they had gone as far north as any spaniard party had, led by portola. they come back to the encampment at san diego and end up having to wait for san antonio to return the san antonio ship to return from la paz. so basically what we take away from this, a lot of movement, a lot of difficulties, a lot of disappointment. this is supposed to be the next big frontier for the spanish empire and it feels like a loss. sarah, however, sees this as a great opportunity. he's very excited. on july 16th, 1769, just a few weeks after they arrived in san diego, he dedicates the first of the nine missions he personally would found in san diego. this is a very, very modest building. it's quickly erected with a thatched roof, but would eventually give rise to the other 20 missions that would be established and all to california. and i made a mistake and said 23 last week, i'm going to say 21. i was thinking of something else. so apologies on that. all right. so this gets us into our missions. a fun little advertisement there. so again, there's 21 missions that are estab

they had gone as far north as any spaniard party had, led by portola. they come back to the encampment at san diego and end up having to wait for san antonio to return the san antonio ship to return from la paz. so basically what we take away from this, a lot of movement, a lot of difficulties, a lot of disappointment. this is supposed to be the next big frontier for the spanish empire and it feels like a loss. sarah, however, sees this as a great opportunity. he's very excited. on july 16th, 1769, just a few weeks after they arrived in san diego, he dedicates the first of the nine missions he personally would found in san diego. this is a very, very modest building. it's quickly erected with a thatched roof, but would eventually give rise to the other 20 missions that would be established and all to california. and i made a mistake and said 23 last week, i'm going to say 21. i was thinking of something else. so apologies on that. all right. so this gets us into our missions. a fun little advertisement there. so again, there's 21 missions that are estab

it's fantastic. >> the portola garden tour is the last saturday in september every year.endars every year. you can see us on the website >> our market street program started in 1992. the goal was to bring arts to an audience who may not be normally be exposed to contemporary art. for 2023, we chose comics as the median to highlight san francisco. ifix al, science fiction. history. >> i'm fan, i'm illustrator and writer, i grew up all over the bay area. and is post history no history no south. i've been drawing since i was probably four or five. it's just a cool memory, i just remember painting my apron in kindergarten and i would suddenly start painting myself. it was cartoon, it got me excited. in my home life, it was not consistent but what was on tv is always consistent. there is always xy z- channel, cartoon, i would wait for the cartoons to freeze and chase really fast. i remember getting into anemai as a kid, as a young person because it was one of the avenues of asian-american expression that i can relate to. my project is i'm highlighting 6 trailblazers who's fami

members say portola was a spanish colonizer whose actions led to the destruction of native peoples in california. three years ago, they asked caltrans to remove the statue and now it is gone. >> well, less than 24 hours away now. and right now, 40 niners fans are getting pumped for tomorrow's divisional playoff game against the green bay packers at levi's stadium. kickoff at 515. abc seven news reporter lauren martinez is at the gathering in san jose, joining us live. i saw the fans waving their rally towels earlier. i mean, it sounds like a great atmosphere there this rally is underway now. >> just take a look behind me. we're inside block urban off of san pedro square, where this venue is three floors. >> so though the faithful have different options of where to go on the third floor, there's the legendary running back frank gore, signing autographs. >> there's a dj on the second floor. lots to do. every fan here received a free food and drink voucher with a 40 niners rally towel. so a lot of smiles. great energy. it's just been awesome to be here. fans started lining up for this ra

. >> a statue of gaspard portola that drew criticism as a symbol of european colonialism is gone now, the association of ramaytush ohlone shared this photo of the statue being removed yesterday. there's now an empty pedestal near the pacifica community center, where that statue stood for 35 years. the tribe had worked to have that statue removed since 2020, portola led an spanish expedition up the california coast in 1769. the settlements that followed ultimately displaced indigenous people. the government of catalonia, spain, gave the statue to pacifica in 1988. coming up on abc seven news at four jobs, not jail. >> what one california community is doing to keep young offenders out of prison, and how it could work here in the bay area border battle. the impact of the border wall on wildlife, and how a crossing here could hold some answers. and what a pickle the fight over pickleball courts in one bay area neighborhood wells fargo gives you an extra day grace period to avoid the overdraft fee. what if everything came with a grace period? like accidentally parking where you shouldn't..

portola just popped up.backup yet, but if you're going to be getting on the freeway in livermore, you may want to get on after portola, because that'll be easier for you. we're also looking at the bay bridge toll plaza that is more typical. it's backed up. uh, from the mains metering lights are on interstate 880 and 580 in oakland are looking good. and no trouble on the san mateo or on the dumbarton bridge right now. 639 let's talk about today's weather. here's rosemary. >> good morning sal. happy tuesday everybody. we do have partly sunny skies for today mainly dry for today with unseasonably warm weather continuing for one more day. here's a look at storm tracker two. a little bit of green there on the screen. could have a little bit of drizzle. santa rosa reporting a little bit of fog. it's not widespread out there though this morning and we are calling for dry conditions today. our temperatures are within a few degrees of where we were yesterday in many spots. concord, you are up by six. livermore up by

the santa cruz mountains, but right around the peninsula from belmont, heading into redwood city, portola valley, there was a special marine statement that was issued until 515, seen as there was a thunderstorm off the coast capable of producing a waterspout that is still not out of the question as you look at live doppler seven, the wider picture, you see all this cold, unstable air. we've seen some lightning strikes off the northern california coast, so we're going to keep that in the forecast. meanwhile, we are seeing snow in the mountains right now. blue canyon also reporting some snow. here are some live views from our tower cameras. and it pretty much tells the story. we have some rainy views from our tower cameras with some surf building in santa cruz. let's check out those temperatures at this hour. anywhere from the 40s around clear lake area to 60s in san jose. and a live view right now from our exploratory camera. it is a wet one tonight. downpours, gusty winds. winter storm warning for the sierra snow above 4000ft. and we are looking at an unsettled pattern to continue later o

a toll blackout in the bayview and portola you know why. with transparent to the public. and so -- we had a manager here. karen. and did a wonderful job. she had her reports on time no reports. the republic is kept in the dark. when member gives a presentation in a general nature temperature is like you are saying something but nothing. not that we don't trust you commissioners but have you to due diligence because you are commissioners otherwise if it is too hot in the kitchen you know what you can do. thank you very much. >> thank you. let's go to b in the -- general manager report. >> i think this whole energy use of the biosolid ka facility is a major issue. i did bring it up and we were last year, i can't remember. there are some opportunity to generate energy. you know options for potentially harnassing some of the dpoog something hydro and trying to use the pressure that is being built up to use generate energy. and i was visiting den america they do other work to generate energy and operate their system. it is important for us to be able to runt system in thes eff

the statue of gaspar de portola has been near lindomar beach. recently. it's been the focus of critics who want it removed, citing the history of spanish colonization. according to the pacifica tribune, the statue was taken away by crews yesterday morning. it's not clear what will happen to it. >> speaking of not clear, i want to show you what the altamont pass looked like earlier this morning. that's lots of fog. very deep fog that our ktvu assignment editor, sami mahmood, drove through on his way in, and he wanted to grab a shot of it to show us what it was like out there in the altamont pass. >> yeah. time is 709, and that fog is still there, although it's a little helpful now that the sun is coming up. so it's not dark and foggy at the same time, but, you know, you still have to be careful out there. let's talk about a place where it's not foggy. and that would be the bay bridge. or really the san mateo bridge. and those commutes haven't been all that slow as you look at traffic heading across the peninsula. looks pretty good now. the fog may be an is

ken sington is the direct halfway for emergency vehicles from portola to neighborhoods like edge hill, west portal forest hill and other local areas. yes, it's true these emergency vehicles they can take other routes but it takes longer time. in emergency a person can turn dead in a matter of 10 to 30 seconds. a house fire can turn completely out of control in a matter of 30 seconds. so little time counts. so in our neighborhood meeting, when we had hundreds of hour--i would love to have thousands, hundreds of our neighbors showing up expressing their concerns, i remember there was a retired pediatrician neighbor who said something that really touched my heart. he told the developer, he said, sir, think about our children. think about the safety issue and think about the serious consequence. so i'm here to ask you to please, to help us not to let san francisco become national headlines for a tragedy that can be avoided. thank you. >> there have been significant rock and landslides in this hill in 1962,--and 97. and the land that we're swapping for is a paper street between laguna hond

i've heard from some of you and it is also raining pretty good from two 8-80 woodside, portola valleyme wet weather and really hasn't stopped in the santa cruz mountains. it's been scattered light, but we'll continue to see the breaks through the early morning hours on sunday, and then as it picks up again late sunday into monday, that's when we're going to see the 1 to 2 inch, maybe three inch totals. but as for right now, almost three quarters of an inch in santa rosa, the civic center up in san rafael, 0.91 sfo, a third of an inch, a quarter of an inch. oakland and belmont, and seven hundredths in san jose. there's a look at the golden gate bridge, where it is cloudy right now. 56 san mateo and oakland as well as san francisco, 55 here with a half inch of rain on the way for santa cruz today and inch as we get into sunday and monday and temperatures all in the mid 50s. gusty southerly winds in the upper elevations. so wet and breezy this morning with those gusty winds. and then we'll look for the rain tonight all throughout the game. and it will be widespread and light to moderate.

arch street right there in the portola district. the family of 5 have been displaced. now they're being assisted by the american red cross. happening tonight, a coalition of oakland voters are holding a press conference. regarding the recall of mayor sheng thao. they say the recall is and absurd waste of taxpayer money and they would they said that it would cost over 4 and a half million dollars to do. the group is calling on oakland residents instead to decline to sign. that's the slogan they're going with and rather to unite behind the mayor and the council to work towards the solutions that the community deserves at the press conference, several residents and community leaders will be speaking about the cost of that recall time now 604 and we have new video from the police showing officers lined up to pay tribute. >> 2 fallen police officer twan lay. he died while responding to a burglary near jack london square december 29th and the memorial service is set for tomorrow that will be held at 3 crosses church in castro valley. we have specialw coverage of that service

this was arch street in the portola district, the family of 5 has been displaced, of course, but they're being assisted now by the american red cross. also happening tonight, a coalition of oakland work are voters who support mayor sheng thao will hold a press conference to push back on efforts to recall her. they say the recall would cost more than 4.5 million dollars and is a waste of taxpayer money. the group is calling on oakland residents to not sign a recall petition and instead unite behind the mayor and the city council. several residents and community leaders are expected to speak about the cost of the recall at today's press conference. it's 704. we have some new video from the oakland police showing the officers lining up and paying tribute. >> to fall in oakland police officer twan lay who was killed while responding to a burglary near jack london square on december. 29th. his memorial service is going to be happening tomorrow at the 3 crosses church in castro valley. and we will on kron 4 have special coverage of that service. so stay tuned to kron 4 for that. we also have t

arch street right there in the portola district. see all first responders there on the scene. the family had displaced, obviously with this fire. but the american red cross is they're they're working that help them now find a place to stay while things get rebuilt. also happening tonight, a coalition of local voters who support mayor sheng thao are going to holding a press conference to push back on efforts to recall the mayor. they say that recall effort would cost upwards of 4 and a half million dollars. they think that is a waste of taxpayer money. the group is calling on local residents to instead not signed the recall petition that's going around right now and unite with the mayor and the city council to help solve the problems that the city is facing. several residents and community leaders are expected to speak today about the cost of this recall. again, that will be at today's press conference. >> 10:00:05am. >> and here's new video from the oakland police showing officers paying tribute to fall and oakland police officer twan lay who was killed while responding to a b

so certainly those of you from a san jose down towards morgan hill, even up into the peninsula by portolaey, seeing some of those showers east bay as well. again, it's very light. you don't see a lot of the oranges yellows on the map. so san mateo just getting a little bit of showers. same in san francisco headed right over to hayward and san rebound. it's kind of all over the place. i think where they're getting a little bit more of a break would be the north bay, albeit still cloudy, but you can see dry conditions right now in santa rosa in petaluma comparatively speaking. but as we zoom out, you can see the system is going to kind of keep churning, just keeping those light showers. the system is really a far more robust to the north of us are catching the tail end of it. but it is going make for some wet roads as you head home this afternoon. temperatures. obviously we keep a lid on it. we've got the cloud cover out there. so just 50 degrees in san francisco, low 50's in oakland, san jose livermore 50 degrees got into those mid to upper 50's and conquered santa rosa and even out at hal

and portola valley, you are being hammered at this hour.k at the moderate to heavy rainfall now around the santa cruz mountain area and scotts valley and in san francisco it is pouring at this hour. so the rainfall totals are going to go up as the rain continues to progress in the easterly direction, and we will see waves of rain showers throughout the nighttime hours. the rainfall totals anywhere from 5 to 1 hundredths of an inch of rain in san jose to two and a half in the coastal mountains of the north bay. and this system is so powerful, it's got a punch and it is called this a national weather service to issue a high surf advisory. 4 a.m. tomorrow morning, all the way through thursday. tomorrow's waves. 19 to 23ft beyonce. here we go again. this is our live weather camera. look it out towards the golden gate bridge. i'm always looking at the flag and it is certainly on the fly as the winds have been picking up current air temperatures are now tumbling well into the 50s except for san jose at 60 degrees. winds are also increasing. oakla

this is moving out of portola valley and heading right towards palo alto, and you can see where the rain is falling around the san mateo bridge. and now we have a new bit of activity around petaluma, cotati, also bodega bay into tomales. as all of this listened to the central valley and also the yosemite valley, you see the snow. we'll tell you just how much snow is accumulating and how cold it's going to get. this weekend. that's all coming up, roberta. >> thank you. calif was long delayed. dungeness crab season getting underway this week on a limited basis, the season has been on hold since november because of a high number of whale sightings and the risk of migrating humpback whales becoming tangled in fishing lines. the northern fleet opened its season today, and officials say we could see crab on the market by friday. earlier today on the four, we spoke with ryan bartley. he's an environmental scientist for marine fisheries, for the california department of fish and wildlife and he says later and shortened crab seasons could be the new normal. >> whale populations are recovering. th

this was a street there in the portola district. the family of 5 has been displaced, of course. but the american red cross is there helping them out right now. also happening tonight, a coalition of oakland voters who support mayor sheng thao will be holding a press conference to push back on efforts to recall her. they say that recall would cost more than 4 and a half million dollars. they consider that a waste of taxpayer money. and so they're calling on oakland residents to not sign a recall petition. and instead unite behind the mayor and the city council. several residents and community leaders are expected to speak about the cost of the today's press conference. >> we have new video from the oakland police showing officers lined up paying tribute to fallen officer twan lay. he was killed while responding to a burglary near jack london square on december. 29th. his memorial service is going to happen tomorrow at the 3 crosses church in castro valley and we will have special coverage. all of the service for officer lay right here on kron 4. well, developing news this morning

ken sington is the direct halfway for emergency vehicles from portola to neighborhoods like edge hill, west portal forest hill and other local areas. yes, it's true these emergency vehicles they can take other routes but it takes longer time. in emergency a person can turn dead in a matter of 10 to 30 seconds. a house fire can turn completely out of control in a matter of 30 seconds. so little time counts. so in our neighborhood meeting, when we had hundreds of hour--i would love to have thousands, hundreds of our neighbors showing up expressing their concerns, i remember there was a retired pediatrician neighbor who said something that really touched my heart. he told the developer, he said, sir, think about our children. think about the safety issue and think about the serious consequence. so i'm here to ask you to please, to help us not to let san francisco become national headlines for a tragedy that can be avoided. thank you. >> there have been significant rock and landslides in this hill in 1962,--and 97. and the land that we're swapping for is a paper street between laguna hond

the statue of gaspar de portola has been near linda mar beach, but recently it has been the focus ofremoved, citing the history of spanish colonization. according to the pacifica tribune, the statue was taken away by crews yesterday morning. it's not clear what will happen to it. >> interesting. all right. time is 509, steve paulson's weather. very interesting because it's going to change in a few hours from now, maybe a little later. >> a little later. yes. yes, it will be later, not sooner. that is correct, mr. clerk. thank you sir. uh, we'll take a look at the forecast for tomorrow. again, you can't win on this forecast, but just plan on maybe some rain. hopefully we'll get a break here, but. okay. just go to the ground. >> all right? we're talking about he's he's fixing his microphone. but that is the levi stadium forecast which bailey i was she was saying umbrellas. i'm kind of surprised you can bring umbrellas in right. because that's going to block people's view. yeah. but it's going to rain there most likely huh steve. well aren't you in the sweet pamela? >> you don't have th

district 10 we had a small add back of about hundred thousand dollar for neighborhood greening in the portola neighborhood. one item we found consistently under spending on temp salaries so made $150 thousand reduction there. again, no impact on cleaning service or any services for the department. >> excuse me deputy director robertson, we are having technical issues with the public able to join the meeting. i will have to ask you to take a short break for 5 minutes as we recess. >> okay. >> sorry to interrupt you. we will recess for >> again, deputy director robertson, we do apologize having to interrupt your flow, but please continue where you left off. >> thank you commissioners. after all of that news and midyou're budget reductions december mayor office issued the budget instructions. i'll go through that now. similar to the midyear reduction improved public safety and street conditions, street condition is big for public works. city wide economic vitality. we talked about the revenue impact on sales tax, property tax, what we can do to help restore the city's economic vitality. focus on

the this is kensington bridge over over portola avenue, the painted bridge or the bottom one is a isidewalk mural in mira loma the hop skip and jump. so these are the projects that most communities do, and some of them previously were minor encroachments. some of them were major encroachments. we're carving all that out and what they all have in common is that the applicant must be an organization. it can't be an individual. these are projects that are in in front of multiple property owners. they're on retaining walls. they're on existing staircase faces in the right of way. they're along corridors. so the applicant has to be a nonprofit organization, a merchant association, a cbd, something like that. and the types of projects you can see go from painted and tiled murals, sidewalk murals, commemorative plaques. we tightened up the process for commemorative plaques because it was very confusing and it would go back and forth to and from the board of supervisors. so that's much clearer. and it also includes string lights along commercial corridors like all these string lights that we

repair, state of good repair report, which you just saw a presentation on the visitacion valley and portolay based transportation plan, which you recently approved, including bicycle and pedestrian needs and transit stop improvements connect sf, which was a joint agency effort across the city, which includes major capital expansions. the climate action plan, which was released by the mayor about two years ago, includes adding ev charging expansion and parking reform as well as easier transfers between transit operators and then this new to this year's capital plan. we also included our non sf mta capital expenses. we have a bart joint maintenance agreement in a non mta other agencies category that the sfmta is responsible for but doesn't necessarily manage. and besides what i'm about to show you, the mta could also work with regional partners to support an additional 23.4 billion in regional needs, which the mta may or may not work with regional partners. these things include geary, 19th avenue, subway and bayview, caltrain station, bart and muni station transfers, as well as the portal dow

repair, state of good repair report, which you just saw a presentation on the visitacion valley and portolaity based transportation plan, which you recently approved, including bicycle and pedestrian needs and transit stop improvements connect sf, which was a joint agency effort across the city, which includes major capital expansions. the climate action plan, which was released by the mayor about two years ago, includes adding ev charging expansion and parking reform as well as easier transfers between transit operators and then this new to this year's capital plan. we also included our non sf mta capital expenses. we have a bart joint maintenance agreement in a non mta other agencies category that the sfmta is responsible for but doesn't necessarily manage. and besides what i'm about to show you, the mta could also work with regional partners to support an additional 23.4 billion in regional needs, which the mta may or may not work with regional partners. these things include geary, 19th avenue, subway and bayview, caltrain station, bart and muni station transfers, as well as the portal d

morning san francisco firefighters are crediting smoke alarms for saving a family of five in the portola neighborhood . fire crews arrived just after 3 a.m, evacuated a two story building to put out a second story bedroom fire. five people were displaced and they are getting help from the red cross. >> our time is now. 705 sentencing scheduled today for the man convicted of brutally murdering the mother of his child in san carlos. joe landeta was found guilty of the murder last year. aggravated factors have been added in the case. a court spokesperson says those extra factors will be taken into account during sentencing. well, oakland police are busy searching for armed robbers who shot and killed a longtime convenience store clerk over the weekend, 46 year old majid al azad was working saturday night at orlando market on linden street about 8 p.m, two armed robbers came into the store, struggled with the store clerk, and then shot him. mr. al-hasani had worked at that store for almost 20 years. ktvu talked to one of his four sons who did not want to be shown on camera. >> it was a robbe