now. >> and right now at three, the legal fight challenging the trump administration. san francisco is helping lead the charge with several lawsuits fighting to protect research, funding, public health data and more. city attorney david chu will join us live to discuss the road ahead. apple's commitment to america, the silicon valley tech giant's announcement today, promising to focus on making its

products and creating jobs right here in the us. and a break in the case san jose police announced the arrest of multiple suspects in the stabbing death of a 15 year old who was killed on valentine's day at santana row. good afternoon. thanks for joining us for abc seven news at three, i'm kristen z. we'll have all those stories coming up. but let's begin with developing news in oakland, a housing authority police department officer and a suspect are both in the hospital following a shooting overnight. this happened shortly before 1 a.m. near 85th avenue and g street. police say the officer was conducting a vehicle stop when the suspect opened fire, injuring the officer. the officer shot back, hitting the suspect. both are said to be stable this afternoon. investigators are looking into what happened in the moments before the shooting in hillsborough. police are still searching for a person they say shot a police officer on saturday. it happened in the back parking lot of the hillsborough police department. city officials tell us the officer survived the shooting

because the bulletproof vest they were wearing at the time, the officer fired back and the suspect ran off. police say they interviewed a person of interest over the weekend, but they haven't made any arrests. they believe the police department was specifically targeted and that hillsborough residents don't need to be concerned. a memorial is growing in the north bay after police say two santa rosa city school students died from overdoses this weekend. new video shows photos, flowers and candles honoring the victims. a 16 year-old and an 18 year-old were found dead in a home on brookwood drive. investigators believe the victims did not know they were taking dangerous amounts of fentanyl. a man has been arrested. he's accused of selling the drugs to the teens who died. police are also looking into whether that suspect is connected to two incidents. on saturday, two teenage girls were hospitalized for suspected fentanyl overdoses. san jose police today announced the arrests of five people in connection with the

stabbing death of a 15 year old. david gutierrez was killed on valentine's day while on a date with his girlfriend at santana row. police say gutierrez was attacked by a group of teenagers and initially was able to get away, but investigators say a 13 year old chased him down and stabbed him. police say all five suspects are affiliated with a local san jose street gang, and were looking for a confrontation. >> this act was as senseless as it is heartbreaking. it was a tragedy that has shaken our community, and it demands that we speak honestly about the challenges we face in our juvenile justice system. >> the 13 year-old suspected stabber, if found guilty, is only likely to serve 6 to 8 months in an unlocked facility, according to san jose's police chief. three of the other suspects are 16 and one is 18. police say the victim had no gang affiliation, but was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. today, a san francisco based u.s. appeals court upheld the conviction of theranos

founder elizabeth holmes. she was sentenced in 2022 to 11 years in prison for defrauding investors in the former palo alto blood testing startup. the court upheld the fraud conviction and holmes a sentence. it's also standing by the $452 million restitution order to be paid by holmes and her former partner, ramesh sunny balwani, who, serving nearly 13 years in prison. tomorrow, san francisco unified school district is voting on whether to send out hundreds of preliminary layoff notices. it's part of a plan to fix a $113 million budget deficit without shutting down schools. if it passes, more than 800 notices will be sent to teachers and counselors who may be let go next school year. state law says notices need to be given by march 15th. final decisions about layoffs, though, will be made in may. and some of those notices might be rescinded. it's not just san francisco unified confronting a budget crisis. districts across the bay area have some difficult

decisions to make this week. tomorrow, san jose's franklin mckinley school district is set to vote on whether to close five schools. fremont unified is considering laying off about 200 employees to help close a $30 million deficit. hayward unified has until friday to approve its fiscal solvency plan, which could include more than 100 job cuts. now to the latest out of washington as the trump administration goes after federal workers, many are now getting mixed messages about whether to respond to elon musk's demand, asking for their list of accomplishments last week. workers have until midnight to reply or risk getting fired. and as abc's reena roy explains, thousands of federal workers were already fired today by the trump administration. >> in just hours, up to 2 million federal workers could be terminated, with tech billionaire elon musk offering an ultimatum, telling them on x to list what they got done last week and warning that failure to respond will be taken as a resignation. an email was sent by the office of personnel

management at the direction of musk, demanding workers reply with five bullet points by midnight tonight. president trump saying today he applauds the move. >> there was a lot of genius in sending it. we're trying to find out if people are working. if people don't respond, it's very possible that there is no such person or they're not working. >> transportation secretary sean duffy telling dot employees to respond, defending the move on fox news. >> you can't come up with five things that you did. you know, maybe you shouldn't be employed here. >> leadership at the treasury department telling employees to comply and respond by opm's deadline. but the director of national intelligence, tulsi gabbard, writing, given the inherently sensitive and classified nature of our work, employees should not respond. musk saying he is simply following instructions from president trump, who encouraged him to get more aggressive. the u.s. agency for international development, placing most of its staff worldwide on leave and firing at least 1600 u.s. based roles. despite prior assurances from the administration to preserve the agency's core life

saving medical services plus food and shelter assistance. serena li says she got a termination letter friday night. >> the work that we do, it matters, and we won't know how much it matters until we're presented with another catastrophic disaster. >> federal unions filing a lawsuit calling this move unlawful, and asking a judge to immediately block the trump administration from continuing to fire employees and require the white house to reinstate the employees that have already been laid off. that judge in california has set a hearing for thursday to determine whether to block the administration from terminating probationary federal workers. reena roy, abc news, new york. >> the fda is delaying its plan to start putting new labels on foods that can be considered healthy. the agency had hoped to roll out new nutritional label requirements starting tomorrow, but president trump issued a pause last month. so today, the fda announced it's pushing the start date to april 28th. the

new requirements include a limit on added sugars and sodium for foods to get the healthy label. up next see you in court. san francisco is defiantly fighting president trump's executive orders with a flurry of lawsuits. what is city attorney david chu hoping to accomplish? is he afraid of repercussions? chu will join us

we're about a month into the second trump administration, and the city of san francisco has emerged as a leading opponent to many of the new executive orders. city attorney david chiu has filed three lawsuits, as well as a friend of the court brief against the administration for policies ranging from

cutting federal funding for scientific research to withholding federal funding from cities with sanctuary policies. >> this is the federal government coercing local officials to bend to their will or face defunding or prosecution. and that is illegal or authoritarian. >> joining us live now to talk about the city's flurry of new lawsuits against the federal government is san francisco city attorney david chiu. david, good to see you. >> good to see you, too. thanks for having me on. >> yeah, i've seen you in a lot of news conferences, certainly because you've been suing the trump administration on multiple fronts. right. so let's start with the latest action announced friday, which is not really a you're not a plaintiff, but you basically said we stand with the plaintiffs on this, and this is an amicus brief that has to do with cutting federal research funding. tell us what the deal is there and what is your position? >> so we joined 43 jurisdictions. >> around the country and a brief to support lawsuits against the trump administration for cutting in a dramatic and illegal way, funding to research

institutes around the. >> country, legal or and illegal. >> illegal in an illegal way. research institutes like ucsf here in san francisco that are responsible for not only lifesaving discoveries, but are crucial to our local economies and are helping to make the united states really the leader when it comes to scientific research. >> okay. so there's that, right. because you're saying there's local impact institutions like ucsf. right. >> it's local impact as well as impact on our health, impact on our ability to find those next discoveries that will protect us and help us live longer. >> okay. does this also, you know, impact the biotech industry, which is so big in san francisco, in the bay area? >> absolutely. ucsf is intertwined with the biotech industry, and so many of the discoveries from ucsf are critical to moving forward basic science and scientific research around the world. >> okay. so you're in the fight to try to stop that. that's right. the other three, the city is actually a plaintiff. they have to do with withholding money from sanctuary cities, which is a threat, right? ending

birthright citizenship. like you born in the us. you're an american. doesn't matter where your parents are from or how they got here. and then taking down previously publicly available health data. i think talk about each of those three and your thinking on those and how they might impact us. >> so i'll talk about health data. so earlier this month, the trump administration took down 80,000 web pages and data sets. medical information, research data that are critical to doctors that are making clinical decisions around their patients. critical to public health departments like san francisco's department of public health to figure out how to combat health threats, infectious diseases. you know, it's not a total surprise that the trump administration has done this. donald trump really built a political movement on lies and pseudoscience. but it is incredibly harmful to our health and will have very serious impacts all over the country and all over the world. san francisco is a destination for so many people. we need to be

able to track infectious diseases. i'll also note that the taking down of this data stemmed from anti lgbt executive orders. and so literally we don't have data that's related to fertility, that's related to reproductive health choices related to hiv, related to kids adolescent health. it's extremely harmful. >> okay. and of course we've talked you know, we've done stories with you about ending birthright citizenship. and also if you don't, hey, if you don't put your cop san francisco to help me enforce the immigration policies, deportations, then we might withhold your money. those are not empty threats. i mean, that is so much money that the city cannot afford to lose. right. and how does it make you feel to be kind of in that battle? because in a way, does that make it even more likely that the city will be a target? >> well, unfortunately, san francisco has been targeted before by the trump administration, and we actually fought this battle over federal funding and sanctuary cities eight years ago. we went to court. we were successful. uh- district courts and appellate courts found in our favor that

our local sanctuary policy, which exists to ensure community trust with immigrant communities that keep us safe. our policies were found to be legal. what trump was found to be doing was found to be unconstitutional, but he's doubling down again, and he's been filing lawsuits against the city of chicago, against the state of new york. we know that all sanctuary jurisdictions are really being targeted at this moment. so it was important for us to make sure that the rule of law applied and that his illegal actions, that we were going to court to say the rule of law needs to needs to stand up. >> right. i mean, certainly the state's attorneys general are taking up a lot of the battle. but for a city like san francisco to get involved, right. i wonder if it's eating up a lot of resources. and how is that affecting your ability to handle some of the more local issues as well? >> well, my deputies are doing an incredible job working around the clock to make sure that we continue to move san francisco forward with all of the challenges that we have around homelessness and our public safety work, but also making

sure we are dealing with the threats that are presented every day. when the trump administration is violating the law. we work closely with our attorney general. in fact, we had filed our first lawsuit a day after trump came into office and tried to end birthright citizenship by executive order, something that has been part of the constitution for 157 years. that was litigated in front of the supreme court and upheld 127 years ago by a chinese american citizen from san francisco. it was important for us to stand up for that because, if not literally, generations of newborns. >> mean that, right? kind of got affirmed here, right? >> the right got affirmed here. and this case has actually already we've already had our first victory in court just last week. >> all right. what other areas do you foresee possibly suing the trump administration in the coming weeks and months? i mean, you know, when you think about environmental protections, labor protections, consumer protections, san francisco and the state of california are generally considered to be in the forefront. >> we are certainly monitoring everything. i mean, every day they are making decisions that

impact rights and uh- and our civil society, whether it be those areas you're talking about, climate change, protections for workers and consumers, our lgbtq community, certainly our immigrant community. we are making assessments as things happen, and cities and counties around the country, as well as our states, are standing up for our rights in court. clearly, donald trump has disregarded the constitution and the rule of law, and our hope is that judges will stand up at this moment and follow what the law is. >> let me just ask you real quickly before i let you go here. you've been a lawmaker in california here before, and you certainly understand, you know, the roles of the three branches of government and the checks and balances. do you see an increasing reliance or need for the law and lawsuits in the next four years? >> you know, unfortunately, with donald trump controlling the executive branch as well as the legislative branch with his republican allies, it's really that third branch of government, which is the last bulwark of

protections for our democracy, for our civil rights. and we've seen judges who are ruling in the right way in these cases, doing what the law and the facts say they should do. it remains to be seen how the trump administration responds to that. they are trying an unprecedented power grab of the executive branch, allowing their billionaire buddies to take over the levers of government to control our personal data. and at the same time, they're not focused on the things that donald trump said he was campaigning on, which was addressing our economy, dealing with inflation, which continues to get worse. so it it will be a long four years, but we need to stand up for our communities. we have to defend who we are as our cities, as our state, the values of our country. >> well, it sounds like san francisco will certainly be in the headlines in the weeks to come. city attorney david chu, thank you so much for coming in and joining us. >> thanks for having me on, christine. >> up next, a major announcement by cupertino based apple, its plan to build new facilities and

train new employees here in america. and a look at your workweek forecast. sunny skies returning tomorrow and warmer weather too.

a spring and warmer weather on tap. let's check in with abc seven news weather anchor spencer christian. hey, spencer. >> hey, kristen. yeah. today didn't quite start on a springlike note, did it? with lots of clouds and a couple of little patches of drizzle. but here's a look at the satellite radar image. you can see why we've had the weather we've had so far today. that low pressure system up there off the coast of the pacific northwest, kicking up some rain in the well to our north, and we've got a few sprinkles out of it. it's also whipping up some rough surf, and this high pressure system will eventually take control of our weather. by tomorrow, it will be asserting itself, and we'll have a big warm up thanks to that high pressure system. right now, though, we have breezy conditions gusts up to about 18mph at san mateo. and i

mentioned the increasing wave heights of beach hazards statement will be in effect from late tonight to late tomorrow night. north long period westerly swell whipping up wave heights that may reach 15 to 18ft. of course, under these conditions, there's an increased risk of rip currents and sneaker waves. and this is mainly for our west and northwest facing beaches. okay. live for you from sutro tower looking out over san francisco where it's 61 degrees right now, oakland 62. we have mid 60s in hayward, san jose, redwood city, and 59 at half moon bay. clouds are beginning to part over the bay bridge right over the golden gate right now. beg your pardon? it's been cloudy there just about all day, but we'll see some breaks of sunshine going later into the afternoon. with 59 degrees right now at santa rosa and petaluma, 60 at napa, mid 60s at fairfield, concord and livermore. and looking across the embarcadero from our rooftop camera. these are our forecast headlines tomorrow through friday. we'll have mainly sunny days and springlike warmth. in fact, the middle of the week wednesday will bring us our warmest weather with temperatures 10 to 15 degrees above average on wednesday. but the weekend outlook is quite different. cooler, cloudier with rain chances. okay, forecast

animation for this evening and tonight shows some sprinkles developing offshore. they will not move on land. we'll get a clearing during the overnight hours. we'll start the day tomorrow with sunny skies and that warm spring-like pattern we talked about will continue overnight. low temperatures will be generally on the mild side, mainly in the mid to upper 40s. highs tomorrow about 60 at half moon bay, mid to upper 60s around the bay shoreline mid to upper 60s inland. that's above average for this time of the year. and the temperatures will continue to climb wednesday. as we look at the accuweather seven day forecast mid 70s as our afternoon highs around the bay and inland. low 70s around the bay and inland on thursday. friday. still mild. final day of february will bring us some mild weather, but going into the weekend we'll have increasing clouds. 1st of march or saturda. showers are developing maybe late, mainly late sunday into monday. and by the way, sunday is oscar sunday, which you can watch right here on abc seven. kristen. >> all right. thank you spencer. a major announcement from apple that could create thousands of

jobs across the country. the company says it's opening a new manufacturing facility in houston. apple will spend $500 billion over the next four years updating its manufacturing plans. this includes an ai server facility in houston and a training academy for engineers in detroit. apple says the investments will create 20,000 new jobs. the announcement comes after reports last week that ceo tim cook met with president trump. many of apple's products are produced in china and could face tariffs imposed by trump earlier this month. up next, from seeing green to dreaming of oscar gold, the man who created some of the signature looks in wicked is now looking

sunday coming up this weekend. hollywood's biggest night is always history making, and this year is no exception. the man who helped bring the smash hit wicked to life is nominated for best costume design. if he wins, he will become the first black man to win in that category. reporter joelle gargiulo, from our sister station in new york, sits down with the nominee, paul tazewell. >> he's someone who tells stories without saying a word. and while you may not know his name, you've definitely seen his work. from hamilton to the color purple, west side story, and now bringing his style to wicked. >> the wizard will see you now. >> he's costume designer and oscar nominee paul tazewell. where do we start? how about with congratulations. >> and really a beautiful journey. >> a journey that started a very long time ago. if i were to ask you, what was the first production that you did costumes for, what would you say? >> the first full production that i did was the wiz when i was 16, in high school.

>> can you see the beautiful full circle moment in that? >> yes, indeed i can. yeah. >> one. two. three. >> that was it. tazewell has brought us to life once again. >> am i not the most scandalous little fish in the sea, though? >> this time on a significantly larger scale. 25 looks for glinda, then multiplied the same for elphaba. then there's the world of shiz, munchkinland, emerald city. oh, and glinda's pink bubble dress. that's 137 pattern pieces, 225 hours just to hand bead a single bodice. >> oh. >> every single costume in this movie is a piece of art. >> tazewell joined the production before a single role was cast. but when cynthia erivo stepped into elphaba's shoes, the story deepened. >> with cynthia. i was so excited because i had already gone to that place of understanding elphaba as a person of color, and how she's being seen and being vilified for the color of her skin. figuring out who she is and how she takes up space in the world of oz. and i want for it to

carry a message to be larger than just a piece of clothing. >> every decision was made with enormous intention, working closely with cynthia and ariana, helping them craft their characters. >> with the hat. it becomes what we end up knowing as the wicked witch. >> what was it like seeing the movie for the first time? >> it was nail biting first. i broke down just because i was so. i was so proud and marveled at what we were able to accomplish. >> now, as he stands on the edge of history, potentially the first black male designer to win this oscar. >> what does it mean to you when you hear your name be called for that nomination? >> to have that acknowledgment, it means everything. >> and with the 97th academy awards approaching in a world of emerald green, paul tazewell's next color could very well be oscar gold. >> pink goes good with green. >> goes well with green. >> it's so does. >> i'm joelle gargiulo, abc news. >> oh, wicked is just a feast

for the eyes. everything is amazing. and abc seven is your home for the oscars. live coverage begins sunday at four. and for the first time, the oscars will stream live on hulu as well. disney is the parent company of hulu and abc seven. thanks for joining us for abc seven news at three. world news tonight with david muir starts now. and i'll see you back here at four. tonight, breaking news, just hours left. millions of federal workers told by elon musk to list what they've accomplished in the last week by midnight tonight, or risk getting fired. president trump today suggesting what happens if you don't respond. also, the frightening moments in a delta flight filling with smoke. passengers horrified. and tonight, remembering roberta flack.