Parents and students protesting tonight in pleasanton. The big question, when will middle schoolers and High Schoolers get to come back to school . Rent relief and eviction protections on its way tonight to those impacted by covid. The storms heading out. Ill let you on up. Ski shops like this one busy as the rush is on to get to tahoe. Ill show you why that might be easier said than done. Abc 7 news starts right now. Announcer building a better area for a safe and secure future. This is abc 7 news. I mean, if youre coming from the bay area and youre trying to head up to a ski resort tonight, you probably are not going to get through. That is the warning from caltrans tonight. If youre thinking of heading up to lake tahoe, just dont do it. Blizzard conditions are making the roads extremely treacherous. Right now 80 is closed because of several jackknife big riggs, multiple spinouts and heavy snow. There is no estimated time for its reopening. And 350 is open but with chain controls over the summit. And those conditions arent stopping some. So true. Abc 7 News Reporter j. R. Stone found a bay area ski store doing . Very brisk business. Reporter this is what the backup looked like along hey amou of snow and aunt o r coming ski resort mu, you probably are not going to get through. Reporter in fact, the conditions in the sierra caused all sorts of issues thursday, with vehicles having to be pulled out of the snow along the interstate. But at California Ski Company in berkeley they are as busy as can be with those from the bay preparing to head to the sierra. Maybe friday night when the blizzard clears, yeah. This is the first time well be getting out of the state for the first time. Reporter parts of the sierra have already received several feet of snow. Travelee b upther dont. Reporter . Though, say theyve been inside long enough and being outside is a safe way to go. I think skiing is a great activity for covid. As far as activities go. Becausebvll outdoors. This is what everybodys been waiting for. I think its easier to social distance and also be active at the same time. Reporter j. R. Stone, abc 7 news. Check out the snow coming down live in t view from our new camera at zephyr cove in lake tahoe. You can watch this camera anytime through our nbc 7 bay area app for roku as well as other devices. Its a cool camera to be watching, especially during the storm. But fortunately the storm is winding down tonight, which you know, we really need td to come yeah, thats absolutely right, ama. Enough already, right . Weve had a tough couple of days. Abc 7 news meteorologist sandhya patel is tracking with live doppler 7 tonight. Sandhya . Yeah, thats right, dan and ama. It is making its final push and it is still dropping some rain as you look here on live doppler 7. Some moderate pockets of showers around cupertino, los gatos, Stevens Creek boulevard, page mill road as we head into menlo park, campus drive, palo alto, streetlevel radar showing you where its raining right now in the inland east bay around blackhawk, san ramon, danville and we will show you whats happening now. Its finally shifting on the move into southern california. We definitely needed the rain. No doubt about it. But it was causing problems obviously. Overnight light to moderate showers. Slippery roads. Areas of low visibility as you take a look. Those showers will be pretty head into 8 00 a. M. Y the time w and tonight visibility is lowering to a mile in santa rosa with this. Sutro tower showing you the fog over San Francisco. Ill be back to let you know when our next storm will arrive and how long that break will last in a few minutes. Dan . Sandhya, thanks a lot. Major cleanup is under way near carmel tonight after heavy rain saturated that area. Monterey county, office of Emergency Services says the sand levee that was holding back the carmel river breached, flooding homes in the area. Despite the sandbags, water got into this home, as you can see. The Sheriffs Office had issued an Evacuation Order affecting 2500 residents this morning. But it has since been rescinded. Work crews spent the day clearing the downed trees and removing mud from the roads. A section of highway 1 south of big surhas collapsed. Caltrans says it will have a team in the area tomorrow to assess the damage. Its not clear when its going to reopen. Another section is closed near the Monterey County line. You can see this area is just barely passable because of mudslides. And to track the storm you can access live doppler 7 on demand right on your tv. Our app is available for apple tv, android tv, amazon fire tv, and roku. Just search abc 7 bay area to download and start streaming. Well stay on storm watch but lets turn to the coronavirus. National leaders weighed in today on when and how schools should reopen. President biden has vowed to reopen most schools within 100 days. In a talk with the big teachers unions today this is what dr. Fauci said. The American Rescue plan is something that hopefully will provide theresours maskg,orfo wr ces t schools might need. Reporter some unions including the united educators of San Francisco have said that teachers would feel a lot safer if they were vaccinated. In california Governor Newsom has outlined a plan to focus on reopening schools next month for students in tk through second grade. In the east bay Pleasanton Unified School district just voted tonight on a plan to bring students back to campus. Preschool and tk through second grade will return after Alameda County has been in the red tier for ten working days. Third through fifth grades will return after three weeks. Abc 7 News Reporter matt boone was in pleasanton as parents and students held a rally pleading to go back. Reporter they may have been dragged here by their parents what do we want . School when do we want it . Now reporter but for these pleasanton unified middle schoolers their passion was real. What i was really excited about middle school was to make new friends and i really miss that. Reporter summer brown and her friend marcela stern say its not just the social aspect they miss. Its harder for me to learn online because im nme interact. Reporter now they say theyre desperate to return. I want to go back now. I would do whatever it takes. Ill bring my hand sanitizer. Ill wear gloves. Ill wear a mask. Ill stay six feet apart. Ill do whatever it takes. We need to go back to school. R that was up for approval had elementary schoolers returning for a blended cool day but not grades 6 through 12, which caught many parents off guard. This change would change everything that we have expected. Reporter parents say they just want to have the choice. Not everybody wants to go back to school. Thats fine. People can stay at home if but the kids that need to be in person, they should be in class now. Epr t t Virtual School Board Meeting staff presented the plan. Some students would be able to come back for small groups and sports but most instruction would be on zoom, making exceptions for special needs and homeless students who could come back on campus. After more than an hour of Public Comment the board was forced into a lengthy discussion. Still not making a decision by press time. In pleasanton matt boone, abc 7 news. Moments ago the board decided to amend the plan to include middle schoolers and ll bwout lar. Ssigdo prosc unieddchhatavg t officers on campus intimidated students, especially students of color. Instead the district will consider hiring counselors and train School Employees on dealing with conflict. Rent relief is on the way for thousands of struggling californians impacted by the pandemic. The bill expected to be signed by Governor Newsom tomorrow would also extend the states eviction moratorium. But abc 7 News Reporter Cornell Barnard explains some tenant advocates worry it doesnt go far enough. We had a goal, a very specific goal by this week to extend eviction protections here in the state of california. We have a deal. Reporter governor gavin newsom says california will freeze evictions for struggling tenants impacted by covid for another five months. More than 2 billion in federal stimulus funds will help with rental assistance. Were going to leverage that 2. 6 billion focusing on low income renters. Reporter under the new bill the state will cover 80 rent you missed between april 2020 and march 2021. As long as the landlord forgives the remaining 20 and does not pursue evictions. We need to make sure that folks are stably housed. We need to make sure folks arent being evicted and going into longterm debt based on a pandemic they had no control over. Reporter so many of us are unable to pay rent. Reporter oklahoma renter and housing advocate tara thomas lost her job last year to the pandemic. She says landlords have the right to decline the rent Relief Program. Tenants could still apply for assistance under the bill but many families could suffer. Leaving the rent Relief Program in the landlords hands can, you know, lead to a lot of the most eople being left out in the cold. Were going to have to monitor this aggressively. He doesnt want any families left out. He says the Legislature May consider extending the moratorium again this summer. Cornell barnard, abc 7 news. Another state auditor report, another blasting of the im maikel finney. 7 on your side is still ahead. Plus, the gamestop stock frenzy and the ceo of menlo park app at the heart of the chaos speaks out tonight. First a look at whats coming up tonight on Jimmy Kimmel Live after abc 7 news at nd aama. Your mother and i worked very hard on this. 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Ends monday. Trailblazing actress cicely tyson has passed away at the age of 96. Tyson gained fame in the early 1970s when black women were finally starting to get starring roles. Some of her bestknown work includes sounder for which she earned an oscar nomination and the autobiography of miss jane pittman for which she earned two emmys. Very powerful. Tyson also won a tony award, was granted the presi mal of a had justblished memoir th fact. A cause of death has not yet been released. But again, she was 96 years of age. The state auditor released a second report today blasting the e. D. D. Saying the agency ignored signs of massive fraud and paid billions of dollars to criminals. The report identified at least 10 billion in payments to fraudsters but said the amount is probably much higher. In fact, the e. D. D. Itself admitted on monday as we reported as much as 31 billion was paid and either confirmed or potential fraud. 7 on your sides Michael Finney has the report. Reporter ive told but inmates filing false claims from behind bars. And folks all over the country receiving e. D. D. Letters addressed to complete strangers. It was all fraud the e. D. D. All but ignored. These are all from e. D. D. Reporter i told you about nick crimes of san jose. Theres a lot. Reporter linda dodge in san jose. Nine envelopes from the state of california e. D. D. Reporter and this man all the way out in florida. They were among the thousands who received mail from e. D. D. Addressed to complete strangers. I wonder what the mailman thought. Reporter iturned out fraudsters were using their addresses to file phony claims. All tried to report the suspicious mail to the e. D. D. But todays audit says e. D. D. Didnt notice the pattern until september, months into the pandemic. We now have two audits that i think demonstrates that e. D. D. Was in fact a rats nest of incompetence. They brought the fraud on. Reporter the e. D. D. Finally shut down 344,000 suspicious accounts. It swept thousands of legitimate workers into the crackdown including nicks son ben. I went to go pay my cell phone bill and found out my card was declined. Reporter the auditor also found that he e. D. D. In a rush ferify laims last spring and eligibility and identities millions of claims, opening the way to fraud. It also failed to crosscheck claims with the department of corrections and jail inmates were filing phony claims from behind bars. Collecting at least 810 million in benefits. E. D. D. Was so overwhelmed isyp of a frhave any check and te. D. H assned to manually inspect reports of suspected fraud. To correct problems e. D. D. Froze thousands of accounts. But that swept many legitimate claims into theny h workers wit income. Theyre failing on both fronts. Lots of fraud and lots of people not getting their legitimate benefits. And so the system is obviously broken and needs to be rebuilt. Reporter the e. D. D. Says the Trump Administration is partly responsible for failing to offer support for fraud prevention. Now, ive posted e. D. D. s full response on our website. Im Michael Finney, 7 on yr side. Cision today to restrict transactions for gamestop and other stocks that have been targeted by reddit traders. Were in a historic situation where theres a lot of activity and a lot of buying concentrated in a relatively small number of symbols. Users were prevented from buying more shares of gamestop today but limited buys will be available orllowed rather starting tomorrow. The ceo of nhd, ws bad mrk, td cnn the move was made because of volatility, not to protect anyone. This decision was not made on the direction of any marketmaker or other market participants. Lawmakers were critical of the crackdown and the new York Attorney general says her office is looking into the situation. All right. We want to get back to our weather because it sounds like things are starting to taper off a bit, dan. Yes, ama. Thank goodness. Its been a long 24, 48 hours or so. Meteorologist sandhya patel is here with the forecast. Sandhya . Still rain is in the forecast, right . Yeah. We do have some more rain coming. Right now we have some on livec senge poc of moderate rain around los altos, Junipero Serra boulevard, around saratoga, santa clara, west heading street heading into san jose. And you will notice right around the sunset district some moderate pockets of showers as well. So the 48hour soaking definitely resulted in one to twoplus inches of rain and in the case of the ben lomond area, santa cruz mountains, over a a. San jose two inches. Oakland over an inch and a third. Redwood city 2 1 2. San francisco about an inch and a half 2 00 sxrlth. Santa rosa you will notice around livermore over two inches of rain as well. It has helped out. So in terms of rainfall season to date where numbers are going up. 40 of average at sfo. Santa rosa 41. San jose 45 and 39 of average in San Francisco. Lake tahoe camera, this was the view just a short time ago. The snow was coming down. This is from zephyr cove. Its one of our newer cameras and it was nice tot not a goo i obviously. The resorts. Falling right nowd winter storm warning just got extended until 7 00 a. M. Tomorrow above 3500 feet. Three to eight inches of additional snow, possibly up to a foot of snow at the higher peaks. Difficult travel. Best to hold off. Foggy view right now of San Francisco from our sutro camera. Temperatures are in the 30s to 50s range. As you take a look at the storm impact scale, its a 1 for overnight light to moderate showers, slippery roads, areas of low visibility. Now, the hourbyhour forecast will show you 1 00 in the morning, still the same general vicinity. Well see the showers that are seeing them now. By 4 00 a. M. Only a few showers left around livermore, san jose area, and then its out of here. We get a chance to dry out and then well start to see some changes. Temperatures in the morning 30s, 40s. Its going to be cold. Oth cool side, 40s, 50s, keep that extra layer handy. Accuweather sevenday forecast a few morning showers tomorrow. Not widespread events. Slight chance in the north bay saturday. A chance in the north bay on sunday. Our next storm really gets going and arrives on monday going into tuesday. Thats a 1 on the storm impact scale. And then mild for midweek. I have to tell you, though, around the southern Monterey County coast, rainfall totals in 48 hours, 9 to 11 inches. Thats impressive. Dan and ama, thats why theyve had so many problems there. We need the rain. But not all at once. Thats almost tonight after they had been stuck in the mud for up to 18 hours. This is off river road in salinas, an area that saw mudslides this week. The animals were found by their owners, who then flagged down passing firefighters. It was a group effort with more than eight agencies and neighbors helping out. Oh, goodness. Good thing they were able to get them out, dan. Thats a good evening. After winning last night the warriors immediately hopped on a flight to phoenix looking for their first threegame winning streak of the season. But honestly, just didnt have a lot of juice tonight on a backtoback. Steph curry just did not have enough help. One of only three warriors in double figures. Suns fast start. Deandre ayton, oh, man, a monster inside. 12 points and 13 dre attention of everybody. Andrew wiggins wide open for three. But he had only a quiet 16. Suns by five in the third. How about curry against the world . The harnlgsds the drive, the finish. Steph with 27. But the warriors couldnt close the gap. James wiseman from draymond here with a slam but only five points after a careerhigh 25. Eric pascal hot late Fourth Quarter scoring eight points quickly. On a be dubs within ten but the abduna i with authority. Suns minus devin booker snap their skid. To the ice we go sharks in colorado looking like a team frankly that has been on the road for over a month. Ryan donato, scary knee on knee collision with Pierre Edward bell maher who had to be helped off the ice. Sharks facing a three on two attack. Andrei burakovsky beats devan dubnyk. And in the final minutes dubnyk with no chance. Kadri on the redirect. Avalanche win itolgeoo tonight. Stanford without three of their starters at arizona but they did have oscar desilva. Oscar, oscar, oscar. Has to be in the running for pac12 player of the year. He had 17. This is a fun back and forth game. James akinjo behind the back to Terrell Brown jr. For three. And the wildcats were up five. But the cardinal dominated late. Jaden delair, he led the way for stanford. They sweep the wildcats 7364. How about andre kelly and cal at Arizona State . Sun devils have not won a decembe linds of sues. Cal on ahere, mt ley lbing to k. Its a 90 run. Kelly had 16. 6056. Asu in the second half. Bradley launching from downtown tempe. But the sun devils, they finished this game off. Josh christopher, three plus the foul. 7268 asu. Thats it 12 days ago, this high tech
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