City marina. This is happening at sims metal, which is on seaport boulevard. Its across the road from the salt marshes and near a google campus. We want to see if we can get you some live images right now from sky seven. There they are. Firefighters. Theyve been able to control the fire. We do have a crew on site there. Theyre working to get more details on how this fire started and what damage has been caused so far. Well bring it to you when we get it. Thanks so much for joining us. Im Julian Glover and im ama daetz. The other big story were following tonight, the city of oakland sale of their share of the oakland of the coliseum land. It is a deal thats worth 105 million. Abc seven News Reporter ryan curry has the details and explains how this might help the citys budget. Swinging for the fences on a project that could forever change the coliseum grounds, mayor shengtao announced the city will sell its share of the coliseum land. The buyer, the African American sports and entertainment group, this is a moment where east oakland is going to change. Founder ray bobbitt says his organization is ready to transform the land into something that can reshape not just east oakland, but the entire city. The coliseum site really represents an Incredible Opportunity to do to revitalize this Community Without displacing and without gentrification. At wednesdays announcement, students at Castlemont High School showed their renderings of what could come a. She says they could build new housing, Entertainment Centers and new sports arenas, plus 105 million is money the city needs while facing a tight budget. It is good timing, but i would say its not good timing. The sense they should have been happened decades ago, right . Were talking about a parcel in in a space where we have the highest amount of people who are on public assistance. This sale is the latest chapter surrounding the future of oakland sports after the baseball season. For the First Time Since the 1960s, no team will call the coliseum home. Its about the heart and mind and soul that sports fans of all generations have put into these teams in oakland, and thats being ripped away from their grasp. The oakland roots and oakland ballers have both explored playing at the coliseum. However, both these teams play in minor League Divisions much different than the three teams that used to play here. Chris dobbins, who used to sit on the coliseum board, now runs save oakland sports. He believes oakland should not just be a minor league town, but after having been having, you know, professional football, professional basketball, winning a number of championships in oakland, to going back to just having minor league teams. No. So how do you get an nfl team to move back to oakland or an nba team to play at the arena again . Dobbins says its not easy. It takes people with money. And, you know, lets i hope that the africanamerican Sports Entertainment group can make that happen. But with this deal, its possible the first steps towards achieving those goals are being taken in oakland. Ryan curry, abc seven news. The coliseum sale is seen as a potential financial bridge that could help oakland through a rough economic period. The city has an estimated 170 million deficit. Mayor shengtao is expected to deliver her midyear Budget Proposal to the city council this week. Cuts to Police Academies and partial closures of at least four fire stations are being considered to save the city money. The Oakland Metropolitan Chamber of commerce is calling for city leaders to prioritize Public Safety and attracting new business. A search of california Highway Patrol officers into the east bay has led to hundreds of arrests in stolen vehicles being recovered. Thats all, according to the Governors Office. Newsoms office says the chp has helped to recover more than 700 stolen cars and made more than 350 arrests since february. Thats when the state began tempoorary searches in alameda county. No word on how many people have been charged or convicted. The Governors Office says the arrests are linked to organized crime, carjackings and other major felonies. A High School Student was arrested in gilroy today for stabbing. Another student happened at christopher high school. Staff put the school on lockdown after a fight broke out between the students around lunchtime. We have some video that was sent to abc seven by one of the students. You can see the knife on the floor of the boys locker room where the fight started. Investigators say one student pulled out a knife and stabbed the other student. The victim was taken to a local hospital. The district is Offering Counseling for students. A Class Action Lawsuit over rampant Sexual Assault at a recently closed east bay federal womens prison will go to trial in june of next year. The lawsuit was filed by a group of formerly incarcerated women against the federal bureau of prisons. Attorneys discussed a possible settlement, but an offer had not been made. Eight former Correctional Officers have been charged and convicted of abusing those female prisoners. There are new developments in the case against a man who broke into Nancy Pelosis home and bludgeoned her husband, paul, with a hammer two years ago today, as jury selection continued for a state trial, San Franciscos District Attorney added two new felony charges against david depape, including threatening a Family Member of a public official. Depape has already been found guilty of federal charges and will be sentenced in the federal case next week. A coalition of california mayors is urging the governor and the legislature to maintain funding for a Homeless Housing grant program. Its known as hap , and the program provided 1 billion in the past year to pay for housing and shelter for people facing homelessness. The program has helped 42,000 people find long term housing in San Francisco. Hap helps fund the Navigation Centers and 950 of the citys shelter beds. Locally our street homelessness has reached a ten year low, but our family homelessness has increased and we need all of the resources we can to address these issues off the streets and into interim housing. San jose mayor matt mehan joined the call for continued funding. He says hap helped 2500 people find housing in san jose, and another 6700 avoid falling into homelessness. These two historic seafood restaurants at San Franciscos Fishermans Wharf have filed suit against the city for millions. The owners of the now closed fishermans grotto and tarantinos restaurant say they are owed millions by the city, and renovation and maintenance costs. Herringbone tavern also accuses San Francisco of failing to maintain the character of the wharf. The lawsuit says the citys covid 19 lockdowns and the homelessness crisis impacted business in the south bay. A big push today from Community Leaders and organizations rallying against an act that addresses how tax increases are approved. Opponents say it cuts funding to critical government services, but supporters say it gives taxpayer more power. Abc7 news south bay reporter zach fuentes has more. What are we saying . Vote no. A call to action by these Community Leaders and labor organizations. Theyre rallying against the Taxpayer Protection and Government Accountability act, which they also call the taxpayer deception act. It would raise the number of voters needed to approve state or local tax increases and redefine whats considered a fee or a tax. Opponents say wealthy, Real Estate Developers and landlords are behind the push to get it. On the november ballot. A city cannot fully fund its services if it is required to go out to the voters every time these fees increase. If the act passes any state or local taxes approved after january of 2022 would also have to be approved by voters to stay in place. That would put at risk the ability for local governments to really control their own, funding their own destinies and take a lot of the democracy away from the voters of each of the local cities and jurisdictions. Labor organizations like san jose Firefighters Local 230 say it would gut Critical Services and funds that support high call volume. If this were to pass, those funds are no longer. Not only are they not going to be available in the future, theyre going to be retroactively taken. But supporters of the act disagree. They cant point to one instance where eliminates or cuts a single tax. It does subject a handful of taxes less than ten that, passed by less than the constitutional requirement of two thirds vote would have to be resubmitted to the voters. Jon coupal, with the Howard Jarvis taxpayers association, says the Taxpayer Protection act is about accountability. It doesnt prohibit the imposition of any tax. It simply says youve got to involve the people who pay the tax. If you want to collect more money. Right now, the California Supreme Court is looking into whether or not the act violates the states constitution. If it finds the act does, it could be removed from the november ballot. For now, both supporters and opponents say theyll each continue to push their messaging in the south bay. Zach fuentes, abc seven news. Donald trump is coming to the bay area, according to a report from reuters. 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This year, wens mother is 94 years old. Shes been surviving with cancer for the past four years, thanks to a new 12. 45 million grant from the National Cancer institute. Ucsf will launch a new study this fall to figure out whats driving cancer in Asian Americans. It really has the potential to set the stage and provide the opportunity for us to really make leaps and bounds in terms of our discoveries of what causes cancer in Asian American populations. Doctor scarlet lin gomez with ucsf is one of the three principal investigators. She says a lot of people dont know that cancer is the number one cause of death among Asian Americans. There is this, preconception that cancer is not a problem among Asian American communities. Doctor gomez also says surprisingly, many Asian American women have lung cancer, and they do not smoke. There has been no study done to study this specifically in the us, so we dont know what the factors are. A majority of the patients that i do see, although typically lung cancer, Breast Cancer at northeast medical services in chinatown, doctor justin kwok, an oncologist, sees about 20 to 30 Asian American patients a day. About 40 of females that i see have cancer, that is lung cancer that is not associated with smoking. Its astronomical. Doctors dont know why thats happening. Speculation is that they are exposed to spouses that smoke, or maybe the way they cook their their foods using a wok. But thats all speculation. We really need hard evidence data to help us understand better how to prevent this cancer as well. Im really glad actually it got the attention and also the resources to do research. As for sarah, when she says the new grant money for the ucsf study will hopefully bring answers, and maybe that could answer my questions like why do my mom got lung cancer . Who was never a smoker at such an old age . And ucsf wants Asian Americans across the country to get on board with this study this fall, ucsf will begin enrolling 20,000 people from every Asian American group. They hope eventually to enroll as many as 50,000 participants live in the newsroom. Suzanne vaughn, abc seven news. Critically important work. Thank you so much, suzanne. Coming up, commute traffic. Its the daily annoyance that people all across the bay area try to avoid if you can. Well, now, a new study on commute times examines the worst and best commutes. Well show you a slow network is no network for business. Thats why more choose comcast business. And now, were introducing ultimate speed for business our fastest plans yet. Were up to 12 times faster than verizon, at t, and tmobile. And existing customers could even get up to triple the speeds. At no additional cost. Its ultimate speed for ultimate business. Dont miss out on our fastest speed plans yet switch to comcast business and get started for 49. 99 a month. Plus, ask how to get up to an 800 prepaid card. Call today to a spike in commuters, and three bay area cities are in the top 30 when it comes to whos worst, hayward was number 23, with the average person spending 245 hours commuting each year. Oakland was 28th, with an average of 241 hours on the road, and San Francisco was 29th with 240 hours. Thats about ten days each year. But there is some good news. Abc7 news south bay reporter Dustin Dorsey has that part of the story. When it comes to one of the biggest issues plaguing bay area residents, one topic seems to always come up the traffic in the commute. Its just stop and go. Traffic everywhere, accidents, people driving fast, people in a hurry, congested. Definitely congested. Stressful from the east bay to the south bay and up the peninsula to the north bay. It takes a while to get around people actually spend so much time stuck in traffic annually. It equates to ten days in cities like oakland and San Francisco. But would you believe some commute times are actually decreasing in the bay area . Whos saying its a decrease . Im really im really curious. That would be the Us Census BureauAmerican Community survey. While the nationwide average has increased by two minutes in the past decade, the bay area is showing progress. When you look at the top ten cities where commutes have decreased from 2012 to 2022, fremont is first in the nation, with drivers saving about 27 more hours per year over the last decade, which means youre saving about six minutes per workday. At number six. San francisco, which saw a 17 hour dip rounding out the top ten is sunnyvale, where drivers shaved off nearly 14 hours in that span. Residents we spoke with were slow to believe their time was actually being saved. I dont know if its gotten worse over the last year, but it definitely has not gone down. Not not even close. Metropolitan Transportation Commission spokesperson john goodwin, however, was not surpri