right now. >> so we know that these types of chases usually end up causing unintended consequences of people being injured or killed. oftentimes people who aren't actually the ones being chased. and so in terms of both roadway safety and public safety, you know, it would be much better for the city to not to be encouraging police chases like this one. >> tonight, there are questions

once again about san francisco police pursuit policies after a chase ends with a crash into a restaurant parklet. good evening. thank you for joining us. i'm dan ashley. >> and i'm ama daetz. it happened yesterday in the mission district, leaving six people injured and ending in the arrest of two women. >> abc seven news reporter louis pena has the latest on the story. >> it was a san francisco police chase, the first minutes caught on camera by this driver on 19th avenue. minutes later, all ending here with the suspects crashing into the napper. tandy sports park parklet with multiple people inside watching the super bowl. >> any time there's people in the parklet, we know there's going to be a certain amount of individuals involved and the severity because of the vehicle. >> san francisco fire confirming six people, including a minor, were injured. this, as many saw the parklets roof collapse. now many are questioning the safety of parklets like this one that were first allowed in san francisco in 2021 to help many businesses survive with outdoor

spaces during the pandemic. >> the parklets are usually built out of two by fours, which is common lumber and a lot of plexiglas for visibility for the patrons. >> according to the executive director of the golden gate restaurant association, the napper tandy parklet was in compliance with the city's improved safety guidelines. >> it was set back 33ft from the intersection, which is more than is required. actually, it's eight feet on the side that it is the exiting side for the daylighting, or 20ft if you're entering an intersection. so this parklet was set back like four x the required amount. >> the shared spaces program, a multi-agency program which approves the permits for these parklets, said safety remains the number one priority and added in light of the police chase, resulting in a tragic coalition over the weekend. agencies are working together to evaluate whether additional measures should be implemented to enhance safety. they are approximately 500 parklets in

san francisco, and many businesses still depend on them. this transportation advocate is urging the city to focus on the safety of police chases instead. >> this is the unfortunate consequence of a policy, you know, that was approved with proposition e to allow police officers to chase people in cars that we know make streets less safe for people. >> sfpd confirmed the arrest of two suspects in this crash, a 32 and a 29 year old, both women. as to the pursuit, they said the wanted vehicle was reported stolen out of richmond in san francisco. luz pena, abc seven news. >> in san francisco as well, there have been another big change over the state's new pedestrian safety day lighting law. the law went into effect this year, making it illegal to park within 20ft of a crosswalk. the sfmta announced it will not issue $40 citations to drivers who park at spots that are not

painted red. instead, they will issue warnings to drivers found in violation of the law. trying to educate them about the law change drivers who park in marked red zones will still be fine. keep in mind the change comes after neighbors complained about confusion and the lack of red curbs. the city is speeding up the painting of red curbs all across the city. mta officials expect it should be done in about 18 months. >> oakland police say an arrest has been made after shots were fired at an officer overnight. the gunfire struck that officer's squad car and nothing else. that officer was investigating an incident on seminary avenue near macarthur boulevard just after midnight when someone opened fire. police say the officer was targeted by the shooter. this afternoon, police say a suspect was arrested. >> new developments tonight out of antioch as the police oversight commissioner resigns. it comes after the city says leslie may used several racist epithets to describe city leaders during a special meeting last month. the antioch police

department has been plagued by scandals in recent years, involving both racism and corruption among officers. may says stepping down immediately is in the best interest of her safety and health. antioch is also looking for a new police chief. the city hopes to have the position filled by june. >> all right, turning now to the weather as we take a live look out at the conditions. right now it seems nice and sunny, but do not be fooled. getting ready for the chill. for the details, let's get to abc seven news meteorologist sandhya patel. sandhya. >> yeah, just a reminder, it's still winter and we felt that chill over the weekend, in the mornings and we're going to feel it again. here's a live view from our sutro tower camera, looking at a beautiful view of the golden gate bridge. soak up the sun while we have it, because 1 a.m. to 9 a.m. tomorrow, a frost advisory is going up for the inland valleys and hills. you will notice the temperatures dropping to 31 degrees. you will see frost forming. we have a freeze warning for solano county 10 p.m. tonight until 7 a.m.

tomorrow. numbers as low as 30 degrees means frost and freeze could kill sensitive plants. and of course, you'll want to protect your pipes and your pets as well. so we go hour by hour. and while tonight it is still in the 40s and 50s, later on you will notice the temperatures dropping quickly, and then a few clouds start to roll in so the temperatures are not going down as low as we've seen in days past, but we certainly will be right down near freezing to below as we head towards the morning hours. on live doppler seven, there is a system that is developing and it's really to our north here. limited in moisture. it drops down and as it does, here's what you're going to see. so late tomorrow night i'm talking 11 p.m. some light rain arrives. snow begins to develop over mount hamilton going into wednesday morning, and those showers will be winding down pretty quickly. bigger storms coming. i'll be back with those details in just a few minutes. dan. >> it looks like it. brace ourselves. sandhya. thank you. in his first 100 days in office, president trump is trying to

shrink the federal government. one of his plans is asking thousands of federal workers to resign. but it's facing challenge in court. a federal judge in boston is keeping a temporary restraining order in place after the trump administration gave workers the chance to resign with pay or risk being fired. more than 65,000 workers have accepted the deal. >> no judge should, frankly, be allowed to make that kind of a decision. it's a disgrace. >> in a statement, california senator adam schiff said ignoring court decisions will not. we don't, like put us on a dangerous path to lawlessness. meanwhile, another judge has blocked trump's executive order attempting to ban birthright citizenship. >> 22 state attorneys general, including california's rob bonta, have sued the trump administration over planned cuts to the national institutes of health. the trump administration has ordered capping indirect payments to research grants at 15%. those indirect payments include administrative and facility costs linked to research. the attorneys general

argued that cap will harm life saving research, cost hundreds of thousands of jobs, and hurt the american economy by billions. >> president trump has also ordered the u.s. department of treasury to stop minting pennies. so what does that mean, exactly? abc seven news reporter monica madden has the story. >> collecting coins has been an obsession for seth chandler his entire life. >> i started collecting when i was four years old. >> and with some good fortune. he's made a career out of it. >> so he can actually hold history in your hand. >> but even as passionate as he is. >> this one's worth probably like $5,000. yeah. yeah, it's a nice one. see. >> chandler can't seem to find the value in a penny. >> we all start collecting pennies and cents as kids. you put them in the blue little albums one at a time. but enough is enough. >> his $0.02. get rid of it. >> do you use pennies at all? i mean, i like to look at them, but i'm not going to collect them. we don't really use them for commerce anymore. >> in a social media post, president donald trump calls making pennies wasteful. it's unclear if trump alone can end

the mintage of a coin, since the u.s. treasury derives its authority from congress. >> it's been alleged in recent days that it costs the government about $0.03 to make a $0.01 and that, of course, is a money losing proposition. >> the u.s. mint reported losing $85 million in the 2024 fiscal year on the nearly 3.2 billion pennies it produced. >> really expensive in terms of time and effort, both for businesses and for spenders, to deal with these pennies that convey very little value. >> experts say don't expect that to change if the coin stops being made. >> it's unlikely that it will be a very good investment strategy to hoard pennies in the hope that their value will go up. if, in fact, pennies disappeared, it would probably make actually an awful lot of business life and transactions easier, not more difficult.

>> pennies or not. >> that's what's called a 1909 svb's was made right here in san francisco in 1909. >> fanatics like chandler are just happy to talk change. >> if you're not into collecting pennies, looks like we may eliminate them. there's other dozens of really cool coins that we made, especially right here in san francisco. >> monica madden, abc seven news. >> coming up, it's still 363 days away, but preparations are already underway for super bowl 60 here in the bay area. what you can expect when levi's stadium hosts the big game. >> plus, expanding shark conservation with the help of a robotics team from stanford. we'll tell you about the technology being used when abc

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begin at san jose city hall. the city faces a budget deficit of as much as $60 million, declining sales tax revenue and increasing costs have the city

council seeing red. mayor matt mehan tells the mercury news he wants to shift funding from affordable housing to interim shelters to help alleviate the shortfall. mehan warns he cannot rule out layoffs of city staff, but is taking a stand against any cuts to public safety. >> all right, now that super bowl 59 is in the history books, the focus shifts to the bay area and levi's stadium, which is set to host super bowl 60 next year. abc seven news south bay reporter dustin dorsey has more on the preparations already underway and the festivities that will be held all across the bay area. >> the big game is over. the confetti has fallen and now the eyes of the football world turn to the bay area. >> from louisiana to levi's. now it's our turn to show what we've got. >> it's time to turn to san francisco bay area super bowl 60. >> we will make super bowl 60 the best super bowl in history. >> with the handoff from new orleans brass, the bay area host

committee is on the clock as it ticks towards super bowl 60 at levi's stadium. ten years after santa clara played host to super bowl 50, the big game returns to the moscone center is being targeted once again as the site for events like radio row and the super bowl experience. in 2016, san jose and the sap center hosted super bowl opening night, but most of the other events centered in san francisco. but this time, the bay area host committee's president says all parts of the bay area will be more involved. >> music festivals. parties, food festivals, things that the residents of the bay area can actually take advantage of as well. hitting a more diverse population. attracting a different demographic, allowing for more people to see and enjoy the sport in the game of football. >> and that work has already started. the host committee and san jose mayor matt mehan spent time in new orleans this week, learning from the team there to see exactly what it will take to bring the big game here. >> i was looking at things like street closures and outdoor, you

know, block parties, the public art and live music scene. it was an incredible experience to walk around for a couple of days and see how they tied it all together. >> 40 niners ceo jed york says the bay area has gotten a lot of negative press as of late, but with a world cup and a super bowl coming to town, it's an opportunity for our area to shine. >> we're going to show you what the future is and why the bay area is the greatest region in the world. we had a great super bowl and super bowl 50. this is going to blow the doors off. >> and only 363 days to go. but who's counting in the south bay? dustin dorsey, abc7 news. >> i think we're counting after a beautiful weekend and start to the week. we're also counting down to when things are going to get cold and rain is back in the forecast. you can see from this live picture that it's not here just yet. you see the sun setting there, but we're going to check in with abc7 news meteorolog

an eye on our environment all around us. but now a team of young researchers believe they have found an easier way to do that, and they're hoping it will help us better understand the behavior of sharks and other marine creatures. abc seven news meteorologist drew tuma explains. >> if you're lucky enough to score a diving trip to costa rica, who wouldn't snap a few pictures or take a few videos? but a team of student researchers from stanford's robotics believe their images offer a powerful technique for expanding shark conservation. >> we took our drones to santa elena bay, a marine protected area in costa rica, to study and tag endangered pacific nurse sharks. >> the team tracked their fieldwork during an expedition and assembled it into a video. they're hoping to document the power of drone photography, coupled with artificial intelligence. we assembled the shark chasers back at stanford to take us behind the scenes. field team member dakota riemersma says the computer science is as important as the

drone hardware. >> one of the strengths of the model and incorporating machine learning and ai is that it is generalizable, and that it's also kind of infinitely specialized. >> reporter. the targets varied from the habitats around santa elena bay to the marine life, like nurse sharks that inhabit it. to test their drone powered platform, the team first hit the water to survey the area up close. then they compared that data to images they collected with the drone footage in a sort of 3-d viewing model. mark leone says they're advancing recognition technology could give the aerial technique even more capabilities. >> to actually automatically detect and track the sharks in the imagery. >> a sort of facial to fin recognition, including size, motion and potential behavior. chinmay lalgudi says the platform could work with multiple drone models or other types of photo survey

technologies, with the potential to fast track field research and make it easier to work in remote areas. >> where now you don't need all this human expertise and effort and time it takes to annotate this data. instead, you could directly apply our pipeline and a future version of our pipeline to then automatically detect marine organisms, from sharks to whales to etc. >> the team believes it all holds the promise of unlocking secrets by being in the right place at the right time, with airborne algorithms that can recognize what they're seeing. team member jaden clark. >> and then it goes out, finds a very rare animal, kind of observes this behavior, and then goes back and redacts itself and then continues the survey later. i think that's really a pie in the sky idea that a lot of ecologists have that are using drones. but i think we're on the way to getting there. >> dreaming big with a project that could someday help accelerate our understanding of the marine environment around us. at stanford, drew tuma, abc7 news. >> really interesting work. and

the expedition itself was funded by a grant from the stanford woods institute for government and environment. >> all right, let's get a check on our weather. things are changing again drastically. >> meteorologist sandhya patel is here with a forecast that includes a good bit of rain. sandhya. >> it does indeed. and you know what? we'll get it later on this week. but tomorrow will get kind of a little taste of winter once again. right now. dan, let me show you a live picture. good evening everyone. this is from our sky star camera at fisherman's wharf. giving a view like no other. this is from that skystar wheel. it is absolutely clear right now, but that is why we are expecting the chill. a system is going to drop in from the north. it doesn't have a whole lot of moisture with it. so that's late tomorrow night into wednesday. this next system here is an atmospheric river, and it certainly will bring us wet, windy conditions heading into thursday. so let's look at live doppler seven. right now some clouds are gathering. here's a live view from our golden gate bridge camera. absolutely beautiful view. mid 50s from oakland to hayward to

san jose. you're at 51 in san francisco and 50 in half moon bay. santa cruz camera looking at a gorgeous view right now. 54 in santa rosa. it is 50 in petaluma. 53 napa. you're at mid 50s concord and livermore from our east bay hills. camera looking at clear skies overnight tonight. cold with frost again late tuesday night into wednesday. we have a rain. snow mix. the snow on the higher peaks and thursday a stronger storm arrives with that atmospheric river. so once again tomorrow morning we're going under a frost advisory for many of our inland valleys and hills. but it's a freeze warning tonight through tomorrow morning in solano county, temperatures right below freezing for our coldest locations. so definitely take precautions. uh. lakeport. ukiah in the upper 20s. the rest of you in the 30s and the 40s. here are your afternoon highs with mostly cloudy skies, mid to upper 50s. now we're going to go into tomorrow night. 11 p.m. the rain is just barely touching the coastline as we head towards early wednesday morning. this is

going to be a quick shot of some wet weather. some rain moves in snow over mount hamilton and really, this continues at 6 a.m. by 9 a.m. it's starting to push on out of here and by noon it is done with this system. rainfall totals pretty much reflect this. some areas to the north may not measure anything, but you will notice the higher totals are further south. as this system is taking more of a southern trajectory about a third of an inch in mountain view and san jose, 4/10 in redwood city. winter storm watch is going to go up wednesday evening to friday evening above 4500ft. big time snow expected for the mountains 2 to 4ft above 6000. gusty winds, very difficult travel. so keep that in mind. and i do want to show you that system on thursday is going to really drench us. the sierra is going to get more snow heading into friday. and then you get a break just in time for the chinese new year parade. as we head into sunday. another opportunity for some rain going into monday. it's a chance and then it is all done. but that thursday system will bring us heavier rain. the accuweather

seven day forecast. cold morning late night rain. it's a level one for wednesday. rain and snow on the higher peaks, a level two for thursday, scattered showers friday. it's a one, but in time for the chinese new year parade on saturday it will be dry. and then we have a level one coming in on sunday. so dan and ama, we've got more winter in store. >> but at least the parade, it looks like we'll be dry. >> yes. very important. good news. >> thanks. >> well, the historic warfield building in san francisco has a new owner. two nonprofits have teamed up to turn the space on market street into a place for the arts. the building, sold to community arts stabilization trust and k a l w public media. warfield commons will feature a space for live on air programing, production and podcast studios, as well as offices, classrooms, and training spaces for educators, formerly incarcerated reporters and other journalism

sky seven over san francisco bay. just a few hours ago. >> yeah. take a look. this is the 80 year old philippine mars

flying boat taking off from california on its retirement flight to arizona. the world war ii era water bomber was only one of seven built for the navy, and the bay area was the halfway point between its former home in british columbia and its future place at the pima air and space museum. that's where it will go on static display. >> very cool. and look at this. an incredible view of the flying boats final trip out of the golden gate, as she has done so many times before. flying troops and supplies across the pacific. the philippine mars overnighted at alameda's seaplane lagoon. it's the former naval air base where this very airplane called home during the 1940s. we're told the plane has safely arrived now in arizona. pretty majestic. >> yeah, that is cool. all right. we still have much more news ahead. >> we do. let's go to abc seven news anchor stephanie sierra for a look at what's coming up at 530. steph. >> thanks, dan. tonight, a deep dive into san francisco's homeless crisis. the city making yet another attempt to address it. will it work this time?

building a better bay area reporter lyanne melendez joins us live to discuss the changes past to present. then, after 25 years, the bay area takes center stage for the 2025 nba all star game this weekend. abc seven sports anchor chris alvarez joins us to discuss all the excitement, plus some new changes this year. join us for those stories and more on abc seven. bay area streaming tv at 530. dan and emma. >> excellent. thank you very much, steph. >> and you can download the abc seven app or head to abc7 news.com to join steph in two minutes.

>> david: tonight, breaking news as we come on the air in the west. two new back-to-back major storms now moving in. also breaking at this hour, the deadly plane collision in the west. word of a jet colliding with another jet in scottsdale. first tonight, 77 million americans under alerts right now. snow, freezing rain, winds, treacherous driving. both storms hitting across