states in a new lawsuit over the executive order ending birthright citizenship. good afternoon, i'm kristen z. >> and i'm larry beil. thanks for joining us. some more big moves from the trump administration. as the president begins his first full day in the office today. several career officials in the justice department's national security and criminal divisions were either removed or reassigned. >> and in her confirmation hearing, united nations ambassador nominee elise stefanik promised to conduct a full assessment of funding for u.n. agencies. >> and top leaders of the episcopal church issued a letter challenging president trump's immigration executive orders. this is the episcopal bishop of washington implored the president to have mercy during her comments at the national prayer service. >> mr. president, millions have put their trust in youd as you told the nation yesterday, you have felt the providential hand of a loving god. in the name of our

ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared. >> now this follows yesterday's executive orders on both they's trans community and on immigration. we have team coverage on the fallout. let's begin with abc seven news political reporter monica madden on the lawsuits already announced today about birthright citizenship. monica. >> kristen. as a country of immigrants, just about everyone knows someone who might be impacted by this. and in this new lawsuit, california and other states are asking the courts to block this order from taking effect next month. the question is, can trump legally do this? bayard fong's ancestors came to the u.s. in search of a better life. >> great great grandpa wong heard the call. they need help building the railroads in the west. >> and without birthright citizenship, he's not sure how

he would be here. >> we would be in china today. yeah. i mean, it's so weird. it just doesn't. i think this is how america has become america. it's because of the welcoming of immigrants. >> saying president donald trump's new executive order makes him feel unwelcome. >> it tears at our hearts and our spirits to embrace this city and our country, and all the hard work we put in generations, centuries, you know, i mean, the railroads is 150 years ago. >> this is personal to a large majority of san franciscans, of californians. >> it's why the city of san francisco and the state of california are joining a multi-state lawsuit against the trump administration, saying the order defies the 14th amendment of the constitution. >> this is settled, this is established, resolved in the highest court of the land, the us supreme court. >> president trump's executive

order says children of noncitizens are not, quote, subject to the jurisdiction of the u.s. so the 14th amendment doesn't apply to them. >> he does what he wants to do when he wants to do it, how he wants to do it, regardless of the law. unfortunately. >> legal experts say trump's order might not hold water. >> the president can't rewrite the constitution. the courts are likely to say it's up to the congress and the states to amend the constitution. but until then, people should should not be worried. >> while san franciscans like fong are uneasy about what's to come, he's leading with hope. >> our communities and the grassroots are going to elevate ourselves to because we are one people. let's rise up together. >> and it's worth noting the history of all of this. has san francisco ties. in an 1898 landmark u.s. supreme court case of wong kim ark. he was a child of chinese immigrants and born in the bay. he was denied reentry into the u.s. after a trip abroad under the chinese exclusion act. kim ark took his

case to the high court, which eventually upheld that a child born in the united states automatically becomes a citizen that's under the 14th amendment, which was established after the civil war. in the studio, monica madden, abc seven news. >> monica. thank you. and it's important to note that president trump's executive order ending birthright citizenship is not set to take effect until february 19th. and of course, there are going to be court challenges. but if it does, if it happens, what impact would that have on californians? i spoke with the state attorney general, rob bonta, earlier today. >> they will be subject to deportation. >> they would not get a social security card. they wouldn't get a us passport. they wouldn't be able to work legally. they wouldn't be able to vote, serve on a jury, run for many public offices. >> those are just a few of the consequences. they also wouldn't have access to medical, federal student loans or housing and food assistance. bonta says he and other attorneys general who filed the suit are confident they can win in court, even if

the case goes all the way up to the supreme court and this particular supreme court. >> interesting. the transgender community is also feeling the impact of the actions taken by president trump yesterday. >> abc seven news reporter lena howland has reaction. >> it will henceforth be the official policy of the united states government that there are only two genders, male and female. >> i just was mortified and had to sit with it for a second and really get my bearings. >> suzanne ford, executive director of san francisco pride, is a transgender woman, and she calls this an attack on all lgbtq people. >> now, we know for the next four years that we've got to be resilient. we've got to take care of each other. and this community has lived through the hiv crisis and come together, and we're going to do the same thing now. >> trump's executive order, already facing legal challenges. >> at base. it basically says you don't exist and you're not entitled to the protection of the law. that's truly disturbing. >> lambda legal is an american

civil rights organization that focuses on the lgbtq plus communities. it says the order threatens the rights and safety of millions across the country, adding it could impact people in ways as simple as getting an id that matches who they are. >> lambda legal has a very clear message for president trump. we'll see you in court. we have been readying lawsuits, knowing of the actions that he had promised to take, which he is now taking, and we will be going to court to block them. >> lambda legal is hopeful they will win its legal challenge. they won 12 out of 14 lawsuits related to lgbtq issues during the previous trump administration. in studio lena howland, abc seven news. >> president trump is also ordering all federal workers to return to the office. terminating remote work arrangements. abc seven news reporter luz pena looks at the power of this order and the laws protecting workers. >> president donald trump is

ordering millions of federal employees eligible to work remotely to go back to the office. an executive order signed right after his inauguration. >> so the president's executive order is really broad, and it covers all federal employees. seemingly. >> the white house published more details, urging heads of departments and agencies to terminate remote work and require employees to return to work in person on a full time basis. natalia ramirez lee, assistant professor of law at uc law san francisco, says this won't be easy. depending on circumstances. >> when it comes to non-unionized employees, the president has really broad authority to regulate their work conditions and their arrangements. but when it comes to unionized employees, a lot of those unionized employees have remote work provisions within their collective bargaining agreements. and so it's going to be a much longer and difficult fight. >> the american federation of government employees, the union that represents over 750,000

employees of the federal government, is responding, in part, whether afge will file a lawsuit depends on how it's implemented. if they violate our contracts, we will take appropriate action to uphold our rights. in san francisco in 2023, federal employees were told to work from home amid the crime and drug use outside of their building in the soma neighborhood. >> there's a multitude of things that donald trump is doing that i am in disagreement with, but one of the things that i agree with is let's get back people back to the office. >> according to a report by the u.s. office of personnel management, the majority of federal employees or 1.2 million, work fully on site. yet there are still 1.1 million, or 46.4% of workers who are eligible to work remotely. supervisor dorsey, who represents the district where the federal building is located, believes this executive action will help small businesses. >> it's better for our economy, certainly for our city. >> professor ramirez lee believes this is the beginning

of a bigger strategy. >> administration has been very explicit in that they are doing this as a form of attrition. >> in san francisco. luz pena, abc seven news. >> and today, president trump announced a huge investment in a new ai project called stargate in the coming years. $500 million will go towards building data centers in partnership by san francisco based openai, along with oracle and softbank. openai ceo sam altman joined president trump at the white house this afternoon. >> i believe that as this technology progresses, we will see diseases get cured at an unprecedented rate. we will be amazed at how quickly we're curing this cancer and that one and heart disease. and what this will do for the ability of to deliver very high quality health care, the costs, but really to cure the diseases at a rapid, rapid rate. >> for months, ai leaders have been warning that more data centers, chips and resources that run them are needed in

order to advance the technology. >> another blow today to downtown san francisco's changing retail landscape. bloomingdale's has announced it will close its flagship location at the san francisco center mall. the store here is the brand's second biggest in the country, right behind its new york flagship. it occupies 330,000ft■!s in the mall, making it the largest remaining tenant. bloomingdale's opened there in 2006 and will close at the end of march. mayor daniel lowry reacted to the news with a statement. it says we don't take this news lightly, but i am confident san francisco's best days are ahead. although this closure is disappointing, i'm energized every day by businesses of all sizes opening and growing our city, a long standing bay area bookseller, has gone bankrupt. books inc. says its in-store sales have failed to bounce back since the pandemic. the book retail chain dates back to the mid 19th century. the berkeley location will close its doors next month, and maybe more, depending on

finances, but their website says this is not an end for them and ask people to support their business by visiting their stores. >> coming up on abc seven news at four, we're learning more about that deadly weekend crash in san francisco. we will hear from the girlfriend of the man who was killed. also, the pain and betrayal for a grandparent caught up in an all too common scam and payg tribute to a legendary san francisco chef. >> i'm spencer christian. a freeze warning and a frost advisory will be in effect overnight. i'll have the chilling details in my accuweather forecast coming up to maintenance anything, so it's very scary for me because i have everything i love in this home. so, we've now implemented drone technology. how is that safe for me? it enhances the inspection,

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in san francisco. seven cars were smashed up, including a waymo driverless vehicle. >> the crash killed a man and his dog. abc7 news anchor dion limb spoke with that man's girlfriend, who is still in the hospital. >> i don't understand why it happened the way it did, and i don't know how i how i'm how i'm alive. and i honestly just want to trade places with him. he had such a purpose on this world. >> zooming from her hospital bed, lin liu still can't believe how her world came crashing down sunday night. she and her dog keepers and boyfriend, 28 year old misha romanenko, were on their way to pick up her grandma and aunt to go to the airport when tragedy struck. >> other than remembering

looking over at him and saying i love you and him saying i love you too, back to me. it was just one moment after that. the next moment i was being wheeled into different rooms. >> just after 6 p.m, officers responded to the area of sixth and harrison, where a black tesla had plowed into seven cars, including a waymo. waymo says its records show the tesla was traveling at 98 miles an hour. it was all a blur to lu. >> i do have like a little flashback of when i was in the car where i saw that he was like, just motionless, and i was just like, oh my god, misha! >> sfpd officers arrested 66 year old jialing zhang, who was booked on vehicular manslaughter. i obtained this police report which indicates zhang did not give off an odor of alcohol after he was arrested, nor did he have any alcohol in his system. after a screening was done several hours later, he told investigators that he kept stepping on the brakes of his car, but the vehicle did not slow down, nor

did it stop. as lu recovers from several broken bones, she wonders about the safety of the intersection. >> i really want to know what exactly happened. the way that sixth street exits. you can go as fast as you want until you hit that stoplight. >> lu wants the world to remember romanenko for his positive spirit and willingness to help others. >> it was just so much joy being around him and anyone who's crossed paths with him, who's had him in his life and in their life, they would definitely have a story or two, or maybe a handful of stories about how he had made them laugh, how he put a smile on their face. >> she asks for their tragedy to serve as this reminder not to take life for granted. >> after losing everything and everyone, the love of my life, just please hug your loved ones. tell them you love them. >> in san francisco, dion lim, abc seven news. >> last night, two plainclothes officers were targeted in a shooting in a residential san

jose neighborhood. two officers were on duty inside an unmarked vehicle around 10:30 p.m. at melbourne boulevard and mclaughlin avenue. the suspects pulled up in another car and tried to confront them. the officers pulled over to radio for backup, but the suspect vehicle made a u-turn and opened fire at their car. one officer got out and shot back as suspects fled the scene. >> this was a reckless and senseless act of gun violence in a residential neighborhood where hardworkg families are returning home from work, putting their children to bed and winding down from a holiday weekend. >> the officers were unharmed. it's not clear if either suspect was struck by gunfire. police are working to identify the suspects. >> today, the monterey county board of supervisors approved a local state of emergency in the wake of a fire at the moss landing power plant broke out thursday at a battery storage facility. that fire burned through the night and then flared up again on friday. the flames and smoke eventually died down over the weekend, but community members addressed the board today about their concerns over air quality and the

potential health impacts. >> i am very skeptical that there's zero contaminants in the material in the building, or what may have settled on the ground and on the crops. we have people that are organic farmers that are concerned, can i can i sell this leafy plant now? what do i have to do? >> the environmental protection agency has been monitoring the situation and says it has not detected any serious health risks. investigators have not yet said what sparked that fire. >> today marks two weeks since the devastating wildfires started in los angeles county, and now the area faces a new threat. rain is on the way this weekend and that could cause landslides. >> mayor karen bass issued an executive order today directing public works crews to clear debris and remove vegetation to shore up potentially vulnerable hillsides. this as more than 250,000 residents are bracing for possible power shutoffs and another round of santa ana winds. calmer conditions over the weekend were helpful. they did allow firefighters to

reach 89% containment on the eaton fire and 63% containment on the palisades fire. >> new drone video released today provides another look at the aftermath in the pacific palisades. la has tapped former new orleans mayor mitch landrieu, who helped rebuild the city after hurricane katrina, to aid the wildfire recovery effort. the area took a small step today, reopening a school in malibu. some pasadena schools will reopen on thursday. >> the devastation is unbelievable there. two bay area sports teams are joining forces to help the victims of the southern california fires. the valkyries and bay fc are collecting new and unused toiletries and cosmetics to those impacted by the fires. the teams have set up drop off sites at several locations, including one that's outside chase center. also, drop off locations in oakland, mountain view and san jose. now, if you want to help the wildfire recovery effort, you can scan the qr code on your screen. right now. it will take you to a list of verified and vetted organizations that are helping survivors. >> all right. we are not in a

deep freeze like so many places in the country right now, but we could actually use a little rain at this point. >> absolutely. it's been bone dry. spencer, i saw a shot of bourbon street in new orleans. snowing, snowing on bourbon street. >> just an hour ago. the temperature in new orleans was 28 degrees. it never gets that cold in new orleans. and of course, that weather in the south that is so dangerously cold right now is life threatening weather for many people who live in that area. meanwhile, we've got a little bit of a freeze of our own going on here during the overnight hours. we'll start with the satellite radar composite image. they still have dangerous santa ana winds down in southern california where the fires. let me back up. my clicker is not working here, so i will get back over here to the manually operated clicker and move along here, which is also not working. okay. this happens. technology is not always what it's cracked up to be. okay. but we've got light winds across the bay area right now, and we are several degrees cooler at this hour than this time

yesterday, about 5 or 6 degrees cooler in most locations, as you can see. and now getting back to the freeze, we have a freeze warning that will be in effect from midnight to 10 a.m. tomorrow for the north bay interior valleys. temperatures will drop below freezing, obviously down to about 28 degrees in the area of the freeze warning for the rest of the bay area, with just the exception of the peninsula, coastline and san francisco. it's a frost advisory from midnight to 10 a.m. tomorrow. so we've got some very cold weather here, but nothing like what's happening in the southeastern u.s. 59 right now in san francisco and in oakland, 61 in hayward and half moon bay, san jose and redwood city in the mid 60s. nice view from mount tam looking down onto the bay, 59 degrees in petaluma, napa and fairfield and concord. 63 at santa rosa and 60 at livermore. let's check out our forecast headlines. deep chill overnight with freeze and frost alerts wednesday tomorrow through friday. it will be sunny with mild afternoons, but weekend will bring some sharp changes as it becomes gusty and sharply cooler. for tonight, look

for low temperatures in the upper 20s at ukiah, lakeport, santa rosa almost in the upper 20s, down to about 30 degrees 32 over fairfield and napa. so 31 at livermore. so we've got some very cold weather spread around the bay area overnight. highs tomorrow 62, half moon bay 63 here in san francisco and mid 60s in many bay shoreline locations. up to 68 up north at santa rosa. tomorrow at 68 down south at san jose. so despite the cold weather early morning tomorrow, we'll have some pretty mild afternoon weather. here's the accuweather seven day forecast. thursday will likely be even milder than tomorrow, or possibly then friday. look for a just minor cooling, but sharper cooling occurs over the weekend with gusty wind. high temperatures saturday and sundayl probably not make it out of the upper 50s for most of the bay area. no rain though. no rain. >> all right. thanks, spencer. up next, remembering a groundbreaking san francisco chef. >> and then later bringing

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seven news reporter suzanne phan has reaction from across the bay area. >> the death of celebrated chef charles phan is hitting bay area chefs hard. phan was known for his restaurant, slanted door. many chefs say phan was a visionary and a trailblazer. >> he really inspired a lot of chefs in the bay area. >> at a restaurant near moscone center, chef and owner kathy feng appreciates what phan has done. >> he really paved the way for all of us. he created a modernized, elevated version of it, won awards, and really won a lot of respect and accolade for a cuisine that i think oftentimes gets misunderstood. and that's the case for a lot of asian cuisine. >> the restaurant was here at the ferry building for more than 15 years. the chef and the restaurant had a lot of fans. >> everything that you ate a garlic glass noodles. garlic glass noodles. >> ferry building officials shared this statement today saying, quote, chef phan's innovative approach to vietnamese cuisine and his commitment to sustainable, locally sourced ingredients created a dining experience that

shaped the ferry building's legacy as a culinary destination. chef matthew ho runs his family restaurant, bodega, sf. >> it's really sad to hear you know, a legend in our game of someone that's elevated vietnamese food and just the dining scene in san francisco. it was really cool to see and how he's grown his restaurant and being able to move into such an iconic building like the ferry building as well. >> phan came to the u.s. from vietnam at the age of 13 and was a self-taught chef. he won several big awards, including the james beard award for best california chef in 2004. >> he's one of the giants, one of the big giants. i stand on his shoulders right to get where i am today. >> charles phan, a well loved and well respected chef who many say exemplified the true american dream in san francisco, suzanne phan abc7 news. >> as a huge loss in the community. 62 years old. yeah. so young. brilliant. all right. coming up. bay area seniors targeted in that all too common grandson scam. the protections in place that did not help in

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new victim lost much less. but the pain and betrayal was just as great. >> how did they get my phone number to start this whole thing? >> donna, who asked that we not use her last name, is trying to make sense of the senseless. a call she received from her grandson, cameron. >> wasn't my grandson, but he sounded exactly like him. >> the person she believed was cameron said he was in jail, having hit another driver who was pregnant while on his cell phone. he told his grandma he had a lawyer who also got on the phone. >> and the attorney said, yeah, we need $7,500 in cash for bail. >> donna said she followed instructions to wrap the cash in a box covered in wrapping paper that she happened to have. then a courier came to rossmoor, a gated community, for adults, to pick it up. >> the front gate said, we can't let him in without a last name. i never got a last name. i looked out the front window and his car was out there already. they had let him in without a last name. >> she handed over the box of cash and a couple of hours later got another call, this time

asking for $5,000. >> the windshield is broken and i don't know, he said. some other. the front end is a mess. and i said, well, we have insurance for that. he said, well, just do be safe. let's do the whole 5000 and we can return what you don't need. i mean, that was a huge clue. >> both times, donna says the bank tried to intervene. when she withdrew the cash. >> she said, why are you taking so much cash out? and i said, i'm going on a trip to france because he had told me don't tells. >> the second time, a bank employee even checked to see who was with donna. >> he went out to make sure that my husband was in the car, not someone else. so he he really cared. >> it's not the first time a rossmoor resident has been targeted in late september. seven on your side introduced you to lois, who lost nearly $50,000 in the grandson scam by depositing the supposed bail money to a coin machine at a safeway. the money went to the perpetrators crypto account and was immediately gone. >> supposedly, you know, we're

rich, we're retired, so we don't need the money. unbeknownst to them, that's just the opposite. you're retired. >> it was donna's daughter in law, cameron's mom, who realized she was being scammed. >> and i said, donna, donna. i hardly let her answer. donna. donna, i know what this is. it's a scam. it's a scam. stop everything. stop everything. her response was just utter astonishment. she just. she couldn't even talk. >> rossmoor tells seven on your side that its gate policy requires driver's licenses are scanned when entering rossmoor. it's not clear if that happened here for both couriers, rossmoor says they gave the information they obtained about the drivers and vehicles, in this case to walnut creek police. walnut creek pd says you should be cautious about urgent calls and never send money without verification. they also recommend contacting other family members to verify the story, or even larry and kristen setting up a password with an elderly family member and saying, okay, if you really are having an emergency, this is. >> the word. >> that you're going to say, right? setting that up with

family. >> we should all have that in this day and age. >> it's actually really smart. yeah, the bank tried. i mean, sometimes that's not the case. they tried. but you know, these guys are really good. i mean, the crooks are skilled. >> and you understand, right? these grandparents. >> they. >> want to help their grandkids. >> and panicky moments, you know, you get scared. >> hopefully running stories like this one will help people just raise awareness. thanks. thanks, melanie. law enforcement and private business leaders across the bay area have announced a new partnership to combat human trafficking. they're trying to get ahead of large events coming to the bay area that they say might attract traffickers. san francisco is set to host nba all-star weekend next month at chase center, as well as the super bowl and the world cup next year. >> not only the day to day, but when we're going to have these large scale public events that we know may attract traffickers. we want to make sure that we have the best protocol and strategy in place, and that means sharing information about how task forces across northern california counties function.

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the day because of amazon and a bunch of online options. gone is the day where you would walk into macy's or whatever, and you'd buy things from 6 or 7 different categories because they were all in one place. now you just go click, click, click, click. >> and that's it. not as many employees and also not as many. not as many customers. no. yeah. >> no, i think of it like a car showroom almost. it's like oh okay. what's available? okay. and then you might even go online to order from their website. >> right. yeah. that's true. all right. we all know that parenting is a tough job. and now there's some data to prove it. a survey by bright horizons, a child care provider in the u.k, found almost a third of parents are suffering from severe levels of stress and coming very close to burnout. and for those who work, it's affecting their jobs, too. 80% of working parents say they cannot focus on what. >> but is it necessarily the demands of parenthood that cause the burnout? or could it be the accumulate, the accumulated stress from other things? >> i'm sure i imagine that work is a big part of it. probably

sleep deprivation if you have little ones, right? but kristen, you were nodding your head as i was reading the story, so i want to hear what you have. >> to say. i mean. >> okay, we all have kids that are older now, grown kind of, you know, empty nesters now. but yeah, i remember the time when it was like so stressful to make sure. oh, did they give their uniform for their game after school? okay. like what are we going to cook for dinner because they're going to want this or that to not have to worry about those things. definitely is kind of a relief. >> no question. and you know, the burden often really in truth, falls on the mom more, you know, to even if the mom is working as well. but, you know, i remember guys you can relate to. it was exhausting still, you know, it was wonderful. but it was a lot of work, especially when you're working a full time job. >> you know, they're adults and it's still exhausting. >> sometimes we're just waiting, like. >> spencer to be grandpa. you know? grandpa. that's when you just get to play. >> and it's not exhausting. >> that's the best. >> yeah, i'm not talking about my kids, but. >> oh, no, no, no. of course. >> sure, sure. >> there's some drama in hollywood over artificial

intelligence. >> covid. you can't, sir. you cannot. yes i can. >> the editor of the film, the brutalists, revealed that filmmakers used an ai program to make the hungarian accents of the main characters more authentic. the director defended the film, saying that the actors performances were all their own, but it's causing some people to question if they deserve to be considered for the oscars. nominations will be announced on thursday. >> i have a thought about this. if you don't mind. go ahead. i remember years ago, and i'm pretty sure it was steven spielberg when they started doing all the cg stuff, and somebody questioned whether or not that was as legitimate, and then when they started using digital stuff on people's faces and they said, well, that's just fake. and his response was, it's the movies. it's all fake. sets are fake. the costumes are fake, scripts are fake, it's fake. so in some ways it's just part of the movie making process. >> i'll play devil's advocate because i feel like cgi is accepted, of course, but i think

for accents, i feel like as an actor, learning that accent, well, to play that role is part of their craft. >> so maybe for the acting perspective, in terms of storytelling, it's just we're trying to make the best movie. i agree. >> yeah i agree. >> yeah. i mean, you know, i wonder if we could just press a button and suddenly i speak in a british accent. you know, it's not necessarily i and i. yeah, yeah, that wasn't a good one, but like a better one. imagine a better one. >> but, you know, for some reason. >> brits can all do our accent, our. >> american accents and australians. >> australians speak better. >> english than us. exactly. >> and i'm always stunned to find out. wait a minute. they're australian or the british? >> yes. >> yeah. >> yeah, we can barely speak english. >> california would agree. >> yeah, they would agree. >> california is near the bottom of a list of the worst states for driving. california ranks 45th on the wallethub survey. kansas is number one, while hawaii. >> is the worst. >> why are you laughing. >> about your state?

>> well, i'll get to that in a second. california's 45th for traffic congestion during rush hour, 44th in car theft rate, 32nd in road quality and dead last in average gas prices. >> oh, so. >> those are the things. >> they consider. >> and the maintenance costs and traffic fatalities. as for the state of hawaii. so here's the deal. the roads are just filled with potholes. just it's almost like a joke, people. we joke about. >> it because of the weather. >> the rain, you know, and just lack of maintenance and stuff. and so that plus it's very congested during rush hour depending on where you're going. so that's why we would be last. >> yeah. >> but you guys are so laid back like, hey, on island time, not in a hurry. not honking. >> you not. >> that's that's true. it's rude to honk. and we always let the, you know, people walk through. they get the right of way no matter what. that's. that was one of the first things that i learned when driving. >> do you honk when you're driving here? you may not do

that back in hawaii, but do you? >> it would have to be something extreme, like dan cutting me off. >> yeah, something like that. >> it's more screaming out the window. >> yeah, yeah. >> yeah, yeah. i usually use gestures. i don't want to scream and, you know, honk and things like that. >> no, it's a shame. yeah. listen, california, there's 40 million people. a lot of drivers, a lot of roads. i'm often stunned at how bad the roads are here. >> me, too. >> yeah, a and taxes and everything else. it's just laughable. >> so i thought you were going to say our drivers. yeah. >> i feel like sometimes. >> they're not great either. aggressive drivers. >> yeah. >> well, you know, what's weird is people get more aggressive when it starts raining, like, doing crazy things and speeding. yeah. >> cutting in in between lanes. yeah. >> i don't get it. the i will fix it. all right. ♪ (slow down) ♪

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is snow. a whole lot of snow. wow. not to be confused with a hurricane. drinks that you could. you can get on bourbon street. snowfall blanketing parts of the south parts of texas. looks like he's staring at the snow. like, what is this here? this is. yeah. and usually, i mean, it's early evening there. there would be more people out, but. yeah, no beads will be earned tonight. parts of texas and louisiana both seeing their first ever blizzard warning. >> yeah, the largest winter storm in decades. spreading across the south, slamming the gulf states up through the carolinas. >> abc news reporter melissa don with more on more than 200

million americans who are under cold weather alerts. >> severe winter weather impacting nearly the entire country. in texas, galveston's beaches covered in snow. new orleans famous french quarter seeing blizzard like whiteout conditions. >> i don't think i've ever seen snow actually stick to the ground out in new orleans. >> louisiana state police, responding to more than 50 crashes statewide due to the icy conditions. urging everyone to avoid travel. as record snowfall has made roads dangerous. >> a lot of people, we're not used to this weather here in louisiana. you know, so just be cautious. >> in south texas, multiple people killed after a crash on an icy bridge. according to zavala county officials in houston, freeways and roads closing down after crashes, the airport shutting down. >> this is crazy. in texas, you would never expect this. >> several counties in alabama suspending travel, saying all their roads and bridges are considered impassable due to the weather and the sunshine state.

florida also experiencing rare snowfall. florida's panhandle under winter storm warnings. frigid single digit temperatures also gripping the north and midwest. the detroit river, nearly frozen over. airports in florida, louisiana, and texas suspending operations altogether due to the weather. more than 2000 flights and counting have been canceled today. melissa o'donnell, abc news, los angeles. >> no snow in the forecast here, but like the south, it has happened before. it snowed in the east bay just a couple of years ago. february of 2023. a light dusting of snow in the oakland and berkeley hills. the last time there was measurable snow in san francisco. we're going back a ways. february of 1976. and prior to that, 1962 and 1951. >> all right. never mind the unusual snow. i take a little common rain at this point. >> rain or warmth? spencer. >> warmth. warmth would be good, too. we don't expect any warmth overnight. in fact, as a matter of fact, we have a freeze warning in effect from midnight

to 10 a.m. for the north bay interior mountains, valleys, interior valleys, and a frost advisory for all of the remainder of the bay area except san francisco and the peninsula coastline. so you can see it's going to be pretty cold in the early morning hours. lows dropping down to 29 degrees at lakeport 28, ukiah 30 at santa rosa, 31 at livermore, 32 morgan hill. so cold overnight and early tomorrow morning, but it will get fairly mild in the afternoon tomorrow with highs in the low to mid 60s near the bay and inland. and the accuweather seven day forecast shows thursday and friday will be nearly as mild, but the weekend will bring sharp changes as it turns. really cool. daytime highs only in the mid to upper 50s on saturday and sunday and then it starts to. we'll see some minor warming developing and early next week, but no rain in sight. larry. we could use some, but it's not there. >> all right. thank you spencer. there's a new filipino food option now available near the warriorse court. today is opening day for senor sisig. thrive city, located right outside chase

center. the grand opening comes ahead of nba all-star weekend, which is happening in february. the filipino fusion restaurant will feature a new special dish exclusive to its thrive city location. senor sisig now has four restaurant locations. three of them are in san francisco, and they've got one in oakland. >> so yummy. and we're counting down to the 2025 chinese new year parade. we're just 25 days to the big event, which you can watch live right here and everywhere you stream abc seven news. on february 15th. >> up next, the bay area farmer paying tribute to her taiwanese heritage with a bit

rent at nine high potential followed by the rookie. then stay with us for abc seven news at 11 as we count down to san francisco's chinese new year parade. we're highlighting members of the community in sonoma county. a farmer is connected to her ancestral taiwanese family food traditions, to her present day life as a mother and farmer. take a look. >> so this is the start of the farming process. this is where we do all of our seeding. my name is leslie weiser. i am the owner and farmer of radical family farms here in sebastopol, california. so after we seed everything from the barn, we put them into trays. they get put into our nursery, which is on an automated overhead watering. i spent a summer of my undergrad

working on a farm in alaska. it was an organic farm and i was there from may to august. it's a very short growing season, and then from there, i just didn't think farming was viable or accessible for someone like myself. so i just finished my undergrad and got my master's and worked in corporate. one of my favorite crops is the chrysanthemum tea or the ju. and so every year i'm increasing my crop. it is a very difficult crop to grow. you can't grow it from seed. you have to take it from cuttings. it will start flowering in the end of september, and i'll start harvesting in october and then drying it, and then i usually sell out of it by the end of the year. by december is a pretty popular crop. were born, 2011, i decided i

wanted to raise them on a similarly to the way the farmers in alaska raised their children and their family. i really liked how their kids had a lot of freedom to move. they knew where their food came from, so i wanted to kind of recreate that. so these are the szechuan peppercorns. these are certified organic. when i started the farm in 2018, i immediately cover cropped the farmland behind us. and then i took my kids and myself to taiwan, where they studied mandarin and were in a little preschool where they had a little garden, a little culinary garden. and it was really cool to see the vegetables that they were growing. this is my bitter melon hoop house, and i really worked hard to find a good way to grow this. that experience was that my trips to taiwan was very pivotal in terms of choosing what to farm. and then it was

just some conversations with friends who, you know, were making suggestions of what to grow. because when i started the farm in 2018, i was not certain which direction i would go to. yet it is. i never knew what any of this was, so i had no idea. i was not exposed to bitter melon. i had no idea bitter melon existed. i had no idea celsius existed. so this has been like a huge learning journey for me. so it was very important and central to the farm. but now i feel like i've accomplished that and learned so much about myself. and now it's really just taking, you know, enjoying the farming and finding pleasure in the farming now and, and making sure that the business is viable and changing to a more sustainable direction. >> less of an employee. >> that is so cool. abc seven is a proud sponsor of the 2025 san

francisco chinese new year parade. you can watch the live parade saturday, february 15th starting at 6 p.m. right here on abc seven and wherever you stream abc seven news. abc seven news is streaming 24 over seven. you can get our bay area app and join us whenever you want, wherever you are, and we'll see you on february 15th. join us for the fun to welcome in the year of the snake. that's it for abc seven news at four. i'm kristen z. abc seven news at five is next. but do they really? do they see that crick in your neck? that ache in your heart? will they see that funny little thing that wasn't there last year? a new bounce in your step?

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right now. >> another major blow to san francisco's effort in the recovery and revitalization of downtown. today, bloomingdale's announced plans to close its flagship location in the city's largest mall. good evening. i'm ama daetz. >> and i'm dan ashley. thanks for joining us. bloomingdale's was the last remaining anchor store at san francisco center. >> but as