in right now at the beginning of the new year, dry january, where a lot of people kind of reflect on their drinking consumption habits. talk to us about how popular dry january has become in recent years. >> yeah, from what i've heard, about one fifth of americans are considering participating in dry january, which is kind of remarkable. that's a lot of people to think about giving up alcohol for an entire month. >> it is. and we've seen a lot more people, you know, taking kind of challenges on social media, saying that they won't drink for the entire month of

january. talk to us about how effective or how beneficial, even putting a pause on drinking for just a month can be to your health. what are you seeing out there? >> yeah, i mean, i'm a big fan of patients taking a break from alcohol of about the length of a month if it's something they're considering. and i guess not just patients, but everyone considering that because it's really the time frame that's required to give your brain a little bit of a reset and let you kind of contemplate your relationship with alcohol and what you want that to be in the future. >> and aside from just having that moment or period of self-reflection about your own personal drinking habits, your relationship to alcohol, are there health benefits, actual changes in the body that we can see in? just when you stop drinking for a month? >> yeah, it's going to be a little bit individual, but i would expect for a lot of people, you know, to see improvement in sleep, improvement in mood, improvement in anxiety. and then, you know, things like high blood pressure are associated with drinking. so stopping for a month may improve that also. >> and any tips for those that

are curious about dabbling into dry january or stopping drinking for an extended period of time of ways to help them stick to it. >> yeah, i mean, one way is just simply if a month seems like too much, just start with a day or a week and go from there and see how you feel and see what changes you notice. and then take it step by step. >> really good advice. as we turn the page into this new year, and people are getting more and more curious about dry january. doctor steven tate, we really appreciate your time. thanks for joining us. yeah. thank you. and it's important to know it will take an act of congress to place those warning labels on alcohol. but the risk about rather the risk of potentially developing cancer.

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nearly two weeks after massive waves took out the end of the santa cruz wharf, the pier is set to reopen tomorrow. city officials say the wharf has been deemed safe after a sonar and engineering assessment. the original incident took 150ft of the wharf into the sea, including a part of the dolphin restaurant and restrooms. now, beachgoers and surfers are happy to hear the area will not be closed much longer. this is the best place. >> this is my piece. >> i shake because i'm just so excited to be here. go have you some calamari, some drinks. there's a rotating bar that she showed me. it's amazing. >> and another positive update. nearly 20 businesses on the wharf will also be reopening. a ceremony is scheduled for 10 a.m. tomorrow. a critically endangered spider monkey found during a dui traffic stop earlier this week in madera county, is now under care at the oakland zoo. we sent abc seven

news reporter lena howland to the zoo to find out how the monkeys recovery is going so far, and what it will take to get her in top shape. >> signs of recovery and healing for a spider monkey found in a bizarre dui case monday night. >> it will take months and months and months for her to return to a normal body condition. >> she was recovered by chp officers during a traffic stop of a rolls royce in madera. the driver was caught speeding, driving under the influence, and he also had this spider monkey, which is illegal in california. not to mention a critically endangered species. >> it's really horrible. you know, it will traumatize her for the rest of her life. you know, she she will never, you know, be able to live a normal life as a spider monkey. she'll never have, you know, the family bonds that you know, she would have had if she was able to stay with her family. >> she's now in the care of the oakland zoo's veterinary hospital. but colleen kingsley, the oakland zoo's vice president

of animal care, conservation and research, says she has a long road of recovery ahead. >> she has not received proper nutrition. you know, she would still be nursing from her mother, you know, for two years. we estimate that she's maybe somewhere between 5 and 6 months old, but she's so emaciated, it makes it very difficult to accurately judge the age of the baby. >> she came in malnourished, with an abnormal coat and skin and suffering from an upper respiratory infection. now she's being kept in a humidified environment to help treat the infection. >> she's in our quarantine area of the hospital. we have to be very careful about masks, gloves suiting up because we don't want to give her any, you know, even a cold virus at this, it could kill her. >> the zoo says on saturday she will have an exam under anesthesia so they can more thoroughly assess her condition. >> we are very happy and proud to be able to do this work and help out, but it's so unfortunate that we have to, you know, we need to end this issue. we really need to end the

illegal wildlife trade and stop, you know, using these animals for human benefit. >> if and when she has fully recovered, the zoo says they will work with the state department of fish and wildlife and also the wildlife confiscation network to find her the best home in a zoo or sanctuary in oakland. lena howland, abc seven news. >> certainly wishing for speedy recovery for that spider monkey there. that'll do it for abc seven news at three. thanks so much for joining us. world news tonight with david muir is up next. i'll see you right back here for abc >> mary: breaking news as we come on the air. moments ago, authorities revealing disturbing new details behind the explosion of that cyber truck in las vegas. president-elect donald trump ordered to appear in court for sentencing. and the massive winter storm moving east. first, late today the fbi and police revealing new details

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