circumstances surrounding as to why this individual did what he did or what he allegedly did. we know that we're going forward with our fbi partners to have a broader scope. police say there's so much material inside the home. they expect to be on the scene for at least five more days. in oakland police and firefighters swarmed the motel 6 on embarcadero at the same time today, but for different reasons, we were there around 10:30 this morning when officers took a homicide suspect into custody after a lengthy standoff. the department is not providing details of the arrest at the same time fire crews responded to a fire and explosion that blue out the window of a room one person suffered minor burns the fire appears to be accidental caused by a butane container explosion in a suitcase students at a santa rosa high school walked out today over concerns about safety in school this after an on-campus stabbing that killed one student injured another and

put a third student in jail abc 7 news reporter on sir hudson has the latest wings of the feel safe and our school students at maria carrillo high school in santa rosa. i'll walk out friday afternoon as a stabbing, but i am not surprised at the mishandling of the ministration at a rally before the march. they demanded more be done to keep students safe and informed jaden could have been alive today if you weren't for the systematic miss management of our school system santa rosa, please say on wednesday 16 year old jayden piance was fadedly sad during a fight with the 15 year old freshman in a classroom at nearby montgomery high school a third student named cruz was also stabbed in the hand now students across the district are joining together. we are all is change.

with signs of i don't f and am i next students rally for more safety on campus and for more information as events unfold and we feel disrespected because of this the school system decency to give us the same information the same respect to give our parents because they fear our parents opinions and they fear public opinion after a moment of silence for jaden students march several blocks through town many see they've suffered a lot over the past few years wildfire evacuations the pandemic and violence on campus also at the rally was olivia cruise a dear friend. of jaden, my best friend is dead because of him. and i will speak constantly in every day if i get my best friend the justice he deserves because he deserves to be here. he was only 16 back at montgomery high olivia joined other students who continued to mourn jaden's death family and friends have been critical of the school's handling of ongoing problems between jaden and the other student. they believe had more been done. jaden would likely still be

alive and that's the change students are demanding and administration and staff members need to care. they don't care and that is why my best friend got stabbed in a classroom a place where we're supposed to feel safe. the school district did not respond to requests for comment in santa rosa anton ab. reven now to an update from the abc 7 news i-team the city of oakland put up barricades blocking intersections near a grade school in east oakland and is following our story exposing alleged sex workers and trafficking operations that were crowding the area. they're just driving around. they're just driving around and it's like the barriers are not there for the pins. neighbors are calling for a better solution as parents have spotted alleged pimps and john's moving those barricades right off the street i-team reporter stephanie. sierra is live in the newsroom with the city's response steph. yes, kristen and larry parents and neighbors. tell us the area around saint anthony's school was quiet for

the first time in months after these barricades were brought in but we're told that only lasted three days now the city has committed to take further action. to send me the area where it was moved from. can you see it? this is rosa vargas. we first introduced you to vargas one month ago as she dropped off her daughter at saint anthony's school in east oakland an area where alleged sex workers and human trafficking operations have been seen loitering outside the k through 8 grade school following our coverage the city installed barricades at two nearby intersections around east 15th street at vargas says the pimps are now moving some of the barricades off the street then she sent me this one. parents sent vargas these photos pointing out the exact location of where the barricades were moved some with graffiti on them. she's letting me know with angry faces that cars are can easily drive through there. she says neighbors told her known pimps and jaunts that

frequent the area were spotted doing it. so how did they know that they started seeing the girls in the corners again, and as of now, it's the gap is still there this week the city met with community advocates police and city council members to create an enhanced response team dedicated to human trafficking concerns and the crime coming into east oakland. the barricades are now a main focus if you live on the street, you can easily navigate to your driveway, but if you're trying to cruise up and down the street you're from out of the area. it makes it quite difficult. it creates a little bit of a labyrinth for you and and the idea is to make it difficult for the exploiters for the for the johns the customers joe devries is oakland's deputy city administrator leading the effort now that word has spread the barricades are being moved. he says the city may consider making the barriers permanent. i'm not talking about those ugly k-rails if you look at a well-designed traffic island or traffic diverter.

times they incorporate a planter box with some with some nice vegetation or some artwork, you know, it has an actual curb for now debris says the city has committed more enforcement from opd. how long do you think these barricades will be there? we don't know we're gonna attract the data really carefully over the next couple of months and then we'll make a month by month decision as to what's the best move. we want to add the city of oakland has increased funding for anti-human trafficking outreach. it went from around 950,000 back in 2018 to 4.5 million dollars this year and we're told part of that will be funding the needs in east oakland around saint anthony's school, but the city has also working with the county and the da to help these women get into diversion programs. for the i-team stephanie sierra abc 7 news. all right steph. thanks so much as we head into the weekend get ready for another storm but in southern california, the snow has been just too. so much so that in the san

bernardino mountains residents are trapped in their homes with more than a thousand calls for help reporter leticia juarez with the latest. just kind of packed wit groceries and everything else for the residents. carla hansen has not been home since last tuesday. she's eager to return to her running springs. commute to deliver supplies to her neighbors at 16 senior citizens that i need to make sure. get taken care of. and i've got tractor parts. i've got firewood for their wood stoves because the heater vins keep getting covered. but this is as far as she can get highway 330 remains close to her and others hoping to get back home. caltrans has completely failed us, you know, they're up. they're they're plowing, you know, but they're bearing people in caltrans in public works are working around the clock to remove snow their progress hampered by fallen trees down utilities and abandoned vehicles. so these roads are really chased by case some roads. we can go up pretty fast other

ones. it's just one obstruction after the next in crestline a message in the snow set help us while in twin peaks neighbor want to send you was trying to dig out his elderly neighbor. we've been working for two days already digging my neighbor out lorna. she has no food. she's elderly she's about seven years old. so we're just trying our hardest to get her out state resources. are being called in to help with snow removal? this afternoon the department also airlifted gas cans to nearby communication towers to ensure calls would continue to be answered. you think that you may not see snow plows in a number of things folks. we're here for you. we're gonna dig you out and we are coming for now the highways leading up to the mountains remain closed to everyone including residents who could be waiting up to a week before they'll be escorted in reporting from highland leticia. what is abc 7 news and here in the bay area the storm expected this weekend will dump even more snow in the sierra that and the

already above average snow levels could break the existing record which was set 40 years ago today. the third snow measurement was taken it certainly did not disappoint abc 7 news reporter leanne melendez tells us how all the snow will impact our drought conditions. this month could well be another miracle march in the sierra mountains after almost a month-long dry spell during february this last week brought a significant amount of rain and snow statewide today's third manual survey of the season recorded 116.5 inches of snow. that's the snow water content of 41.5 inches and 177% of average to date. this is a satellite picture of california in september 2022 before the storms. this is the latest photo taken on march 3rd, 2023 the largest snowpack on record statewide was in 1982-83 with the next few storms here throughout this

month. we could actually surpass that and that's something that we're going to be looking out for by the time we get to april 1 the next measurement will be on april 3rd to be exact on everyone's mind are the state's drought levels while it's helped our snowpack and our reservoirs. are groundwater basins are a lot slower to recover. it will take more than a good wet year to replenish those basins with all the snow. there is some concern that warm temperatures would produce snowmelt resulting in record flooding in some areas. we saw this between december 1996 and january 1997 when several rivers flooded surrounding areas forcing thousands to evacuate but as of early february oroville dam the second largest reservoir in the state is at 65% capacity. so there's little concern there some of the other reservoirs though around the state are really hugging that top of conservation line where they are juggling and walking that fine

line between flight control and water supplies in the meantime, this year has been an outstanding one for the local economy. we're looking at extending our season obviously to memorial day, but possibly even further after that some may even think the season could extend to i leanne melendez abc 7 news while there was a mix of blue skies and clouds today even now you can see ah, but more brain. they're more snow. maybe on the way, of course, of course, so let us check in with spencer christian for first look at the forecast spencer, of course, there's more the way we're building a wetter bay area, but first i want to start with a look at the sierra where there is a lot more snow on the way a winter storm warning will be in effect from ten o'clock tomorrow morning to 10 o'clock monday morning. we're talking about heavy snow once again, which may lead us to a record a 40 year breaking that 40 year record from 198283 one to five feet of snow expected about 3,000 feet up to two feet of snow down at the 1,000 foot level mean well back here in the bay area calm conditions right now, but a level one storm is

coming our way for the weekend level one on the exclusive abc 7 storm impacts here. so for this weekend, we expect rain gusty wind snow over the highest peaks and a slight chance of thunder. here's a forecast animation by 6 o'clock tomorrow morning. we'll see that first wave of rain and snow moving in by about 132 in the it will be almost out of here that wave, but it'll be followed by another one early saturday evening going into sunday. we've got a period of extended period of wet weather coming our way kristin. all right. thank you so much spencer vice president. kamala harris is in the bay area why she's here and what it means for the next presidential election. and the coyote population is simply exploding the extremes one community may go to to thin the pack and bay area transit may be in trouble the organization that says they may never recover.

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political analyst jackie spear jackie. thanks for coming on today. of course great to be with you kristen. all right, so let's talk about vice president harris's visit to the bay area. why is this trip significant right now for the administration and maybe for her and may be different. well, it's importa literally the presidential primary is one year away, march 5th 2024, so they are getting in high gear and i think the fact that vice president harris is here is just the beginning of many trips to the golden state because it's a natural for her. she is well liked and she will be i think deployed to big states and states where there are high populations of black voters. now looking ahead to 2024, you know, do you think this is her getting ready to stump for the biden harris ticket, or maybe even the possibility of being

the top of the ticket? no, i think it's pretty clear that president biden will announce that he's running for re-election and all the speculation that he may have selected someone else i think was all just chatter. i think vice president. harris will be his running mate and she will continue to be i think an asset when it comes to college educated women women generally and women of color, absolutely, so i want to ask you if this is also an indication based on her trips. i know next week she's going to denver for a climate initiative trip and does this maybe begin to crystallize what issues might be important in the 2024 election? i think you can see that as a roadmap. i mean climate change will be important. i think women's reproductive rights is going to be important and she's a great spokesperson for that issue as well. and there's going to be renewed

interest in wanting to make sure that racial equality is not deemed to be woke equality. that is what the republicans are trying to do. and i think there's going to be a lot of pushback from the democrats in that regard right to provide a counter narrative to that. certainly. how important do you think california voters will be in the super tuesday primary because you know until 2020 we were really a big state but maybe had a small voice in determining the nominee. well the fact that we've moved our primary earlier is is good for a california because you know part of what the benefit is of course is the kinds of revenues that come into the state because of advertising and the like so that helps california will continue to be a you know strong blue state because 47% of the electorate is a democratic 24% republican 23% independent so that even if all

the independence voted republican, it wouldn't quite equal or just about equal the democratic voting in the state. so it's a comfortable place for the vice president come for so many reasons so it doesn't surprise me. she's here today nor that she will be making many troops back here. all right. thank you so much for that perspective and analysis jackie really appreciate it. thank you. coming up the trouble with traffic blunt words today from experts and the bad news for the future of the bay area. and are you unplugged why you might want to go phone free for the next 24 hours?

he's a weather forecaster. he's a podcaster. he's a renaissance man. he's three three three minutes and one. yes remember that but can he do a dance to keep the rain away this weekend? i don't know check tiktok special question. that is not among my superpowers. oh, okay. you got enough. that's okay. let's take a look at what's happening. the right now though things are relatively calm. although the wind is getting brisk. shall we say? it's not a gusty day right now, although we have surface wind up to 24 miles per hour here in san francisco and just under 20 miles per hour in many other locations his view from sutro tower looking out over san francisco currently under dry conditions 52 degrees here in the city 55 at oakland. we have upper 50s at palo alto

san jose santa clara 50 at half moon bay. nice view at the golden gate where you can see sky is getting a bit cloudy of the temperature readings right now mid 50s and novato and santa rosa 68 napa and mid to upper 50s at fairfield concrete and livermore one final live view from out 10 looking down onto the bay and towards san francisco seem to be getting lower and thicker right now. you can understand why a storm is on the way. these are our forecast headlines. it'll be a wet and windy weekend with a slight chance of thunder mixing in with the rain and so this unsettled pattern will continue into next week and more snow is headed to the sierra quite a bit. in fact the storm approaching the bay area on the exclusive abc 7 storm impact scale ranks level one. so for the weekend expect rain a gusty winds snow over the highest peaks, that'll be for tomorrow actually snow levels may come down a bit on sunday and a slight chance of thunder mixing in as the atmosphere becomes more unstable forecast animation starting at 6am tomorrow shows the arrival of that first wave of vigorous rainfall around 8am and then by

about 1:30 or two in the afternoon that wave will be pretty much out of here. we get a brief break before the next wave arrives tomorrow evening. that'll continue into sunday morning followed by scattered areas of showers doing the day on sunday and yet another wave of better organized rain moves and early monday morning just before the start of the morning commute rainfall totals. we estimate by 11 o'clock sunday evening. we'll rain today. we're from about a half inch to just over three quarters of an inch generally so for tonight low temperatures in the upper 30s, and the areas low 40s just about everywhere else highs tomorrow about 51-52 at the coast under windy conditions of 53 to 55 around the bayshore line and up to about 54 and the inland areas and in this area i mentioned more snow is on the way winter storm warning in effect from 10 am tomorrow to 10 am monday heavy snow up to five feet in the higher elevations and here is the accuweather seven day forecast. so we have level one storm activity and wintry mix of weather through monday and tuesday a show.

taper off a bit. we had some partial clearing later in the day a dry day on wednesday, although not completely sunny. excuse me, a thursday and friday rain comes back again light rain. all right spencer. i know you talked a lot about the weather, but we want to talk about the after the weather podcast is a new episode just dropped right the episode just dropped in. it's basically an honor of black history month, which has now ended but it's still something important to talk about my guest is noah griffin local bay area resident in marine county. this guy's such a renaissance man. here. he is with the late john lewis civil rights leader and congressman. noah and i are both from that generation that grew up under jim crow segregation in the south. so we have vivid memories because that was for the first 20 years or so of our lives. this is thurgood marshall the first black supreme court justice appointed by lynden johnson. so noah, and i talk it on podcast about the civil rights movement the struggles about the atrocities, but we also talk about the contributions and the in the history of black people

in america and why you can't really talk about american history without talking about black history. so although there are stories we tell that show the ugly side of racism in america. the conversation basically is an uplifting and inspiring one and noah is such a renaissance man. he's just a great great guest i was going to ask you is it his feeling that we're making progress it's yes. you can't deny that. we are making progress but there are many people fighting against that progress still and there are many state legislatures and and and governors not here in other states trying to basically erase my history from from the textbooks and trying to limit the study of the way our history truly is and we talk about the fact that people in germany. don't deny the holocaust existed. why do we try to deny that there was a hundred years of you know, racism and discrimination and jim crow after slavery ended so when we talk about the struggle for social justice, we're not talking about something that

happened in the distant past. it's happened in my lifetime and today. yeah interesting conversation spencer folks. here's your chance to sit in. all right with this spencer and noah definitely great conversation for you after the weather with spencer christian on apple podcast and spotify. yeah coyotes not an unusual site in the bay area and one community says, you know what they got too many it's becoming a danger their plan to try to in the pack and a cat napping closure the desperate search and there was some good news.

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moving forward finding solutions. this is abc 7 news. the marin county city of

belvedere is considering using snipers from the federal government to kill all the coyotes on the island some residents say the coyote population is just exploding. it's affecting their way of life and it reported dan always has been looking into this issue and joins us now. well, larry and kristen there's an old ranchers adage kill a coyote and two show up to its funeral the experts say there's some truth to that. more will come to fill the void still a vocal group of belvedere residents once the killing to start as soon as possible. belvedere has some of the best views of san francisco bay some of the most expensive homes and a coyote problem. not the residents say the predator population is exploding and as a result deer raccoons and squirrels have all but disappeared and so are the pets. this was our good night thing when he wants to go out open the door. never to be seen again. lewis tells me her mutt from the pound baby kept her company

through the pandemic, but just two weeks ago a coyote snatched him from her fenced yard. i haven't gotten over it at all. it's very hot a neighbor. saw the coyote running down the street with baby wearing his red sweater in its mouth baby. went out the back door. baby was gone that coyote had to be with him 10 feet of me and you didn't see it. never saw it. never heard baby scream. nothing. i was right here in the living room and i opened the door and let him go out and didn't hear anything at all muriel simone's dog noodles disappeared and a few days later her 14 year old daughter on a bike ride found his paul and then his head. oh she's devastated and she's also scared when she's on our bike or she's outside that you know that she's gonna confront a coyote. we literally aren't sure if we can stay here. really? really walton connie striker. tell me their lives changed one night in january when their dog woke them up barking.

i turned on the light which is right there for the deck light. and there's mr. coyote they have no windows on the first floor and now they have to keep the sliding doors shut tight for fear of a coyote attack winston would go he right belvedere police reporter dramatic increase in the number of coyote sightings and pet attacks. 71 since october the city council held an emergency meeting two weeks ago urging residents not to leave pet food outside to clean up any fallen fruit from trees that coyotes might eat. yes. they're omnivores. i mean, i've seen them jumping into persimmon trees grabbing the right persons, the experts told residents to coyote proof their yards install caddios like this and coyote roll bars a top fences. will roll the animal back. when they urge residents to ha the coyotes stand tall wave your arms shout to scare them away

the crowd grew impatient. and i just okay, can we have a little bit of order and decorum here please many of the residents were not open to the california department of fish and wildlife's basic message coyotes are here to stay find a way to peacefully coexist. it is illegal to drive an animal and move it elsewhere public comment was filled with people calling for snipers to kill every coyote on belvedere. they cite december's attack on a child in woodland hills the father chased the coyote away and carl the coyote killed by a federal sniper in summer of 2021 after he stalked a toddler in san francisco's golden gate park. we get rid of the current aggressive coyotes, right? they need to be taken out. full stop and i'm the biggest animal fanatic, but they got to be killed. they got to be eradicated these coyotes if we eliminate them

now, they're not coming back even tv personality mike rowe. also a belvedere resident called in to claim. he had a close encounter. i kicked the coyote in the head. three nights ago it shot out of the bush. it ran for our dog. i kicked the thing. and it stood there and looked at me the arguments appeared to have an impact on the city council. we may have to use lethal control at this point. it may be our only option. the i-team has confirmed that after the meeting belvedere officials contacted the usda's wildlife service who snipers poison and traps kill more than 60,000 coyotes a year mostly to protect livestock and certainly when people learn that there's consideration of bringing in a agency like usda wildlife services into marin. those who know about the history of that agency are rather shocked project coyotes camilla fox is also working with belvedere on peaceful solutions. she tells me the island has a

silent majority who did not favor killing coyotes. i don't want to kill any animal you've been residents like lynn lewis who lost her pet to the predator if anybody said here is a pot to hear that i have some money. some money a lot of people who are put in some money and let's gather up these coyotes and take them way out. they'll hunt in the wild. they don't need to hunt. pets it's also against the law for anyone to fire a gun inside the belvedere city limits now sunday for suggested. they were considering that this really is a complex issue and if you'd like to weigh in i'm going to post some links and email addresses for the public officials involved in this issue at abc 7. news.com. is there room for compromise here there has to be i mean look then the bottom line is they'll just keep on coming back. so if you want to have this budget to be shooting coyotes every couple of years. i mean that's their decision,

but you can't make them go away forever. yeah. we'll see what's inside and thank you. now to a different kind of animal story a pet adoption groups banned that was stolen with cats inside the cats have been found but so far no arrests have been made abc 7 news reporter, gloria rodriguez has the details on the recovery. new surveillance video shows the moment someone took off with a pet rescue van with 10 feral cats inside the cats survived almost a week without food and water one cat's eye almost swollen shut, but the kiddies are now recovering we are just so excited and just so elated that we have the cats back. they're living lives. they're living beings. um, who could care less about the band. it's it was all about the cats margo cassidy is a president of whiskers tales and ferals in napa. she says someone biked up to their van and broke into it taking off with it. they were trapped and ready to go to the clinic the following

day. so that's typically how tnr groups do it. you trap them you leave them in your car and you take them early in the morning because sometimes you don't get done till midnight. sometimes two o'clock in the morning the organization rescues cats and dogs from high kill shelters and rehabs feral kitties, right? thank you. thank you the team at whiskers tails and ferals thinking everyone who helped find the stolen cats. what america we cannot believe that even the van is in good shape if you're interested in adopting one of these cats. there's a chance one of them may be adopted out and that's because that kitty is very friendly, but these are feral cats so the plan is for them to get spaded neutered rehabbed and then sent back to where they're from gloria rodriguez abc 7 news. coming up music passengers the new effort to move things along at the airport.

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there's an outside chance of skiing at palisades tahoe or let's say mammoth on the fourth of july that's happened before not like never but so rare, but it's well, you know given what we've been through in the past three years spencer and there were reports that this was going to be a la niño winter and maybe a little less rain a little less snow. and here we are. yeah, it was not the typical londinia. that's for sure. so we've got all this new record breaking snow and it would be amazing if the ski season goes into july as christian point out is it's happened before but it's certainly not something we expect. michael you ready to get the skis out in 4th of july celebration. yeah, you know the deal is even when we have long ski seasons this one is exceptionally long, but what we have longer ones skiers start getting bored with the process, you know, they're moving on to surfing and hiking and doing spring and summer sports so they tend to have only one or two ski resorts open late.

so the only one or two runs, right? yes. no exactly. yeah, but still i mean something to celebrate after you know, yeah, okay now to taking a break from our electronic devices today is global day of unplugging the idea is to go screen free for 24 hours. the research is clear. it shows putting away our phones and other mobile devices can improve our physical and mental health, but the struggle is real for a lot of people. how many of us will actually do it not those of us who don't want to break our wordle streaks? i'm just saying what's your streak up to? i don't have to like but it's it's i mean, i it's yeah in the hundred. yeah, for sure. yeah and not just wordle for me. you know, i play like three different board games so you but what are your excuses guys? probably time to unplug that sounds like a desperate cry for help. you know, what's hard though is like if you let's say are i'm gonna turn the phone off for today, but you don't tell everybody your family. let's say they're gonna be trying to get a hold of you.

i mean what what are the protocols here michael? how do you how do you get ready to do this? yeah. i mean it's tough because we're putting so much there. we put our home life there our safety there. we put our work there, but you know, what a lot of times when i'm hearing critiques of all of this i think back when i was a kid, it was comic books then they said too much television now, they're saying too much screen time. i i don't think it's as bad as we're often told truly. i agree with michael. i don't think it's as bad as we're often told. i mean, i need my phone because as you pointed out we've got everything there. our work schedules are personal contacts things we need to do. to so i needed to r stuff. so nobody's going into the aaron rodgers cave of darkness for four days about the phone, right? no, no takers there will music make you board a plane a little bit faster. that is just one thing southwest airlines is experimenting with to relieve the boarding bottlene. other changes include a pre-boarding area and more information at the gate to to

guide passengers. the airline is hoping to shave five minutes off the usual 40 minute boarding process. what songs are they going to play like ac/dc like to get you really fine? what are they gonna play? what do you want to hear chris walk this way? yeah the fast tempo right not spa music because then you're just lured out and they save money right michael. i mean if they can get the boarding absolutely they can get the plane. look i will see you all a song if you'll get on the floor. or start me up. spencer yeah, you've got. got some good ideas. just think about the songs that make me want to move. right right. was that your was that your walk-up music when you were playing baseball when i was playing baseball, there was no such thing as walk-up music they barely had baseball they barely had music but spencer had to catch the cow to get the leather. got a million of y baseball's office said to be

comfort with cowhide. so there yeah if you've got a sweet tooth, you'll love this baskin-robbins has unveiled. it's ice cream flavor of the month for march. it's chicken and waffles. yeah features buttermilk waffle flavored ice cream with chicken and waffle flavored bite drizzle in a bourbon. maple syrup swirl who thinks that might be worth trying and possibly enjoyable or edible. what do you think the bourbon i find intriguing? would never even go near it and i probably would take maybe a bite and that would be it but michael. you know, it doesn't sound like a good ice cream flavor to that i mean, yeah, i mean those are flavors are pretty stunning. yeah. i'm with you bourbon cop my ear, but i don't know and i try it sure. why? yeah, i mean i like to know waffles but i the chicken flavored bites in ice cream mix and that sounds a little sauce

right a little sauce. maybe not. yeah. yeah. i'm not ready for that. yeah. all right. we'll see maybe for tasty thursday we try it out. rather go for the chocolate crickets. in my ice cream. okay, we're out of time. is this a choice? that's a good place to be out of time chocolate crickets. we'll be right back. with align probiotic. when your gut bacteria is out of balance. you may feel it but just one align daily helps promote a balanced gut and soothe occasional digestive upsets. join the align healthy gut team up. bringing together real align users and experts! to help you get the most out of probiotics. learn more at alignprobiotics.com try align for a month and see how great a healthy gut can feel. welcome to an align gut.

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everything's going up in price. south bay drivers will now have touc f ather charge if they want to take the new express lanes to cut down their time and traffic and i think it's ridiculous that we are paying we got to pay now for you know for commuting and all this other stuff. i think that's a lot of money that's gonna come out of people's pockets the new express lanes along both directions of highway 101 make up 16 miles between interstate 380 in south san francisco and whipple avenue in redwood city these connect to existing express lanes which run to north matilda avenue in sunnyvale. every time you hit underneath that. it's going ding you like ding ding the lanes are free if you're a carpool with three or more people and have a fast track flex solo drivers. however will pay the price using a regular fast-track tag during the hours of 5 am to 8 pm every weekday and although prices will vary depending on how much like

there is pierce cozy a super commuter from modesto says for him. it's not worth it. i'll probably be avoiding the lane as much as possible. we also checked in with chp about these new express lanes and they say they will not be doing anything extra to help enforce these new lanes instead. they say that's primarily done through license plate readers and pictures taken along the new route in sunnyvale lina howland abc 7 news and it's variable pricing sort of like giants tickets, right? and so i mean sometimes a two mile three mile stretch can run you 10 dollars, but you need the special transponder right you do it's not the same as your old standard one. it's got one that allows you to flip to two or three people to get either the discount or the free. okay. yeah. all right. well, it's safe and clear driving right now become this weekend. yeah, sure. looking forward to some rain free driving get out of the highway right now because spring is coming our way. the approaching storm is a level one storm on the exclusive abc 7

storm impact scale. so for this weekend both days, we expect rain and gusty when snow over the high elevations coming down to lower elevations by sunday and slight chance of thunder with this storm activity. here's the forecast animation starting at 6:00 am tomorrow notice that first wave of rain comes through in the early morning hours between 8:00 and about mid midday then by mid afternoon. it'll be swinging out here followed by another wave of rainfall tomorrow right into sunday and a little bit more reaching into monday morning. so it's going to be pretty wet weekend. well overnight temperatures overnight lows tonight will range from upper 30s to lower 40s highest tomorrow from about 5051 at the coast to 53 to 55 elsewhere. and here's the accuweather seven day forecast for days of rain coming our way before we get a break every christian. yeah. insane looks fantastic. thank you spencer since it's going to rain this weekend what better thing to do on a rainy afternoon than watch the warriors right here on abc 7 warriors lakers sunday at 12:30 possible return of steph curry and then stay with us for toyota

after the game. alright worth tuning in next sunday. you can watch the oscars right here on abc 7 today. we're catching up with some of the nominees. man, elvis star austin butler all choked up

countdown is on to the oscars and we're looking at some of the nominees today. yeah, today's all about elvis

nominated for eight academy awards reporter george panaccio caught up with the nominees. where you make over college you may go to school you may have been cadillac, but don't you know, but it's true. austin butler has certainly seen his star rise. thanks to his celebrated performance in elvis among his many fans the woman once married to the king of rock and roll priscilla presley who gave me some words to pass on to austin. austin you're carrying the torch of greatness. we couldn't be more proud of you. the presley family loves you, priscilla presley. making morning. hrmann's to put you go all in we want to make sure we bring the audience in as far as we can but

if collaborator brings out the best in you catherine martin baz's wife. for three oscars for producing production design and costume design. mandy walker is nominated for her cinematography. one thing that he said to me at the beginning of the film was the camera has to dance with elvis, so i had that in the back of my mind all the time. look at the trouble. it's these times. where now we've seen each other quite a few times and you start to have these friendships. in 10 days, we'll find out if anyone from the elvis team takes tom and oscar in los angeles george panaccio. abc 7 news. and you can catch the oscars sunday, march 12th, right here on abc 7. all right, that's gonna do it for abc 7 news at 4. i'm larry beale along with kristen c. abc 7 news at 5 is next.

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logo scratches on moving forward finding solutions. this is abc 7 news. sev department. he was identified. and there is currently ongoing a search at his home where many materials used to create destructive devices have been found. tonight shocking new details about the san jose man accused of having explosives inside his home. good evening. thanks for joining us. i'm larry beale and i'm kristen zee investigators now say he is the suspect behind explosions at two pg&e transformers the first blast damage to transformer on thornwood drive on december 8th. not far from oak ridge mall the second nearly a month later on snell avenue at santa boulevard and today he made his first appearance in court.

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