tara campbell reporting live. thank you so much. a san jose school is wrapping up a third straight day without electricity. an outage caused by sunday's storms. many students showed up for class today at baldwin elementary with flashlights and some extra layers of clothing. they've been told to dress warmly because the school's hvac system isn't fully supported by generators. there's only light in the school's common areas, including the kitchen, so lunch still can be provided. >> i think it shows the kids that no matter what, they have to pay in school. that's responsibility number one, right ? and it shows the kids also that no matter what life goes. on >> the district told parents the cause of the outage is an equipment issue that p-g-and-e's is working to repair. p-g-and-e's expects restoration work to be finished tonight. if not, they will provide temporary generators tomorrow to get the lights back on for those students. >> all right. we'll move on now to other issues making news tonight. san jose police have busted a major re

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tara campbell. seven news the city of antioch is hiring private security to help police the downtown area. >> the city has seen a spike in crime and a rise in sideshows. the mayor blames the police texting scandal that broke last summer. since then, the police force has been suffering from lack of personnel and more than 40% of the city's police force is on leave because of the scandal. >> since the traffic division was basically decimated as a result of the texas of the text racist messaging scandal. uh, unfortunately, we have seen an increase in sideshows, and so, uh, this, uh, private security will serve as, uh, as, uh, as hopefully a deterrent to some of the sideshows that we've seen at the marina. many business owners in the area say they welcome the private security and hope it will encourage more customers to visit downtown state lawmakers are considering a proposal requiring businesses in california to have narcan available in first aid kits under assembly bill 1976, employers would have to

all of them worked extremely hard to bring closure to our family. >> tara campbell abc seven news. now to breaking news on the peninsula where a muni bus has crashed in daly city. >> you see it here? it went over the sidewalk somehow and stopped between a traffic pole and a tree happened along the 14 and 14 hour line at mission and flournoy streets. the sfmta says to expect delays. obviously, that entire intersection is currently blocked. there is no information about what exactly caused the crash or whether there are any injuries is. >> starting next week, alameda county will get help prosecuting suspects in violent crimes. governor newsom and attorney general rob bonta are sending state attorneys to help with criminal prosecution. the focus will be on violent crimes, fentanyl dealing and property crimes like retail theft and auto burglary. now this comes as an effort to recall alameda district attorney pamela price continues. news carl chan is part of that recall campaign. he claims price's policies have contributed to oakland's rising crime. >> when our police departments, you k

all right. >> tara campbell, live for us. hope you get to dry off. very soon. well like tara mentioned, a few people decided to venture out to san francisco's ocean beach today to check out those big waves rolling in there. is that high surf advisory along the coast from sonoma county all the way down to monterey county, with the possibility of flooding, downed trees and power outages. a lot of people spent the day getting ready by sandbagging. we continue our team coverage now with abc7 news reporter cornell bernard. and then you have this uh- the boards all the way up, and then we have the sandbags. >> jucunda egan is prepared for the storm. her home facing beach boulevard and pacifica is a fortress of boards and sandbags ready for heavy rain, strong winds and high surf and she's done some praying too. >> i have a lot of a lot of faith in god. god is going to protect me, but i do. i'm concerned not only for myself and my neighbors, but for the city. >> beach boulevard is off limits to cars and pacific pier remains closed to the public after a storm damaged the

abc seven news reporter tara campbell has the story. >> i want to show a picture of my lovely mother a moment more than five decades in the making, david hicks holding up a photo of his mother, nellie hicks, who was raped and murdered inside their newark home in 1972. >> my mom was a hero. police announcing thursday a suspect in two cold cases, the 1972 rape and murder of schoolteacher and mother of six, nellie hicks, and the rape and murder of teresa pica in hayward. in 1979, the newark police department is proud to be here alongside hayward police department to finally provide closure for the hicks and pica families. investigators using advancements in dna technology to catch fred bernard farnham describing the approach as similar to how the golden state killer was caught. >> genealogical dna technology was used, which allowed investigators to identify fred bernard farnham as the man responsible for the sexual assault and murder of teresa pica, teresa pica, and nellie hicks were both found dead by family members. >> the suspect entering the homes and attacking the women while they

tara campbell, abc seven news. >> if you know someone, if there's someone you know that struggles with issues like substance abuse or maybe you do abc seven news is here to help find local resources at abc seven news.com/take action on a story shared by governor newsom is getting a lot of attention. >> he says he confronted a target worker who watched as a thief walked out. abc seven news reporter zach fuentes has more. now. >> it started moments before a wednesday press conference involving the mayors of california's big cities. governor gavin newsom shared an encounter he had with a target employee after seeing a shoplifter. he's walking out as we're checking out, the woman says, oh, he's just walking out. >> he didn't pay for that. i said, well, why aren't you stopping him? she goes, oh, the governor, although it's unclear if grand theft would have applied to this situation, newsom said he told the worker that at $950, california has the 10th toughest threshold in the u.s. for grand theft. she looks at me twice, and then she freaks out. she calls everyone over, wants to take photos.

tara campbell abc seven news. new this morning, former san francisco mayor mark farrell is running for mayor. >> that's according to our media partners at the san francisco standard. farrell previously served as mayor back in 2018 after the sudden death of then mayor ed lee. at the time, he decided not to run in the special election where london breed was elected mayor. farrell is currently the managing director of thayer ventures, a tech investment firm he co-founded in 2011. in california, lawmakers are considering a proposal requiring businesses to have narcan available in first aid kits under assembly bill 1976, employers need to have nasal nasal spray on hand to treat someone who has taken an opioid like fentanyl. minaxolone is the life saving ingredient in the overdose antidote narcan. san francisco state assemblyman matt haney introduced the bill this week. if the legislation is signed into law, it would go into effect on january 1st next year. developing news now us strikes in iraq killed at least 16 peopl

we know that abc seven news reporter tara campbell takes us to some of those celebrations. >> littlegon, loud dragon and large dragons. saturday, san francisco kicking off lunar new year. >> nice jambalaya that chock dagestani fillled santa hong ping and i got mayor london breed welcoming the community to the celebration in portsmouth square in the heart of chinatown. >> drumming, music and a 100 foot dragon in we're from hong kong. >> so like, it's kind of hard to find the same kind of, um, festive atmosphere here in the us. and this is the closest thing to it. >> grant avenue packed with people from different generations and backgrounds. that's what makes san francisco so unique, right? >> is that it's a it's a melting pot of different cultures and people can enjoy each other. um, and get that sense of community. >> it's a great time, great weather. today. we really lucked out with the weather. >> nor mcmichael is celebrating with his mother and sons. well my son goes to a chinese american school here in the city, so he's got, um, awareness that way. >> and so it was really his ide

abc seven news reporter tara campbell has reaction from the victim's mother. i'm offering a $10,000 reward for any tips that lead to the arrest of the people who violently robbed my son and his friends. >> reporter maxie share is talking about this incident monday at the 76 gas station on hegenberger road near the oakland airport, offering up a reward to help identify the people in this surveillance video, which is also being used in the police investigate in the world doesn't have to be this way. the texas attorney has roots in the bay area and says the attack happened while her son and friends were gassing up their rental car. family and friends had spent the weekend in sonoma celebrating his 21st birthday. >> out comes five different men uh- they bust the windshield, take all of the luggage and didn't stop there. they then pulled my son out of the car, started hitting him with the gun. >> she met her son in oakland at the police station. >> this is commonplace is what i kept being told. you should know better than to gas up in oakland. >> but she says there

abc seven news reporter tara campbell was in san mateo county as residents there prepared the signs are up and the sandbags out as san mateo county gets ready to weather this major storm, i would tell people, be vigilant, be aware. >> david canepa is a san mateo county supervisor and says daly city and broadmoor village have historically been hit hardest by flooding. >> what we're trying to do is make sure that people are prepared and we're trying to make sure through our regional operations center that we're able to coordinate, whether it's through the sheriff's department, whether it's through local jurisdictions. um, so that's we're ready when it rains a lot, this becomes like the whole area is flooded. >> and this broadmoor village resident explains, means some have it worse than others. >> for the residents over here, i think it is kind of a problem. i saw some neighbors putting up some sandbags, like along the garage doors, and kevin mcewen is one of those people preparing . >> honestly, i am just trying my best to prepare for it because i don't really have a proper game plan. >>

. >> abc seven news reporter tara campbell is at the scene. she's been speaking with students tara. yeah dan and ama. >> as you can see behind me at the student union here, most of the scene has cleared. plenty of students walking around now. cars are starting to pass by, but you can still see there is some police presence behind me. the first call for this incident coming in at around 840 tonight at first, when they got on bancroft on campus. now cell phone video you're looking at right here is taken from inside the student union, where you can see students running for safety. university officials have confirmed nine shots were fired outside the building before the shooter was apprehended. i spoke with one student who saw it take place. >> we happen to notice a bunch of cops drive by where we were so we came to check it out and we were standing by the student union and somebody was getting pinned to the floor. and then carried to the car. i was a little bit shocked that this all happened, like in the student building, like you hear of shots taking place around the surrounding area,

as much of the town is in darkness tonight, that's where we find abc seven news reporter tara campbellwith how things are going there now, tara. >> well, dion, we are certainly still feeling the gusts down here in pacifica. and as you can see, it's dark here. it's actually quite eerie driving into here just to see how how dark most of this area still is likely not to get power back until at least tomorrow morning. much of the bay area still really feeling the impacts of this major storm winds whipping across the bay area sunday. trees toppled and power lines down. we've got outages, of course, all across the bay area, including in san francisco and the east bay and other places. >> but the hardest hit right now appears to be the north bay. the peninsula and the south bay. >> this giant tree crashing into a home in the rocky creek court area of san jose. the high winds and rain making the highways hard to drive. >> we're looking at some dangerous winds. we've got sustained winds of 20 to 30mph, with gusts as high as 60mph, and in the east bay, these massive trees coming down on a home i

abc seven news reporter tara campbell has been following the story. and joining us live now. tara. >> yeah, larry. supervisor matt dorsey is asking for data to help determine if the city is a destination for drug users. but he's also the first to say even if the even if the data does show that they're not sure what they'll do about it. on the heels of the deadliest year yet amid the drug overdose crisis, a san francisco supervisor is calling for more data on where people who are using and dying from illicit street drugs are coming from. so we know anecdotally that there are people who come here from out of town. >> and often over the years i've seen it play out where there's debates about whether or to what extent san francisco is a destination city for drug tourism supervisor matt dorsey sending this letter to the city's comptroller's office requesting it compile home address histories of people arrested for drug use and those who have died of an overdose. so i wanted to work with the comptroller to identify a methodology. these numbers are not unknowable, and once a methodol

abc seven news reporter tara campbell has been talking to p-g-and-e's and the people who live there, and she's here live for us tonight. tara yeah, yeah. >> ama. well, earlier today, when we were here at the service center, it was one crew after another leaving as we were getting details from p-g-and-e's. and as you can see behind me, you may be able to uh. we did have a few trucks coming in just a few moments ago, but we were out earlier today. speaking to folks who still are experiencing these power outages right up there here. >> the tree went through my brother's truck. >> residents in west marin county and beyond are still wrestling with the aftermath of sunday's massive storm. >> way up on the hill up there, it uprooted, fell all the way across, almost hit the house and took out his new truck. anthony giacomi lives in san geronimo valley, an area still without power. you end up throwing your food away if you don't have a generator and you should have a generator for heat p-g-and-e's crews out in full force across the north bay, calling it the most damaging single day storm ever.

. >> tara campbell, abc seven news.yan curry here in the east coast of san francisco. >> and really it's tough to describe the emotions of some of these fans after the way that game ended. once that touchdown occurred, nothing but silence here in this section of san francisco fans, obviously upset, wondering what possibly could have changed to result in a 40 niners victory. another year, another devastating loss to the season. fans were hoping this gathering at east shed would turn into a celebration, but when that touchdown happened at the end, those hopes also ended. >> i'm a really big brock purdy fan. iowa state i really wanted him to win. um, unfortunate. that was a good game. but wanted them to win. so i'm sad. >> even with this loss, fans say they do remain somewhat hopeful about the future of this team. a young quarterback with talent everywhere. however this loss, you can tell, is tough for them to swallow right now in san francisco. ryan curry, abc seven news. i'm lauren martinez and we're inside sushi confide

abc seven news reporter tara campbell has a look at the day's festivities. >> little dragons, loud dragons dragons. saturday, san francisco kicking off lunar new year. nice. >> sunny fillled santa. hang on. i got mayor london breed welcoming the community to the celebration in portsmouth square in the heart of chinatown. >> drumming, music and a 100 foot dragon. we're from hong kong, so like it's kind of hard to find the same kind of, um, festive atmosphere here in the us. >> and this is the closest thing to it. >> grant avenue packed with people from different generations and backgrounds. that's what makes san francisco so unique, right? >> is that it's a it's a melting pot of different cultures, and people can enjoy each other and get that sense of community. >> it's a great time, great weather. today we really lucked out with the weather normal. >> michael is celebrating with his mother and sons. well, my son goes to a chinese american school here in the city, so he's got, um, awareness that way. >> and so it was really his idea to come down here today. >> the traditional sights and sou

tara campbell, abc seven news new. this morning, former san francisco mayor mark farrell is running for mayor. >> that's according to our media partners at the san francisco standard. farrell previously served as mayor back in 2018 after the sudden death of then mayor ed lee at the time, he decided not to run in the special election where london breed was elected mayor. farrell is currently the managing director of thayer ventures, a tech investment firm. he co-founded in 2011. across the state. now, lawmakers are considering a proposal requiring businesses to have narcan available in first aid kits under assembly bill 1976. employers need to have naxal own nasal spray on hand to treat someone who has taken an opioid like fentanyl, nasal loan is the life saving ingredient in the overdose antidote narcan. san francisco state assemblyman matt haney introduced the bill this week. if the legislation is signed into law, it would go into effect on january first next year. developing news now. u.s. strikes in iraq killed at l

abc seven news reporter tara campbell takes us to some of those celebrations.ttle dragon's love for dragons and large dragons. >> saturday, san francisco show kicking off lunar new year. >> nice jambalaya that goes on for santa jinghong king and i got mayor london breed welcoming the community to the celebration in portsmouth square in the heart of chinatown. >> drum ing music and a 100 foot dragon. >> we're from hong kong, so, like, it's kind of hard to find the same kind of, um, fest of atmosphere here in the us. and this is the closest thing to it. >> grant avenue, packed with people from different generations and backgrounds. >> that's what makes san francisco so unique, right? is that it's a it's a melting pot of different cultures and people can enjoy each other and get that sense of community. >> it's a great time, great weather. today. we really lucked out with the weather. >> noel mcmichael is celebrating with his mother and sons. well, my son goes to a chinese american school here in the city, so he's got, um, awareness that way. >> and so it was real

. >> that was tara campbell reporting. aside from being prepared at home, officials are also warning about downed trees, hazardous roads and high surf across the bay area. now, neighbors spent the last 24 hours getting ready by sandbag ing. our storm coverage continues with abc7 news reporter cornell bernard and then you have this, uh, the pause all the way up, and then we have the sandbags. >> jucunda egan is prepared for the storm. her home facing beach boulevard and pacifica is a fortress of boards and sandbags ready for heavy rain, strong winds and high surf. and she's done some praying, too. >> i have a lot of a lot of faith in god. god is going to protect me, but i do. i'm concerned not only for myself and my neighbors, but for the city, beach boulevard is off limits to cars, and pacifica pier remains closed to the public after a storm damaged the structure in late december. >> we found folks shoveling sand and sweeping water crews, santana is concerned about flooding so i can clean out some of this water that came i

abc seven news reporter tara campbell takes us to some of those celebrations. >> little dragons, loud dragons and large dragons. saturday, san francisco kicking off lunar new year. nice jambalaya that feel of santa in hong kong. >> and i got mayor london breed welcoming the community to the celebration in portsmouth square in the heart of chinatown. >> drumming, music and a 100 foot dragon. >> we're from hong kong, so like, it's kind of hard to find the same kind of, um, festive atmosphere here in the us, and this is the closest thing to it. >> grant avenue, packed with people from different generations and backgrounds. >> that's what makes san francisco so unique, right? is that it's a it's a melting pot of different cultures, and people can enjoy each other and get that sense of community. >> it's a great time, great weather. today we really lucked out with the weather. >> noel mcmichael is celebrating with his mother and sons. well, my son goes to a chinese american school here in the city, so he's got, um, awareness that way. >> and so it was really his idea to come down here toda

. >> abc seven news reporter tara campbell is at the scene. she's been speaking with students tara.or this incident coming in at around 840 tonight at first, when they got on bancroft on campus.

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