now. >> happening right now. iran is responding to israel's attack on its nuclear sites by firing hundreds of ballistic missiles toward israel. that's according to their state media. iran has also activated its air defenses to intercept another round of israeli fire. the response came hours after israel launched strikes that targeted iran's nuclear program, killing several top military officers and raising the prospect of an all out war. u.s. officials say american air defense systems in the middle east have helped israel shoot down incoming missiles. the military has also mobilized a navy ship and fighter jets to be on standby. with that, we say, good afternoon, i'm kristen z. here in california, marine combat boots are hitting the streets of los angeles for the first time today. it's all part of the military might that president trump called up following the protest to the federal immigration raids. abc news reporter alex stone has the latest from southern california. >> reporter tonight, the first 200 of 700 u.s. marines hitting

the streets of los angeles, joining the 4100 national guard troops called up by president trump last night, a u.s. district judge ruling president trump illegally deployed those national guard troops. in a scathing opinion, judge charles breyer saying the protest falls short of the legal requirement of a rebellion to justify a federal deployment. the judge ordering trump to return command of the guardsmen to california governor gavin newsom by noon today, saying the citizens of los angeles face a greater harm from the continued unlawful militarization of their city. >> clearly, there is no invasion. there's no rebellion. it's absurd. >> reporter but then, only a few hours later, a federal appeals court putting that order on hold after a late night appeal from the trump administration ruling, president trump can keep the california national guard deployed for now. the presence of these troops and immigration raids sparking protests in downtown l.a. and across the country. police say they're getting ready for this weekend with expected protests, while a

court hearing is scheduled for next week to decide if the president or the governor should control these national guard troops. alex stone, abc news in downtown l.a. >> and happening tomorrow, a military parade is expected to bring thousands of people to washington, d.c. preparations are underway for the event, with tanks now rolling into the nation's capital. the parade marks the 250th anniversary of the army, but the date also happens to be president trump's 79th birthday. 6700 soldiers are expected to march through the streets, and it's got a pricey price tag, with the army alone spending up to $45 million. meantime, opponents of the president's plan to stage protests across the country, the no king's protest, as they are called, are expected to bring thousands of people to events all across the bay area. and it does coincide with that military parade. we're told protesters will be voicing concerns about white house policies, including

immigration and trump's decision to send in the national guard and u.s. marines to los angeles. here in the bay area, protesters in oakland will meet at wilma chan park at 12:30 p.m. before marching to frank ogawa plaza in san francisco. protesters will gather around 11:30 a.m. at mission dolores park before marching to civic center plaza, where there will be speakers from community organizations. but there are many others, so if you want to see a complete list, just go to abc7 news.com. the war of words escalating between governor newsom and president trump, with governor newsom calling the military parade a vulgar display of weakness. >> what an embarrassment. honestly, it's that's about as small as it gets. how weak? how weak do you have to be to commandeer the military to fight you on your birthday? in a vulgar display of weakness?

that's donald trump. >> all right. of course, this comes after dramatic developments yesterday, including the handcuffing of senator alex padilla and the short lived court victory for california, with a lot to talk about. abc seven news insider phil matier is here. we just heard gavin newsom there talking about weakness and how small. it doesn't get smaller than this. those are words designed to tweak president trump. >> well they were. yes, exactly. and gavin newsom and president trump have a long history of tweaking and tweaking each other. they love to spar and they both enjoy the camera. and that's what they're having is a moment with the cameras, both nationally and internationally and within the democratic party and the republican party. so we have political and policy decisions being made here. and it is interesting to note that, you know, it was just a couple of weeks ago that gavin newsom was sort of floundering around. he had tried to steer to the middle. there were questions about whether he was going to run for president, how things are going. he is now

crystallized that and become the leader of the resistance right now for the democratic party. and his numbers on social media show that he is rocketed back. >> this is really, really interesting because his profile, as you said, has really risen this week with him trying to wrestle the control of the national guard back to california and, you know, being on social media like that. and i wonder, is this a tack left again after kind of tacking? right. people who are watching him are wondering. >> know what he and his people say is that this isn't a tack to the left or the right. this is the center. this is the american center. and the american center is a reasonable place where people discuss and argue reasonably, but they don't go to actions and try to inflame situations. in gavin newsom's opinion, the president is inflaming the situation by bringing in the national guard, deliberately trying to stoke things up in california with the ice raids and then the national guard. the president says, i'm following the law. i'm sending in the in the, the ice people for deportations. and that has

triggered what you and california call civil uh- speech with the rest of the country says, no, that's mobs. and firing. setting fire to cars and throwing bricks at police is not free speech. and i need to go in there with the national guard. so far, what we're talking about is a very small area in los angeles, a couple of blocks where this is happening. the real question is, does it expand from there? >> i keep thinking there should be that drone view, right? because when you just show tight shots, you think the whole city is like that. if they did that drone view where they pull out, then you see, okay, maybe it's not the whole area. i want to talk about the parade tomorrow, the military parade. it's ostensibly to celebrate the army, but of course it happens to be on trump's 79th birthday. and then, of course, there will be the no king's protest. how much of a powder keg do you think this is? >> well, i'm talking with law enforcement officials in the bay area, and their concerns are that there could be a combination. we have the military parade tomorrow, and then we have the president's birthday, the 79th. we have the no king's demonstration. we have

the question about the immigration and ice in los angeles. and then on top of that, we have the iran israeli conflict. and will these various forces come together and be peaceful in their demonstrations on many different areas, or will we have that classic case we see in the bay area so many times where we have the peaceful demonstration, followed by the violent and vandalism, and they're trying to minimize that. that's why the demonstrations are during the day, to keep them a separate from the night, because the night is when, when things get changed. >> and all it takes is 1 or 2 people who maybe are not even aligned with the cause at all, but they are caught on camera or on video. and then. >> and you know, it's interesting, you know, the public policy institute of california did a poll recently, and they released it this week, and they found that 44% of californians feel that the biggest problem right now threat is, is political extremism. now, that could be on both sides. one side sees donald trump as a political extremist. the other side sees the unrest on the streets as political extremism.

only 11% put immigration as a top issue. so you have to you have to wonder exactly where this is going to go. does it sort of like calm down now or does it accelerate with demonstrators coming in and demonstrating for a whole lot of different things and then vandalizing. >> all right. so governor newsom's visibility has gone up this week. you know, so has senator alex padilla, who really was kind of a low profile u.s. senator, if you will. right. uh- kristi noem's claims she didn't even know who he was, even though he identified himself as a senator before he got pushed out of her press conference yesterday and kind of got manhandled. of course, it depends again, on your political lens and how you look at it, right? but let me ask you if that episode shifted things in some ways, fundamentally for democrats and their response, perhaps. >> i, i'm not sure because you have democrats is across the country and people around the country viewed this differently. as you said, it's sort of a rorschach test. what are you seeing? are you seeing somebody that was bullying their way into a press conference, or are you

seeing a legitimate person trying to ask a question and being pushed out? alex padilla is a very quiet man, a very thoughtful man. he's an mit graduate. he's been in politics and government. mechanical engineering. right. his adult life, this was out of character for him to even come in and make that position. he left and he made a statement afterwards, but he took no questions either. so, you know, what's going on is, is what you want to see. but a lot of people now know who alex padilla was. and i will tell you, in california, even they didn't before this. >> yeah, but i wonder if this has galvanized democrats in the sense that one of the critiques that democratic voters have of their politicians, lawmakers is that you're not out there being, you know, strong enough in fighting and standing up and fighting back. and it seems like this episode has triggered some. >> of course it is. and it's all amplified by social media and instant. who can get out in front of the camera first? yes, a lot of democrats are rallying behind alex padilla. elected officials are saying, how could you do this to a senator? what does that mean? he's standing up. and yes, he is standing. >> up mexican-american.

>> and the fact that he's mexican american, the son of immigrants, all of that rolls in. other people might be looking at it going, this is really unfortunate. i don't think a senator should be acting this way. it's and that's what we're having in the state and we're having in the country two decidedly different views of the same thing. and that's what we're we're dealing with. the big question going forward and law enforcement and everybody else is concerned with donald trump still has the, the green button on bringing in the marines. what is he going to use. >> them for? now? there's a hearing next tuesday. >> that's on the national guard. oh that's true okay. he's got the marines too. but are they going to be protecting federal buildings? are they going to be okay? that's one assignment. get out there and just surround them. the second one is are but or are they going to be they're going to protect ice while it's out doing its raids. if that's it. does that going to be even more inflammatory? >> it sounds like there will be a lot more lawsuits, because you can argue. >> there's going to be more than just lawsuits. lawsuits. there's the court of law, there's the

court of public opinion, and then there's the court on the street. >> are all right, you know what we need? we need shared facts. and that's where you get them right here. true facts. all right. thanks, phil. really appreciate your thoughts. still ahead, it is one of the largest studies of its kind from researchers at ucsf. now, they found that where you live may actually affect your dementia risk. we'll hear from the senior author of the study. and later, it's opening day at the alameda county fair in pleasanton. a look at the

a new study out this week from ucsf identifies the geographical regions where dementia occurs most often among americans aged 65 and older. it found dementia rates were 25% higher in the

southeast. that's shown in green compared to the mid-atlantic. california, as part of the southwest, has a 13% higher risk than the mid-atlantic, and these differences remained even when researchers accounted for factors like age, race, and cardiovascular disease. a couple hours ago, i spoke with the senior author of the study, doctor kristine yaffe. >> yeah, so it turns out that we just don't know that much about this. we're very interested in preventing dementia. and when i say dementia, what i mean is this is a syndrome, usually with aging where people start to have memory and other cognitive declines. and so it's really important that we try and prevent this. of course, one hint might be to see geographic variations, because that might help us explain, well, gee, what's driving the risk of dementia and what can we do about it? and it turns out that there just aren't that many studies that have linked

dementia across the country. so that's what we wanted to do. and we used the va national data, which is a real treasure trove of data that's been collected since 2000. so we were able to look by different regions, ten regions across the country to see did the dementia rates differ and if so, where did they differ and what might be driving this. >> and they really did differ. give us some of the highlights of your findings. >> yeah, we were really quite intrigued. they differed quite a bit about 25% difference. so the lowest rate was in the mid atlantic region. and then the highest rate was in a couple areas in the south, the southeast and then the south proper. these were using the cdc region. so there are ten regions that the cdc classically uses. so these are pretty big differences 25%. and then we said, okay, maybe it's because, you know some of these regions have more older people. and of

course age is a big driver for dementia. or maybe it has to do with more cardiovascular disease, strokes, heart attacks. and so even when we took some of these things into account, we still saw the big differences. so our next step is really trying to understand well what else could be explaining this. >> so then that is my question to you. what else could it be? education. could it be access to medical medical care? what else did you look at or consider? >> yeah, it's really good questions. one of the beauties of using the va is that everybody really has access to care. so we don't think that's a big piece of this, although certainly depending on distance to access or other factors that may be part of it. we think part of this could be due to some environmental factors, something called social determinants of health, which are sort of the where you grow up and where you work and live. things like, you

know, if you have green space access, income differences, etc. this all has a role in in health. so we think that could be part of it. we weren't really able to account for that so well. we did account for education, but there may be differences in not how much years you went to school but the quality of the education. so i think our biggest hypotheses are related to where people grew up, the quality of their education and maybe environmental factors. >> okay, i'm so interested in if california's results would be different. if you can break us out from the rest of the southwest, we're almost out of time. got a minute ago. i want to ask you, what can individuals do with this information from your findings? and then also what can communities and governments do? >> yeah. so individuals, you know, it's a little hard to extrapolate because these are big, big numbers and sort of big data. but in general, i think knowing that dementia is not a normal part of aging and making

sure if you're concerned about your memory, you are getting evaluated and that you're paying attention to a number of different things that could influence your risk, such as taking care of your heart, getting good sleep, physical activity, these kind of things in terms of what what governments can do. that's a really important question. if we know that there are the differences regionally, then i think governments and policymakers need to try and understand this and prepare maybe more resources in certain regions, maybe more screening or or more access to care, as we discussed. et cetera. so i think it's really important information, and i look forward to our next steps. >> yeah, i look forward to talking with you after the next steps. doctor yaphe, thank you so much. still ahead. the weekend is here. what's in store for the forecast? here's a live look outside. very nice. very nice conditions. we'll check in

time now to check on your accuweather forecast with meteorologist drew tuma, and a look at what's in store for the rest of the afternoon and your weekend. >> looking at our highs this afternoon, we will be a few degrees below average for this time of the year. for many of us by about two three, four degrees below where we should be breezy and bright. that's the call over the next couple of hours. so looking at where we're headed over the next ten days through the weekend, we're consistently cooler than average for the most part. and then next week you see a lot of yellow on your screen, especially tuesday, wednesday and thursday of next week. that is when temperatures are going to take off, and that is when we'll find warmer weather moving back in for several days. so the pattern will change next week. we just have bright and breezy conditions through the upcoming weekend. speaking of the breeze, it's with us today that onshore flow again 20 30mph and we will repeat that saturday and sunday. but once we get that warmer weather next week, once the pattern flips, we'll find a lot less wind. so not nearly as

windy next week as we were this week with those warmer temperatures moving in. weather. wellness throughout the day. moderate air quality. similar story when it comes to our pollen levels and the uv index today, a ten out of an 11 that is very high. so highs in our microclimates will start in the south. they were in the 70s and 80s today a few degrees below average, 75 in san jose, 82 in morgan hill. as we head along the peninsula, we'll keep it cool along the coast with 50 for half moon bay and pacifica around the bay shoreline will be in the 60s and in the 70s across the city. today. it's another chilly day. it's just been a pretty chilly month. we'll find temperatures in the upper 50s to the mid 60s, with that breeze really kicking into gear over the next couple of hours as we look in the north bay, cool along the coast, but warmer as you head into the valleys. 70 and 80 for san rafael, sonoma, napa 81, santa rosa 80, in cloverdale in the east bay. we'll have temperatures in the 60s and 70, 69 in oakland, 72 in fremont, 74, castro valley and inland. it's really nice today,

mid 70s to the lower 80s. 83 in brentwood, 80 in concord, pleasanton, 76 degrees, which is also the first day of the alameda county fair in pleasanton. mild and sunny this time of the year we can get some pretty hot temperatures. it's not looking hot at all. looks really pleasant even through the weekend. if you're headed to the fair, saturday and sunday will be in the mid and upper 70s with lots of sunshine in the afternoon. back at this evening, we'll find temperatures slowly falling through the 60s. once the sun goes down, we'll dip those temperatures into the 50s overnight. tonight we will find a mix of stars and clouds out there. overnight lows will generally be in the 40s and in the 50. so looking at future tracker as we head into the weekend saturday find temperatures very similar to today and sunday. for father's day we'll have morning clouds, afternoon sunshine, little breezy in the afternoon, but really nice temperatures. here's the accuweather seven day forecast showing you bright and breezy this afternoon. we'll keep it mostly sunny in the afternoon, saturday and sunday. nice for father's day. then next week it's all about those warmer temperatures. tuesday that heat

will begin to spike and by wednesday we're getting hot 80s and 90s away from the coast, and we'll still keep it warm for juneteenth on thursday. >> all right, so it's that time of year in the east bay that alameda county fair is opening. in fact, it opened today. and abc seven news reporter zach fuentes was there to check it all out. >> the rides, food stands and livestock are all in place, and so is the entertainment at the alameda county fair. like professor smart, who we got to meet friday on abc seven mornings for a preview hours before the fair opened. >> we even have a bed of nails. >> now i want to participate in something. >> you want to give it a try? >> be careful what you wish for. >> sit down. gently, gently, gently. take your weight back. >> pick up your hands. >> pick your feet up. pick your. >> feet backwards. okay, okay. >> oh, yeah. >> professor smart is just part of the fun at this fair that brings so much to the bay area. >> this is a 113 year old fair. and really, the grassroots of this fair is agriculture and

livestock. so it's great that we have a place where we can show that off in this great area. >> also showing off were these incredible birds that few ever get to see up close, like marty the lanner falcon and marvin the eurasian eagle owl. >> the kids are so excited to see the birds, but honestly, their parents, their grandparents, they get just as excited, just as emotional when they get to meet one of the animals. >> everything the fair has to offer can be considered a highlight, but organizers and many attendees say almost nothing can compete with the food. >> the number one reason people come to alameda county fair is for the food, and there's anything you want. you want the traditional corn dog turkey leg? we've got it. you want some churro flavored popcorn? got it. you know you want a cajun octopus on a stick. we got it. you want some bacon pickle pizza? we've got it. we've got tons of different curly fries with all kinds of meats and different flavors on it. anything you want, i guarantee you it's right here at the alameda county fair. >> so many fun and different things to do here at the alameda county fair. and thankfully, you

have a lot of different days to be able to come here to. it's open wednesday through sunday through july 6th in pleasanton. zach fuentes, abc seven news. >> the national women's soccer league championship match is coming to the bay area. details on today's announcement right after the

today we learned that another championship game is coming to the bay area. in november, bay fc and paypal park will host the national women's soccer league title game. tickets go on sale in august. fans are encouraged to sign up online for presale. bay fc season ticket members will also have early access. other events ■happening alongsie the match include fan fest and the 2025 nwsl skills challenge.

san jose mayor matt mehan said. san jose is honored to be selected as the host city for the 2025 nwsl championship at paypal park, with the legacy of bay fc s founding. for brandi chastain, leslie osborne, danielle slaton and allie wagner, san jose has solidified its place as the epicenter of women's soccer. a programing note to remind you of it's game four of the nba finals tonight, and you can catch it right here on abc seven. coverage starts at 5:00, and then you'll want to stay with us for after the game with sports director larry beil and special guest, former warriors center zaza pachulia. so that should be really good. all right. thank you so much for joining us. world news tonight with david muir starts right now. and i'll see you back here at 4:00.