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A loss last night for the warriors means the end of their season. But as you just heard some fans are wondering if its the end of an era. That makes me sad. Good morning on this wednesday april 17th. Oh its in the forecast. Its the warmest day of the week, you guys. Its going to feel very nice later on today. Live. Look outside from the exploratorium camera. We do have partly cloudy skies out there. And today youll find a mix of sun and clouds as High Pressure builds and we see warmer weather move in. Hello oakland. Good morning. Right now were at 53 degrees. We have some of that cloud cover in our sky. Visibility is good though, and its a real light breeze out there. Winds are less than about five miles per hour. Not finding any thick fog. Well keep our eyes on that santa rosa a little bit reduced, but all in all, were not seeing any big pockets of fog this morning. So looking at the planner today, its a blend of sun and clouds throughout the day, but we will warm pretty fast by noon or into the 70s already away from the coast. And then its just a warm april afternoon by 4 00 pm inland. Were into the 80s around the bay shoreline, well into the 70s even along the coast it feels quite nice. Into the 60s we go. So looking at highs today, above average, well hit 80 in antioch, 81 in san jose, 70 in the city, 75. In oakland, 76. In santa cruz, 77. The high in napa. Well take a look at how long this warm weather lasts for you. Coming up in seven minutes, drew. Thank you. A rising star in San Franciscos political world resigns and could be facing an investigation amid serious Sexual Assault allegations. Our Media Partners at the sf standard spoke with three women, accusing john jacobo of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault. The women told the standard they all filed police reports, but say that those reports didnt go anywhere. Jacobo was a director for the housing nonprofit tenants and owners development corporation. Sf standard reporter josh cain says the women feared further violence from jacobo if they spoke out. These accusations are very explosive, very damaging and there was a lot of fear for not only their professional careers but also their safety. San franciscos police chief says his department is investigating the three womens reports. San francisco supervisor Hillary Ronen is now calling for a hearing on how the city handles Sexual Harassment and assault cases. To not see any progress after weve put resources and created a new department to focus in on that issue, its a real disappointment. As for jacobo, he did not respond to the standards request for comment on the story. A San Francisco jail is set to reopen today, while a second one is still closed. Both jails locked down over the weekend due to violence at both facilities. Abc seven News Reporter ryan curry live at the jail on seventh and bryant streets. And ryan. There was another attack at one of the jails. Yeah, thats right, kumasi, the sheriff told reporters yesterday two inmates had barricaded themselves in a cell in san bruno with handmade weapons. Because of that, that jail still remains closed. While the San Francisco one is set to reopen. The two jails have been under lockdown since last friday, while authorities investigated recent attacks. The sheriff says as many as seven Staff Members and nine deputies have been injured since late march. Deputies warned the sheriff Something Like this would happen nearly 100 of them signed a letter saying in november to the sheriff. Critical levels of Staffing Shortages. Deputies in san bruno said they were mentally and physically exhausted. Fights, drug use and assaults. Staff had said they have seen them increase. The sheriff described some of the injuries over the past week. As i mentioned, weve had a number of deputies go out on injuries that include punches to the head, face and neck. Being spit at and kicked in, the head slammed against walls, which result in the injuries of bone fractures, dislocated shoulders and bloody eye sockets the sheriff tells us one of the main reasons for this uptick in violence is the lack of space to spread out prisoners. Another main factor, he says, is the large number of violent offenders who are remaining in custody for longer periods of time. However Staffing Shortage remains a huge concern for the jail theyre supposed to have. On paper, around 500 workers. They have less than 400. So something they have to address going forward. Were live in San Francisco. Ryan curry, abc seven news. Thank you. Ryan Governor Newsom is weighing in on the protests that brought traffic to a standstill monday morning while in the bay area yesterday, the governor says he supports the right to protest but does not support the approach. I dont think thats helpful, and i dont think thats responsible. I think there are better ways of protesting. So no , i hope we dont see it again. And i do think people need to be held to account for their actions. Alameda county da pamela price will be making the call on charges for people arrested on 880 in oakland. Meanwhile, protesters who shut down the Golden Gate Bridge are not being charged with a crime. But that could change soon. District attorney Brooke Jenkins says her office just needs more time. Abc seven News Reporter tim johns was outside the jail when some of those detained were released. Free, free, free palestine protests outside the San Francisco county jail tuesday. Dozens gathering to demand the release of the 26 people who were arrested the day before for shutting down the Golden Gate Bridge as part of a wider propalestinian protest. Those 26 people arrested by the california Highway Patrol and booked into custody on multiple charges, including felony conspiracy. These unprecedented the uh that this felony charges are being made. Earlier in the day, San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins announcing that her office wouldnt be charging those protesters by a tuesday afternoon deadline, saying her team needs more time and help from witnesses who were stuck on the bridge, stressing, however, that this is an open and active investigation and that charges are indeed coming. We support those who want to make sure that their First Amendment rights are observed and that their point of views are heard, but where we must draw the line is when acts of free speech endanger public safety. Following jenkins announcement, some of those detained were slowly released from jail, some in the group becoming hostile when we attempted to film them. Dont. Dont feel, my friend. We have been protesting and not obstructing traffic ways. We have been writing to them. Weve been changing the way that we vote the best that we can, and were still not being listened to. Mondays incident was the second time protesters have shut down major bay area bridges and freeways in recent months, and some, like Southern California assemblywoman kate sanchez, want to see protesters held accountable. We talked to a spokesperson from her office tuesday. Theyre blocking not only people just trying to get to work and trying to make ends meet. Theyre blocking people, trying to get to the hospital. Theyre blocking people trying to pick up their kids from school. Sanchez has introduced a bill in the state legislature that would double the minimum fine for protesters who intentionally obstruct the flow of traffic in any way that prevents the passage of emergency vehicles, a proposal her office says has gotten great public support and one shes determined to see through following mondays protest. Honestly, they want us to do more, and we feel that we want to do more to we want to make sure that these people are punished to the fullest extent of the law. In San Francisco, tim johns, abc seven news. We are waiting to hear back from google this morning after a propalestinian protest at their headquarters, Police Arrested five people at the sunnyvale office yesterday. Google employees protested by holding a sit in yesterday and Live Streaming it. Police say most protesters left midday before the five remaining were arrested for trespassing. The employees are looking to stop googles cloud. Google clouds 1 billion. Ai contract with the Israeli Government named project nimbus last week. Time reported that googles work on project nimbus involves providing direct services to the israeli, to the israeli, i should say, defense forces. So i would not like to lose my job. But i think it is impossible for me to continue coming into work every week without acknowledging and loudly condemning. Project nimbus and any support for the Israeli Government. Employees also claim palestinian, arab and Muslim Googlers have been censored. Developing news on the war in the middle east. Abc news has learned that us officials expect a limited response from israel after that missile attack by iran over the weekend. A man is at the live desk with that. Yeah, reggie. According to a senior u. S. Official, israels response is not expected within the next 48 hours. Israel is currently facing International Pressure to deescalate the conflict. Israels war cabinet met for a fifth time. It reviewed military and Diplomatic Options in order to decide on the countrys response. Iran launched the attack on israel in retaliation to an israeli airstrike in syria that killed several top Iranian Military leaders. Abc News Reporter matt gutman got an up close look at an Iranian Missile recovered from the dead sea, which seemed to be part of saturdays attack. It is over 38ft long, made out of steel and right around here would have been the warhead capable of carrying 800 pounds of high explosives. Meanwhile, u. S. Aid to israel is on center stage on capitol hill. House Speaker Mike Johnson is facing criticism after proposing a separate measure to send aid to ukraine. Some members of his party are now threatening to oust him as speaker. Plus, theres more fallout from irans attack on israel. The u. S. Is expected to impose new sanctions against iran. The sanctions would target the countrys missile and drone programs. Back to you at the desk, kumasi. Thank you. Amanda. Well the warriors season is over, and the dynasty might be shoot. The kings routed the dubs in the play in game last night in sacramento, and it was not a welcome sight for the thousands of people who watched that game in thrive city. Now, this game could be the last time we see Klay Thompson, steph curry and Draymond Green play together. Thompson and green may not be returning to the dubs next season. Fans, we spoke with say they are thankful for the run but disappointed in that loss. You know, in any game you hit your peak and then you go down the other side of the mountain and i think the warriors have hit their peak and i think theyre on the down side. They did something so special together that we just have to be thankful that we got something. Oh my goodness, dont speak that over them. I know this sounds like were at a funeral, isnt it . I rebuke that well, today were going to hear from some of the warriors players, and hopefully they sound a little more upbeat about the future. I hope so. In a press Conference Following the loss last night, curry said he could never see himself. Not with those guys. Thats a quote. When he asked when he was asked about thompson and Draymond Greens future on the warriors, not you hit the peak and youre going down the other side of the now, sir. Sir pessimism. All right, lets say good morning to san jose. Right now it is calm out there. But currently we do have partly to mostly cloudy skies in the south bay. Its 57 right now in san jose. Just real calm wind. Visibility is good and humidity is up this morning. Heres live doppler seven along with satellite High Pressure is off the coast of Southern California. Its acting like the heat pump today. Almost feels summerlike with our temperatures, but there is a lot of cloud cover out there, and some of that is rotating in this morning and we will find a partly cloudy day ahead. But temperatures certainly above average for this time of the year. Future weather by about 10 a. M. Were climbing into the 60s already. Its one of those mornings where we warm pretty fast. You may have a couple of layers on this morning, but you wont need them by about 9 10 a. M. By noon. Were already into the 60s and 70s, and then later on this afternoon, our warmest areas will be going into the 80s for daytime highs. So some areas about ten degrees above average. Look at the pollen forecast. No changes to our trees. Oak, pine, juniper and cedar are the main offenders out there. Looking at the next three days, today is the warmest day of the week. We start to cool a little bit tomorrow and then were cooler everywhere on friday. But over the weekend those temperatures are going to rebound. Reggie, well show you that weekend forecast coming up in eight minutes. Thanks, drew. Tomorrow marks 118 years since a major earthquake damaged so much of San Francisco. Coming up, what the city is now doing in the name of seismic safety. Bowing back in the hot seat on capitol hill, the allegations against the plane maker being made by a former employee turned whistleblower. Seven people now selected to sit on the jury for Donald Trumps hush money trial. What were learning about boeing 787 dreamliner to be grounded by regulators over aircraft quality concerns. Several Safety Incidents on boeing jets is putting the company in the spotlight, and amandas at the live desk with more on this. Amanda kumasi today, a congressional hearing brings boeing safety and quality concerns back into the public eye. A Senate Committee will hear from a whistleblower and a panel of experts who call for significant improvements at the aircraft manufacturer. The whistleblower, engineer sam salarpur, claims the 787 dreamliner wide body jets are not properly put together and could eventually break apart over time. He wants the faa to immediately ground these jets. Boeing is calling salarpur claims inaccurate. The company says in part the issue raised the issues raised, i should say, have been subject to rigorous engineering examination under faa oversight. This analysis has validated that these issues do not present any safety concerns. Salarpur has not provided any documented evidence. Boeing is now encouraging employees to speak up about quality concerns ahead of todays hearing. The company says. Reports to an internal tip line about aircraft quality are up about 500 this year. Back to you at the desk, reggie. Thanks so much, amanda. Tomorrow is the anniversary of the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco, and the mayor is taking a major step in its 3030 year plan for improving seismic safety. She issued an executive director directive instructing city departments to identify concrete buildings that may be vulnerable in major earthquakes. Experts say these at risk buildings are not easily identified from the street, so a screening process is needed to identify them and prioritize those that need to be retrofitted. The city is also a step closer to installing 33 speed cameras. Yesterday, the Municipal Transportation Agency board of directors unanimously approved the locations for these cameras. Theyre expected to be installed as soon as next year. The cameras are part of a statewide Pilot Program that will ticket drivers who exceed the speed limit by at least 11 miles an hour. Bart is giving cash refunds to those who turn in their paper blue and white tickets. It now requires riders to use clipper cards for access into bart stations. However, according to our Media Partners at sf standard, if you still have any of those old paper bart tickets, you can turn them in for cash. The tickets must have 1 or more on them to receive a refund. Theres no deadline to turn in these tickets. You can get a refund form online or at a bart station. A new musical soon to be playing in San Francisco has the best possible credentials. It won the Pulitzer Prize even before it got to broadway, and it won the tony once it opened. Its called a strange loop. Its based on a frustrated writer working as a lion king usher, writing a musical about being a lion king, usher and i had the chance to talk with the creator about his circle of strife and jesus ushered usher, is a young, fat, black, gay musical theater writer who is an usher at the lion king and hes sort of cycling through his own sort of self perceptions, and his thoughts sort of take form around him. Show me how to pray. While i did draw from personal experience to write the show, its not autobiographical, not exactly. Its emotionally autobiographical. I felt everything that usher has felt. Maybe you dont know how to pray. So when you were an usher at the lion king, what was or wasnt going through your head . Standing at the back of that audience . So one day i was on the mezzanine level of the theater, and we had just let patrons come in and its sort of an older woman had come in and shed gone down to her seat and like, row a and i was standing in aisle four, and then she sort of turned around. She was looking for a booster cushion, and she goes, usher, usher and i like clocked that. And that sort of became the motif of the opening number for all of the you can call me. So that is playing at uh act , and it starts tomorrow night. It goes for about a month. Okay. This is your chance to see the show. Its only been on broadway and in london on the west end, and its doing a very limited tour and im talking about San Francisco and la, and thats all i love this. So we have a great opportunity to see a new show that was heralded by critics and reggie aqui, because i saw on broadway. Yeah, you did say good things about it. Yeah a strange loop. Go see it. And i cant wait to see your full story. Two friends, the full story at 7 a. M. This morning on our streaming newscast. And also on midday live. And ill post it on my socials as well. All right. Awesome. Very cool. Outside this morning. It is calm. Were preparing for a very warm day this afternoon. Sutro tower looking lovely at the bright lights of San Francisco. The accuweather headlines call for summerlike conditions today. Today is the warmest day of the week, but the weekend is still looking fantastic. Lots of sunshine. We get a dry weekend and temperatures will be mild. The extended outlook the next seven, eight, nine days. We keep this dry pattern and the mild conditions with us. So take a look at your weather wellness today. The air quality is good. Tree pollen remains high. Your uv index is at a six that is high six out of an 11. Looking at your beach, boating and surf forecast. Winds will be out of west northwest 5 to 10mph. Waves between 4 to 5ft today with that swell period about 10s and your ocean water temperature between about 53 and 55 degrees, depending on which beach youre at. Along our coast today, looking at the morning drive, we will find just a blend of sun and clouds. Temperatures are pretty mild this morning. Were in the 50s in most areas, and its one of those mornings where we will warm pretty fast as we head through the next couple of hours. So a light jacket right now, the afternoon temperatures into the 70s and into the 80s. 75 in oakland today, 70 in the city, near 80 in santa rosa, 81 in san jose, about 79. The high in concord overnight tonight. Well keep those partly cloudy conditions and temperatures in the upper 40s to the lower 50s. Future tracker temperatures tomorrow is almost equally as warm. Maybe 1 or 2 degrees cooler, especially along the coast. But then on friday well have an area wide cooldown. But these numbers you see on your screen are still a bit above average for this time of the year. Well start to see a minor rebound heading into the weekend, and then sunday looks to be the warmer of the two days of this weekend. Heres the accuweather seven day forecast plan seven days for you. Were warming today. Almost feels like summer. Well start to cool off by friday, but then those temperatures rebound. The weekend is looking spectacular. Well have sunshine, mild conditions both days, and then a cool breeze will kick in for early next week guys. Thank you drew. Coming up the seven things to know this morning. What would you do if you came across an elephant on the loose. But home is also your body. I asked myself, why doesnt pilates exist in harlem . So i started my own studio. Getting a brick and mortar in new york is not easy. Chase ink has supported us from studio one to studio three. When you start small, you need some big help. And chase ink was that for me. 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District attorney Brooke Jenkins says she needs more time to look at their cases. Number three, a boeing whistleblower set to testify on capitol hill today. He says a certain model of planes should be grounded over quality concerns. The company says his claims are inaccurate. Number four seven jurors are seated for former president trumps hush money criminal trial in new york. 11 more still need to be chosen. Yesterday, trump attacked the judge, saying that he should not have to be at the trial. And number five, today is the warmest day of the week. Well find partly cloudy skies, temperatures into the 70s and 80s in most cities. By friday, well find cooler weather across all regions. And number six, taking a look at drive times. The typical slowdown from tracy to dublin at 51 minutes, san rafael to San Francisco 17 minutes and then antioch to concord. Nothing in your way there. 15 minutes. Number seven the warrior season and potentially the dynasty is over. The warriors lost to the kings last night, which means theyre not going to the playoffs. And it may have been the last time steph curry. Draymond green and Klay Thompson all play together. An elephant escaped from the circus and took the show on the road in montana. Look at this video. Crews were bathing viola the elephant when it got scared by the sound of a vehicle and ran off. She made her way through the streets, bringing cars to a standstill or people just backed up, people were clearly shocked watching this happen. Violas handlers from jordan world circus were eventually able to subdue and return her after about a few minutes. Peta says viola is an escape artist because this is the third time that we know of that. Shes gotten out. Who is this following behind her . Why is this elephant in the circus . Thats thats. You know, i thought that we were kind of. I thought that was passe. Well, and she left the Assembly Floor at the state capitol. Had a special guest this week , the banana slug, the uc santa cruz mascot, sammy the slug, showed up to lead the campaign to make the banana slug the official state slug. Sammy didnt need to do any backroom dealing because the bill passed with only one member voting against it. Who was this one member who didnt want this and now moves to the state senate . The university adopted the banana slug as a mascot in 1986, but only now. This is the first time ive ever actually seen the costumed character. Is he holding a squishmallow friend . I dont know the answer. He is. Thats great. Now the San Francisco to meet a hero dog named barney. Hes a Disaster Rescue canine with the Fire Department. Yesterday, firefighters put on this first of its kind training demonstration. Search dogs will be deployed, sometimes by helicopter, to remote locations to look for victims after a disaster. Fire crews say despite all the tech they have, the search canine is the best way to locate people trapped in collapsed structures. He can search far and wide really fast, much faster than were capable of doing. And so hes able to clear this entire area, you know, within minutes. And then let me know where we need to give our attention to. Barney is one of four rescue disaster search canines at the Fire Department. Firefighters say it takes a year or two to fully train these rescue dogs. Getting the gears moving on. San franciscos Downtown Revitalization still ahead, a restaurant making its return with a view like no other and a estate fraud case. There are 11 victims here who are still dealing with the fallout from flipping houses to doing time for fraud. Now, at 530, what landed a Bay Area Television star in jail . Im abcs perry russom in washington. Meet some of the jurors and former president trumps historic trial. Anaheim City Council Officially giving disney the green light to expand. And were explaining the companys disneyland forward Expansion Plans and the promises it is making to the city. Good morning everybody. Its wednesday, april 17th. Lets begin with the check on the weather so we can have a magical day. Yes, were experiencing the warmest day of the week this afternoon. So the shorts and the t shirts, the sunglasses. His dress. More for summer than spring. A live look outside from our exploratorium camera. We have calm winds, just partly cloudy skies overhead looking at temperatures. More of us are beginning the morning in the 50s, so it feels a little bit warmer compared to yesterday. A light jackets about all you need and you can ditch that probably closer to 9 a. M. This morning as temperatures are pretty quick to warm as we head throughout our wednesday. Looking at your sky conditions throughout the day, its a mix of sun and clouds. Well find those temperatures already into the 70s and a lot of cities by lunchtime into the afternoon. 4 p. M. Its warm for april, cities about ten degrees above average. Feeling quite nice along the coast in the 60s around the bay shoreline will have a lot of 70s, and our warmest cities inland will be going into the low 80s. A close look at highs around the region 75 in oakland will hit 70 in the city today, 81 in san jose, 77 in napa. The same in palo alto. Concord. Up to a warm 79 degrees kumasi. Thank you. Drew. Seven of 12 jurors are seated and former president Donald Trumps hush money case. Abc News Reporter perry russom has details about those already chosen and who has dismissed. So far, seven jurors have been seated. Three are women, including a teacher, a Software Employee at disney, abcs Parent Company and an oncology nurse who said, i didnt know i was walking into this for jurors or men, including the four person who was born in ireland and works in sales to our attorneys. And theres an it consultant originally from puerto rico who called trump for donating and mysterious, adding he walks into a room and he sets people off one way or another. Lawyers have been questioning the jury pool, looking at their social media for potential bias. One man was asked about a 2017 Facebook Post where he wrote, get him out and lock him up. That man was dismissed from the case. Trump is accused of falsifying Business Records to hide a payment he made to former fixer Michael Cohen to pay off adult film actress Stormy Daniels to keep her quiet about a long denied affair. Prosecutors say trump falsified documents to hide that information from voters in the 2016 election. Trump has pleaded not guilty. I was paying a lawyer and marked it down as a legal expense. Some accountant i didnt know marked it down as a legal expense. Thats exactly what it was. And you get indicted over that while trump is in court, President Biden is on the campaign trail. He will be in pittsburgh today to meet with steelworkers. Biden has said he would not be watching trumps trial. Instead, he says he will be talking about the issues perry, russom, abc news, washington. Happening today, the Hawaii Attorney general is expected to release the first phase of an extensive report on the august wildfire fires on maui, a massive the live dust tracking that reggie aqui. We are working to learn more about what exactly happened during the deadly maui wildfires back in august. The states attorney general is set to release that information later on this afternoon. The report is expected to address the 72 hours before, during and after the fire. The Maui Fire Department yesterday released its own report about what happened. The western Fire Chiefs Association was hired to make its own third party after action report. It highlights at least 17 areas for improvement along with recommendations including the Fire Department needing more equipment after dealing with poorly stocked fire engines, all backup firefighting vehicles needing to be kept ready to go, and there should be a statewide Mutual Aid Program and an evacuation plan for residents and tourists who speak different languages. Maui county Officials Say the Fire Department has already started addressing these challenge areas. The cause for the wildfire is still unclear and is still under investigation by the atf. Back to you at the desk, kumasi. Thank you. Amanda. The San Francisco sheriff says deploying the National Guard to county jails is not the answer to deal with the Staffing Shortage and increased attacks, its coming as one of the jails is set to open today and another is still on lockdown as more violence is erupting. Abc seven News Reporter ryan curry live at the jail on seventh and bryant streets. With this unfolding situation, ryan. Kumasi. Good morning. The jail here in San Francisco is set to reopen today, but the san bruno one will still remain closed. Thats because of a recent incident where two inmates barricaded themselves in a cell with handmade, handmade weapons. The sheriff speaking with the media about the violence recently, he says as many as seven Staff Members have been and nine deputies have been injured since late march. The two jails have been in lockdown since last friday, while authorities investigated the recent attacks, sheriff miyamoto tells us one of the main reasons for this uptick in violence is a lack of space to spread out prisoners. Another main factor, he says, is the large number of violent offenders who are remaining in custody for longer periods of time. The sheriff says deputies have broken bones, bloodied eye sockets and bite wounds. The sheriff, showing photos of some of the injuries. In the first photo, you see the arm of a deputy who was bitten so hard that it went through two layers of clothing and broke the skin. Before the incident, this individual was actually fully restrained. In the second photo, you see a lump on one of our deputies heads caused by impact of hitting the floor after his attacker punched him twice. That individual was unrestrained at the time. Nearly 100 deputies signed a letter back in november to the sheriff, saying they have critical levels of Staffing Shortage. Deputies at san bruno say they were mentally and physically exhausted, and fights drug use and assaults have increased on Staff Members. The jails are supposed to have a staff of about 500 people, but they are currently understaffed by more than 100 workers. Were live here in San Francisco. Ryan curry, abc seven news. Thanks, ryan. In the south bay, a man who was once a star on a House Flipping show is now headed to jail. Instead of remodeling homes, prosecutors say he was taking the money and spending it on lavish items for himself. Charles todd hill from the hgtv show flip it to win. It is also ordered to pay close to 10 million for real estate and financial fraud. The prosecutor in the case says hill scams, including a ponzi scheme, impacted 18 homes in silicon valley. The point was to purchase the home and remodel them and sell them for a profit. He would take the money that was given to remodel the home and spend it on luxury cars, vacations, partying , as he has stated. And then in order to account for that, he would label it as construction costs. The das office says victims were left with either unfinished homes or barely finished homes that they had to complete themselves. Hill was indicted in 2019 and convicted last year. Yesterday, he was sentenced to four years in county jail. Now an update to a story we first brought you last week on abc seven mornings, a tiny home in cupertino the size of a small studio apartment is expected to sell above asking, we told you about this 384 square foot house going for 1. 7 million. That home is slightly bigger than a normal hotel room. The listing has already received eight offers and the sale is pending for well over the asking price. I want to know how much a new mom you know what it is out here. San franciscos iconic rotating restaurant that sits still for 17 years is spinning again. The bar at the top of the Hyatt Regency along the embarcadero held a soft opening last night. Abc seven news anchor ama daetz has the inside story of what it took to get the legendary space turning again. Turning back the clock in a once iconic space thats been still for so long, the buzz around the hotel today has been just electrifying, truly. Hotel managers at the Hyatt Regency are happy about the chatter, but its this sound that has the hotels longtime engineer smiling. This is really awesome. Dennis alker has worked at the Hyatt Regency for almost as long as the hotel has existed. He started there just a few years after the equinox restaurant started spinning, giving diners a panoramic view from the financial district to treasure island. It was busy up here, and in 2007, he watched those gears grind to a halt, the restaurant shutting down until last year, when the hyatt agreed to bring back the places best party trick. You can see the grout line just move. Just ever so slowly, just inching along. It took months of work between renovations and repairs, ripping out old wires and replacing the controls. Dennis says it wasnt until 931 night, a few months back, that they got their turntable moving again. I just froze right there and just watched. Got that feeling of 17 years ago when it was was pretty exciting. For now, the place and its 360 view are only open to hotel guests. Theres no timeline yet to open the bar to the public, but for dennis, hes just happy to see this room on the move again. Its iconic place. Im glad to see it up and running again here on the daetz. Abc seven news. That is cool, but i want to be let in. You better get a room. Let me in. As the popularity of Womens Basketball grows more attention being paid to the pay discrepancies compared to their male counterparts. But first, a check on the weather with meteorologist drew tuma. Hey good morning, 540 were looking at your travel forecast across the nation. It is a rather quiet pattern. The only area were really seeing some inclement weather later on this afternoon. If youre flying into new york, maybe newark as well, jfk or newark, you may have some late day showers. Temperatures in the upper 50s there, but in most hubs today we are dealing with calm weather and pretty average conditions when it comes to our temperatures. Today is anything but average here. Locally we will go about ten degrees above average for our afternoon highs this morning. You can see a lot of cities beginning in the low, if not mid 50s, 55 right now in hayward, slightly cooler in the north bay where more areas are in the 40s. That light jacket you need it this morning in some spots, but its really this afternoon. You can wear shorts and a t shirt across many locations. Future weather showing you by 10 a. M. Were already into the 60s. Were warming fast today. By lunchtime, were into the 70s in many cities, and then later on this afternoon, its widespread 70s and low 80s even this evening. Any outdoor plans . Its looking nice. Partly cloudy skies and temperatures. Still mild. By 7 p. M. You can see 60s and 70s still at that hour. Looking at the pollen forecast, trees remain high. Oak, pine, juniper and cedar weed and mold at low levels throughout the next couple of days. Looking at the next three days, today is the warmest of the week. Were still pretty comfortable tomorrow and then by friday well find breezy conditions, pick up cooler air starts to move in here, but those temperatures, they are going to rebound for the upcoming weekend. Well show you those details of saturday and sunday coming up in eight minutes. Lets check in with amanda. She is tracking a traffic alert. Yes. So here to tell you that the bay bridge metering lights are on. They were flipped on at 532 this morning. A live look at the bay bridge toll plaza. You can see traffic is flowing freely. Just know that you might have to hit the brakes a little bit when you come to the middle of the middle of the parking salary in her wnba contract is putting the spotlight on the massive pay gap between womens and mens professional basketball. Heres abc News Reporter zohreen shah in this mornings gma first look. Caitlin clarks salary shocker as the major stars in Womens Basketball prepare for the bright lights of the wnba. The salaries that await them exposing a wide but very real gender pay gap in professional basketball. Shes going to make millions for the wnba and shes getting 76,000 next year. But this year, womens ncaa viewership for some games bigger than the mens. The ratings for monday nights draft rivaling the 2003 draft when lebron was chosen by the cavs. Its all about capitalism. At the end of the day, its all about what American Sports fans have wanted. And unfortunately, sadly, over the last few decades, most American Sports fans have ignored the wnba. So whats behind the massive pay disparity and what would make a change . Its all coming up at 7 a. M. With your gma first look. Im zohreen shah, abc news, los angeles. Swifties know its just two days and counting until taylor swifts new album comes out, and fans can get a full interactive experience. Theres now a pop up shop at the grove in la for the tortured poets department. Swift says fans can also expect different variants of the album, and an exclusive bonus tracks on spotify. The album drops on friday, may. Also, Kansas City Chiefs Champ Travis Kelce wont just be spending time with swift in the off season. He is the new host for are you smarter than a celebrity game show . Its a twist on the popular game show are you smarter than a fifth grader a doll . Contestants will answer 11 Elementary School questions using the help of celebrities. The 20 episode season will be released soon on amazon. Katy perry will be leaving American Idol after this season. The singer songwriter has been a judge since 2018. After seven seasons, perry says its the right time for her to leave, but fans can also be expecting new music from the pop star after she leaves. Perry hinted at putting out a new album called kp six. This will be her seventh studio recorded album since she released smile in 2020. You can watch American Idol on sundays and mondays right here on abc seven. New overnight, the happiest place on earth looks like its going to get bigger. The Anaheim City Council voted to expand the disneyland. Amanda is tracking that from the live desk. Reggie aqui, citing developments for fans of disney. The disneyland forward project is a multibillion dollar plan to expand disneyland with land the Company Already owns. The agreement between disneyland and the city of anaheim was unanimously passed last night by the city council. The Expansion Plan will allow for development of new attractions, shops and restaurants with land under utilized by disneyland. The Company Plans to invest about 1. 9 billion toward the project. The citys mayor says it will bring more opportunity to anaheim that this project will bring a benefit to our community, not just in the near future, but in decades to come. The success of disneyland forward provides a really important way for us to build Affordable Housing for us to invest in making our parks in every single district better. It gives us those resources for police and fire, and helps us improve infrastructure that we know we need to do better on. Information from the Walt Disney Company point to new attraction lands or rides based on black panther, frozen and coco potentially coming to disneyland because of this new investment, disney is the Parent Company of abc seven. Im ready. Open it now. I was going to say our resident expert is here. Youre excited . Yeah. I thought it was interesting that it was unanimous, because in years past, this has not been the case with disneyland tried to expand prepandemic, it was a no. Got it from anaheim, and now its a big oh yes, lets do it. Build it. Theyll come, well come, youll come, ill come, i will come. Yes, youll see me there. But now we have to figure out, like, what are we dont someone else will. But what will these new attractions be . Right you know. What will they be based on . Please give me a black panther land. Thats what they said. They said black panther frozen and coco potentially early. Okay, i love it all. Take me to wakanda. Im ready. Take me to wakanda. Ready to go. Right now. Same. Thank you. I dont know what the riot is, but whatever it is, i would just want to stand there. Yeah, and if Angela Bassett happened to be there when i arrived. Right. Wonderful. Shed be the voice. May she rest. Spoiler alert. Oh, man. Angelas fine. Her character uh not as fine. Okay, you had time to watch disney. All things can live again. Thank you. Yes. The spirit. Yeah this morning were living for this warm weather. Here we go. This afternoon it is summer like out there. The accuweather headlines. Today is the warmest day of the week with temperatures going into the 70s and 80s previewing the weekend outlook. We have sunshine, we have dry conditions, we are storm free and temperatures will be mild. Both saturday and sunday. The extended outlook will keep this dry and mild weather, at least for the next 7 to 9 days. Its a pretty quiet pattern looking at your beach, boat and surf. Forecast waves 4 to 5ft today. That ocean water temperature in the low to mid 50s. Well have to. Well have an afternoon west northwest wind about 5 to 10mph along the coast. Looking at the morning drive, it is pretty easy going when it comes to the forecast. A mix of sun and clouds. Temperatures will start out in the 50s in most spots already into the 60s, close to 9 10 a. M. This morning. So things youll need today. This morning. Just a light jacket. The afternoon. You can wear those shorts. The t shirts have the sunglasses with you. You do not need that rain jacket. We are totally dry today , so it is a mild day, warm and a lot of spots. Well hit 75 in oakland, 79 in santa rosa, 70 in the city today, 81 in san jose. Well hit about 78 in fremont. Your sunset getting later and later now approaching 748 this evening. Overnight tonight we will have partly cloudy skies and temperatures in most areas upper 40s to the mid 50s as we head into thursday. So hang on to that mild air in the overnight hours. Heres future tracker temperatures by thursday afternoon it is still above average. A little cool along the coast in the 60s, but most areas around the bay shoreline in the 70s and our warmest spots going into the 80s. And then by friday areawide, well find that cool down hitting us. But still, these temperatures are close. If not maybe a few degrees above average, and then well rebound. Heading into the weekend. Accuweather seven day forecast. Warmest day of the week is today. Well find cooler conditions by friday, but still looking very pleasant over the weekend. Sunday is the warmer of the two days, but still expect sunshine both days and then early next week well have a stronger onshore flow bringing those temperatures closer to average for this time of the year guys. Jrue thank you. New at six increased water rates. The bay area residents who could see higher bills starting next year. But first controversy over posts made online. Why the valedictorian at usc will not get a a break with tradition thats angered a lot of people. As reporter bob hayes explains, the valedictorian made some controversial posts online. College graduation is a time of excitement and celebration. But at usc this year, the bloodshed in the middle east is overshadowing the schools commencement ceremonies. Usc officials announcing that valedictorian osnat tabassum will not be allowed to give her speech. Groups like trojans for israel, accusing tabassum of being antisemitic in online posts like this one. Im continuing to hope for the university to reinstate me as a speaker that tabassum supports, palestine should not have come as a surprise to the university when she was chosen for more than 100 qualified students to be valedictorian. The Biomedical Engineering major has been an active participant in several protests on campus and online posts, so the sudden move to cancel her speech has left tabassum questioning why i think something more important to consider is the implications and the social commentary behind this decision and what it points to in terms of universitys values. Uscs provost says denying tabassum address is not a political move but a security concern, saying outside groups have escalated the risk of disruption and violence. He writes this decision is not only necessary to maintain the safety of our campus and students, but is consistent with the fundamental legal obligation, including the expectations of federal regulators, was that universities act to protect students and keep our Campus Community safe. Tabassum, though, sees it as a knee jerk decision that unfairly punishes her. The university preemptively made a decision on not on the basis of safety, but on the basis of potentially other factors that i think impedes on my freedom of expression. Rob hayes, abc seven news. Im here with the traffic alert. Were taking you down to the south bay, northbound 101, in morgan hill. This is after cochran road. There is an overturned car with reports of injuries. All of this impacting traffic again at cochran road. Right lanes are closed. Theres stopped traffic from san martin with a 45 minute delay. Drew hey there. Amanda. Okay, were taking a live look outside. This is our south beach camera pointed at the bay bridge. This morning. You can already see a little bit of cloud cover in our sky. So today will feature a mix of sun and clouds. Looking at your planner today, its one of those days. You have a light jacket in the morning, but then in the afternoon you can get away with shorts and a t shirt. Were starting out with temperatures in the 50s. Were already into the 60s and 70s by noon, so we do warm pretty quickly today, and then by the afternoon were more than ten degrees above average. Well have 70s around the bay shoreline. Our warmest cities inland. Well be going into the 80s. A victory that is there for the taking. Grab it. Now that was a great halftime speech. Lets go win. [jim valvano] dont give up. Dont ever give up®