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You hit . Julius, hit. Get a car up here now that deputy suffered a shrapnel wound to her hand. Santa rosa police are investigating the shooting. They say the suspect was armed with this ak 47 style rifle. The suspect shot more than 50 times using an ak 47 style rifle at the deputies. Several deputies were injured from ricochets or from shrap metal associated with that gunfire as well. Wheres he at . Following a chase, police say the suspect appeared to crash his car into a deputys vehicle and through a fence while other deputies were responding. One of them accidentally runs over their fellow deputies Nicholas Dalia suffered severe head injuries and burns. He was rescued from underneath that sheriffs car. Dalia remains in the hospital. This fundraiser page from a Peace Officers Association is collecting donations. Police say cervantes likely died from injuries in that car crash. The investigation continues. Historically, we know that anyone who is willing to fire upon deputies or Police Officers is willing to fire and shoot and kill anyone in santa rosa. Cornell, bernard abc seven news. The man convicted in the murder of a guard at the federal courthouse in oakland will spend the rest of his life in prison. A judge handed down the life sentence to robert Alvin Justice today at the same building where the killing happened back in may 2020, codefendant Steven Carrillo is accused of pulling the trigger. Justice was driving the car. Carrillo is serving a life sentence for the murder of Santa Cruz County deputy. One week after the guard was killed, we have more breaking news about yet another problem with a United Airlines plane that was made by boeing. This one happened on a plane that left San Francisco this morning when it landed safely and early in medford, oregon. Crews noticed an external panel was missing and united doesnt even know when the panel fell off. The pilots say they didnt even know anything was wrong. Its been a really rough few weeks for boeing and united. Just last week, a wheel fell off of one united plane at sfo, another heading to sfo had to turn around for landing gear problems and another over texas had an engine fire in the east bay. Organizers of the campaign to recall Alameda County District Attorney pamela price, say they have submitted 50,000 signatures. More than needed to have a special election, but it may take time to verify those signatures. Abc7 News Reporter anser hassan has a look at why the recall signatures have been submitted, but now there will be an extra step needed to verify them. We welcome the decision made by the registrar of voters, uh, because they can ensure the integrity of the, you know, of this process, but also help us to, you know, to eliminate the potential, legal challenges, as carl chan is with safe save alameda for everyone there leading the recall campaign against Alameda County District Attorney pamela price saying she is soft on crime, safe tells us theyve submitted 123,000 signatures, 50,000 more than the roughly 73,000 needed. But on thursday, the Alameda County registrar of voters put out a statement saying the results of the random sampling are not sufficient to determine whether the signature threshold to call for a recall election has been met, as required by state law. The registrar of voters will now begin a manual count of the verified signatures submitted. Brenda grisham, also at safe, believes they did submit a very High Percentage of valid signatures or it wouldnt have even qualified for a manual count. Its still a plus for us, because if we didnt have at least 90, it would have not have passed at all. We wouldnt even got to this step. And with all of the things that have been going on, this is a good thing. The attempt to overturn the election of the first black District Attorney in the history of Alameda County has failed its first critical benchmark. Lance wilson is with the coalition known as protect the win. They support da price. They call this an unprecedented development, but it has been shown by the registrar that this is not a cakewalk and something had to go wrong for them to say they want to manually count them safe, says the registrar. Voters has up to four weeks to verify the signatures. If verified, it would go to the county board of supervisors to set a special election date. Safe wants a special election before june. Time is of the essence. Protect the wind suggests a special election could cost taxpayers upwards of 10 million in oakland, anser hassan, abc seven news. Also in the east bay, crews still working on a fire that has been burning for hours in san lorenzo. This is at a wood pallet yard on worthley drive. Trucks have been on the scene since around 1130 this morning. Theyre still there putting out the hot spots. Alameda county fire says some equipment belonging to a Mulch Company was damaged, but no threat to nearby homes. Right now, new details about the ongoing battle over Street Vendors in San Franciscos mission district. Theres some new data out from San Franciscos Public Works Department showing a drop in street cleaning requests. Since the street vending ban went into effect. Abc7 News Reporter luz pena is here now with the latest luz. Thats right. Sidewalks on Mission Street are definitely clean now. San francisco Public Works Department is attributing this to the 90 day street vending ban that went into effect three months ago, and recently the city extended the ban for six more months. Their data shows its working. Its been over three months since street vending was banned on Mission Street, and the first report on cleanliness is out. Were seeing that the overall request for street cleaning that comes through the 311 Customer Service center is down about 21 overall in the mission district. We saw it. Sidewalks are clean, and public works inspectors, along with San Francisco Police Officers, are patrolling the a week until 8 p. M. On weekdays. The city is saying their efforts are also leading to more than just clean sidewalks. Weve also seen fewer police calls that are coming through for burglaries and assaults. The city implemented this ban to tackle vendors selling stolen items on sidewalks. We ran into a vendor that goes by the name shark. He was carrying several pounds of stolen meat, selling it on foot to avoid it getting confiscated. So do you do this often . I probably do it like ten times a day. I have to do that to feed myself. You dont want to be doing this . No, no. I just got fired from my job, though. That was the only thing i had. And i was only making 600 a month. He showed us inside his backpack. What do you have in here . Beef tongue. Its one of these will feed a family for a week, a month. So how much was this meat inside the store . 150. Susanna rojas is the executive director of venti quattro. Her group represents Street Vendors. She agrees streets are cleaner now, but hes asking the city to think about the vendors who are selling merchandise that was never stolen and have permits. There has been a lot of narrative out there to promote a permanent ban for our vendors, not only in the mission, but all over the San Francisco, and we stand against it. The vendors have never been the issue. One of those vendors following the rules is manuel soltero. He is inside the location on 21st and 37 Mission Street, set up by the city for them. Hows business here . Very bad. Manuel is glad. Streets are clean, but said they never contributed to the mess. He wants the city to let them sell outside while the inspectors are out. I think why they are not doing like this . We sell and thats the space they are. Stay eight hours. Why not say eight hours . And we sell over there. We had. We had a permit. Legal permit. But this ban is not perfect. After inspectors leave around 8 p. M, residents report seeing vendors selling what they think are stolen items on the sidewalks. Again, something Public Works Department is aware of, and said they will continue to gather more data before extending or changing their schedule. Luz pena abc seven news luis, thank you. Some changes could be coming to exactly how you drive and maneuver in San Francisco a week from today, the public will be asked to weigh in on a proposal to add no turn on red signs in parts of the city. N restrictions would be implemented in the downtown area, including streets uh, located on the north and south part of the Market Street that you can see there highlighted. Abc seven News Reporter Lyanne Melendez is here now to explain the reasons for the expansion. Im already nervous about this. Those are a lot of streets there, right . So this is coming directly from sfmta. Four of the 18 pedestrians who were killed last year in 2023 were hit when a driver was making a right turn on green. So they know thats a problem, but is restricting drivers from turning on red the solution . So far, it hasnt been since 2021. San franciscos tenderloin district has had more than 50 intersections with no turn on red restrictions. One year after it was implemented, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency found that 92 of drivers were complying with the law. So the city thought, why not apply those restrictions in other neighborhoods . San francisco is not anticar ricardo julia is with sfmta. Heres what he told us two months ago on their expansion plans. We are in the process of expanding prohibitions on turns on red into pedestrian heavy areas such as Downtown Union square, and that that project will start this year. That plan has already started, and now theyre considering expanding the no turn on red restrictions even further to include 200 more intersections north and south of Market Street, pending public hearings next week. How about the rest of the city . We will see citywide, like new york city. Are we going to be new york city . No. The plan at this point is not to make San Francisco be like new york city. Were not at the point at which we say that every single intersection in San Francisco should have a no turn on red. We want to have people understand. And when theyre going to the tenderloin or downtown or a heavy commercial area. Oh, the reason that this sign is there is because of pedestrian safety. Traffic safety has been a huge challenge for San Francisco. Ten years ago, the city vowed to get to zero traffic deaths by 2024. And here we are. And so far this year, there have been seven traffic deaths, the last one on march 2nd, a pedestrian killed by a hit and run driver in the tenderloin. Even though the speed limit there has now been reduced to 20 miles an hour and turns on red lights are not allowed. Still, we caught a driver trying to make a left turn on red while i was crossing the street, and while we were doing that interview in january, we caught a series of violations and that person made a that person made a right turn on red. Do you see that . Yes yes. If theres no enforcement, you can change all the rules you want to and no one will take them seriously. So we do need Traffic Enforcement and we need Traffic Enforcement of speeding, running red lights. We cruised around the tenderloin to see if police were actively stopping drivers for traffic violations. Instead, what we found were Police Searching a car for possible firearms. They have other challenges. Theyre dealing with violent crime, and were dealing with fentanyl sales. And theres a lot of challenges, challenges in the tenderloin. But the officers do a great job on Traffic Enforcement to the extent that they can. How many citations have been written . Yeah, i dont have the exact number. But what i do know is that were also very grateful for the Highway Patrol that have been really good partners with us for the last year. Theyve written a lot of citations as well, beginning last year, the california Highway Patrol agreed to assist sfpd by enforcing all traffic violations in the tenderloin and surrounding areas. And next year, the city will install 33 speeding cameras throughout the city in an effort to minimize the number of traffic deaths. So again, thats one of several tools to get to zero deaths. Now, other cities are having this problem as well. Last year, pedestrian deaths reached a 40 year high across the country. And now places like chicago, l. A, denver, seattle and San Francisco are considering banning this practice of, you know, making a right hand turn with the autobahn as people walking across the street looking at their phone like this, because thats a big problem. Or have more enforcement of the rules we already have. Yeah. And being from new york city, were born knowing that you cant make a right hand turn right, right. You have that sense. Thanks, liane. A large section of interstate 680 will be shut down for this weekend. The closure begins at 9 00 tonight. And thats when caltrans will close the southbound lanes of 680 for repaving the closure runs from the 580 junction down to koopman road. Thats about nine miles of roadway. Caltrans expects the work to be complete before the monday morning commute. Coming up on abc seven news at four, a Bay Area Community taking on the epidemic of loneliness. Will he or wont he . What we know about steph curry is that ankle. Good to go in tomorrow nights primetime game against the lakers right here on abc seven. And it is tax chat time. Were answering your tax questions all night long. Im meteorologist sandhya patel. Gusty offshore winds bringing the warmth today ill let you know if steph curry is expected to play against the lakers tomorrow night. Curry missed the last three games with an ankle injury. Did practice with the team in l. A. This morning, coach steve kerr says whether curry plays or not will likely be a game time decision, but the expectation is that he will be good to go. So we may see curry against lebron here on abc seven. Curry coverage begins at 5 00. Tip off at 530. Warriors and lakers the nba on abc seven followed by toyota after the game. This is also official here. Now the Oakland Roots Soccer Team will play at the Oakland Coliseum next year. This morning, the executive board that oversees the stadium approved a license agreement that lets both the oakland roots and soul soccer teams play their 2025 2026 home games in the coliseum. The oakland as lease at the coliseum ends this year, but the team is negotiating an extension while they try to finalize their move to las vegas. We are one month away from the tax deadline, and if you still have questions, we can help. Abc seven news anchor dan ashley live with our annual seven on your side tax. Chad. Hey, dan. Hey, larry. Kristen, weve been doing this for years, and i know a lot of people instinctively dont like to think about taxes or talk about taxes. The deadline gets them stressed out, but theres really not any reason for that. If you have some guidance and some help, theres nothing to be afraid of. Were here in the seven on your side production offices, where we have several experts assembled here to answer tax questions. And theyve been taking questions all afternoon, and they will all evening. Ill tell you how to get your question answered in a moment. But first i want to introduce you to larry pond. Larry. Stand up, if you would. Larry pond is a cpa with cal cpa. Larry, thanks for doing this. Very kind of you. Thank you. You know, i want to talk a little bit about whats happened this past year. Really, congress didnt get a whole lot accomplished. So there are no major changes to the tax code this year, correct . No changes to the tax law for 2023. But thats coming changing. However, theres a pending bill in congress right now. The house has passed a bill waiting for the senate. There are some retroactive changes. Okay. Whats you know what the biggest changes will be . What things need to people need to be aware of. Part of it is the refundability of the child tax credit. And for businesses, some some business provisions that are actually retroactive to 2022. Oh, interesting. Okay. Question quickly about electric vehicles. A lot of people in california, certainly the bay area, have electric vehicles more getting them all the time in terms of taxes. What do people need to know . Well, what they need to know is make sure that they can qualify the car qualifies for the credit, and the credit is up to 7,500. Go to fueleconomy. Gov to get the list of the most recent list of vehicles that qualify fueleconomy. Gov. Larry, thanks very much, larry pond. Hes answering questions as so many of these experts are. All you have to do is go to our website, abc seven news. Com 7 on your side. Youll see a form right there that you can fill out right now. And these folks are standing by to answer your tax questions. We have a month to go until the tax deadline. Theres still time, but no time to waste. So take care of that. W