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>> the scope of an fbi investigation at the mayor's home in oakland is now touching the police department. the records investigators are now demanding to see. good evening. thank you for joining us. i'm dan ashley, and i'm ama daetz. >> we have been following this story since the raids on june 20th. >> yeah, we were there when fbi agents collected boxes of evidence from mayor sheng tao's home, a california waste solutions office, and the homes of cw. s owners david wong and andy duong. >> and now we're learning about a new wave of subpoenas in the case. abc seven news reporter anser hassan pieces it all together for us. >> the fbi investigation into oakland mayor shengtao and the duong family is expanding. the fbi has now subpoenaed the oakland police department. >> this is significant because what we appear to be uh- entertaining is a massive corruption investigation that is currently underway by the grand jury at the instruction of the department of justice. >> greg woods is a professor in the department of justice
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studies at san jose state university. he says the subpoena is not necessarily to uncover any wrongdoing by the oakland police department, but rather if any victims have filed complaints related to those under investigation, they would call the oakland police department to report such an encounter, such a potential, victimization professor would suggest. it may be also to establish a timeline. subpoenas allow the fbi to learn about the nature of the calls and what, if anything, was reported that could determine probable cause to in fact, charge somebody with a crime to place them into custody and then to, well, continue this judicial process to hold individuals accountable. the fbi and oakland police department did not return requests for comment, but the bay area news group is reporting that a subpoena was issued to opd to turn over all internal phone directories since the beginning of march, and all police reports involving the duong family since the beginning of april. in june, the fbi raided mayor tao's house and homes belonging to members of
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the duong family, which owns california waste solutions recycling company that operates in oakland. as the abc seven i-team has reported, this may be linked in part to a campaign contribution laundering scheme. the fbi has also subpoenaed the city of oakland, allegedly looking into sources of funding. >> it is also an investigation into the transparency of how it is that money moves through the uh- support and the donations to the political campaigns that impact the city of oakland. >> no charges have been filed and murtaugh has denied any wrongdoing. wood says this type of fbi grand jury investigation could go for on months if not into next year. in oakland, anser hassan abc seven news. >> now to the latest on the attempted assassination of former president donald trump. new footage shows the moments immediately after saturday's shooting. now, this video was taken from behind the stage in butler, pennsylvania. it shows a new angle of those frantic
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moments and that rush to get trump off the stage. we're learning today. the secret service increased trump's security detail in recent weeks because of an iranian threat to assassinate the former president. there's no indication saturday's shooting is connected with iran in any way. meanwhile, the pennsylvania state police says it was not responsible for securing the building from where 20 year old thomas matthew crooks opened fire. that job was left to local police agencies. the feds are now warning of possible retaliatory attacks in response to saturday's violence. >> now, taking a live look at the republican national convention floor in milwaukee, where day two of the gathering is now underway. today's theme is making america safe once again focusing on immigration, crime and combating illicit drugs. the delegates are set to hear from a long list of republican lawmakers, including former primary rival nikki haley, also scheduled to speak. florida governor and former presidential candidate ron desantis, florida senator marco rubio and former presidential
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candidate vivek ramaswamy. former arkansas governor asa hutchinson also ran against trump. he hopes the former president will use the convention to make his case to unify the republican party. >> i'm anxious to hear. nikki haley tonight. he was last minute, but i'm so delighted that, mr. trump extended the invitation to her. look forward to hearing her and vance this week. and trump, these are key moments for the campaign and persuade people to come in. >> trump and his newly announced vice presidential running mate, ohio senator jd vance, could appear tonight as well. but that has not been finalized. you can watch it all right here. as it happens, live coverage of the republican national convention continues tonight at seven here on abc seven on the peninsula. >> a special recall election is underway that could cost two mill bay city council members their jobs. some residents are fighting a plan to convert a la quinta inn into permanent supportive housing. the recall campaign claims that millbrae vice mayor maurice goodman and
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council member angelina colon failed to properly represent the electorate when they supported the hotel conversion. the recall vote closes on july 23rd. you know, building a better bay area is our mission here at abc seven news, and affordable housing is a big part of that and a big challenge. the white house is now pushing for changes that would cap rent increases by big corporate landlords. abc seven news reporter ryan curry asked renters groups and landlords about the impact. >> there is a new effort to try and stop housing from getting more expensive, president biden is calling on congress to install a nationwide 5% rent cap. >> this is a step in the right direction. >> anthony chagoya is with the law foundation of silicon valley. her group represents tenants facing eviction. the proposed plan would only apply to landlords with 50 or more existing units, and they could risk losing tax breaks if they don't comply. but still, chagoya says it would help a lot of people stay housed. >> unfortunately, you know, they'll get hit with that
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unexpected rent increase and it's at 10, 15, 20% an amount that they just frankly cannot afford. and the consequence of that is it causes displacement. >> however, some don't think this is the best way to keep housing costs from rising. derek barnes with the east bay rental housing association, says the focus should be on building more units, not capping rent. we have a supply demand issue here and we've had that for decades, and so we haven't really cracked the code on building the amounts of housing that we need, especially here in the bay area. he fears a rent cap would deter developers, even if there is an exemption. >> might very well, create a situation where they pull out of the market, which is what we certainly don't want them to do, especially if they're a legacy owner operator. >> the white house says this is about getting corporate landlords to stop price gouging. chagoya says that would help many bay area residents. >> this is really an effort to get control of those big corporate landlords who are
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imposing substantial rent increases to working families who, frankly, cannot afford to pay a 10% rent increase. a 20% rent increase. >> barnes says any bill that gets passed should include incentives for developers to build more housing. >> but i think we need to think more creatively, with, you know, legislative tools that provide incentives for owners to bring units back into the market. >> the president is calling on congress to pass this bill as soon as possible. ryan curry, abc seven news. >> abc seven news continues to follow the story of discrimination in the home appraisal process. tonight, we learned the department of housing and urban development has charged rocket mortgage and appraiser and appraisal management company with race discrimination. hud alleges the fair housing act was violated during the appraisal of a black homeowners property in denver. rocket mortgage denies the charges and says it looks forward to setting the record
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straight in court, also saying in a statement, quote, under federal law, mortgage lenders are required to work at arm's length during the appraisal process, partnering with independent appraisal management companies who assign the work to state licensed professional appraisers. end of quote. the case now goes to an administrative law judge who reached out to. we reached out to the appraiser who also owns the appraisal management company in question here and did not immediately receive a response. it's the first case of its kind since hud began taking a closer look at appraisal discrimination as a result of our reporting on this topic, that began three years ago, our race and social justice reporter julian glover has reported on this topic for years. powerful reporting. it's the subject of our award winning abc seven originals documentary called lowballed. you can watch it on hulu, the abc seven bay area connected tv app, or on youtube as well. >> a building a better bay area success story. now, in the
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effort to create more affordable housing in oakland, oakland is celebrating a new affordable housing complex. >> the apartments are on seventh street near the west oakland bart 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. northern california's premier casino resort is the perfect place to do as much... or as little as you want. make your getaway now and cache in at cache creek casino resort.
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>> a building, a better bay area success story now. and the effort to create more affordable housing in oakland. oakland is celebrating a new affordable housing complex. the apartments are on seventh street near the west oakland bart station. abc seven news anchor kumasi aaron shows us how an east bay civil rights icon is behind it all. >> power to the people. >> this isn't your average apartment opening for your average apartment building. this is the grand opening for the black panther apartments. the 100% affordable housing complex brought to life by former black
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panther party chairwoman elaine brown. the one thing we talked about is straightening your back. >> am i right, minister? >> the community came together to celebrate with brown. she was the first and only woman to lead the black panther party, an organization founded in oakland in 1966 dedicated to fighting for housing, health care, food, employment and education for the black community. last year, brown and i walked through the site as the building was going up. this pretty cool. >> is this cool or what? >> today we walked through a finished unit in a finished building. i hate the word surreal because it's been so overused, but it really is surreal. there are 79 units in this five story complex, built on a lot that had been sitting vacant in this west oakland community for three decades. all units will not only be affordable, but specifically for people with very low or extremely low incomes. so far, more than 7000 people have already applied to live here. in addition to the units in this building, the ground floor is going to have five businesses
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launched by oakland in the world and owned by people who've been incarcerated or marginalized. this space will be the tech business power bit operated by michael buckley and his brother. >> it's incredible. i grew up here. i'm from west oakland, went to mcclymonds, went right here to prescott, lived right down the street. so i seen this neighborhood, you know, come and go. things get tore down and things get rebuilt. and it's just amazing to see that a building like this is being built right here in the community. >> brown hopes this building will be a model for others in oakland and other cities, and carry on the legacy of the black panther party. >> i hope that this building represents the power of the people, bringing back our our dedication and saying to each other, power, power to the people in west oakland, kumasi aaron, abc seven news. >> we will likely face a new set of rules when it comes to our landscaping. the state is set to revise what qualifies as a defensible space when it comes
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to preventing wildfires. abc seven news reporter leslie brinkley looked into what you might have to do differently in the next few years to be fire safe. >> defensible space to many californians means clearing dead debris from around their home and cutting overhanging tree limbs. but cal fire is drafting up new rules that could lead local jurisdictions to revamp their ordinances. the new focus is on the five feet closest to your home, called zone zero, and now even things like bushes and fences can catch flying embers and torture house like the one on the left. compared to the house on the right where wood is more than five feet away. various agencies are now advising the state on the latest fire science, including this former cal fire official. >> defensible space is not new to californians. what is new is this first five feet, again, based on our research, that is critically important to the survivability of homes, that's no fire fences attaching to the
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side of the house. uh, no bushes, no wood mulch, and other combustible items. that could potentially ignite, allowing the fire to get to the house. >> south lake tahoe is starting to enforce requirements similar to these this week, forcing homeowners to remove landscaping and wood gates from along their walls in the wake of the calder fire. three years ago that threatened the whole town again, they have language or measures that would help keep us all safe. >> then we would definitely want to consider it. >> as homeowners, we may not like all of the wildfire rules or other rules, but the least the state can do is make sure that that those rules are simple and straightforward. >> and we know exactly what's expected of us. >> senator wiener is authorizing legislation to simplify state wildfire maps that outline neighborhood fire severity risk. various agencies are working to draft up the new zone zero rules that should be made official by
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the end of the year. i'm leslie brinkley, abc seven news, a bay area company, is working on a way to harness the power of artificial intelligence to help fight cancer. >> one goal is to cut the time of editing thousands of dna cells from a year to a single day. abc seven news reporter luz pena shows you the progress. right. we're having trouble getting lou's report. we'll try to retrieve it for you in just a moment. but it's about the use of artificial intelligence and cancer research. >> and that is coming up also coming up, one of the hardest seats to get in the bay area isn't for a concert or even a sporting event. >> it is to take a test and not some students. it's left some st
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the bay area. the san jose
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mercury news reports that seats for the august october and november testing dates are fully booked within 100 miles of san jose and san francisco. just a handful of seats remain for the december and march exams, most of which are in locations several hours away. many colleges and universities have made sat scores optional for admission over the last few years. that resulted in fewer test centers. however, some schools have started reversing those policies. >> all right. well, good luck to everyone taking that test. that was no fun. i know. all right, let's turn our attention to the weather forecast. what a lovely, cool day out there. >> yes. abc7 news meteorologist sandhya patel is here with the weather. sandhya. yeah. >> ama and dan. it was absolutely gorgeous today. pretty mild pattern for summertime. want to show you the live pictures from our tower cameras right now. and no matter which direction you look, you can see plenty of blue sky there. 80s for our warmest inland valleys 60s coast side. so really pleasant weather at or slightly below average and it has been like this for a couple
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of days as this area of low pressure has been sitting off the coast and continuing to bring us a strong marine influence. so we did see some isolated thunderstorms up around the northeastern portion of the state. but this same low has also been kicking up the winds gusts to 33 right now in oakland, 25 in hayward, 26 in san mateo. next couple of hours do look for the breezy conditions to remain with us going into tomorrow as well. so we go this evening from our san jose camera. lots of sun breezy to gusty conditions tomorrow warming trend begins and thursday and friday had heating up in our inland valleys, so be prepared for that. at least it's not going to be extreme as we go. hour by hour tonight, once the winds begin to subside, we're going to see the low clouds filling back in tomorrow morning. we begin with the gray skies, but then quickly clearing out. except for a few patches of low clouds right near the coastline. tomorrow morning, you're looking at temperatures anywhere from the 40s in the north bay valleys to the low 60s in the inland east bay valleys. tomorrow afternoon it is going
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to be a warmer day than today. upper 80s to low 90s inland. a lot of sun. there low 60s coast side. so quite a nice range for summertime. and as you look at the accuweather seven day forecast, you will notice that the warming trend starts tomorrow. and it really just gets hotter thursday friday upper 90s to low 100 s keeping you in the 60s right near the beaches. and then the temperatures begin to moderate on saturday, coming right back up again later on in the weekend. going into early next dave's company just scored the comcast business 5-year price lock guarantee. high five! high five... -i'm on a call. it's 5 years of reliable, gig speed internet... five years of advanced security...
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intelligence in the fight against cancer. >> one goal is to cut the time of editing thousands of dna cells from a year down to a day. >> here's luis pena's report. >> in the race against time, cancer has proven the scientists can only go so fast. but now i could change that. >> for the first time, we're going to be able to use artificial intelligence to be able to do really millions, if not billions of experiments all on the computer before we even
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do the first experiment trying to kill cancer cells, we got to look inside the gladstone institutes in san francisco, where teams are working together using artificial intelligence to understand cancer cells. >> doctor deepak srivastava, president of the gladstone institutes, believes this approach will save lives. >> we'll be able to take somebody's cancer that so far has been untreatable and be able to engineer their own immune cells in ways that would specifically kill their cancer cell, according to the american cancer society, skin cancer is by far the most common of all types of cancers in the u.s. colorectal cancer is the second most common cause of cancer deaths for both men and women. >> these two types are the main focus for this research. >> the vision here is that we could use the machine learning models, use ai to figure out the patterns that distinguish the drivers from the background. and if we could do that, then we
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could do much more effective experiments before ai scientists could only do a thousand edits to dna in a year. >> and now with ai, they can do a million edits in a day. katie parlor is a director of the gladstone institute of data science and biotechnology, leading this ai approach and working fast to find ways to tackle cancer is personal to her. >> i'm a patient. i have patients in my family and we don't have time to waste. >> typically, breakthroughs can take decades to make it to clinical trials. this team is aiming for a shorter timeline. >> my hope is that over a five year period, we've learned enough that we can design new types of clinical trials that can actually try to address those cancers that have so far been incurable in san francisco. >> luz pena, abc seven news. >> it is encouraging to see that progress. more of that happens. yeah.
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>> all right. it's encouraging to have cool temperatures still, but lovely that may change here. >> meteorologist sandhya patel is back. sandy. >> yeah that's right dan and ama we're going to start to notice those temperatures trending higher beginning tomorrow. so let me show you how much higher it's going to be. warm inland 92 degrees in fairfield, 91 in antioch, 89 in concord and livermore. look nothing extreme. 84 in san jose, 74 in oakland, 86, san rafael, 89 in santa rosa and 69 in san francisco. there may be a patch or two of fog lingering in places like half moon bay, where it's going to be 62 degrees, but just as you're getting used to this idea of pleasant weather that we've had today, we're going to turn up the heat and we go to the upper 90s thursday up into the triple digits, friday 60s, coast side and then the heat returns again sunday through tuesday with a brief break on saturday. ama and dan it's not going to be too windy though, is it? sandy tonight? it is. it's a little breezy out there the next few days after that. it's still going to be breezy tomorrow.
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>> okay, at least that'll help with the heat a little bit, we hope. thanks, sandy. >> all right. well, we have plenty more coming up for you next. we have world news tonight with david muir. >> live coverage from the republican national convention day two. stay tuned for that. and i'm and i will see you again at 6:00 for all of us here. i'm dan ashley, i'm ama daetz. >> we will see you again at 6:00 for all of your top headlines and more on the weather. we'll see you then.
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tonight, breaking news from milwaukee. the surprise add to the republican convention here. who will speak tonight in support of donald trump?

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