Along the hayes valley octavia quarter this year for outdoor fires. This letter went documenting three fires in the same area. These are photos of yet another fire on generally 17th at the same construction site which just burned down. There was a fire that some and started to keep warm under the scaffolding of that very construction site. She says that the supervisor dean preston got the letter and elevated it to different city departments. We have not heard anything since. Its just completely acceptable. The mayor responded to Community Concerns by posting on social media that first we cannot jump to conclusions about the cause of the fire. The mayor then posted second, we are working to address these and but we are under a federal injunction that limits our ability to move tense even when people refuse shelter. She also posted that some people have issues like power splicing causing dangerous conditions. City workers came and will work to prevent these dangerous conditions. When they see them or when reported. People in hayes valley say they have had enough. This man is moving out of the neighborhood after three decades because the fires are part of a bigger problem. It doesnt seem like theyre willing to do anything about it when anything is reported. The crime in this neighborhood has increased significantly over the last 45 years. Unfortunately, the homeless situation was out of control. Is another look at all of you could been out here. These cranes were brought in to remove the debris early this morning. There were crews out here removing scaffolding and in the afternoon people were repairing windows across the street. This section of oak and octavia will remain closed for a while longer. Life in San Francisco, suzanne phan. Larry picking up ahead. A federal Court Date Set for the men who attacked paul pelosi stephanie sierra was in the courtroom today as the defense made a controversial request, joining us live in the newsroom. David to paps request team requested before the trial. They want their counsel and one investigator to go back into take additional photos, measurements, and do a full walkthrough of the crime scene. The debate got heated in the courtroom. The Federal District court judge push back on that, asking why additional photos would be necessary. The defense argues the body camera footage and crime scene photos provided during discovery are not sufficient and they want time to plan out and timeout what happened inside the pelosi home before Police Arrived in order to be prepared for mr. Pelosi to take the stand. The government pushed bk, saying walkthrough is not necessary for the charges, and would be an extreme violation of privacy. Councils argued whether or not federal judges even have the authority to do this. The judge says that she plans to make a decision on this next week and she did add if she agrees with the government on this it will create an issue in appellate courts, and she wants to sort that out before ruling on the matter. Larry can you tell us about the timeline of this trial . Do we know, maybe it is too early, whether paul pelosi will actually testify . For the first time, the Government Point out paul pelosi taking the stand during the second week at the trial. Opening statements are set up scheduled to begin on november 9 and he is scheduled to take the stand the following way. The entire span of the trial is expected to last a week. The judge says that they are being very careful with the jury selection process, adding that the survey will be compiled very comprehensively with questions that span a wide variety of topics. We know that in total there will be either 14 or 15 jurors selected. Kristen joe montana and his neighbors in San Franciscos marinas district are taking Marina District are taking action against damage caused by storms earlier this year. A flood impacted People Living on Marina Boulevard between webster and baker streets. The claim suggests that sewage infrastructure was insufficient and the city is to blame. A spokesperson refuted those allegations, saying that sewage infrastructure was not to blame. Public works, and the Public Utilities commission and joe mentone joe montana have not commented. Larry multiple people arrest after a Human Trafficking stink. Agents in action on operations crosscountry along with local law enforcement. The contra costa Human TraffickingTask Force Made two arrests and recovered one child as part of the suite. Sweep. It started more than ago following nationwide. Their kid and our streets and they are not for sale. The fbi and our partners will continue to focus on protecting the most vulnerable numbers of society, here at home and across the country. Larry nine suspects are in custody, and more people could be facing charges. Kristen the staff at a New High School said set to open next month is currently after being hit by burgers. Luz pena shows what is being done to get to school ready for its reopening. Instead of getting lessons plans ready, staff are making calls for a locksmith. My first thought is earthquake, then i started to see cabinets open, there was stuff on the ground. This independent high school in east oakland serving gang impacted youth was burglarized. Several projectors and microphones were stolen, and the cofounder says they are not taking it personally. It is indicative of hunger and lack of resources and that is bigger than a neighborhood. We are seeing crimes happened in downtown through everywhere else. Despite losing 68000 dollars in property, they are staying focused on the bigger mission. Their First High School class is about to come in. We are building a different kind of school, where you dont sit all day, you travel every day. They worked during afterschool programs, Community Outreach and treating those in need. Now they are making history opening the freedom school. Starting off with 39th graders in the fall, regardless of if we have laptops or not. We will find a way to make it happen because they are expecting it and we can cannot let them down. They are ready with Inspiring Stories of changemakers. We do this to follow in the legacy and reminder that we come from greatness. New locks are coming in and cameras will follow, multiple expenses not part of their budget. With this gofundme, they are hoping to Community Steps into hell. As we are getting ready for the first day, we are super excited to receive them. Kristen santa clara county, how efforts have been successful in keeping people off the street. And the big special celebration for the icons of San Francisco, the cable cars. Later, todays decision by fitch to downgrade the u. S. Credit rating and what it could mean to the u. S. Economy. Im spencer christian, looking at foggy weather, drizzly and breezy, we have the forecast coming up in just a moment w lowering cholesterol can be hard. Diets and exercise add to the struggle. Today, its possible to go from struggle to cholesterol success with leqvio. With a statin, leqvio is proven to lower bad cholesterol by over 50 and keep it low with two doses a year. Common side effects were injection site reaction, joint pain, urinary tract infection, diarrhea, chest cold, pain in legs or arms, and shortness of breath. Ask your doctor about twiceyearly leqvio. Lower. Longer. Leqvio. 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South gate zach fuentes shows us what it does. The jury to find a new home after someone is on the house is not easy. We have had incredible success housing families and people over the last five years as a collective in santa clara county. Youre seeing more and more families doing this. The county saw a decrease of 1. 2 of housed individuals, b destination home has been keeping people from becoming on house. The prevention system does exactly that. It prevents homelessness for families instead of clark county. It helps run the program along with the county joined by services from 19 different nonprofits. People can receive help with legal matters, issues and more. Medical issues and more. We help them figure out what their immediate needs are, which archewell art largely financial like rent, but other bills as well. The program led to a partnership with researchers at the university of notre dame, focusing on santa clara. He wanted to assure how effective a program of one find onetime Financial Assistance would be. They found that homelessness was reduced among people by he received 2000. And we partnered with them to followup with people who got assistance and people who were not able to access it. And be able to compare what happens to them. By comparing the beacon get a sense of how much of a difference does this make so we are able to followup and see people who were assisted are much much less likely to end up going back to emergency shelters and other things. The study can be used as models for committees in the bay area and beyond. People have to still secure more funding for the program. If we can prevent anybody from becoming homeless, we wont have any more new families on the streets wearing about how to get off the street. Zach fuentes, abc7news. Some states are limiting them, but at the next studies are coming to more california classrooms. A series of webinars helping schools implement an ethnic studies curriculum. Education leaders are promoting Inclusive Education as a strategy to improve student performance. Every student at a Public High School is required to take an ethnic studies course by the year 2026. In addition, thurman will help write a bill which will impose a fine on any district which spans a book, especially in an attempt to discriminate against students of color or lgbtq students. A Teacher Shortage is impacting schools across the nation. Teachers of color are leaving jobs and growing numbers and have the highest turnover. The main reasons are low pay, stress, pandemic air burnout, School Violence and childrens lack of respect. People are worried as the on Arming Teachers continues. One in three teachers will leave their job within the next two years. Some schools are turning to athletic instructors and principles to teach in the classroom. Larry two dozen youth Led Technology advocacy organizations are being recognized for their work in making the digital age more inclusive and equitable. Dustin dorsey shows us how this Youth Movement is making technology a better place. Technology, Artificial Intelligence and social media. Issues that are often felt by many, but hard to solve, to find solutions for digital natives, youth are making their voices heard. This next industry generation of industry builders and technologists, who are younger or and reside in Silicon Valley, are a lot more conscious of social impact with tech. Local groups are being recognized. Encode justice, good for media, and reboot are three of the 26th 26 youth organizations who received a grant to build a more inclusive, equitable and Accountable Technology ecosystem. It was empowering and wonderful people for the young people who helped build it. And it validates what theyre doing. There was always this feeling that we need to do this work and to see that we are receiving Grant Funding it is good to know that in the fight for more equitable digital environments young people can and are the solution. A san jose citizen call from prince harry and meghan markle. Thank you for doing what you do especially for kids, they will be very grateful. It was such an honor. Considered to be the Greta Thunberg of ai, these groups have seen the good and bad impact that technology can have. She wants to make a difference in the world of technology, especially ai. There are immense risks and opportunities and we can only really make sure that ai is carefully governed if we have people at like us at the table, our generation has grown up as the most digitally native yet. Today at an iconic celebration, cable cars going through the streets 150 years ago, and they threw them a birthday party. People were invited to dress in their best eating hundreds attire, and the cable cars were lined with flowers. Alright, lets celebrate 150 years of cable cars in San Francisco. For the big submission, city is offering a daily pass to use the cable car for five dollars. That is great. And its good through the end of the year. Cheapest sightseeing you can never do. Larry and its fun. Think the ferry is great as well. Did you say clothing from the 1800s . Spencers closet. Too soon . [laughter] im sorry, i apologize. Spencer dont worry, this body of time for a punch back. Larry i love you, you know that . Spencer i do. Lets look at what is going on with august, we have a stubborn marine layer, a vigorous one causing clouds to linger through much of the morning with drizzle brought to us by this alignment of systems in the atmospheric, counterclockwise circulation low to the northwest and clockwise hide to the southeast, giving us a nice steady and vigorous onshore breeze with gusts right now up to 28 miles per mile per hour winds in San Francisco, all around the area we are feeling the cooling breeze and it is cooling again, cooler than yesterday at this time by several degrees as you can see on the map. This is the view from our exploratory camera looking back at a portion of the San Francisco skyline. It is currently 16 degrees here at the city, midupper 60s in mountain view, 59 degrees that half moon bay. There is the view from emeryville shown our foggy weather with clouds stacking on the coast over portions of San Francisco, 83 degrees in santa rosa, napa 71 degrees, 82 degrees in fairfield, and h is the breezy embarcadero from our rooftop camera, we will city widespread clouds and fog and overnight drizzle once again into tomorrow morning. Breezy and cooler than average once again tomorrow, with triple digit heat returning to the bay area this weekend. Overnight, look for the advancing marine layer. Lots of drizzle along the coast and the bay as well, warning commuters will probably encounter some of that drizzle before things dry out in the afternoon tomorrow. Overnight low temperatures in the midupper 50s, hives tomorrow up to about 60 degrees of the coast, right around the bay shoreline mainly in the upper 60s until near 70 degrees, near average inland, in the upper 70s to around any degrees, down in the south bay, 74 san jose, 81 degrees and sent santa rosa. Heres the accuweather 7day forecast. Notice the stretch of warm up on friday, it will be in or civil one, but it really gets hot inland on saturday and sunday, and monday for that matter. Sunday will be the hottest day, inland highs above 102 degrees in the hottest spots, mid80s when the shoreline, midupper 60s around the coast, easing just a bit on monday with sharp cooling on tuesday and wednesday. And now back to you youngsters. Larry did i mention, i love your jacket. The wardrobe is a classic. [laughter] kristen we are so 24th century here. Larry still to come abc7news at 4 00, one of uc berkeleys best cap secrets is changing the lives of people who live disabilities. Coming up, the changes coming to the irs and how you are going to shop for back in the day, sneaker drops meant getting online to wait in line. Now with Xfinity Mobile. We get the Fastest Mobile Service and can get the freshest kicks asap. I got this. Get the best price for 2 lines of unlimited when you switch to Xfinity Mobile for 30 a line per month. Nice job, little sis they grow up so fast. Im a fan. From xfinity. Kristen it is time for consumer news. Larry now our cars are spying on us . Join the club. One of many. Heres what is going on. Your vehicle could be collecting and sharing your personal data. The california Privacy Protection agency, your laughing, but they lost an investigation looking into features embedded in cars, including location sharing, web based entertainments, camera and smartphone integration. They are working to review data accuracy privacy practices with connected software, thats about every new car. Investigation of the if automakers are following state laws on personal Data Collection by their vehicles. The irs is said to go paperless by 2025 all part of a new and free online tax return system allowing the irs to process all paperwork, eventually, digitally. Its funded by the inflation reduction act, the irs says that going paperless will save them 40 million in storage costs and allow the agency to process returns faster. They r tax forms and dockets every year. Incandescent lightbulbs are soon going to be gone. A rule to discontinue incandescent lightbulbs h