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KGO ABC7 News 600AM July 14, 2024

Be from the east bay to the south bay. We look at the Golden Gate Bridge, right now temperatures in the 50s to low 60s in redwood city. From the exploratorium camera here, we are looking at a nice day in San Francisco, in the mid 70s with sunny skies. Right now it is in the 50s and cool in the north bay. Walnut creek is clear. As we go through the morning hours, we will be close to 90 degrees by the time we hit noon time in our inland valleys. 70s around the bay. We will talk about how long the heat lasts coming up. Kumasi. Thanks, lisa. In the south bay Santa Clara County is taking extra measures to be ready to respond to heatrelated issues. Abc 7 reporter amanda del castillo with more on how to prepare for the heat. Reporter if you cant find shade you want to be close to something that will keep you call. In downtown san jose fountains at cesar de chaves are helping the littler residents beat the heat. It is hot, hot, hot. Reporter she says weekend plans involve being outside. The house is fun and theres ac in there but they like the outdoors and running around so we come to places like these. Reporter santa clairas office of Emergency Management says they plan to expand services because of the excessive heat wave. Temperatures are expect to reach near record levels including it 0s in san jose and near 100 in gilroy. 100,000 people are expected at the gilroy garlic festival. Oem Officials Say hydration is key to surviving sizzling temps. Arrive early to avoid peak heat hours. You can suffer heat exhaustion, get dizzy, kind of lose your awareness, and it is sort of a progressive thing. Reporter even with the warning, others say their weekend plans involve embracing the extreme heat. Michelle ramirez is hopeful the weather will offer some relief. Going out and taking in the sun and enjoying the breeze when i can. Reporter the National Weather service says the excessive heat watch is issued for inland areas from saturday morning to sunday evening. Because it is just going to get hotter from here. Reporter if you insist on being out of the house this weekend, the office of Emergency Management says you should consider a place with abundant air conditioning like the library, Community Centers on or the mall. Expanded medical Services Expected county wide. Amanda del castillo, abc 7 news. You can use the abc 7 app to get alerts about the hot weather where you live. The app is free to download in the app store. The u. S. Supreme court is allowing President Trump to build a border wall using pentagon money, at least for now. It is drawing swift reaction from both sides. Here is abc News Reporter marci gonzalez. In a 54 decision the sprerk authorizing the reallocation of 2. 5 billion in pentagon military funds to build a wall along the u. S. mexico border while legal challenges continue. President trump tweeting, wow big victory on the wall. The United States Supreme Court Overturns Lower Court injunction, allows southern border wall to proceed. Big win for Border Security and th law. That ruling was handed down in may which put a hold on the president s use of the military funding saying it is up to congress to allocate expenditures. This after the president declared a National Emergency in february, attempting to divert money from the pentagon to build the wall. What the president tried to do was basically completely disregard our democratic process and take Money Congress hadnt given him to build the wall anyway. Reporter this order by the Supreme Court came in response to a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties union, challenging President Trumps use of Emergency Powers for border wall funds. The aclu responding, vowing this is not over, asking the ninth Circuit Court of appeals to expedite the ongoing appeals proceeding to hadley the irreversible and imminent damage from trumps border wall. Marci gonzalez, abc 7 news, los angeles. A north bay casino is stepping up to protect immigrant rights by assuring the Latino Community abc 7 News Reporter Cornell Barnard has the story. Reporter there was a surprise guest at this Latin Dance Party at graton resort and casino, Sonoma County sheriff mark esseck. Im here to assure you as sheriff of Sonoma County is that we will not turn you over to i. C. E. For minor traffic violations or minor public offenses. The Sheriffs Office will not assist i. C. E. In conducting raids. Essick telling the crowd the department will protect rights of immigrants from i. C. E. Through the california values act which prevents local Law Enforcement from using resources on behalf of i. C. E. Agents. No member of the Sheriffs Office will ever ask you what your immigration status is. Reporter the sheriff was invited here by graton chairman greg sares who wanted to assure the comment they are safe. I understand that many of us have been afraid of i. C. E. , of trump, of the white house. Reporter the north Rapid Response network and immigrants rights Group Applauds the message but says mistrust of Law Enforcement has never been higher with rumors of i. C. E. Raids reported all the time. The fear is definitely there. We have seen more calls coming into the hotline. Reporter those calls have been reports of possible i. C. E. Raise but most have been rumors. Attendees at the party seemed to like the message but the sheriff says he is not doing anything different, just following california law. Cornell barnard, abc 7 news. In the south bay, Officials Say everyone injured in a sixcar pileup that included a police car are expected to be okay. The crash happened yesterday afternoon at North Jackson avenue and mckee road in san jose. Ambulances took several people to the hospital including some children and a Police Officer. One of the accident victims told abc 7 news the police car was going through the ony entered the intersection. As soon as he got into probably the middle of the westbound lane, thats when he got hit. The collision with the police car led to the Chain Reaction crash. This morning Oakland Police are looking for a dog napper. The department is asking the community for help in finding uni, the fivemonthold French Bulldog that was taken from a parked vehicle on campbell street on wednesday. One bay area breeder sells puppies like uni for more than 4,000. San Francisco Police are sichbing for these two stolen maltipoos. A woman told officers she listed the pair for sale on line. She was contacted by a potential buyer who she met in the mission district. Thats when she says he stole the two dogs. Police are asking for anyone with information to call them. Heads up in San Francisco toechl. It might be hard to get around the city unless you are running. The San Francisco Marathon Race starts at 5 30 a. M. On sunday, and you can see the course map here which goes along the embarcadero, across Fishermans Wharf across the Golden Gate Bridge and back, through Golden Gate Park and through the haight and sonoma neighborhoods. A lot of muni buses are being recrowded and some roads are closed, some as late as 3 00 p. M. Rideshare, bike share or scooter rentals are recommended to get around. Thats a lot of running, especially when it is warmer than in the past. Exactly. It will be comfortable, in the 50s. But even so overnight in our inland valleys we will see 60s and 70s to because of the heat that is building today. From mount tam you see the sun coming up. Beautiful view there. We will see plenty of 90s in north bay but over 100 inland all weekend long. We will talk about poor air quality but a big cooldown on monday. Your forecast is next. And you wont find tent cities in walnut creek. You will find Police Working to help the homeless. It is an example of building a better bay area. 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A nonprofit in San Francisco, funded with help from the city, is equipping low income students with stem tools to help them land jobs in the tech injury. Abc 7 reporter pena has the story. Reporter this is the sound that takes over this room. While these students are coding their minds are actively dreaming and working towards a goal. I would like to become a web developer. Help building phones or coding or something. I have a design team and we created a clothing app called m malwear. Our main focus is to diversify the field of code. Reporter this are part of devmission. Maria jose garcia didnt think a career in tech wouldnt be possible. My parents didnt graduate in college. They came, they only work in restaurants and construction. Now when they see me, that im here and doing something to better myself, theyre really proud of me. Reporter devmission was founded two years ago. Their goal is to equip low income students between the ages of 16 and 24 years old by teaching them to code, build websites and fix computers. In this class fixing computers is not just for fun. These students have a bigger goal in mind. To give 300 computers to low income families this year. At the end of the 12week program these students get a 500 stipend and a free computer. We have enrolled over 100 young people with an 80 graduation rate, and as of last week 45 of them are working either on a fellowship, an internship, an apprenticeship, a parttime job or a fulltime job in the tech industry. Reporter what many want are jobs. I know coding, i know programming, so im ready for the job. Reporter in San Francisco, luz pena, abc 7 news. Homelessness has long been an issue in the bay area. Wer t s i cities like San Francisco. Were not so used to seeing it in suburbs like walnut creek. Well, now that city is taking action to help the homeless and build a better bay area. Contra costa county ties Alameda County for the largest percentage increase of Homeless People in the bay area. Each county is up 43 compared to the last Homeless Census which was done in 2017. Contra costa countys number of total homelessness is well below that of alameda and San Francisco as you see in the chart. Leslie brinkley has more on a solution to help the homeless that seems to be working. Reporter matthew chase has lived on the streets of walnut creek for ten years. His bags were stolen last week so he says his only belongings are his lighter and cigarettes. He sleeps in a different spot in downtown walnut creek every night. The Business Owners know ill come out and ill sleep on the side of the building or something, you know. They know i dont mess with them, i dont mess with their customers. Reporter but complaints about the homeless are on the rise. Some worry about safety. They could be on drugs. You dont know. They could bepter walnu cre poe say they field 3,000 calls a year related to homelessness. Thats about ten calls a day. So fulltime officers to respond to the escalating calls about encampments, littering, trespassing and panhandling. A lot of time it is people who are shopping downtown and really dont want to be bothered by people panhandling, aggressive panhandling. We get a lot of complaints about it. We have a lot of people that are concerned that walnut creek is going to turn into some of our neighboring cities, some of the close neighbors like San Francisco. Reporter officer clemente and officer silva volunteered for the fourmonth Pilot Program that launched in midjune. They got 94 complaints and have made 25 arrests so far, mostly for trespassing. Theyve also contacted 213 homeless and referred 90 of them to services to address their needs. They also retrieve and return shopping carts. Encampments are moved. Police say many of the homeless hang out along the creek, often out in front of local grocery stores, armed with signs. Reporter do you think this Police Effort is helping . Yes, it is. Reporter it is noticeable to you . It is very noticeable. Two officers i think is not even close to being sufficient to address the problem. They could use two officers just around the b. A. R. T complex. Reporter it is a fourmonth Pilot Program, but the goal here is for Police Officers at the end of it to know the names, firstname basis with all of the homeless in walnut creek, for the homeless to know those officers and hopefully get the help that they need. And so theres talk of assigning these two officers long term and looking for the funding, getting approval for that after this trial runs out october 1st. Back to you. Were going to take a closer look at the bay area housing crisis starting tomorrow with our 11 00 p. M. News. We will introduce you to someone who is renting a closet for 1,200 in San Francisco. You can look for our reports all week starting sunday night. Happening today, the aloha spirit comes to the bay aa wh theanumr uke fest returns for the third year somewhere over the way up high the free outdoor event starts with an interactive ukulele jam and a special hula performance. The festival moves to japan tomorrow tomorrow. It is 6 18 this morning and lisa is with us checking the forecast. Good morning, lisa. Good morning, kumasi. Remember, you want the heat . Boy, do we have it inland. Heat advisory for inland valleys today, a spare the air alert that extends all weekend long for communities east of the caldecott tunnel. You can see live doppler 7 showing you the fog footprint from the north to the south bay, locally across into parts of the east bay. Overall we have a changing forecast. It is cloudy here on the peninsula. As you look at sfo where you have the low clouds in place. It is 55 downtown. 62, redwood city. 59, san jose. Morgan hill, 55. 54, half moon bay. Enjoy the cooler morning. We have 60s and 70s tonight. It will take all night to get there because we will see heat build throughout the day today. In fact, numbers well over 100 degrees here in walnut creek. 58, napa. Petaluma, 52. By the delta, light winds at 58. Upper 50s in our inland valleys. Looking at the 24hour temperature change, even a little cooler with the widespread low clouds and fog. So we will be erasing this negative number as we get into tomorrow where were going to look at temperatures even warmer to start out. So a little bit haze and that certainly is an indication of where the air quality is going today with that high

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