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the work issue also led to us understanding that, hey, they can't even afford to pay their rent. >> so we, you know, it was necessary to get involved in the tenant issue and in a tenant fight in concord and rent control in the east bay, a new law taking effect to help renters and landlords after a years long effort. >> good morning everybody. it's sunday, april 21st. hope you like the heat because it's coming. >> yeah it is. in fact, we're already in the low 60s in concord right now. so you add on another 20 to 23 degrees of warming and it'll be easy ride to the 80s today. live doppler seven where we're looking at a visible picture right now. you can see that eddy down in southern california. so cloudy at the coast there. while we have patchy fog, there's a look from our tower camera there where you'll notice that the fog obscuring the golden gate bridge, where it is 5560 hayward, san jose, and on the coast just in the mid 50s. so another look at how pretty it is from our exploratorium camera. and notice the numbers pretty much in the upper 50s from santa
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rosa, napa, fairfield and livermore. so right now everyone is warmer than we were yesterday. 2 to 6 degrees warmer. so as we go through the morning hours, look what happens by noontime mid 70s inland upper 60s at the coast, a gentle sea breeze today and today as much as ten degrees above average. we'll talk about another nice looking day for tomorrow. coming up, lisa. >> thank you. new developments on capitol hill. here's a live look this morning as the house of representatives passed a series of foreign aid bills. the bills include over $90 billion to ukraine, the indo-pacific region and israel. it comes as israel launched airstrikes on rafah, killing 18 people, including some children. abc news reporter alison kosik has the bills controversy and next steps. >> the house passed a massive $95 billion foreign aid package saturday after months of delays. the package included four bills, one with nearly $61 billion in
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aid for ukraine, another with more than $26 billion for israel and a third with $8 billion going to the indo-pacific region including taiwan. also included legislation to force the sale of tiktok by its chinese parent company. if it doesn't divest, however, house speaker mike johnson's push to see these aid bills through could cost him his job. >> you do the right thing and you let the chips fall where they may, the speaker, relying on votes from democrats to clear a key procedural hurdle to get the bills to saturday's vote. >> gop hardliners not happy. >> mike johnson is a lame duck. >> are you ever. >> he's done. he's done. >> marjorie taylor greene did not move to oust the speaker on saturday, before the house adjourned until april 29th. although she claimed her coalition against johnson is growing now that the bills have passed in the house, the senate will begin consideration of this foreign aid package on tuesday. alison kosik, abc news, new york. >> south bay congressman ro
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khanna says he would vote to support speaker johnson if republicans tried to remove him. khanna talked about it this morning on abc's this week. >> okay. you just said something significant. you said you would oppose the table, the motion to vacate. in other words, you will protect speaker johnson's job if marjorie taylor greene and the others go through with their threat to try to remove him, i would through the end of the time, i expect speaker pelosi. >> speaker jeffries will be there in 2025. but look, and i'm a progressive democrat, and i think you would have a few progressive democrats doing that. and i disagree with speaker johnson on many issues and have been very critical of him. but he did the right thing here, and he deserves to keep his job until the end of this time. >> congressman khanna says it was courageous for speaker johnson to separate the foreign aid funding bills, allowing lawmakers to vote their conscience. happening today, mayor london breed will be heading back to san francisco after securing a deal with china
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to bring giant pandas to the city as soon as she arrives to sfo from beijing, the mayor's office says she will be giving an update on these pandas. the san francisco zoo will receive the beloved animals as part of china's panda diplomacy program. we have new developments in a story abc seven news has been following. the oakland police officer, hurt in a bad crash several years ago, has died from his injuries. officer jordan wingate was on his way to a call when he crashed into another car and a semi truck back in august of 2018. he ended up in critical condition at the time. the 29 year old was then forced to medically retire. oakland police say wingate died yesterday morning surrounded by family. we also have new developments involving a former south bay youth pastor facing multiple child sex abuse charges. brett bymaster is no longer in jail. a judge allowed the 47 year old to post bail at a reduced amount of
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$50,000. it was originally for 100,000. his attorneys argued by masters release, would not pose a safety risk. he's accused of sexually abusing a child for years during his former career as a youth pastor. bymaster previously worked at the river church community in san jose. new this morning on the peninsula, the san mateo county sheriff's office is investigating an early morning armed robbery. it happened in redwood city's north fair oaks neighborhood shortly after 1230 this morning, the sheriff's office says the victim was getting out of his car on eighth avenue and middlefield road when someone approached him with a knife. the victim was punched in the face. investigators say the suspects stole personal property and ran off. the victim suffered minor injuries and was taken to the hospital to get checked out. in the east bay, now, a new law to help out renters and landlords has taken effect in concord. it comes after an eight year battle to get a rent control ordinance passed in the
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city. abc seven news reporter anser hassan is following it. >> jose and his wife were wrapping up their garage sale saturday afternoon. it's part spring cleaning in case they have to move from concord. >> it's really hard for us to, like, just work for rent to pay the rent. and we have more expenses than that, like the car repairs. >> jose, who didn't want to give his last name, pays $3,000 to rent this small three bedroom house. given what's at stake, he joined the coalition that fought an eight year battle to get rent control and concord. the ordinance passed in march. >> we need to have a place to stay or we be on the streets. >> the new ordinance caps rent increases to 3% a year and includes just cause eviction protections. but city officials say the ordinance was challenged by those seeking to get a referendum on the november ballot. however, they failed to get the roughly 7000 signatures by thursday, so the ordinance took effect on friday. >> this was great. it was a great win and the reason it's so
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important is because people were being evicted. rents were being raised like $1,000, $2,000 at a time. >> severe lockett is the deputy director for civic engagement at the east bay alliance for a sustainable economy, or ebay's it fights for worker rights and tenant protections, he says. too often the focus was on cities like richmond and antioch, not concord, trying to address the work issue also led to us understanding that, hey, they can't even afford to pay their rent. >> so we, you know, it was necessary to get involved in the tenant issue and in a tenant fight in concord because no one else was organizing in, concord at the time. >> he believes this concord ordinance strikes a balance which still gives property owners a return on their investment and protects renters. >> people aren't making enough money to survive, so it needs some type of, equalizer or stabilization, to be put into place so that people can actually survive in concord, anser hassan abc seven news.
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>> happening tomorrow, a 21 mile stretch of a north bay highway is expected to be back open by 4 a.m. caltrans officials say all of the repaving works on schedule. highway 37 from vallejo to sears point has been shut dowfor a repaving project. there are doursn place, but for those headed to wine country, they are running into some serious traffic issues. here's abc seven news reporter cornell bernard. >> what do you think about this traffic? >> it's crazy. >> frustrated drivers facing big delays in wine country. highway 29 through napa can be congested on most weekends, but this was especially tough because cars are being detoured away from highway 37. and here's why. caltrans is repaving the westbound lanes of 37. the 55 hour closure, which started friday night, stretches seven miles from solano to sonoma counties. >> we're doing almost 5000 tons of new asphalt in total for this
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weekend, and over 300 trucks will be needed. >> caltrans says the project will continue over the next four weekends to repave both west and eastbound lanes. detours are posted, so we asked the motorists, the travelers and the public to one plan ahead. but drivers like mary mcquinn from placerville say they didn't know anything about it. she's going to rohnert park. >> we're trying to see a baseball game at 2:00. >> oh, no. yeah, they're repaving it today. oh, all day. i see it all weekend. all weekend. they sure picked the right times to do it right. >> it's been a long time sitting in the van. it's taken us an hour and a half just to go 13 miles. >> it was. it was awful. >> lexi griggs and her friends are trying to get to petaluma. >> it's been a long journey. our eta went from 1:00 to 130 to now two. so it's not been fun at all. >> the chp posted on x telling marin bound drivers to use the richmond-san rafael bridge. but check it out. even that was backed up by saturday afternoon.
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bianco winery in the sonoma valley, posting alerts on their website letting visitors know about the highway closures and detours. caltrans, urging drivers to be patient. >> if you're local, you understand, you have ridden state route 37. you know that the work was needed and it was due in sonoma. >> cornell, bernard abc seven news and that construction on highway 37 will continue until the weekend of may 11th. >> so plan accordingly. all right. let's get you outside. how's it looking, lisa? >> beautiful. in fact, we just have a little bit of patchy stratus. you can see it here over san francisco where it is 55 degrees and the marine layer already dissipating out there. so temperatures will be warming quicker today and inland maybe 12 degrees above average. stay tuned. we'll have your accuweather seven day forecast coming up. >> lisa. thank you. plus a dozen vehicles damaged in this bad crash car after car scraped up and smashed. and this morning investigators are trying to figure out just what happened
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>> hi everyone, and welcome back. i'm here to remind you that if you've been injured in an accident, that was not your fault. we have legal professionals standing by to tell you how much your case is potentially worth. spokesman tom muston is with us in the help center, so, tom, tell the viewers at home why they should call in. >> well, gina, they should call because we have live agents available for you right now. if someone's been injured in an accident, that was not your fault. give us a call right now and find out how much your case is potentially worth. >> take a look at this. a crash left a dozen cars smashed up in el sobrante. two cars appeared to have the worst damage, with several other parked cars banged up as well. it happened yesterday on san pablo dam road, a neighbor told abc seven his mom and aunt were in one of the cars hit head on by another driver. he says his aunt was injured in the crash. it's not exactly clear what led up to this accident or what happened to the other driver involved. in
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san francisco, two empty hospitals could be turned into housing. that's according to our media partners at the san francisco standard. both are located on california street and the presidio heights neighborhood. one is the old cpmc building. the other is down the street and used to be part of ucsf's campus. a developer by the name of the prado group submitted a plan last week for the cpmc location. it has moved forward on the old ucsf property. the plan could add about 1300 homes and hundreds of new parking spots. hundreds of people gathered on hippie hill in san francisco's golden gate park to celebrate 420, a time and date where cannabis is usually celebrated. abc seven news reporter tara campbell was there. >> joints rolled and bongs filled, crowds lighting up at san francisco's golden gate park , hundreds taking to hippie hill saturday in celebration of 420. there is good vibes going all around and just good flower.
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this year's official event was canceled. >> it is on hiatus just due to economic reasons. the organizer couldn't get the sponsorship he needed. the city is facing its own budget cuts and so we couldn't we couldn't cover any of those costs, but nothing's going to stop this crowd of cannabis lovers really cool. >> knowing that, you know, people will still come out and do whatever they want because they're still just in a celebration of it being 420. >> and for some, the tradition running generations deep. >> we've been coming out since long before it was ever even an organized event, my parents used to come out when they were teenagers in the 70s, and they celebrated every year, and i just been kind of continuing that tradition for them. >> me and my siblings have been coming out for the last eight years, and, we love coming out to hippie hill and hanging out with all the people out here. but he says in past years, the park's been more packed compared to the years before. it's about half as many people, but we're still good outcome activities like volleyball and kickball
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filling some of that open space. >> we partner with the city this year, to bring some cool activities to the festivities that are already happening here on 420, and whether jumping high or getting high, the crowds getting along. and people have been really, really cool and respectful. i think, you know, everyone is sort of appreciating the fact that if they want to come down and hang out with us and play, that they have the opportunity to do that. >> i noticed, you know, they have some sort of sporting event going on that's not bothering us any, you know, a little less space, but we're all still enjoying ourselves, having a great time. happy for 20 abc, seven news and hippie hill will be another hot spot today as the bay area braces for this warmth. >> lisa is tracking the temperatures. we're talking the 80s. >> yeah, and our inland valleys. you could see the low clouds and fog down around southern california, where our marine layer is just about out of here from the oakland airport diffuse cloud deck. there it is, 55, san francisco, 57. in oakland, 60. hayward san jose 57. palo alto
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on the coast 55. it will be cool on the coast, but we do have that onshore flow, that lighter sea breeze 64 by the delta 57 in livermore. and look at all the sun, the golden gate bridge, it tastes of summer the next two days, turning sharply cooler on tuesday. chance of showers thursday into friday. so once again, a bit of a 180 as we keep the 80s around for monday, look at how much we drop off on tuesday. near average then below average. the winds are going to get quite gusty, so if you like the warmth, enjoy today 77 in fremont, 81 in san jose, as well as santa rosa and the accuweather seven day forecast. so the warmth holds on a wind shift late tomorrow. breezy and cooler tuesday. still dry on wednesday, but by thursday and friday, looking at the possibility of a few light showers. >> reggie aqui kumasi amanda drew and you abc seven mornings always better with you. >> sunny days and the best days start here. >> you deserve a better day. we
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>> welcome to the nfl draft live . >> starting thursday on abc, we're celebrating earth month with a look at what's new from national geographic and disneynature, plus what hollywood is doing to protect the planet we call our home. >> don't miss on the red carpet celebrates earth month >> welcome back on the diamond catcher. patrick bailey and the giants made a splash at home yesterday. chris alvarez is here with your morning sports. >> good morning. now, the bad news for the giants. they lost 17 to 1 to the diamondbacks on friday night. the good news saturday afternoon a complete opposite result. great day to be a kayak in the cove. now these people will be back in our highlight very soon. keep an eye bottom one giants down one nothing. jungwoo lee leading off with a homer to right. it is gone. stays in the yard but it's his first homer at oracle park.
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we're tied at one. how about the local kid de lasalle product? kyle harrison on the mound. he went four innings, struck out five three earned runs. so it's a tight game in the fifth. still tied at three. patrick bailey had his bobblehead day runner on for him. and cue up the splash cam ball driven right and the baseball goes right into the kayak on the fly. whoa. part of a44 day. he was a triple short of the cycle. the dog looks unfazed. splash it. 103 mccovey cove. dave confirmed this is the first splash hit that didn't hit the water on the fly. giants win seven three. they can take the four game series later today. a's in cleveland a cold day by the lake there in cleveland, a's rookie max shuman in search of his first big league hit deep to left and los gatos native stephen kwan o makes a catch of the wall. great play on the warning track. watch max can't believe it and check out his family. they really want this hit. oh, but don't worry i promise good times are coming. top five a's down two one.
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shuman at the plate gets a hold of one. going to right center and it is gone. first big league hit is a home run. and the kid that grew up in michigan with a big league memory in ohio. the family there and they love it. but bottom half of the inning cleveland goes back on top. josh naylor taking alex wood deep to right center and watch this bat goes to the helmet. ouch. uh- a's lose six three. the rubber match later today. you saw it right here on abc seven western conference finals rematch in the first round. lakers in denver third quarter. this is where the game kind of turned san jose native aaron gordon throws it down. but lebron james answers dribble drive hoop and the foul off the window lbj at 27.6 rebounds and eight assists late third six point game denver turns defense to offense michael porter junior the block. nuggets in transition. former laker kentavious caldwell pope buries the three. part of a 13 zero denver run. fourth quarter jamal
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>> oh my god >> all right. it's going to feel like summer today. >> yeah, about a 25 degree spread out there. 60 to low to mid 80s. >> very nice. go out and enjoy it. and thank you all for sharing part of your sunday with us. we'll see you back here at 430. >> hurry in for great deals on the trucks that are built to serve ram during ram truck month. >> commercial customers now get 3500 total bonus cash on the norman, bad news... i never graduated from med school. what? but the good news is... xfinity mobile just got even better! now, you can automatically connect to wifi speeds
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