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