. >>> i'm eric thomas in concord, where parents are suing this school over the way it restrains special ed students. >>> i'm amanda del castillo. safeway in downtown jose is scheduled to close. now residents are looking for alternatives. abc7 news starts right now. >> now news to build a better bay area, from abc7. >> good evening, everyone. this storm has delivered a n i want to show you ng rain at live doppler 7, and let's take a look at where it is raining. we go into the east bay where we're seeing some brief downpours indicated in yellow here. cedar boulevard, newark heading into fremont, paseo padre parkway. let's track this moisture. another batch heading into pleasanton at 11:19 p.m. also have some pockets of brief downpours in the south bay, santa clara, north first street. as we pan around here, some lighter rain in san francisco, bayshore, south city. going into the north bay, larkspur, green as you notice. the winds are still gusting. 24 miles per hour in napa. at the higher elevation, you're seeing gust others 37 miles per hour. as we take a look at the forecast, tomorrow m

. >>> i'm eric thomas. >> i'm dion lim. the trade war with china is ramping up as president trump increased tariffs on the goods from the country. >> increase prices to customers and some local businesses say they have no choice. >> the tariffs won't affect items in transit, store owners are seeing increase in cost for goods. >> sometime next week, week after, price will go up. >> david wong is warning his customers at cosmic computers in the sunset, chinese wholesalers he's buying from are jacking up prices. >> now i have to sell as $15 with the consumers will get that. >> all the souvenirs here are made in china. >> everything, a suppliese suppliers telling me everything raised by 20%, 20% raised on everything. >> part of the new tariffs. trump administration renewing the trade war. >> president xi is for china, i'm for the usa. >> going to cost more for goods imported from asia, particularly electronic goods. won't be good for american consumers. >> 25% tariffs on 6,000 goods items.lectronics like expensive computer part

i'm eric thomas. >> i'm dion lim. let's get to drew tuma tracking the weather this long holiday weekend. >> what a day today. certainly felt like the middle of january. it was cloudy, it was cool. we had showers, live doppler 7 along with satellite showing you the storm system over much of california. you notice the showers are now falling apart as the storm system moves to the south. locally live doppler 7 showing you the showers are gone but the clouds are still overhead. temperature wise these numbers have not bunched at all throughout the entire day. stuck in the 50s. so tomorrow morning, it's a dry morning. but the cloud cover is around. partly sunny and temperatures in the upper 40s to lower 50s. we're about to turn the corner though. our weather pattern is changing for the warmer. we'll have those numbers in a few minutes, guys. >> sounds good. you can keep track of the weather conditions where you live with the abc7 news app. you can get the updates from our weather team and monitor live doppler 7 on the go. >

good evening, i'm eric thomas. >> i'm dion lim. that storm is putting a damper on the holiday weekend. let get to meteorologist drew tuma. >> a big change into sunday. notice that leading edge of rain is just beginning to move into the north bay. zoom in tighter, we're finding guerneville, santa rosa, light drizzle. but this is the leading edge of a storm system that is still to our north. the wider picture showing you the center of circulation is on the california/oregon border. and that is moving in our direction, bringing us a pretty wet sunday across the region. on the storm impact scale, level 1 system. scattered showers, a brief downpour, even a threat of a thunderstorm popping up, and it will be a rather cold day across the bay area. we'll go hour by hour, time out this storm, show you what we expect on monday, the holiday, in the full forecast in a few minutes. >> keep track of the weather conditions where you live with the abc 7 news app. you can get updates from our weather team and monitor live doppler 7 on the go. >>> t

. >> let's go right to abc7 news anchor eric thomas live in oakland with the latest on the story. eric? >> guys, i don't know if it was a perfect storm, but it was a unanimous vote in favor of the a's plan to build that new stadium in howard terminal. this is not the final vote, but it is an important step on the road because it clears the way for environmental impact studies and to apply for permits from the state to get the job done. and there was a lot of lobbying going on today. folks walking through jack london square -- faced duelling rallies around noon today. first from longshoremen who oppose the stadium plan. >> this is where we make our living. these are blue collar jobs, and we're herehe a's form staicy hend shooty babitt. >> this is an important day for the oakland a's and oakland as a community. >> that's because the port commission is voting on a proposal that would give the team four years to perform environmental studies and to apply for all the permits needed to build a privately fenced stadium at the old howard terminal on the waterfront, replacing their current

eric thomas, abc7 news. be >> intimidating to move from an arena that you know so well to one in busy san francisco? >> reporter: intimidating to say the least because once we haven't seen what it will look like on the inside in person and the other thing intimidating is those who drive here, they have to drive to san francisco and we know about parking, especially in the mission bay area where they'll have to drive. so getting there, that is intimidating as well. >> that is intimidating and perhaps a nightmare at times.an >>> let's get to a beautiful picture of the sunset from way up high. oh, check this out. yeah. enjoy it for a second. it was taken by astronaut alexander gurts from aboard the international space station. he tweeted the image writing this is what a sunset on earth looks like from above. >> wow! >> spencer is back. no sunsets but snow in the mountains. >> lots of snow. >> and more rain for us. >> more rain for us. rain is becoming more widely scattered but the snow is gathe at live doppler

i'm eric thomas. >> i'm dion lim.n headlines, san jose police shot and killed a suspected car thief after they say he ran over an officer in stolen car. officer has several broken bones. he and two other officers have been placed on routine paid administrative leave. >>> a person is dead after a multicar crash on highway 101 this morning outside san francisco. tour bus carrying world-renowned choir was also involved. >>> cinco de mayo celebrations lit up the mission today. oakland is holding festival in jack london square and san jose doing an art walk. >>> chartered plane landing in thunderstorm overshot the runway and slid into river. 143 people on the flight are okay. abc7 news reporter has the latest. >> reporter: frightening moments in the darkness. passenger plane overruns the runway, sliding into river. rescuers racing to the scene, finding some waiting on the wings to be loaded on the rafts and floated to amazingly all alive. >> charted plane from american base in cuba, in thunderstorm. >> had a split in it. w

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eric thomas is live in alameda to explain their concern. eric? >> reporter: there are data centers all over the bay area. most of them use air condition to go cool the hot servers. as you mentioned, the company that wants to put one here want to use bay water. environmentalists wants to question the impact on the bay and the seals there. >> take naturally cold water and borrow it. >> we caught up with jim con ton, ceo of nautilus for a facetime chat after he got back from ireland. they want to build a new data center on the base without the old cooling technology. >> today they use air conditioning, which consumes massive amounts of energy, consumes massive apartments of drinking water and produces wastewater and greenhouse gas chemicals. >> nautilus wants to convert this assembly plant into the data center. no matter where you put it, it will generate a lot of heat. he says the best cooling solution is san francisco bay. >> we don't consume any water. we don't use anyca. pce wast f t four out of five councilmember's approve. this is the lone hol

eric thomas, abc 7 news. >>> and now to developing news.a missing 4-year-old maleah davis in houston, texas has been suspended because of bad weather. the search had shifted close to the city on the side where the family's apartment is. the little girl was on the way to the airport with her stepfather and 1-year-old brother when she disappeared. her stepfather says three men in a blue chevy pickup like this one, ambushed their vehicle. time is of the essence in this search. maleah has had several brain surgeries and requires medication and constant care. >>> the mother of a murdered college student with bay area ties is speaking for the first time on camera. mollie tibbetts was killed in july. today would have been her 21st birthday. police say her killer was an undocumented immigrant who is being held for trial. her mother is trying to move forward. >> i don't want to feel anger. people have asked me, you know, will you ever forgive him? and i saidi i've gotten near that. >> she wants people to remember her daughter by donating $21 to moll

. >> i'm eric thomas.eather was very different today, depending where you were in the bay area. >> there was rain this morning in san francisco, then sun, but if you were in san jose or pin know, you might have seen small hale. >> meteorologist drew tuma is here with a look at the week ahead. this is weather a meteorologist must love. >> it's incredibly wet. a lot of cities saw almost an inch of rain. incredible this time of year. live doppler 7 pretty active the past six hours. the current loop has quieted down from the thunderstorms we had earlier today. what's left over of the storm system you can see as we hit it the south bay. very widely scattered light showers from stanford to sunny vail over to fremont. we are not done with the storms yet. the wider picture, here comes our next storm system that will approach california tomorrow. but tomorrow morning a brief break from the rain. partly cloudy, a bit of a chill starting in the 40s. have the layers handy. the storm arrives later in the day tomorrow.

abc7 news anchor eric thomas has been there for hours and now joins us live with a look at what's next. eric? >> ama, it lasted all day because they heard public comments from people for more than three hours today, both for and against the project. we know that one major labor union here is against the project. but despite that unanimously the commissioners voted to help the a's along with their project. oakland a's president couldn't have been more pleased with today's vote. >> a great day for oakland and the oakland a's. to move forward with our term sheet to build a new privately financed ballpark here at the waterfront. >> we really appreciate people being here and being a part of this. >> reporter: but before the vote, kavell was still working the crowd, with the help of a's legends rickey henderson, shooty babitt and bip roberts. >> as we are oakland, we are rooted here, and we want the best. together we're going make this happen. thank you. the main group opposing the project held a rally of their own, the longshore workers union. >> it's for maritime use only. >> the port is v

abc7 news eric thomas is live in alameda to explain why. eric? >> reporter: the city of alameda is always looking for new ten ants of the old alameda naval base. it is high-tech and low maintenance. there is some disagreement over what role this bay and those seals should play in it. >> these harbor seals, happy and serene, have no idea they're at the center of a battle over progress versus protecting the environment. the storage company wants to turn this old missile manufacturing building nearby. full of servers that create heat. >> it consumes massive am of energy, massive amounts of drinking water, produces waste water and uses a lot of greenhouse chemicals. >> reporter: he talked to us by face time after stepping off a night home from ireland. he said the company wants to use a nearby asset. >> we take naturally cold water and we simply borrow it....... >> they want to use circulation to cool and then put it back into the bay. >> 80 per more energy efficiency. we don't produce any chemicals or waste water. >> they have requested a lease for

abc7 news anchor eric thomas explains as part of our focus on efforts to build a better, safer, and more sustainable bay area. >> from the time we have to act has grown shorter and shorter. >> this map shows where flooding would hit hardest as the bay starts to rise. first, 0.8 inches then 1.6 feet higher, then five feet higher, affecting every county that touches the bay. >> we see examples of that with highway 37 was closed for six weeks. this is only a harbinger of what's to come. >> julie beagle of the san francisco estuary institute in richmond helped co-author the report with the san francisco urban planning institute. it showed studies that shows thousands of homes would be flooded, affecting 400,000 people and causing $1 billion in property damage. the study also says the solution will require cooperation and collaboration between all local city and county governments. >> as it currently stands, if each city, each county, each landowner goes it alone, tries to solve the problem individually, we're going to wind up with a piecemeal approach. >> they also have to convince homeowner

abc7 news anchor eric thomas shows us from the ground. >> what way to start the weekend, right? you can't make this stuff up, really. >> it takes one optimistic outlook to be able to laugh after a big rig plows into the home where you're staying. karen flew in from boston yesterday for this weekend's bottle rock concerts. but this morning -- pheard a major crash, and i i thought it was an earthquake. it was the first thing that came to my mind. >> this was no earthquake. instead, police say this big rig lost its brakes coming down colton, rear-ended this dump truck and crashed into a home. karen stayed overnight with a friend named marion who rents an apartment inside. marion was away at the time, but not for long. >> sent me at here asap. >> fortunately, no one was hurt and most of the damage seems confined to the garage area. when a fire in december 2017 caused part of snake road to collapse, traffic including big rigs were diverted to a steeper section of snake drive. >> trucks blasting down the hill, one went through the fence and destroyed that last year. and then this one,

i'm eric thomas. . >> and i'm dion lim.ncisco police are searching for the gunman who shot in and killed a man near city hall. it happened around 5:30 this morning on turk street near franklin. the victim's name has not yet been released. >> former california governor schwarzenegger is okay after a crazed fan dropped a flying kick in his back in south africa. the 71-year-old actor posted video of the incident on twitter. you can see security quickly jumping in, grabbing the attacker and carrying him away. schwarzenegger was posing with fans when it happened. >> it is still raining. live doppler 7 shows scattered showers across the bay area. meteorologist drew tuma is tracking it all and will tell us in a few minutes what to expect for tomorrow's beta breakers race in san francisco and the rest of the week. >>> rain kept many people away from an annual santa rosa tradition, but it didn't stop the 125 gtd edition of the luther burbank rose parade. parade organizers say a third of the group that signed up to be in the celebrat

in san francisco, eric thomas, abc7 news. >>> new developments. received a boost tonight for their plans for a new home near jack london square. the alameda labor counsel voted to support building a new baseball stadium in oakland's howard terminal that group represents 135 labor unions and 135,000 workers across alameda county. supporters say it will create 2,000 construction jobs. but another labor group, the international longshore and warehouse union opposes a ballpark at howard terminal. that group believes the ballpark would kill jobs along oakland's waterfront. >>> today governor newsom unveiled a revised budget that outlined some of his priorities. newsom first proposed a $209 billion budget when he took office in january. the new budget is for $313 billion. there is a jump in funding to combat homelessness. the first version called for $625 million. the new budget sets aside a billion. it also puts aside more money towards education. >> we will have the highest investment in our k through 14 education system in california history. it is n

abc 7 news anchor eric thomas has the story. >> reporter: the biggest change in the local real estate market is in the south bay. last year this time, houses were moving fast and getting multiple bids. now, not so much. >> it's not that people are trying to sell more homes. rather it's that people are having a harder time selling those homes and more of last week's listings left over for next week. >> reporter: isse roman is a chief economist for trulia. they have a new report on home sale trends across the country and once again, the bay area leads the nation in the things that make purchases tough. >> there's a limited number of people who can afford housing at current prices and who have the need to move at a given point in time. >> reporter: the trulia report shows inventory up more than 55% over the year before. that means more houses on the market longer. it's even worse for so-called starter home inventory up more than 78% from 2018. the median price for a starter home in san jose is $759,000.,00 gonzalez of the santa clara association of realtors says things may be slowing, bu

"abc 7 news" anchor eric thomas has his story. >> it was like bittersweet, kind of sad. >> reporter: that's how oakland's jordan long felt after watching billion air robert smith make this promise to graduating seniors at morehouse college last weekend. >> my family is making a grant to eliminate their student loans. >> reporter: jordan long spent two years at morehouse college after graduating from oakland tech. he had plans on getting an education and changing the world, but money got in the way. >> i've been working on this place for several months now. >> reporter: his dad, james copes, is renovating this kiosk outside oakland city hall to turn it into a tee shirt shot. the $48,000 annual tuition was putting a strain on the family so jordan dropped out and came home to enroll in community college last year. he still owes $60,000 in student loans. >> i was sad for a while and i'm getting over that still and working with that, and i'm just, like, happy for my friends and happy that we can have these conversations. >> reporter: he started a gofundme page and plans to work towards fr

eric thomas, abc 7 news. >> we hope we get that parade. we want to see your dubs spirit.ubson7 and you might see your photos on air or online. >>> i have a good feeling about this. the long-anticipated star wars attraction to set to open at disney land. tto harrison, the wine tcollection.. grace, you get the beach house, just don't leave the lights on, okay? to mateo, my favorite chair. to chris, the family recipes. to craig, this rock. to jamie, well, let's just say, enjoy the ride. the redwoods to the redheads. the rainbows to the proud. the almonds to walter. the beaches to the bums. and the fog to, who else, karl. i leave these things to my heirs, all 39 million of you, on one condition. that you do everything in your power to preserve and protect them. with love, california. . >>> now to a galaxy far, far away. actually just a few hundred miles away at disney land. >> galaxy's edge attraction is opening this week. reggie aqui got a sneak peek inside one of those hot rides. >> victoria, are you tells me we near the millennium falcon. >> that's correct. hondo has tempo

eric thomas, abc 7 news. >> we want to hear your ideas about building a better bay area. them by joining our facebook group. >>> now to a bizarre story out of ohio. an alleged burglary she sat down and began petting the family dog. the neighbor said the woman then went into the dog and washed the dishes and left without taking anything. >> yeah. >> police arrested her and said she appeared to be under the influence of narcotics. >> bizarre. >>> how about a job where you can drink all the beer you want and make money. yes. >> and get ready to get your art on in the east bay this month. how you can get involved, coming up next. >>> i'm spencer christian and the fog coming on, about to consume central tower there. i'll have the accuweather forecast listen to your mom, aknuckleheads. hand em over.. hand what over? video games, whatever you got. let's go. you can watch videos of people playing video games in the morning. is that everything? i can see who's online. i'm gonna sweep the sofa fort. well, look what i found. take control of your wifi with xfinity xfi. let's roll! no

in san francisco, eric thomas, abc 7 news. >>> some people would rather spend time in jail than dealss of moving. life storage surveyed 2,000 americans last month. more than one in ten people find moving more stressful than a week in jail.the survey found m just part of the battle. people spend on average three hours procrastinating. two hours arguing with their partner or roommate. that's not good. >> and two hours crying happy and sad tears. >> sad tears last night. 15 minutes of panic as the golden state warriors waited to hear the diagnosis on kevin durant. he got hurt k.d.eft warriors were able to squeeze out a victory. joining me now is a doctor from ucsf. doc, a lot of people immediately assumed torn achilles tendon and even today when i walked in the office, i had people say, it's not really a calf strain. they're hiding something. want to put it in motion here. you tell me what you saw. >> right. last night in watching it, immediately get concern when he looks behind him. like he felt he was kicked in the back of the leg and starts to grab his calf. that's a sign of an achil

. >> i'm eric thomas. >> and i'm deon limb with this early addition of abc7 news at 5:00. >>> you can see the heavy police response in the south bay. >> san jose police say there was an officer involved shooting just before 1:00 this afternoon. we were able to located the scanner traffic as police responded. >> we need medics out here code three. >> it is not clear if someone was indeed shot or wounded and if so who. we heard this moments after the initial call. >> we have a crew on the way and we'll have an update at abc7 news 11:00 and >> just after 2:00 this afternoon letting people know investigators are on the scene. download the app and get alerts sent directly to your mobile device. >>> a choir from alabama survived a fiery crash this morning on highway 101. abc7 news reporter cornell bernard spoke to some choir members. joins us live in san francisco. i saw your tweet the pictures are so scary. >> reporter: it is really scary, dion. the members of the choir from alabama say it is a total miracle they survived the crash. they came hear making good believe it or not on that prom

in san francisco, eric thomas, abc 7 news. >>> in the east bay, 15 sets of twins are getting ready toduate from pittsburg high school. as abc 7 reporter wayne freedman shows us, it's a phenomenon that was only recently discovered. pittsbur begun pondering a new set of challenges. that's especially true for mccaleb and miles grant. they're twins with all the closeness that implies and they're heading for separate colleges. >> what are you going to miss about her? >> our times together. we laugh at almost everything. >> i think we're ready. it's going to be hard but i think we're ready. >> reporter: at least they're not alone in this dilemma. the senior class his other twins. nick and victor montez. and vanessa and alyssa vanegra. if that sounds unusual, keep counting. nobody made the connection until receiptly -- recently when melody moseley got all the 2019 twins together. >> they were twins but some of them didn't realize that -- one of them didn't realize there were that many sets. >> i've had classes with more than one set of twins but i'd never put two and two together. >> reporte

eric thomas explains from the east bay. >> from the time we have to act, it has grown shorter and shorter. >> this map shows where flooding would hit hardest. first, .8 inches. then 1.6 feet higher. then 5 feet higher. affecting every county that touches the bay. >> highway 37 was closed for six weeks. this is only a harbinger of what is to come. >> in richmond, she co-authored the report. it confirms studies that show thousands of homes will be flooded, affecting 400,000 people and causing $150 billion in property damage. >> as it stands, if each city, each county, each land owner goes it alone and tries to solve the problem individually, wee wind up with a piecemeal approach. >> they have to convince homeowners whose home rests on piers over the water, that the problem is urgent. >> there is been no problem so far. interstate 80 will be underwater. 101 had been underwater. everything on the coast will be underwater it hand happened yet. it calls for the stoi develop a shoreline system. >> 16 inches. the institute says a plan must include natural solutions. >> we can use the systems like

i'm eric thomas. >> and i'm dion lim. thanks so much for watching abc 7 news at 6:00.ayed due to "american idol." >> we first want to check in with abc 7 news meteorologist drew tuma who just over the last hour has seen the live doppler 7 radar light up. drew? >> yeah, eric, for some of us we've seen lightning, heard thunder and even a little bit of hail. live doppler 7. let's show you where the action has been over the past hour or so. you can see in the inland east bay we've heard reports of lightning from brightwood even stretching close to walnut creek. we'll widen out the picture and show you around mentica you can see thundershowers are there. three lightning strikes as we track that line over the next couple of hours. we'll likely find another thundershower near san ramon, even closer to hayward by 9:00. the reason why, an area of low pressure to our south. we tckt storm and where it will ho ithe auwer forecast, eric in a few minutes. >> we'll see you then. a day after surviving this fiery bus crash in the bay area students from an alabama university choir gathe

hello, thank you for joining us, i'm eric thomas. >> i'm dion lynn.me. they're calling chief william scot to apologize. cornell bernard is live with details and reaction to this developing story. >> the police union not holding back tonight. they say it is time for the chief to go following is handling of a raid on a journalist home. >> we're asking the chief to voluntarily design, if he won't resign we're asking he be fired. >> tony montoya says it is for chief william scott to go preponderate chief spoke with dan noise on friday. >> i owe an apology to the people of san francisco. >> i believe it was hypocritical. just within a few days ago he was supporting the

. >> eric thomas shows us how contra costa county is mobilizing to fight them. >> we are getting into spring, the warmer weather. this is when we typically start to see the beginning of mosquito season in contra costa county. >> reporter: it's also when chris, the vector of contra costa county looks for the usual suspects. he is a taking water samples to take back to the lab to see what species it belongs to. >> this is an example of a creek that becomes a mosquito source. >> reporter: since adult mosquitos lay eggs every year, he's not waiting for confirmation. he is seeding the creek with the fish of the guppy family that can each 200 larvae each. when it's flowing because of winter range, that's their time to mobilize. >> they like standing water. >> reporter: standing water is like a maternity hospitality for mosquitoes. if you think they need a lot of water in which to breed, they only need about that much. >> we have 23 different species of mosquitoes here in contra costa county. ses transmit west nile virus. >> reporter: that virus can cause fever, body aches and vomiting in so

eric thomas has the latest from stockton. >> that's the innocence of youth. it is part of the lodi school district. last month a rt reporter at the paper wrote a profile of an 18-year-old student who works in the porn industry. when the ad administration found out, they tried to quash the story. >> without reviewing the article, they decided it was obscene. it didn't fit the laws of obscenity. >> it is not even a front page article. you have to turn to page five on the inside to find it. when was the last time a page five article generated this much controversy? she is the veteran english teach here writes the journalism program. she decided the student's right to publish under the first amendment. that's when the district started playing rough. >> to stand outside your classroom door and to be handed a letter that says you can be dismissed. i'm probably going to cry just talking about it. >> but to determine if it violated a state law that allowed school districts to regulate obscene material. the lawyer said it did not. and today, the district issued this s

in concord, eric thomas, abc 7 news. >>> game two of the western conference finals is tonight. >> we're hearing from steph about what it's like to share the court with his little brother. abc 7 news reporter jobina fortson live for us at oracle arena. good morning, jobina. >>> good morning, we are ready for game two. i have my patch on here rocking the jacket and i brought my swifer in case the team needs motivation to sweep the trail blazers. that's what we're doing this morning. the game kicks off at oracle arena at 6:00 tonight. the big question a lot of people are wondering is will kevin durant play? that's the big question. unfortunately, it's not looking too good right now. coach kerr did confirm he will have his right calf evaluated today. he strained it against the rockets. on the court tonight, though, will be round two of the battle of the brothers, steph versus seth curry. espn sat down to talk about the dynamic on the court playing against his little brother. he has mixed feelings and just can't seem to shake it. >> i can't turn off the human nature. i know it will hurt me i

. >> let's go right to abc7 news anchor eric thomas live in oakland with the latest on the story. i don't know if it was a perfect storm, but it was a unanimous vote in favor of the a's plan to build that new stadium in howard terminal. this is not the final vote, but it is an important step on the road because it clears the way for environmental impact studies and to apply for permits from the state to get the job done. and there was a lot of lobbying going on today. folks walking through jack london square -- faced duelling rallies around noon today. first from longshoremen who oppose the stadium

eric thomas has a look at the fight against this pesky insect. >> we are getting into spring. the warmer weather. this is when we typically start to see the beginning of mosquito season here in contra costa county. >> reporter: chris stall is on a search and destroy mission. he shows the enemy no mercy. >> this is a really good example of a creek that becomes a good mosquito source. >> reporter: these are his troops. tiny fish of the gup i family who eat the larvae. when the water turns warm and the streams are flowing because of winter -- they lie stagnant with water with a lot of organic. >> reporter: some of species are bad news. i was going to ask you about the dangers posed by mosquitoes. the risk to people. you mentioned west nile virus. >> two species out of three can transmit west nile virus. >> that can cause fever, body aches and vomiting in some victims. one in 150 victims can develop potentially deadly en secephali or swelling of the brain. >> next to a backyard, they put out these mosquito repellents. but the problem isn't too bad she says. >> when you're not the

>>starts winning the game 6 without star eric carlson thomas hurdle or joe pavelski the blues offense just proved too much right out of the gate lose close out the series in 6 there back in the stanley cup final for the first time since 1970 will take on the boston bruins for the cut. still ahead on the ground for morning news is another legal battle between california and the trump administration over funding. >>for the high speed rail. plus the latest from the ghost ship warehouse trial now defense attorneys say a former fire investigators testimony is different from an initial report that explain and after the break residents in the midwest now bracing for more storms including the possibility of more tornadoes. and in the meantime we're looking at are storms making their way out of the bay area just a couple lingering showers over into the central valley and down to the south bay. >>i'm talking what to expect the rest of the day still to come. expect growing back up. >>at the bay bridge toll plaza i'm tracking your drive into san francisco and it's filling and quickly here babybel

>>but remember eric carlson was her thomas turtles hurt and so is joe pavelski again. yes, bill's key is taking the worst, you pay the biggest price if it for 3 series. but anyway, they just the blues are just too good and they wipe them out. so now the takin boston bruins. so that'll be your stanley cup match up. we'll take a quick break a 27 that i'm still ahead, san francisco police fire. receiving now ♪ there are roadside attractions. and then there's our world-famous on-road attraction. the 2019 glc. lease the glc 300 suv for just $479 a month at your local mercedes-benz dealer. mercedes-benz. the best or nothing. >>the job you know you lose a tooth that's hockey player sharks we've got breaking they'll. it's a really sure like now look at the schedule and put all those because they lost a lot of speck just a normal thing that time for next and it's one of those things you. our weather traffic here at the 8.30 maho spots so ago second okay i will say i once did chip a tooth right before the show. maybe didn't notice that it was you that i don't like this the whole

to begin tomorrow i'm brian thomas for the entire news team thanks for joining us eric always with you at the top of the hour and have a great weekend. mr curious. yourself for. the new. school and don't miss out. no cause for celebration world press freedom day on d w. forty years after the islamic revolution iran is a country torn between the conservative influence of the clerics and a desire for change. you can go online and find out what's going on in the world in a matter of minutes you can expect the younger generation to stand still young people will move on if equipment. many are pushing back against the country's strict social and cultural laws. there's a new law that says we can only sing in persian but since we started out we've always aim to be international international. and many are testing their own limits in their bid for greater freedom. this is the first time we've done an offer that i'm going into the forest and spending the night away from home it's great p. m. . potentially wealthy country struggling with powerful outside enemies and its own domestic problems. wit

thomas glad to have you with us. now the remains of all forty one people killed in sunday's plane fire in moscow have now been recovered from the charred wreckage of the aeroflot eric. aft. as you can see the entire rear section of the plane was destroyed by the fire the remains of the jet have now been removed from the scene and taken away for further investigation and just to remind you during its attempted minding the souffle superjet burst into flames after its tail struck the runway only thirty seven of the seventy eight people on board survived the tragedy people have been laying flowers and tributes to the airport which has since returned to a full flight schedule at airport where the plane was flying two candles have been released to honor the victims but some people coming simply to pay their respects here's how the tragedy unfolded and just to warn you you may find some of the scenes upsetting. when the plane was in the air i saw a white flash it must have been wanting. near the window i just turned my head and all of a sudden most of the burning plane with huge plumes of black smoke. told about the my city because the a.t.f. guns. i keep hearing. i misse

and if thomas friedman can be convinced of that, you know, that may if have resonance for democrats and liberals more broadly. ericilies fleeing violence and oppression as well as poverty. and several die along the way, we had a raft overturn in the river the other day. it is just horrendous. meanwhile, what do we do? i mean, the president is talking about tightening up asylum laws, here's a poll, part of that poll. 30% believe, one-third, that it should be harder to seek asylum. just about that number say it should be easier, most say it should stay as it is, but the facts are, according to the study, the vast majority of those from the three central american countries who come who ask for asylum, they're turned away. does that mean that their asylum claims basically are judged not legitimate? >> well, you know, there's certainly been a lot of allegations that people are encouraged to seek asylum as the easy way to stay in the country. and what's interesting about that is, again to return to the thomas friedman column, one of the interesting things he said in there was when he was in tijuana, mexico, all over the

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