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appeals. >> and today, vice president j.d. vance visits national guard troops in los angeles. >> and new. no turn on red signs across san francisco. so now the question is why aren't drivers actually following the rules? good afternoon. thanks for joining us. i'm larry beil. >> and i'm julian glover. beautiful day outside but certainly windy for sure. and that is not good news for fire danger. >> let's begin with our team coverage. abc seven news reporter tim johns is monitoring the fire danger as well as those power outages. >> but first up, though, we check in with abc seven news meteorologist sandhya patel with a look at the winds out there. sandhya? >> yeah, julian and larry. those winds have been clocked over 50 miles an hour as far as gusts go so far. take a look at this live picture from our kgo roof camera. and along the embarcadero. the wind is blowing the wind trees around gusts right now to 41 at sfo. oakland 32, novato 33. half moon bay as we go, hour by hour, the strong, gusty winds are going to continue through the night. as you will notice 7:00 pm. they're going to be winds
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that are over 40 miles an hour. that really backs off a bit tomorrow morning, only to pick back up again tomorrow afternoon and evening. there is a red flag warning that just got issued for solano county. from tomorrow morning until sunday morning, they will be facing critically dry conditions and fire danger will be really high as northerly winds develop, gusting 30 to 40 miles an hour. low humidity. any fires that develop are going to quickly spread. i'll be back with a full look at the weekend forecast and how long this windy pattern will last as we head into summer. coming right up. julian. larry. >> okay. thank you so much, sandhya. we'll stick with the wind now. public safety power shutoff still in effect for some p-g-and-e's customers across the east bay. if you look at the purple spots on the map, you see a lot of them are in alameda county. >> abc seven news reporter tim johns joining us live now in livermore with the very latest. i can see it's breezy out there, tim. >> yeah. larry. larry. julian. there are a thousand people without power around
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the bay area. according to p-g-and-e's, 650 of those are in alameda county. now, most of the areas impacted are actually in nonresidential parts. kind of like the one i'm standing in here in livermore. but that's something, guys, that p-g-and-e's tells me is by design. strong winds in the livermore area friday, prompting a series of public safety power shut offs. p-g-and-e's says they've been monitoring the weather event for days. spokesperson tom sarkisian says the strong gusts are the biggest risk factor when it comes to potential fires. >> we can see things like branches getting thrown into power lines, debris, healthy trees getting uprooted because of the powerful winds. >> those powerful winds disrupted one livermore neighborhood friday. rolland harding and his wife have lived in this house for 56 years. p-g-and-e's shut off the power for the hardings and some of their neighbors. after some branches from a nearby tree collided with a power line. >> if there were more than several hours, then there would be a problem. >> harding took us into his
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backyard to show us some of the other trees that worry him, pointing out not just the vegetation, but the power poles that run close by. >> on the other side of the house, on the other side of this one. so down by the apartments. that's one that looks really vulnerable. >> for those who have lost power. p-g-and-e's has set up community resource centers in several locations at the livermore one. sarkisian tells us those who use it can get a bag of supplies to help them get through the psps. >> it's got water, a little snack bar. it's got a portable charger and also a blanket. >> despite the blustery conditions, p-g-and-e's says they've tried to keep the number of people impacted small while still prioritizing safety. >> that's all by design. we have been working to underground lines. we've also hardened the lines that are above ground and the equipment that's above ground, and we're able to sort of narrow things down.
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>> now, p-g-and-e's says they're unsure of when these psps events will actually end. that, of course, will be determined by when this wind finally dies down. i'm live in livermore. tim johns, abc seven news. >> okay. we appreciate it. thank you so much, tim. in san jose, firefighters are mopping up a small grass fire that started this afternoon. there was a brief scare as the flames came dangerously close to some of the houses near galveston avenue and summerside drive. the fire burned about three acres. they now have that thing under control. you'll want to stick with abc seven news for the very latest on the winds and the p-g-and-e's public safety power shutoffs. download the abc seven news bay area app to get the latest alerts sent directly to your smartphone. >> all right. several new court rulings today. a federal judge has ordered the government to free former columbia student mahmoud khalil from ice custody. he's been in a detention center since march over his role in pro-palestinian protests. another judge today indefinitely blocked the trump administration's efforts to prevent harvard from hosting international
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students. and then last night, an appeals court allowed president trump to keep control of national guard troops here in california. vice president j.d. vance arrived in los angeles this afternoon. he's going to check out the federal command centers and meet with the marines as we. his visit comes as the city remains a flashpoint for the debate over immigration enforcement. abc news reporter zohreen shah has our update. >> two weeks ago today, protests erupted when immigration agents swept in to make mass arrests in la. a day later, presidentsts in trump, without the usual okay from the state's governor, called in the california national guard. now, an appeals court says the president likely acted within his authority in federalizing the troops. president trump, quickly taking to social media, calling last night's ruling a big win. california governor gavin newsom vowing to press on with his lawsuit, claiming the president overstepped his authority. 700 marines are now on the ground in
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l.a, backing up 4100 national guard troops. there are still ice raids and protests in los angeles yesterday. tense scenes at dodger stadium. dozens of federal officers in masks and tactical gear seen right outside the gates. protesters quickly gathering as well. the lapd called to the scene. the dodgers say they denied giving permission to ice to be on their property. the department of homeland security says the presence of ice agents had nothing to do with the dodgers. the trump administration vows it will increase raids and deportations, undeterred by protests. zohreen shah, abc news, los angeles. >> and just a few hours ago, the trump administration gave california a 60 day deadline to eliminate references to gender ideology from its personal responsibility education program. sex education programs or risk losing federal funding. prep provides funding to california counties with a need for adolescent health education. and joining us now is abc seven
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news insider phil matier. phil, we appreciate you being here. let's start with this new gender ideology identity order. is this just going to be yet another lawsuit between california and the trump administration? >> i'm sure we've already seen them being filed in this direction, because the california is under fire over how it handles transgender identity in its public schools by the secretary of education. and now we're moving in on the trump administration itself. yes, there's a question there. particularly the administration seems to be upset, says california is not following the law that we're getting some $3.5 billion for disability education and also sex education. and they're saying that including trans or cisgender identification and discussion about that is outside the bounds, and they want it brought in. we'll see where it goes. >> all right. we'll also see where it goes. with regard to last night's appeals court ruling regarding the national guard, which gives president trump more control. again, we assume california is going to
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appeal. but what are those national guardsmen and the marines doing in la? since there are no active protests going on. >> at this point? virtually nothing. they're just standing around or sitting around. larry, the question is, what are they going to be used for in the future, especially the marines? a big question out there is what the trump administration is actually going to do vis a vis its plans for what they call the biggest crackdown in deportation in the in the in the country's history. it's a back and forth. first, we heard that he was going to go for criminals only, and that was where the thrust was going to be. then they started showing up at home depots and other areas, and that sent a chill through a lot of the business community. and then they started showing up on farms. well, then the president backed off, said, well, we're going to try to come up with some different program, maybe have a sort of a bracero program like we had in the 60s where people can come up and work and then leave. it's going around and around. but the bottom line is the real question is, is the trump administration going to continue to pursue the non-criminal deportations in a way that sort of incites or excites things to the point
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where he says, now, i got to bring in the marines to protect the ice officers. >> and on that point, we just mentioned that vice president j.d. vance arrived out in los angeles a short time ago. what do you think the point of his visit is, and will it potentially do more harm than good? >> we always hear the point is to make a point. let's get honest here. a lot of what we're seeing on both sides is people, the governor and the president, making points rather than making policy. they're not getting together. they're not saying, how can we work this out so that we can follow the laws as they are in the safest manner? no. everybody's digging in their heels and calling for the tv cameras. and when we're jumping on that, because it's a very vital story inside california. but j.d. vance being down there is not going to change anything. the mayor has already called off the curfew if things are calm. so it's this is politics. and a lot of this is not just for california. we are the stage. the audience is indiana, kansas, missouri, texas and florida. so
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welcome to the stage, california. and we're going to be seeing a lot more of it. >> yeah. and for sure the rest of the country is watching. phil thank you. >> a religious group is putting more pressure on the california interscholastic federation to ban transgender athletes from women's sports. and this morning, representatives of a california family council. they delivered a petition with 20,000 signatures. >> inside you will find a formal petition outlining the legal, biological and ethical failures of cif's. bylaw 300 d is diverse, determined. >> and this is the group that was supporting that ban. article 300 d let student athletes compete in school activities in a manner that's consistent with their gender identity. the petition is asking the cif to limit girls sports to athletes who were assigned female at birth. last month, the cif allowed athletes assigned female at birth to also compete in the track and field championships if they had been displaced by a transgender athlete.
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>> a project to build a second transbay crossing between oakland and san francisco got another push forward this week. the capitol corridor joint powers authority approved using standard gauge tracks on the new transbay crossing instead of bart's unique broad range tracks. bart's board of directors did the same earlier, so standard gauge tracks can be used by modern zero emission passenger trains. there's a program named link 21. it aims to establish a statewide passenger rail network by the year 2050. meanwhile, conventional cars traffic on the bay bridge heading toward oakland backed up. and this is the reason why, right in the middle lane, their truck lost part of its load. on the lower deck. two lanes are blocked. once you get past that. fairly smooth, actually sailing into the east bay. >> thankfully, that's happening on a friday for sure. still ahead here on abc seven news at four. targeting antisemitism in the wake of two wars now involving israel. more road rules in san francisco. but why aren't they making a difference? what we uncovered at a crash
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not be tolerated. >> jews belong here in san francisco are bay area and our country. >> those words set the tone for today's gathering in front of san francisco city hall. words were delivered with impetus. daniel lurie was introduced as the fourth jewish mayor san francisco has had. but lurie described himself as a mayor for all people. >> my administration will continue to protect and uphold our shared values of compassion and inclusion. if you commit a hate crime in san francisco, we will find you and we will arrest you. >> this stems from a number of recent incidents where jews have been targeted in san francisco. one in the marina district last weekend where a man was charged with a hate crime and assault in connection with an alleged anti-semitic beating. >> hate is not something we will tolerate whatsoever in san francisco. >> and recently, manny's cafe,
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described as a civic engagement establishment in the mission, was vandalized. >> i had words like die zionist, intifada, death to israel, the only good settler's, a dead one written on my walls. and the feeling in the pit of my stomach was, maybe i don't belong here anymore. >> state senator scott wiener has reported a number of threats against him for being jewish. he has introduced assembly bill 715, addressing what he calls antisemitism in k through 12 schools in california, including san francisco. >> children are being taught to demonize jews and being taught that jews are violent colonial invaders. >> meanwhile, this week, several members of the board of supervisors introduced a resolution condemning antisemitism. the full board is expected to vote on it next wee. in san francisco. lyanne melendez, abc seven news. >> a years long effort to
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digitize the black panther party archive is finally complete. it's a treasure trove of documents, personal letters and photos capturing the party's legacy. this becomes the largest and most comprehensive archive of the black panther party in the world. >> i think the fbi memos struck me the most when you're looking through these documents that were obtained through the freedom of information act, this is showing the surveillance of several party members, particularly huey, in this case. and so when you think about the fbi's campaign to destroy the black panther party called cointelpro, short for counterintelligence program, you see it in these fbi documents. they were following every single move that the party members made. >> it also has many letters with the public, because the panthers were a hub of information on politics and community resources. that full collection is now on display at stanford university and online. >> barbara, influential journalists of all time. her name is synonymous with abc news. there's a new hulu documentary giving us a look at her legendary career. director
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jackie chan spoke with abc seven news about her impact. >> barbara walters tell me everything is a full look at barbara walters life. you know, not just her 50, 60 years of record breaking television and sort of all the things that made barbara, barbara. i think she also was a person who struggled with insecurity and was always worried about staying on top, you know? and, you know, even when she was in her late 60s, she starts the view. and as you'll see in the film, she always felt like she had something more to prove and more mountains to conquer. there's this really amazing scene at the end of the film. it's barbara walters last day on the view and, you know, in the audience and coming to honor her on stage are pretty much every prominent female anchor of that moment in time. and it's a really touching scene because you can it's such a physical representation of the impact she had on the news business. >> well, you'd never guess that barbara walters would be insecure given her legendary career. but barbara walters tell me everything streams exclusively on hulu, and it starts on monday. >> all right, it's friday,
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first day of summer. and of course, it feels nothing like summer here in san francisco. >> so i'm driving in and i e these two guys, you know, different streets. they're both dressed in hoodie parkas. and then they were full on, you know, walking down the blocks. and i mean, yeah, welcome to summer in san francisco. >> that's right. you know what? at least it is sunny outside. i mean, i know the wind doesn't make it feel so warm out there. temperatures were below average today. larry and julian. good afternoon everyone. let's take a look at a live picture. you can blame it on the wind. it is coming off the ocean and as it is, it is actually blowing in cool air right now. 39 mile an hour winds at spring valley, 29 mount diablo. i'm looking at some of the wind reports the latest wind gusts over 50 miles an hour across places like sfo out towards the altamont. and we're going to continue to see pockets of stronger winds than what you're looking at here. so this evening at 5:00, 40 mile an
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hour winds, point reyes, you'll notice 30 san rafael gusty. 7:00 31 calistoga, 30 around redwood city as well. and really, the windy pattern stays with us tonight. so if you do have friday night plans, definitely take that windbreaker with you tomorrow morning. the winds back off inland, not so much along the coast and in santa rosa and cloverdale, still over 30 miles an hour. and then the winds pick right back up again tomorrow afternoon and evening. so this wind direction out of the northwest, keeping the fire danger elevated, as we do have some dry vegetation out there as well. yellows and oranges indicating high to very high fire danger this evening. going into tomorrow, we'll keep it on the high side for our inland areas in the afternoon and evening. this trough that is pushing into the pacific northwest, keeping that wind flow going strong and gusty winds have been the story for much of yesterday and even today. and as a result, skies are pretty clear across the region other than a few passing clouds. temperatures right now, anywhere from the 60s to the 70s. for most areas, summer
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begins tonight. this is going to be the longest day of the year with over 15 hours of daylight. of course, we are looking at it happening at 742, where the sun's rays will be directlyr the tropic of cancer. a beautiful view from exploratorium, but choppy waters there into the weekend, gusty winds and fire danger. tonight, summer begins and this weekend, still windy. a little bit warmer. so your morning temperatures in the 40s and 50s. you will need to bundle up tomorrow morning because of the wind, it's going to feel even chillier. but tomorrow afternoon, wall to wall sunshine from the coast to inland and it's going to be a little warmer, even though it's going to be windy, low 80s around concord. antioch 60 degrees in half moon bay. here's your accuweather seven day forecast. gusty with the fire danger going. that red flag warning for solano county between tomorrow morning and sunday morning. it's going to be a windy start on sunday, but a warmer day you will notice the warming continues. monday 90s inland, 60s coast and then a little bit cooler as we head towards tuesday, but really fluctuating very
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little. julian and larry heading into next week, but we'll see those winds backing off. of course. >> great summer is here. let's all huddle around the fireplace. kids. >> welcome to san francisco. come september, we'll be wishing for these temperatures. that's right. >> with the offshore winds. >> we get the warmth. there it is. >> appreciate it. sandra. >> all right. >> just ahead here on abc seven news at four. remembering those lost to aids. the new exhibit officially unveiled today. >> and later we take a spin in sonoma. the crash course in driving. that might and cash in at cache creek casino resort. to rock and to roll. to go all out or go all in with four stars and rising stars.
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audience. now, a special exhibit of that iconic quilt is on display at san francisco international airport. abc seven news reporter zach fuentes was at today's unveiling. >> it's a quilt that paints countless words, a depiction of love and remembrance. now, some of the 50,000 panels of the aids memorial quilt are on display at one of the busiest airports in the country. each panel is a tribute to a lost loved one. the exhibit at sfo is part of a year long display to honor those lost to the aids epidemic, and to celebrate the activism and community that's emerged from it. >> the very, very important history that's local to san francisco, of course. >> the panels have been on display at sfo since february. officials marking this month to celebrate and honor the exhibition. >> it's so important to do this during pride month because the
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quilt is so deeply rooted in the community here.ply rooted in the >> on hand for the special ceremony was cleve jones, who envisioned the. >> quilt in 1985 at a candlelight vigil held in memory of harvey milk. cleve had a vision, a way to mark the overwhelming loss of life due to aids. two years later, he stitched the very first panel in honor of his friend marvin feldman. >> the exhibit is open to all travelers and visitors. no boarding pass required. airport officials say it's a chance to educate and inspire. >> it will welcome people to the city that led the way during the aids crisis. >> the exhibit is up through next march. located in the international terminal before security, it's free to all airport visitors. at sfo zach fuentes, abc seven news. >> well, we have a taste of michelangelo coming our way now here in the bay area, sistine chapel. the exhibition opens its doors in san francisco tomorrow
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at saint mary's cathedral on gough street. look at this true to size masterpieces made using high definition photography, giving visitors a closer look than you can actually get at the vatican. even some of the ceiling scape was recreated in its original dimensions. the show runs through mid-september. that looks really cool. >> incredible, actually. all right, coming up. new no turn on. red signs are popping up in san francisco. the question is, are they actually working? >> if there's no enforcement, you can change all the rules you want to, and no one will take them seriously. >> and that is exactly what we found. new rules, no enforcement. first. >> it was the plastic bags. now your coffee cup, the new environmental effort and how it could
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francisco streets this year, and that's despite the city's vision zero goal of no deaths by 2024. >> so now, a civil grand jury report says the main issue is get this lack of enforcement by police. >> abc seven news building a better bay area reporter lyanne melendez is here now, and you looked into the city's latest moves here to reduce pedestrian deaths. and what have we found out? >> that's right. well, this report by the civil grand jury says it all, and it's called failed vision. and in this report, the grand jury found that in 2014, when vision zero began, sfpd issued more than 120,000 citations. now, keep that number in mind, because from ten years later. now, that same year, the average number of
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citations per sworn officer was seven per year. >> we are in the process of expanding prohibitions on turns on red. >> remember last year when we reported that no right on red signs were going up in the downtown area? well, here they are, shiny and very visible, except that the streets don't really seem much safer. especially when some drivers just ignore this sign. here's what we saw. an impatient driver who turned right on red with only eight seconds left on the crossing signal. by the way, a driver has to wait only 30s for that light to change. a delivery motorbike doesn't even pretend to stop before making that right hand turn on red. here's another driver. and so on. the san francisco municipal transportation agency has spent millions of dollars trying to protect both cyclists and pedestrians. wait. more than ten
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years ago, the city's vision zero plan had a goal to eliminate traffic deaths by 2024. yet 2024 marked the deadliest year since 2007. and so when you see a u.s. postal truck driver not obeying the rules, it begs the question where are the police officers? in march 2024, san francisco supervisor rafael mandelman warned us. >> if there's no enforcement, you can change all the rules you want to and no one will take them seriously. >> san francisco's tenderloin district has 50 intersections with no right or left on red signs. the sfmta told us last year that 92% of drivers were complying with the law. but this week we saw multiple cars disobeying the law and no one was holding them accountable. here's what sfpd told us. quote, keeping people alive and safe is the san francisco police department's number one priority, and we are using the
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personnel available to have the maximum impact. so let's go back to that line. the personnel available, because sfpd continues to blame the lack of traffic enforcement on its ongoing staffing shortage. >> i don't think it's an issue of staffing as much as it is an issue of prioritization. >> catherine bloomberg should know. she served on a civil grand jury investigating the causes of a failed vision zero, which found that, quote, there's a sense of lawlessness on the city streets due to the almost complete lack of enforcement in recent years. >> there's a lot of reckless driving on the streets, and we're seeing a complete drop off in enforcement. >> the report found that the number of traffic citations dropped by 95% in the ten years since vision zero was first adopted in 2014. 2016 saw the
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first big drop in citations, even though that same year police staffing increased by 6%. >> it was a drop off in citations while while police officer staffing was increasing and at the same time collisions were increasing. so this just has not been a priority for the sfpd. >> sfpd told us that it has increased traffic enforcement in the last year, and that's true. the civil grand jury report acknowledges that in 2024, there were 15,500 citations, the most significant increase since 2020. abc7's data team also found that traffic stops for running a red light or making that right on red, increased from 19 stops in 2023 to 60 1 in 2024. in the report, the civil grand jury calls for a, quote, renewed
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commitment to traffic enforcement from sfpd and that the sfmta start quote, building community trust. so far this year, we have had eight pedestrians killed, according to walk sf, which advocates for safer streets. none were caused by someone making a right hand turn on red. now, speeding was the main culprit, but again, little enforcement. sfmta hopes that the newly installed cameras will help. now, of course, the pandemic had something to do with it, but the health order was lifted in 2023. >> yeah, and looking at that number that you pointed out, liane, an average of seven citations per sworn officers there. i mean, that's stunning. that's a stunning number. is there something with the top, the top brass and the directive they're giving to the police officers? >> yeah, well, we looked into that. so in 2024, 2015, 2016 part of 2016 greg chief greg sir was at the helm. right. so in
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may 2016, he is asked by then mayor ed lee to resign. and almost immediately after that, the numbers go down. and in 20 17, january, chief bill scott is appointed chief of police. then the numbers continue to go down. uh- and we have a low in 2022 of 4356. so look at that from 120,000 to now. today 15,000. >> citations a huge drop off. it does get confusing on where you can make a right turn on red when the rules are different all over the place. but still, those numbers speak for. >> new york, has it? >> yeah. yeah. thank you. liane. >> yeah. >> appreciate it. >> san francisco is looking to expand a program that it credits with helping people overcome addiction. the program uses a reward system and has worked on a state level with 60% of participants involved in a pilot program being able to stop stimulant use. >> by consistently focusing on preparing and reinforcing that
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and sandy is joining us. artificial intelligence developers are getting a lecture on ethics from the pope. pope leo says ai needs to account for the well-being of humans. today's call for ethics in ai came at a meeting for tech leaders in rome. it was attended by several leaders from silicon valley companies, including google, open ai and meta. who's worried about ai? in terms of yeah, okay. >> yeah, i feel like we've done enough stories on it. i've listened to some podcasts. i kind of scare you a little bit about it. >> yeah. and you hear all these forecasts about, you know, how many jobs will be replaced or effectively gone in just the next 5 or 10 years. and then we also hear about in the big beautiful bill act, there is an amendment that would stop regulation of ai for ten years
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and even stop states from being able to do it like california, where we do have some robust policies. so it's a little bit concerning that we're not taking it seriously here. >> yeah, i wonder i worry more about like, you know, bad actors, if you want to use that phrase, manipulating ai in a way that gets people all worked up and, and, you know, there's nobody policing that per se, especially if it comes from, you know, foreign states, foreign governments. >> yeah. well, and that's what the pope was saying. i was reading up on it. apparently, this was something that pope francis started looking into and getting involved with. so this is following up to that. and it's just getting i in the wrong hands. and what bad things could happen if that like not completely stopping it. the pope is not against ai, but really just focusing on making sure that if someone gets it in the wrong hands, it's not, you know, the end of the world. >> yeah. guardrails for sure. yeah. well, we told you about quiet quitting and bare minimum mondays. now there is a new trend called quiet cracking.
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this is where workers feel unappreciated and closed off from career advancement. the frustration builds and builds until they have to force themselves through the workday. apparently, it's so widespread, with 54% of workers falling into this quiet cracking category. is this new lingo for you too, sandy? i've never heard of this one. >> i haven't heard of this one either. julianne. you know what? what i don't understand is why don't they just bring it up with their employers and discuss it openly and say, hey, i'm just feeling like maybe something could change. >> well, probably because they're afraid. >> well, yeah, but i mean, at some point, you got to take chances in life, right? >> that's true. okay. you go first. >> i'll be perfectly fine where i'm at. >> i'll be right behind you, in line and behind julian and karina. i'll. >> just be looking in and see what's going on in there. no, to me, the most alarming number is 54% in. i mean, if that number doesn't strike a chord with with the bosses, the ceos, the people at the very top looking and going, wow, more than half of
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our employees really feel frustrated and not appreciated. i mean, you got to do something about that. or unless they're just thinking, well, we're replacing all of these malcontents with ai anyway, so. well, yeah, i don't know. we'll see. see what happens. you ever bring your own coffee cup to your local coffee shop? san francisco is pushing for residents to take the more eco friendly approach to their daily brew. excelsior coffee and the sf environment department hosted their first bring your own cup giveaway and community pop up. they offered education and support on how to make the switch to reusables. i think this is a great idea because, you know, even here where we have the coffee machine and make a latte or whatever, you know, you just use the same cup over and over again. you can do the same thing at your local coffee shop. karina. >> yeah, i brought my own coffee mug here to try to use it every day rather than getting a new cup every day. when i make coffee, sometimes you forget. so that's the thing is, you sometimes forget your coffee mug if you're going to a coffee shop, right? but i do keep it at my desk and i try to remember to
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use that same one, just, you know, every little bit helps. >> yeah, you're absolutely right, karina. >> yeah. maybe i keep an extra cup in the car just in case. >> yeah, but then you have to take it inside and wash it. right. so it's that whole thing. >> yeah. >> i bring the beans to my house and just make my own coffee. >> oh, well. >> that's so much better, right? >> come on. >> to make it just as strong as i want it to be to. >> barista glover here. >> we're coming to the oatmeal. >> come on, i got you, i got you. all right, chino, latte. whatever you need. okay? it is officially the first day of summer, as sandy has been telling us. so the question is, what is going to be the song of the summer? and i'm about to make a meme out of myself because i do not know too many of these songs. so every year there's a pop song ready to take over the airwaves between june and august. and this year, some of the top contenders are. drumroll please, thank you, bad bunnies, nueva yol, alex warren's ordinary sabrina carpenter's man child. pink panther has a song called tonight, and that's why. yeah, i
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do know that. and cat's eye gnarly is their new song. >> karina i don't know if you. know any songs. half of. >> the people. >> i'm still listening to like boys to men and backstreet boys on my phone. so i'm the last person to be able to ask about pop star. i do ask my nieces like, what's cool now? but then i go back to everything i listen to in the early 2000. >> there's nothing wrong with that. >> well, sabrina carpenter's video music video is getting a lot of views, for obvious reasons, but. >> is it platinum at your house, larry? >> no, no, actually. pink pink panther tonight. i just write it down. well, it's almost as good as my nba predictions will be. the song of the summer. and yes, i've been wrong on those. >> two okc and six. >> yeah. thank you thank you okc and seven. now we revised it. but pink panthers tonight. it's really upbeat. great summer song. you'll enjoy. >> it i'll try it. >> all right. >> that'll do it for the
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your trip, you will have plenty of company. tripoli predicting 62 million people will travel by car, which would be a record. another 11 million people will travel by air, bus, train or cruise. >> keeping the driving theme after a years long hiatus. sonoma raceway is bringing back a popular driving program that shifts teen driver training to the next level. >> abc seven news anchor karina
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nova shows us how it works. >> keep going, keep going. >> and these drivers are testing their skills at sonoma raceway. they're not training to be professional race car drivers. most don't even have their driver's license yet. >> little faster, little faster, little faster. off the gas. bend it gently. >> it's called the teen safe driving program, and it's geared for young people just learning to drive by teaching them skills they won't learn in regular driver's ed. >> we want to get them more confident driving a car so they can be paying attention to the situation that they're in as much as operating their vehicle. >> the one day program starts with classroom instruction on ways of avoiding a crash, which is the leading cause of death among teenagers. >> we're going to be going full throttle to heavy braking. >> but the real training happens behind the wheel.
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>> as the back end of the car slides, we got to stop turning left and start turning right. and that's what we call our correction. >> an instructor shows how it's done. then it's the students turn. >> sharpen the steering gently, and here it comes back to the right. to the right, to the right. yeah. good. >> students learn three skills to avoid accidents. >> full throttle body. >> aggressive braking, how to oversteer to regain control during a skid. and how to swerve at a high speed to avoid something. the idea is to make these mistakes on this course so these teen drivers are ready when they're driving in the real world. >> it's actually pretty helpful just in case something happens on the road. you can't determine. it helps you stop and know what you're doing. driving's always kind of been scary subject for me. knowing that i can do this has really
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helped my confidence in just driving. >> normally when they find themselves in that situation, they can recall what to do and react to the situation that the car is in. >> the driving program will be offered throughout the year. students must have at least a learner's permit and 20 hours of driving experience. >> got to be pretty quick with the hands this time because we're not going quite fast enough. good. >> karina. nova abc seven news. >> what do you think? >> teenage julian is really jealous of this. it's like grand theft auto for kids, right? i'd love to take the course. >> well, still to come here on abc seven news at four, a north bay woodworker shares their talent and pride. >> i have a deep, abiding love of the natural world. >> how you
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at eight, it's celebrity jeopardy! followed at nine by 2020. then stick with us for abc seven news at 11. as we continue to celebrate pre month, we're introducing you to a woodworker who searched for a welcoming community, brought them here to the bay area. >> i think one of the main reasons i couldn't thrive in south florida back in the 80s is my queerness. and i ran to the gay ghetto that is the bay area as soon as i could. i have a deep, abiding love of the
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natural world and the way it intersects the built environment, and i've been messing with that blurred line between human created and the living world my whole life, first as a landscape architect and then as a farmer, and now as a woodworker. it's about placemaking, and it's about in imbuing objects with meaning. it's got nothing to do with fancy bells and whistles. it has to do with, like, the quietness of a piece of wood and like allowing it to have a voice. that's all i want to do. this is the real. this is the real tool. not not the big bandsaws or the big table saws. i love a wooden hand plane. i love a homemade hand plane, but this one fits my hand just right. you know, most connected to the wood with this one.
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i grew up in miami, florida, very far from here. my grandfather was an artist and a jeweler and a goldsmith, and he was always tinkering. and he, you know, encouraged me always to mess around with painting and sculpture. but i think gender played a big role in him, you know, not needing to encourage me in that direction. and i think one of the main reasons i couldn't thrive in south florida back in the 80s, you know, my queerness and i ran to the gay ghetto that is the bay area as soon as i could. i have been here since 1996 and the bay area, it is home. it has always felt safe. it's always been okay to be me, i have. >> made a couple of. >> so i can bring my love not only of craft, but craft
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education to my home. and that's what makes this quiet little place so special. there's a reverence you develop for not just doing the work, but learning how to do the work the right way. and i'm really grateful to be a part of that journey for other people. someone come and learn the fundamentals in a weekend about how to run some machines and keep all ten fingers, and to see the light in their eyes and like, recognize that that feeling happened in me not so long ago. that is so winning. feeling. i made a series called rested. it was during the lockdown and it was during black lives matter, and i was really inspired by this woman named tricia hershey. her whole thing is rest is resistance. and so i took some sinker redwood, which is this ancient wood and sinker
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means it sank to the bottom. and these pieces in particular at the bottom of big river in mendocino. and so i took these pieces, made a place to dream a better future, this idea that you could rest on giants, that you could, by osmosis, suck up their integrity and knowledge. i was really attracted to that. so it just looks like a bed. but for me it means it means a lot more than that. i want to do it justice. >> really impressive craftsmanship there. you can follow timber and sign up for classes at the school. just look for them on instagram at two rock school of woodworking. that'll do it for abc seven news at four. thanks so much for being here. i'm julian glover, abc seven news at five with dan karina and sandia coming your way.
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