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KGO ABC7 News 500AM July 14, 2024

Burg. Not a classic setup where we will get the heat all the way to the coast. We still will see the onshore flow with winds up to 20 Miles Per Hour at our beaches. 60 right now in oakland as well as san jose. It is 63 in mountain view. We have the cool 50s up to the north. So a live look right there at sfo where temperatures will be warming up quickly today, in the upper 80s by noon time. Inland, 70s around the bay. Triple digits both days offer the weekend. Details in a few minutes. Kumasi. Thanks, lisa. In the south bay Santa Clara County is taking extra measures to be ready to respond to heatrelated issues. Abc 7 reporter amanda del castillo has more on how to prepare for the heat. If you cant find shade y so that will keep you cool, wn taire helpg littlest residents beat the heat. Virginia says the plans include being outside. They like the outdoors and running around so we come to places like this. Reporter the county plans to expand medical services because of the excessive heat watch. Temperatures around the bay area are expected to reach nearrecord levels on saturday including 90s in san jose and almost 100 in gilroy. 100,000 people are expected at the gilroy garlic festival. Oem Officials Say hydration is key to surviving sizzling temps. Arrive early to avoid peak heat hours. You can get dehydrated without knowing it. You can suffer heat exhaustion, get dizzy, kind of lose your awareness. It is sort of ansve embracing the extreme heat. Michelle ramirez is hopeful the weather will offer some relief. Going out and taking inhe na weathessued from inland areas from saturday morning to sunday evening. Because it is just going to keep getting hotter from here. Reporter if you insist on being out of the house this weekend, the office of Emergency Management says you should consider a place with abundant air conditioning like the library, Community Centers or even the mall. We know expanded medical Services Expected county wide. In san jose, im amanda del castillo, abc 7 news. You can use the abc 7 news app to get alerts about the dangerously hot weather were expected this weekend where you live. The app lets you customize and it is free in the app store. The u. S. Supreme court is allowing President Trump to build a border wall using pentagon money, at least for now. It is drawing swift reaction from both sides. Mere is abc reporter marci gonzalez. In a 54 decision the Supreme Court authorizing the ntardso bion of i u. S. mexico border while the legal challenges continue. President trump tweeting, wow big victory on the wall. The United States Supreme Court Overturns Lower Court injunction, allows southern border wall to proceed. Big win for Border Security and the rule of law. That nowoverturned injunction was handed down in may by a federal judge who put hold on the use of military funding for the president s wall, saying it is up to congress to allocate federal expenditures. This after the president declared a National Emergency in february, attempting to divert money from the pentagon to build the wall. What the president tried to do was basically completely disregard our democratic process and just take money that congress hadnt given him to build the wall anyway. Reporter this order by the Supreme Court came in response to a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties union, challenging President Trumps use of Emergency Powers for border wall funds. The aclu responding, vowing this is not over, asking the ninth Circuit Court of appeals to expedite the ongoing appeals proceeding to halt the irreversible and immeant damaine from trumps border wall. Abc news, los angeles. A north bay casino is stepping up to protect immigrant rights by assuring the Latino Community theyre safe. That message is coming from the sonoma Sheriffs Office. Cornell barnard has the story. Reporter there was a surprise guest at this Latin Dance Party at graton resort and casino, Sonoma County sheriff marques ex. What im here to assure you is that we will not turn you over to i. C. E. For minor traffic violations or minor public offenses. The Sheriffs Office will not assist i. C. E. In conducting raids. Reporter essex telling the crowd the department will protect the rights of immigrants from i. C. E. Through the california values act which prevents local Law Enforcement from using resources on behalf of i. C. E. Agents. No member of the Sheriffs Office will ever ask you what your immigration status is. The sheriff was invited here by graton ceo that wanted to assure the community theyre safe. I understand many of us have been afraid of i. C. E. , of trump, of the white house. Reporter the north bay Rapid Response rights Group Applauds the efforts. The fear is definitely there. We have seen that more calls are coming in to the hotline. Reporter those calls have been reports of possible i. C. E. Raids but most have been rumors. Atooen atooe attendees at the parties seem to like the message but the sheriff says he is not doing anything different, just following california law. Cornell barnard, abc 7 news. In the south bay officials sixcar pileup that includes a police car are expected to be okay. The crash happened yesterday afternoon at North Jackson avenue and mckee road in san jose. Ambulances took several people to the hospital including some children and a police officer. One of the accident victims told abc 7 news the police car was going through the intersection with lights flashing when the crash happened. He came through, turned his lights on, cautiously entered the intersection. As soon as he got into probably the middle of the westbound lane, thats when he got hit. The collision with the police car led to the Chain Reaction crash. This morning Oakland Police are looking for a dog napper. The department is asking the community for help in finding uni, the fivemonthold French Bulldog that was taken from a parked vehicle on campbell street wednesday. One bay area breeder sells puppies like this for more than 4,000. San Francisco Police are searching for two stolen puppies. The woman told officers she listed the pair for sale online. She was contacted by a potential buyer she met wednesday at a Shopping Center in the mission. She says thats when the man stole the dogs. Police are asking anyone with information to call them. All right. Heads up in San Francisco tomorrow. It might be a little hard to get around the city unless you are running. The San Francisco Marathon Race starts at 5 30 a. M. On sunday, and you can see the course map here. It goes along the embarcadero, past fishermans wharf, across the Golden Gate Bridge, through golden gate park, and then haight and soma neighborhoods. Many muni buses are being rerouted because of the race and a lot of roads are closed to regular traffic, some as late as 3 00 p. M. Rideshare, bike share or scooter rentals are recommended to get around. Will it be hot . You see the sweat shirts in the file video . I dont think they will need that, although it will be comfortable at the coast and cool. We will have the warmup from today that will keep us a little on the milder side tomorrow morning. As we look lve outside, you can see the fog from our exploratorium camera. Only 55 with a mist and drizzle. Inland, a few 60s but a different story by this afternoon. A heat wave over the weekend, but not for everyone. I will explain next. You wont find tent cities in walnut creek. You will find Police Working to help the homeless. It is an example of building a better bay area. Taking a computer apart is no easy task. We will tell you why these is it tough competing in a mans world . Maybe for the men. Lash blast from covergirl mega volume in an instant lashes with up to 10x volume lashblast mascara from covergirl. Good morning, everyone. 5 11 this morning. Hard to see, but thats the Golden Gate Bridge were looking at. It is really foggy this morning but it is expected to clear and warmer temperatures are on the way. Lsa has the full forecast in a few minutes. Part of our commitment to building a better bay area means looking at how local Police Departments struggle to hire enough officers of the it is something we have told you about before. Last night san Francisco Police welcomed 24 new officers to its force. 19 sfpd rookies graduated from the Police Academy at the Scottish Rite Center on 19th avenue and another five officers completed training in San Francisco after working for other police agencies. Here at abc 7 we are also highlighting people in our communities doing their part to build a better bay area. A nonprofit in San Francisco funded with help from the city is equipping low income students with stem tools to help them land jobs in the tech industry. Abc 7 News Reporter luz pena has the story. Reporter this is the sound that takes over this room. These students are coding, their minds are actively dreaming and working towards the goal. I would like to become a web developer. Help building phones or coding or something. I have a design team and what we create, a clothing app called malwear of our main focus is to diversify the field of code. Reporter students are part of the mission, short for developers in the mission district. Maria jose garcia is one of several students who didnt think a career in tech would be possible. My parents, they didnt graduate from college. They came, they only work like at restaurants, construction, and now when they see me, that im here and doing something to better myself, theyre really proud of me. Reporter devmission was founded two years ago. Their goal is to equip low income students between the ages of 16 and 24 years old by teaching them to code, build websites and fix computers. In this class fixing computers is not just for fun. These students have a bigger goal in mind, to give 300 computers to low income families this year. Reporter at the end of the 12week program the students get a 500 stipend and a free computer. We have enrolled over 100 young people with an 80 graduation rate. As of last week 45 of them are working either in a fellowship, an internship, an apprenticeship, a parttime job or a fulltime job in the tech industry. Reporter what many want are jobs. I know coding, i know programming, so im ready for the job. Reporter in San Francisco, luz pena, abc 7 news. Homelessness has long been an issue in the bay area. Were used to seeing it in cities like San Francisco, but were not so used to seeing it in suburbs like walnut creek. Now that city is taking action to help the homeless and build a better bay area. Contra costa county ties Alameda County for the largest percentage increase of Homeless People in the bay area. Each county is up 43 compared to the last Homeless Census done in 2017. Contra costa countys number of total homeless is far below that of alameda, santa clara and San Francisco as you see in this chart. Abc 7 News Reporter Leslie Brinkley has more on a solution to help the homeless that seems to be working. Reporter matthew chase has lived on the streets ofalnu eekorsags stolen last week, so he says his only belongings are his lighter and cigarettes. He sleeps in a different spot in downtown walnut creek every night. The Business Owners know, all come out and sleep on the side of the building or something. They know i dont mess with them. I dont mess with their customers. Reporter but complaints about the homeless are on the rise. Some worry about safety. They could be on drugs. You dont know. They could be desperate for money. Reporter Walnut Creek Police say they field 3,000 calls a year related to homelessness. Thats about ten calls a day. So they thought they would experiment with assigning two fulltime officers to respond to all of those escalating calls about encampments, littering, trespassing and panhandling. A lot of the times it is people who are shopping downtown and really dont want to be bothered by people panhandling, aggressive panhandling. We get a lot of complaints about it. We have a lot of people that are concerned that walnut creek is going to turn into some of our neighboring cities, some of the close neighbors like San Francisco. Reporter officer clemente and officer silva volunteered for the fourmonth Pilot Program that launched in midjune. Theyve got 94 complaints and made 25 arrests so far, mostly for trespassing. They also contacted 213 homeless and referred 90 of them to services to address their needs. They also retrieve and return shopping carts. Encampments are moved. Police say many of the homeless hang out along the creek, often out in front of local grocery stores, armed with signs. Do you think this Police Effort is helping . Yes, it is. Reporter it is noticeable to you . It is very noticeable. Two officers i think is not even close to being sufficient to address the problem. They could use two officers around the b. A. R. T complex. Reporter it is a fourmonth Pilot Program, but the goal here is for Police Officers at the end of it to know the names, firstname basis with all of the homeless in walnut creek, for the homeless to know those officers and hopefully get the help that they need. And so theres talk of assigning thes officers longterm and looking for the funding, getting approv for that after t runs ou. Back to you and were going to take a cloesz closer look at the bay area housing crisis starting tomorrow with the 11 00 p. M. News. We will introduce you to someone renting a closet, a closet, you guys, for 1,200 in San Francisco. You can look for our reports all week starting sunday night. Happening today, the aloha spirit comes to the bay area when the San Francisco summer youth fest returns for the third year somewhere over the way up high orts with an interactive ukule jam. The festival moves to japan town tomorrow. All right. 5 18 this morning. Meteorologist lisa argen is checking our forecast. Hey, kumasi, good morning to you. Classic San Francisco this saturday morning with the low clouds, the fog, the mist and the drizzle, extending across the bay. You have heard about our heat advisory advertised, the spare the air alert. Buff you are probably thinking how with all of the low clouds and fog. Well, we will have the setup for the comfortable conditions at the shoreline, but a building ridge of High Pressure from the four Corners Region is going to allow for our inland east bay to really heat up today. We saw some 90s yesterday. Right now it is 60 in owning land. 62, redwood city. 55, morgan hill. 54, Half Moon Bay. Another Vantage Point downtown with the clouds, low 50s. It is chilly with the mist and drizzle to the north. Santa rosa, 52. Petaluma, 57. Concord, livermore at 58. So with the clouds we have got just about zero visibility from petaluma to santa rosa. Six miles on the coast, with we 90s yesterday, so another eight to ten degrees of heat expected your way. Our forecast calls for excessive heat inland this weekend. 100degree temps in numerous locations, and looking at the spare the air alert through tomorrow. We will see slight cooling tomorrow, and wait until you see mondays temperatures. This is going to be a shortlived event, like they usually are around this time of year and even all year long, our heat usually lasts two or three days. We have low clouds and fog, the san mateo coast. This is 9 00 this morning. It is clear in marin county and we are clear throughout the day, maybe a few patches of fog. Tonight the fog comes back. Not enough to keep you comfortable in our inland east bay. We will see numbers in the 60s and 70s overnight, but tomorrow morning we are starting out with gray conditions and looking at, once again, that setup with comfortable readings at the coast but by no means anywhere near what you will expect today in our inland valleys. Here is a foggy look at santa cruz. To give you an idea where the temperatures will be this weekend on the coast, in the low 70s. So from ocean beach to half moon ay, vd up to 20 Miles Per Hour. 80s though in santa cruz. It is a warmer day for you. As we look at the num

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