starts right now. >> this is a huge impact to our community, to our families, and it's really disturbing and upsetting to everyone here. >> vandalism at an elementary school and the damage was so extensive, the entire school was canceled for the more than 400 students. good evening. i'm ama daetz. >> and i'm dan ashley. thanks for joining us. who would do

something like this? it happened early this morning at john reed elementary school in rohnert park. >> abc seven news anchor dion lim was there and found it's not just this one incident that's worrying parents. >> for people to break into their classrooms, it's scary. >> the lights are off and doors are shut at john reed elementary school in rohnert park. classes canceled for over 400 k through fifth grade students. after about half of the school's classrooms were vandalized early monday morning. >> if it had been a couple of classrooms, we definitely would have held school, but it was enough to warrant us closing the school today. >> the cotati-rohnert park unified school district superintendent wouldn't specify what kind of damage was done to the ten or so classrooms affected, but noted crews would be spending the rest of the day cleaning up. >> it's definitely concerning. hopefully that doesn't happen again. >> this isn't the first incident where john reed has been targeted for crime. i obtained two messages that went out to parents in january, alerting them of another act of vandalism, and a man who was arrested because he made threats against the school.

>> the rock throwing incident. the threat? this. it's weird that it's so much action around this specific city. >> every parent i spoke with said they wished for more security measures going forward. >> when i moved out here, i noticed that the schools aren't gated and for i'm very scared for my kids to start school here because that's one thing i don't like. >> we're also assessing that and what we need to do to make sure that our campuses are safe. >> while the school district assesses the damage and determines if anything was stolen, they're 99% certain cleanup will be complete in time for kids to attend school tuesday. >> i miss my friends. >> the missed school day will be made up later in the year. in rohnert park dion lim, abc seven news. >> new developments tonight for oakland fire stations that were headed for closure will now stay open. the city of oakland is currently dealing with an $89 million budget deficit. according to the san francisco chronicle, the city was able to bring that number down from 130 million and is now planning to

open three currently closed fire stations by the end of june. they're also able to prevent the closure of an additional four firehouses. >> the man who headed up the east oakland boxing association, a nonprofit, was in federal court today in oakland facing four counts of tax evasion and one count of mail fraud. he's accused of pocketing funds, including a charitable donation check from warriors player steph curry. abc seven news reporter leslie brinkley has the latest from court. >> solomon howard, the former executive director of the east oakland boxing association, arrived in court to face a federal judge on charges of tax evasion and mail fraud from when he was in charge from 2017 to 2021. the east oakland boxing association is a nonprofit mentoring agency for local youth that includes kickboxing and coaching. the boxing association took the national spotlight in 2019, when a $50,000 donation from stephanie curry was featured in this clip from the

ellen degeneres show, and howard was front and center. >> oh my gosh, that's right. you got a lot of redecorating to do for sure. >> court documents allege that howard deposited the $50,000 donation check into a personal account without the knowledge of board members, according to federal prosecutors. howard engaged in a scheme to embezzle money and property from eobr. documents claim he bought $100,000 of personal items on amazon, including a queen bed delivered to his home using the debit card. and prosecutors allege he embezzled funds to pay for two cars and a vacation rental property. howard pleaded not guilty on all counts and was ordered released under pretrial supervision with $25,000 bond. howard and his attorney did not respond to requests to comment on the case. and the interim director of the eobr said they would release a statement in the

coming days. solomon howard could face up to 20 years in prison on just the fraud charge. solomon has no previous criminal history. he is expected back in court on april 9th. in oakland, i'm leslie brinkley, abc seven news. >> now to an update on the criminal case involving an embattled south bay politician. former san jose city councilman omar torres pleaded not guilty today to charges of sex crimes with minors. he faces three felony counts of child sexual assault. torres resigned from city council last november. a special election is set for april 8th to fill his seat. ballots started being mailed out last week. >> opening statements started today in the civil rights scandal against two ex antioch police officers. according to the east bay times, the trial kicked off this morning and is expected to span several weeks. federal prosecutors claim the two plotted with other officers to hurt people for sport while on duty. they're also accused of falsifying or omitting key

details from police reports. the defense says the two were just doing their job, and says their text exchanges were just exaggerations, not plans for real abuse. >> next steps in the saga of san mateo county's embattled sheriff are now in the hands of voters. voters are already casting ballots for tomorrow's special election on measure a. now, if measure a is approved, it would give the board of supervisors the authority to remove the sheriff from elected office. abc seven news political reporter monica madden is here with the latest on the vote. monica. >> dan, this all stems back to allegations that sheriff corpos engaged in an inappropriate relationship with her chief of staff, victor i, and calls for her removal followed in november report examining accusations that she abused her powers and racist and homophobic messages, and created a toxic work environment, all allegations she forcefully denies. >> i haven't faltered in my job. like i've said, crime is down. the communities are safe.

>> on the eve of an election that threatens her career, san mateo county sheriff cristina corpus remains defiant. >> i am being crucified in the public eye for allegations. >> in an interview with abc seven news monday, the sheriff defends her work, saying she has received unfair treatment. >> i've been met with resistance from day one. holding people accountable has been called retaliation. disappointed is putting it lightly. >> it's uneasiness that has bled into county meetings and divided community activists. >> there's just too much turmoil. >> jim lawrence previously supported corpus but says her time has passed. >> we really need to get back down to normal. and i certainly hope that she'll step up and say, you know, let's just end this and go forward. you know. >> it's just a power grab. >> dan says giving the board this type of power sets a bad precedent. >> it's a slippery slope. there's no end to it. and quite frankly, it's clear that the

state of california never intended for a district elected board of supervisors to have an immediate mechanism to remove a countywide sheriff. >> the measure will grant supervisors the ability to remove a sheriff until 2028. that's when corpus term is set to expire. >> if the people don't want me to be the sheriff, then a recall should take place. >> outcomes aside, community members are hoping to see change to prevent similar situations from happening again. >> addresses a short term problem, but systemic issues require systemic changes. >> if voters approve measure a, it will still be quite some time before sheriff could be out of her job. the county elections department will first have to certify the vote. then the board of supervisors will have to present their case for removal to the public, and also allow corpus to share her side of the story before the public. four out of the county's five supervisors will have to sign off on a vote to kick her out of office. ultimately. dan. ama. >> okay, monica. thank you.

valley transportation authority is warning riders about a potential strike that could impact their commute as soon as tomorrow. the union contract for bus and light rail operators and other frontline staff expires at midnight tonight. if they don't reach a deal with vta, then union members will strike. and that means bus and light rail services will not be available. vta will only run paratransit service. the agency is encouraging riders to plan for alternate transportation. >> looks like the bay area has some work to do when it comes to closing the gender pay gap between men and women. in honor of women's history month, troc info dot net completed a new analysis of data from the department of labor and u.s. census bureau. the data shows san jose ranks fourth on the list of large u.s. cities with an earnings gap. women earned $0.72 for every dollar men earn. and in sunnyvale, which the report labeled a mid-size city, the disparity is even wider. women earn $0.56 for every dollar that a man earns. >> seven on your side is hosting

a tax chat this wednesday ahead of tax day. get your questions answered by tax professionals by sending them in now. go to abc seven news.com and click seven on your side and you'll find the form right there. then watch on wednesday right here on abc seven. >> all right still ahead. tariffs on canada mexico and china are set to go into effect tomorrow. and the stock market was quick to react. we'll show you the numbers and the impact you can expect on your wallet. >> plus the pope's health worsens. we're going to hear from an expert on his with the way that pg&e handled the wildfires. yeah. yeah. i totally, totally understand. we're adding a ton of sensors. as soon as something comes in contact with the power line, it'll turn off so that there's not a risk that it's gonna fall to the ground and start a fire. okay. and i want you to be able to feel the improvements. we've been able to reduce wildfire risk from our equipment by over 90%. that's something i want to believe. [skateboard sounds]

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20%. the dow lost 650 points, while the nasdaq fell nearly 500 and the s&p 500 lost more than 100 points today. >> all right. so you may be asking what are these new tariffs mean for goods that we buy here in the bay area? >> abc seven news reporter suzanne fawn talked with an expert on economic policy about the impact to products from china. >> at the new electric bike in san francisco. staff fix and sell thousands of e-bikes every year. many of those bikes have parts from china. >> you know, parts like this piece are made in china. it's like the chain ring or the pedals or the chain guard. >> the trump administration is slapping more tariffs on parts and products coming from china, like lithium batteries and steel spokes. karen wiener says the tariffs are frustrating for her small business. >> prices just keep creeping up when you have arbitrary tariffs being introduced, with no new policies around domestic

production or the way we do replace those items, it doesn't make any sense and it's very bad for business. >> uc berkeley professor jim wilcox explains the impact for companies and customers. >> with today's announcement that there will be an extra 20% tariff on china, that no doubt is going to make things more expensive here. it's going to raise costs for businesses, and ultimately it's going to raise costs noticeably for consumers. >> in chinatown, edward lao store features thousands of types of herbs. he says more than 95% of them come from china. the tariffs will definitely hit his products. >> like this. we currently have $88 a pound. so it's going to be increased to almost $100 a pound. >> lao says that will hurt his customers particularly. >> you know, it's really hard hit for the seniors because those people who are having only a fixed income. >> and tigerbalm, maybe you've heard of it or used it.

>> tigerbalm is a herbal remedy. it works where it hurts from, you know, tummy aches to headaches to just helping wake up a mosquito bites. >> expect to see prices go up for that, says matthew chin. he's president of prince of peace enterprise. it's the exclusive u.s. distributor of tiger balm walmart. >> you might find this for maybe six, $6, six, $7. in the future, it may cost upwards maybe 8 or $9. >> new tariffs hurting the bottom lines and the wallets of bay area businesses and consumers. in san francisco, suzanne phan abc seven news. >> in just the past hour, president trump ordered a pause to u.s. military aid for ukraine. it comes after a meeting between trump and ukrainian president zelensky turned into a heated argument. you saw that the other day, discussions between the two leaders have since stalled. meanwhile, federal workers took to the streets today to fight against the trump administration's mass firings of government employees. some workers have received a second

wave of emails demanding a reply by midnight tonight, with a list of five tasks they completed at work last week. hundreds of scientists with the national oceanic and atmospheric administration, or noaa, are among those recently let go. >> this is such a dangerous thing. you're playing games really, with potentially life saving information to go out to people and making that harder to get out to people. >> the department of government efficiency doge says it has saved $105 billion. however, experts say that number cannot be verified because the site is only posted. what the agency says is 30% of the supporting receipts. president trump's first address to congress during his new term as president is tomorrow night. we'll have live coverage beginning at 6 p.m, including the democratic response. >> pope francis suffered another setback today in his ongoing battle with pneumonia, and is now back on a breathing machine. the vatican says the pope experienced two new episodes of acute respiratory failure, meaning he wasn't responding to oxygen therapy. he was also

having coughing attacks. earlier today, doctors performed a treatment on the 88 year old to get mucus and fluids out of his lungs. >> in this case, it seems as though he responded thankfully. but in these cases, we closely monitor patients after these critical events because as you've learned so far, these these stages can change hour by hour, if not minute by minute. >> doctors say throughout the ups and downs of his condition, pope francis has remained alert and oriented. he's been hospitalized for more than two weeks. >> well, coming up, it's not here yet, but there is rain on the way. here's a live look at the conditions right now. after the break, we'll check in with abc seven news meteorologist sandhya patel for details on the

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it needs to be named. the public can pitch their idea and vote in a contest. there have already been more than 250 submissions, including the great parkway, the coastline, two good ones, and online. vote begins on march 18th and will close on april 2nd, at which time the name will be announced. >> got some good ones already. all right. a bay area weather radar system that is used, used to protect the weather is now predict the weather, i should say, is down. the radar sits atop mount eminem in the santa cruz mountains. it's been out of service since midday saturday, pushing meteorologists to rely on surrounding radars to fill in the coverage gaps. these national weather service radars detect the size and movement of particles of rain, snow, hail, dust. it's not clear when the radar will be fixed and back online, but it has made sandia's challenging job even more so because it's so precise in what. >> she does. although you didn't need anything to detect the wind. i mean, that woke me up overnight. it's crazy. >> it did. it was pretty breezy.

sandia. >> yeah, it has definitely been gusty out there. dan and let me show you live doppler seven. right now, clouds are gathering in advance of our next system that is on its way. as we take a look at a wider perspective here, you can see that system off the coastline. unfortunately, it's not going to bring us a ton of rain, but we will see some. we're already looking at some radar returns off the northern california coast right now. those temperatures are in the 50s and 60s. it has been gusty right now. oakland 30 miles an hour. 29, in san mateo. onshore breezes making it feel even chillier. a live view from our santa cruz camera and you can see various levels of cloud cover, but definitely has been a windy one. as we look at a live picture from emeryville. clouds are gathering tomorrow. drizzle or isolated showers midweek. we are looking at scattered showers and friday going into saturday. sunnier and milder weather is coming our way in case you're waiting for that, because today's highs were only in the mid 50s to low 60s, below average for this time of year. tonight a lot of cloud cover as we head towards 830 tomorrow

morning, a couple of showers show up in the north bay and then really just isolated at 1130. so if i were you, i would just have the umbrellas handy. really the main event is on wednesday. you will notice in the evening some light to moderate showers at 6:00 going into 8 p.m. into the east bay, parts of the south bay, and then look at thursday. spotty showers. but this model wants to bring in a little bit of snow over mount hamilton, so just shows you how cold the air mass will become later on. on thursday, some spotty showers continuing thursday morning, as you will notice, and likely into the afternoon as well. rainfall totals not much, expecting most areas under a quarter of an inch, san francisco could pick up about 4/10 of an inch. a winter weather advisory goes up for the sierra 4 a.m. wednesday until 4 p.m. thursday. above 5000ft, expecting 8 to 14in above 6000. so of course, slippery roadways and travel could be difficult, so keep that in mind. your morning temperatures will look like this in the 30s and 40. yes, it will

be cloudy and there might be some drizzle around as we head into the afternoon hours mid 50s to low 60. a pretty cloudy day for your tuesday. and here's a look at the accuweather seven day forecast. we're going to go with the possibility of a few showers or drizzle. and then it's a level one for wednesday showers breezy. another one for thursday. with those spotty showers we will go dry friday saturday sunnier. and don't forget spring forward one hour. we have a stronger storm i think coming in on monday. >> dan okay. all right. thanks, andy. >> well, a man was arrested in windsor last week accused of poaching abalone while searching his vehicle for drugs. deputies say they also found 35 live abalone and a northwestern pond turtle. deputies say the suspect admitted to taking the abalone from the town of elk in mendocino county. recreational abalone harvesting permanently closed in 2017. deputies say the abalone couldn't be returned to the natural habitat, so they were disposed of. the turtle,

though, will be released to the wild. >> all right. this will make anyone crazy. have an itch and you can't quite reach it. it happened to a bear in south lake tahoe and it was caught on camera. you can see this very satisfying video. the black bear uses a small tree to scratch his back. it was spotted standing up on his hind legs to get just the right spot against that twig of a tree. he even tries to eat some of the lower branches. once it seems to have satisfied that itch, well, bear wandered off. >> the trees like. couldn't you have picked a bigger one? why me? >> what are you doing? >> all right. still ahead. she is a wnba star and bay area native. and now the basketball star is getting involved in soccer. we're going to tell you what sabrina ionescu is doing with bay fc. >> i'm reggie aqui. >> i'm lyanne melendez. >> i'm luz pena, i'm tara campbell. >> i'm j.r. stone at. >> abc seven news we deliver local stories. >> with real answers. >> to

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abc seven bay area streaming tv app. just search abc seven bay area and download it. >> walnut creek native and wnba star sabrina ionescu has become a part owner of the bay fc women's soccer league franchise. she will also be an official advisor to the club, helping build their brand partnerships. ionescu says she is truly honored to be part of a women's professional team in the bay area. bay fc begins their second season a week from saturday, with the home opener march 22nd at paypal park in san jose. >> and super popular. yes. all right. we still have much more news ahead. >> that's right. let's get to abc seven news anchor stephanie sierra for a look at the stories coming up at 530. steph. >> yes, thanks. ama and dan coming up at 530. an ongoing problem in one bay area neighborhood. public urination near a community gathering space just steps from a public restroom. abc seven news reporter lyanne melendez stumbled upon the issue, and she joins us with what's being done to stop it. plus, beatlemania is back in the bay area with a new

paul mccartney photo exhibit and had the chance to see it at the deyoung museum. and he'll join us with what you can expect. we'll have those stories and more at 530 on abc seven bay area streaming tv. dan, we'll see you soon. >> okay. thanks very much, steph. see you in a minute. >> and you can download the abc seven app or just head to abc seven news.com for the stream in two minutes. >> right. >> if you're. >> watching us here on tv. world news tonight with david muir is next for sandhya patel. all of us appreciate your time. i'm dan. >> ashley, i'm ama daetz. we'll

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