Approved. The house passes over 95 billion in aid in most of that money for ukraine and israel. Why the decision could bar the House Speaker plus trying to address the work issue also led to us understanding that, hey, they cant even afford to pay their rent. So we, you know, it was necessary to get involved in the tenant issue and in a tenant fight in concord and rent control and the east bay, a new law taking effect to help renters and landlords. After a years long effort, well have more on that coming up. Good morning everybody. Its sunday, april 21st. We begin with the weather and get ready for the heat. Yeah thats right. Today and tomorrow as well. Temperatures well above average as we look at live doppler seven. Its quiet out there for all of california for a change over the weekend. 47 right now in santa cruz going for a high of 74. Beautiful shot there yesterday about 7053 San Francisco. And its 52 in san jose, 55 in oakland with 54 Half Moon Bay. Look at the Golden Gate Bridge. Looks very nice out there. 48 santa rosa mid 40s petaluma, napa temperatures dropping before our sunrise. And then as we get into the midmorning hours, its going to warm up quick. Three degrees warmer in oakland and concord. And theres a look at san jose will be about 80 degrees there today, 50s and 60s. 9 00, noontime, 60s and 70s for most, almost at 60 along the coast. And then by the afternoon mid 60s at our beaches. Lighter winds, mid 70s around the bay shore, mid 80s inland. It will be changing quickly. Ill have the details in a few minutes. Stephanie. Lisa. Thank you. New developments on capitol hill. Now the house of representatives passed a series of foreign aid bills. The bills include over 90 billion to ukraine, the indopacific region and israel. It comes as israel launched strikes on rafah, killing 18 people, including children. Abc News Reporter alison kosik has the bills controversy and next steps. The house passed a massive 95 billion foreign aid package saturday after months of delays. The package included four bills, one with nearly 61 billion in aid for ukraine, another with more than 26 billion for israel and a third with 8 billion going to the indopacific region including taiwan. Also included legislation to force the sale of tiktok by its chinese parent company. If it doesnt divest, however, House SpeakerMike Johnsons push to see these aid bills through could cost him his job. You do the right thing and you let the chips fall where they may, the speaker relying on votes from democrats to clear a key procedural hurdle to get the bills to saturdays vote. Gop hardliners not happy. Mike johnson is a lame duck. Are you ever. Hes done. Hes done. Marjorie Taylor Greene did not move to oust the speaker on saturday before the house adjourned until april 29th. Although she claimed her coalition against johnson is growing now that the bills have passed in the house, the senate will begin consideration of this foreign aid package on tuesday. Alison kosik abc news, new york. Happening today, mayor london breed will be heading back to San Francisco after securing a deal with china to bring giant pandas to the city as soon as she arrives to sfo from beijing. The Mayors Office says she will be giving an update on these pandas. The San Francisco zoo will be receiving the beloved animals as part of chinas panda diplomacy program. When the city briefly hosted the pandas back in the 80s, the zoo had over 1 million visitors. Building a new enclosure, though, could cost at least 25 million. Secretary of state Antony Blinken is heading to china next week. This will be his second visit to the country as a top american diplomat. He went to china last year to stabilize relations after tensions rose when the u. S. Military shot down a chinese surveillance balloon detected over us military sites. Blinkens three day trip starts on wednesday. Hes expected to raise u. S. Concerns. Beijing is helping russia build its Defense Industry to fight the war in ukraine. We have new developments in a story abc seven news has been following, the Oakland Police officer, hurt in a bad crash several years ago, has died from his injuries. Officer jordan wingate was on his way to a call when he crashed into another car and a semi truck back in august of 2018. He ended up in critical condition. The 29 year old was forced to medically retire. Oakland police say wingate died yesterday morning surrounded by family in the east bay. A new law to help out renters and landlords has taken effect in concord. It comes after an eight year battle to get a rent control ordinance passed in the city, and legal challenges threatened to push it to the november ballot. Abc seven News Reporter anser hassan is following it. Jose and his wife were wrapping up their garage sale saturday afternoon. Its part Spring Cleaning in case they have to move from concord. Its really hard for us to, like, just work for rent to pay the rent, and we have more expenses than that. Like the car repairs. Jose, who didnt want to give his last name, pays 3,000 to rent this small three bedroom house. Given whats at stake, he joined the coalition that fought an eight year battle to get rent control and concord. The ordinance passed in march. We need to have a place to stay or we be on the streets. The new ordinance caps rent increases to 3 a year and includes just cause eviction protections. But city Officials Say the ordinance was challenged by those seeking to get a referendum on the november ballot. However they failed to get the roughly 7000 signatures by thursday, so the ordinance took effect on friday. This was great. It was a great win, and the reason its so important is because because people were being evicted, rents were being raised like 1,000, 2,000 at a time. Severe lockett is the Deputy Director for Civic Engagement at the east bay alliance for a sustainable economy, or ebays. It fights for Worker Rights and tenant protections, he says. Too often the focus was on cities like richmond and antioch, not concord, trying to address the work issue also led to us understanding that, hey, they cant even afford to pay their rent. So we, you know, it was necessary to get involved in the tenant issue and in a tenant fight in concord because no one else was organizing in, concord at the time. He believes this concord ordinance strikes a balance which still gives Property Owners a return on their investment and protects renters. People arent making enough money to survive, so it needs some type of, equalizer or stabilization mission, to be put into place so that people can actually survive in concord, anser hassan abc seven news. Two empty hospitals in San Francisco could be turned into housing. Thats according to our Media Partners at the San Francisco standard. Both are located on california street and the Presidio Heights neighborhood. One is the old cpmc building and the other is down the street and used to be part of ucsfs campus. A developer by the name of the prada group submitted a plan last week for the cpmc location. It has moved forward on the old ucsf property. The plan could add about 1300 homes and hundreds of new parking spots. Happening tomorrow at 21 mile stretch of a north bay highway is expected to be back open by 4 a. Highway 37 from vallejo to sears point has been shut down for a repaving project. There are dours in place, but for those heading to wine country, they are running into some serious traffic. Heres abc seven News Reporter cornell bernard. What do you think about this traffic . Its crazy. Frustrated drivers facing big delays in wine country. Highway 29 through napa can be congested on most weekends, but this was especially tough because cars are being detoured away from highway 37. And heres why caltrans is repaving the westbound lanes of 37. The 55 hour closure, which started friday night, stretches seven miles from solano to sonoma counties. Were doing almost 5000 tons of new asphalt in total for this weekend, and over 300 trucks will be needed. Caltrans says the project will continue over the next four weekends to repave both west and eastbound lanes. Detours are posted, so we asked the motorists, the travelers and the public to one plan ahead. The drivers, like mary mcquinn from placerville, say they didnt know anything about it. Shes going to rohnert park. Were trying to see a baseball game at 2 00. Oh, no. Yeah theyre repaving it today. Oh, all day. I see it all weekend. All weekend. They sure picked the right times to do it right. Its been a long time sitting in the van. Its taken us an hour and a half just to go 13 miles. It was. It was awful. Lexi griggs and her friends are trying to get to petaluma. Its been a long journey. Our eta went from 1 00 to 130 to now two, so its not been fun at all. The chp posted on x telling inbound drivers to use the richmondsan rafael bridge, but check it out. Even that was backed up by saturday afternoon bianco winery in the sonoma valley, posting alerts on their website letting visitors know about the highway closures and detours. Caltrans urging drivers to be patient. If youre local, you. You have driven state route 37. You know that the work was needed and it was due in sonoma. Cornell, bernard abc seven news. The construction on highway 37 will continue until the weekend of may 11th, so give yourself some extra time staying in the north bay. The sausalito pier remains closed, so there is no Ferry Service to San Francisco. An issue was discovered during an inspection on friday, so there will be no golden gate Ferry Service until repairs can be made. Busses are replacing the ferries, and theres no word on whether the pier will reopen. All right, lets check in with lisa. Hows it looking out there . All right. Good morning. Stephanie. We have some patchy fog from the peninsula over to oakland. And this view here from mount tam looks clear. A little haze, though. High pressure building in with upper 50s several thousand feet above and low 50s at the surface. Even some mid 40s in our north bay valleys. But boy, a warm up is on the way. Well talk about it coming up, lisa. Thank you. Also ahead, a former School Board President now facing felony charges. Why she says her arrest is retaliation as stockton authorities remain tight lipped. And for 20 celebrations continue at Golden Gate Park despite the feel the power of osteo biflex®. Taken every day, its clinically shown to improve joint comfort in 7 days, with significant improvement over time. smashed up in el sobrante. Two cars appeared to have the worst damage, with several other parked cars banged up as well. It happened yesterday on San Pablo Dam road. A neighbor told us his mom and aunt were in one car that was hit head on by another driver. He says his aunt was injured in the crash. Basically, the whole Steering Wheel was like pressed against her. She was pretty bloody. Her face was bloody. It was pretty bad. Scary images here. Its not clear what led up to this accident or what happened to the other driver involved. A former School Board President is accused of grand theft and embezzlement. Former Stockton Unified SchoolDistrict Board president angela ann flores was arrested on friday. Investigators say while serving as the boards president , she used her assigned credit card for personal gain. But her lawyer says shes innocent and a victim of retaliation. In 2022, flores says she requested an audit from the district following reports of irregularities. Now that audit found evidence of fraud, mishandling of funds and irregular spending at the district. Fast forward to last week. Flores submitted claims against Stockton Unified School district, the san joaquin sheriff, as well as the San Joaquin County das office. 16 months. They never once charged her. Two days, 48 hours after we filed this claim, they arrest her in the most public way and prevent her from having from being or tonight, in returning to the safety of her family and children. This is unbelievable. The districts superintendent did not speak on flores arrest and said the focus should remain on the students in the east bay. Now oakland appears determined to keep one sports team in town. The city may spend 20 million to buy properties for the oaklands Minor League Soccer team. Our parers at the Bay Area News Group report the city is considering buying out two properties from ameda county you see on this map. One is the old raiders practice facility on rbor bay parkway, which is right next to the oaknd airport. Now. The other is a giant parking lot next to the coliseum known as the malibu lot. Right now, the oakland roots fc practice at the former raiders compound. And it was wants rather to build a soccer stadium on the site near the coliseum. The city and county have coowned the properties for years now. At the end of the month, the Oakland City Council is set to vote on buying out the countys shares. A uc Berkeley Student made history as the first ever undergraduate elected to berkeley city council. Cecilia luna parra, a 22 year old senior, won the seat and a special election for district seven, which covers the universitys campus. She received get this 59 of the vote, and shes now focused on campaigning on student representation, safety, Affordable Housing and protections for tenants. Hundreds of people gathered on hippie hill in San Franciscos Golden Gate Park to celebrate for 20 a time and date where cannabis is always celebrated. Abc7 News ReporterTara Campbell was there. Joints rolled and bongs filled, crowds lighting up at San Franciscos Golden Gate Park, hundreds taking to hippie hill saturday in celebration of 420. There is good vibes going all around and just good flower. This years official event was canceled. It is on hiatus just due to economic reasons. The organizer couldnt get the sponsorship he needed. The city is facing its own budget cuts and so we couldnt we couldnt cover any of those costs. But nothings going to stop this crowd of cannabis lovers. Its really cool knowing that, you know, people will still come out and do whatever they want because theyre still just in a celebration of it being for 20. And for some, the tradition running generations deep. Weve been coming out since long before it was ever even an organized event, my parents used to come out when they were teenagers in the 70s, and they celebrated every year. And i just been kind of continuing that tradition for them. Me and my siblings have been coming out for the last eight years, and, we love coming out to hippie hill and hanging out with all the people out here. But he says in past years, the parks been more packed compared to the years before. Its about half as many people, but were still a good outcome. Activities like volleyball and kickball filling some of that open space we partner with the city this year, to bring some cool activities to the festivities that are already happening here on 420, and whether jumping high or getting high, the crowds getting along, people have been really, really cool and respectful. I think, you know, everyone is sort of appreciating the fact that if they want to come down and hang out with us and play, that they have the opportunity to do that. I noticed, you know, they have some sort of sporting event going on thats not bothering us any, you know, a little less space, but were all still enjoying ourselves, having a great time. Happy for 20 abc seven news. Thank you, thank you. Some tlc for Mother Nature a fitting celebration for earth day. Volunteers across the bay area are taking part in oakland. Volunteers picked up litter across the city. More than 100 people walked along estuary park, hauling out some trash. Volunteers on boats, kayaks. Youll see here in a moment. Help pull out garbage from the water. Organize ers. Tell abc seven they came across a lot of plastic and volunteers picked up about 3,000 pounds of garbage in just a few hours. But as we celebrate earth day, it is going to warm up for us. Today. Lisa is tracking the latest temperatures and its looking like a beautiful sunrise here. Yeah, thats right, we do have some patchy fog from the peninsula to the city, and it is compressed that marine layer, or it will become more compressed as High Pressure continues to build in throughout the day today. And its pretty quiet out there. All the energy up in the Pacific Northwest that is about to change as we get into late monday, when were going to see a wind shift and then a couple areas of low pressure trying to make up their mind what theyre going to do for the middle and the end of the week. So theres a look at the Pacific Northwest. Even quiet there. And back home from our sutro tower camera, you can see some of the fog here. It is patchy San Francisco