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>> hundreds arrested. and now, at least at ucla, the cleanup is underway. good afternoon, and thanks for joining us. i'm larry beil and i'm kristen sze. >> dramatic scenes overnight as police move in to clear out encampments. more than 200 people arrested at ucla. >> now, here in the bay area, we saw a violent clash between pro-israel and pro-palestinian demonstrators at the uc berkeley encampment. abc seven news reporter ryan curry joining us live now from berkeley with the latest ryan. >> yeah, larry. kristen. good afternoon. things were very peaceful on campus today. the encampment is about the same size as it was earlier in this week. campus was very busy with students preparing for finals. but what happened last night is of concern for people on both sides of this issue. when pro-israeli protesters arrived in front for the palestinian encampment thursday, tensions began to build. someone grabbed an israeli flag out of the hands of a counter protester, and a fight began today. those at the encampments say they had nothing to do with it. we had one person
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who i've never seen at the camp. >> no, no, none of us knew who disappeared immediately after. we're not sure who this person is. >> members of the group, students supporting israel, say the man who had his flag stolen is alon. they told us in a statement. the act forcefully pulled alon into the violent mob where he was beaten by two men, punched in the back of the neck and in the face several times. the event was nothing short of terrifying and has definitely resulted in physical and mental distress. a representative from the encampment says the actions last night do not reflect their intentions. all the campers are very, very much understanding of the goals and are very focused on what we're here for and it's not to engage with agitators or people who are trying to distract us from our goal. state senator scott wiener says the violence on campuses has to stop. >> we have a long and storied history in california of student protests, and i support their right to protest, it's also so important for our college campuses to be safe places for everyone. >> it's been over a week since
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the encampment started at uc berkeley, and the first reported violence was thursday night. day by day, more tents pop up. the protesters say they will stay until the uc system divest from israel. >> we live in a democracy, and so in theory, we should be able to determine what and where our tax dollars go, and we feel really guilty that we haven't really been able to uphold that, uc berkeley said in a statement. >> university rules leave no room for physical conflict, harassment or discrimination. everyone on our campus affiliate and non-affiliate is expected to adhere to those rules. the protesters say they won't leave when the semester ends unless the university concedes. >> our goal is for this university to divest in the same way that they to divest from israel, in the same way that they divested from south africa. >> now, we did reach out to the jewish student group for an on camera interview. we're waiting to hear back from them. meanwhile, the pro-palestinian demonstrators say they've had talks with the university about their demands and they say those talks are ongoing. but for now,
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reporting live at uc berkeley. ryan curry, abc seven news. >> all right, ryan, thank you. >> meanwhile, police were called in to clear encampments on campuses all across the country. students at portland state, they barricaded themselves inside a library. 90 protesters were arrested at dartmouth. violent clashes in wisconsin injured police and protesters. and in los angeles, 209 arrested as police in the chp crackdown. reporter josh haskell, from our sister station in los angeles, has the latest after pro-palestinian protesters on ucla's campus refused to leave the encampment almost one week since it was established, three law enforcement agencies moved in wednesday night, conduct an operation that involved hundreds of officers, lasted hours and resulted in 209 arrests. >> classes were being blocked off and it was hard to get around campus, but like, i just feel like with the cost of it happening, it's like people got hurt, people got arrested, like it just wasn't, you know what i mean? there could have been a better way to go about it. >> i didn't think that the
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university was going to meet any of the protesters. demand and i and they said they weren't going to leave until those demands were met. and so i think the only option was to have the police remove them, because even though i think a lot of people were protesting peacefully, ultimately their encampment was inciting a lot of violence on both sides. >> chp officers moved in, dismantling the exterior wall of the encampment, made of pieces of plywood and metal barriers. as flashbangs went off, protesters wore helmets, gas masks and use umbrellas as shields in a dramatic effort to hold on to the mini city they had constructed, but eventually they were taken into custody. shortly after it was cleared, ucla employees began cleaning royce quad. i don't know if another camera will happen, but definitely more protesting will happen. >> like they will come back and i think it will be like more of
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a force. honestly >> at what's left of the encampment, we met this ucla staff member dedicated to documenting what happened on campus and how he believes the university mishandled the situation goes against you know what? >> you know the university is supposed to stand for you know, protecting the students. and so, you know, we're archiving these materials as a reminder of what happened, but also, you know, it's a it's a special time, not just at ucla but across the nation and really the world where you're seeing a lot of these universities, you know, students rise up university always wants to celebrate. like, you know, ucla is very diverse. you know, the good chapters of uo. but there's a dark chapter in ucla history, and it's important to document that as well. >> josh haskell, abc seven news. >> now you can follow our coverage of the college campus protests here in the bay area, as well as nationwide on our website. abc seven news.com. >> artificial intelligence is supposed to be part of the future of san francisco, but $1 billion company is heading out and part of the reason some of the city's well-documented problems.
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>> abc seven news reporter tim johns following the story for us, joining us live in the newsroom. tim. >> yeah, larry. kristin. the company ceo, created a whole thread in which he laid out his decision to move its headquarters down to foster city. he said the move was inspired by what foster city has to offer just as much as it was by the problems he thinks san francisco has. it's the industry that's supposed to help revive san francisco with the major players in artificial intelligence all moving downtown, but on monday, replit, an ai company valued at over $1 billion, announced it was leaving the city. despite the relocation, replit says it's not going far. there simply moving down the peninsula to foster city. >> it's just one company is not a trend. that's what i'm saying. >> ahmed benaissa is the tech expert at san jose state university. he says the move doesn't change the fact that san francisco remains the undisputed ai capital, not just here in the bay area, but around the world. it's not clear how many employees replit has, but bonafe tells me he'd be worried if bigger companies like openai decided to leave. >> they called him anchor. you
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know, companies where everybody is around them. but if you have companies who just starting or companies who are new in the field, we have, you know, we have thousands of ais companies. that view was also shared by jim wunderman, the president and ceo of the bay area council. >> wunderman says given that the bay area's economy functions largely as one unit, san francisco will still benefit from replit being nearby. >> the fact that a company is in san francisco itself, or in silicon valley or san jose, or in san mateo county, you know, right in the middle of it all. each has its own distinct advantages, but the location of a company benefits those outside that area. >> but leaving san francisco is only part of the story, according to the company's ceo, who laid out his reasoning in a thread on x, saying in part, the why we're leaving is boring, sad, and predictable crime, dysfunction, etc. so instead, let me tell you why we chose foster city. the rest of his post describes what he finds
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attractive about the peninsula city, namely its safe environment, ideal location and high standard of living descriptors. foster city leaders say they're happy to receive, all in the hopes that more companies may choose to follow in its footsteps. >> we are a prime location for offices, and we have that that tech hub, biotech hub, all of that co-mingling with with beautiful residential and recreational amenities. the city has to provide now, replit ceo says in the future, he hopes when people hear the word replit, they associate it with foster city, similar to how google is associated with mountain view and apple is associated with cupertino in the newsroom. >> tim johns abc seven news all right, tim, thank you. >> the captain of the dive boat that caught fire off the ventura county coast in 2019 is heading to prison today. a federal court judge sentenced jerry boylan to four years in custody, three years under supervision. a jury convicted boylan in november of a single count of misconduct of neglect of ship officer. in the
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deaths of 34 people. he jumped into the water, made no attempt to save lives. the now 70 year old was the first person to abandon ship in the deadliest maritime disaster in recent u.s. history, and some of those who died lived here in the bay area in the east bay, a salon owner is in jail on charges that he sexually assaulted someone inside of his salon. >> she is the owner of key hair salon on clayton road in concord. vu faces a total of seven charges, including rape and lewd acts on a child. the victim is under 16 years old. we're showing you vu's picture because police say there may be other victims. a long time mill valley music teacher arrested this week on child sex abuse charges is dead. authorities found the body of 55 year old darren smith floating in the ocean last evening near drakes beach, along the point reyes national seashore. thdiscovery came hours after a 911 call reporting a surfer being washed out to sea. marin county sheriff's deputies arrested smith tuesday on charges of
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suspicion of sexual abuse and lewd acts on a child under 14. he was out on bail. the autopsy is scheduled for tomorrow. >> the owners of a network of southern california poultry processors have been ordered to pay nearly $5 million in back wages for illegally employing children, according to the department of labor investigation. children as young as 14 were deboning chicken with razor sharp knives. the poultry facility owners are also accused of denying workers overtime in the east bay. >> the troubled dublin correctional center is now empty. the women's prison confirms to abc seven news that all inmates have been transferred to other prisons, moved to community placement or released. the dublin correctional center closed in april. at least eight employees, including a former warden and chaplain, have been charged with sexually abusing incarcerated people there. >> coming up on abc seven news at four, a disturbing delivery what one san francisco man found on his doorstep that has him now
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the new project to light up the bay bridge is a go. installation will begin in the fall, with march next year as the target date for the lights to come back on. exactly two years after the bay bridge lights went dark today on getting answers, i asked davis what the new display will be like. >> it just didn't hold up over time, and it was starting to fail faster than we could ever keep up with economically. so we did the responsible thing rather than let it fade into oblivion, we pulled it down. we have a crackerjack team now committed to making a product from the ground up. musco lighting that will perform well over time, guaranteed minimally for ten years. and more than that and we're bringing it back with double the number of leds. so they'll actually wrap around the cables. so the light will be visible as a matter of esthetic equity to communities all around the bay, davis says they have a commitment for ten of the $11 million needed to fund the project. >> if you want to chip in for the rest, you can donate at the bay lights 3-6 t.org. >> people love those lights. in
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about an hour, san francisco is kicking off its downtown first thursdays event. the free monthly street party will span several blocks of second street in the soma neighborhood. this is an effort by the city to revitalize downtown. you've got live music, beer, gardens, vendors, art, fashion takes place every first thursday of each month, going from 5 p.m. until ten. the city of san jose getting ready for the cinco de mayo celebrations coming up on sunday. now last year, police closed streets and freeway exits, making it difficult to access in a move to mend the bond with the community to the san jose police department will be participating in this year's lowrider parade. traffic will be rerouted in some areas to avoid congestion, but there will not be extensive freeway ramp closures like last year. the official cinco de mayo lowrider parade is back for its second year since the city lifted a ban on cruising before the ban. >> after the ban, we've always wanted people to come down here, but to celebrate and do so safely, so as we've seen in years past, we've had an
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increase in sideshow activity in some of our parking lots and some of our streets. and as we have in years past, we will employ a zero tolerance on any type of criminal behavior. we will have additional resources out on the streets. >> police will also focus on enforcement of alcohol related incidents. a downtown parade that starts at 9 a.m. where the festival at plaza de cesar chavez until five, and the lowriders parade will ride slowly down king street at 10 a.m. >> oh well, this weekend could be some little light rain, a little maybe, like 5050. >> yeah, a floral sandhya patel. >> now with the accu weather. >> thank you. you know what, larry and kristen, i think you guys are both trying to put a spin on this rain that's coming back into the forecast. i know you don't want to see it, but your weekend is going to be 5050. all right, let me show you a live picture right now. we'll talk about this in just a moment. here is a beautiful view right now from our san jose camera where it is sunny, 73 degrees 65, in the city, 68 oakland right now. redwood city,
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71 degrees. clear skies from our walnut creek camera. and we are in the 70s in our inland east bay, concord, livermore, santa rosa 77. it is currently 74. in napa. our breezy pattern continues out of the northwest, coming off that cold ocean water. and as we take a look at the storm that is headed our way, it is going to be pretty late in the season. it's also cold. so you're going to notice some changes right now on live doppler seven. we do have those changes getting underway. some patchy fog has reformed and the winds have picked up onshore breezes, gusts to 30 right now in novato, 36 at sfo. so if you're feeling this change in the air, temperatures have dropped by five degrees in novato. in san jose, along with livermore. and as you look from our sfo camera, there is that little bit of fog and the trees are blowing around in the breeze. san rafael camera sunny skies tomorrow. breezy, cooler weather saturday. wet and chillier. and next week we're talking about sunshine and gradually warms over the course
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of five days. so let's go hour by hour overnight tonight that fog will regroup along our coastline. there will be some around tomorrow morning and then the clouds will begin to increase late in the day. your morning temperatures will start off mainly in the 40s and 50s. watch out for those patches of fog, especially near the coast where it may be a little bit on the thick side. tomorrow afternoon. upper 50s to the upper 70s. for most of you, antioch may get up to 80 degrees. i mean, that's going to be a little bit of a stretch, but temperatures are coming down. it's a level one for saturday rain, brief downpours, slippery roads, breezy conditions. we're talking about 4/10 of an inch to an inch plus for most areas. timing this out for you early saturday morning hopefully before you wake up. the rain is coming in 830. you see some downpours moving through at 11 a.m. it's in the eastern and southern part of our viewing area, and then for the afternoon we'll call it scattered showers. there will be some breaks in the clouds and the rain as well. this continues through saturday night. maybe an isolated shower early sunday morning, but for the most part
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it is done 4/10 of an inch there in brentwood, over an inch of rain expected in half moon bay. your accuweather seven day forecast does feature that morning fog and a cooler day. level one for your saturday wet, breezy and chillier look at the temperature drop. i mean, that's pretty dramatic inland 20 degree drop. chilly morning sunday, brighter afternoon soon. and we're going to go with a slow warming trend next week. kristen and larry will bring those 80s back in, but we're going to have to wait a few days. >> all right. >> thank you, sandhya. >> most of us have the patience. yes larry. thank you. sandhya. okay there will be more to enjoy at two national monuments in california for president biden today said he is expanding them. they are the berryessa snow mountain national monument in lake county. nearly 14,000 acres will be added there, including a ridgeline sacred to a native american tribe. the second one in southern california. more than 105,000 acres will be added to the san gabriel mountains in los angeles county. >> all right. well, no housing
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in the bay area is expensive. it's ridiculous. and there's a tiny bungalow in palo alto. it's just the latest example of the madness. this two bedroom, one bath house, two and one. all right, on the market for $1.9 million. it's 800ft■!s. it does have a detached in-law unit. that's good. and a private garden. it could sell for nearly half $1 million over the asking price, a realtor tells abc seven news. there were five offers and one was nearly $2.4 million. it's now pending. this comes less than a month after we showed you a tiny home in cupertino that was on the market for 1.7 million, the listing agent tells us. a sale is pending for well over the asking price. the bay area is one of the hottest housing markets in the entire nation right now. data from the national association of realtors shows four bay area counties have the highest median home prices in the country nantucket county in massachusetts rounds out the top five. i mean, with interest rates being so high, it's
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surprising that we're getting this level of activity because sales were depressed for a while. it's cash. all cash all cash buyers. >> location location, location. >> yes. >> and if you're trying to get one of these properties, you really can't compete with the all cash buyers. >> we're out. yeah. okay. yeah. >> hitting the streets for some real life experience. the lessons learned for some san jose students and the long haul future. >> the trucks that could put truck stops out of business. entrust your heart to entresto. entresto helps improve your heart's ability to pump blood to the body. don't take entresto if pregnant; it can cause harm or death to an unborn baby. don't take entresto with an ace inhibitor or aliskiren, or if you've had angioedema with an ace or arb. the most serious side effects are angioedema,
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creating race cars from scratch with the goal of competing against other universities. >> abc seven news south bay reporter dustin dorsey explains how you can see these cars live for yourself this weekend. >> finishing touches are being made on two high performance race cars at san jose state. each year, spartan racing creates brand new, fully electric formula c and baja style vehicles, and what makes them so unique is this entire program is 100% run by students, organized by students, and all the work is done by students. >> all the welding, fabrication and driving and the racing too. we do it all from the ground up, every gear, every wire. >> it's a labor of love by a group of 100 sdsu engineering students. balancing these projects on top of schoolwork is no easy task, but the cars take what the students learn in the
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classroom and make it tangible. >> it's unlike anything else you get to do in college, and that's kind of the value of c and baja and formula like is you're really getting these real world experiences and that's why the rest of industry finds these programs so valuable. and that's why we find them so valuable as well. >> but it's not just for show. the team loves to see these cars go sjsu's baja team is coming off of a successful trip to texas, where the vehicle competed in a four hour endurance competition. meanwhile, the formula team's june event is focused on static and dynamic events against some of the most prestigious schools in the country. last year's model was the fastest ev they've created, going from 0 to 60 in less than three seconds. this year's i would say it's a refined version of this car. >> i don't i can't quantify how many tenths or seconds we're expecting to gain from the vehicle. however, we know it will be faster simply due to build quality, battery life and loss of weight. >> now, this didn't happen overnight. it's months of late nights and hours of work, and
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it's led to more than just a completed car. >> as you learn to manage this and communicate this with people on a deeper level than you could with a project member in a classroom, for example, you just get a lot closer. i'm just really excited for people to show off the hard work that they've been putting in all year, and you can see these cars live for yourself. >> on sunday, may 5th, the team will have both cars on display at the candy store showroom in burlingame. dustin dawsey abc seven news these cars look really cool. >> today. oakland became a national leader in reducing toxic diesel emissions. oakland unveiled 30 hyundai xc and class eight hydrogen fuel cell electric trucks. this is the largest fleet in the country. they'll be used to move freight out of the port of oakland. and we also got a firsthand look at a hydrogen fueling station for these trucks located at the east bay municipal utility district treatment plant. part of the goal is to help improve air quality in west oakland, which is exposed to some of the highest levels of air pollution
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in the bay area. >> it's offering clean environment options. for us, it's really the wave of the future. it's something that's really big. i'm happy that it's starting here in oakland. it's what alameda county deserves. >> the $53 million project is funded in part by state and county grants and industry contributions. >> much more still ahead, including one of the biggest issues ahead of this year's presidential election and a very disturbing delivery. >> a san francisco man who was fearing for his safety. now over an anonymous package, plus a young girl planning a long journey over the bay bridge. >> we'll tell you what it's all good. when you've got type 2 diabetes like me, you have up to 4 times greater risk of stroke, heart attack or worse death. even when meeting your a1c goal.
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how bad it was. i'm like, okay, i need to be careful when i walk around. even at night with my
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dogs. >> a disturbing delivery in san francisco, a longtime san francisco local, a dog walker shaken by what he found on his front door. >> that delivery a doll with a noose around its neck, among other things, left right at the doorstep to his home in alamo. >> abc seven news anchor dion lim has the interview you see only on abc seven. >> when i go walking dogs, i'm constantly watching my shoulder. now. >> it was just an ordinary morning for dog walker terry williams when he woke up to take his own three rottweilers out for a walk around 6:00, april 26th. what his father found on the doorstep of their alamo square home shook terry to the core and he said, hey, you got a package down here, son? a plastic bag with terry's address and a foreboding message scrawled in marker. >> then it had gangster thug, and then it had some other negative stuff about black people on there. >> the contents inside. even worse, they with a noose around his neck.
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>> then it had a noose around one of the little dog figures, also inside this stuffed doll, so graphic and laden with slurs. >> we can't show any of it on tv and it's like, call me monkey, go pick cotton. same goes for a sheet of paper inside the bag. >> the 4th of july is for is for white people, not for black people. >> terry says. as someone living in alamo square since the 70s, he's no stranger to racism, but never vitriol and hate like this. >> i take the high road and just back away. >> terry has no idea who could have left the package, but provided police the surveillance video from a neighbor showing an individual approach his hom around 1230 that morning. sfpd tell me the incident is being investigated as a hate crime. terry is sharing his story not just to represent his industry as a minority dog walker. >> i'm trying to get more people of my color to do it, but to encourage others to speak out and help end the hate in the neighborhood he loves and calls home. this got to stop. my people don't speak up. they always keep everything tucked in. you got to speak up. don't
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let this. you can't let this go by. the more stuff we let go by, the more they feel entitled to do stuff to us. so this is my way of stepping up and standing up and saying, no, i'm not letting this happen no more. the only thing is just make me want to stay and fight harder. >> i'm not going nowhere in san francisco. dion lim, abc seven news. cal trans electrification project is on track to begin service in september. >> the project's director says 72% of the items needed for completion are now done. crews will conduct another test the weekend of june 8th and ninth, which will shut down the entire system. the new electric trains will have digital displays, wi-fi and power outlets at every seat. >> now on to the abortion rights fight that is heating up this election year. arizona governor katie hobbs, celebrating the repeal of an 1864 law that banned almost all abortions in arizona. that means the state is going to soon revert back to a 15 week abortion ban. abc news reporter anne nguyen has the latest from washington. >> today, arizona governor katie hobbs signing into law the repeal of a civil war era ban on
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nearly all abortions. >> i will do everything in my power to protect our reproductive freedoms because i trust women to make the decisions that are best for them. >> wednesday, two republican state senators broke with their party to join all democrats in final passage. >> i know the chronicles of these pregnancies quite intimately because they're all my own, and my family lived and survived each one of them, including my miscarriage. >> arizona would then keep in place a 2022 law permitting abortions up to 15 weeks. but since the state supreme court upheld the near-total abortion ban last month and repeals don't go into effect for 90 days, the 1864 ban could temporarily go into effect. >> it says that our children are gifts from the lord. >> this repeal, marking the latest flashpoint on abortion rights in the u.s. former president trump, doubling down on his comments to time magazine, where he said he wouldn't stand in the way. if states want to monitor women in their pregnancies and prosecute
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them if they don't comply with abortion bans, the states now decide on abortion and you go to the states, and the states come out and they decide which is what everybody wanted for over 50 years. >> and we got it done. >> vice president kamala harris firing back in florida with the state's new six week abortion ban just went into effect. >> we witness a full on assault state by state, on reproductive freedom and understand who is to blame. former president donald trump did this in november. >> 13 states, including arizona and florida, may see abortion rights on their ballot. arizona governor hobbs says she expects this issue to galvanize voters to the polls. and when abc news, washington. >> president biden will be hitting up silicon valley for more campaign funds next week. the event will be in portola
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tipping point. literally abc news reporter rebecca jarvis has the video. >> 18% of $27 is not $7. not $8. >> the fuzzy math prompting thousands of comments like restaurants need to pay their employees, not us. another person writing tipping is out of control. >> you can see here the payment device did say that the tip is calculated after tax and discounts. i don't know, these machines are everywhere now and there's this pressure to you know, you got to hit the button. whatever you you know pick your pick your price there jr thoughts thoughts. >> i it's totally out of control and i hope i'm not looked at as the cheap guy here, but i'm willing to tip somebody if i sit and eat at a restaurant. but the idea that if i'm taking food to go, that i'm expected to tip as well, i just don't understand. and it happens in retail stores now, too. kristen my problem with that is you're adding the
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tip as a percentage after you've already added the tax. >> so you know, that's already adding 10. so then that that that's not how it should be calculated. all right. moving on. state senator scott wiener is pushing to slow down speeders . this week, wiener posted on his bill to keep cars from going ten miles per hour over the speed limit is advancing in the legislature. he wants the technology required on cars sold or made in california, so that you literally can't go more than ten miles an hour over the comments. follow the announcement of a federal plan to require pedestrian collision avoidance systems on new cars. oh, larry, that's. >> oh, i have a lot of thoughts. >> i need to be able to go ten miles faster. what if kristin's chasing me? >> then i have to be able to get away. >> what am i going to do? >> but i don't need scott. >> i love you, but we don't. i don't need you on this, okay? >> yes. let's let's reduce speeding. everybody slow down. but i don't need government. like, as kristin mentioned in
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the break, quite extensively, by the way. we have enough laws. how about enforcing the ones we have? sandia. >> yeah. no, i'm with you, larry. i mean, i it's very important that people do follow the speed limit to avoid any sort of accidents or, you know, collisions with pedestrians. but, i mean, do we really need to dictate the exact mileage above? i mean, i don't know. come on. >> going far. and how do you how do you enforce that? yeah. >> if you're if you're requiring companies to put this product in their car, that means it's going to cost them more. that means it's going to cost us more. and i'm against that. >> can we just enforce the laws we already have? let's just do that. >> agree. agree >> yes, an efforts underway to limit the amount of homework assigned to students in california. a bill introduced yesterday would encourage school districts to make homework optional or not graded. my kids would love that. the intent is to reduce stress on students. local school boards would be required to create homework policies with input from parents, teachers, and students. this is not a new topic. this
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has been going on for a long time, but it seems to ebb and flow and, well, kristen, you're up. >> oh wait, i don't want to eat up all the time. sandy has got three kids, so let's let's start with sandy. what do you think? >> okay, so i think they do need to reduce some of the homework. i will say we won't name school districts one school district. actually had kids having to do projects and tests during spring break. really? it's not really a break. come on. >> yeah, that's a little excessive. yeah, i look, i'm not for putting so much homework on the kids. homework is supposed to be for practice and learning, reinforcing what you learned in the classroom. i will just say think about this as a balance. if you take away the grading of homeworks, does that mean all your grades are based on tests? because that could cause more pressure and anxiety too, right? >> not everybody does well taking tests, right? >> that's true. okay it's tasty thursday. woohoo! and today is also taco thursday. yes, we're just days away from cinco de mayo and lots of people and restaurants are preparing the team behind the popular restaurant taco licious has a
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new concept called todo el dia. >> it means all day. and the chef, fernando guzman is here with us today. fernando, welcome. this is incredible. by the way. i mean, this is just just i mean, it's almost like a work of art. but tell us about the new restaurant. >> thank you. so we uh- it's a sister restaurant to the coalition. so we have to have tacos. but in addition to that, we wanted to make it just a little bit healthier. and we added some salads. we also added some tortas to the menu, we have our signature guacamole, we have the salsa to go with it. and we're adding breakfast, starting tomorrow we're going to have breakfast tacos on the menu for anyone that is, that is hungry and ready to go to a restaurant. we are here for you. okay. >> so tell bargetto el dia the whole day means you have what? breakfast now is that. that's new. right? that's exciting. >> yeah, yeah. that's not something we do at the at the restaurant. but here we, we felt
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that for this neighborhood was important to have a place where you can go all day. and that means that we have to have breakfast tacos and then transition to salads and tortas and, balls for, for lunch, we also have a rotisserie in the restaurant. so we do, rotisserie chicken, mexican style, and it comes with tortillas and it comes with rice and beans. so you can take that home and feed the family. >> wow, chef, i feel like, you know, as there's now, like, build up to cinco de mayo on cinco de mayo. how you know, is it that much busier does, you know, are you, are you going to be packed out with people buying these tacos on cinco de mayo? >> after this, he will be, yes. >> cinco de mayo happens to be the busiest day for us in the restaurants. and like we go at capacity every cinco de mayo, all of our restaurants have a line out the door and we expect to have the same here at. yeah. >> can i just tell you, this fried shrimp goodness is amazing
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, and everything is so fresh down to the cauliflower. so where are your restaurants right now? >> well, we have, one in the marina. on chestnut. we have one in the mission on valencia. we have, one in palo alto, on emerson street, and then we have one in manhattan, beach. manhattan beach avenue. and then this one is the new location, todo el dia at, 24th street. >> wow. it sounds like you're pretty busy. yeah yeah. >> okay, so, cinco de mayo, any special menus in addition to the normal good stuff? >> no, we're just featuring a regular menu, especially for now. for us, that is a baby. we are. this is our second week of business, so we want to take the chance to, you know, really do a good job with what we have, but the menu is terrific and it's all all new. also, the menu has evolved over time and it's now, you know, we feel that's a
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really strong menu that carnitas on the menu. we got the guajillo. we have, you know plenty of options for people that are vegan or vegetarian. so there is something for everyone. >> this food is fantastic. i would just want to eat the whole plate, chef guzman, thank you for joining us so much. we got to we got to get over to todo el dia soon. >> thumbs up toou. >> we welcome you and with vitiligo, the pursuit for your pigment is no exception. it's time you had a proven choice to help restore what's yours. opzelura is the first and only fda-approved prescription treatment for nonsegmental vitiligo proven to help repigment skin over time.
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courts in san francisco is moving forward. the city's recreation and park commission considered a proposal today to charge $5 to reserve a court for an hour. reservations are currently free. the full commission will vote on this item during their next hearing may 16th. >> this weekend's bay bridge half marathon will feature a very young competitor, an eight year old girl, and her dad will be by her side for the full 13.1 miles. abc 13 news reporter. >> we can't wait to get to anser hassan with a story. >> the next time you see margo, she'll running across the bridge. it will probably be the bay bridge. >> i really excited. >> eight year old margo has signed up for sunday's bay bridge half marathon. at 13 miles, it will be her longest race ever. at age six, she ran her first five k. >> i first started,
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a5k, and then i got a little more interested and i went up. >> margo trains and runs with her dad in portland, where they live. he'll be running with her on sunday. >> i've never been a competitive runner, margo, on the other hand, is very competitive. and, or it started out as being pretty. extrinsically motivated. >> that extra motivation he's talking about is a trip to target for each race she finishes. if she crosses the finish line on sunday, it's two toys from target. this time a stuffed dog and a grooming set for it. john says the goal is a ten minute mile pace, and to finish just under two hours and 30 minutes, which is about the 60th percentile. still a great time for an eight year old, i think pushing the boundaries of what is possible. >> and, i think when seeing how well she performed at her last 15 k and how much gas she had in the tank and that, you know, the half marathons and only an extra 3.8 miles, you know, we figured
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we might as might as well go for it. >> margo is on a vegan diet. they train to a lot of music, but they say they are not swifties. as for why she runs, it's pretty simple. >> it's really calming and peaceful, that's kind of it. her friends, like most eight year olds, are not into long distance running, but they aren't surprised about her big race. they're not very surprised because i've told them a lot about my running, so they're not very surprised and they think you're crazy. >> a little bit. >> the best ones always are in san francisco, anser hassan abc7 news. >> okay, so happy running. it's awesome. >> by ten, she'll be running double marathons. yes. >> yeah. well. well, yeah. ultra marathons and sandia will be there right next to her every step of the way. >> oh, absolutely. larry and kristin go. margo. i mean, that's pretty impressive for how young she is. let's check out
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live doppler seven. we have a level one storm coming in. it's going to be a cold storm for the weekend and it will bring sierra snow. so we are talking about a winter weather advisory saturday morning to sunday morning, 48in above 5000ft a foot for the higher peaks it's going to be gusty. travel may be difficult, but this is pretty impressive for me. we're talking 28in at kirkwood, 25in at donner as we check out our high temperatures for tomorrow. they're coming down upper 50s to barely making it to the low 80s. fog around near the coast, and it is going to be a cooler day. accuweather seven day showing you that level one system for saturday. sunday is going to be chilly, but at least you have a good outdoor day for you. kristen larry. >> all right, thank you. center 20 degree drop off. >> wow. he is bay area pizza royalty. >> now the man behind tony's pizza is hitting the books. we'll explain next
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then stay with us for abc seven news at 11. all right, 13 time world pizza champion tony gemignani has won awards all over the world. now he's celebrating another accomplishment a new cookbook and sharing some of his secrets of success. >> well, pizza is my favorite food and i think it's every
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kid's favorite food. i loved it as a kid, so i've been making it for 33 years and just, you know, you look at it as a sport for me, you know, i want to get better at it faster at it. you always want to improve. almost never satisfied. and, you know, and just being super competitive, you know, i kind of bring that into my pizza and i want to be the best at it. food in general. it's about balance. you know it's not about over complex ingredients. it's about taking you through, you know, kind of a story. each bite uh- three different flavor profiles that could be sweet, salty, savory. and it's one of those things some people try to look outside the box so much, but sometimes the simplest things in life are the best. so i'm a 13 time world pizza champion. early in my career i won in pizza acrobatics, doing kind of like what a harlem globetrotter does with the basketball. you know, we do with the pizza. and i started focusing on food and i won a number of world titles in
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cooking in naples and portugal and the us, one on the food network. i'm a two time food network gold medalist and a four time guinness book of world record holder. so when it comes to pizza, i kind of done everything in that. and there's a competition out. back in the day, i kind of was always about it. so when people say, you know, where did you develop that palate from? and as my mom and my grandpa, i grew up in fremont, california, and, you know, we lived on a farm. we were about five farmers in an area that probably had close to 100 acres. and growing up with that was really special. you know, you'd go to your backyard and, you know, you'd pick cherries, apricots, fava beans, lemons, limes. i mean, we had everything, you know, i brought that into my kitchen. you know, i've been making pizzas for 33 years and it's like, wow, how did it go so fast? my son just goes to work with me once in a while and makes pizzas, so he
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likes it. and my wife cooks uh. she's an amazing cook. she's sicilian. there are 40 world pizza champion members that are part of this book. we came together to say, hey, we can do this book, a lot of them never did a book before or most of them haven't. so to be a part of that is very special. and proceeds go to make-a-wish. it's always had a connection with north beach love north beach. i'm italian. i wanted to be here. i wanted to bring a different pizza here. i wanted to bring something that was unique and build it. i said, i'm not going to have reservations because somebody who just walks in and can say, okay, we're all booked for tonight. we're booked for the next six weeks. it's not about that. if somebody's walking in the neighborhood, it may be a two hour wait or a three hour wait, but you can still get in and i wanted to be open and available to anyone because everybody comes in here and it's a special place. >> for sure. abc seven news is streaming 24 seven. get the abc
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