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Just how hot and where. Sandy patel is tracking it all tonight. Abc7 news at 11 starts right now. Building a better bay area moving forward, finding solutions. This is abc7 news. Good evening and thank you for joining us. Im dan ashley. And im ahmad daetz. We first begin in the city of oakland and the mayor giving her first state of the city address tomorrow and no doubt she has a lot on her plate with a dwindling budget, no Permanent Police chief and a damaging crime reputation, it has been a challenging first year for the mayor and we are making it tonights abc seven news advancer at 11 to make sure youre informed. Ahead of what will be seeing tuesday afternoon , abc seven News Reporter j. R stone is in oakland where residents and a local Council Member are sharing their ideas to push the town forward. Im sure if we all put our minds together we could try to come up with something. A hope. And if we come together as a community, we believe that change can and will take place from a community wanting and demanding a safer oakland. Things have truly changed. The stealing all the businesses closed down, all the empty buildings we have just as ridiculous backed into our driveway. Took five packages and then took our hose and actually washed his car and thats how brazen they are on the eve of oakland, mayor tsingtaos first state of the city address is this Community Meeting was held at b. B. Memorial cathedral. Not just complaining, but those here advocating for change. After a weekend where we saw three more killings, bringing the yearly homicide total in oakland above 100. We need professional security teams, ems or policemen to guard the blocks, either walking or just having a presence as a deterrent. Several people here would also like to see some Police Officers on bicycles going forward. Burglaries, robberies and vehicle thefts are all up. Someone even stole this taco truck last weekend. Councilman dan kalb is calling for license plate readers to be installed on all freeway onramps and asking for more help from the feds. We are now going to formally and officially ask the federal government and were going to ask for barbara lees help here, our member of congress, to double the number of investigators that fbi sends to oakland to help us with investigations and lots of possible solutions to these crime problems. Talked about. But one speaker at this meeting said its time for local, state and federal officials to, quote, grow up and implement some of these possible solutions in oakland. J. R stone, abc7 news. And we make sure you get the full picture of crime where you live. Thanks to the hard data in our interactive abc7 neighborhood safety tracker, it shows you a wide range of Public Safety statistics for oakland, san jose and San Francisco. Youll find it on the front page of abc7 news. Com. New at 11. Another town in the bay area is banning Public Comments by zoom because people dropping into Public Meetings just to say hateful things. Tonight san pablo voted to end zoom and telephone comments so weve had a handful of Public Comments. But again this is precautionary because of the emergence of zoom bombing. So we dont want to create the platform or these zoom bombing can occur with that hate speech. And again, this is also contingent with your city diverse city policy, where you need to denounce that type of behavior and hate speech by policy. Walnut creek banned zoom Public Comments earlier this year for the same reason. And San Francisco is now considering a ban, too, after a racist zoom ambush a few weeks ago during a board of supervisors meeting. New developments tonight in israels war with hamas. President biden will be visiting israel on wednesday. And new York Governor Kathy Hochul is also making a trip this week. It comes as global fears increase about the war with hamas growing into a much larger conflict in the middle east. With the us caught in between. The key concern is evacuating civilians from the gaza strip before a possible Israel Ground invasion. Refugees from inside gaza have been heading to the egyptian border and dissipating. It will open to allow some people out of the war zone access to water and supplies are running dangerously low as Israeli Defense forces continue to pound the gaza strip. Its absolutely horrendous. The bodies are stacked up. People are too afraid to bury their dead. When you drive by one of the targeted buildings, theres the stench of decaying bodies ahead of bidens visit this week, abc news reports the top us military commander in the middle east just arrived in israel. Tonight, President Biden will underscore our Crystal Clear message to any actor, state or nonstate, trying to take advantage of this crisis to attack israel. Dont. Nearly 2000 us troops have been told to be ready for possible deployment to the region. It is a place that has a long history of demonstrations over the decades at uc berkeley today, hundreds of propalestinian students rallied and filled sproul plaza and blocked access to the cal campus. At saturday gate. The demonstrators called for a free palestinian state and for better representation of palestinian students on campus. The rally also attracted a handful of counter demonstrators who held up israeli flags. Todays rally remained peaceful last week, protesters supporting israel clashed with propalestinian groups on campus. Were continuing to keep you updated on whats happening in israel, in gaza and here at home. Of course, you can find the very latest updates anytime on our website, abc7 news. Com download the abc7 bay area app to get breaking news alerts and live stream updates. All right, lets get a jump now. Ahead on our weather picture for tuesday with abc seven news meteorologist andrew patel. Yeah, shes looking at what we should expect in the 24 hour accuweather forecast. Sandy. Yeah and dan and were going to start off with some fog first thing tomorrow morning as you take a look at a live picture from our sfo camera, you can see that it is around right now. And so tomorrow morning watch out. It may be dense in patches. Temperatures at 7 a. M. Beginning in the upper 50s. Its going to be sunny bay and inland by noontime. A little bit of fog still lingering at the coast. And then its a warmer afternoon with mid 60s to upper 80s temperatures dropping off into the upper 50s to mid 70s. Closer to sunset. We do have a big warm up on the way. Ill let you know whos going to feel that heat coming right up. Alma all right, sandhya, thank you so much. Dot those is and cross those ts. Cursive will be coming back to classrooms across california for the lovely looking riding style has been somewhat of a lost art lately, thanks to texts, emojis and all the rest. So tonight, abc seven news south bay reporter Lauren Martinez is looking at the new yet old skill being taught again in school to additional handwriting is making a comeback in california schools. On friday, Governor Newsom signed a bill that would require cursive instruction in first through sixth grade handwriting actually activates different parts of the brain that do not get activated when printing block letters or typing. Can you read what this says . Learning how to read and write in cursive is going to be new for students and for some teachers. For 13 years, our Teacher Education programs have said cursive is not part of the standards we have quite a chunk of teachers who have not taught it and who havent needed to teach it, and some who probably were not taught it themselves in english and language arts, private tutor said its important to be open to Different Things for different kids. A lot of the neurodiverse and learning disabled kids ive worked with actually do better with cursive. Um ive read that it has something to do with a different part of the brain that the same part that you use for drawing and those flowing movements can really help the kids. They dont have to be picking up the pencil. Victoria lara is a calligrapher based out of napa and works throughout the bay area. Four years ago, lara turned her passion into a business and started blossom, an ink studio i do in studio and on site events, so ive worked with big brands, local businesses. Lara said. Learning cursive has helped transfer her skill of lettering to engravings and wood burning, having something handwritten is just its a different feeling. Its a very emotion, whole feeling behind it. Lara said her son in high school wasnt taught cursive as much and hes learned the skill more through her calligraphy. Now hes used to it. He definitely takes them a little bit longer to read the note cards or whatever it is, but but he definitely has gotten used to it. Now and thats something that i told him, honey, like we need to we need to work on your person in the south bay. Lauren martinez, abc seven news. Tomorrow marks one of the most significant days in bay area history. 34 years since the 1989 loma prieta earthquake. The marina is really hard hit. There are cracks everywhere. Oh, my god. Look at that. The freeway has just completely collapsed east. The 6. 9 quake rocked the San Francisco bay area and other parts of northern california. The shock was centered ten miles northeast of santa cruz on the san andreas fault, striking at 5 04 p. M, 633 people were killed , thousands more injured. The loma prieta quake would cost 5. 6 billion in total losses. Our abc7 originals documentary, the earthquake effect talks through the potentially dangerous situation. Every bay area resident faces should an earthquake like 1989 loma prieta happen today . Watch the earthquake effect on the abc7 news bay area app. Its available wherever you stream and its easy to get complacent here. We live with this risk every day. We all might think we know what to do but seconds matter and having a go to plan is critical. So we want to make sure that youre prepared. If you visit our website. Abc7 news. Com prepare norcal. We have a full guide to get you and your family ready for the potential of an earthquake. Right now. Hang up in the house a critical vote for speaker set for tomorrow. And theres one republican scrambling for support. Plus, cals collab with nasa. The big plans for the new Berkeley Space Center and 100 years of disney dreaming on this special anniversary of walt disney studios. The next upcoming movie just took over tonights monday night football. First, a look at whats coming up tonight on Jimmy Kimmel Live right after abc seven news at 11. Were working very late tonight. I read today that you are a halloween fanatic and you are kind of dressed a little bit. Halloween. Yes, its the its the season. Its the october. Its my favorite time of did you know 80 of women are struggling with hair damage . Dryness and frizz that keeps coming back, could be damaged hair that cant retain moisture. You need pantenes miracle rescue deep conditioner. Its filled with provitamins to help hair lock in moisture, visibly repairing six months of damage in just one use, with no weighdown. Guaranteed, or your money back. For hair that looks healthy and stays healthy. If you know, you know its pantene. All this week, she reveals what she did and the procedure that finally helped change everything for her. Its what every woman should know. This week on good morning america, it could be a critical day on capitol hill tomorrow as we take a live look at washington, d. C. Tonight. Tomorrow, House Republicans plan to hold a vote to pick a new speaker of the house. Hard line republican jim jordan wants to take his bid to the floor, but its unknown whether the ohio representative can muster enough votes to land the speaker role. Its been two weeks since eight republicans joined democrats to oust speaker kevin mccarthy. Since then, the chaotic gop has been paralyzed by infighting and political squabbling. I think the American People are tired of watching this this fiasco unfold. But there may be some surprises yet in store with some moderate republican lawmakers in talks with democrats about a possible bipartisan alternative. Now to your voice, your vote. Representative adam schiff continues to be the top fundraiser in the race for Dianne Feinsteins senate seat. The la times looked at Campaign Contributions over the past three months. Schiff has about 32 million in cash on hand. He has money left over from his easy house reelection last year. So thats now going toward this campaign. Oakland representative barbara lee is very low in funding with just 1. 3 million on hand. A spending quickly as cash comes in to build a more of a fund raising base. Thats the big challenge for a Southern California representative, katie porter is in the middle with 12 million. The primary election is now about five months away. Every day here at abc7, our focus is finding stories in our communities, pushing to help build a better bay area in meaningful ways. And tonight were highlighting some of those breakthroughs. Our first takes us to the south bay. Thanks to a new grant from google. Students in san jose will be introduced to the world of robotics and ai. 10 million is going to support Robotics Clubs across the country with 450,000 going to Rec Foundation for california schools. It will offer robotics classes during the school day, plus advanced clubs after school for students to compete across the country. Theres mindsets that are adopted by these students at such a young age that they can or they cant do technology, or they can or they cant do math or they cant, or they cant do science well with robotics. They do it all and they dont even know it. School students got to start these new programs today at adelante two dual language academy. The goal is to build self confidence for them to end up in the field of stem one day and by the way, students in the Robotics Club on campus will use their skills to later compete in a National Competition next year. Our next abc seven building a better bay area breakthrough tonight also has to do with building our future generations where were really going to blend and integrate the best of the Academic Community as well as Government Laboratory like nasa. Nasa and uc berkeley announced the launch of the Berkeley Space Center. The new campus will be designed for research and advancements and will be located on the nasa ames campus in mountain view. Officials say the 2 billion project will bring the private, academic and governmental sectors together in one facility. Today is a very special day here at abc7, and for disney fans everywhere. For our parent company, disney is celebrating 100 years of stories. Magic and memories on this day in 1923, walt and his brother roy founded the Walt Disney Company and its grown into countless memories over the decades. Celebrations took place all across the globe today, including at tonights monday night Football Game in los angeles county. Heres reporter giovanna laura. The Walt Disney Company teamed up with sofi stadium to celebrate the november release of the upcoming movie from disney animation studios. Wish last night i made a wish on a star uh and the star answered. This is just an Incredible Opportunity to showcase everything that disney, the Los Angeles Chargers and sofi have to offer and how we create not just an opportunity to showcase their new film, but how we can showcase s the incredible experience here at sofi stadium and marry the two. This party is part of the disney 100 celebration marking the companys 100 Year Anniversary and while it may be the Walt Disney Companys birthday, the fans are receiving the gifts. Before the game. Fans had their wish granted getting incredible seat upgrades. Oh, my gosh. Seats and a bag full of goodies. Woohoo total swag for a wish. We won vip tickets from world thanks to wish. Were really excited and really super excited. And are you excited . Yes are you excited to see wish . Yes disneys wish lands in theaters on november 22nd. And that was giovanna reporting 100 years. Pretty cool. All right. Lets turn our attention now to the forecast. Its going to get pretty hot around here. It is. Abc seven news meteorologist andy patel has the scoop for us. Sandhya. Yeah. And dan and is going to feel like summer around here in our inland communities when we see those 90s midweek. Good evening all. Lets take a look at live doppler seven. A cold front came and went. You probably didnt even notice. There were a lot of clouds around today. Cer