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Hopscotch. you're going to be jumping over -- this governor has misplaced priorities. he is choosing to virtue signal with sanctuary cities because it has no ultimate consequence to himself. you have a rising disease in epidemic proportions in southern california because of these campgrounds of hepatitis, tb, whatever you are saying. i'm not exactly which diseases. talk to dr. drew. because he has presidential aspirations, he's figuring out the right things to say that will raise a stature so he becomes the anti-trump. i think that's why he's doing this. as for paying for the health care, it r...

The mayor newsom is now the governor of california. the weekend rain is behind us but a week worth of rain lies ahead. i will have your forecast coming up. >> a tree falls into the forest and no one hears it, does it make a sound? that would be an appropriate question during a government shutdown. that's coming up. live where you live, this is abc 7 news. the trees are still standing. the plants are still growing. everything seems to be the same at muir woods except for one thing. good evening, thank you for joining us. muir woods is the one of the parks that are affected by the shutdown. the ...

Crippled by all kinds of health and safety hazards. the popular campgrounds at california's joshua tree national park were forced to close today with toilets at near capacity. nick watt is there. >> here's some trash bags that we can have. do you guys need gloves? >> reporter: a small army of volunteers keeping joshua tree as clean as they can. >> we're operating now, but i'm working 11 to 13 hours a day running what i do for a living, running rock climbing trips, and maintaining the park. yeah, what we're doing right now is not sustainable. >> reporter: the tollbooths are closed. no one is co...

Yeah, what we're doing right now is not sustainable. >> reporter: the tollbooths are closed. no one is collecting $30 a car. the park service right now limping along with absolutely essential stuff only. this park is still open, but the deadlock in d.c. does mean that campgrounds are now closing in campgrounds are now closing in california. all the campgrounds here at joshua tree closing down, and the issue, those toilet vaults. the volunteers can keep the toilets clean, but not to be too gross about it, those vault toilets are reaching capacity. other parts of this park closing because of, qu...

Because support staff that's supposed to take care of that hasn't been here at the park. as a result, one of the silver linings we've seen here along the roadways is volunteers are now organiziing cleanups, pickig up whatever trash they encounter, trying to do what they can to make sure those yosemite views come with pretty roads to trafl on. that said. campgrounds are closed at the park. roads are being shut down as days go by and nothing is being done in washington because human waste, we're told, is providing to be a health hazard there in certain areas. so all across this park down in josh...