supreme court's recent decision. good afternoon. >> i'm kristen sze and i'm larry viel. thanks for joining us. we start with developing news now. all eastbound lanes of the bay bridge are back open after a wild sequence of events. now, there's still a backup you can see from our south beach tower camera at about 215 this afternoon, two cars crashed on the eastern span. >> one rolled over. sky seven shows us the damaged car being towed away right there. >> and after the crash, things got weird. the driver of the car jumped off the bridge. the coast guard rescued him from the bay and took him to a hospital. >> the chp is still investigating exactly what caused the crash. >> meanwhile, a deadly five vehicle crash involving a big rig this morning on southbound 680 in fremont. investigators say the big rig struck the back of a white toyota sedan, killing the driver. it then hit three other vehicles before going off the road, ending up jackknifed down an embankment. >> all right. now we're going to

turn things over to the weather. you can see the heat is back. >> absolutely triple digits coming your way. spencer christine here with a first look at the forecast. >> okay, larry and christine, we're getting very close to triple digits right now. let's take a look at our current temperature readings. you'll see numerous upper 90 degree readings like for example a 97 at concord, 98 fairfield at uh, brentwood up in the north bay 95. cloverdale 96, saint helena 96. down at livermore. so all around the area it's pretty toasty already and tomorrow is going to be even hotter. in fact, the next two days will be hotter. here's a look at our heat alerts. we have a heat advisory in effect for all of our inland areas away from the coast and the bay. that includes the mountains and the inland valleys of the north bay, the east bay hills and the inland east bay and the santa clara valley and its hills. so, taking a quick look at the heat we expect tomorrow, numerous locations will have temperatures ranging from 102 to about 106. in the hottest inland areas tomorrow. now we get a little bit of a break on saturday and sunday as the heat eases just a bit. so instead of triple digits

we'll have mainly mid to upper 90s on saturday and sunday. but early next week the triple digits come right back at us on the full forecast a little bit later. >> kristen spencer thank you. firefighting crews are headed north to battle bigger flames. governor newsom today says the state is sending local fire personnel and equipment to help fight wildfires in oregon. tens of thousands of acres are burning throughout their state. agencies are coordinating to send a total of 15 fire engines and 80 firefighters to assist, including some from san francisco and alameda counties. smoke from wildfires in northern california is expected to impact air quality here in the bay area tomorrow, but there is currently no spare the air alert. >> a plan to clear out an illegal encampment along the bay bridge toll plaza will not happen tomorrow. oakland city officials confirmed to abc seven news they now have until tuesday to move. the encampment. crackdown comes as county officials and advocates search for more long term solutions to homelessness. here's abc seven news reporter anser hassan.

>> michael has been living along the coast of the bay bridge toll plaza for almost a year. he was told you'd have to leave by friday morning by court order. he now has until tuesday. >> it's good news, uh- all of us need a couple more days, honestly, to try and find a place to go. >> last month, the us supreme court ruled cities have the authority to enforce bans on people sleeping and camping in public places. oakland is taking action on this encampment because it faces daily fines from the san francisco bay conservation and development commission if the people don't leave. >> it's been difficult in every, every single city i've gone to, there's they don't have the resources, poole says he knows this isn't a long term solution, but he doesn't have the resources to go elsewhere. >> and the cities and counties don't have the resources, either. >> clearing out the encampments is one thing, but providing housing for those people is completely different. >> palma glazov is a senior manager at 211 alameda county, which provides resources to those who aren't unhoused. she says the county doesn't have the

shelter beds for those leaving the toll plaza encampment. >> it's just making it harder and harder to live. but that's not going to solve the issue of them trying to get back on their feet, because everybody wants to be inside, but they can't find a way. in. >> alameda county board of supervisor president nate miley hopes a multibillion dollar regional bond will pass in november to help fight homelessness. he says the county is exploring sanction encampments as a solution where we can ensure safety and services. >> if we have to declare an encampment because it's causing a public health, a public safety and environmental health type issue or concern, perillo says his next challenge by tuesday is not just to find a place to live, but also somewhere safe. >> there's no resources out here that are just close by. the only thing that is out here is it's safer than the city. >> in oakland, anser hassan abc seven news. >> mayor breed says the city of san francisco is planning to start a very aggressive sweep of homeless encampments next month. breed talked about that this morning during a mayoral debate hosted by san francisco's firefighters union. our media

partners at the san francisco standard were there and say breed applauded the supreme court decision in june that allows cities to enforce rules restricting unhoused people from sleeping outside. mayor breed says the city may start issuing criminal penalties for violations on our 3:00 pm news, we've been talking to all the candidates running for san francisco mayor today, supervisor asha safai explained why his approach to crime is investing more in community policing. >> we're down officers right now, but we're not down the willpower and what i put forward this past january was to have mandatory foot and bike patrols. let's get the officers out of their cars and doing proactive community policing. we have never fully done that in san francisco. when you go downtown. now, we were talking about walking around san francisco today. you go down to union square. you see a lot of police presence now. finally, that was as a result of a lot of the good work that i did to stop and stem

the tide of organized retail theft. we need to spread that around san francisco. >> tune in tomorrow as we talk with supervisor aaron peskin on abc seven news at three. our interviews with the san francisco mayoral candidates continue tomorrow. supervisor peskin will be here. as we just mentioned, if you missed any of our other candidate interviews, we have them all posted on our website, abc7 news.com crime and safety important focuses in november's elections, especially in san francisco. >> recently released research finds that increased enforcement of disorderly conduct like panhandling and loitering, can lower crime by 26. yet criminologists warn against the long term effects of overpolicing when they don't trust the police, they don't call 911 to report crimes. >> they might take matters into their own hands and initiate retaliatory violence. they might not cooperate with ongoing investigations when people don't trust the police, the work of the police becomes that much more challenging. >> studies have shown that other

measures, like improving street lighting and cleaning up litter, as well as graffiti, can also lower crime and improve the public's sense of safety. the most recent fbi report says property crime and violent crime are actually down 15% in the us this year. >> now to a story and an ongoing problem we've been following for years. we're talking about mail theft. >> members of a south bay community say they've been repeatedly hit by thieves and they're desperate for solutions at this point. and that concern has led to the proposal of a new bill. >> abc7 news, south bay reporter zach fuentes is live in our san jose bureau with more zach. >> yeah, we already know mail theft is a problem, not just in the south bay, but the entire bay area and the state and the residents. i got to talk to today say the losses for them have been costly and dangerous, but now they are feeling more hopeful with that new legislation in the works. take a look at these clips from neighbors in this south san jose condo complex. neighbors say that the cluster mailbox was opened wide, not by one of the

homeowners or a postal worker, but by thieves. >> actually, right here, opening it with a key. and you can tell because he's opening this one, this specific slot here, which is the one that uses the master key. you can see that he opens that one first and then he opens the whole unit. >> law enforcement says that thieves oftentimes get those master keys from postal workers who have been robbed. last year in california, 61% of statewide postal worker robberies happened in the bay area. >> theft is a serious crime that frequently results in identity theft, check fraud and other financial crimes. >> john young said he's had financial documents stolen. his neighbors have also experienced loss of medication, or hundreds of dollars worth of gift cards sent to family members, law enforcement says cluster mailboxes are a target for thieves, who often choose them instead of a series of individual boxes. young says the neighbors have asked the usps for individual mailboxes on their garages that they'd be willing to pay for, but they're not even willing to entertain it. so they went to their local city council member, domingo candelas, and eventually got the

attention of congressman jimmy panetta. last month, panetta helped introduce a bipartisan bill called the mail theft act. it aims to develop cross coordination to combat mail theft, make sure that federal government and the us attorney's and the doj and the usps actually all coordinate at the federal level, but also with the local level as well. on top of that, panetta and the neighbors have pointed to electronic locking mechanisms on cluster mailboxes, a more secure option. usps said it's already using on blue collection boxes, panetta said he's also been part of legislation to appropriate funds to the usps for that. panetta has public support from the santa clara county sheriff's office and san jose police department. the neighbors say they finally have hope. >> i mean, there was no pathway through the forest before, and now there is. so that's something that's that's a huge something. >> now, the neighbors told me that the usps has replaced the locks on that cluster mailbox, but the problem keeps happening. it just happened again this last weekend. we did reach out to the

usps about the claims from the neighbors, and for a response to panetta's bill, we have not heard back. that bill, by the way, is under the oversight committee and is waiting a hearing right now live in the south bay bureau. zach fuentes, abc seven news. >> all right. zach thank you. it is official. university of california regents have signed off on construction of a new ucsf benioff children's hospital in oakland. the new seven story hospital will be built on the current oakland campus. the new building will include access to outdoor space for patients, families and staff, and space inside the hospital for families to stay with their children during their care. the $1.5 billion hospital is scheduled to open in 2030. >> protesters hit san francisco's great highway to fight a potential closure. nearby residents drove in caravan today as part of the protest against a november ballot measure that would permanently close a section of the road. the protesters want to keep the current setup with the great highway closed only on weekends. >> coming up on abc7 news at four. the final night of the republican convention decision

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is hoping those new gates will make people pay their fair share. luz >> that's right. yes, the san francisco bart station where these gates are going in, is the second in the bay area. the first station where bart tested these new gates was in west oakland over six months ago. now they're ready to expand. if you're a frequent bart rider, it doesn't take long to witness people jumping or uh- people trying to squeeze his body through the turnstiles. >> or i've seen somebody wait for somebody to get in and then piggyback off that entrance. >> bart says pre-pandemic numbers project. it was losing tens of millions of dollars because people were finding ways to avoid pain. >> it also bothers me that it's being done. you know, directly in front of bart employees. >> we saw several people jumping over gates. one stopped by a bart police officer right after making it to the other side. we tried speaking to them to

understand their point of view. you said he doesn't want to speak. just two weeks ago, a bart rider, corazon dandan, was killed when a man pushed her into an oncoming train at the powell station. today, bart confirmed the suspect had no proof he paid his fare. >> the reality is that people who fare evade not every fare evader commits a crime, but it is not uncommon for us to see that people who have unwanted behavior on bart have fare evaded to get in our abc7 news data team looked into monthly fare evasion citations and found that variations are trending up. >> bart says they're noticing a decline at the west oakland station, where new gates were installed december of last year. >> the number of entries and exits at west oakland is up 120,000 from the same period of the first six months of 2022. so what that's telling us is more people are, in fact, tagging in with their clipper card at west oakland than they were before the new gates went in. >> bart's plan is to replicate these gates throughout the system. this week, they're

beginning to install the second batch of new gates, this one at the san francisco civic center station. >> this is a priority project for bart. we're going to replace more than 700 fare gates across the system at all 50 of our stations. >> bart acknowledges these gates are just one aspect. more police presence is another. we noticed a person jump over the gate, see the officer, and go back inside to buy a ticket. >> gates is one thing, but you know safety and security is needs to be beyond a gate. >> and bart says their agents cannot stop people from jumping over the gates. they tell me they don't want their employees to confront anyone. fare evading. that's the job for law enforcement officers. bart is projecting to finish installing all the new gates by 2025. luz pena, abc seven news. luz. >> thank you. the fcc might make it easier to switch phone carriers. today, the federal communications commission put forth a proposal that would require all mobile phone service providers unlock customers

phones within 60 days of activation. it's not been determined yet if the rule would apply to existing wireless contracts, the fcc will allow schools and libraries to loan out wi-fi hotspots to families without internet access at home. president biden has canceled another $1.2 billion of student loan debt, 35,000 public sector workers qualify, including teachers, nurses and firefighters, through the public service loan forgiveness program. biden has now forgiven more than $168 billion of federal student loan debt for nearly 4.8 million americans in the south bay, the rolling stones are giving people in need some satisfaction today. >> the iconic band teamed up with a nonprofit known as musically fed to donate more than 500 pounds of unused food that was left over from last night's concert at levi's stadium this morning. the fresh produce, the dry goods, prepared meals were all dropped off at

catholic charities of santa clara county's john 23 site. the food will help feed unhoused people, veterans as well as seniors. >> this is the first time we've been chosen. i don't know if they've been in the silicon valley before, but i'm looking forward to hopefully making this happen and other people want to do this musically. >> fed's mission is to combat hunger with all of the unused, untouched food from the concert donated to ensure that no food goes to waste. excellent cause. >> all right. are you getting satisfaction weather wise? i guess that depends on whether you like it hot or super hot. >> scots are christian. >> well, we're going to have both. today was hot. tomorrow will be super hot. so there you go. everyone's satisfied? well not really. here's a look at what's going on. you can see on the satellite radar composite image, high pressure to our east with this clockwise circulation. a low pressure to our northwest with this counterclockwise circulation combining with this tight pressure gradient give us a brisk onshore flow which is not cooling inland areas, but it has provided enough of a shallow

marine layer at the coast for conditions to be quite comfortable there and quite gusty. i might add. sfo has gusts right now up to 36mph. oakland 31mph. but again, the inland areas, even though some are breezy, are still quite toasty. the 24 hour temperature change shows what's going on here, with the warm up. most inland areas are anywhere from five to about ten degrees or more. warmer right now than they were at this time yesterday. so let's move along and take a look from sutro tower out over san francisco, where it's currently 64 degrees. we have 71 at oakland, hayward, 77, upper 80s at san jose, 80. redwood city, 59 at half moon bay. here's a view from mount tam. you can see a little finger of fog out there near the coastline, but not pushing very far out over the bay. it's 89 at santa rosa right now, 79 at both petaluma and napa. upper 90s, mid to upper 90s at livermore, concord and fairfield. and then we go to the view at the golden gate, where you just see a little thin puff of clouds moving above. these are the forecast headlines.

triple digit heat inland will be with us tomorrow weekend. outlook calls for calls for the heat to ease briefly, but then next week, the excessive heat will return for several days. we have a heat advisory in effect for the bay area until 11 p.m. tomorrow night, and that includes all the hills and valleys of the north bay, the east bay and the santa clara valley. then, of course, the risk of heat related illness increases under these excessively hot conditions. here's a forecast animation showing a little bit of a thin, shallow marine layer developing overnight. it won't have much cooling effect. there'll be patches of drizzle offshore which will amount to nothing in terms of inland areas onshore. so on we go to overnight low temperatures, mainly upper 50s to low 60s. quite mild overnight highs tomorrow mid 60s at the coast. we'll see mid 80s around the bay shoreline and numerous inland areas will be at or above 100 degrees. here's the accuweather seven day forecast notice over the weekend. we get i don't want to call it a cool down because it's not really. it'll be less hot on saturday

with inland highs reaching into the mid 90s. a little bit cooler perhaps on sunday with low 90s inland and mid 70s around the bay shoreline, but look at every day next week so far at or above 100 degrees inland, mid 80s in our bay shore locations, mid to upper 60s at the coast, which is the place to be if you want to beat the heat. >> yeah, you just have to look at okay we're ready. thank you spencer. >> all right. really sad to report on this. the death of a comedy legend, bob newhart passed away this morning after a series of short illnesses. the 94 year old was an emmy award winning actor and grammy award winning comedian. he was known for his deadpan delivery in roles like the 70s hit the bob newhart show and latest on newhart. newhart's career spanned more than 70 years, even appearing on the big bang theory in 2013. bob newhart, a man who will certainly be missed

testing the capabilities and readiness of marin county rescue teams. >> abc7 news reporter cornell bernard shows us the location of today's exercise is a reminder of how powerful earthquakes can be. and remember this what you see right here is only a drill.

search and rescue. >> call out if you can hear me. >> marin county's urban search and rescue team is looking for survivors following a major earthquake in point reyes. >> we simulated an 8.2 magnitude earthquake. could be just devastating. devastating. the duration could be anywhere from seconds to a minute of shaking. >> this drill, as real as it gets. team members cutting through concrete rubble and shattered glass to reach crushed cars. some simulated victims are pulled to safety. >> we are entering building six to do a primary search. >> i copy entering 3-6 for primary search. >> this victim had to be hoisted out of a building in a stretcher basket. >> the goal of this program is to get boots on the ground in the quickest, most efficient manner possible to rescue the most amount of people possible. search and rescue. >> call out if you can hear me. >> the training skills at work here could mean the difference between life and death. during a real disaster. the governor's office of emergency services is observing the drill, assessing

how this team does. >> our mantra in the fire service is preparedness. and we don't know when disasters are going to strike, but we do know that we've got to be ready. and preparedness is a key to that. >> it's ironic. this drill is happening literally a mile from the san andreas fault, which cuts through this field. the same fault which devastated san francisco and point reyes back in 1906. these historic photos capture the force of the great quake, strong enough to knock a locomotive off its tracks. >> this is an extremely active seismic area, the san andreas fault runs right through marin county, down through the olema valley, out past bolinas. >> getting this drill right is all that matters. it means this team is ready when the next big quake hits. >> this is real life. these are the things that we are directed to be prepared for. you know, 24 over seven, 365. >> in marin county, cornell, bernard. abc seven news. >> and are you ready for an

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will take center stage. >> yes, he will deliver the keynote speech when he says has changed dramatically following last weekend's assassination attempt. reporter liz nagy, from our sister station in chicago, has a look ahead. >> we're told former president trump will not mention president biden by name in that speech tonight. at least that's how it's planned. the entire week has now been leading up to this moment where former president trump accepts his party's nomination for the third time in a final walk through for his big night in primetime. the reality tv star turned 45th president prepares to accept his party's nomination again. new video, obtained by pbs shows the former president, speaking at a private event last night about his brush with a bullet. >> that's why they call it a close call. that was an amazing, horrible thing. amazing thing. and in many ways it changes your your attitude. >> still bandaged from the shooting, donald trump has spent convention week ever present, but nearly silent, basking in effusive republican praise.

>> we are so energized going into tonight because the last three days have been phenomenal. >> last night it was his newly named running mate who introduced himself. >> my fellow americans and my fellow republicans. my name is jd vance. >> the first millennial on a presidential ticket was picked in part for his ability to promote trump's populist message denouncing trade deals, immigration inflation and squarely blaming president joe biden for all of it. >> for half a century, he's been the champion of every major policy initiative to make america weaker and poorer. and in four short years, donald trump reversed decades of betrayals inflicted by joe biden and the rest of the corrupt washington insiders. >> as republican delegates drive into milwaukee, electronic billboards blast campaign messages paid for by democrat donors. the end of roe versus wade, one reads. brought to you by maga extremists more loyal

than ever. many in trump's mega base tonight will be sporting ear bandages in solidarity because the american spirit, the american flag says we rise up above our injuries and getting a little emotional. >> but yeah, we all dodged a bullet. >> former president trump had said that bullet has changed what he will preach tonight. the former first lady and the former president's daughter, ivanka trump, are also slated to be in the audience tonight, though neither of the women are scheduled to speak now. we wait to hear if we see a different tone from donald trump tonight. reporting in milwaukee. liz nagy, abc seven news and abc news has complete live coverage of the final night of the republican national coverage starting at 7 p.m. right here on abc seven. >> meanwhile, even more calls today for president biden to step down as the democratic nominee for president. so what does that mean for november? here's abc news reporter zohreen shah. >> the chorus of democratic elected leadership calling for

president biden to step down from the presidential race growing even louder over the last day, sources telling abc news that nancy pelosi, chuck schumer and hakeem jeffries all had very blunt conversations with president biden, urging him to leave the race. it comes as democrat adam schiff was heard saying at a fundraiser that he was concerned about biden. >> i do not think he is the best person to go into this election. i think if he is our nominee, i think we lose. >> hours later, he called for biden to drop out. but the dnc and biden campaign trying to shut down any possibility that biden is stepping down. >> our campaign is not working through any scenarios where president biden is not the top of the ticket. >> this comes as biden is now battling covid. the white house saying he's experiencing mild upper respiratory symptoms. earlier in the week, biden said he would only consider dropping out over health reasons. >> only if i was told that there was some medical condition that i had and that's not the case. >> meanwhile, vice president

kamala harris pushing the biden agenda on the campaign trail in north carolina. >> do we want to live in a country of freedom, compassion and rule of law, or a country of chaos following the forceful public pushback? >> by the way, the dnc announced virtual voting would not start until august, pushing it one week. the move is seen by many as buying time to convince biden to bow out. zohreen shah, abc news, los angeles. >> all right. joining us now to talk more about this is abc seven news insider phil matier. it's like this drip, drip, drip, drip okay. so now you have nancy pelosi, president obama, influential democrats. and now today, jamie raskin, who is an impeachment manager of very high profile as well, saying, you know what? don't think you can win. is this finally at a tipping point? oh, yes. >> oh, yes. i mean, regardless of what goes forward, we either are going to have a candidate.

joe biden, without a party because people have gone public with this. it's out in being stated publicly, or you're going to have a party without a candidate. i mean, and you're going to have to find a new one. so that's the choices facing democrats right now. and we're talking a lot about polls. and there's been polling that shows that states that were solidly democrat are now maybe and that those that key states are losing. we went to yesterday you had a poll released. we talked with associated press poll that showed that uh- uh- 70% think that biden should withdraw. okay. you know, a year ago, ap ran the same poll in august and had pretty much the same results that biden. only that was biden was too old. not that he should withdraw. so what changed was people saw it. and that's what they're democrats are saying to biden and to the country. it's not just about polls in uh- swing states. it's whether you have a candidate that can reverse the trend. and right

now, president biden does not appear to be able to do that. running the country is a very tough job. running for president is a very tiring job, and it's not a question he can be president, but can he be the candidate? and that's what the decision is being. that's what's being talked about. >> yeah. and you know, just for transparency, the reason that we're getting all these leaks is because they keep saying to him, you can't win, but he won't pull out of the race. more than that, not only was he reluctant to pull out of the race, there was a move to speed it up. >> what we were talking about was this idea. rather than even waiting for the convention, they were going to have a zoom count of the votes that were already committed to him. so we'd lock up the convention before they even had it. and democrats were going, wait a minute, that's telescoping the time down. we've got to make the moves now. >> right? so the virtual roll call has been pushed back. in the meantime, we see reports the beginning, the first indications that president biden may be open to stepping aside. so how does kamala harris has to have to play it right now? she's still

out there stumping and saying biden's the guy. >> well, she has to and she should because he is still the guy. now, if he withdraws, he can't designate her. that does not the way it works. he can release his delegates and she would have the first right of first refusal or the first attempt to get together the necessary delegates to win the nomination. that would be if she can't win the nomination in the first round of voting, then it would open up and it could go anywhere. so that would be the next place. it would go to the convention real quick. >> this is kind of an odd suggestion. is there any way that biden can let kamala run as president? and he goes back to vice president to handle all of the foreign affairs? no, no, no, no. okay. no, no, that's that's not the way it works in this sport. >> no, no, i'm just trying to i'm trying to be out of the box. >> just crazy. >> i don't know, it's. and you know, something i would normally dismiss that. but now that i think about it, i go, larry, given the situations we've had in the last two weeks, sure.

anything is. why not? >> well, maybe maybe you should run, throw your name out there. >> why not? >> yeah, he doesn't want any part of it. thank you. phil >> all right. the eternal question. can money really buy happiness? we'll tell you what a new study found. and a whole new kind of happy meal fought for is next

of pennsylvania shows a positive association between the two and the wealthiest are by far the happiest. the happiness gap between wealthy and middle income people was wider than between middle and low income people. spencer. i think of the phrase, you know, money is the root of all evil, right? lack of

money is the root of all evil. >> i think i think the phrase is supposed to be the love of money is the root of all evil. but however you state it, well, i mean, i think we all, i don't know, we shouldn't say. we all know, but i think you can demonstrate that money doesn't, wealth doesn't guarantee happiness. but you're likely more likely to be happy if you have a solid financial base to fall on and if you don't have it. >> i like johnny carson's old line money doesn't buy happiness, but it sure does lease it for a long. yeah, you know, but on a serious note, you know, oprah winfrey said something one time i saw on an interview and she said, the nicest thing about having money is not having to worry about money. and i think, yeah, part of that happiness is not just the ability to buy whatever you want. i mean, that may be nice for some people, but it's the lack of stress. worried about your financial future? >> yeah. it buys you freedom. you know, which is, i think, only a little less important. still though, than, like, love and family and health. and then, you know, it just releases you of that worry. >> exactly. >> yeah. if you don't have your health, the money doesn't

matter, right? >> now to a bit of shaming to promote safety. a british rail agency has released this video showing a series of bad behavior at railway crossings, revealing terrifying close calls. the safety campaign video was posted to social media with the headline what on earth were these people thinking, okay, railroad crossings are one of my biggest fears. like the second you hear the first ding! i'm like, hit the brakes, pause. do not get near the tracks. i can't even imagine that, you guys. >> for the most part it is an for the most part, it's an entirely preventable mistake or tragedy. be careful. pay attention to the and i never trust if i go up to a railroad crossing and the and the guardrail is not down, i just don't assume there's no train coming. me too. i check. what if that's malfunctioning? yeah, sure. but, you know, it's just common sense. just common sense. be careful. >> yeah, i think everybody's in a rush. >> really? that big of a rush. put your life on the line like that. >> well, but nobody's thinking about that. you're not. you're thinking, i'm going to beat the train. >> look how you see people driving on the highway now

whizzing past you six inches off your bumper at 90 miles an hour, weaving in and out of traffic. yeah, yeah. >> so where are you going in such a hurry? what happens if you're a few minutes late? >> so some of these people aren't just in a hurry to get somewhere. some of them are just fools. >> yeah, i mean, that's what they are. >> and you know what? risk your own life. don't risk mine or anybody else's. right? yeah. >> a truer thing has never been said before on the show. thank you. spencer. >> bud light sales continue to plummet. the once number one brand has dropped to third place in sales following last year's boycott over a sponsored instagram post featuring a transgender influencer. michelob ultra, which is also brewed by bud light's parent company, is number two and modelo especial from constellation brands, remains in the top spot. you guys surprised at all that this boycott continues to linger and is having sales impact? i probably shouldn't be. >> i mean, but i'm surprised that someone would let his or her personal biases turn them away from a product they've loved and consumed for a long time, especially those crazy people out there shooting the bud light cans with, you know,

with guns, because a trans person is the spokesperson. >> and, you know, i'm i'm surprised it has lasted this long. i'm i suppose i'm not surprised that there were some initial pushback, but by, you know, certain groups of people who like that product. but i'm surprised it's sort of gone on this long and has had such a devastating effect for the company. yeah, yeah. >> unfortunate that we just can't all get along. >> yeah. >> right. those culture wars and, you know, lines in the sand are so deeply drawn now. all right. now to a bit of decadence on this tasty thursday, a topic we can all agree on and love. today is national caviar day. yes! yay! right, spencer, bring it on. not only created to celebrate all things roe, but also to raise awareness about the survival of sturgeon. if you didn't know, caviar is derived from sturgeon, fish eggs and a new collaboration between two san francisco icons is paying homage to caviar. >> all right. so joining us today are james beard award winning chef brandon jew and marie balducci of czar nikolai

caviar. i hope i said all that properly. mari mari mari mari i apologize, mari, let's start with what we're actually eating. we've never had caviar or anything close, elevating on a tasty thursday. so this is we're going high end in a way that i can't even believe. >> this is awesome. >> first of all, happy national caviar day. we're so excited to be able to share this celebration with you in the viewers, it really feels like christmas in july, honestly. okay, i love your invitation. >> you guys double happiness. talk about the two of you coming together and this extraordinary happiness in the form of this plate and this fish. >> yeah. it's delicious. yeah well, yeah, we. >> i mean, we were thinking about a little bit of the high and low and being able to give, kind of accessibility of this really amazing ingredient to more people, i think over a couple, especially the last couple of years, there's just been a huge demand. i think that

you probably have seen that in caviar and people, have wanted to put it on almost everything. and i think this was another application for us to say, check it out on this fish sandwich that we developed. and so, yeah, this is like kind of started with a little bit of like the filet o fish of mcdonald's. and then kind of stemmed into a happy a double happiness meal is kind of what we're calling the collaboration happy meal version. the adult version. yeah. >> so i have a question. you know, we always think of caviar. most people think of caviar and i'm not a caviar connoisseur. but as a very fancy, very haute cuisine, very expensive thing to consume. is it always the case or can you get caviar that's more modestly priced? >> well, being that we are sturgeon farmers, we have we have grades at different, i guess, budgets. so we want to

make caviar more accessible to people. and one of the ways of doing that is just coming up with innovative and fun ways and taking that intimidation away from what caviar is. >> the concept is great. >> thank you. >> i mean, obviously you're a caviar is really well known star nikolai. and of course, brandon, you are a michelin star restaurant with mr. jus, which is i mean, everybody knows it's like you elevate chinese cuisine to an unbelievable level. so the combination of this two in this one, exquisite sandwich is totally mind blowing. okay so how can people get in on this if they're not us and lucky enough to be sitting here with a hand delivered sandwich? >> yeah, we're going to be having limited amounts at each location, we have one in mill valley, one in noe valley, and one on clement, and. yeah we have limited quantities, so i just recommend getting there early to get, a taste of this

collaboration. yeah >> tell us about national caviar day at the ferry building this weekend. and are tickets still available for this? >> of course. eventbrite, tickets are selling out fast, but we're so excited to be able to share and celebrate our 40 years of caviar excellence. we've been around since 1984, we are known as the pioneers of sustainable sturgeon farming, our founder, matt engstrom, is going to be there. so a little a little surprise to him. and on top of that, we're doing additional activations. we're doing our biggest sale of the year, which is 50% off of caviar and roe. so head to our website. the sale ends tomorrow. so run, don't walk and, we're at fort stanley doing a five course caviar dinner as well. so we've been pretty busy. >> wow. okay, murray and brandon and mama. whoo-hoo! and sorry, nikolai. this collaboration is unbelievable. thank you so much. and you've just shared quadruple happiness with all of us.

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