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Hill with just days before the deadline. Tonight, it seems congress is on track for a federal shutdown and the division means shockwaves will be sent through much of american life. Good evening. Thank you for joining us. Im dan ashley. Its an important issue. And tonights abc seven advancer at 11 exploring what a Government Shutdown means for you here at home law makers have two days now. Thats all to get a deal done. And if you listen to the rhetoric out of washington, it doesnt sound like its going to happen. House speaker Kevin Mccarthy is dealing with infighting from conservative republicans. Then members say they only want to vote for individual bills, but they hold me up all summer and wont let me bring individual bills up. Then they say they wont vote for a stopgap measure that keeps government open. So i dont know where do you go in that scenario . The day at the end of the day will get it all. You democrats say they had a deal in place that would keep the government open. Republicans broke their word and turned their back on the agreement that they themselves negotiated. Why because they want to jam their extreme ideology down the throats of the american people. Thats why were in this manufactured republican crisis. A shutdown could affect everything from military members getting paid to access to National Parks like muir woods and yosemite. Now, this afternoon, we spoke with east bay congressman mark desaulnier. He touched on what else would be affected by a Government Shutdown. If youre going to travel that probably youre probably going to take longer. We know from previous shutdowns that tsa agents wont get paid and so that a lot of them have to go out and find other work until we reopen. So there are fewer of them. Air Traffic Controllers wont be on. Theyll be theyll be working, but they wont get paid when we asked about the process and a lot of the bickering thats going on, congressman desaulnier seems to echo what the House Speaker said, except he was a little more direct. All of these bills have been gone through the process and now at the last moment, just a handful of members are holding the rest of us hostage. So i think the main motivation here is these are folks who, like a lot of attention and theyre getting it, unfortunately. So they continue to do it. And when it comes to fleet week next week, the congressman says a shutdown would definitely have some sort of impact and make sure youre on top of this story as it unfolds over the next few days with the abc seven bay area app. Were sending alerts to your phone just like this one, to keep you in the know immediately. Just be sure to turn on the notifications when you download so we can get a get you in touch right away. Well, tonight some neighbors in the bay area are worried about something that should be so certain. Were talking about clean and Safe Drinking Water just basic stuff. Some in East Palo Alto are still nervous about whats coming out of the tap. You may remember some of the images last year when we brought you the story. Brown odorous water coming right from the faucet. Tonight, abc seven News Reporter Lauren Martinez was there with one group helping to find neighbors some relief and help build a better bay area. I want to know if our water is actually good. That is my question. Is it drinkable . East palo alto residents are continuing to question the quality of their water. On thursday, the Nonprofit Organization nuestra casa held a Community Event to connect residents directly affected. There have been a few incidents where water got cut off temporarily. I also am concerned about water quality. I dont drink the water directly from our tap. I wont drink it unless its filtered. A year ago, video of brown odorous water was taken by a resident who said thats what it looked like when pipes were getting cleaned. Nuestra casa collected a survey that was part of a larger report where hundreds of residents said they were concerned about the quality and aging water infrastructure. That water study brought things to our attention that we probably had overlooked. Months later, the city says theyre working on it and have received a 2 million grant for a water project. But the mayor still wants to know if people are buying bottled water. As an elected official, i dont know whats going on in everybodys home, so we need to continue to have the discussion not shy away from it. There are three separate Water Companies that serve East Palo Alto, and each Company Receives water from different sources. I think the rest of San Mateo County receives clean, good tasting water and that the people of East Palo Alto should as well. Laura feinstein was one of the panelists and works for the San Francisco bay area planning and urban research association. She said two small water providers in East Palo Alto have had troubles at times, meeting whats called the taste and odor standards for Safe Drinking Water so that means that the water is safe to drink. It wont harm your health, but it does mean often that it looks brown or it smells bad. Some residents want to know what comes next. If thats writing letters to the local politicians, if its changing the water source that we use every day. But just feel a little bit more empowered rather than just passively accepting whatever happens to come into our pipes. The mayor said the water system master plan needs more money and resources to fix the infrastructure here, but acknowledged this issue is taking too long in East Palo Alto, Lauren Martinez, abc seven news. New at 11 tesla is facing another lawsuit and this one accuses the company of discrimination and retaliating against black employees. It was filed by the Us Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in california and follows an investigation at the plant in fremont. The lawsuit claims the company repeatedly violated federal law by allowing the harassment of black employees. Tesla did not immediately respond to abc seven news request for comment. But. All right. In the east bay tonight, oakland held a town hall on its search for a new police chief. More specifically, it was the Police Commission seeking the publics opinion on whether fired chief Lauren Armstrong should be reinstated. I believe that he should be reinstated. I hope the commission has the opportunity to recommend him to be reinstated and i think that the city of oakland has suffered dreadfully since he was fired in this past february. What matters is that xiang tao was elected by the majority of oaklanders, and she made a decision. The purpose of this board is not to undermine her leadership. At tonights town hall went on, despite three members of the commission boycotting it, armstrongs name was frequently has come up frequently during other Public Meetings during this search for a new chief. He was fired over how he handled some investigations into misconduct. However, a recent report has him claiming he was cleared of any wrongdoing. All right. Lets turn our attention now to the weather forecast. Weekend arrives tomorrow. Meteorologist sandhya patel is here with the 24 hour accuweather forecast. Yeah and dan, it is going to be a changing 24 hour accuweather forecast. So lets take a look at a live picture right now from our exploratorium camera. San Francisco Salesforce tower looking good this evening as we take a look at tomorrows planner in the morning there will be very limited fog, just patchy with some high clouds. The sun comes up at seven and three in the morning and we are talking about increasing cloud cover throughout the afternoon with gusty winds. Temperatures in the mid 60s to low 80s. So its a cooler day than today and as the sun is getting ready to set at 655, you will notice that it is thicker cloud cover across the area with live doppler seven tracking a system thats going to bring us showers for the weekend. Ill let you know what part will be wet coming right up. Dan . Excellent. Sandy, well see you in a few minutes. A sudden collapse at a construction site in the heart of San Francisco turns from all hands on deck. Sadly in the mission to a tragic recovery. Three abc7 News Reporter j. R stone has that and more in tonights abc7 news to know. Everyone is shaken about this. We want to make sure that Something Like this doesnt happen again. A contractor working on a San Francisco sewer project is dead after being trapped underneath 8 to 10ft of dirt and concrete feet. Despite the hours long rescue efforts of close to 50 firefighters, the collapse left little oxygen for the man. Contractor has yet to be named. As investigators look into what happened. Supervisors demanding answers from police today on pedestre safety in San Francisco. A recent report shows traffic citations have dropped drastically over the past several years as the number of pedestrians killed is on the rise. Sfpd pointing to its staffing shortage. A key part of the problem, saying it hopes to have a Street Safety plan sometime next year. We have less people overall in the department. Arent those resources at the Traffic Company are being pulled in Different Directions . 89 rooms at san joses arena hotel are now being converted into short term housing for homeless folks. The site, funded by voter approved measure e dollars, is one of a handful of other converted sites in san jose. The city says its led to a 10 drop in unsheltered homelessness this year. Major victory for fast food workers in california. Governor newsom signing a new minimum wage increase to 20 an hour. It goes into effect april 1st, and its a long fought reward for the more than half a million fast food workers in california for doing battle against the fast food industry. Lobbyists and now having the highest fast food base pay in the us. For too long, weve demonized fast food workers that changes today. Abc7 news to know at 11 its hispanic and latin American Heritage month right now and all month long were celebrating the people and the culture here. And tonight, San Francisco mayor london breed did so as well. We are a truly amazing, remarkable city. But we are not that without the people, our history, our diversity and our culture. A celebration was held at city hall. The event featured an award ceremony. Honorees included a television personality, a Small Business leader, and the president of the San Francisco teachers union. All right. You saw it right here on abc seven, the brand new Series Premiere of the golden bachelor. It follows the journey of 72 year old jerry and his search for love. Gary rather, and his search for love. A second time. And new at 11, abc seven News Reporter tim jonze went to vallejo tonight to find intrigue viewers and they had some of their own thoughts on love. On thursday, millions of people around the country tuned into abcs premiere of the golden bachelor, the new show, a spin off of the original bachelor series, features 72 year old widow gary turner as he searches for love. They were all excited about it. There was multiple residents that wanted to watch it, so we decided to have the watch party at goodyear Senior Living facility in vallejo. Several people put on their best clothes and came out to watch the show that included 81 year old mary spry danner i wanted to see how this handsome 72, 72 year old. D wanted to come back out and live again. Mary says shes been a fan of the original show for years and was excited to see it. Now with someone closer to her own age. She told me it even sparked her imagination. Would you ever go on the golden bat . Yes, i sure. Ill get on there. Yeah others, though, werent as confident and said they just wanted to see the process play out with show participants all over the age of 60. If you found the right gentleman, would you be open to it at 81 . Let me see. How would what would i look . What would we do . The golden bachelor has received a lot of Media Attention due to its groundbreaking nature. Studies have shown Senior Citizens are one of the most underrepresented groups on television. So changing that is monumental, says heather drury, the director of coaching and a california based Matchmaking Company that specializes in people 50 and older. Those people deserve a voice, too, and to feel like im not alone in this. And thats whats so beautiful about this, this premier of this of this show. And even though thursday was only night one of the series, the folks at cougar believe it could be around for a while. I think theyre going to be wanting to watch this every week to see how it transpires in vallejo. Tim johns, abc seven news. Pretty good stuff. And dont miss any of whats to come with golden bachelor and garys journey. You can catch every episode a thursday night at 8 00, followed by bachelor in paradise. And dont miss us right here afterward on abc seven news at 11. Well, coming up, the Lasting Legacy of jimmy carter. The big birthday bash planned for the former president this weekend. A cold case court date more than three decades in the making. 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Hes being looked at now at another child murder in martinez. Both crimes were just weeks apart. Nine year old eric coy from martinez was found stabbed to death in 1987. Todays Court Hearing focused on six year old jeremy cain did not enter a plea and was assigned a public defender. After the hearing, jeremys family met with prosecutors. This is hard for me. I dont know if its relief or yeah, its not feeling good, thats for sure. I dont think you ever really get closure. Ive been around a long time. Havent ever seen families get true closure. But i feel like itll be some comfort that someone will be held. Cain is scheduled to be back in court next month. Tonight, some west coast wine experts are working with the federal government to find ways to protect wine grapes from wildfire smoke. Scientists from three western universities are looking at ideas like protective spray coatings, perhaps, and pinpoint hitting the elusive compounds that create that ashy taste in the wine. Californias wine industry. Suffered 3. 7 billion in damage during our record wildfire year of 2020. Former president jimmy carter is turning 99 this sunday. And to celebrate and honor his legacy, his birthday, jimmy carter. Happy birthday, president carter. Hope you have a good one. Happy birthday, 99. I wanted to wish you a very happy and healthy birthday. 99 years old. That is one full life. Happy birthday, sir. Happy 99th birthday, president carter. President carter. Happy 99th birthday. Isnt that nice . The public is getting a chance to help the former president celebrate this video. Mosaic is being created with more than 11,000 photos and tributes submitted so far. Mister carters grandson spoke about what keeps his grandfather going at 99. You know, i think the thing thats always kept him going is my grandmother and that love story that they have that has now gone on for 77 years is one thats truly remarkable, bill. And i think aside from that love story, its his faith. The 39th president carter is dealing with Health Struggles and has been in hospice care since february. Hes the longest lived us president ever. Tonight, a large screen is installed outside the carter president ial library in atlanta to play this really wonderful mosaic that has been created. Happy birthday. Former president carter. Well, happening now, there is a show going on atop Salesforce Tower in San Francisco. Youre looking live from our explore camera. It has turned into a full blown aquarium tonight for one special reason. The steinhart aquarium at the California Academy of sciences is celebrating its 100th anniversary tomorrow. So salesforce is showing videos of the aquariums. Claude, the alligator and african penguins. Tomorrow, the academy of sciences will offer pay what you can admission starting at 3 per person. The Academy First opened in 1853, if you can believe it, then moved to Golden Gate Park in 1916. The aquarium first opened its doors there in 1923. Now a century later, it is the oldest continually operating municipal aquarium in the country and certainly a local treasure well worth your time. Thats the living roof on top of the academy. Ive been there a few times. Its just stunning. All right. Lets turn our attention now to the weekend forecast. Its about here. Meteorologist sandhya patel is here with the forecast. Sandhya. Yeah, and that is a great place to go. Fantastic. Yeah. Dan beautiful weather today, but it is changing for the weekend. Were going to need those umbrellas. Oh, really . Yeah. Not the entire weekend, though. All right, lets take a look at those temperatures dropping. The cooling begins tomorrow, but it is so noticeable as we head towards saturday when youre dropping by 14 degrees. Concord going from 85 to 71 for santa rosa, 13 degrees cooler, 83 today youre down to 70 on saturday. Well whats bringing all those changes . Theres a system that is developing on live doppler seven. That trough is going to drop down, bring cooler air and wet weather to the bay area. Temperatures right now in the 50s and 60s. As we take a look at a live picture from our sutro tower camera, San Francisco just sparkling tonight , increasing clouds, windy and cooler tomorrow, much cooler saturday with those scattered showers. And we are talking about sunshine and much warmer weather for you coming up again next week. Morning temperatures in the 50s as there will be patchy fog around along with high clouds. Breezy along the coastline tomorrow afternoon. Those winds will increase. Were talking about windy along the coast and breezy inland. Thats going to bring about the cooler weather mid 60s to barely making it to 80 degrees. The winds will be onshore first thing tomorrow morning and they will pick up as we head into the afternoon, which will usher in the cooler air. But its going to be gusty, 30 to 35 miles an hour. You need to start looking for those extra layers as we introduce our storm impact scale saturday going into sunday morning. Its a light level one. Were looking at scattered showers, some slick roadways, gusty winds and a slight possibility of thunderstorms. Heres that trough thats going to be dropping down into california and as it does, i want to show you the hour by hour timeline saturday morning at 2 00. Hopefully youre sleeping. There will be some wet roadways out there going into 7 a. M, scattered showers, as you will notice, really that wave of shower activity continues even into saturday evening with some moderate showers being picked up there. And then early sunday morning, 5 a. M, the south bay is the last to see the showers depart. So well keep this shower activity going, at least through the early sunday morning hours. As far as rainfall goes, rainfall totals have been coming up a bit, half an inch for some of our wettest spots, 100th of an inch for some of the drier spots. But overall, the pattern is going to be a wetter one for the weekend. And in the sierra, this is going to translate into a couple of inches of snow. But the snow levels are going to be well above lake levels. So its rain at lake level about at 8000ft to 8500ft is where were expecting a couple of inches of snow in the mountains. Accuweather 70 forecast, its windy and cooler tomorrow. Scattered showers with the level one system saturday its much cooler there as you will notice in our inland valleys gusty Early Morning drop sunday and then brightening up for the second half of your weekend. And going into next week, were going into next week, were going to bring the heat with hows the chicken . The prawns are delicious. Oh, i have a shellfish allergy. One prawn. Very good. Did i say chicken wrong . Tired of people not listening to what you want . Its truffle season ah thats okay. Never enough truffles. How much are they . Its a lot. 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Wallys owner says he got the gator when it was 18 months old and he has had him for seven years and not once has anyone been bitten. He even lets the gator sleep in his bed with him. I dont know if he can let him into a ball game, though. All right. Well, brock purdy and the 49 ers are getting ready for sunday. J. R. Stone is here with sports. J. R. Up next, the countdown to 40 niners cardinals is on brock purdy preparing for sundays game against arizona. We talked with him what the 40 niners quarterback wants to do niners quarterback wants to do most of all i told myself i was ok with my moderate to severe Rheumatoid Arthritis symptoms. With my Psoriatic Arthritis symptoms. But just ok isnt ok. And i was done settling. If you still have symptoms after a tnf blocker like humira or enbrel, rinvoq is different and may help. Rinvoq is a oncedaily pill that can dramatically relieve ra and psa symptoms, including fatigue for some. It can stop joint damage. 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There have been some close calls, but purdy has not thrown an interception since new years day of last season, and that was in the overtime win in vegas against the raiders. He says thats because he has one job and its to keep the 40 niners train rolling down those tracks. I want to help my team win. You know, at the end of the day, and that comes down to the decisions that i make. You know, i get the ball every single play. Of course, i pride myself on not harming our team. And so that just comes down to trying to be selfless, making the right decisions, being prepared. Im definitely like, you know, its on my mind. Every single play, every snap, like being smart with the ball and i want to win. Thursday night football rapper lil wayne leading the packers out on the field. Marin native former cal bear jared goff in the lions. Goff early on looking looking hes got a man im on ross saint brown lions up 7 to 3 early that oh man lambeau leap right there by David Montgomery then oh hes a tough guy rushed for three tds 121 yards lines up 27 three at the half taking no prisoners packers trying to come back jordan love threw two picks on the night, including a crucial one. Late lions win this thing 34 to 20. The warriors media day is monday as the nba season starts in less than a month time sure does fly by. And besides the finals, well, we hope another big nba event could be coming. The athletic is reporting that the nba is nearing plans to have the all star game at chase center in 2025. Two words for that bout time team. The warriors hosted the all star game in 2000in oakland, but in that time, los angeles has been a host three times. Finals what appears to be some bay area love as up in minnesota. Is that you, larry . Im kidding. Tied at one in the seventh twins bases loaded. 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