Abc7news. Com vote. Well leave voting open as we go live to vic lee to kick things off. He got the first look inside the new center today. Vic . Reporter i did, ama. The new Navigation Center is along the embarcadero near beale street and will open by the end of this month but not without controversy. Just outside the Navigation Center, stark reminders of why the refuge is here. For this man, a comfortable bed instead of a hard bench. There are thousands of people sleeping on the streets just here in San Francisco. So we obviously need more shelters and related services. We have restrooms and showers at the far left over here. Reporter mayor london breed and other city officials toured the 4 million Navigation Center, once a parking lot along the embarcadero waterfront. A facility that will have 200 beds and social services and medical care in what the city calls a dignified environment. Our whole philosophy is really to treat this like a hotel, because these are our guests. These are the folks that need it the most. Reporter some will stay here on a 30day program. Others might be here until housing comes up for them. If theyre on another bed they might be waiting to move family members out of state. Reporter ambassadors will be on hand to help provide security. So will the San Francisco police. We provided four Additional Police officers to the station here that polices the area. Reporter promises of extra security the mayor hopes will calm the anxieties of neighbors who live next door in milliondollar condos. In august a homeless man attacked a woman in front of her apartment. The video went viral. Many neighbors have misgivings. The neighborhood is being forced to bear the risk of the unknown effects of the Navigation Center. Im keeping my fingers crossed that it works and that we dont have any trouble. Reporter among neighbors who spoke approvingly of the shelter, matt carson. I hope they see that the people who were suffering here are in a better place after this opens. Eporter well, the center will begin serving 130 people when it opens its doors. Then it will add 70 beds over a sixmonth period for a total capacity of 200 beds. It will be the biggest Navigation Center in the city. Dan, ama. I think the biggest but for how long . Were told the Navigation Center isnt permanent so what exactly is the time line here. Remember this Navigation Center is on port property and they have a twoyear lease. The city can renew it for another two years but im told that will be based on the success or, for that matter, the failure of this Navigation Center. Dan, ama. Thank you, vic. Lets take a look at how you voted in our poll at abc7news. Com vote. Right now 69 saying it will hurt the neighborhood, whereas 31 are saying that the new Navigation Center will actually help the homeless. Now to the north bay where a milelong homeless encampment is gaining national attention. Sky 7 flew over the tents next to highway 12. As you can see, it is pretty remarkable. That tent city goes for about a mile. Wayne friedman continues our Live Team Coverage with a look at where these people could end up moving. Wayne . Well, they may be scattering them across the county if they can move them at all. Right now there are some 3,000 people in Sonoma County that are homeless. That is the estimate. A lot of them live right here next to us. Theyre behind us and theyre over there in that direction. Today the board of supervisors issued a declaration of emergency determining to solve the problem here. A cold december day along the joe rodota trail in santa rosa. A milelong stretch of mostly homeless misery that has returned to local headlines. Its no longer something the community can hide. Reporter the Sonoma County board of supervisors moved the joe rodota issue to possibly emergency resolution status. We have to clear this joe rodota trail. Its ridiculous. We basically have a shantytown. Reporter and now with the United StatesSupreme Court refusing to hear a case that would have allowed cities and counties to arrest people sleeping on public property, Sonoma County is refocusing on its 3,000 homeless and how to help them. It puts us in a corner. We have to have shelter space to move people. Reporter supervisors are considering options. One would be to offer the homeless an opportunity to move to the Sonoma County fairgrounds in shelters. Today the ceo described her concerns. That there isnt a real definite exit plan. Reporter especially among those who live in surrounding neighborhoods. Its more for families. This neighborhood is really quiet. Theres not too much foot traffic at night. So having that definitely would probably raise some flags. Reporter as the county sees it, those flags have already been up for a long time. Passed by a homeless encampment like the joe rodota trail, youll hear them flap in a disconte discontent. I think its up to the community and the people who are actually living in these encampments. Reporter the feeling right now in Sonoma County among the board of supervisors is that this is not a problem they can completely solve. It is a problem they believe they can manage. Now theyre going to have to set out and find a way to do it. Live in santa rosa, wayne freedman, abc 7. Wayne, lets talk about managing that problem a little bit. Whats the next step in this process . Reporter well, the next step is theyll meet again next monday, but one gets the feeling that they have got to do something. This has been the problem here has been going on quite a while. Theres pressure to get this right. Among other people, bicycle riders who used to use this way to go to work cant use it anymore. So they have to do something. Well, they feel like they have to respect the people who live here and take care of them, they have to give them Mental Health and all sorts of services and take care of them to make sure that they are able to move on. So we dont know yet. The board is looking at a lot of options and well be there next monday when they look at them. Enormously layered and complex obviously. Wayne, thanks very much. Now to the east bay where two cities in two days are going to work on taking action to help ease the bay areas housing crisis. Leslie brinkley is live in walnut creek with that part of our team coverage. Leslie. Reporter well, a City Council Meeting is just getting under way where they are going to discuss what are called urgency ordinances about these granny flats, inlaw units. The official name is accessory dwelling units or adus. And next year youre likely to see more of them in the bay area. Its hard to afford a home in the bay area, but one solution is making it easier to convert a garage into a living unit that can be rented out, making money for the homeowner and providing a smaller and cheaper unit to a would be rentinger. Cities like Pleasant Hill and walnut creek are passing urgency ordinances that would have them in compliance with state law by january 1st when it comes to adus or accessory dwelling units. Now that this is coming down the pike, i think they will surge definitely in popularity and it will allow people to be more homeownership in the bay area because theyll have that extra income. Reporter more rentals should open up statewide with no longer requiring the Property Owner to live onsite. The review and permitting process in many places will be streamlined and eliminate serving the adus. One of the most visible changes would be removing the requirement for replacement parking if a garage is no longer a garage. The tradeoff could be more cars parked in driveways and on residential streets. So do you think in communities around the bay area well see more adus in the new year and the years to come . Yeah, i think thats a fair assessment, fair guess. This, again, is one of the tools that the state has identified as a way to combat the housing crisis in the state. Reporter but adus arent necessarily cheap to create. Depending on where you are its going to be expensive. Youve got the Building Permit fees, youve got the Construction Costs and anything that we can do to increase the supply of housing with regards to the expense is going to make a difference. Reporter its one way to put a denting in the affordability crisis. Ama and dan. So, leslie, heres a question. Can you have more than one adu on the property of a Single Family home . Reporter well, thats where it gets a little confusing. A Single Family property could have one detached adu on its property, 800 square feet or less. In the main house, you could also create a junior adu under 500 square feet in the original footprint of the house. So technically a Single Family property could have the main home to rent out, that junior adu and a detached adu. So again, looking for more of these in the bay area to pop up in the coming year. Back to you. All right, leslie, thank you. Just how bad is the homeless situation here . A New York Times journalist spent three months documenting the lives of people in a homeless camp in oakland. Thomas fuller spoke with us on abc 7 news at 4 00. Theres no running water, theres no sewage, theres really no proper cooking facilities. So people are living in conditions that do resemble kind of a refugee camp. When i spoke with someone at the u. N. , they said, no, at a refugee camp you might have more rights and more facilities. Fuller also saw children living in the camp including one family with three generations struggling with being homeless. We want to hear your ideas about building a better bay area. Share them by joining our group on facebook. Now on to storm watch because rain will be here tonight and its going to stick around through the morning commute. Live doppler 7 shows that approaching storm off the coast. Spencer christian is tracking just how soon its going to get here. Its just hours away. Yes, there will be wet roadways for tomorrow mornings commute. Heres a look at whats happening right now on live doppler 7. You can see a large batch of showers developing offshore. This is our forecast, our looping radar showing the movement of this batch of showers. The storm ranks 1 on the storm impact scale, a storm of light intensity for late tonight and tomorrow. We can expect light to moderate rain, slight chance of a thunderstorm mixed in there somewhere. By 11 00 tonight well see wet weather hitting parts of the bay area mainly near the coastline but it will become more widespread overnight. Its going to be wet. How much wetter will it be . Ill have the answer a little later with my sevenday forecast. Facing a deadline, pg e gets creative in its new settlement with wildfire victims. New at 6 00, the key person it wants to cut out of the deal as it tries to get out of the bankruptcy. Dont stop now. These swimmers are on a relay thats working toward a world record. Theyre not blow a kiss into the sun we need someone to lean on blow a kiss into the sun all we need is somebody to lean on swedens greetings. Enjoy your first payment on us when you lease a new volvo. Now through january 2nd. Happening now a vigil for a newlywed whose wedding took a horrific turn. He was beaten to death on his own wedding reception. Two suspects were arrested and were in court today. Reporter a celebration of love turned deadly for this couple in chino. Police say these two men, uninvited to the wedding, are behind a brutal attack ending in the death of the groom. Theyre devastated. Its a very traumatic experience. Reporter the couples wedding decorator says she saw the family dedicate all they could into planning the perfect night saturday. Everybody was happy. Come 4 00 all the guests came from the church and it was joy. Just pure happiness. Reporter its the last thing she says should happen to a family like this one. Wonderful family. Theyre a clean cut family. They bring happiness to everybody. You know, everyone theyre very pleasant and respectful. Reporter relatives of the newlyweds tell Eyewitness News the last of the guests were leaving when the family noticed these two strangers. They noticed they were still there trying to get free alcohol and stuff. They asked them to leave. Reporter investigators say arguments turned physical. Witnesses say the fight spilled onto this alley way and onto chino avenue ending here. This is where officers with the Chino Police Department found the grooms body. The brothers who live a short walk from where the party took place pleading not guilty to charges of murder and assault with a deadly weapon. The groom leaves behind an 11yearold daughter from a previous relationship, a new bride, and memories of what was supposed to be the start of a new chapter in his life. Those two murder suspects are expected back in court in a week. New at 6 00, a house caught fire in belmont. Authorities are releasing Little Information so far. We know the fire broke out just before 3 00 this afternoon on chula vista drive. This was as close as sky 7 could get to the scene. Were told one person suffered serious injuries and had to be taken to the hospital by helicopter. Investigators are now on scene trying to determine how that fire got started. Also new at 6 00, facing a deadline of today, pg e has reworked its 13. 5 billion settlement with wildfire victims and removed a requirement that Governor Newsom has to sign off on it. The governors approval was a key part of the companys plan to get out of bankruptcy protection. That is the deadline if it wants to tap into a special fund set up by california. The governor rejected the settlement last friday saying the plan didnt comply with state law. The governor gave pg e a deadline of today to come up with a new one eliminating the provision that buys the utility extra time. Investors liked the idea of pg e eliminating the governors involvement in the settlement. The stock rose and has continued to go up in afterhours trading. Lets turn our attention to the weather forecast. More rain coming to the bay area. Spencer. Okay, getting closer, as you can see right here on live doppler 7. A large batch of showers and rainfall just offshore. Within a matter of hours we should see some wet weather developing here in the bay area. Our looping radar shows its Movement Toward the coastline. It may hit the north bay first but will hit virtually all parts of the bay area. This is the live view from our exploratorium camera looking back at the skyline. Its currently 53 degrees in San Francisco, oakland 48. We have low 50s in redwood city and san jose. 55 at half moon bay. Nice clear view so far from emeryville looking westward. Its 46 in santa rosa, petaluma 49, napa 48, 46 in fairfield, concord 49 and 44 at livermore. Heres the view of the golden gate. The pavement seems dry at the moment but we expect wet weather to arrive, well, within a matter of about five hours, i would say, maybe even sooner. The rain arrives late tonight and continues into tomorrow morning. Expect wet roadways for the morning commute and probably slow traffic as well. A stronger storm is expected to arrive over the weekend, but the approaching storm ranks 1 on the storm impact scale. A storm of light intensity, it will produce light to moderate rainfall. Theres a chance of isolated thunderstorms, just a couple may develop. Rainfall totals will range from a tenth of an inch to nearly threequarters of an inch in parts of the north bay. Heres the forecast animation starting at 8 00 this evening. Notice by 11 00 we expect to see at least some pockets of light rain moving onshore. It looks like theres a better chance in the north bay and along the coastline. Then later at night well see a heavier concentration of the rain in the north bay and then it breaks up and spreads to all parts of the bay area overnight which will result in wet pavement for the morning commute. The rain continues. Its not likely to break up significantly until at least midafternoon tomorrow and then starts to fall apart into the evening hours. We should see the beginning of the ending of this system. Rainfall totals by 8 00 tomorrow night we predict will be anywhere from a tenth of an inch in san jose to a quarter or a third at the bay shoreline to over half an inch in the north bay locations. Overnight lows will be mainly in the low to mid40s, a little chillier in the north bay where napa and santa rosa will bottom out at 40 degrees. Then tomorrow look for high temperatures in a very narrow range, about 55 to 57 degrees in most locations and even cooler in parts of the north bay where highs will reach only into the low 50s. The forecast animation for the weekend storm shows that well see rain arriving on saturday, continuing through saturday night, through the day on sunday. There will be cold air coming down with this storm so look for snow in the sierra. It will taper off in the bay area on monday. Heres the accuweather sevenday forecast. Tomorrows storm and tonight ranks one on the storm impact scale. Mostly cloudy skies thursday and friday, no rain expected then. But as i pointed out, the next storm arrives on saturday, continues on sunday into monday and it will rank only 1 on the storm impact scale but will produce periods of heavy downpours and strong gusty wind. And christmas is just on the other side of that. A little holly jolly. Thanks, spencer. A Contra Costa CountySchool District says they are tens of millions of dollars in the red. Their options are. 6, 7, 8 big dreams start with small steps. But dedication can get you there. So just start small. Start saving. Easily set, track and control your goals right from the chase mobile® app. Chase. Make more of whats yours®. The ones that make a truebeen difference in peoples lives. And mikes won them, which is important right this minute, because if he could beat americas biggest gun lobby, helping pass background check laws and defeat nra backed politicians across this country, beat big coal, helping shut down hundreds of polluting plants and beat big tobacco, helping pass laws to save the next generation from addiction. All against big odds you can beat him. Im Mike Bloomberg and i approve this message. It looks like this. For Heart Failure look like . 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Reporter so we went searching for the answers. According to the School District, theyre facing a twoyear budget deficit of about 47. 8 million. Where did the overspending happen throughout those years . Over the approximately last five years weve received 35 million in local control revenue increases. 26 million of that goes to state mandated contributions to our retirement systems. Reporter the School District has 34 million to carry them over this school year, but layoffs next school year are almost certain. A plan of action that our superintendent and chief Business Officer have laid out, that there will need to be layoffs in order to weather this to weather the budget crisis. Reporter according to the district, the cause is a drop of enrollment of 1,300 from 2013 to 2014 school year and rising costs like staff salaries. A councilmember says this deficit could have been prevented and is now asking for a Fiscal Crisis Management Team to intervene. You cant allow the people on the inside to do the assessment, you have to hire a third party. Reporter the west Contra Costa County unified School District will have to notify its staff about layoffs by march 15th. Luz pena, abc 7 news. Within the span of a few months, a google employee was promoted, then fired. She spoke with abc 7 news today about the reason why, and she says shes not the only one. Secrets. Fastrak is trying to keep a secret from all of us about tolls and penalties. How did the you shouldnt have to pretend youre fine. You shouldnt have to be the ambulance. You shouldnt have to be thinking about the cost. You should just be focused on her. Covered california can help you find a health plan that fits your needs and budget. Because we believe you shouldnt have to choose between the life youve built and the care you need. A former google employee is the fifth person in less than a month to accuse the company of illegal retaliation. This comes after she says she was fired for organizing and now as abc 7 news chris nguyen explains, shes charging the company with unfair labor practices. Reporter for nearly two years, Kathryn Spiers worked on the Platform Security Team but she was fired last week after creating an internal notification which informed colleagues about their rights. She spoke to us alongside her attorney using skype. I still believe that i can do good work at google and i believe that google is uniquely positioned for me to have an impact on the security of the internet. Reporter a google spokesperson provided abc 7 news with a letter sent to staff by Company Vice President royal hansen stating that spiers misused a popup saying the decision to abuse the access she has as a security engineer was an unacceptable breach of responsibility. But she disputed what took place. I didnt abuse any privilege. I got all of the normal authorizations before submitting my code. Reporter some say google might be paying the price for previously being vague in its earlier efforts to establish a Company Culture of openness. They have relied very heavily on phrases like do no evil and encouraged a lot of exchanges in the workplace that arent really about the topic of work. Reporter she says the Company Needs to overcommunicate its policies moving forward. Those norms are changing. Reporter she has filed a complaint with the National LaborRelations Board and despite her firing hopes to eventually be reinstated. Users are at risk because billions of people trust their Sensitive Data with google. If no one will speak up, how can users trust them. Today around the bay area, people rallied before tomorrows vote of the house of representatives on the articles of impeachment. Kate larson joins us from the scene of one rally in San Francisco. Reporter ama, thats right. Were on seventh and mission in front of the Federal Building where hundreds of people were here for an impeachment rally that really had more of a rock concert overtone. Hey trump get out of the White House Reporter a band covered classic rock songs with impeach trump lyrics, the crowd feeling energized tonight by tomorrows house vote on two articles of impeachment against President Trump. Its amazing. Ive been waiting for this. Ive been wanting this to happen. You know why . We need to send a message. The message is families like ours and millions and millions of people on this planet are standing up to corruption. Were standing up to protect our planet and were standing up here today to protect our constitutional rights. We need to send a strong message to the senate that the moment they do as theyre promising, which is to vote to acquit, then theyre enabling any president of the United States to engage a Foreign Government and corrupt dictatorships to prevent Fair Election elections. Reporter so a lot of excitement, but also frustration at what they believe will be the senates acquittal of President Trump in january. Now, you can see that after the rally at the Federal Building, the crowd of hundreds, possibly a thousand people started marching down seventh street, which closed down. They are headed to House Speaker pelosis office and then senator Kamala Harris office to continue their rallies this evening. There are hundreds of marches and rallies all over the country going on tonight ahead of tomorrows much anticipated Impeachment Vote. Live in San Francisco, im kate larson, abc 7 news. Back to you. On the eve of a house Impeachment Vote, President Trump sent off a fiery letter to House Speaker nancy pelosi denouncing what he calls the vicious crusade against him. He says pelosi was declaring war on american democracy, accusing her of violating her oath of office. The president today did not address the letter but slammed the impeachment inquiry. To impeach the president of the United States for that is a disgrace and its a mark on our country. Tonight House Speaker nancy pelosi commented on President Trumps letter. I havent really fully read it, weve been working. Ive seen the essence of it, though, and its really sick. According to a tally compiled by the associated press, a majority of house members have said they will vote to sending the impeachment charges on to the senate for a trial next month. Abc network news will have special coverage of the Impeachment Vote tomorrow morning. You can watch it right here on abc 7. Now to your voice, your vote. The upcoming democratic debate once on shaky ground will go on as scheduled. All seven of the participating democrats, you see them here, threatened to boycott the debate if Food Service Workers went on strike at loyola mary mount university. They have reached a tentative contract agreement between the workers and a university subcontractor. The dnc even got involved in contract negotiations. Democrats believe that health care should be a right for all and not a privilege for a few. This agreement will make it easier for workers to get access to Critical Health care. That is a big deal, folks. The new threeyear contract includes a 50 cut in Health Care Costs and 25 salary increase. The sixth democratic debate is set for thursday night. Happening now, youre watching a live attempt at a Guinness World record. Look at the lane thats second to the right. Theres a swimmer there. There has been and will be a swimmer there for days now to break a world record for endurance swimming. Theres more on the line here than just pride too. Abc 7 news chris reyes explains. So were on day seven of an 11day swim. All our toes are just completely blistered up from doing flip turns continuously all the time. Continuous swimming. One guy goes in, swims for an hour or two, gets out. Next guy gets in and repeat over and over. Yeah, im starting to feel the fatigue. Some of the late nights have been challenging, walking out here when its freezing cold. Thats been not the greatest. Reporter pool temperature, 79 degrees live streamed 24 7. Timers, clocks, everywhere. Meticulous record keeping. Witnesses, timekeepers, volunteers. Thats the army thats helping these eight swimmers break a Guinness World record. Yes. So theres an existing record last set in 1979. So its kind of worthy of being broken. The record stands at ten days and 470 miles. Reporter theyre raising money for these two charities, one that helps families learn lifesaving swimming skills. The other give opportunities to people with physical challenges. Both causes very personal to rob gray. If you look at some of the stories, youve got kids who like double below the knee amputees and they just really inspire me and to push me in my own life. I had a near drowning as a 2yearold and i was fortunate enough my sister found me at the bottom of the pool and i survived. You know, you get an idea in your head and it lodges and keeps popping up year after year. This has been four years in the making. Reporter so far the swimmers have raised more than 10,000. You can find out more about the charities if you want to help and you can find a link to the live stream on our website, abc7news. Com. They are in the pool until december 21st. Kris reyes for abc 7 news. All right, are you counting . If not there are only 14 days left in the year. What . That means were two weeks away from new laws about wo you know when youre at ross and you find their favorite hero. 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We still dont know what theyre trying to hide. The class action suit began when the Golden Gate Bridge went to all electronic tolling six years ago. Thousands of motorists who were supposed to get toll invoices in the mail never did. Mostly due to address mistakes. The suit says fastrak didnt try to find the motorists but simply piled on penalties. They just shredded the return mail and imposed penalties on these motorists for failing to pay the tolls. Reporter class action attorney adam gutride says fastrak shredded invoices returned as undeliverable, sent penalty notices to the exact same incorrect addresses, then refused to hear any disputes. Now the Golden Gate Bridge district and Bay Area Toll Authority which runs fastrak say they have improved the system for handling tolls and disputes, but they want to keep the new policies a secret from all of us. What they have said to the judge is that people would not pay their tolls. Reporter in court documents, the tolling agencies claim their policies are confidential, and letting the public know about them would be enabling them to game the system and avoid paying correctly assessed tolls and penalties. Now, the court has already sealed information in documents. Now the tolling agencies wanted to ban the public from the courtroom during the testimony about those new policies. 7 on your side showed up to object. The judge tentatively ruled the public will be allowed into the courtroom, but information about the new policies wont be discussed in open court. Gutride says the secrecy reflects fastraks general outlook of distrust for motorists. I think its troubling that the tolling agencies have this view of california motorists, that the motorists are out to get them. Okay. The trial begins on thursday. 7 on your side will be there to watch what they do allow to come out in court. Well also keep fighting to get them to take off that cloak of secrecy over policies that affect millions of motorists every single day. I want to hear from you. Do you know about Something Like this . The 7 on your side hotline is open monday through friday from 10 00 a. M. To 2 00, 4159548151, also reach me on my Facebook Page and abc7news. Com. Glad youre fighting this. Thank you. One last check on our weather. Spencer yis januaya christia with the forecast. Heres a look at live doppler 7 and you can see that long line of showers and rainfall just offshore. It should be moving onshore somewhere after 9 00 p. M. The storm ranks one on the storm impact scale. Overnight and tomorrow we can expect light to moderate rain. Just a remote chance of a thunderstorm or two. Rainfall totals will range widely from a tenth of an inch to threequarters of an inch in the wettest locations. Overnight look for low temperatures ranging from low to mid40s. It may not be raining heavily but there will be lots of wet spots on the roadways. Tomorrow afternoon look for highs in a very narrow range, only mid to upper 50s, barely hitting 58 degrees in the mildest locations. Heres the accuweather sevenday forecast. We get a little break thursday and friday from the rain that is. It will remain mostly cloudy. The next storm comes in on saturday and ranks 1 on the storm impact scale. It will be accompanied by strong, gusty wind which will continue sunday and wont taper off until monday so we have a soggy prechristmas weekend coming our way. Dreaming of a wet christmas. Thanks, spencer. Well, we hate to see this change for the giants. Yeah, larry is here. A lot of people are really unhappy about this. A sight giants fans will not want to see. Madison bumgarner, your new diamond movie. I didnt have to call an ambulance. And i didnt have to contact your family. Because your afib didnt cause a blood clot that led to a stroke. Not today. 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Be sure youre doing. All you can to help protect yourself from a stroke. Ask your doctor if its time for xarelto®. To learn more about cost and how janssen can help, visit xarelto. Com. Good evening. We can foerever debate the meris of signing a 30yearold pitcher to a longterm deal. Were talking madison bum garner, ferocious competitor and now a member of the arizona diamondbacks. Mad bum was introduced by the dbacks today after signing a fiveyear, 85 million deal. He said arizona was his preferred destination. Now, much of the money here is deferred so this was a contract the giants certainly could have matched. Bumgarner not the pitcher he was in 2014 when he almost single handedly led the giants to the world series title. Hes had injuries, lost velocity. The giants saw him as expendable. The dbacks see him as a huge addition. Was it tough to leave . Its tough. The fans in that city mean so much to me. Weve been i mean, shoot, its been ten years there. So we won three World Championships, been through a lot together. They have always been as good as they could possibly be to me. Ill never forget that. Ill always be thankful for it. So yeah, that part of it was tough, but coming here so far, this place has exceeded all of my expectations. Like i said, im really excited about it. It will be interesting to see when he comes back to face the giants. On to the nfl, for as good as the 49ers have been all year long, their 113 record currently has them in second place in the division. Theyre the five seed in a stacked nfc. As Chris Alvarez explains, all that will change if the niners win their final two games against the rams and then the seahawks. Reporter despite a lastsecond loss on sunday, the 49ers are still actually in the drivers seat when it comes to the playoff picture and thats the message theyre going with moving forward. After review, the run are possessed the ball and broke the plane so, therefore, it was a touchdown. We felt we were good enough to win but didnt get it done. We cant harp on that too long. We corrected mistakes but weve got to play good football on saturday. Reporter a 49ers victory over the rams saturday night keeps their hopes of a Division Title and the number one overall seed in the nfc intact. I think today just getting that realization back in our mind that we do control our own destiny. If we handle business, well be in a good spot. You never wanting to lose a game. Fortunately we played well enough in our first however many games in the year that loss didnt hurt us too bad. Everything is right in front of us. What weve done earlier in the year helped us get to this point. Only one team is happy at the end of the year, usually its the team that wins the last game. We know weve worked all year to get to this point were at. Reporter if the 49ers beat the rams and the seahawks beat the cardinals that will set up a winnertakeall matchup when the niners go to seattle. The number one seed in the nfc. With the niners, Chris Alvarez, abc 7 sports. The 49ers have super bowl aspirations. Theyre hoping that none of their players are playing in the game that they were selected for today, the pro bowl. Today nick bosa, george kittle, Richard Sherman and Kyle Juszczyk were named starters. Eight players, including jimmy garoppolo, was alternates. Trent brown and Rodney Hudson were selected to the pro bowl squad in the afc. Its browns first selection. Hudson made the team four times. Four other raiders were named as alternates. The season of giving is upon us. The 49ers, they are everywhere in the community. Mike mcglinchey joined participants from Autism Speaks at the westfield valley fair. The dline teamed up to host kids for a shopping spree at shoe palace. George kittle and the tight end group partnered with the Jesse Reese Foundation to pass out joy jars at a local childrens hospital. Good job, niners. Best sports video of the day, pdc World Championships in london. Yes, we are talking darts. He need ed a bullseye. She steps up and needs 36. He just missed. If she hits the red box on the 18 thats a double score and she did it. Good night, game over, drive home safely. She becomes the first woman to beat a man in the dart championship. Look at the crowd, they are going insane in london. Tremendous video right there. I have nothing to add. Thanks, larry. Well, join us tonight for abc 7 news at 11 00. A group of oakland homeless moms who moved into this house without permission now taking their battle to court to try and stay here. Im cornell bernard. This story tonight at 11 00. Plus, preventing breast cancer. The one thing women over 50 can do to reduce their risk. All thats tonight. But that is this edition of the abc 7 news. Look for breaking news on the abc 7 news app. We appreciate your time. Im dan ashley. 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