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figure skaters are new olympic champion. two and a half years after a scandal plagued games in which a russian phenom was caught doping. you're watching, getting answers. i'm kristen sze. it's the scandal that rocked figure skating and the 2022 beijing olympics. russian superstar kamila valieva, only 15 years old at the time, had helped the russian team win the team gold and was on her way to winning her individual event when the world came crashing down. she had failed a previous drug test and should never have competed in beijing. the investigation that followed took two and a half years. this morning, finally, the international skating union disqualify valieva, removing her points from the team total. this means team usa, which had finished in second, is now the olympic champion. japan moves up from third to second. russia moves down from first to third and canada remains in fourth. more on that later. but what

this means is nine american olympians will receive their long awaited gold medals for the team competition, including two bay ar skaters, vincent zhao of san jos and karen chen of fremont. joining us live now is their teammate, olympic ice dancing bronze medalist and now team gold medalist madison hubbell. hi, madison. thank you so much for joining us today. hi kristin. >> i'm happy to be here. >> i am just delighted that you are making the time on this huge day. i guess i got to start with congratulations. i know it's kind of trite, but i have to ask you, how does it feel? >> it's super exciting thing. of course i can't wait to actually be with my teammates once again and celebrate all together. >> i'm sure it's got to be. i mean, bittersweet for all of you to for this moment to come. two and a half years later, of course, we all wished that it would come at the actual olympic games and we'd be able to share that moment. >> you know, when it happened. but we are excited that it's

resolved in this way, and we can't wait to figure out what the celebration is going to look like. >> there you are. i know you didn't have the medal ceremony at the olympics for that event, although you did win your bronze for your ice dancing, which huge congrats for that as well. but look at this. have you talked to some of the teammates? >> i have yeah, we are still in touch, especially with madison chalk and evan bates who are actually still competing. they're the last uh- of the team to still be competing internationally. and we are really excited about the outcome . but certainly it did feel like a long journey to get here, and i have to thank all of them for pushing just as much as we all did. and our federation did to get this, you know, this outcome. >> i know this is mainly a day for celebration, for long overdue honor, but i also want to use this opportunity to kind of touch on what can be better. write about the process. i know many people have criticized the skating's international governing body, the isu, for

taking two and a half years. do you feel as though there was some feet dragging, or that it could have gone a lot more quickly? >> i have to imagine that this is how it feels for most bureaucratic uh- processes. it does take quite a while for uh- everyone to appeal and make their, you know, argument, but certainly i think all athletes deserve a quicker resolution, and that's what we were fighting for, is for the future generations to be able to actually resolve it within the weeks of the olympic games and have their olympic moment when it counts. >> and this might be a tough one, but i wonder, what is your view of kamila valieva in stories? she's either the victim or she's the villain. what do you think? >> uh? unfortunately i think the truth lies in both. both? um, you know. yes. she was young. there are a lot of young participants in that particular discipline of figure skating, but it is known by every single

participant what the rules are, what the doping rules are. it's very clearly written. um, so whether she knew that she was taking something or not, she is at fault. and she isn't the first athlete to, you know, experience that whether it was intentional or no. um, and i think unfortunately, like the outcome worked as it needed to. but i do feel for her, i don't think any anyone should have to go through that. and certainly not someone so young. >> she got a four year ban, but i think it's retroactive. that means she will be eligible for the next olympics right? correct. yeah. all right. and she is still young. so she does still have a future. but as you stated, she's not the only one. and i believe russia competed not under the name of russia, but the russian olympic committee for past infractions. if you will. so what is it? 's not functioning well systematically, if you will? and what do you think needs to happen to ensure these stories

won't keep happening? >> it's a really difficult answer. i mean, i'm not part obviously, of the, uh, russian federation, so i can only speak to the speculation of athletes from the outside. but certainly there seems to be a systemic culture of wanting to find the next advantage. and i can say that from the us perspective of growing up in our own system, that was never a concern. they never were investigated ways to medically advance your performance. and so i think it's a it's a really tough solution to find, but certainly more stringent, uh, doping measures and certainly faster reaction times since she was caught doping before the games, even began. >> yeah. uh, it is a very different system here in the us. do you feel like for figure skaters growing up here, that there is good attention paid to not only integrity? i think that part certainly true. but also

health and mental health. >> absolutely. i think us figure skating in general is leading the way when it comes to the athlete care. uh, from a very young age, when you're participating on team usa, it is very thorough in the way that they take care of their athletes from mental health, nutrition, medical, um, we are really taught how to take care of ourselves as adults from a very young age, and that the responsibility falls totally on ourselves. >> it's amazing how long your career was as well. i know you recently retired and i want to touch on what you're doing now in just a little bit, but i want to also, before we move on from this topic, i know that it's not over because yes, usa is getting the gold, but i understand that skate canada is protesting as well. in fact, they put a message out on social today, essentially saying they should have been the bronze medalist now and not the russians because if valieva wasn't first in her portion of the team competition,

since that was vacated, the other competitors should have been awarded more points because they would have ranked higher without her, and that would have put canada over russia. did the isu make another mistake here? you think? >> in my opinion, it is a mistake? um, even even that, of course, that argument of needing to give an extra point to everyone who placed below valieva is, of course, i think, accurate, and it even says such in the rules of isu. but furthermore, if it's a team event and the entire structure of team events within the olympic games relies on every single member you know, following the rules of doping. so just like any other sport, if somebody were to be caught, um, their teammates would unfortunately suffer the consequences. so i'm anxious to see how quickly that part of this process can now be resolved . >> all right. well, madison, i know you have a lot of fans, so i didn't think you needed the full intro. but for those who don't know, you grew up in

michigan, right? but now you are living in canada, where i think you're coaching and choreography ing. is that right? absolutely yes. >> so i had the opportunity to, uh, join scott moyer, the most decorated olympic figure skater of all time. um, uh, at his academy here in london, ontario. my husband and i are working together with scott and several other coaches and trying to, you know, uh, help develop up the next generation of ice dancers and olympians and it's just been a whirlwind of a two years, but really exciting. >> yes. and you got married to. congratulations. that's all amazing. and when do you think you'll have that gold medal in hand? and when you'll get together for that, uh, long delayed ceremony? >> i think a lot of the winter olympians have always dreamed of attending a summer games. that's something that we all talk about, wondering what that experience would be like. and certainly having it resolved now gives us some months to possibly

maybe, uh, attend the paris summer games and have a moment there as a team if it doesn't work out. certainly we want a moment on the olympic stand. and so that only comes every two years. so hopefully we, the olympic committee is willing to kind of support us in that dream. >> well, madison hubbell, you've had an incredible career. and this is just the icing on top. thank you so much. congratulations jones. >> thank you. >> moving on. we all could be paying an additional fee on our energy bills if state regulators get their way. go ahead. we'll talk to a california lawmake

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may be tacked on. one based on income called the income graduated fixed charge. believe it or not, the legislature gave california utilities the power to add this fee in a bill they passed in 2022. but now some lawmakers have introduced a bill to reverse that. joining us live now to talk about it is california assembly member mark berman, based in menlo park. assemblyman berman, nice to have you here. >> thanks, kristin. >> so what is this income grab fixed charge. >> so the income graduated? fixed charge would be a charge that california's utility customers would pay to cover some of the fixed costs of distributing uh- electricity to customers. and it's something that exists in a lot of other places across california with municipal utilities and across the country. but my colleagues and i are very concerned about the requests that our investor owned utilities like p-g-and-e's have made and sort of the outrageous levels that they want

to charge, that they want to add on to uh- customer bills after customer bills have already gone up so much over the past couple of years. really over the last decade. >> so let's take this back a step. how did you all in the assembly pass a bill in 2022 that allows the cpuc tsay to impose this charge? >> so in 2022, we passed a budget trailer bill, which is a hundreds of pages long that funds and authorizes lots of different programs that are good , programs that are important programs that that benefit californians. but in this bill, ab 205 were about 3 or 4 lines uh- that gave the public utilities commission, the cpuc, the authorization to come up with a fixed uh- charge. and we thought that they would do a reasonable fixed charge, $15 a month, $20 a month. but when p-g-and-e's and the other investor owned utilities requested upwards of $125 a month, more for uh- to on

california customers, that's when we realized that this was getting way out of control. not at all what we had thought about or intended, and it was important to repeal that and have a more thoughtful and deliberate conversation in the legislature about this policy. >> tsay so just to be clear, this wouldn't have been an instead of charge. it's an add on right on top of charge. and it would be based on how much you pay is kind of based on your income. and you say, this is a problem for those of us in the bay area, explain why. >> so it would be an add on charge. and then there's also conversations about reducing usage fees. but the reality of the implementation of this would be that a lot of hard working middle income, uh- californians and especially folks in high cost areas like the bay area, the uh- would have significant isn't, you know, it would be that much more difficult for them to pay their bills because people who make a family of four, that makes $70,000 a year,

they don't qualify for the reduced uh- care plan that we have in california, which means that they would be paying upwards of $600 more a year, and they're already just struggling to get by on $70,000 a year, $80,000 a year, and so that was when we realized that the proposal and the amounts that were being proposed would harm really hard working california. and that's not something that that we're interested in approving. i see. >> so does the fee also encourage or discourage energy conservation in it? >> i, i would argue that it discourages energy conservation. right we want to encourage energy conservation, but especially for some of the highest usage users, some of the biggest homes that that have air conditioning in every room and, you know, use the most energy, they would actually see their their bill go down because they would pay the fixed cost, but they would get savings from the, the, the savings that they'd get from the reduction of the usage fees. and so some of the wealthiest residents, some of

the biggest users would actually save money from this policy. and that's that's while while hard working families that are barely , uh, you know, scraping by on 70, $80,000 a year for a family of four would see their rates increase. and so that's that's sort of a not the incentives that we're trying to create. >> so you've coauthored the bill to reverse that. and i'm wondering how quickly do you need to act? are you going to get the support and how quickly was cpuc going to implement this ? >> so cpuc was going to implement this by june 30th of this year. and frankly, that was too fast. and so this is you know, we had a press conference this morning. we had assembly members and senators from up and down the state who represent very diverse districts, who were all there saying, look, we're really concerned about what the puc is talking about. we're really concerned about what p-g-and-e's and the other investor owned utilities are asking for. and therefore, we want to pull this back. we want to slow it down. and we want to have a more deliberate

conversation. so, you know, i think with the support that the bill has, hopefully it'll move quickly. um, and hopefully the puc will realize that they really, you know, they've gone a bit too far. uh, the investor owned utilities have been a little bit too, too greedy, frankly, in what they're asking for. um, and we're sending a clear message to them that that's totally unreasonable. uh, and absolutely not something that should be implemented and placed on californians. look obviously they want more money. >> the utilities need to raise more revenue. but i think many californians are worried about giving them more money, especially skeptical of what p-g-and-e's is doing with it all. after so many wildfires and rolling blackouts, what do you think they need to do? >> well, i think the legislature is going to have a lot of oversight and accountability hearings to learn to get to dig deeper into what p-g-and-e's and the other utilities have been doing. uh, you know, for example, just came out earlier this year that the office of energy infrastructure safety did an evaluation of p-g-and-e's

2021 wildfire mitigation plan, and they gave p-g-and-e's a failing grade. uh, they said that pg and e did not implement the wildfire mitigation plan, that they said they were going to, at least not to the standards that that we expect. so, um, you know, p-g-and-e's, uh, customers bills have gone up 127% over the past decade. and we've seen multiple. it feels like every other week there's an article talking about how pg and e is requesting another increase, another fee increase, another bill increase. and so, uh, you know, we need to get a better understanding from them about where is this money going? uh, how is the money being spent and how is it benefiting californians before we increase bills any further? >> yeah, i think a lot of people want those answers. assemblyman marc berman, thank you so much for coming on the show and talking about it with us. >> thanks, kristen. >> coming up next, san francisco will be featured in a new movie, but it won't be painting the city in the best light. we'll learn about it from our media partner, the

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attention of filmmakers. our media partner, the san francisco standard, has a new article out asking, will a new movie about the car break in epidemic glorify beiping or expose its roots? joining us live now to talk about his article is the standard's reporter, david shusted. hi, david. >> hi. how's it going? >> i'm doing just fine, thank you. your article was interesting to us. there's a movie apparently being filmed in the city right now. it's called splash city. tell us about it. yeah >> so it's actually being made by the rapper berner, who is from san francisco. he's behind the lifestyle brand weed brand cookies, which has a shop on haight street, uh- he said he was inspired to make the film when one day, a young man came to his store with some items

that appeared to be stolen. um, and he he saw this guy as is pretty innocent, and he thought to himself, you know, this isn't the type of person i would imagine to be into this. you know, underground thieving business. um, and so he set out to tell that kid's story. who came to try to sell him stolen items. >> all right, well, let's check out a clip from the trailer. all right, that is pretty dramatic. i mean, just to be clear, this is not a documentary , right? despite how real it feels to us, this is all fiction and dramatized. yes. >> yeah, it's, uh, totally dramatized. i was there yesterday when they, uh, reenacted a bit, being uh- and, um, nobody was hurt in the process of filming that that is

good. >> that is good. um, what about the name splash city? i mean, usually when we say here, splash around here, we think splash brothers like, you know, warriors. uh, is it a reference to something? >> no, not, um. no. no ties to steph curry. but, uh, it's basically another, uh, slang terms for bit being, uh, you know, when you splash the window and it makes a big splash, uh, i guess that's, that's another way of describing, uh, breaking a window of a car. >> all right, so you said the name of the entrepreneur is berner. is that right? berner. okay does he have a message behind this? is there a political message? a goal, something they're sending to politicians? options? yeah well, he said he wants to hold, uh, san francisco leaders accountable. >> and really bring this, uh, this crisis to a worldwide audience. but he also said he wants to get past the headlines that have sensationalized it and tell a story that, um, you know,

actually gets to the heart of why this is happening. um, he said he's already gotten some criticism, uh, that people think he might be trying to glorify it, but he pushed back on that. >> i see, and i wonder if he might get criticism from those who don't want to cast a negative light. you know, on the city for political reasons. right it is san francisco, after all. uh but i know berner's got a business and all that. it sounds fairly successful, but did they raise money for this film? >> he said he's raised about $750,000 for the film. he's aiming to get it to a million. um, and, uh, it looked pretty well funded when i got there that it was a bunch of big trucks, a lot of fancy equipment . >> what were they shooting on? locations where you actually have a lot of these cases. kind of a hot spot? yeah >> so they were over in potrero hill. um, i think they've been filming all over the city. uh in the trailer, you can see them driving around, uh, it looks kind of nearby alamo square. maybe. so i think they're

getting around, um, and filming all over. uh, they said they're going to treasure island later in the day, but, yeah, i don't know if that's a big, hot spot or not. >> uh, well, i guess it's a mixed, you know, thing where you. it's great that they're making films, you know, that's boosting the economy. but it's also about a topic that certainly doesn't add to our economy. but as a pop culture reference continues to grow, it's pretty incredible. >> yeah, it's interesting. we did a story a few months ago about how it's, uh, you know, there's actually music videos called shipping lessons and there's merchandise and, um, so this is kind of the other side of that where it's somebody that's trying to make a product that from, from what he said is, is trying to counter the narrative of the, you know, the and not try to glorify it. >> all right. so when and where can people expect to see the film? >> they said, uh, they will be done in a few months, but they didn't really give a firm release date. they said, um,

they're working with some distributor was they were pretty tight lipped about a lot of things. >> all right. well, david said, no doubt as more information comes out, you'll keep us posted and get to the bottom of it. thank you so much. >> thanks for having me. >> all right. thanks for coming on. and you can check out more of david's article and also just more of the san francisco standard's other original reporting on their website. that's sf standard.com and abc7 will continue to bring you more segments featuring the standards, city focused journalism. look for that twice a week right here on getting answers at 3 p.m. and a reminder you can get our live newscasts. breaking news, weather, and more with our abc7 bay area streaming tv app. it's available on apple tv, google tv, fire tv and roku search, abc7, bay area and download it right now. we'll be

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