abc seven news south bay reporter dustin dorsey has more. >> i am committed to make change. am committed to make change in my community and in my community. a pledge to the community and environment and each other. thousands of service corps volunteers from all organizations across the state took a pledge tuesday to join the california service corps. this service group that will aid with challenges involving things like poverty, natural disasters and blight is now the largest service force in the nation, where you are showing by stepping up to serve and be part of the california service corps is that we can care about each other. >> we can step up to help each other. >> here in san jose. a streamed celebration of the california service corps launch with local youth service corps members, including the san jose conservation corps and charter school, already doing work in wildfire prevention, city cleanup and other services. the pledge shows these volunteers are doubling down on their commitment for their city and state. >> this pledge is huge because it really inspires young

abc7 news reporter dustin dorsey talked with bay area professor and has the story. >> the climate crisis is affecting the way people make decisions every day. these can be routine daily choices about what groceries to buy or more complex considerations like where to live or work, but now more people are even factoring in climate change when planning their family. >> folks are either choosing not to have children or are having fewer children than they consider ideal in part in large part because of climate change. so while there are other there are other factors. climate change is a growing reason why it's turning into a global opinion. >> this year, hewlett-packard asked 5000 people how climate change impacts their decisions. 91% surveyed say they have anxiety about the climate, and 53% of that group said the climate has impact their perspective on having more children or any at all. >> this trend of folks having fewer kids than they would like to or having no kids at all. right. when they would, you know, ideally like to have children. i think it's a sign of how dire the climate change

and that's why people are here in san jose. >> dustin dorsey, abc7 news. >> work to do evidently.e're talking climate foggy and cool today. >> yeah. so let's get to abc seven news meteorologist sandy patel. we did still have some sun though. yes we still definitely got some sun out here for most of the bay area. >> and dan and let's take a look at the forecast for the home opener outside as people gather in thrive city tonight. tip off is 7 p.m, 60 degrees. a little bit of fog already starting to roll in across the area. breezy temperature dropping to 57. so if you're still going or getting ready to go, grab the hoodie before you go cold front is coming in tomorrow and this view is going to look a little bit different from zephyr cove as we are expecting some snow. here's the system that's going to bring the snow to the sierra nevada. certainly is going to be a big snow maker for the cascades and the rockies. we're already seeing that precipitation in this system is going to dive south. and we're going to notice some changes here. so right now on live doppler seven, still some lin

. >> dustin dorsey, abc7 news. >> that's pretty impressive. it is. >> all right. nice little sunset going behind us. >> look how gorgeous that is. the light out there. >> meteorologist sandy patel is here with the forecast. sandy. yeah >> and i want to show you an even prettier picture not to top what's atop out what's out there, but look at this. yeah, this is incredible. all island. and you can see just those high clouds filtering the sun. those clouds are made of ice crystals. and that's what's giving us that extra oomph. all right. let's talk about el nino. there is an advisory today that came out from the climate prediction center and they monitor what's happening near the equatorial pacific. warmer than average sea surface temperatures continued in september. and so here is what they're saying. el nino is going to continue through the spring. there's an 80% chance, a 75 to 85% chance of a strong event this upcoming winter and a 3 in 10 chance of a historically strong event that rivals those back in 2015, 2016, and 1997 98. i remember the 97, 98 event. and yo

now as abc7 news south bay reporter dustin dorsey explains potential answers to the world's problems are on display this week in san jose. >> we can only hope that we might be on the verge of finding a climate crisis solution in silicon valley as the verge in bloom conference returns to san jose for their three day event. verge is really about deploying climate tech solutions at scale. >> so we have 5000 people here from around the world representing large corporations, municipalities and the innovation and innovation ecosystem coming together to really make those solutions happen. >> that includes looking at new ways to clean, feed and power our society. >> this is our battery energy storage solution. it basically eliminates the need for fossil fuel based temporary power. >> the moxie and battery energy storage system is american made from richmond, california, with american solutions in mind, strong enough to power a single family home for three weeks or even a construction site without the need of environmentally unfriendly fuel. >> we have an opportunity to use 100% clean electri

abc7 news south bay reporter dustin dorsey looks at the changes being suggested and how the communityefit. >> while many consider san jose to be the heart of silicon valley, local leaders want that heart to grow and start beating in a new way to benefit the community. >> since before the launch of the internet, san jose has been a place for entrepreneurs, engineers, designers and inventors to come together, often in a tiny garage or windowless basement and change the world. >> so this is a place where we want to continue to cultivate the next great technical things technology and ai is that next great technology. >> valley mayor matt mehan and council member david cohen are calling on city leaders to help san jose become the city of artificial intelligence. pulling from his past experience working in the tech industry, mayor mehan believes making san jose the place where ai companies want to be will benefit the city. in economic and civic ways . >> we want to be the most innovative city government, the most technology enabled and efficient and convenient city government in the world.

dustin dorsey, abc7 news. free fentanyl. wild story out of san francisco and the i-team's dan noyes went to check it out. >> then things got really interesting. he's going to join us to explain what he saw and less than three weeks after being appointed to the senate, laphonza butler announces whether she's going to run for the seat in 2024. >> i'm michael feeney with a banking mix up. solve seven on your side is were you giving away fentanyl or was that just a joke? >> no, i, i it's not a joke. >> this convicted sex offender set up camp across the street from a catholic grade school in san francisco's richmond district more than two years ago. but it was his signs offering free drugs that had authorities moving him out today. and that's only part of this story. believe it or not. there is more. >> yeah, that's right. the i-team's dan noyes was there, joins us now. what else happened while you were out there, dan? there was a lot. >> almond daniel i saw the headline in the san francisco standard and had to go see for myself

abc7 news south bay reporter dustin dorsey explains how the school hopes new programs on campus can startm path. there's hope that the next solution to the world's problems may come from a student on the campus of adelante to dual language academy in san jose. >> because here in the heart of silicon valley, a new google dawg grant aims to help students grow their stem skills in order to be the next innovators in the field of ai. >> we've seen ai solve many pressing issues, so making sure that the next generation of youth in our nation are going to be taking those jobs and helping solve the next problems that we will confront as a nation that work began monday for these middle school students. >> google announced a $10 million grant to support robotics clubs across the country to start work in stem. early $450,000 went to the rec foundation for california. schools include including adelante. >> there's mindsets that are adopted by these students at such a young age that they can or they can't do technology or they can or they can't do math or they can't or they can't do science well with r

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the memo will be presented to council before next steps are made in san jose. >> dustin dorsey, abc7urning to the weather now. got up this morning. it was cloudy. a few hours later it was sunny and it may be raining. it's a mish mash of all sorts of forms of weather. >> it's a potpourri. >> a potpourri smorgasbord. >> keep going, spencer. >> keep it rolling. >> that's my weather headline right there. we've got mixed conditions around the bay area right now. here's one reason why. take a look at the satellite radar composite image you see over the last 12 hours, we've had this weak, cold front swinging through the bay area and there's still some moisture in the area, but there are also some little breaks in the clouds and little pockets of sunshine breaking through on the live doppler seven image. you can see this is mainly confined to the north bay right now. but some of these showers may actually work their way south and east of the golden gate. and along with the light scattered showers, we have a rather brisk onshore wind flow right now with gusts up to 20mph at novato 21 at sfo,

abc seven news reporter, a south bay reporter, dustin dorsey explains why the city views it as a biget? you can a soda, a candy bar? how about a plot of land? the san jose city council unanimously approved a five year land lease to build a 150 bed emergency interim housing site. john sobrato and the sobrato organization is leasing the land to the city for $1 a year. what this would do is open up private land to be part of the solution to homelessness. >> that's not something we've done all of our sites today are on publicly owned land. city owned land. vta land. caltrans. land this is a potential game changer. >> the units will feature many of the amenities as other tiny home projects, but they will be solar powered with limited hookups to allow them to be moved off site. when the lease is up. mayor mehan says the average stay for residents in similar units is 6 to 9 months, with more than 50% moving to permanent housing. so he says 1500 people could be housed here over five years, creating a pipeline out of homelessness to combat the pipeline into homelessness. >> that it is far too

reporter dustin dorsey shows us everything it has to offer.gle's campus was developed to re-envision the office experience for workers and now there's an all new way for visitors to interact with the tech giant. >> you really wanted to make a space where we can be together, where it s the mixture of the people who work at google as well as people who are our neighbors and people who inspire us. >> welcome to the google visitor experience. it's designed for the community to enjoy all google has to offer. so let's go on a tour beginning with the huddle space where you can network with others or take free workshops. >> the spaces the over here is available for local guests, faculty, local communities, all kinds of organizations can book the space as well. for local events. >> and after the event, you can stop by their cafe. google says it runs on coffee. you could sit down and enjoy a cup or a treat. >> we have a variety of options that are designed to be very approachable, something that you could come in and if you're a part of the community, t

dustin dorsey takes you to the world of augmented reality to share their message. >> and she muwekmapy indigenous peoples day. >> a day to honor, celebrate and never forget indigenous peoples day is being recognized on santa clara university's campus with events to teach and explain the culture of the tribes that call this land home. >> it's very important for us to be able to educate the public and talk about our history, our language, our culture and our connection to the area. >> we're trying to deepen our relationship, but also deepen our understanding. and what does it mean for us to continue to honor that legacy on this campus ? >> members of the muwekma ohlone attended the day of teaching here at scu, a bittersweet acknowledgment of the history of their people here. mission santa clara represent the violent colonialism for the ohlone and other native californians. current santa clara student, a member of the muwekma ohlone tribe, isabella omni gomez says recognizing indigenous peoples day is a step forward. >> these things are helpful to restore and heal our community and to h

abc7 news south bay reporter dustin dorsey takes a look at a few of the places that you can visit for >> from the magical to the massive to the spooky and the rocket, the happy. the south bay knows how to celebrate halloween and it becomes a thing where the neighborhoods come out and they see each other's haunts or or displays and like, oh, that's fun. >> and then it kind of gets up every year. >> growing up in san jose, my favorite part of halloween as a kid is still my favorite part. now seeing the incredible displays that neighbors create at their own homes like the los pinos haunted barbary lane, the geronimo sj fun house and the harry potter house of san jose. >> there's a lot of really great scares out there, but that's the problem. you can't take the little kids there. so we want something that was fun for the whole family to come out, spend some time and just really get the community out. it's like you're transported to diagon alley. you get to see all the storefronts. >> honeydew ollivander's flourish and blotts and more. you can step into the wizarding world here on felder d

abc7 news south bay reporter dustin dorsey shows us everything it has to offer.gle's campus was developed to re-envision the office experience for workers and now there's an all new way for visitors to interact with the tech giant. >> you really wanted to make a space where we can be together, where it s the mixture of the people who work at google as well as people who are our neighbors and people who inspire us. >> welcome to the google visitor experience. it's designed for the community to enjoy all google has to offer. so let's go on a tour beginning with the huddle space where you can network with others or take free workshops. >> the space you see over the air is available for local guests, faculty, local communities, all kinds of organizations can book the space as well. for local events. >> and after the event, you can stop by their cafe. google says it runs on coffee. you could sit down and enjoy a cup or a treat. we have a variety of options that are designed to be very approachable, something that you could come in and if you're a part of the community

. >> abc7 news south bay reporter dustin dorsey talked with a bay area professor about this. >> the climatecrisis is affecting the way people make decisions every day. these can be routine daily choices about what groceries to buy or more complex considerations like where to live or work, but now more people are even factoring in climate change when planning their family as folks are either choosing not to have children or are having fewer children than they consider ideal in part in large part because of climate change. >> so while there are other there are other factors was climate change is a growing reason why it's turning into a global opinion this year. >> hewlett packard asked 5000 people how climate change impacts their decisions. 91% surveyed say they have anxiety about the climate and 53% of that group said the climate has impact their perspective on having more children or any at all. >> this trend of folks having fewer kids than they would like to or having no kids at all. right. when they would, you know, ideally like to have children. i think it's a sign of how dire the climat

abc seven news south bay reporter dustin dorsey has the story. >> i am committed to make change and ited to make change in my community and in my community. a pledge to the community and environment and each other. >> thousands of service corps volunteers from organizations across the state took a pledge tuesday to join the california service corps. this service group that will aid with challenges involving things like poverty, natural disasters and blight is now the largest service force in the nation, where you are showing by stepping up to serve and be part of the california service corps. >> is that we can care about each other. we can step up to help each other. >> here in san jose, a live streamed celebration of the california service corps launch with local youth service corps members, including the san jose conservation corps and charter school, already doing work in wildfire prevention. city cleanup and other services. the pledge shows these volunteers are doubling down on their commitment for their city and state. >> this pledge is huge because it really inspires young adult

abc7 news south bay reporter dustin dorsey explains what happened. >> you never know when the next big 1st may strike. california recognizes that it may not be a simulation one day, so every third thursday in october, the state practices earthquake preparedness with the great shakeout, a statewide alert test that went out thursday morning encouraging everyone to drop cover and hold on. >> it's a great opportunity to practice, but also to realize, too, that we have an earthquake early warning system in california, oregon, washington. so it's also a chance to practice. s either dropping and covering, holding on because of shaking or because of receiving an alert. it was supposed to be a statewide practice at one time, 10:19 a.m. pacific standard time. >> but we know earthquakes can come without notice. and in some ways, millions of californians got a dose of that reality. at 319, a m when the myshake app sent the test alert early, waking up people hours before the great shakeout. >> at some point there, it seems that our system sent out the alert at 10:19 a.m. or 1019 utc time, which is

and i'm just so excited to see the future with these adelante students in it in san jose, dustin dorseyexciting. that's good for them. it really is. >> now students who participate in the robotics club on campus will use the skills they began to learn today to compete in a national competition next year. >> and you can tell they're going to do great. all right, adobe, the photo editing software company, is showing off the future of ai at its annual adobe. max sneaks event. the company introduced a dress that can be transformed via hundreds of tiny wearable screens. they also showed off easier ways to delete elements from photos. the products are early results of ideas that could eventually become adobe products. >> do you know if we're real here? or perhaps these are not the real us? >> all right. all right. that's our report. i'm dan asia. >> i'm kristen sze. thanks. our next newscast is at 9:00. enjoy the ballgame. you can take on the mountains. or you can move them. with the power of up to 36,000 pounds of max available towing. and the confidence of an available 13.4-inch diagonal to

. >> abc7 news south bay reporter dustin dorsey takes us into the world of augmented reality to share message and muwekma is doing happy indigenous peoples day, a day to honor, celebrate and never forget indigenous peoples day is being recognized on santa clara university's campus, with events to teach and explain the culture of the tribes that call this land home. >> it's very important for us to be able to educate the public and talk about our history, our language, our culture and our connection to the area. we're trying to deepen our relationship, but also deepen our understanding. >> and what does it mean for us to continue to honor that legacy on this campus? >> members of the muwekma ohlone attended the day of teaching here at scu, a bittersweet acknowledgment of the history of their people here. mission santa clara represents violent colonialism for the ohlone and other native californians. current santa clara student and member of the muwekma ohlone tribe, isabella omni gomez says recognizing indigenous peoples day is a step forward. >> these things are helpful to restore and

abc's seven news bay reporter, south bay reporter i should say dustin dorsey has more on the phenomenonnown as the ring of fire. >> when you get up saturday morning, make sure to look up our skies will be transformed during a rare annular solar eclipse, passing right by parts of the western us, including here in the bay area. >> this is an opportunity to see a very rare event and that is an occasion when the moon actually is between the earth and the sun from our point of view. and can actually get in front of the sun and block a large portion of it in this case for a couple of hours. it's known as the ring of fire for three hours saturday morning, starting around 8 a.m, the sun will begin to be blocked by the moon during its orbit. >> its path is much closer to us here in the bay area compared to the 2017 total solar eclipse and the one coming in april 2024. that's good news for us because around 930 we'll see the moon cover about 70% of the sun. since the sun will still be visible, you can only look at it through special eclipse glasses or through pinhole cameras. these can be natural

abc7 news reporter dustin dorsey talked to a bay area professor and has the details.te crisis is affecting the way people make decisions every day. >> these can be routine daily choices about what groceries to buy or more complex considerations like where to live or work. but now more people are even factoring in climate change when planning their families. >> folks are either choosing not to have children or are having fewer children than they consider ideal. in part in large part because of climate change. so while there are other other are other factors, climate change is a growing reason why it's turning into a global opinion. >> this year, hewlett-packard asked 5000 people how climate change impacts their decisions. 91% surveyed say they have anxiety about the climate, and 53% of that group said the climate has impacted their perspective on having more children or any at all. >> this trend of folks having fewer kids than they would like to or having no kids at all, right. when they would ideally like to have children. i think it's a sign of how dire the climate c

demonstrated that by participating in various events all week long and today abc7 news south bay reporter dustin dorseyode along with him as he helped clean up the city. >> it was an out of office work day for san jose mayor matt mehan friday as he spent the day alongside the beautify sj team. >> i want people to be proud of where they're from to want to bring their friends here, to want to invest here, to stay here. and that starts with being a city that's clean and that's safe and where everybody lives indoors. >> it's what mayor mehan calls getting san jose back to basics. the fundamental components to what he says will make the city a great place to live, work and play. keeping san jose clean is a core piece of that. getting rid of illegal dumping, cleaning up graffiti and picking up trash throughout the city. >> if we get those basics right, then everything else is possible. we'll see our small businesses thrive. people want to spend more time and their and their consumer dollars here in san jose, we'll have more investment in our city. we'll continue to grow. >> the mayor has partnered in differe

abc7 news south bay reporter dustin dorsey has more on this phenomenon known as the ring of fire. >> saturday morning, make sure to look up our skies will be transformed during a rare annular solar eclipse passing right by parts of the western us including here in the bay area. >> this is an opportunity to see a very rare event and that is an occasion when the moon actually is between the earth and the sun from our point of view and can actually get in front of the sun and block a large portion of it. in this case for a couple of hours. >> it's known as the ring of fire for three hours saturday morning, starting around 8 a.m, the sun will begin to be blocked by the moon during its orbit. its path is much closer to us here in the bay area compared to the 2017 total solar eclipse and the one coming in april 2024. that's good news for us because around 930 we'll see the moon cover about 70% of the sun since the sun will still be visible, you can only look at it through special eclipse glasses or through pinhole cameras. these can be naturally made from using the shadows of trees or even

. >> in san jose, dustin dorsey, abc seven news. >> president biden makes a whirlwind stop in israelis message to the israelis and the help he is pledging towards the growing humanitarian crisis and natalee holloway's disappearance in aruba has gone unsolved for 18 years. >> today, her family got closure from the man long suspected of murdering the teenager. we'll hear from her time to win is running out in our prize packed kick off the savings monopoly game! hurry in to play for your chance at over $25 million in prizes and money saving offers like this, and this, or even this. plus, you still have a shot at up to $100,000 in guaranteed prize money. stop in while you can still win and shop your favorite brands sporting the kick off the savings monopoly tag for unlimited bonus game tickets at lucky! justice must be done. but i caution this while you feel that rage. don't be consumed by it. >> president biden makes a visit to israel to show his support and promise millions of dollars in aid for the growing humanitarian crisis in gaza. the white house says the aid is going to be distri

dustin dorsey, abc7 news. >> looked like a great fall day out there. >> yeah, absolutely.rologist sandhya patel is back with the weather. sandy. >> yeah. and we have a nice breeze that's blowing through here as well. ama and dan. let's take a look at the winds gusting to 22 in napa, 24 in fairfield. that onshore breeze is going to continue to cool us off tonight. air quality is good to moderate as you will notice. and a lovely view from our santa cruz camera right now. but watch out for sneaker waves down there and rip currents as that risk is still there until the wee hours of the morning. air quality will be good for any outdoor plans both saturday and sunday on live doppler seven, we have the fog and some higher clouds as well. looking at tomorrow, it's going to be a combination of the two breezy conditions mid 60s to mid 70s and on sunday temperatures will bottom out below average for many of you. monday, we turn things around, it'll warm up. and as we head into tuesday, we'll hold on to some of those 80s the accuweather seven day forecast, it's dry tomorrow. a level o

abc seven news reporter dustin dorsey talked to a bay area professor about why this could be the casethe climate crisis is affecting the way people make decisions every day. >> these can be routine daily choices about what groceries to buy or more complex considerations like where to live or work. but now more people are even factoring in climate change when planning their families. >> folks are either choosing not to have children or are having fewer children than they consider ideal in part in large part because of climate change. so while there are other there are other factors. climate change is a growing reason why it's turning into a global opinion. >> this year, hewlett-packard asked 5000 people how climate change impacts their decisions. 91% surveyed say they have anxiety about the climate, and 53% of that group said the climate has impacted their perspective on having more children or any at all. >> this trend of folks having fewer kids than they would like to or having no kids at all, right. when they would ideally like to have children. i think it's a sign of how dire the c

abc7 news south bay reporter dustin dorsey shows us everything it has to offer. >> google's campus waseloped to reinvent the office experience for workers and now there's an all new way for visitors to interact with the tech giant. you really wanted to make a space where our we can be together, where it's the mixture of the people who work at google as well as people who are our neighbors and people who inspire us. welcome to the google visitor experience. it's designed for the community to enjoy all google has to offer. so let's go on a tour, beginning with the huddle space where you can network with others or take free workshops. >> the space is the of the air is available for local guests, faculty, local communities, all kinds of organizations can book the space as well for local events. >> and after the event you can stop by their cafe. google says it runs on coffee. you could sit down and enjoy a cup or a treat. >> we have a variety of options that are designed to be very approachable, something that you could come in and if you're a part of the community, this this could become y

abc7 news south bay reporter dustin dorsey looks at the changes being suggested and how the community benefit. >> while many consider san jose to be the heart of silicon valley, local leaders want that heart to grow and start beating in a new way to benefit the community. >> since before the launch of the internet. san jose has been a place for entrepreneurs as engineers, designers and inventors to come together, often in a tiny garage or windowless basement and change the world. >> so this is a place where we want to continue to cultivate the next great technical things technology and ai. is that next great technology. >> mayor matt mehan and council member david cohen are calling on city leaders to help san jose become the city of artificial intelligence. pulling from his past experience working in the tech industry, mayor mehan believes making san jose the place where ai companies want to be will benefit the city in economic and civic ways. >> we want to be the most innovate of city government, the most technology enabled and efficient and convenient city government in the world to

abc7 news south bay reporter dustin dorsey explains how this may impact regional flying at airports across the state. for the children living near and attending schools within a mile and a half of reid-hillview airport, the sounds of planes overhead ripping represent a known threat. >> a 2021 study by santa clara county showed kids in this area face similar lead exposure from airplane fuel known as avgas as residents of flint, michigan, during their water crisis. read hillview is set to close in 2031, but it still represents a major concern for local leaders and residents. >> as if somebody in the neighborhood said, i'm sick and tired of being sick and tired. right. this airport has been a nuisance for us for decades. >> we have to do something about eliminate eating leaded gas in this airport. and every airport in the united states. and these little children are the reason why. >> and these children may soon get help. the environmental protection agency announced a new pollution prevention grant for the california department of public health. the grant will go towards the work needed to s

. >> abc seven news south bay reporter dustin dorsey shows us the steps they're taking and what we should do before the winter rain arrives in the bay area. >> we went from hardly seeing any rain in the region to one of our wettest winters on record. but if you thought 2023 was bad and el nino year is approaching and the national weather service says that means we could see higher than normal rainfall. >> last winter wasn't anomaly this winter. it could be not necessarily repeat, but we could be wet again. >> and that could lead to widespread flooding. california flood preparedness week is the time for the community and agencies to think about their flood plans. but santa clara county's flood protection agency valley waters preps are year round during the rain. they are cleaning debris, monitoring river and creek levels and responding to flooding. but when it's dry, it's still all hands on deck, working to try and ensure the flood doesn't happen in the first place. >> throughout the past summer, we've worked at 50 locations across the county to maintain our waterways and clear them of deb

abc7 news south bay reporter dustin dorsey takes a look at a few of the places that you can visit foron halloween night. >> from the magical to the massive to the spooky and the rocking, the i-team's the south bay knows how to celebrate halloween. >> it becomes a thing where the neighborhoods come out and they see each other's haunts or or displays and like, oh, that's fun. and then it kind of gets up every year. >> growing up in san jose, my favorite part of halloween as a kid is still my favorite part. now, seeing the incredible displays that neighbors create at their own homes like the los pinos haunted bar island, the geronimo sj fun house and the harry potter house of san jose. >> there's a lot of really great scares out there, but that's the problem. you can't take the little kids there. so we want something that was fun for the whole family to come out, spend some time and just really get the community out. it's like you're transported to diagon alley. you get to see all the storefronts. >> honeydew ollivander's flourish and blotts and more. you can step into the wizarding worl

so abc seven news south bay reporter dustin dorsey got inside a cockpit with an aviation expert with just a pull of a lever and a press of a button. >> power and fuel can be cut to a plane's engine by fire extinguishers. that's what was allegedly attempted by off duty pilot joe emerson in an embraer 175 cockpit during a flight from everett, washington, to san francisco. a look inside a similar plane could give us a look at how this could have gone down. i'm in the captain's spot on the boeing 737. >> again, a slightly different aircraft, hiller aviation museum ceo john welty showed us how things look in this plane. >> these are the emergency controls for the number one and number two engines, only to be used in case of a fire. >> what i would do is i would pull this lever up, which is hard to do. i've got to push the safety button down first so it can't happen by accident. but when i pull this up, this disconnects the fuel flow going to the engine. this also disconnects the hydraulics and the electrical power turning the lever would start the fire extinguishers and if done for both e

. >> dustin dorsey, abc seven news hoskey season could shorten by the end of the century due to climate> a report from the desert research institute predicts temperatures will rise nearly nine degrees over the next 100 years. that means it'll be too warm for snow to be produced at the start and the end of a traditional ski season. average peak snowpack is estimated to drop as much as 80% by late century. we are getting some welcome snow in the sierra today. check it out. this video is from uc berkeley central sierra snow lab. you can see big fluffy flakes falling there earlier today. chain controls are in effect on 80 above donner lake. the first chain controls of the season. but, larry, i am really worried about the 80% drop in the snowpack that is so much of the water we use. >> oh, absolutely. but you're talking about the end of the century. that's a long way to go. >> i mean, i worry ahead of time. >> well, clearly, i'm a planner when it comes to 70 years ahead. all right. well, you know, no snow, but spencer, definitely a chilly air, that's for sure. >> oh, chill here for sure. and

so abc seven news south bay reporter dustin dorsey got inside a cockpit with an aviation expert with just a pull of a lever and a press of a button. >> power and fuel can be cut to a plane's engine by fire extinguishers. that's what was allegedly attempted by off duty pilot joe emerson in an embraer 175 cockpit during a flight from everett, washington, to san francisco. a look inside a similar plane could give us a look at how this could have gone down. >> i'm in the captain's spot on the boeing 737. again, a slightly different aircraft, hiller aviation museum ceo john welty showed us how things look in this plane. >> these are the emergency controls for the number one and number two engines, only to be used in case of a fire. >> what i would do is i would pull this lever up, which is hard to do. i've got to push the safety button down first so it can't happen by accident. when i pull this up, this disconnects the fuel flow going to the engine. this also disconnects the hydraulics and the electrical power. >> turning the lever would start the fire extinguishers and if done for both e