To crash a flight headed for San Francisco. It all comes as he made his first appearance in a portland courtroom today. Good evening. Im ama daetz. And im dan ashley. Thanks for joining us today. Alaska airlines announcing it has removed the off duty pilot, 44 year old Joseph Emerson from service indefinitely and relieved him of all duties with the airline. And this comes as we learn what emerson told the off duty pilots on duty. Pilots rather, moments before he acted. Abc seven news iteam reporter dan noyes is going through Court Documents very closely. He is in the newsroom with the very latest on this. Dan . Well, dan and ama, the Court Documents describe a terrifying 90s thats how long the on duty pilot struggled with Joseph Emerson as he tried to cut power to the jets engines. Through his attorney, 44 year old Joseph Emerson pleaded not guilty to the 83 attempted murder counts for each of the people aboard that Alaska Airlines flight operated by horizon air from everett, washington, to sfo sunday, he seemed to catch someones eye in the gallery and mouth. A message as his lawyer began. Good afternoon, your honor. For mr. Emerson, he is truly named. Weve received two copies of the district attorneys information. We would waive further reading and advice of rights, reserve all rights, read into the record this morning into a not guilty plea on emerson. Also now faces a federal charge interference with flight crew members and attendants and an fbi affidavit from that case provides details from interviews with the defendant and others. The pilots report there was zero indication anything was wrong as the flight began and they made small talk with emerson sitting in a jump seat in the cockpit as the flight was well underway, according to the fbi affidavit, emerson said, im not okay and tried to cut the planes engines by pulling the fire extinguisher handles known as the t handles or the t handle, which is what this individual tried to pull on each engine actually turns the engine off and prepares it for a fire extinguisher. The problem is at high altitude, you can get the engines restarted at low altitude. That could be a fatal result. One pilot struggled with emerson while the other declared an inflight emergency. It took 90s for them to get emerson under control. He left the cockpit on his own, telling the Flight Attendants, you need to cuff me right now or its going to be bad. One passenger took these photos. Weve got the guy that tried to shut the engine down out of the cockpit. It doesnt sound like hes causing any issue in the back right now. I think hes subdued. But then the criminal complaint says that emerson tried to open the exit door while in flight until a Flight Attendant held his hands down. Emerson told police he thought he was having a nervous breakdown on the flight and that he hadnt slept in 40 hours. He denied taking any medication, but stated he became depressed approximately six months ago. He also told investigators he took psychedelic mushrooms 48 hours before that flight and that it was his first time. He also said he just lost his best friend by the way, faa records show he passed his medical exam just last month. He passed for the iteam. Dan noyes, abc7 news. Dan, heres a question though. I mean, how close of a call was this really . Well, it turns out from the pilot, from what the pilot said, that he actually got those handles engaged. The lights showed up, that the Fire Suppression was about to begin. So it was very close. They were able to get his hand off those handles and push it back into place. And so the engines never actually cut power. But it was very close. Yeah, glad they had that quick thinking. All right, dan, thank you. Well, today in southern california, jury selection got underway in the trial of the captain of a dive boat that caught fire, killing 34 people. The deadly 2019 labor day fire happened just south of santa barbara. Seven of the 34 victims were from the bay area. Now, jerry boylan, who was the captain of the boat, is facing one count of misconduct or neglect of a ship officer. The tragedy has led to maritime regulations, congressional reform and civil lawsuits. If convicted, boylan faces ten years in prison. New developments now on the ongoing controversy over Autonomous Vehicles in San Francisco today. The california dmv suspended permits for driverless robo taxis for the company crews. The action is effective immediately. The dmv says the suspension is due to safety concerns. It comes just months after the dmv asked crews to cut its fleet in half. Also because of safety in the wake of several crashes involving the driverless cars. Todays suspension does not impact the companys permit for testing cars with a safety driver inside. Oakland police are getting ready to launch a Pilot Program designed to stop car break ins. But you have to help to make this work. Heres how the way to report a car break in is not by calling 911, but by using social media. Abc seven News Reporter anser hassan explains. The Oakland Police department has videos to show just how fast it is to break into a car and the city has seen a spike in car break ins. This year alone, weve had 11,300 locked auto burglaries in the city. Thats a 36 increase from 2022. Opd says its been focused on tackling auto break ins since may. Weve increased our violent suppression units to operate in the areas where the crime data shows that these crimes are being committed. Weve also brought back our foot patrol units in the downtown area and deployed them where the businesses are mostly affected, according to opds own numbers, its working. Captain Casey Johnson says the heggenberger road corridor, where foot patrol officers have been working and along 98th avenue are areas in oakland with the highest auto burglaries, in part because of the number of travelers and easy access to the freeways. Since july, with the focus of our foot patrol officers and our dedicated overtime burglary suppression teams, weve seen a 50 reduction in weekly auto burglaries in these two locations alone. But interim chief assistant jones says even more is being done. This weekend, opd is launching a Pilot Program where people can report an auto burglary on instagram and formerly known as twitter, or by using the handle at oakland auto burg. But if you send that information to us immediately, were going to have staff monitoring the platforms and theyll be able to relay the intelligence or the information to our surveillance teams that were going to have in the city. Jones acknowledges that there are many unknowns as to how effective this program will be, even just announcing it may deter crime. This weekend. But he says the department is committed to thinking outside of the box to fight crime with the communitys help. If they could direct us to where these things are occurring at with the air assets, with the uniforms, with the undercover officers, well be able to track the vehicles down and make the arrests rapidly and remove some of the luck out of the situation. The Pilot Program runs this weekend only if effective it could be used again in oakland, anser hassan. Abc seven news. Facebook and instagrams Parent Company is now in a legal fight with california and dozens of other states. Today the attorneys general filed a lawsuit accusing meta of harming the health of young people. Abc7 News Reporter zach fuentes has more on the claims and why some say the lawsuit has been a long time coming. Today we draw the line. We must protect our Children Online and we will not back down from this fight. That fight is in the form of a lawsuit filed in a federal court in california tuesday. 33 attorneys general, including californias, suing facebook and instagram Parent Company meta. They accused the menlo park based company of harming young peoples mental health. Theres a mountain of growing evidence that social media has a negative impact on our children. Evidence that more time on social media tends to be correlated with depression, with anxiety, body image issues, susceptibility to addiction. The attorneys general say meta knows of the harm its causing young users, but has done nothing to address it. Meta has responded to the lawsuit. In a statement, it said in part, were disappointed that instead of working productively with Companies Across the industry to create clear age appropriate standards for the many apps teens use. The attorneys general have chosen this path, meta said. It has introduced more than 30 tools to support teens and families. But jim steyer, with common sense media, says meta cant be trusted to selfpolice. The idea that fake facebook and instagram are going to come out and say, dont worry, we have all the tools in place, you just need to use them is almost laughable. The lawsuit also accuses meta of routinely collecting data on kids under 13 without their parents consent, in violation of federal law. Experts say concerns surrounding Data Collection have long been an issue in Silicon Valley. When you go to use a platform, really what youre doing is performing free labor. Youre toiling away for eight, ten, 16 hours a day for some young people, unfortunate. And you dont get paid for that and youre giving away your data in the meantime. And everything you produce is making profits for a Different Company and not yourself, steyer says. Its that Business Model thats the root of the problem. This is an arms race for young peoples attention. And this lawsuit has the potential to fundamental alter that landscape and that would be a very big win for kids and families here in the bay area and all across the United States in Silicon Valley. Zach fuentes, abc seven news. Coming up, concern is growing over how security and street closures from the apec summit will affect the wider community, specifically seniors. What mayor london breed says is being done to address those concerns. But first, after the break, basket football is back. You can see it here as the warriors get ready to host the suns in their season opener. Were going to take you live to chase center for a preview of tonights game and the season ea abc seven news at five. 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And of course, watching how he plays alongside steph curry, two future hall of famers warriors fans quite acquainted with cp3 because theyve spent at, well, at least the last decade flat out despise opposing him. But that is going to change tonight. Cp3 he doesnt care that hes playing against his old team or hes playing against kevin durant. What he really cares about is playing the game his way. I think i played the game the same way every time i play. Im an emotion guy. When i play, when i hoop. But not because of that situation, you know what i mean . I think i play emotional just because of who i am, you know . So Opening Night, its a new team, you know. I know what i bring to the table, you know, and thats a thats an edge every time that i play. So its been like that for a long time. And i dont see it changing. Ive known for years hes one of the smartest, toughest competitor in the league. So every thing that ive seen backs that up. Nothing really surprises me. Mostly, im just really thrilled to be collaborating with him because hes got a lot of knowledge. I mean, all of his time in the league as good as hes been, what he has experienced in the playoffs. So i just enjoy talking shop with chris. Now, Draymond Green is not going to be able to play tonight. Hes working his way back from a sprained ankle, practicing but not ready to play. So we fully expect to see chris paul in the starting lineup. We have this running game with steve kerr where every night we ask whos starting and he says, im not telling you, but but i think you can safely assume that cp3 will be in the starting lineup. Im going to jump out real quick because its Opening Night and you could see at half time the great gary baldy will be performing at halftime. He is a master for of painting in rapid fashion. Uh, he is one of a kind, i have to tell you. He is truly amazing. David garrett baldy, when hes in the house, nobodys leaving at halftime. All right, thats a wrap for now. More coming up during the sports at 6 00. Dan and amy, back to you. All right. Look forward to it. Thanks, larry. All right. Lets talk baseball for a moment. The giants are poised to hire peninsula native and cal alum bob melvin as their new manager. Malta reports multiple reports indicate melvin met with giants executives yesterday. Now he still has one year left on his contract with the san diego padres. But the giants received permission to speak with the three time manager of the year. Melvin managed the oakland as from 2011 to 2021. An official announcement from the giants could come as soon as tomorrow. Coming up, helping to solve the Climate Crisis through technology. Were going to tell you about the conference underway in Silicon Valley and some of the ideas being discussed time to win is running out in our prize packed kick off the savings Monopoly Game hurry in to play for your chance at over 25 million in prizes and money saving offers like this, and this, or even this. 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Meanwhile, Governor Newsom continues his week long trip in china today in the province of guangdong. He toured the worlds first zero emission urban bus depot to see how the area is transitioning to zero emissions. Public transportation. He also signed a new Climate Partnership with the governor. Theyre focused on the issue of Climate Change. More specifically regarding the use of methane back here at home, 12 of the worlds leading minds on Climate Science say more action needs to be taken immediately to protect the planet. In other words, we need Climate Change solutions as abc7 news south bay reporter Dustin Dorsey shows us potential answers to the worlds problems are on display this week in san jose. We can only hope that we might be on the verge of finding a Climate Crisis solution in Silicon Valley as the verge in bloom conference returns to san jose for their three day event. Verge is really about deploying Climate Tech Solutions at scale. So we have 5000 people here from around the world representing large corporations, municipalities and the innovation and Innovation Ecosystem coming together to really make those solutions happen. That includes looking at new ways to clean, feed and power our society. This is our Battery Energy storage solution. It basically eliminates the need for fossil fuel based tempoorary power, the moxie and Battery Energy storage system is american, made from richmond, california, with American Solutions in mind. Strong enough to power a Single Family home for three weeks or even a construction site without the need of environmentally unfriendly fuel. We have an opportunity to use 100 clean electric. This can change construction in from the top to the top to the bottom. Its a industry from a global perspective that that global emissions come from 40 of construction and we want to make sure that we do a small part to help us reach our climate goals. Climate goals are important, but Climate Action is needed because time is ticking. New research from 12 International Scientists published tuesday suggests that earth is under siege during this unpressed and record breaking year that weve had with flooding extreme temperatures, fire and drought, csu, east bay professor of Public Health michael schmelt says these hazards have serious impact on our health. We really need to be mindful that these can be extreme events that could be harmful to our health and really understand, get our information to understand how can they impact us in italy or us, our community and family, and how can we take action to protect ourselves . The authors of the paper say not enough has been done to take action, which highlights the important work here at verge. Ultimately these Climate Tech Solutions mean nothing without a planet thats inhabitable. So you really need to look at those two things working in concert. The weather patterns arent lying. We need to move faster than were moving. And thats why people are here in san jose. Dustin dorsey, abc7 news. Work to do evidently. Well, were talking climate foggy and cool today. Yeah. So lets get to abc seven news meteorologist sandy patel. We did still have some sun though. Yes we still definitely got some sun out here for most of the bay area. And dan and lets take a look at the forecast for the home opener outside as people gather in thrive city tonight. Tip off is 7 p. M, 60 degrees. A little bit of fog already starting to roll in across the area. Breezy temperature dropping to 57. So if youre still going or getting ready to go, grab the hoodie before you go cold front is coming in tomorrow and this view is going to look a little bit different from zephyr cove as we are expecting some snow. Heres the system thats going to bring the snow to the sierra nevada. Certainly is going to be a big snow maker for the cascades and the rockies. Were already seeing that precipitation in this system is going to dive south. And were going to notice some changes here. So right now on live doppler seven, still some lingering fog along the coast as you know, it was dense in some areas this morning. Heres a live view from our exploratorium camera and plenty of sun out there, 61 in the city. It is 64. In oakland, 68, mountain view, 70 for san jose, 57 in half moon bay. And speaking of san jose, they do have sunshine, right now. Upper 60s napa santa rosa, almost 80 degrees there in livermore, 77. Concord and fairfield. A live view from our east bay hills camera as we look towards vollmer mt. Diablo. Excuse me from vollmer peak. You can see a beautiful view of the moon there turning cloudier and cooler tomorrow, slight chance of showers tomorrow if you do buy the other model l, which is way wetter, you actually may need an umbrella tomorrow. So just be aware of that. Cold mornings thursday through saturday. Heres the system that is going to come in. It will bring the snow showers to the sierra a few showers around mendocino county. This is obviously not the wetter model. But keep in mind that if the wetter model materializes and its going to be widespread wet weather here in the bay area , a couple of inches of snow expected in the mountains down to lake level. And behind this system, some cooler air for the bay area. Also windier conditions tonight. A little breezy as we head towards tomorrow afternoon. Close to 30 mile an hour winds and then tomorrow morning, its going to start off with some cloud cover temperatures in the 40s and 50s. The clouds will increase and thicken throughout the day tomorrow afternoon is a cooler one and youll notice it low 60s to low 70s cloudier skies expected the accuweather seven day forecast. It is a breezy, breezy and cooler day tomorrow fall feel in the air as we head towards friday. That computer model that was showing the possibility of wet weather. 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Lets get to abc7 news anchor karina nova for a look at the stories coming up at 530. Karina. Thanks, dan. And today, californias suspended cruises license to operate driverless vehicles. The dmv suspended the permits amid Public Safety concerns. Tonight well have a deeper conversation about the decision and the impact on the autonomous taxi industry as a whole. Plus, a look at californias effort to reduce the use of plastic bags. Abc seven reporter leanne melendez joins me with why people are Still Holding on to those plastic bags. Join us for those stories and more at 530 on abc7 bay area streaming tv. Dan im karina. Thanks. And you can download the abc7 app or head to abc7 news. Com and join karina in two minutes. And if youre watching us here on tv, world news tonight with david muir is next for sandhya patel. All of us we appreciate your time. Im dan ashley and im ahmad daetz. We will see you again at 6 00 we will see you again at 6 00. Stinging, 5timesaday,. 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