made about black politicians, prosecutors and journalists. >> you have told four congresswomen of color who were american citizens to go back to where they came from. you have used words like animal and rabid to describe black district attorneys. >> i don't think i've ever been asked a question. so in such a horrible manner. a first question you don't even say hello. how are you? are you with abc? >> because i think trump then claimed vice president kamala harris started out as indian and

only, quote, turned black, unquote. in the past few years for political reasons. the truth is, she has always publicly claimed both her black and south asian identities and here's how the crowd reacted when trump was asked about his assertion that immigrants are taking, quote, black jobs coming from the border are millions and millions of people that happen to be taking black jobs. >> you had the best. >> what exactly is a black job, sir? >> a black job is anybody that has a job. that's what it is. anybody that has a job and they're taking they're taking on social media. >> trump's appearance is being described as everything from disrespectful to a dumpster fire. harris is not speaking at the conference because of a scheduling conflict and a decision by organizers to forego the zoom option, but she issued a response to trump's appearance this afternoon. here's part of it, quote, trump lobbed personal attacks and insults at black journalists the same way he did throughout his presidency. while

he failed black families and left the entire country digging out of the ditch. he left us in. so the democratic national convention will take place in chicago from august 19th to the 22nd since president biden will no longer be the nominee, he has been re slotted to give the keynote on the first night. the second night is expected to feature a former presidents clinton and obama. night three is the traditional vice presidential nominee spot. and of course, we're still waiting to see who that will be. and harris, as the presumed presidential nominee, will deliver her keynote on thursday. abc news will cover it in primetime, so keep it here to abc seven. now, back here in california, governor newsom is putting more money behind a push to streamline the development of new housing across the state. he's awarded $94 million to 15 california counties. the money will go toward construction of more than 1600 new homes, as well as projects to transform undeveloped properties into affordable housing. it's all

part of california's goal to create 2.5 million new homes by 2030. in the east bay, firefighters are cleaning up the mess left behind from a massive early morning fire that tore through a warehouse complex in berkeley. at one point, the roof of the building collapsed. abc7 news reporter gloria rodriguez has more. reporter flames shooting through the roof of this industrial building in berkeley early wednesday morning, the roof collapsing in and firefighters dousing the flames with water from above. >> the berkeley fire battalion chief tells me more than 30 firefighters battled the blaze that broke out before three in the morning. >> we were not able to save this building, but we were able to save the building that's, attached to the backside, but does have a firewall, which helps protect the fire from spreading into that building. >> a fire captain tells me that neighboring vacant warehouse that was saved just had minimal water damage. he says the burned building didn't have tenants and

is for lease. three units within it, a mix of warehouse and office space. nobody was inside when the fire broke out and nobody was hurt. there are apartments nearby, but residents there didn't have to evacuate. >> well, power line did drop and that was one of the hazards in the beginning. our crews had to navigate their way around that power line. we quickly taped it off that power line also started the van that it fell on to on fire. so we had that as an additional distraction. so they had to extinguish that. >> that van is where ryan, six, lives with his three dogs. he says they were sleeping when two people pulled up, warning them about the fire. >> i grabbed the dogs, got my backpack, my keys, my wallet, whatever i could. couldn't get my bike, unfortunately. and we got out of there. >> the side of six's van burned out his windows blown out. the van unlivable. six says he has stage four cancer, is undergoing treatment and has lived in two

different vans outside that location for eight years. >> hopefully, maybe van number three will be a stand up van with a kitchen. this might be a blessing. i'm trying to look at it positively, and six tells me he was planning on buying a tent for him and his dogs, and they were planning on sleeping on the sidewalk tonight in berkeley. >> gloria rodriguez, abc seven news. >> the park fire north of chico continues to spread. already the fifth largest in state history, the fire has burned nearly 390,000 acres and is still just 18% contained. officials say 270 buildings have already been destroyed and thousands more are threatened. they're also now concerned that the fire could climb into critical watersheds in tehama county and devastate the chinook salmon population. the senate is taking better action or to action to better protect children online. it comes as a new study raises alarm over teens mental health. we'll talk to a uc psychology

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how much emotional and mental health support they get, and together they raise questions about kids physical and mental well-being in this digital age. joining us live now to talk about the online safety bills and more, erika felix, professor of clinical psychology at uc santa barbara. professor felix, thanks for coming on our show. >> thank you for having me. >> i think you're the perfect person to talk about this because you're not only a professor in clinical psychologist, but you had a congressional fellowship. i understand in policy matters. so given all that, what is your view on the kids online safety act and teens online privacy protection act? >> i think this is a good step forward because, we know that the tech companies keep advancing much quicker than our legislation has advanced. and so i think it's about time for congress to act on this. there's been several hearings that have shown that there are significant risks as well as benefits of social media to our kids, but we want to minimize those risks. and i think protecting our

children's privacy data, making it so that parents have more control and monitoring and better regulations on this, can just help us make it so that the social media experience of our youth, tends to trend towards being more positive than negative. >> the bills really place responsibilities on social media platforms, which for a long time, you know, they took the stance that, hey, we're just a platform, kind of a marketplace town square. we're not policing content. has the thinking changed on that? >> i think so because we have seen so much, data, including from whistleblowers, about the impact on mental health. we know that these algorithms target marketing, and we want to protect our children from that. we want to protect their data. and so i think increased regulations on this and accountability, as well as just making sure that it's on the safest settings. as you reported, they also have an

advisory council that will be monitoring this so that we can try to better keep up with all the changes. that come at us faster than even parents can keep up with. let alone, the our laws, and this is a bipartisan act. and so it had to really and it's highly bipartisan. so it's really people from all sides coming together, recognizing that this is something we need to do to help our children's mental health. >> yeah. perhaps the bipartisan support and really overwhelming support comes from the fact that we recognize there's a problem here. the cdc report this week highlights a huge gap between parents and teens perceptions. 77% of parents said their teens always get the social and emotional support they need, but only 28% of teens said the same. they're saying, oh, we're actually not. talk about how that's become a huge problem and what happens to kids who don't get adequate support. >> well, always is a really hard criterion to meet up to. and so if you look at usually and

always together, then we see that up to 60% of kids feel that they usually are always get support. but that is still a significant discrepancy from what the parents perceive. when you combine theirs to usually are always it's closer to 90% believe that we've seen these discrepancies in other studies too. and so it just always reminds us that we need to get youth perspective on what they need to support their mental health. and parents are doing a as good a job as they can. i want to put a caveat that this data was collected during the pandemic era, and so parents were pulled in so many different directions. and the consequences of that, we are still feeling. but we've also seen this in other data as well. and so parents continuing to just check their perceptions and assumptions and checking in with their kids about what kind of support they need and recognizing that kids need support from all sorts of adults in their lives. it's not just the parents, but coaches,

mentors, aunts, and uncles. people get support from so many different places and parents are one source, but we also have to recognize that there might be other people, that might be kids like to talk to their aunts and uncles about sometimes things that are different than what they talk to their parents about. >> okay, so yeah, without putting responsibility, all of it on the parents, how can parents and how can the kids themselves bridge that support gap, that communication gap? like, for me as a parent, sometimes i feel like, hey, i want to support you. so badly, but you're not telling me anything. so i don't even know there's a problem. >> exactly. or you are asking and they're doing the normal teenage thing of like, i don't want to talk about it. oh no, i'm fine or whatever. so there is a disconnect and i think it's always the evergreen issue of how we connect, how parents and kids connect. i think starting early with just regular like weekly times together, whether it's small stuff like taking a

walk together or building ice cream, getting ice cream, building those patterns early on can help. when the kids get to their teenage years, using time in the car to check in is also great. because kids might be more relaxed. it's just a little more casual. and then kids being able to just say when they need help. and there's so many things that we can try to do. >> yes, i love that card time. okay, okay. so we don't know if this will pass the house. we'll see if it passes and gets signed into law. but what additional policy measures would you like to see to further promote the well-being of kids and teens online? >> yeah, i think this is a good step in the right direction. and i also like that it's not just focusing on social media, but other like large websites, so that we can, make sure that things are safe. i think, making it clearer that how the algorithms influence what we

see, especially what children see is a critical next step. and i think, this is just a good start to moving towards keeping up with all the incredibly rapid pace that things change. >> yeah, i think one provision that i really liked was something about, if you're a 17 or under, you can't just feed it like constantly autoplay. so like more and more videos that just automatically play right without the kid actively opting in. so that's another thing. yes. right. okay, we are out of time, but great conversation. i really, really appreciated professor felix. >> all right, have a good day. >> you too. coming up next, building a better bay area by helping local families. we'll introduce you to a group of volunteers who are today's

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a heatwave, it's kinda chilly in here. oh, that's because i'm pre-cooling the house with the ac before 4 pm. then i'll turn our thermostat to a comfortable 78 or higher that way i could stay cool later. ooh, what about me? you're never cool. oh.

our accuweather forecast. hey spencer. hey, kristen. >> well, despite the presence of those passing clouds, you saw there we are in the first day of quite an important warmup. let's take a look at the satellite and radar composite image. you can see we still have basically a nice west to east flow moving across northern california,

including the bay area. not having a cooling influence on us right now. it is helping to keep the air relatively clean. and we have breezy conditions right now with mainly surface wind speeds of about 15 to 18mph. but despite the wildfires burning in northern california, now in southern california, none of that smoke yet is having an impact on our air quality. we have good air quality all across the bay area at the moment. and speaking of the moment, check out the 24 hour temperature change. it is quite a bit warmer inland at this hour than at this time yesterday. five degrees warmer at fairfield, six degrees warmer at concord, livermore 11 degrees warmer. and as we get later into this week long warmup, you'll see the locations near the bay and the coast getting warmer as well. so right now we're looking at high temperatures, not high temperatures, but current temperatures in our inland areas. basically, in the low 90s, 90, 91, 92 degrees around the bay shoreline, we have some upper 70s. so the warming is underway. now. there's some concern on saturday about the possibility of some dry lightning, which of course, could trigger wildfires, not

here in the bay area but to our north. and the reason for that is that there are some subtropical moisture building down to the desert southwest. moving in our direction. looks like it will get here friday and saturday as that moisture builds in the atmosphere with the heating of the afternoon sun, it creates instability in the atmosphere that could trigger some thunderstorms and some lightning strikes. so right now we're looking at the moisture coming our way tonight. lots of drizzle along the coast as we've had the last several nights. some of that drizzle will move out over the bay and along the coast along the shoreline as well. so early morning commuters will not find slick spots, but maybe some damp spots may need your wipers on for a short term. overnight low temperatures will be mainly in the mid to upper 50s. highs tomorrow. low 60s at the coast, mainly mid to upper 70s near the bay shoreline. and of course it's getting warmer. we'll see mid to upper 90s inland 95 at antioch 94, livermore, 97 at fairfield and more. warmth is on the way. here's the accuweather seven day forecast by saturday we'll be looking at inland highs in the upper 90s. we're not likely to see any triple digits, but it's going to be hot. and then a

little bit of fluctuation going into sunday. temperatures drop off a couple of degrees, but they bounce right back up on monday, tuesday and wednesday to around 96 to 98 degrees inland, upper 70s to near 80 around the bay shoreline. so it's going to be a wave of warm to hot weather. not exactly a heat wave yet, and it looks like we will be lucky and not hit those triple digits. >> it's a warm wave. >> it's a warm wave like this. >> all right. yes, just like you do every day. all right. thank you. so, disney's new animated series, also very warm. it's called primos, and it sheds light on creator natasha klein's experience growing up in a large mexican american family. marina velasco is the star reporter george pennacchio has more eaeeca guess what? >> all 12 of your primos are coming. they're staying for the whole summer. >> it's the summer of tater. or at least she wishes it was at first. >> tater is really resistant that this is not the summer she

was expecting. this is supposed to be the summer of me. but i think she learns throughout the series that having your family there is an asset. >> primos is based on creator natasha klein's own life and her primos, which is spanish for cousins. >> my cousins were like, i think this one's me, and they were all just like, super duper excited about it, yeah. they keep sending me like screenshots of the trailer and just being like, oh my god, that's just like our lives. >> a big family is key to tater's story, as is a great cast for this show. velasco herself had a fangirl moment over her castmates. >> is that melissa villasenor from snl on she's my sister? is that cheech marin, the icon of mexican americans? >> klein made sure a multicultural story was at the forefront to create a characters that are all from from all different walks of life, >> all different skin tones, all

different kinds of ethnicities. and even if they're speaking different languages, you know, there's still the language of love that that kind of unites them. we got your back, prima primos. >> i got you, george pennacchio for abc news. >> you can stream the first nine episodes of primos now on disney plus. and disney is the parent company of abc seven. thank you so much for joining us for abc seven news at three today. i'll see you back here at 4:00 for abc seven news and world news tonight with david muir. starts right now. have a good one. tonight, several breaking stories as we come on the air. the stunning moment. donald trump questioning kamala harris's race. the accused mastermind of the 9/11