Shows us how the city is looking to build a better bay area not just for renters, but landlords too. Jose and his wife were wrapping up their garage sale saturday afternoon. Its part Spring Cleaning in case they have to move from concord. Its really hard for us to like, just work for rent to pay the rent, and we have more expenses than that, like the car repairs. Jose, who didnt want to give his last name, pays 3,000 to rent this small three bedroom house. Given whats at stake, he joined the coalition that fought an eight year battle to get rent control and concord. The ordinance passed in march. We need to have a place to stay or we be on the streets. The new ordinance caps rent increases to 3 a year and includes just cause eviction protections. But city Officials Say the ordinance was challenged by those seeking to get a referendum on the november ballot. However they failed to get the roughly 7000 signatures by thursday, so the ordinance took effect on friday. This was great. It was a great win and the reason its so important is because people were being evicted, rents were being raised like 1,000, 2,000 at a time. Severe lockett is the Deputy Director for Civic Engagement at the east bay alliance for a sustainable economy, or ebays it fights for Worker Rights and tenant protections, he says. Too often the focus was on cities like richmond and antioch, not concord, trying to address the work issue also led to us understanding that, hey, they cant even afford to pay their rent. So we, you know, it was necessary to get involved in the tenant issue and in a tenant fight in concord because no one else was organizing in, concord at the time. He believes this concord ordinance strikes a balance which still gives Property Owners a return on their investment and protects renters. People arent making enough money to survive, so it needs some type of, equalizer or stabilization, to be put into place so that people can actually survive in concord, anser hassan abc seven news. Two empty hospitals in San Francisco could be turned into housing, according to our Media Partners at the San Francisco standard. Both are located on california street in the Presidio Heights neighborhood. One is the old cpmc building, the others just down the street and used to be part of ucsfs campus. A developer by the name of prado group submitted a plan last week for the cpmc location. Its already moving forward on the old ucsf property. It could add roughly 1300 homes as well as hundreds of new parking spots. Police are out in force tonight, keeping an eye out for people who might have indulged a little bit too much at cannabis celebrations. While there was not an official event in the city, plenty of people converged on hippie hill at San Franciscos Golden Gate Park to partake in 420, a time and date where cannabis is celebrated. Abc seven News ReporterTara Campbell was there. Joints rolled and bongs filled, crowds lighting up at San Franciscos Golden Gate Park. Hundreds taking to hippie hill saturday in celebration of 420. There is good vibes going all around and just good flower. This years official event was canceled. It is on hiatus just due to economic reasons. Uh, the organizer, couldnt get the sponsorship he needed. The city is facing its own budget cuts and so we couldnt, we couldnt cover any of those costs. But nothings going to stop this crowd of cannabis lovers. Its really cool knowing that you know, people will still come out and do whatever they want because theyre still just in a celebration of it being 420. And for some, the tradition running generations deep. Weve been coming out since long before it was ever even an organized event, my parents used to come out when they were teenagers in the 70s, and they celebrated every year, and i just been kind of continuing that tradition for them. Me and my siblings have been coming out for the last eight years, and, we love coming out to hippie hill and hanging out with all the people out here. But he says in past years, the parks been more packed compared to the years before. Its about half as many people, but were still a good outcome. Activities like volleyball and kickball filling some of that open space. We partner with the city this year, to bring some cool activities to the festivities that are already happening here on 420. And whether jumping high or getting high, the crowds getting along. People have been really, really cool and respectful. I think, you know, everyone is sort of appreciating the fact that if they want to come down and hang out with us and play, that they have the opportunity to do that. I noticed, you know, they have some sort of sporting event going on thats not bothering us any, you know, a little less space, but were all still enjoying ourselves, having a great time. Happy. 420 abc, seven news. New at 11 and iconic San Francisco bar is back in business. The stud reopened tonight on folsom and seventh street. Its the oldest lgbtq bar in San Francisco, originally opening in 1966. However, it decided to close in 2020 at the onset of the pandemic. This is a new location, used to be on ninth and harrison, happening now, a 21 mile stretch of a north bay highway is shut down for a repavinprojt. Caltrans says everything is on sedule, and highway 37 from vallejo to searpoin will open by 4 a. M. On monday. Therere detours in place, but for those heading to wine country, they are running into some serious traffic. Heres abc seven News Reporter cornell bernard. What do you think about this traffic . Its crazy. Frustrated drivers facing big delays in wine country. Highway 29 through napa can be congested on most weekends, but this was especially tough because cars are being detoured away from highway 37. And heres why. Caltrans is repaving the westbound lanes of 37. The 55 hour closure, which started friday night, stretches seven miles from solano to sonoma counties. Were doing almost 5000 tons of new asphalt in total for this weekend, and over 300 trucks will be needed, caltrans says the project will continue over the next four weekends to repave both west and eastbound lanes. Detours are posted so we asked the motorists, the travelers and the public to one plan ahead. The drivers, like mary mcquinn from placerville, say they didnt know anything about it. Shes going to rohnert park. Were trying to see a baseball game at 2 00. Oh, no. Yeah, theyre repaving it today. Oh, all day. I see it all weekend. All weekend. They sure picked the right times to do it right. Its been a long time sitting in the van. Its taken us an hour and a half just to go 13 miles. It was. It was awful. Lexi griggs and her friends are trying to get to petaluma. Its been a long journey. Our eta went from 1 00 to 130 to now two. So its not been fun at all. The chp posted on x telling inbound drivers to use the richmondsan rafael bridge. But check it out. Even that was backed up by saturday afternoon. Bianco winery in the sonoma valley, posting alerts on their website letting visitors know about the highway closures and detours. Caltrans urging drivers to be patient if youre local, you. You have driven state route 37. You know that the work was needed and it was due. Yeah, drivers complain there are just too many potholes on highway 37. The construction will continue through the weekend of may 11th. So as caltrans says, plan ahead in sonoma. Cornell, bernard abc seven news long backups there staying in the north bay. The sausalito pier remains closed through the weekend, so there is no Ferry Service to San Francisco. An issue was discovered yesterday during an inspection, so there will be no golden gate Ferry Service until repairs can be made. Busses are replacing the ferries. No word on when the pier will reopen. As part of our commitment to following the story here at abc seven, we have a sad update to share. The Oakland Police officer hurt in a bad crash several years ago has died from his injuries. Officer jordan wingate was on his way to a call when he crashed into another car and a semi truck back in august of 2018. He ended up in critical condition. The 29 year old was forced to medically retire Oakland Police say wingate died this morning surrounded by family staying in the east bay. A crash left a dozen cars smashed up in el sobrante today. Just look at the car upside down, chunks of metal and glass all over the road. It happened this morning on San Pablo Dam road. Two cars seemed to have the worst damage, with several other parked cars banged up. A neighbor told us his mom and aunt were in one car, hit head on by another driver. He says his mom was not hurt badly, but his aunts in rough shape. Basically, the whole Steering Wheel was like pressed against her. She was pretty bloody. Her face was bloody. It was pretty bad. Its not clear what led to the crash or what happened to the other driver involved. Fillled, a former giants coach, set off a federal investigation after posting a video in the pilots seat of a united flight. Hensley bambam mullins has since deleted the video from a flight last week from denver to toronto. It showed the longtime giants coach and current rockies hitting coach sitting in the captains seat, joking about landing the plane. Its illegal for unauthorized people to be on the flight deck. United says. It was a clear violation of its safety rules. Rockies manager bud black says mullins apology and his job is not at risk. Still ahead on abc seven news at 11. It is the end of an era for bart. The sendoff for the last of the transit agencys legacy cars that have been around for decades. And a little later, lawmakers passed an aid package for ukraine and israel. But not before there were some fireworks on the house floor. Im Spencer Christian. A couple of a couple more really warm spring days are coming our way, but whats coming after that is a big, cool down. Ill have the accuweather forecast in just a moment, as abc and cache in, at cache creek casino resort, to rock and to roll. To go all out or. Go all in. With four stars and rising stars, northern californias premier casino resort is the perfect place. To do as much or as little as you want. Make your get away now and cache in at cache creek casino resort. To it. Elected to berkeleys city council, cecilia luna parra, a 22 year old senior, won the seat in a special election for district seven, which covers the universitys campus. Luna parra received 59 of the vote, focusing her campaign on student representation, safety, affordable housing, and protections for tenants. Congratulations to her. A ceremonial send off today for barts original train cars. Bart held a Retirement Ceremony today at oaklands macarthur station. Hundreds were there to see the final dispatch of trains that traveled the bay area for decades. They departed from macarthur station and went to fremont station, the original route from the 1972 opening. Its bittersweet. This is the legacy fleet is a 52 year old Family Member of the bart system. Its carried us. Its delivered bart for 52 years. So its a little sad on its final journey. A number of viewers online tonight told me on facebook they went to this majority of the legacy bart trains will be recycled. Theyve been replaced by barts fleet of the future rail cars, which first went into service in 2017. Oakland appears to be determined to keep one sports team in town. It may spend 20 million to buy properties for the citys Minor League Soccer team. R partners at the Bay Area News Group report the city is considering buyi out two propertiefrom alameda county. One is the old raiders practice facility on harbor bayarkway, right next to the oakland airport. The other is a giant parking lot next to the coliseum known as the malibu lot. Right now, the oakland roots fc practice at the former raiders compound, and they want to build a soccer stadium on the site near the coliseum. The city and county have coowned the properties for years. At the end of the month, the Oakland City Council is set to vote on buying out the county shares. Coastal kids home cares Second Annual touch a truck fundraiser was held in san jose earlier today. Video was provided by organizers of the event, which raises money for children living with illness in the area. Over 50 cars were on display, as well as food trucks, raffles and fire engines that kids of all ages could climb aboard. Proceeds from the event goes to support the agencys nursing and therapy services, as well as inhome treatments for children. It was a big saturday for building a better bay area, as volunteers across the community helped make our area a cleaner place to live. Its all part of earth day, and what better way to celebrate than taking care of Mother Nature in oakland, volunteers picked up uh spots litter that is at spots across the city. More than 100 people walked along estuary park, hauling out trash, big and small volunteers on boats helped pull garbage out of the water. Organizers tell us they came across a lot of plastic, something they wish wed all use less of. So many people are more aware of the plastic pollution and garbage, and i do think that people want to make a change, but just the Little Things that people can do to stop using plastic and be more aware of the garbage they create would really help us for uplifting our earth. Organizers say volunteers picked up about 3,000 pounds of garbage in just a few hours, and conquered the city, organized events to spruce up several parks. This is from the clean up at the markham nature area off cowell road and in pacifica. Volunteers hit the beaches to pick up litter and learn about the oceans. Joined by Spencer Christian right now. Great to see you there. Absolutely. It just makes you feel cleaner. It does indeed. Just watching the video. Theres more events in tahoe come monday, so its great that its almost like a whole week about this. It really is. Yeah. And weve got great weather for all these great events. So there you go. The forces of nature are with us. Yes. Heres a look at whats happening right now j. R. On our satellite radar composite image. We have mainly clear skies in the bay area. Calm conditions. We have an onshore flow that was pretty brisk earlier. In fact, we had some gusty wind in the Late Afternoon early evening hours. Right now wind is relatively calm, with one exception. And that is sfo, which has uh surface speeds, right or surface wind speeds right now of 20mph. Looking around the bay area, the 24 hour temperature change shows most locations about 4 or 5 degrees warmer than at this time last night. Lets take a live view from sutro tower looking out over San Francisco, where its 56 degrees right now. Upper 50s at oakland and hayward, 61, san jose 52 at half moon bay, and from the exploratorium camera. Looking back at a bit of the cityscape 56 right now santa rosa, petaluma, down to 50, low to mid 50s at napa and fairfield , livermore, concord at 61 degrees. We are now going to check out our weather headlines for the next two days. We can expect more sunshine as we had today and springlike warmth. But then middle of the week well see a few clouds moving into the picture. It will get breezy and turn sharply cooler, and by the end of the week, theres a slight chance of some showers developing right around friday. Saturday well keep an eye on that and see what if those chances increase during the overnight hours. Mainly clear skies, but well see a few patches of high clouds swinging through the bay area. But well start the day tomorrow morning with mainly sunny skies, and those clouds will be out of here in no time. Overnight, low temperatures will be mainly in the low or low to mid 50s, so it will be pretty mild over night 52 degrees. The low in San Francisco, San Francisco and oakland. Inland east bay up to 55. In antioch as an overnight low, the only cool spots really will be santa rosa, lakeport and ukiah, which will have lows in the mid to upper 40s. And even thats relatively mild. And then tomorrow, another spring, like almost summer like day with some sunny skies, breezy conditions at the coast, 61 will be the high in half moon bay, 68 here in San Francisco, right around the bay shoreline. Look for mid to upper 7074 at oakland, inland, east bay and even up northward a little bit. Highs in the low to mid 80s. 82 at concord, 83 at fairfield and antioch, and down in the south bay. Low 80s at san jose and morgan hill, north bay. Highs 80 at napa. Great day for wine tasting tomorrow. Great day for wine tasting any day. Santa rosa, 81 and 80 up at lakeport. Heres the accuweather seven day forecast. And notice how mild and warm and sunny and summerlike almost tomorrow and monday will be. But then things change rather dramatically on tuesday. As clouds enter the picture, it turns breezy and high temperatures will drop about ten degrees or more on wednesday from the highs on tuesday. So im saying that wrong. Actually ten degrees or more on tuesday from the highs on monday. What im trying to say is that the cooling will continue later into the week. And by thursday, and friday well see daytime highs only in the upper 60s inland, mid 60s around the bay, clouds will increase and there is a slight chance of showers developing either late friday or into saturday, so just bear that in mind. Some spring showers cant be all bad, but a picture perfect weekend. Oh, a gorgeous weekend now a gorgeous start to next week, but next weekend. A little bit iffy at the start. We might have some clouds hanging around. All right. Thanks, spencer. All right. A toast to taylor. See how swift hes celebrated the singers new album by taking over a