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Return next month. Good morning to you. It is monday, september 25th. Yes. Were going to check in now with drew, who is back in the building. Hey, good morning, friends. We have some light rain to talk about later on today in parts of the region. Heres live. Doppler seven, the bigger picture. You can see that moisture is approaching eureka. This morning, its a cold front that will move through here. It has brought us good air quality this morning. That continues the next couple of days. Heres how it plans out later on throughout the day. Its a mix of sun and clouds. During the Daylight Hours. Were dry through 4 p. M. Its after the sun goes down past 7 p. M. Well track those showers in the north bay. Thats the best area to see any moisture. The next 24 hours, well go hour by hour on future weather. Time out. This cold front for you coming up in about six minutes. Lets check in with jobina and see how traffics doing this morning. Thank you, drew. Good morning, everyone. So we have a big mess right now on westbound 24, especially for people that are going to be traveling through the caldecott tunnel. So we have a sig alert for two separate issues, a crash at westbound 24 right at 13 and also due to a multicar crash that is blocking all of boer three inside the caldecott tunnel. You can see the backup extends past four miles. Now your speeds are averaging around 14mph. As you approach it. We have a second crash right now, southbound 684 on drady road speeds down to ten Miles Per Hour there. And the slowdowns for our super commuters are not nearly as bad. Tracy to dublin around 47 minutes. Antioch to concord along highway 422. Kumasi, thanks, jobina. New developments this morning after nearly five months, a tentative agreement has been reached to potentially end the Writers Strike in hollywood. Abc seven News Reporter lena howland live in los gatos with more on how tv shows and movies are going to be impacted by this. Lena well, 146 days in and the Writers Guild says they have reached a deal with studios to end this historic strike. And this impacts writers not just in la and around the country, but right here in los gatos, too. As its home to netflix headquarters. Now, while the terms of this deal were not immediately announced, we do know the three Year Contract still needs to be legally finalized before a vote by Writers Guild leadership expected as early as tomorrow. Once approved, the contract will be sent to Union Members for a ratification vote. The wga reportedly made progress on some of the most contentious issues, including viewership, residual payments for writers and minimum staffing guarantees on shows. Once the deal is ratified. Late night and daytime talk shows could return within days, but it will still take weeks to write scripts for narrative shows and even longer for those shows to enter production. My phone is blowing up with joy, joy, people thanking each other, people that are so excited that theyre going out right now. But before any of your favorite shows return and the actors represented by sag after a need to agree on a contract before they get back in front of the camera right after the tentative announcement was made. Sagaftra currently in the middle of its own strike, put out its own statement, saying in part, while we look forward to reviewing the wga and am. P tpz tentative agreement, we remain committed to achieving the necessary terms for our members. Now, although the wga has suspended picketing writers are not returning to work until authorized by the guild live in los gatos, lena howland, abc seven news. Lena, thank you. And the east bay 200 businesses in oakland will be taking matters into their own hands tomorrow. Theyre going on strike, shutting down their stores for all or part of the day to protest retail crime. According to our abc seven news data, team, burglaries are up 44 in the last 12 months, compared to the annual average over the last three years. Robberies are up 26 during that same time frame. Local store owners tell us, though, safety and Financial Fears have made it very difficult to do business in oakland, even if the crime is not hitting my store, hitting other businesses is bad. You know, oakland is beautiful. We have to keep it safe. You know, police have to do something. The mayor have to do something. The latest notable case excuse me, notable case of violence was friday night. A man from berkeley was shot and killed right by lake temescal. Mayor shengtao says its going to take time for her Crime Fighting strategy to stick as your mayor, i know for sure what were doing and were doing everything that we can to protect our businesses and our residents. And so, again, all of this implementation, it is slowly ramping up. As for the business strikes, she tells local merchants she hears their concerns. Murtaugh recently announced oakland is adding 300 security cameras citywide this fall and doubling the number of Police Foot Patrols in the Main Business corridors. Developing news in washington, d. C. It is a critical week on capitol hill as fears grow about a possible Government Shutdown. Lawmakers have until this weekend to reach a deal. Jobina has more on the impact. A shutdown could have, including right here in the bay area. Jobina. Thank you, koumassi the Us Government has six days to pass a spending bill. Congress remains at a standstill right now. House speaker Kevin Mccarthy says he has a short term plan to fund the government through october. Essential workers would not be impacted, but other jobs would be furloughed until the shutdown ends. Some gop house leaders are against funding any Government Agencies without massive spending cuts. This means possible holdups for tsa at airports, disaster funding would be at risk and military troops and Law Enforcement agencies will be forced to work without pay. President biden is hoping to avoid a potential crisis funding the government is one of the most basic responsibilities of congress, and its time for republicans to start doing the job. America elected them to do. If there is a shutdown, it will be right into fleet week, which is scheduled to start on october 2nd here in San Francisco. The association tells abc7 news they have nothing to report yet, but they will let us know if there are any changes. There will be. This will be the largest Government Shutdown in us history if House Republicans dont budge on any sort of deal. Reggie jobina, thank you. Yeah, another one of San Franciscos long time businesses is closing as more vacancies impact the city barbacoa will be shutting its doors after 14 years. Owners say its just unsustainable because theres not enough people to serve in the financial district. Many Business Owners are attributing it to the loss of an Office Workers data from commercial real estate shows the Office Vacancy rate in San Francisco was at 31. 6 in july. Thats compared to a 4 vacancy rate in the city prior to the pandemic. San francisco downtown has the lowest Office Occupancy at the moment than any other city in the united states. Employers have to maybe put their foot down and say, hey, you have to come to work. City leaders say businesses have improved, improved since the pandemic, but theres still work to be done. New at six, one of San Franciscos biggest developments is finally set to break ground. According to the chronicle, construction on the bay lands project is set to start next year. It is 660 acres on San Franciscos brisbane border. The redeveloped plant will include nearly 4000 homes, commercial space and parks. The pandemic brought the project to a halt, but now it looks like its moving forward. In just days, the republican president ial debate will be on why the chair of the rnc is calling on donald trump to attend, ushering in a new headliner. Usher is set to perform at the super bowl halftime show. Thats obviously not him. But just picture him what the legendary artist is saying about this milestone in his career 0608 this morning, we are timing out that chance for some rain. Its after sunset tonight. Heres 730 some light showers in the north bay continuing close to midnight. A little bit of drizzle early tomorrow morning. Then this system is out of here. By the time the sun gets up here on tuesday, well talk about how much rain we co we handcraft every batch of our delicious popcorn. Like our cretors cheese and caramel mix. Great on their own, even better together. Try cretors, handcrafted smallbatch popcorn. Are still hard at work to prevent fires from spreading. Were still doing fuel modification work. Were not resting on our laurels at all. Those fires can start and with the winds that we get in the north bay, can escalate very quickly. And add. We want to avoid that. If we can. So we need our community. Your viewership to maintain that vigilance until we really get into some really wedding rain, wildfire fires in Southern Oregon and far Northern California have led to poor air quality here in the bay area. The past week. So they are reminding this threat still exists. For more information on fireproof living, your home and your property, you can head to ready for wildfire. Org. And kumasi we are getting improving air quality today. We have some rain in the forecast but you can clearly see this storm system on live doppler seven along with satellite. That comma shape showing you significant rain falling in portland and seattle this morning. A tighter view into Northern California. This rain is just approaching the coastline where eureka will get some good rain out of this. We will see some light showers, mainly in the north bay the next 24 hours. Thats the best chance of finding moisture there. Could see along the coast and in the north bay. Well likely find that rainfall less than about a 10th of an inch as we head into the south bay in the inland east bay will likely find little to no rainfall. Thats pretty typical for an early season system like this. It doesnt pack too much of a punch and mainly the north bay is the best chance for seeing rainfall in the next 24 hours. But it will kick up our surf along the entire coastline. Right now, waves 3 to 7ft high. But tonight into tomorrow evening, those waves will increase for 10 to 16 foot breakers. Thats dangerous swimming and surfing conditions as we head into tuesday. Carmassi. Thank you. 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Planning to close hundreds of his stores as a part of a bankruptcy plan. The pharmacy chain faces more than 3 billion in debt, according to the wall street journal. Rite aid is considering shutting down up to 500 stores to sell or let creditors take over operations. Nyans bankruptcy plan includes liquidating 2100 of its locations. Currently, the company has more than 2300 stores in 17 states. More than 500 dialysis caregivers are launching a two day strike starting today. The strike will be held at nearly two dozen clinics across california. Here you can see where the strikes are being held today and tomorrow in gilroy, san jose and brentwood. Theyre happening at fresno and Satellite Health care facilities. Caregivers say they are striking over unfair labor practices. Neither company has commented on this strike. The crowd and the internet are going crazy over what happened during the Kansas City Chiefs game yesterday. Taylor swift made a return to Arrowhead Stadium since her eras tour to support chiefs tight end travis kelce, who is her rumored boyfriend. Now, do they put this up here . Well he scored a touchdown. And you can see taylor is in the suite having a time next to his mother. Mm hm. Chiefs went on to win pretty big over the bears and taylor swift and travis kelce. They left the game together. Okay. This feels very Elementary School and then. And then. And then i saw him with. He passed a note to her. The Miami Dolphins decimated the Denver Broncos and challenged the all time nfl record in one of the most lopsided games in the leagues history. The final score was 70 to 20. Stop the game. Uh huh. 70 is the third most points ever scored in nfl history. At the end of the game, miami chose to run out the clock rather than break the leagues all time record of 72 points. Dolphins head coach Mike Mcdaniel explained why the Team Stopped Short of making history by chasing a record. And thats not what we came to the game to do. The message that it i thought it would send wasnt really in line with how i view things. Miami is now three and zero with its impressive winning streak, while the broncos fall to the opposite at zero and three. Dont forget you can watch monday night football tonight on abc seven. The Philadelphia Eagles are taking on the tampa bay buccaneers. The coverage starts at 4 p. M. Followed by after the game. 18 games are going to be airing this season on abc. And you can watch the niners play right here on christmas day. Well, the next super bowl halftime headliner has been announced and the legendary singer might have you sing. Oh, my gosh. Oh oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, my god. Usher is taking the stage at allegiant stadium in las vegas for the 2024 super bowl halftime show. The eight time grammy winner has held a residency at park mgm since 2019. Usher says its the honor of a lifetime to finally check a super bowl performance off his bucket list. Super bowl 58 is set for sunday, february 11th. Now what song is he going to start with . Ooh, yeah. Do you think its going to be. Yeah with that triangle. Ding, ding, ding. Thats all i remember that song. I dont know. He has such a big catalog, but he is very r b. Yeah. So it would make sense to start out with, like, a pop, you know, mainstream. Everyone knows. Bring them in. Mhm. I just want him to do like you got a bad. You owe me my boo. Bring out alicia keys that album confessions you could just do start to finish confessions. So many songs. Yeah you make me want to go throw it back old school. Yeah, itll be good. Good choice. Yes, thats a great choice. Dj got me falling in love again. I like that people love that song. I really do like that song. Yeah and beyonce. Its a hype song. Love loving the club. Oh, now, that would probably not happen. Come on. Thats like, real high on the bucket list. A real high. Not happy, but that would be great. The more i think about it, if i were usher, i would have no guess. I was thinking. No guess to just have his moment. Just. Just like how rihanna did it last year. Its just me. Im enough. He really is enough. Yeah, really is. What i know theres going to be a skating rink. Yes, theres going to be a skating rink. Yes, it has to be. Remember the last skating rink debacle . Who with who . Oh, we dont need to go back into that. We should, though, over at coachella. Oh. Oh, oh, yeah. Ouch. Yeah, that seems like a lifetime of hurt feelings. Oh, that skating rink did not work out, but hopefully this one will. Wow. Yeah yeah. All right. Outside this morning, here is sutro tower. Heres a look at the accuweather headlines for the day today. Its a mix of sun and clouds. Temperatures are really seasonal. Well go into the 70s, then tonight after the sun goes down, well track some showers, mainly in the north bay into the Early Morning hours of tuesday. But for the rest of the seven day forecast, were looking at sunshine in mild autumn days through the upcoming weekend. Heres live doppler seven along with satellite. It is active as we track a cold front approaching the coastline of Northern California. Eureka. Well see substantial rain out of this system. But as the front moves into our neck of the woods, it loses a lot of its moisture. But still, we will find a light shower here and there in the north bay mainly. Heres future weather, 1 p. M. Today. Its just a mix of sun and clouds. We are dry through the Daylight Hours and then by 730 were back on air for abc seven news later on this afternoon and into the evening, well track that moisture coming into ukiah, cloverdale approaching santa rosa by 930 and then we could see some light drizzle early in the morning on tuesday. But its out of here. By the time the sun gets up here Tuesday Morning and the rest of tuesday, youre looking at a lot of sunshine and really nice conditions. So today its a mix of sun and clouds. Before we track that rain arriving later on this evening. Temperatures going into the 70s. Heres the accuweather seven day forecast next seven days for you chance of those showers in the north bay later on tonight then its a nice fine looking forecast when it comes to autumn through the upcoming weekend. Mild to warm conditions. Jobina. Thank you, drew. Good morning, everybody. So the good news is that both sig alerts that we were following on westbound 24 have cleared. You are going to face major residual delays in this area. So you can see the speeds around 37mph. The backup extends more than four miles. Well past orinda at the moment. It is in the process of clearing the second crash in sunol southbound 684 andreotti road. But we do have a new one southbound 880 past industrial parkway in hayward. Its been very messy in terms of the commute in the east bay this morning well end here with a live look at the bay bridge toll plaza. The good news is no backup here. Even though metering lights flipped on at 541. Reggie oh, thanks so much. Now were going to turn to ginger zee with a look at whats happening on Good Morning America this morning. Hi, ginger. Hey reggie. Coomassie nice to be with everybody. So coming up here on gma, well start with the story. I know youve been covering that breaking news with the tentative agreement being reached by the hollywood Writers Strike. So were going to tell you what that all means for the actors who are still on the picket lines. And then well also look at the autoworkers strike. Also, an abc news exclusive with the man at the center of that violent brawl. We all saw that video so much in the alabama riverfront last month. Well, he is telling his story for the first time, along with the coworkers who jumped in to help him. Plus Kerry Washington is here live talking about her powerful new memoir and that special with robin last night. Were also swimming with the sharks all week and not the kind where i go in the water. But no, Robert Herjavec is here helping answer some questions about debt. And then, you know, weve got gio and that show me the money this time in texas helping everybody find some unclaimed cash. The money van is back. Yep, its back. We like that. Send it here. Send it to San Francisco. Not to compete with. Good morning. Every way to pay down debt. Well, there you go. Were also interviewing robert this morning on our streaming show, seven and seven and mr. Wonderful, im going to pitch another idea. The last time mr. Wonderful was here, i pitched several ideas. They were all soundly rejected. And then the cruelest of ways. Oh, well. But now, fran, youre ready. Its a new day. You know what . Its good worth. Its worth just putting it out there. Its a bunch of spaghetti on the wall, you know . Thats how you got to do it. I believe in you, reggie. Thank you. Just spoiler alert. My product is chatgpt and were going to see how that goes. I have a feeling its not going to go well. All right, fran, but like you say, throw it, throw it at the wall, see what sticks. Right. One of them will stick. See, i like this attitude. Ginger. Well see you at sev mcdaniels says not only do other candidates want to hear from trump, but voters do, too. The former president is sitting this debate out just as he did during the first debate. Instead of wednesdays debate in southern california. Trump is scheduled to speak to striking uaw workers in detroit. It was doggie central at a Film Screening in las Griffith Park on sunday. Paramount pictures invited families and their Furry Friends to attend paw patrol, the mighty movie watch party. 219 dogs and their owners filled up the park. That attendance broke the record for the most dogs to attend a Film Screening ever. That film is scheduled to open on friday. Next to 630, returning to the burn zones today. Maui residents getting ready to go back to where their home once stood after those devastating wildfires. Plus the border crisis. The number of migrants crossing into the us is going up. What Border Patrol is saying about the recent surge . As we head to break, a live look outside . It is 627 and that is a beautiful look as the sun is about to come up. Well be right back rushing to the coliseum before oaklands final home game of the season in their continued demands to the owner to sell the team and uber eats is extending its services when it recipients can start using the app to get groceries delivered. Plus, what we might learn about the universe after a piece of an asteroid over 4 billion years old makes it to earth. And the next time it makes it to earth, it could destroy us all. Oh, wow. Didnt this time . No. Well thats because we went to go get it. Yeah so to save ourselves. Yeah. Details. Its on its way. We didnt need follow up. I was just. Ill tell you the chances of us all being destroyed. Good morning. Its monday. September 25th. Hope youre having a good monday. Were going to start the check of our forecast. What a way to start the day. Everythings fine. Everythings great. We got the asteroid. Thats good news. We are tracking some moisture on live doppler seven. Heres the wider picture. We have this cold front that is beginning to move into eureka this morning. And as it continues its way south, it will bring us some light showers after the sun goes down and the best chance is likely in the north bay. This is not a widespread rain event, but we will see some rain in the forecast the next 24 hours, depending on where you live. Its a mix of partly to mostly cloudy skies. This morning. Heres how the day shapes up. Well have that blend of sun and clouds throughout the day. The day is totally dry after the sun goes down there you can see that chance of a shower in the north bay by 9 p. M, well take a much closer detailed look at that shower chance coming up in nine minutes. Lets check in with jobina and see how traffics doing today. Thank you, drew. Good morning, everyone. So we are going to start in the east bay with a look at sunol. The good news here is that this crash is cleared, some residual delays, but not too bad for southbound 680 before drady road. Our second crash, though, in hayward is continuing to back up now into san lorenzo, southbound 880 past industrial parkway. Your speeds around 18mph. There live picture from the richmondsan rafael bridge where youre going to be slow in the westbound direction until you reach about the center span of the bridge. And now back up is beginning to form at the bay bridge toll plaza. Those metering lights came on at 541. Reggie and kumasi, thank you, jobina. New developments on the hollywood Writers Strike. A tentative agreement has been reached to potentially end the strike after nearly five months. But your favorite shows arent going to be coming back just yet. Abc7 News Reporter lena howland is live in los gatos. Selena, what do we know . Well, the wga reportedly made progress on some of the most contentious issues, including viewership, residual payments for writers and minimum staffing guarantees for shows. Last night, the wga negotiating committee writing to its members. We can say with great pride that this deal is exceptional with meaningful gains and protections for writers in every sector of the membership. The three Year Contract still needs to be legally finalized before a vote by Writers Guild leadership expected as early as tomorrow. Once approved, the contract will be sent to Union Members for a ratification vote. After that happens, late night and daytime talk shows could return within days, but it will still take weeks to write scripts for narrative shows and even longer for those shows to enter production. Know they would not have told us a tentative deal was reached and told us that picketing is suspended. If it wasnt exemplar , we dont know. This agreement comes just five days before the strike would have become the longest in the guilds history and the longest hollywood strike in more than 70 years. Now, although the wga has suspended picketing, writers are not returning to work until authorized by the guild. Live in los gatos, lena howland, abc seven news. Thank you, lena. Right after that tentative announcement was made, the main Union Representing actors, sagaftra, put out this statement saying in part, quote, sagaftra charter congratulates the wga on reaching a tentative agreement with the amptp after 146 days of incredible strength , resiliency and solidarity in the picket lines. While we look forward to reviewing the wga and amptp s tentative agreement, we remain committed to achieving the necessary terms for our members. Happening today, Property Owners and residents who lived in the maui burn zone will return today. Officials are starting to lift restrictions in lahaina after those devastating wildfires. Jobina has more on what to expect today. Jobina. Thank you, carmassi. August 8th brought one of the deadliest wildfires in more than a century to the united states. Nearly 100 lives were lost and more than 2000 buildings. Most of them homes were destroyed. Officials are allowing people to come back to see whats left of their homes. For many, its the First Time Since the fire demolish the land. Seven weeks ago. Authorities have divided the area into 17 burn zones and sub zones. Some people will get to return with supervised visits starting this morning through tomorrow. They will be offered water, shade wash stations, portable toilets, medical and Mental Health care and transportation assistance. Officials anticipate the people wont stay there for very long. They warn people not to sift through the ash for too long to avoid absorbing any toxins. As reggie, thank you, jobina. After more than a three year pause, student loan borrowers are bracing for payments to resume next month. Interest on Student Loan Debt has started accruing, and those payments on balances are scheduled to start october 1st. This comes after a year of political back and forth, with the white house forgiving 400 billion of Student Loan Debt only to have that overturned by the supreme court. Emily irwin, senior director of advice at wells fargo, recognizes the difficult position this puts borrowers in. Understandably, this is something that, even though its been a pause, it felt permanent because it was so long. But it is coming. Irwin adds. The borrowers should prepare to meet at least a minimum loan payments, because if you dont, it could impact your credit score. Starting today, you can get more at home. Covid tests for free. The department of health and Human Services says you can order for free tests per household from covid test. Gov. The program was suspended in may after the end of the covid 19 Public Health emergency. Theres been an increase in cases in recent weeks. New covid shots are available at some pharmacies, including walgreens and cvs, for the possible move to las vegas in the works. The as final home game of the season had a feeling of farewell, so the team sell the team fans had a pregame march to the coliseum yesterday with a loud message for team owner john fisher. One group trying to keep the team from moving to vegas even hired a plane with a banner. It urged fishers mom, doris, to make her son sell and keep the team in oakland. The as lease at the coliseum is set to expire after next season. If they build a new stadium in vegas, it likely wont be done until 2028. So its unclear for where the team would play in the meantime, some oakland fans say they should find a different ballpark. Its like when you break up with a significant other and they still living in the house with you like get them out. So but once until theres a shovel in the ground, then the fight isnt over for as. Fans made that message clear in the outfield, unfurling this banner on the last game of the season, it says oakland will never quit. People get food stamps, will be able to use them on uber eats. Coming up, uber says snap benefits can be used on fresh groceries for delivery starting in 2024. The company says its doing this to make fresh groceries more accessible to people who are most vulnerable, including seniors, people with disabilities, or people who dont have Reliable Transportation on a piece of asteroid that is 4. 5 billion years old will be flown to the Johnson Space center in houston today. Nasa scientists are hoping itll give them some answers about the beginning of life on earth. From the edge of space, the ozone iris rex spacecraft released a capsule containing the asteroid yesterday, four hours later, it landed in utah, where recovery teams carefully bagged it up. The seven year long mission captured samples of the asteroid called bennu. Studying asteroids is critical for scientists around the world, in part because of the concern that one of them could collide with our planet. Nasa scientists predict a slim one. In 2700 chance that the asteroid bennu could strike earth in the year 2182. Bennu is said to be as big as the empire state building. Theres Something Like 30,000 asteroids that we know of just in the nearearth environment. And while none of them have a target on the earth yet, some day we probably will. So lets get to know these things as best as we can. Osirisrex is now headed back into space for its next mission , retrieving a sample from a different asteroid coming up, the billion dollar investment amazon is making into the Artificial Intelligence industry right here in the bay area. And you are looking live at the big board at the New York Stock Exchange down right now by about 118 points. Another update on the markets next. Making her mark a bay area woman hoping to leave a Lasting Impact as the war in ukraine continues. And stay with us on the abc7 bay area streaming app at 7 00 for abc7 at seven, were live every weekday from 7 to 8 a. M. We are scheduled to talk to mr. Wonderful paul from shark tank on abc. Again, thats from 7 to 8 this morning. Hows your. Hey, good morning. 639 and were looking at sutro tower right now. A live look we have fresh air out there this morning. Good air quality for the foreseeable future. A lot of green on the board today, tomorrow and wednesday. Heres live. Doppler seven along with satellite. We are tracking an early season storm that comma shaped that low pressure, that cold front moving through the Pacific Northwest right now. Its moving into Northern California later on this morning. And by the time it reaches us here in the bay area, well get some light rain, mainly in the north bay. And after the sun goes down later on this evening, looking at rainfall estimates, the next 24 hours, the best chance of finding moisture is likely in the north bay and along the coast. Pretty typical for an early season. Cold front to really lack moisture in the south bay and the inland east bay. So were expecting little to no rain in those areas. But nonetheless, it is nice to see an early season storm bringing some rainfall to our area, but it will kick up our surf later on tonight. A High Surf Advisory will go into effect tonight through tomorrow evening. Right now, current wave heights, 3 to 7ft. But we do anticipate by tomorrow those waves will break between 14 and 16ft. So that is dangerous. Swimming and surfing conditions. So look at highs today. Its a mix of sun and clouds throughout the day. Temperatures in the 70s and that rain arrives late this evening after the sun goes down in the north bay. Well take a look at the seven day forecast the two hoping, hoping to bolster us support. One local woman who is stepping in to help those fighting on the front lines. Julia zimmerman, a ukrainian american, is helping lead the First Ukrainian women expedition to summit mont blanc. Its the tallest and one of the deadliest mountains in the french alps. The effort is to raise funds for medical aid for Ukrainian Forces as a part of expedition. Were going to raise funds for yet another ambulance, an and we were really just grateful that people supported us. Zimmerman recently traveled to ukraine to handdeliver an ambulance to the front lines of the war. For all that is coming as us support for the war in ukraine continues to decline. According to a new abc News Washington post survey, 41 of americans say the us is doing too much to fund the war, and thats up from 33 in february. Funding for military and humanitarian aid in ukraine is now amounted to more than 100 billion. The request congress is now considering is for an additional 24 billion developing news at the us border , where the number of unauthorized crossings is surging across the southwest. In el paso, texas, migrant housing shelters are reaching capacity. The city is planning to buy an abandon school to turn it into a shelter. The chief of Border Patrol says he suspects smugglers have been sending thousands of migrants across the border to divert the attention away from Border Patrols. Primary goal of preventing criminals and drugs and weapons from entering the us. I believe its a money making opportunity for those smugglers and i believe its a distraction for them to cross other things into the country. Other things like narcotics, fentanyl, bulk cash weapons, people of interest, whether it be hardened criminals, gang members, convicted sexual predators. This weekend, us Homeland Security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas met with the president of honduras along the usmexico border. The two are discussing ways to curb migration in a major part of southern louisiana, including new orleans, is facing a major threat to its water supply. Salt water has been seeping into the freshwater supply and parishes south of new orleans and now has a direct threat to the city itself. Problem is coming from years of prolonged drought thats caused saltwater to flow upstream from the gulf of mexico and into Water Treatment plants along the Mississippi River. The governor of louisiana is urging everyone to stay calm. We are monitoring the situation. Were being proactive and were applying best practices and Lessons Learned from the past. The Mississippi River is expected to hit historic lows in the next few weeks. The governor is now appealing to the federal government for help. Olympic champ and two time world cup winner Megan Rapinoe finished her career on the Us Womens National team with a two nothing win over south africa. Fans honored the 38 year old soccer star with an emotional tribute before last nights game in chicago. Rapinoe ends her tenure on the National Team with 63 goals 783 assists, 203 International Appearances and a massive impact on how people view womens soccer. Womens sports specifically is in such an amazing place right now and such an exciting space. So i definitely want to keep my name in all the conversation and continue to be hopefully a big player and impactful player and in my future, going forward. Rapinoe has also been a leading advocate for social issues, including lgbtq rights, racial equality and equal pay. New at six poultry giants perdue and tyson are reportedly under federal investigation over child labor practices. According to the New York Times, the Us Department of labor is trying to determine whether Migrant Children were used to clean slaughterhouses. This is some of the most dangerous work in the country. The New York Times magazine initially published a story saying kids as young as 1318 were using acid and pressure hoses on industrial machines. Tyson foods and perdue farms says they were not say they were not aware and that they will cooperate with investigators. Now its our Morning Money report. Amazon will invest 4 billion into an Artificial Intelligence startup. Amazons employees and cloud customers will get early access to technology from San Francisco. San francisco based anthropic. The deal includes anthropic software in amazons Cloud Infrastructure business and amazon web services. Its an effort to inch ahead of other ai competitors such as chatgpt and openai. Weve been reporting on the tentative deal reached between hollywood writers and studios, but the Economic Impact will be felt for months to come. According to economists, the months long Writers Strike is on track to cost the industry nearly 6 billion in losses. The us bureau of labor and statistics recently reported 35,000 film and television employees have been out of work since the Writers Strike started in may. And now we take a live look at the New York Stock Exchange as trading gets underway. You can see that were down about 76 points, finding love could be getting a little bit easier if you want to pay up. Yep. Tinder is offering its users a new monthly vip subscription plan. Its 6,000 a year or about 500 a month. The Online Dating app is currently only offering this feature to its top 1 of active users, as the premium feature will allow members to skip the line. And you can message other users without matching with them first. It will also show their profiles to people even if they dont have of the gold or the platinum subscription. Now, wouldnt you want to match with somebody first . I know its like you cant pay for them to like you, right . Isnt that the whole proposition of this app is that you have to match . Like what would be the purpose of dming somebody if you dont even know if they like you . Right. Maybe they didnt get to your profile yet or they didnt get there yet. Its a lot of money. Six grand. Yeah, that too. Oh, yeah. Yeah. You know, people are desperate. Well. Oh, look, im going to say that. Well, if youre paying that much of money, then i think you are. Maybe intention hasnt worked out. Youre afraid people do pay for, like matchmakers. People pay. That might be a better. But see that seems waste their time. Like they. But shes still on the app. Yeah. Which is time consuming i and do you get your money back if you found somebody early on. No you missed your six grand. No no, no, no. All right. You pay for matchmakers, meet somebody randomly and still do not get any money back. But a matchmaker seems more tailored. Yeah, thats true. Yeah, thats, you know, let us know if you use it outside this morning. Here is the exploratorium camera. We do have a fair amount of cloud cover this morning. Itll be a blend of sun and clouds throughout the day. Really comfortable temperatures in the 70s. We go then tonight, we are tracking some showers in the north bay. This is after the sun goes down into the Early Morning hours of tuesday thanks to a cold front. But the rest of the seven day forecast, its really sunny and mild. Autumn days ahead. Heres live. Doppler seven along with satellite. We are tracking that cold front that is now making its way onshore in eureka where well find some significant rainfall here. But by the time that front makes its way into our neck of the woods, it will lack a lot of moisture. Its pretty typical for an early season system to really fall apart as it heads south. So heres future weather, hour by hour. Heres 130 this afternoon. Were dry. Its that sun and clouds mixture out there as the sun goes down, then well begin to track some of those light showers from ukiah to cloverdale into santa rosa. And then by the time the sun gets up here tomorrow morning, this moisture is out of here. So the north bay is the best chance of finding any light showers. The next 24 hours. Heres the accuweather 70 forecast. After that chance tonight in the north bay. Its a fine looking forecast nice autumn weather through the upcoming weekend jobina. Thank you, drew. Good morning, everybody. So we are going to go back to hayward. The crash that we are following earlier past industrial parkway is cleared, but now we have a new crash, not too far away. This is going to be southbound 880 past west eighth street and will impact anyone thats traveling towards the san mateo bridge in the southbound direction. Live look from the golden gate bridge. We have no advisories to report in this area. We do have a stall reported right after the bay bridge toll plaza metering lights come on at 541. Also i want to let you know that you need to check the schedule if you take caltrain. The agency is making some changes starting today. The schedule changes are happening for a handful of reasons, including to better match up with barts new schedule for transfers at the millbrae station. Caltrain also says there will be faster local trains in the evening and a fourth round trip to gilroy during the week. Reggie thanks, jobina. Britney spears is back on the big screen, big screen. Her film debut in the movie crossroads is coming back to theaters. Yes, this is all in celebration of her upcoming memoir, crossroads was originally released in 2000. Add to its about three High School Girls who go on a Cross Country road trip. The movie will be playing just for two nights on october 23rd and the 25th at select theaters. Theres going to be merch too sweats, jackets , all the things. Britneys upcoming memoir, the woman in me, comes out on october 24th. I was looking this up cause i was trying to remember what songs are in there. Its im not a girl. Not yet a woman. Its also the song overprotected and okay. And oddly on that soundtrack was bye bye bye. I love rock n roll. Yeah. All right, britney. Britneys cover of the joan jett song. Up next is seventh age. You need to know today, you can watch all our newscasts live and on demand through the abc7 bay area connected tv app. Its on apple tv, google tv, amazon fire tv and roku. Just download the app now and you can start streaming as we head to break. Live look outside. Wheres our friend is working from home today. Okay took monday off so tuesday he probably he was at folsom i think i saw him and hes been hes been working out. Well be right back. You are great. Youre great students. I heard youre a really good in school. How can the community move forward and make progress . What is a viable solution . And we just really love to see that kind of support happening in so many of our communities. The home appraisal process appears to be broken, at least broken for black and brown families every day at abc7, were building toward something better, a better bay area. You got two jacks. And then my grand slam. I signed a ball for you. Okay. And it says papa i love you. Why did you do that . Because youve taught me everything about baseball. Oh hunny bunny, thats so sweet. You know, people always ask me, kevin, what does being the ceo of cashbacking mean to you . It means cashbacking every opportunity. Did you cashback on this . Like i wouldnt cashback . Cashbacking by the basket, i see you. Ugh. I dreamt you didnt cashback this flight. Oh good. If youre buying it, flying it, or wining n dining it, then you gotta be cashbacking it. Come on now. Cashback on everything you buy with chase freedom unlimited with no annual fee. How do you cashback . Chase. Make more of whats yours. For hollywood writers and major studios. There is a tentative deal after nearly five months of a walkout. Now, the deal still has to be ratified and even after that happens, if it does happen, your favorite shows wont be returned just yet. Sagaftra actors are still on strike. Remember, too, congress is heading into a critical week for avoiding a Government Shutdown. Lawmakers have until this weekend to reach a deal if theres no agreement, it would be one of the largest shutdowns in us history. Number three, about 200 businesses in oakland say they are going on strike tomorrow. Theyre shutting down their stores for either all or part of the day in a protest of retail crime. Owners say issues have made it really difficult to do business in oakland. Number four, after 14 years, babbaco in San Francisco is closing its doors at the end of the week. The owner says a lack of foot traffic downtown is the reason for the final day of service. Is friday. And number five, we are tracking rough surf, late night showers tonight. Heres the reason why. Live doppler seven along with satellite. Clearly showing you an early season storm. That comma shape bringing that cold front through the Pacific Northwest brought some significant rain from portland to seattle to vancouver. We will even see some light showers in the north bay later on this evening. Closer look showing you that rain is now approaching eureka this morning as that cold front will continue to press to the south. What it will do, though, as that storm moves on shore, its going to kick up our surf. So right now, wave heights anywhere from about 3 to 7ft. But tonight it through tomorrow evening, a High Surf Advisory will be in effect along our entire coastline where breakers could be anywhere from 14 to 16ft. So that is dangerous. Swimming and surfing conditions along with dangerous rip currents. Please be aware of that. Heres a live look outside. This is our rooftop camera at kgo, partly cloudy skies out there this morning. And heres how the day looks throughout the Daylight Hours. Itll just be a blend of sun and clouds, a really seasonal day. Well have temperatures in the 60s and 70s later on this afternoon. And then once the sun goes down, thats where we will find those showers moving into the north bay. And its only the north bay. And along the coast, well have the best chance of finding wet weather. Heres a look at rainfall totals over the next 24 hours as you head into the south bay and the inland east bay, pretty typical this time of year for these fronts to fall apart. So we are really anticipating little to no rainfall there. But along the coast and in the north bay overnight tonight, well track those light showers moving through with that cold front. Number six, our biggest traffic issue right now is going to be a crash that were following in hayward. Its going to be on southbound 880 past west eighth street. Your speeds are picking up. Once you make it through that crash site, which is good news for anyone thats traveling towards the san mateo bridge. And you have to go southbound on 880 for our drive times. Not too bad at all. Westbound on highway four, antioch to hercules 43 minutes. Highway four to the maze 28 look number seven an usher is performing at the super bowl halftime show in vegas. He says this is in honor of a lifetime to finally check a super bowl performance off of his bucket list. Super bowl 58 is set for sunday, february 11th. Its going to be in vegas , where his residency has been. And it has been hot. That is the ticket to get you will pay. You will be entertained. And im ready for this. Yes, i am. I love usher. Usher superstar was our wedding song. I love we are big usher fans, my husband and i. Im ready for this night. Cant wait. So many songs. Yes, you make me want it was 97. This man is still out. 97, 91. The start of a new to what you want to think about the fans to come along with you make me. You make me Good Morning America. For our viewers in the west, breaking overnight, we have a deal in the Writers Strike. Hollywood writers reaching a tentative agreement to end the strike. Now what does it mean for the actors who are still on strike and no end in sight for the autoworkers strike, with President Biden set to join the picket line. The race for 2024. A new abc News Washington post poll sounding the alarfo