and vancouver are seeing. >> medetomidine adulterating the fentanyl drug supply. now, this is a very potent and dangerous animal tranquilizer. >> san francisco supervisor matt dorsey sent this letter to the city's health department and the medical examiner's office asking for the animal tranquilizer to be added to the hundreds of drugs tested every year, giving san francisco a chance to respond. >> i wanted to make sure that san francisco is ready for this, i know that in philadelphia, just in the last month, over the course of just 3 or 4 days, there were more than 600 people who were hospitalized from medetomidine because it was laced into the fentanyl drug supply. >> ucsf's doctor ciccarone has been studying drugs for decades. >> the concern is that because it's sedating that that could go, in the wrong direction. when you're already on a sedating opioid like fentanyl. and now you have two sedating drugs or sort of a double downer combination, we could call it uh. and that would raise the risk for overdose. >> we got a rare look inside the san francisco medical examiner's toxicology lab, where they test over 200 drugs per case. san francisco's chief forensic toxicologist said they're constantly detecting different types of drugs. >> in the last several years, we've noticed drugs such as xylazine, but also bromazepam, both designer drugs, or drugs that were previously used in other areas of our industry, such as veterinary drugs, also been found in decedents, of an accidental overdose. >> now they have a new drug to add. medetomidine. >> we periodically update our testing regime when feasible and that is certainly a substance that we would add to our list of testing regime. >> the medical examiner's office said there are 50 to 100 drugs synthesized every year. now they're having to add an animal tranquilizer to that list. luz pena, abc seven news gary. >> all right, luce, thanks very much. and as you heard lou say, more than 600 people died of fentanyl overdoses last year. that's 81% of the total 806 overdose deaths. california is one step closer to passing a first in the nation law aimed at stopping drug overdose deaths. now, a bill requiring narcan, an to be added to the first aid kits, has advanced to the state senate. narcan is a nasal spray that can reverse an opioid overdose. all california businesses are currently required to have a first aid kit in the break room, or some common area, so this bill would make narcan more widely accessible. and we want to make sure that, you know, if you or someone close to you is struggling with substance abuse issues, there is help. a lot of it we've put together a list of local resources at abc seven news.com/take action. >> we're learning new details about a deadly shooting in the south bay that killed one woman, injured a man and caused a standoff with police that laste for hours. it all started about 24 hours ago in san jose. it marks the city's third homicide in just a three day span. abc seven news reporter zach fuentes talked with police and has the latest on the investigation. >> a frightening memorial day for neighbors on this stretch of north 20th street in san jose, something we just don't ever see here. >> it's straight out of the movies. >> san jose police say they were called to the scene just after 6 p.m. monday. neighbors reported hearing several gunshots. edwin rodriguez thought it was fireworks. >> the holiday. you know, people were celebrating. so that's what we thought at first. until you know, we saw and heard the patrol cars coming through. then after that, we saw swat coming, helicopters, drones and all that. >> police say it didn't take long to make a preliminary assessment of the scene. >> upon arrival, officers discovered an adult female victim suffering from extensive physical trauma. they also identified a male suspect, an adult male suspect who retreated into the residence and self barricaded. >> they said. the suspect eventually surrendered after 2.5 hours and was arrested. police say that adult female was not the only victim. >> the adult female victim suffered from physical trauma and was pronounced deceased on scene. but during the investigation, we did discover that he did brandish a firearm and shoot an additional adult male victim who was there at the incident, and he was treated at a local hospital for minor injuries. >> investigators say they're still looking into the relationship between the suspect and the victims, but did confirm that they knew each other. >> we're still trying to go through the entire investigation to determine, you know, what occurred, in what order, that's again, part of the puzzle that we're trying to put together. we just know that was one lost life that we didn't need. >> this most recent homicide marks the city of san jose's 16th. that number trending higher than last year at this time when there were 11 in san jose. zach fuentes, abc seven news in the east bay, the pittsburg police department is facing a new lawsuit from a man shot by an officer during a mental health crisis. >> the shooting happened when ashton porter left his hotel room with a knife, but the lawsuit claims it never should have gotten to that point. abc seven news reporter ryan curry talked with porter and his family. >> a family's call for help ends in violence. >> they abandoned their training. they abandoned the trust that the community has placed in them, and instead employed escalation, deadly force and essentially terrorized the man and his family. >> a bay area man is suing the pittsburg police department and several officers for allegedly violating his civil rights during an encounter in 2022, ashton porter had locked himself in a hampton inn hotel room during a mental health crisis. >> i was going through a really tough time. >> porter's family asked the police to check in on him, but it turned into a standoff when he refused to leave the room on tuesday, his attorney shared police body camera video that shows the incident. at first, a county crisis response worker spoke with porter. >> does it sounds like you don't feel safe right now? >> i don't when that didn't work, pittsburg police officers stepped in. >> we're going to make sure that you come out and everything's safe and i can make you a lot more comfortable. but the longer you don't listen to me, the worse it's going to get for you. you understand? >> video shows officers using a battering ram to break down the hotel room door, then deploying pepper spray and tear gas to get porter to come out. when porter left the room holding a knife, he was shot multiple times. >> i called out for help. i explained to him that i really didn't understand what was going on at the time, and i just wanted time to get some sleep, try to clear my mind in whatever way i could. >> the contra costa district attorney's office charged porter with several counts of assaulting an officer and one count of trespassing and refusing to leave, but they say the court diverted him to mental health treatment. >> a mentally i've been going through therapy and so, yeah, it's just been a it's been a rough two years for all of us. >> we also reached out to the pittsburg police department, and we're waiting to hear back. ashton's family thought they were going to lose him. >> i felt like it was our fault that we called the police and we shouldn't have. i'm just grateful that he is here. i just wish that. who do we call on when the police is not doing the right thing? >> his family and attorney hopes this leads to a positive change with the police department in the east bay. ryan curry, abc seven news. >> the man convicted of assaulting the husband of speaker emerita nancy pelosi after breaking into the couple's san francisco home, was resentenced today in federal court to 30 years in prison. it's the same sentence david depape received two weeks ago at his original sentencing hearing, but he didn't get a chance to speak at that hearing, which is his legal right. neither the defense nor prosecution raised the issue today. the judge took the blame, depape apologized today, saying, quote, i'm sorry for what i did, especially what i did to paul pelosi. i should have just left the house when i realized nancy pelosi wasn't home. end quote. depape still faces state charges for the october 20th, 2022, attack. that trial is set to begin tomorrow. >> a doctor from the south bay is back home tonight after getting stuck in gaza. now, she knew the risks when she took on a volunteer medical mission to the war zone. when israel closed the rafah border weeks ago, she was trapped. abc seven news reporter anser hassan spoke to the doctor about her long journey home. >> this weekend's homecoming was bittersweet, says doctor haley sheikholeslami. at one point, she wasn't sure how she would get home. >> i'm glad to be home. i'm glad to be with family, but there's a lot of people i had left behind. they're not just patients, but also, you know, colleagues, coworkers who have not been able to evacuate yet. >> sheikholeslami is a physician at sutter health in san carlos. she went to gaza on a volunteer medical mission. it was her first time in a war zone treating up to 40 patients a day with limited medical supplies at the al-aqsa mosque in southern gaza, people living in tents, coming in with skin issues and chronic care that really needed to be addressed as well, you know, refilling their medications for blood pressure, diabetes. >> she was only supposed to be gone two weeks to rafah with more than 1 million palestinians have fled since the start of the war. >> but while she was there, the israeli military invaded and shut down the rafah border. she was stuck. >> things just got worse where medical ran out, there was no new medication coming in because the closure of the rafah border. so, it was kind of working with your hands tied behind your back. she says her team struggled for the next few days, limited where they could go with destruction all around, poor air quality and israeli military drones monitoring the area. >> but they decided to keep working. >> you never knew what could happen. you did hear bombs. they were at a distance. you know, you kind of became on a survival mode yourself. that al-aqsa hospital that i told you about. they ran out of fuel. >> her family and local muslim organizations worked with the us state department to get her home. her mission to rafah was to help, but now that she's home and reunited with her family, she isn't ruling out going back. but perhaps once the situation improves, mission is never accomplished. >> the mission is ongoing. i don't think mission is accomplished until the war is over. the cease fire there is end to the blockade that the aid can't get in. we do whatever we can in our part. we can't remain silent in the south bay. >> anser hassan abc seven news. >> goodness, she's home less than a month left in the quarter and academic workers are on strike. how university of california students at several campuses are coping with this. >> also ahead, i have the part of speech. can you say the word again? sacroiliac? can i please have the language of origin? i'm sorry. >> from the bay to the b, the national spelling bee. see how three local students are doing? i'm meteorologist sandhya patel. we're in a gusty pattern right now. >> i'll let you know how long it's going to last. and when summer-like heat shows up. when a super thin, flexible patch with maximum otc strength lidocaine that contours to the body to relieve pain right where it hurts. and did we mention, it really, really sticks? salonpas, it's good medicine. 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( ♪ ) mugs. ♪ bmo ♪ went on strike to protest the uk's response to pro-palestinian protests on campuses. reporter sid garcia, from our sister station in los angeles, shows you what it's like there. >> around 200 of ucla's academic workers went out on strike this morning, joining other ucs throughout the state. these are the grad students who teach, do research and support the faculty. they're represented by the united auto workers union. they're striking over how ucla and the other university of california campuses handled the recent protests. and dismantling of the pro-palestinian encampments. here's what they want. >> if there is no amnesty for the students and the student workers that we're peacefully protesting in our campus and because of that are not facing charges and all the way to eviction from the university. there is you know, that's just the bare minimum that we're asking for. >> with less than a month left in the quarter, the faculty have said they will support the striking academic workers. >> we will honor the strike. >> we will not cross the picket lines. we will not pick up any struck labor. we're here today to stand with our graduate students. >> students share with us how they feel about the strike interfering with their classes so close to the end of this quarter. >> i'm frustrated, but i mean, i have to kind of like go on with the class and i have to kind of like, you know, moving on, like, kind of like from all the kind of like problem and then, you know, just go that, go to the kind of like the finals and then kind of like, you know, do it as it should. >> a lot of the professors have been very accommodating or very kind of, friendly about it that they're a little more lenient on grades and they kind of recognize that it also has been a really hard quarter for a lot of people, because of, you know, all the protests and a bunch of other stuff. >> and a statement from ucla, it says, in part, that the focus is doing whatever they can to support the students. they're paying tuition and fees to learn. and we're dismayed by deliberate outside disruptions that get in the way of that. students want to hear their professors teach not piercing sounds of trumpets, drums and slogans being shouted right outside their classroom windows. the strike is authorized through the end of june. this is what the couple of weeks left in the quarter. reporting from ucla. i'm sid garcia, abc seven news. >> a tense fight over funding for california schools seems to be settled tonight. governor newsom and the state's largest teachers union reached a deal today to solve the budget beef, providing billions in future funding for schools. it comes just days after the california teachers association paid for a tv ad blasting more than $12 billion in proposed cuts. >> california classrooms face a monumental crisis tens of billions of dollars in cuts to public education over the next three years. >> the new deal reached today promises an extra five and a half dollars billion for schools in the future. the union told politico it plans to keep running the ads as it lobbies lawmakers, who will have to approve one part of the agreement. >> all right, three bay area middle school students are on the trip of a lifetime. they're competing this week in the scripps national spelling bee in maryland, with 242 other students. >> abc7 news reporter leslie brinkley caught up with their supporters today as they faced off in the preliminary round. >> sacroiliac s a c r c sacroiliac. that is correct. thank you. >> rashmirathi is a 14 year old eighth grader from basis independent silicon valley upper school who tied for third place last year and has returned this year with high hopes of winning it all. her classmates are buzzing with excitement. >> she's an excellent student overall, so, in all of her classes, she is also one of the kindest people, very humble student. despite all of her achievements, it requires a lot of work, a lot of sacrifice for these middle school students, and their parents to get this far. >> it's not just spelling, it's also a love of language and vocabulary. the three bay area students are competing this week all sponsored by the san ramon valley rotary club. >> they are well prepared and they went there this week. and they are they are going through the preliminaries today and tomorrow is, semi, quarterfinals and semifinals and finals is on thursday. so we are keenly watching be oh you i that is correct. >> amani sharon is an eighth grader at shibuya middle school in san jose. she sailed on into tomorrow's rounds, as did 12 year old aaron lee. a seventh grader from helios school in sunnyvale. >> i have the part of speech noun decoys d a c q decoys. that is correct. >> we are hoping that one of them will bring the, scripps championship to the bay area. hello doctor bailey, i'm leslie brinkly, abc7 news. >> good luck. fun to watch. >> absolutely awesome. all right, let's get to our weather. pretty nice a little bit windy. yeah. >> that's true. meteorologist cindy patel is here with the forecast as we hit midweek. sandy. >> yeah. and you know what. enjoy this comfortable weather that we have dan and ummah because it is going to get hot in our inland areas before you know it. so after tomorrow you're going to start to feel the heat right now the sea lions are putting on a show at pier 39. they are just packed in there. uh- nice for the visitors to see here in san francisco. blue skies. as you will notice, temperatures are running higher than where they were yesterday. for most areas by 14 degrees in santa rosa, up three, san francisco, oakland, six degrees warmer there in san jose. and we're going to continue with that trend over the next couple of days. but this evening, if you are stepping out at 7:00 inland, it's still in the mid 70s, dropping off to the 60s later tonight around the bay, bright skies 63 degrees and then eventually down to the 50s. and along the coast, we're looking at a few passing clouds, mid 50s, breezy certainly, and then cooling to the low 50s. the wind is definitely up. there is a system passing to our north and that has set the stage for some gusty winds this afternoon and evening. so right now they're 26 miles an hour at sfo, 28 at novato. it's an onshore breeze and that wind is going to continue tonight before it drops off tomorrow morning. and then picks back up again tomorrow afternoon and evening. right now sunshine on the golden gate bridge. it is 60 in the city, 62 in oakland. you're in the 70s from san jose to redwood city, but 57 in half moon bay from our east bay hills. camera we're looking at vollmer peak there, 83 degrees in santa rosa, mount diablo, excuse me, 83. right now in santa rosa from vollmer peak, we're looking at mount diablo 75, in napa, 82, vacaville, 71 in livermore, and exploratorium. camera showing you a lovely view right now of san francisco tomorrow you're going to see more of this sunny and warmer weather thursday and friday we have summer-like heat coming your way. weekend outlook. it is a cooler start to june, but still going to be very nice. so tonight patchy fog right along the coastline. it's going to really be limited tomorrow morning. starting off near parts of the coast in the bay. and then it's gone quickly before the lunch hour. so those temperatures will respond as a result. 40s and 50s out the door tomorrow morning. you may need that extra layer. and then later in the afternoon i think you could get away with short sleeve weather in the south bay. 79 in san jose, 80. in gilroy on the peninsula, mid 70s around redwood city, palo alto 59 and half moon bay, downtown san francisco 68 degrees. you're going to notice the warming in the north bay mid 80s around santa rosa, sonoma 80 in san rafael in the east bay 75 oakland 77 castro valley head inland and it's going to be warm. 88 in fairfield, 85 in concord. here's your accuweather seven day forec
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