i'm christine zee and you're watching. a special edition of getting answers here on abc seven. but instead of getting answers, we are going to get excited and we have a special guest with us. this is paco qureshi. he is a former navy pilot who's going to walk us through all the exciting action. right. >> i hope so. yeah. all right. >> yeah. so we're going to be able to see the blue angels takeoff very, very soon, right behind us. and of course, we have terrific camera angles out there to capture all the excitement for you. as you know, they start at 315. all right, let's get those cameras up. okay. so you can see where we're going to give you angles from. we have a camera on russian hill. we have one at marina green, christi field. and of course, we have ryan curry there, who is capturing all the excitement. ryan, people are psyched. >> yeah. kristin, good afternoon and welcome to the marina where you can definitely feel the excitement growing. we are about 15 minutes or so away from the big show of the day, which is the blue angels coming up here in just a few moments. a lot o

i'm christine zee. you're watching getting answers on abc7 laphonza butler is set to become the only black woman currently serving in the us senate and first openly lgbt person to represent california in that chamber. this afternoon governor newsom was in san francisco and here's some of what he said about butler. >> this is a special person and what is a special opportunity was for me to ask her an importantly get a positive response to everything that she's been advocating for in the last few years. meet this moment . it as it relates to rights regressions, issues of civil rights and issues of lgbtq rights, women and girls, issues related to voting rights. she's been on the front end of all of these things in some ways can't even make all of this up. if i had to literally design from the mind of imagination, put pen to paper, someone who i would like . >> so that was governor newsom. meantime this is laphonza butler's response, tweeting this i am honored to accept governor newsom's nomination to be us

i'm christine zee . who helped shape our country was memorialized today in her hometown of san francisco. dianne feinstein, the late senator and san francisco's first woman mayor died last week at the age of 90. >> millions of girls my age and long after me have grown blissfully free of the yokes our grandmothers wore because uh- dianne feinstein wrestled them off. >> dianne feinstein was a leader of uncommon an integrity. dianne left us as she had lived. >> she left on her own terms. >> so too my grandmother. i promise to always work to my long suit to earn my spurs, to keep going, no matter what, and to never forget my black pantsuit. >> words of wisdom. remembrance. honor. love from politicians. feinstein's own granddaughter, you heard from there. spoken during the late senator's memorial that ended just a short time ago. it was at city hall. joining us live now, abc7 news insider phil matier. phil, we watched the entire service together. let's talk about what struck you most. >> what struck me most w

. >> and i'm christine zee. 60,000 of those potential strikers are actually here in california servinged about what this means for them. >> abc seven news reporter leslie brinkley joining us live now outside of the medical center in walnut creek with the very latest on negotiations. leslie. >> well, just in the last half hour, i got word that bargaining is continuing both sides, the union and kaiser are at the table, but really no progress to report. there's still far apart on their one main sticking point about over assuring shortage of staffing and at this point, both sides are preparing for the very strong possibility of a strike tomorrow. >> now you see the patient and it's hard not to get emotional. >> priscilla oppermann helps coordinate patient care at kaiser's walnut creek medical center. she believes the pandemic pushed health care workers like her to the brink. >> the way that it's looking, we're going to be out there tomorrow at 6 a.m. the big items that we need to discuss to make sure that the short staffing crisis gets taken care of are not being brought to the table. >> 7

i'm christine zee and i'm karina nova. >> police are saying very little about this tragedy that tookhappy daycare located on fleetwood drive in san jose's almond valley. >> abc seven news reporter leslie brinkly joins us live from that neighborhood. leslie. what a tragedy. >> and i can tell you from talking to some of the police officers working the scene here today, they're finding it difficult. many of them have children of their own. it's just unthinkable. as you said, two children drowning in a backyard swimming pool at a daycare where you take your children somewhere and expect that to entrust them in someone else's supervision and someone else's care. let's start off with this from the emergency dispatch that went out this morning. >> two year old boy unconscious . his breathing is uncertain. he was found drowning, attempting cpr instructions. >> now the emergency call came in around 9 a.m. fire and police personnel rushed to this home in the san jose suburb. happy, happy daycare operates out of a home on fleetwood drive at clover hill drive. three children were rushed to the h

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