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Lyanne Melendez

@LyanneMelendez

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Super mom of 3 & news reporter ABC Owned KGO-TV (ABC7), San Francisco Bay Area. #1 Alabama Football fan in the West. Boricua sobre todo. 🇵🇷

San Francisco, CA
Joined October 2010
Don't wanna be here? Send us removal request.
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This just happened at the @Walgreens on Gough & Fell Streets in San Francisco. #NoConsequences @chesaboudin
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IT’S OFFICIAL: Governor Ricardo Rosello resigns effective August 2. #RicardoRossello
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My city, San Francisco.
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Went in a @WellsFargo Bank and the teller’s had all gone home and forgot to lock the bank. @SFPD responded very quickly after I called them. Bazaar!
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San Francisco’s Ferry Building, the week of #APEC .
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Once again @CNN @andersoncooper @sarasidnerCNN used my video for their special, “What happened to San Francisco?” without even asking. A simple credit would have been ok. I will say, the one-hour special was pretty accurate and very telling.
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Looks like Dante’s Inferno. It’s actually the sun rising in the middle of a thunderstorm in the East Bay.
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Are car break-ins on the decline in #SanFrancisco ? I think not. This morning on Corbett Avenue, Twin Peaks/Upper Market. I stopped counting at 5. @SFPDPark @SFPD @SFDAOffice
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Attention sports newscaster, when covering the @49ers our city’s name is #SanFrancisco NOT “San Fran” and certainly not “Frisco, (the horror). @abc7newsbayarea
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Cuddles #1 canine @warriors fan. #PARADE Bring a treat for the dog.
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UPDATE: I shot this video a little more than a year ago. The man went to prison and served time. He was eventually released and on Saturday SF police arrested him again, they say, for #shoplifting at a ⁦ @cvspharmacy ⁩ store.
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Nearly ten months after I shot this video, Jean Lugo Romero pled guilty to felony grand theft and misdemeanor petty theft and was sentenced to 16 months prison and one year probation.
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5 years
The party is over! Last day on @abc7newsbayarea for @vicleeabc7 #gfs
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The residents of Mirabel Ave. in Bernal Heights are being threatened by @sfpublicworks with a $250 fine for not keeping their bins out of sight even though they are located on their property. And then you have this on a few streets in SF.
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I can watch this all day long. #SanFrancisco Embarcadero. #storm is coming.
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28 years today at KGO-TV @abc7newsbayarea Either they deserve a medal or I do.
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I took #MUNI this morning hoping to find an enforcement officer on either platform asking for proof of ridership. Nope, not a single one. @SFMTA_Muni Maybe, some day.
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One of the suspects arrested following reported carjacking which started in Alameda and ended in San Francisco.
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Luis Rivera is an undocumented student who graduated from CAL. His mother supported him by cleaning houses. When he decided to attend Harvard Medical School he called to give her the good news. Her response: “Ay mi’jo que bueno, right now I’m cleaning toilets.” #reality #Dreamer
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Yesterday/Today Representatives from Native American organizations stand where statue of Christopher Columbus was removed early this morning in San Francisco.
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UPDATE: @SFPD has arrested the man caught on camera allegedly taking items from a @Walgreens store in San Francisco.
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6 years
San Francisco mayor @LondonBreed rides @muni and says improvements need to be made. “I want people to say “I love riding MUNI!”
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San Francisco: In the first quarter (Jan 1-March 31) of 2024, property crime is down 32% and violent crime is down 14% compared to the first quarter of 2023.
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I would undoubtedly say we are Building a Better Bay Area. @abc7newsbayarea #NationalDogDay
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. @TheRealJohnHCox says, “California’s #education system is captured by politicians.” Cox says he’d like to see more charter schools and options for parents.
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What do we do now?
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I just spoke to Jeff Adachi a few weeks ago. He will be missed. Rest in power, brother.
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3 years
When.Will.This.Stop? For the 3rd time, someone tried to break into our garage. This time they damaged the entire garage door. We were home! @SFPD Another police report filed.
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Remember when…
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3 years
#SanFrancisco to the world-S.O.S.
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There’s a celebration in Oakland. Congrats to the women’s basketball teams from Oakland High and Oakland Tech Division 3 & division 4 state champions. ⁦ @OUSDNews
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People in 🇩🇪Germany, 🇫🇷France, 🇪🇸Spain, 🇯🇵Japan and other countries speak more than one language. If you are 🇺🇸American why wouldn’t you want to speak more than one language? So many doors have opened for me because I speak two languages. #AaronSchlossberg
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This happened just a few blocks from where mayor @LondonBreed announced a new plan to cut back on break-ins in #SanFrancisco . The couple is visiting from Seattle.
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I #voted this morning. I dropped my #ballot off this morning across from City Hall. #VoteEarly I brought my dad’s flag which was given to us when he was buried. #WWII #VET
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@ESPNCFB
ESPN College Football
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It all comes down to this. The 2 best teams in College Football. Who's IN? Monday at 8 ET on ESPN
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Can the owner of this ugly contraption park on another street and not on ours? #fugly #truckmuck Even the #Grinch wouldn’t steal this.
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Before coming to California I lived across the street from the #TwinTowers . That’s a photo from my apartment on the 32nd floor following the #911attack . I’m still not over it.
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I took this picture in 1992. At the time I was living across the street from the #WTC #911Remembered
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Only on @abc7newsbayarea the @SFPD Burglary unit and Organized Retail Theft Taskforce seized nearly $200-thousand worth of stolen goods. @SFPDIngleside Police say only one man was running the show.
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I cringe every time I hear or read this word. It is not part of the Spanish language. It is disrespectful. Stop it! Defiende nuestro idioma.
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This is exactly what’s happening in #Cuba . #TurnOnInternetCuba @MaElviraSalazar
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Vice President Kamala Harris
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When people are cut off from high-speed Internet, they are cut off from opportunity.
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This was me on Sunday mornings when I just wanted an extra hour of sleep and my kids would have none of it.
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If this gorilla baby repeatedly trying to wake up its mom doesn't remind you why they're our cousins, I don't know what will...especially her sitting up at the end giving up on taking a nap.
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30 years today with @abc7newsbayarea
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Local business owners tell me, “How much longer are city officials going to say that #SanFrancisco is such a beautiful city? Wake up, people don’t want to come here. SF has lost its mojo.” -Union Street biz owner.
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I call this one, the dichotomy that is #SanFrancisco .
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30 years at @abc7newsbayarea and I’ve got the goods to prove it. @Disney
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#happpy to finally see the Golden Gate Bridge on a clear day. #HappyThanksgiving
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Good morning. I’ll be wearing my #Chucksandpearls2021 today and my queen 🇵🇷, justice Sonia Sotomayor will swear in @KamalaHarris . It’s a great day for women.
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Mark West Springs Road in Santa Rosa. #northbayfires
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Happy Birthday KGO-TV! I’ve been with @abc7newsbayarea for 25 if its 70 years. Here are my different looks through the years.
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@JaneKim & @MarkLeno congratulate @LondonBreed on winning the #SFMayorsRace Leno said: “Her success is San Francisco’s success.”
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Is it possible to have beautiful things in SF without people trying to destroy them?
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The Godfather of Latin Rock ⁦ @SantanaCarlos ⁩ and his family are honored with a mural in the Mission District of #SanFrancisco .
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This is the flag over the ⁦⁦ @USPS ⁩ in the Haight Ashbury in SF. Can we please get a new one? The ⁦ @DeptVetAffairs ⁩ dictates that “flags that display tears or appear worn down should not be hoisted under any circumstances.”
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I’m not going to lie, I nearly cried when I saw our ⁦ @sfmta_muni ⁩ bus #37 back on our street. As a former New Yorker I love public transportation. It is the great equalizer.
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Yay! It’s my birthday 🥳
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Here is proof that my dad, Jose Melendez was not a loser or a sucker. These are his honorable discharge papers. #RespectOurVets
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4 years
JUST IN: The Christopher Columbus statue in front of Coit Tower has been removed.
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Mexican government says 3,500 people have been evacuated. The region had 1,075 shelters. #Hurac ánPatricia
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Noticias Telemundo
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REPORTE DE ZONAS AFECTADAS EN JALISCO #PatriciaTLMD
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The first boxes for the recall of three SF school board members have just arrived at City Hall.
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#TBT Alert! 'Working for #CNN Spanish at the time in New York City around the verly early 90s. 'Not holding back. #shoulderpads
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Oh my God, that’s magical.
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Surfers in California were in for the view of a lifetime when they went out to catch some waves—and encountered a huge whale weaving through the water below.
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The @SFDAOffice is asking people to send in videos and pictures of auto-burglaries to: SFDA.AutoBurgTips @sfgov .org So here’s mine.
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Rain? ☔️ Bring it on! 🐶 @LiveDoppler7 @abc7newsbayarea
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For years Pixar artists have been working the code 'A113' into their films. You can spot it in everything from Toy Story to Finding Nemo. A113 was the classroom number for many of the original Pixar artists at Cal Arts (California Institute of the Arts).
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Mother of Pittsburg High student who drowned over the weekend says her daughter now "has wings and is in Heaven."
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Look 👀 mom, no rain. #SanFrancisco
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Born in the Bronx, 100% Puerto Rican. #Born in the USA #PuertoRico #SuperBowlLIV 🇵🇷
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A friend of mine sent this, #HappyHalloween from the pediatrics unit.
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Because he was no ordinary baseball ⚾️ player. #RobertoClementeDay #21 🇵🇷
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They call themselves the McAllen12. They are volunteers from San Mateo who will accompany @RepSpeier to Texas to deliver clothing and supplies for #ImmigrantChildren .
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I cried.
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A 12-year-old boy, described by his mother as "extremely" color blind, is given a pair of special glasses to try on by his principal–who is also color blind–allowing him to see color for the first time.
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. @salesforce CEO Marc @Benioff says “It’s time to implement Prop C and help the homeless.” He believes there are no grounds for legal action to try to stop it.
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San Francisco Mayor ⁦ @LondonBreed ⁩ reacts to remarks made by President ⁦ @realDonaldTrump ⁩ regarding the city’s “disgusting” streets.
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Defense has gone into the courtroom, the prosecution has yet to enter. Media is outside waiting. #KateSteinle
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The Bay Area has the highest real estate prices in the U.S. Then there's this. #homelessness
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The queen, Rita Moreno 🔥is 91 today. Happy Birthday 🎂
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Two minority women from underserved neighborhoods, raised by single moms. Justice Sonia Sotomayor and VP Kamala Harris. This is America!
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Reporters with boots on the ground in the Tenderloin and other hot spots have been reporting this for YEARS. Many city officials have debated us on this. Believe us, we are not afraid to ask! The majority of responses: “We’re here because we can openly use and for the services.”
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Matt Dorsey 🥥🌴
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I’d expect many of those who use drugs publicly to be from out of town, but I’m stunned by what @SFPDChief Scott reported here — only 3 of the 45 people arrested so far for public drug use have a San Francisco address. We should *not* be a destination city for public drug use.
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JUST IN: Oakland Unified makes vaccinations mandatory. Here’s what Superintendent wrote: “In light of the current high transmission rates in Alameda County, we are implementing the requirement that all OUSD staff, contractors, and volunteers get vaccinated or get tested weekly.”
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San Francisco
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No shirt, but a lot of #PuertoRican pride. #AmericanCitizens
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The price of living in SF. This is the second time that someone has broken into our garage. This time they used a stool to climb in then used one of our ladders to climb in out. @LondonBreed @SFPDChief @SFPDPark @chesaboudin
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Today is #CollegeDecisionDay . 18 years ago when I was very pregnant with my twins, I never imagined they would end up at ⁦ @ColumbiaChi ⁩ and ⁦ @CarnegieMellon . Congrats Baxter & Ashley!
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Great admiration for these @champssports employees who showed compassion & respect for a less fortunate person. @SunValleyCenter
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#Concord Champ Sports employees buy shoes for man who came into store every day, but couldn't afford to buy them.
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Rallies across California demanding that sports resume at high schools despite high number of #COVID cases. Parents and students at Campolindo HS in #Moraga say “Let Them Play.”
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I just want to hug Kate Spade’s daughter, Frances right now. She’s only 13 years old.
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2 years
I just removed leaves and other debris from the two drains my son “adopted”when he was in high school. They are called Baxter Troop 14. He is an Eagle 🦅 scout but is now in college in Chicago, so mom had the pleasure of keeping them clean. @MySFPUC Adopt-a-drain.
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18 of the 21 youth-plaintiffs were before the 9th Circuit in San Francisco challenging the U.S. Government for not protecting them from #climate change.
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For those in the Bay Area who want information on family members in #Mexico call these numbers. #MexicoQuake
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I wonder if #VanessaGuillen ’s disappearance and murder will get the same kind of attention that other cases have received, i.e. Laci Peterson.
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The dreaded day for me has arrived. My friend and respected colleague @LauraAnthony7 has retired from @abc7newsbayarea As a journalist you held strong and steadfast when seeking objectivity. You will be missed. Enjoy retirement.
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And those who need it the most, 65+ are not getting it quickly enough. #vaccines
@joncoopertweets
Jon Cooper 🇺🇸
4 years
'It's a mess': President Biden's first 10 days dominated by vaccine mysteries Biden’s team is still trying to locate over 20 million vaccine doses that were sent to states — a mystery that has hampered plans to speed up the national vaccination effort.
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This happening now in Windsor. #KincadeFire
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4 years
Jackson, the missing miniature Australian Shepherd was reunited with his owner at 4 o’clock this morning.
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Oakland is throwing a parade for the girls’ basketball teams from Oakland High (division 3 champs) & Oakland Tech (division 4 champs). ⁦ @OUSDNews ⁩ ⁦ @oaklandpoliceca ⁩ ⁦ @CityOakland
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Lyanne Melendez
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#TBThursday I had just moved from NY to SF and was asked to cover the @sfchronicle strike. Our then 6 PM producer @mjcallsf gave me the name of someone important to interview. I arrived at the Chronicle and yelled out, “Is there a Herb Caen here?” #Clueless
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