starts right now. >> you're gambling with world war three. you're gambling with

world war three. and what you're doing is very disrespectful to the country. this country. >> a high stakes meeting at the oval office turns into a contentious war of words. president trump shouting at ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky, calling him disrespectful as the two tried and failed to negotiate a deal to end the war in ukraine. good afternoon. thanks for joining us for abc seven news at three, i'm kristen z. during that meeting, vice president j.d. vance also engaged in name calling. and it ended with president trump unceremoniously kicking president zelensky out of the white house. abc's christiane cordero has more on the tense turn of events that has stunned the world. >> what was supposed to be a diplomatic meeting with ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky today dissolved into a shouting match. >> but you're either going to make a deal or we're out. >> zelensky, not wanting to make a deal to end the war with russia and give the u.s. a share

of ukraine mineral resources unless he gets security guarantees to prevent russia's aggression. >> we're not in a good position. you don't have the cards right now with us. you start having cards. cards? right now, you don't. you're playing cards. you're playing cards. you're gambling with the lives of millions of people. you're gambling with world war three. >> zelensky pushed back, pointing to vladimir putin's previous violations of peace deals. >> he broken the cease fire. he killed our people and he didn't exchange prisoners. we signed the exchange of prisoners, but he didn't do it. what kind of diplomacy? jd, you are speaking about? >> vice president jd vance called zelensky disrespectful and ungrateful. >> i think it's disrespectful for you to come into the oval office and try to litigate this in front of the american media. >> president trump posting on social media after that, zelensky can return when he is ready for peace. >> you've done a lot of talking. your country is in big trouble. i know you're not winning.

>> ukraine's ambassador, seated in the oval office with her head in her hands. zelensky left the white house early. the signing ceremony for the mineral rights deal and a planned joint news conference canceled. a senior white house official tells abc news. zelenskyy after the oval office was escorted to a holding room. that's where secretary of state marco rubio and national security advisor mike wallace told him. the president demanded he leave the white house and return when he serious. christiane cordero, abc news, washington. >> president trump is expected to sign an executive order soon, declaring english the official language of the u.s. the white house says it would undo a clinton era mandate requiring agencies receiving federal funding to provide extensive language assistance. the new rule would give agencies flexibility to decide when and how to offer services in other languages. the new rule would give agencies the flexibility, and california has only english as its official language already

in our state constitution. after voters passed prop 63 in 1986. now, coming up in about ten minutes, we'll dive into whether this executive order would actually mean anything has to change here in california. john trasvina, the former dean of the university of san francisco law school, will join us live for a conversation coming up about 310 in palo alto today, more than 100 protesters marched and rallied against the trump administration and elon musk. the coalition of bay area organizations is calling on californians to boycott and divest from tesla. organizers say trump and doj's agenda being carried out by musk is an unprecedented attack on health care, jobs, schools, parks and civil rights. they also oppose the gop's budget blueprint that they say will put millions at risk, while consolidating power and wealth for musk and other corporate billionaires. now to new developments on the health of pope francis. he was put on a breathing machine today amid his ongoing battle with pneumonia.

the vatican says the pope suffered a sudden episode of breathing difficulty but is still very alert. the 88 year old pontiff has been hospitalized for the past two weeks. the vatican says because of his ongoing illness, the pope will not lead next week's ash wednesday service. kicking off the season of lent. there's also an update on the investigation into the deaths of actor gene hackman and his wife. the sheriff in santa fe, new mexico, said moments ago that the couple both tested negative for carbon monoxide. they were found dead in their home earlier this week. investigators say the initial autopsy did not find an obvious cause of death. and so far, there are no signs of foul play. >> there was no indication of a struggle. there was no indication of anything that was missing from the home or disturbed. >> the sheriff also said hackman's pacemaker turned off last monday. investigators are looking at cell phone data to try to build a timeline of the couple's final days. toxicology

results could take months. san francisco has a new police commissioner. mayor daniel lowery swore in wilson loooooong this morning in a ceremony at city hall. loooooong is a corporate compliance lawyer and former federal prosecutor. the city's board of supervisors unanimously approved his nomination on tuesday. appointing a new police commissioner is just the latest step in mayor lowery's public safety initiative. the police commissioner is a civilian panel that weighs in on sfpd policies. here at abc7 news, we focus on building a better bay area by finding solutions. and in san francisco, the number of overdose deaths is on the decline. last year's total of more than 630 deaths is down by 22% compared to numbers from 2023. but one program is actively working to get more people into recovery every day. abc seven news reporter lena howland shows us how the salvation army bell ringer we profiled last year is finding his next step in the way out initiative gallery.

>> we first met timothy stewart back in december, serving as a bell ringer for the salvation army's red kettle campaign. the 61 year old was more than halfway through completing their harbor light recovery program after living on the street addicted to cocaine. >> they're giving me a second chance at a first class life. >> and on monday, he proved he wasn't going to be just another statistic. graduating with more hope than he had at his high school graduation. >> and this graduation meant more to me than that one did. because this graduation, i get to start a new life. >> now, with a new set of teeth and a job interview lined up next week. he's all moved in to the joseph mcphee center in san francisco, which marks the next step in the way out program. >> you have more freedom. you have you have more choices because of harbor light. i choose to get up. i choose to be at morning meeting. i choose to go to outside meetings. i choose to continue to work with my

sponsor. >> the joseph mcphee center is a two year recovery housing program where residents like stewart are required to spend 40 hours a week working, looking for work, or going to school. if they do end up with a job, the program temporarily holds 50% of their income until graduation. >> and really, what that's about is creating a nest egg where, you know, it's really incredibly expensive here in san francisco. and it's about giving somebody's life back a leg up when they start their journey outside of the salvation army's care. >> destiny pletsch is deputy director of the way out initiative. she says right now, the program's success rate is 76%. >> it is people who are graduating from joseph mcphee, center, who are clean and sober, who are employed and have somewhere to live. >> though tim has only been living here for less than a week, he's hopeful for what it can do for his future and the futures of the other 90 residents he shares a roof with. >> and you're going to come out of this, but your message is

going to become a message. >> in san francisco. lena howland, abc seven news. >> if you or someone you know is dealing with issues like substance abuse, there is help available. we have a list of resources on abc seven news.com. take action. all right, shifting gears. we're seeing another mild day across much of the bay area today. it's really nice when you take a live look outside from our roof camera overlooking the embarcadero. after today, though, changes are in store with a cooldown coming and rain returning this weekend. meteorologist drew tuma has a look at your accuweather forecast. >> one more mild day. we have highs in the 60s and 70s today. then the weekend that cooler weather is here. the clouds are back and then the rain is returning by sunday. it's light, but if you have outdoor plans, you do really want to move them indoors because the rain will be on and off all day on sunday, even though it will be light and continuing into monday. here's live doppler seven, along with satellite low pressure spinning into southern california. some high clouds from that low is

what you're seeing in your sky right now. we'll keep it partly cloudy throughout the day. then this system is going to bring us the rain here on sunday, and then it's on and off through monday. so looking at highs today we are dry. no issues with rain today. one more mild day, mid 60s to the mid 70s. feels quite nice. about 5 to 10 degrees above average for this time of the year. overnight tonight we do keep it pretty quiet, but you'll notice that fog moving in from the coast right after sunset and then we turn cloudy overnight tonight. could have some drizzle underneath the marine layer along the coast, 40 and 50 heading into saturday. now saturday, back to reality, so to speak. with our temperatures, this is where we should be for the first day of march. but then it gets even colder here on sunday. this is chilly temperatures only in the 50s and with that colder air does come rain. so here's the storm impact scale. bring it back for sunday as a level one for light scattered showers. the isolated chance of a thunderstorm. we do have dangerous surf along our coast. a high surf advisory in effect this weekend. waves right now slightly elevated, but they

could go as high as 19ft. those breakers along the coast so we could have dangerous swimming and surfing conditions. future weather showing you early sunday morning. here's the rain light to moderate nature first thing. and then we're just in and out of the scattered showers all morning and all afternoon and evening as that low slides down the coast for the back half of the weekend. rainfall totals. not worried about flooding by any means, just putting some damp conditions on our sunday. rainfall totals probably a quarter to a half of an inch across the region. a little bit of snow coming to the sierra. we do have winter weather advisory. in effect, we would see anywhere from 5 to 10in on our highest peaks, lake level, just a couple of inches out of this quick moving system. so here's the accuweather seven day forecast showing you today. it is a mild tomorrow for the first day of march we have morning fog, cooler conditions. light rain is back here on sunday with a level one light storm lingering into monday, and then another chance of showers likely wednesday of next week. kristen.

>> all right. thank you drew. when the rain moves in this weekend, you can track it with the abc seven bay area app. get the latest forecast and look at the same live doppler seven radar our weather team uses. just search abc seven bay area in your device's app store to download it now. happening now. there is a call to boycott major retailers for 24 hours as a protest to the economy. the goal is to show big corporations who really holds the power. organizers say they are upset over high prices in some corporations canceling diversity efforts, but some experts are not sure today's action will have any impact. >> they respond to one thing money, dollars. and so many of us around the country said, well, let's flex our dollar power because that is the only thing they listen to. >> the call isn't to boycott a single brand or a single retail outlet, but it's rather calling for consumers to shut down their spending all together. >> anna tuckman, a professor of marketing at northwestern

university who you just heard from, has researched the impacts of the company boycotts in the past. and she says this one is unique because it doesn't target one specific company. organizers say if you must spend, shop local. up next, president trump's latest executive order and its potential impact. we'll declaring english the official language of the us. lead to any changes in california from your ballot to your kids school. a legal expert will join us for an in-depth conversation and a super stunt for a great cause. the special visitors who visited and surprised some sick

he will soon sign an executive order making english the official language of the united

states. in a country where over 400 languages are spoken, what does this actually mean? will it be mostly symbolic, or will there be practical implications? even here in california. joining us live now is john trasvina, former general counsel to the u.s. senate judiciary subcommittee on the constitution and former dean of the university of san francisco school of law. john, thanks for your time. >> hi, christine. always good to see you. >> so explain the details of this order. it rescinds a federal mandate that required federal agencies in any recipients of federal funding to provide language assistance. so give us some concrete examples so we understand you know what this really means? in which areas of our lives could be impacted. >> well that's right. it's once again donald trump sending a message rather than doing the hard work of analyzing the impact that language has on average persons in america. so we have the impact will be here in california and across the country will be programs that

were mandated, language services and hospitals, translations of complicated medical forms, voting materials and other things. those are that those go from being required to being optional. and not every county, not every state, given their budget, is going to continue them. so we will see likely see a dramatic drop in services to people. >> okay. so it doesn't actually ban any of those agencies from still providing documents and services in multiple languages if they wanted to do it. right. >> but we haven't seen the full extent of the executive order yet. and that's one of the problems is that traditionally a president would say to congress, to the general accounting office, to counties, what are you doing on it? how much does it cost? when they ask san francisco how much it cost to have bilingual ballots, san francisco said it costs 16/10,000 of 1% of the city budget. very inexpensive. okay. if they if they had done that and said, well, we can pare back

here or we can increase there, let's look at how technology works today rather than when title six was was written. and president clinton had his own executive order on this, we would have a better way of addressing an issue. instead, this is just a message that people are not wanted. if president trump wanted to promote english, he would be providing more english classes rather than. what is proposed is drastic cuts of billions of dollars from our education budgets. >> i mean, i think a lot of people do look at it that way when they look at it in the context of his policies. right. and but i want to ask you, more than 30 states have already designated english as their official language, including california, which may surprise a lot of people. how did that end up in our constitution? >> it ended up in our constitution by having a ballot measure that went on the ballot and passed in california in 1986, again without really any analysis of what it would mean. and the courts have looked at

this since 1923, when the us supreme court, when german when german speakers were targeted after world war one, they were and children were treated as suspicious by the by the by the schools in nebraska. they banned german from being taught. so the courts have said the protection of the constitution extends to everybody, whether you speak english or not. so we can have official english provisions saying we have the official bird, the official tree, etc. but once it implicates people's constitutional rights, access to education, access to other programs, that's when you have a problem. and what this does, it moves funding for or requirements for bilingual services out of the mandatory into the possible. we can do it if we want to do it. too bad it's too expensive this year. we've got other budget matters, so we will see a drop in many different types of bilingual services to people, some of which are life saving. >> but do you think in

california because. >> a non-english speaker. >> right. but here in california, where we, despite having that english as our official language in our constitution, california has been at the forefront of providing multiple language services and assistance in all sorts of places, right from the ballots to the schools to really just everywhere. so given that, do you see anything changing here? >> yes, right here in san francisco, we have an $890 million budget deficit that the mayor and the board of supervisors have to fill. if they if we move bilingual services from a mandatory category into something that's optional, something that's preferable, even that's going to that's likely going to be a drastic cut. but we don't know yet. the executive order has come out today. we have some very responsible people here at city hall who understand the implications of police being able to speak in multiple languages. >> let me just ask you, though, how common is having an official language for a nation? i mean, is it a norm or an anomaly to

have such a thing and, and for, you know, things to be printed in multiple languages, for example, the ballot in other countries. >> it's common across europe. it's common in some asian countries, but other other countries don't do it that way. we're the only nation that says we are a nation of immigrants. and when presumably when the zs came over, when the seniors came over, we didn't need a law to say we and our children ought to learn english. that's that was a given. and what has been lacking recently, over many years is english classes. so that's where people can come together. and people have come together over the years to say what we really need is more english classes, access to services. and that makes a difference, not a not a constitutional amendment, not an official language provision coming out of the white house. that, again, is just a message rather than doing the hard work. >> all right. john trasvina, former dean of the university of san francisco school of law, thank you so much for your insight. >> thanks, kristen.

>> up next, the final countdown to the oscars is on. from the movies to the magic to the must see moments. producers are giving us a sneak peek at the show, and oscars fun kicks off tonight when robin roberts hosts a special edition of 2020 filled with surprises from the stars to sit down interviews with oscar nominees. tune in tonight at eight right here

two days away now. hollywood's biggest night on sunday will be right here on abc seven. oscars producers are promising the show will have fresh energy, big stars and a little bit of something for everyone to enjoy. and with first time host conan o'brien at the helm, they're sure to be surprises. abc's melissa dorn is in hollywood with a preview. >> the academy rolling out the red carpet and setting the stage for the 97th academy awards. and this year's new host is here. >> we did it. yes. yes.

>> conan o'brien making his red carpet debut as all eyes are on the best picture contenders. lancia amelia perez leads the pack with 13 nominations, while the brutalist and wicked earned ten, making it a battle of the musicals. >> you're gonna be popular. >> this is the first time two musicals, wicked and amelia perez, have been nominated for best picture since 1969. >> this is one of the most unpredictable years that i've ever covered, and it's the year without a frontrunner. >> wicked cynthia erivo is one oscar win away from egot status following her emmy, grammy and tony win. >> i felt like i recognized something in the character, the feeling of being on the outside, being a bit different, not fitting in. >> for me, powerful. >> performances in bob dylan's biopic a complete unknown, earning timothee chalamet a best actor nod. >> people, when they respect and love an icon of culture like bob

dylan, like willy wonka, they get extremely protective because they don't want to see a young, ignorant mess it up. but i can tell you on this we had a tremendous cast. >> there's not a moment too soon. >> and elton john and brandi carlile's song in the film is up for best original song. >> never too late. to go shoot out the moon. >> but don't expect a live musical performance from them this year. the oscars will not have the best original song performances. the academy says it will be focused on the songwriters. >> we've been promised a lot more other musical tributes and a lot of a lot of reunions that we haven't seen in quite some time. >> the oscars expecting to strike a different tone this year following the los angeles wildfires, the academy says they are pledged to helping its members and the greater film community recover. melissa don, abc news, hollywood. >> abc seven mornings anchor amanda delcastillo is in los

angeles for the oscars. she'll be live coming up at four. and throughout the weekend, she'll also be live on the red carpet for the big event. you can watch on sunday right here on abc seven. and for the first time, the oscars will stream live on hulu as well. disney is the parent company of hulu and abc

24 over seven. you can get the abc seven bay area app and join us whenever you want, wherever you are. for the second straight week, we've got the dubs on seven. catch the warriors in 76 ers tomorrow night. coverage begins at five. it's immediately followed by after the game. also tomorrow cal academy opens its newest exhibit dino days to the

public. it includes 13 animatronic dinosaurs. plus visitors will get to dig for fossils and attend dinosaur themed parties. so check it out. a magical moment on the peninsula. a few marvel, dc and disney superheroes took a day off from saving the world to brighten the faces of kids at lucille parker children's hospital at stanford. window washers transformed into deadpool's spider-man, frozone, and robin. the masked superheroes stood on scaffolding instead of scaling the walls to stay in compliance with state laws. but they made the windows sparkle, as well as the faces of the young heroes inside. the superheroes have been visiting patients at lucile packard for more than ten years. thanks for joining us for abc seven news at three. i'll see you back here at >> david: tonight, the shocking blowup in the oval office. president trump and ukraine's pr