Those words from the white house about a new initiative looking to combat Overdose Deaths across the country. The administration this morning commending one Bay Area Agency for its work on the crisis. Good morning to you. It is wednesday, march 13th. Yes. Were starting with a check of our forecast with drew. Good morning. Good morning. Are you ready . Here we go, sunshine. Bring it. Its here today and its here to stay outside. This morning, a live look from the exploratorium. Camera. We are quiet. We have partly cloudy skies up above right now, but we are in store for a Sunny Afternoon and this will begin a pretty long stretch of sunny weather and a warming trend getting underway out there right now in live doppler seven, there is no rain to speak of. We will be quiet through the rest of the week and through the upcoming weekend temperatures. Right now though, we are cooler than we were yesterday by about 5 or 10 degrees, depending on some spots 45 in santa rosa, 49 in the city, were at 48 in san jose. So heres a live look from sutro tower. Well have partly cloudy skies early on. Its a dry day today. Full sunshine this afternoon. Temperatures getting into the 60s, but the winds will pick up this evening and they do turn gusty tomorrow. Wind advisory starts later on today. Well talk about that. Kumasi coming up in about eight minutes. All right. Thank you drew. Now lets take a look at the emeryville camera this morning. You can see traffic moving along as a lot of commuters are trying to get into San Francisco. Traffic moving at the limit as you work your way to the bay bridge. New this morning, the Biden Administration is launching a new initiative called the white house challenge to save lives from overdose leaders, organizations and agencies and cities across the country are being asked to commit to increase training and deployment of the life saving drug narcan, one agency singled out by the administration, bart. Abc seven News ReporterGloria Rodriguez joins us live from orinda with more on this new plan. Hi, gloria. Good morning. Reggie. The Administration Says barr is already stepping up bar and some other transit systems across the country are training their officers to equip themselves with naloxone so they could help people over at the stations and also on the trains. And this comes as the city of San Francisco is reporting a spike in Overdose Deaths. New data shows 64 people died from accidental overdoses last month, mostly from fentanyl. Health Officials Say they are working every day to try to reduce the number of people dying, many on city streets nationally, according to the cdc, more than 100,000 people died from an overdose in 2023. The Administration Says it has delivered nearly 10 million naloxone kits, preventing more than 600,000 Overdose Deaths, with funding from the department of health and human services. And the administration also says that bart and other transit systems have administered more than 2000 doses of naloxone. Live in orinda Gloria Rodriguez, abc seven news. Thank you, gloria. This morning, the u. S. House is poised to pass a bill that could lead to a nationwide ban on tiktok. This bill would require the apps chinese parent company, bytedance, to cut ties with the app within six months, or risk being blocked here in the u. S, fbi director Christopher Wray testified before congress this week. He said the app poses a threat to National Security and warned tiktok could be used to spy on americans and possibly influence the election. The ability to conduct influence operations that is extraordinarily difficult. You cant tell to detect, and thats what makes it such a pernicious risk. You also have to shut down the website associated with the app to prevent its functionality. But the bill remains narrowly focused on social media apps tied to four adversary countries. Thats it. Opponents of this bill say it violates the First Amendment rights of millions of americans. The possible ban on tiktok could have an impact on Small Businesses here in the bay area. Business owners say they could go to another platform, but they say each platforms algorithm is different and tiktok reaches more new users or possible new customers compared with other apps. I think its really important that it helps us connect on a different level than we would normally be able to. My daughter surprised me with a tiktok post that went viral, and it really made our made our halloween season. We hired some more people. We bought a bunch of new product. This bill is expected to pass the chamber with bipartisan support. However, it faces an uncertain future in the senate. The house vote is set to start at 7 a. M. Of course, well bring you updates on the vote on our abc seven bay area app. You can download it and enable notifications to make sure you get alerts as soon as that vote happens. Developing news about boeings quality and safety concerns. The ntsb has announced it will hold a two day hearing in august about the Alaska Airlines jet that had the door plug blow out earlier this year. Were also learning the problems plaguing the airplane maker could force some airlines to reduce their flight schedules. Abc News Reporter nguyen explains the impact it could have on the industry. This morning, new details about this terrifying moment a door panel blew off an Alaska Airlines plane in midflight in january. The airline now confirms the boeing jet was scheduled to be taken out of service that very night for maintenance. The New York Times reports. Warning lights had previously alerted the crew to a possible pressurization problem, but the plane continued to be flown for ten days. Boeing and its supplier, spirit aerosystems, have reportedly failed dozens of faa audits since that door panel incident. The faa reportedly observed mechanics at spirit using a hotel keycard to check a door seal, and spirit mechanics applied don soap to a door seal as lubricant. Most of these problems go back to a failure to follow basic procedures, so this will be what boeing needs to do. Go back to basics blocking and tackling of making sure that the airplanes are built the way that theyre designed to be built. Boeings manufacturing woes are rippling across the industry. Southwest, which only flies boeing jets, now says it will stop hiring pilots and flight attendants and may have to reduce flight schedules because of delivery delays from boeing. United airlines also imposing a hiring freeze, and Alaska Airlines is warning of possible schedule changes. More than 2800 boeing jets are in service nationwide. A recent poll found only 18 of passengers have high confidence that the planes are properly maintained. In response to the concerns, boeing saying we are squarely focused on implementing changes to strengthen quality as difficult and as painful. These inspections are for boeing. They will help them get back to basics, to be able to begin to earn the trust of the faa and the flying public. And when abc news, washington. New lawyers for Scott Peterson say they are, quote, eager to get their investigation into claims he was wrongly convicted underway. Peterson appeared in a san mateo courtroom yesterday through zoom. He was convicted of killing his pregnant wife, laci, and their unborn son in 2002 and dumping her body in San Francisco bay. The los angeles Innocence Project took up his case recently, and has filed a brief on his behalf with numerous exhibits. The group claims evidence was withheld from petersons lawyers, as the defense was entitled to those at the time of trial. Mr. Peterson has been waiting 20 years to find some of these Police Reports and audio recordings and video recordings that should have been provided. The people have never been provided with an unredacted copy of those reports. We still do not know who these witnesses are. Theyre anonymous to us. Uh that was dave harris from the Stanislaus County da office. He asked the court to reveal the names of some witnesses whose names are blacked out. In recent filings. Nothing was decided during this hearing other than the judge setting additional dates. You can revisit the original Scott Peterson case and follow updates for the current case, all on abc seven news. Com. Your voice, your vote. Senator Bernie Sanders giving a San Francisco supervisor a national boost in a heated race. He now endorsed dean preston, who is hoping to get reelected for his district five seat. Sanders says preston is a part of a new generation of progressive leaders who have the courage to address wealth and income inequality. Preston is running against bilal mahmood, who has the support of a wellfunded Political Action committee. Californias primary election day was just over a week ago, and the only statewide measure on the ballot is still too close to call. Prop one would use billions and bonds to provide housing for the homeless and the mentally ill. Currently, yes votes are outpacing no. To 49. 8, and its a razor thin margin in the south bay congressional race. Sam liccardo is in the lead. Hell be one of the two candidates in novembers general election. But who will be the second . Joe simitian is ahead of evan low by just 162 votes. See this is why you needed to vote this year. His lead keeps shrinking. This is the race to replace retiring representative anna eshoo. Were keeping track of every local race from super tuesday. The results are up right now at abc seven news. Com. Were going to go outside a live look from our exploratorium camera. It is just a nice morning out there. We have partly cloudy conditions. Were done with the rain for the rest of the week. So what that means for your morning drive . No issues. Well keep those partly cloudy conditions throughout much of the morning. Temperatures. Were starting out in the 40s. Well get you into the 50s closer to lunchtime and then into the afternoon. Well lose the cloud cover for full sunshine, but a bit of a breeze is going to pick up. Heres live doppler seven, along with satellite. The story were tracking a High Pressure is building in you can clearly see that with the void of cloud cover over the pacific and what that means for us, we enter a dry pattern and well start to see some warmer weather move in here over the next couple of days. Heres future tracker temperatures getting you into midday. We have partly cloudy skies, temperatures in the upper 50s to around 60 degrees, and then in the afternoon its full sunshine and those numbers feeling quite pleasant going into the 60s across the board. So a high of 63 in the city, 65 in oakland, 67 in san jose, up to 68. In fairfield today, 66 in napa. But later on this evening and early tomorrow morning, the winds are really going to pick up a wind advisory will kick in at 5 p. M. For much of the region , those winds could gust as high as 50mph. So were going to go hour by hour in future weather. Show you those wind speeds for you coming up in about nine minutes. Drew. Thank you. A battle for the last of the landline era coming up the Bay Area Community is trying to keep at t from pulling the plug. Kanye west fans out in droves at chase center for a listening party. Were hearing from some of the fans who are there and news from the beehive. Were going to take a look at new merch and the new album name for beyonces upcoming release and a live look outside right now. It is a b youre not alone. Rent is up, and every family outing costs an arm and a leg. Well, we want to help. So when prices go up, we find new ways to go low. And now, weve lowered the price on hundreds of your favorite products. Designing something beautiful is easy. Designing something beautiful with great quality for a low price . Thats a different story. Its why were here. Thats a promise. Not a promo. sinnerman by nina simone get exclusive offers on select new volvo models. Contact your volvo retailer to learn more. Business. Contact your volvo its not a ninetofive proposition. Its all day and into the night. Its all the things that keep this world turning. The gotos that keep us going. The places we cheer. And check in. They all choose the advanced Network Solutions and round the clock partnership from comcast business. See why comcast business powers more Small Businesses than anyone else. Get started for 49. 99 a month plus ask how to get up to an 800 prepaid card. Dont wait call today. Bay is eroding because of storm damage. Now some residents are concerned its going to take too long to fix this is, of course, maria morada road, which is a key thoroughfare for residents and for businesses. San mateo county officials changed it to a one lane road because of safety concerns, but they havent given a timeline for repairs. The manager of the historic Miramar Beach restaurant says she wants customers to get to the restaurant without being confused or just making it. A one lane road is not a solution. You would hope to see them doing work now. Now its just like they put a bandaid on it and theyre theyre gone now. The department of public works will be holding a neighborhood meeting about the road in two weeks. Supervisor ray mueller says the county will figure out how to stabilize the road. Several bay area counties are fighting to keep landline service. They say at t is trying to pull the plug, claiming its too expensive to maintain for so few customers. Napa countys board of supervisors took up the issue yesterday. They plan on sending a letter opposing at t s request. Marin and sonoma counties have also sent in letters. San mateo county supervisors call it, quote, Life Saving Technology that the county cant afford to lose. Heres abc seven News Reporter lena howland. Those living in rural areas of San Mateo County are no stranger to Power Outages. A frequent Power Outages means that we have use of our landline only a lifeline that could be going away if the California PublicUtilities Commission approves at t s proposals to relieve them of the obligation to maintain landline service. On monday, we introduced you to the vail family of woodside. They also rely on their landline during Power Outages, so last year we had an eight day outage. There are seven days we would not have any kind of communication for police, fire or ambulance concerns that were amplified at the San Mateo County board of supervisors meeting tuesday. And we do have a landline. And if it wasnt for that, i would not feel safe, on the coast at all. I see it as a threat to the Public Health and Public Health of safety. Who for residents who live in our rural areas and our semi rural areas. At t gave a presentation to quell concerns. Were not allowed just to turn off a customer and walk away explaining that 27 years ago, 15 million californians depended on landlines. Now that number is closer to 500,000. The application seeks to be able to have that relief. If we are able to prove that there is an alternative that is as good, equal to or better than the landline, that somebody has in their phone today, they say the goal is to transition to more advanced new services. A landline, while its, you know, feels like its great and secure. Its actually not. I mean, you cant leave your house when your house is burning down with it. Its not perfect. Meanwhile, county supervisors directed counsel to bring a resolution forward to formally oppose at t application to make sure rural residents dont get left behind. We absolutely know there will be, and were fighting for them every day on this. The California PublicUtilities Commission will be holding a public hearing about this issue on march 19th in redwood city. Lena howland abc seven news. Controversial rapper kanye west had a listening Party Last Night at chase center. Hes promoting a new album. He collaborated with fellow rapper Ty Dolla Sign called vultures one, and is Holding Similar events around the country now. He did show up last night like he has at some of his other parties. He was wearing a mask on stage. It wasnt an official concert, but that didnt matter to the people who were there. Any opportunity to see anyone performing . Any, you know, any of their artistry or whatever itd be called . Its pretty cool. Im just here to see. Im just here for the music. To be honest, im not really tripping. If hes performing. I mean, ive seen the, the videos. Hes going to be there, like just Walking Around without a mic. But im just happy to be here, to be honest. West lost numerous partnerships and sponsorships, including a mega deal with adidas after a series of antisemitic statements he made in 2022, he issued an apology in december of 2023 on instagram. Cowboy carter that is the name of beyonces new album that drops march 29th. She unveiled the name online along with new merchandise, limited edition cds, vinyl and t shirts. The t shirts include a white ringer t with a picture of beyonce and co