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well, what a historic day. donald trump wins the white house and today calls for unity and tomorrow he's heading to washington for a visit with president obama. good afternoon, everybody. i'm larry beil. >> and i'm ama daetz. this morning we heard from hillary clinton for the first time since the defeat. abc news reporter lauren lyfter is live in washington, d.c. with more at what's ahead for him. >> reporter: good evening. president obama today at the white house said he spoke with donald trump early on the phone this morning as did hillary clinton, the first female presidential nominee of a presidential party conceding to the first president-elect who hasn't had either political or military experience. it comes after a dramatic upset getting major reactions today.
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this morning hillary clinton facing the nation after her shocking loss. >> this is painful, and it will be for a long time. >> reporter: emotional at moments, clinton now urging supporters to move forward. >> donald trump is going to be our president. we owe him an open mind and the chance to lead. >> reporter: and president obama aiming to unify the country behind the new president-elect. >> we are now all rooting for his success, the peaceful transition of power is one of the hallmarks of our democracy. >> reporter: memphasizing the bigger picture. >> everybody is sad when their side loses an election. we have to remember that we're actually all on one team, the presidency and the vice presidency is bigger than any of us. >> reporter: donald trump overnight capturing the presidency in an historic and stunning victory, grabbing key battleground states and even taking traditional democratic strongholds from clinton who polls had leading going into
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election day. >> ours was not a campaign but rather an incredible and great movement. >> reporter: the drive fant trump delivering an acceptance speech overnight before ecstatic supporters of that movement, speaking to the whole country. >> i promise you that i will not let you down. we will do a great job. >> reporter: republican leaders reacting. >> let me just say that is the most incredible political feat i have seen in my lifetime. >> trump will lead a house and senate controlled by republicans and tomorrow he will be here in washington. he'll meet with president obama at the white house. live on capitol hill, i'm lauren lyfter, abc news. now back to you. >> all right, lauren, thank you. >> reporter: for the first time since 1928, republicans won control of the white house, the senate and the house of representatives in the same election. gop congressional candidates rode the coattails of donald trump to retain control of both houses and a lot of the experts thought it would be the opposite effect. so far democrats have picked up
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one senate seat in illinois where tammy duckworth unseated the incumbent republican senator mark kirk. races in louisiana and new hampshire still too close to call. >> america's financial markets soared today shaking off fears that surfaced last night. dow futures were in free fall dropping more than 900 points when it appeared donald trump was going to win as investors were uncertain about a trump administration. things changed though after trump called for americans to unite after the brutal election campaign. the dow finished up 255 point and the nasdaq rose 57 and the s&p 500 gained 23. trump's election drove down shares of bay-area clean energy companies. tesla stock dropped 2.5% while sun power fell more than 14%. during the campaign trump said he would rip up the paris agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions worldwide.
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>> protests taking place from texas to oregon and right here in california, people have taken to the streets to protest the results. >> reporter: sky 7 was over a group of protesters as they as bald at richmond civic center, many are students from nearby high schools. the protests have now made its way through some city streets. police say at one point the group looted a gas station but it was unclear how bad that looting was. >> high school students throughout the bay area organized walkout. sky 7 was over berkeley high school. 2,000 students walked out of class and as bald on the school's quad this morning and we have some video from bishop o'dowd high school and the protests really started moments after trump was elected last night. >>. >> reporter: city crews in oakland spent the morning cleaning up from last night's outrage over the presidential election will. the damage disappointed many who work downtown.
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>> yeah, there's a reason to be outraged. there's a reason to be angry. however, destroying our own communities is never the answer. >> reporter: oakland police say it was a crowd of about 250 that marched up and down broadway starting around 11:45 last night. protesters broke windows at about five businesses and set garbage on fire while shouting not my president. police say they gave them their space and didn't need to move in. >> approximately 2:30, 2:45 the crowds started to disperse. obviously we had a presence there and we were monitoring it. >> reporter: a woman in her early 20s was hit by a car when the protests moved on to highway 24. police say the driver of the car stopped. the protesters then vandalized her car breaking the back window. the woman who was hit is in the hospital in stable condition. another protest is set for later today. people we spoke with this morning are hoping it won't turn
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violent. >> destruction and everything is just not going to solve anything. >> reporter: residents and business owners hoping to see any more of this. this is a broken window at a brand new restaurant here in oakland and only been open a yore and now trying to figure out how to replace this huge window. in oakland. amy hollyfield, abc 7 news. >> abc 7 news gave voters a chance to respond to this historic election results today. >> reporter: our melanie woodrow spent the morning talking to people on market street. >> it's a shock, and to me it's a shock that rivals what happened on the morning of 9/11. >> all the polls are saying this and that. i'm a registered republican and i couldn't vote for him. my conscience wouldn't do it. >> i honestly thought common sense would prevail. >> i think what most americans think was going to happen didn't happen. >> i think many of us were really not so much trump supporters as not hillary fans, and i think that's where a lot
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of votes came from. >> i think a little bit of change, especially with trump might be interesting. >> it's a scary time. just like the uk had a scary time with the brexit. >> looks like we'll be able to continue our careers, go home and face a future at home as well. >> it's not just about america. it's like -- it's the example we're setting. >> we know who we've been support willing. it's no secret, and now we still have to work together. >> hopefully pence and the other people he appoints to his cabinet will be, you know, respectful people and thoughtful people and they can reach across the aisle and work with the democrats. >> still day one. we'll see how we go. >> melanie spent hours in downtown san francisco giving people a platform to vent. we veemd it live on our abc 7 news facebook page. can you see the video there now at facebook.com/abc 7 news. >> share your voice on our abc 7 facebook page and created this photo of president-elect trump
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with a quote from his speech last night. forgotten men and women of our country will be forgotten no more. we also have a photo of hillary clinton with the quote from her speech this morning. we are stronger together, and we'll go forward together. you can share either post through facebook.com/abc 7 news and leave your comments. >> now let's get to some of the races on the california ballot. attorney general kamela harris defeated southern california congresswoman loretta sanchez in the race to replace u.s. senator barbara boxer. >> it's now legal to smoke marijuana in california. voters easily approved proposition 64. it allows californians to buy, possess and transport up to an ounce of marijuana starting today. they can also grow as many as six plants in their home. it remains illegal to smoke in public. the state now has until january 1st, 2018 to come up with a system for licensing and taxing it. the law also allows those with prior marijuana convictions to petition the courts to revisit their case if it would now be legal under the new law.
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voters also approved proposition 56, a tax increase on tobacco products and e-cigarette, money that would increase health care fund willing for low-income californians. >> and californians also approved prop 63 by a wide margin in fact. the measure imposes mandatory background checks for the purchase of gun ammunition and a ban on large capacity magazines. >> here in the bay area voters approve two contentious tax measures. voters in three counties said yes to b.a.r.t.'s measure rr which would increase property taxes to raise money to face the aging infrastructure on the system. it got the two-third needed to pass. >> for a complete look at all the propositions and the measures where you live and there were 17 of them, go to abc7news.com or check out the abc 7 news app which you can download for free. >> coming up on the news app, a wall between the u.s. and mexico is one of the campaign promises from donald trump. could it really happen. >> and the calls for california to break away from the u.s.
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the silicon valley leaders behind this new movement. >> well, it's a mild day out there today. we're tracking even warmer air arriving tomorrow before we see our next chance of some
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well, in every political campaign promises are made and president-elect trump had a long list of them. okay. what if he tries to deliver on them? a process may not be that easy. abc 7 news reporter spoke to economists and others who are ready for a figh. >> promises are made to cater to voters and donald trump is already facing opposition if he delivers on some of his campaign promises. for example, building the wall, a way to block undocumented immigrants from mexico. the policy director at immigration group siren. >> we can fight back and stop that and we can turn things around so that the country can hopefully follow california's lead in being a welcoming space that we know the country should be? president-elect trump promised to ban muslims from entering the
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u.s. the director of the council on american-islamic relations. >> the number of allies is countless. it's just a matter of working past our anxiety and fear. >> mr. trump vows to repeal obamacare and to undo trade agreements and to impope tariffs on imports. however, that could hurt the blue collar and low-income voters who elected him, people who shop at discount stores. >> the higher prices will disproportionately affect lower income household and middle income households since they spend a higher fraction of their income on these consumer goods. >> reporter: in his victory speech he vowed massive spending on road, bridge and highway spending infrastructure and also wants to cut taxes. >> the federal government can deficit spent spend. is it a wise approach to fiscal management? we don't think so in the private sector. >> some promises may be tough to deliver. in san jose. david louie, abc 7 news. >> so the question is what
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happens next? who will sever on president-elect trump's cabinet? >> for insight on that and others, questions lingering from the election. >> so many. >> our abc 7 news political analyst and political reporter carla marinucci. as i saw every state go red, carla must be in complete shock this morning. >> nothing we could ever have predicted and now all the data that we thought about or looked at before an election like this is tossed out window. >> how many times did you and i talk about the polls? >> the polls, i just kept saying -- >> yes. >> for this particular candidate, for him, throw the polls out the window. >> absolutely. they were all wrong, and now i think we have to look forward and figure out how are we missing and what did we miss? this will be studied for months, months. >> talk about the fact that clinton got as we were discussing the popular vote but not the electoral. >> that's right. this is -- democrats now have -- are explaining about this obviously. in the last election twice in
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this century this has happened. >> gore/bush. >> but the fact is they are stuck with it. it's enshrined in the constitution, the electoral college. it would take a two-thirds vote in the house hand the senate and then ratification by three-quarters of all the states, absolutely just undoable. >> and the republicans control it all so that's a dream that's gone. not going to happen. >> so looking forward donald trump had a few surrogates and at the time a lot -- the experts thought, well, you're trotting out rudy giuliani, and it seemed like hillary had all these high-powered people and now you're looking at these people. they are going to have roles in the cabinet. >> get ready for attorney general rudy giuliani and chris christie expected to have a role. there are some names we all know. sarah palin, people are talking about. possibly interior secretary. governor rick perry from texas.
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there's a california of californians on the list, bob grady, a venture capitalist from the bay-year is one being considered for interior secretary. representative duncan hunter from california is another one and then the trump cabinet is going to have a lot of people from private industry because trump has said that's what he wants to bring in. the treasury secretary looks like maybe his own campaign finance chairman, a goldman sachs guy, talking about the head of an oil company. how do you think that's going to go over with the sierra club, et cetera? going to be a really interesting time. secretary of state, looks like newt gingrich may be in the lead for that one. i mean. >> wow. >> some names that are shocking to people that you thought there's no way this can't be reality. >> it's going to be fascinating. 73 days to pull this together and he's got to get the republicans on board on capitol hill. that's the other big challenge. >> it's going to be fascinating to watch. that's for sure. >> absolutely. >> thank you. >> and when you get over the
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shore, let us know. i think it's going to be a while. >> may never happen. >> i think a lot of people are shocked and some people have even second about moving to canada and being are looking to it. so many people went to the canadian immigration website last night that it crashed. the move to canada speekd as trump victories unfolded. >> some silicon valley giants want no part of living and working under a trump presidency. >> a look at a campaign underway for california to become its own nation. >> you know the bay area bleeds blue. we'll show you how the local counties voted last night in the election. contra costa went for hillary clinton by a 68% to 26 margin and alameda county 79% went for hillary clinton and santa clara, hillary clinton captured 73% of the vote there versus donald trump's 21%.
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now some leading voices there in the heart of silicon valley say california wants out of trump nation. it really picked up tweet, from the early investor in uber is funding a campaign for the golden state to secede from the union. he hosted a fund-raiser for clinton in july resigned from the jay william fulbright scholarship award telling president obama he cannot serve president trump with a good conscience. paul holland who recently hosted tim kaine and whose daughters look up to clinton spoke with me about the secession idea. >> anybody able to do it it would be california because stand alone california is the sixth largest economy in the world. relatively self-sufficient with the sense we provide most of our own food and labor. >> the #calexit started trending last night but there is some pushback. some say he and his tech supporters should focus on working to improve not leave the u.s. larry and ama?
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>> kristen, thank you so much. >> pretty interesting. you see the difference in california and the diversity we enjoy versus a lot of other parts of the country and among things we enjoy is great weather pretty much all year round. >> is it november because it doesn't feel like it. >> a lot of folks take five minutes and breathe. take a minute. really nice and warmer tomorrow and then we'll track some rain in the forecast. let's get live doppler 7 on the board. clear out there right now. one of the issues we do have at the moment. still really rough surf. look at it off the coast of the bay area. anywhere from 10 to 15 feet and north we have waves topping 26 feet so we still have a high surf advisory in effect locally until 6:00 this evening and the waves will slowly subside overnight tonight. let's take you outside this. gorgeous picture from emeriville, a beautiful day in november, but, yes, it is very warm despite what the calendar says. we have temperatures that are more spring-like. 73 in san francisco.
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72 heyward and 75 san jose and concord checking in at 75 degrees so a warm night on the way and a mild start on your thursday. future tracker temperatures, you're starting out in the 50s and low 60s so that's going to set the stage by midday. already in the mid-70s in some spots with a warm afternoon on the way for our thursday and warmer tomorrow than we were today. a couple of 80s, san jose at 80 degrees and 80 in napa, 79 concord and oakland up to 75 degrees and san francisco is a mild high at 73. tomorrow night light the night walk at at&t park. a beautiful night. weather anchor spencer christian will be there along with many members of the abc 7 family. comfortable conditions with temperatures in the mid-60s. future weather, i want to jump ahead into saturday. here's a small chance of a light sprinkle mainly in the north bay first thing on saturday. it's a weak front t.falls apart in the north bay, so not a big deal. what i am excited about, future weather. we'll jump ahead into tuesday and tuesday next week is when we
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have a very good chance of seeing widespread showers across the bay area. right now it's a light storm on the storm impact scale and, yes, the timing and the intensity of this storm will change. want to stay up to date with the accuweather forecast. one of the best ways to do that is the abc 7 news app. plan the next seven days for you sunny and warm on your thursday. warmer tomorrow than today. veterans day look great, partly cloudy. chance in the morning of a north bay spring. sunday we're dry and sunny and monday some late day clouds and tuesday there's best chance of some scattered showers across the region and even wednesday morning we may have a linger shower and temperatures go from below normal. warm to chilly by the end of the seven-day. >> coming up, how sold too old to be moving back home with mom and dad? why it's not just millenials moving back in? >> i'm spencer christian at the food banks of san francisco and marin counties. see how abc 7 is helping food banks meet their annual goal of
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a quarter of a century that abc 7 has partnered with bay area food banks to help food communities with our area food drive. >> spencer christian is live with a special gift. spencer. >> okay. those numbers are staggering, aren't they. so many people here in the bay area. aren't really certain where the
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next meal is coming from. proud of the 25-year partnership. and right now i want you to meet, again, an executive director of the marin county food bank. i'm proud of abc 7 and our parent company disney to present to you this 15,000 check and i would guess it's going to go quite a good ways. this is fantastic. it will go a long ways. this is enough money to provide 45,000 meals and if you think about that over a year we can provide three meals a day to 41 people every day of the year. >> unbelievable and one in four people are food insecure. >> we'll get the 100,000 meals every single day we need to get out delivered in trucks to places all around the country i. >> you do a great job here as always, and it's my pleasure to be here with you again this year as we kick off this year's thanksgiving food drive. good to see you again, paul.
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>> thank you, spencer. >> more coming up a little bit later. >> before i toss it back to you. don't forget, you can help out also by texting the word feed to 800p 7. just text feed to 8077 for a $10 contribution that goes a long way. >> thanks so much, spencer. great cause. >> coming at 4:00. >> making history last night but it wasn't the history so many pundits predicted. how did they get it so wrong? >> and the changes coming to the death pen
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>> and here's what's making headlines at 4:30. abc 7 news was in berkeley where up to 3,000 students at berkeley high school walked out of class this morning to protest the outcome of yesterday's election. more are scheduled to start in half an hour in oakland and in san francisco, and there will be a post-election rally in san jose. we'll have updates on abc 7 news at 5:00 and 6:00. president-elect donald trump sent this tweet just a few hours after his victory speech. trump said, quote, the forgotten man and woman will never be forgotten again. we will all come together as never before. hillary clinton took to twitter
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as well also focusing on unity saying we are stronger together and we'll go forward together. she publicly conceded to trump this morning the question for many today is how did this happen? almost all the pollsters and political inside hers clinton winning the white house. abc news reporter marci gonzalez shows how trump bulldozed the blue wall. >> usa! usa. >> reporter: this is not the kind of history that the pundits and polls predicted would be made in this presidential race, from the primaries up until election day. >> if he wins every single one of our tossup state, he is still short of the 270 that he needs. >> reporter: most called a donald trump presidency nearly impossible, though the billionaire businessman received fewer overall votes than john mccain and mitt romney in their losses to president obama trump cleared the electoral threshold by claiming must-win battleground states including north carolina and florida turning some traditional democratic states and banking crucial wins in the industrial
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midwest. his biggest group of supporters, white voters without a college degree and while hillary clinton carried non-white voters as expected the democratic turnout fell short hoping to fuel trump's victory. >> there was about 3 million to 4 million democrats that did not show up and vote yesterday in the course of this election. this election will have the lowest turnout percentage-wise in 20 years. >> reporter: pollsters now looking at how they got it so wrong. hand while there's no clear answer, some point to the possibility of an unexpected change of heart by some clinton supporters following the fbi announcing it was again looking into her e-mails. others say there may have been some trump supporters too embarrassed to admit to pollsters which candidate they were supporting. mar marci marci gonczs, abc 7 news. 47% of eligible voters chose not to vote, 47%. as disappointed as hillary
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clinton supporters feel the opposite is true for those who voted to elect donald trump. wayne freedman live outside what used to be trump headquarters in nevada. wayne? >> reporter: larry, what we got today is what we expected. we expected that on this day half the american electorate would wake up and they would be disappointed. we just didn't expect that it would be the half of the american electorate that we got. welcome to the political mornin after. >> it's going to take a lot of praying, trust me. >> reporter: or maybe it's a new dawn. >> donald trump, yay. >> the lesser of two evils. >> reporter: emeriville in the east bay to headquarters in marin county where the president earned a whopping 16, 1-6,% of the vote. surprise, surprise. >> i was terrified. i was the in such stress and agony. >> reporter: philip dunn, one of the trump volunteers who spent part of today cleaning up from the campaign and the party and thinking of the future which includes democrats who woke up yesterday morning feeling so certain of a victory that never
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materialized. >> i felt bad for them i must admit because i know what it's like to lose. i was romney's chair four years ago. >> reporter: what happened? how could the pollsters have been so wrong? opinions abound among this group in a county where they didn't even put bumper stickers on their cars for fears of vandalism. >> people will key your car and do damage to it. >> i think they got it wrong but i think they were also fooled by their own prejudice, you know. the media, the establishment, they all talk to each other. they live in a bubble and they don't think much of the rest of us. >> reporter: well today the media did and the media got an earful. >> we won, haven't you heard? >> reporter: in marin county, the 16% minority feels more like a majority. from novato, wayne freedman, abc 7 news. america is said to have its first foreign-born first lady since john adams's wife louisa back in the 1800s. melania trump was born in yugoslavia which later became
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slovenia after the fall of the communist bloc and met trump in 1998 at and she said one of her biggest platforms will be combating cyber bullying. >> capital punishment in california is changing but not going away. >> proposition 62 which would have repealed the death penalty failed to pass. prop 66 which narrowly passed will speed up the process. >> abc 7 news reporter vic lee is live with a look at what that means. vic? >> reporter: well, there are more than 700 people if you can believe that on death row in california. their average wait time to get an appeals lawyer is 16 years. now prop 66 is meant to address that. families like mine shouldn't have to wait decades. i won't live to see my son's killer executed. i know that. i'm 68 years sgloeld phyllis' son was a pittsburgh police
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officer who was shot and killed chasing two robbery suspects. her son's killer is on death row. she spent a decade waiting for him to be executed. she supported proposition 66 which would speed executions. the state supreme court will now have to hear appeals within five years. most law enforcement agencies supported prop 66. martin talloran. >> i think it will expedite it and bring closure to these families who have, you know, lingered on for years waiting for some type of conclusion and closure to this. >> hastings law school professor opposed prop 66. >> it's going to limit opportunities to assess people's cases, including their innocence, and we might be risking wrongful executions to -- to a degree that is going to be unprecedented. >> the five-year deadline also applies to second stage appeals and typically those involving charges of misconduct and inxe
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tenth tense during trial. those appeals can now be moved from the appeals courts to superior courts where the trials took place. opponents say it may overwhelm the lower courts. appeals are usually handled by attorneys who specialize in capital punishment cases. other lawyers will now be allowed to represent the inmates. opponents question their competency. vic lee, abc 7 news. >> california voters also approved prop 57 which was governor jerry brown's plan to further shrink the state's prison population by allowing more nonviolent offenders to be eligible for parole. >> for a complete look at all the propositions and measures where you live go to abc7news.com or check out the abc 7 news app. >> a big election mistake for a major magazine. >> plus, bay area athletes weighing in on the presidential election. >> i'm michael finney. "ask finney" is just ahead. still taking questions on
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facebook and twitter. post the questions and i'll answer them here. >> a beautiful look outside from our east bay hills camera. you thought today was warm. the number rise more tomorrow before we track our next chance for rain. i'll have the timing and the
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raiders quarterback derek carr and warriors forward david west talked about what trump's victory means for the country going forward and the two struck
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very different tones. >> the whole fairy tale about some post-race racial, post-utopia that obama supposedly created is all -- it's all bull. i mean, that's bott -- that's the bottom line >> you know, no matter how you feel or how you believe what should have happened or what you wish happened or you're happy that it happened, however you are, wherever you're at, we still as a country have to come together. there's going to be a coach sometimes that you like and sometimes a coach that you don't like. >> well, the results of the election seemed so sure before tomorrow night ""newsweek"" shipped a madam president issue to stores and news the president trump issue will get to stores next week. >> a quiet night out there. clear skies and lots of sunshine
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on your thursday. going to warm us up very nicely. 80s on the board and the same in napa, about 73 in san francisco and 75 oakland and fremont. a mild 78 degrees tomorrow afternoon. take a look at the next seven days. tracking a couple of chances for a little bit of wet weather. saturday morning, a light sprinkle confined to the north bay and here's the best chance for widespread moisture. this is going to come on tuesday and right now it looks like it will be in the evening and right now it's a light storm on the storm impact scale and future weather will jump ahead into tuesday and cold front sinking in from the north to south will likely be tracking widespread wet weather. something that we'll keep updating for you right here over the come days. accuweather seven-day forecast. what's going on, sunny and warm for you. warmer tomorrow than we were today. partly cloudy and looking great for veterans day on friday and saturday, a chance of a north bay sprinkle. dry on sunday and into monday increasing clouds and tuesday we'll track the scattered showers and perhaps lingering
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early into wednesday morning. >> thank you so much, drew. >> still ahead on abc 7 news at 4:00, the push to bring more food into bay area homes this holiday season. we're live as we kick off our big food drive. >> and i'm 7 on your side's michael finney, could the wells fargo banking scandal affect other banks? we'll talk about i work 'round the clock. i want my blood sugar to stay in control. so i asked about tresiba®. ♪ tresiba® ready ♪ tresiba® is a once-daily, long-acting insulin that lasts even longer than 24 hours. i want to trim my a1c. ♪ tresiba® ready ♪ tresiba® provides powerful a1c reduction. releases slow and steady. works like your body's insulin. when my schedule changes... i want something that delivers. ♪ tresiba® ready ♪ i can take tresiba® any time of day. so if i miss or delay a dose, i take it when i remember, as long as there's at least 8 hours between doses. once in use, it lasts 8 weeks without refrigeration... twice as long as lantus®, which lasts 4 weeks.
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abc 7's give where you live thanksgiving good r food drive helps our five bay area food banks serve more than 840,000 people in need of food each month. >> so much people. >> spencer christian joins us live now from san francisco with some of the 30,000 volunteers who help in this cause. spencer? >> right, larry. isn't that an amazing statistic. 30,000 volunteers and some right here from the tech company riverbed. each year they sort and repack food for 450 community partners and 250 pantry, and these folks are joined by the chief information officer. rich, good to see you. >> nice to see you. >> how important is it for you and your colleagues to be involved in an effort like this? >> really important for riverbed. part of the bay area community and had a long relationship with the food bank and donate time, money and food itself and we're here today as part of our
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recount week to have teams. we've had over 200 team members from san francisco out volunteering. this is our second trip to the food bank. we're also supporting the hack for food effort there bringing the tech community and folks like the food bank together. >> goes a long way and by the way you at home can also help, for a $10 donation text the word feed to the number 80077. larry and ama? >> thank you so much, spencer. we appreciate it. time now for "ask finney." 7 on your side's michael finney is here to answer questions. our first question is how is the wells fargo scandal going to affect other banking institutions? >> well, i don't expect a lot of new regulations about this. we've heard very little about it. everybody is looking at it as a couple of bad actors within one bank so we're not seeing any real serious talk about any regulation. it will affect other banks though because some of them are
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going to pick up some deals because some government and some private industry is cutting wells fargo loose. going to be a little bit more money out there but in terms of you being a consumer and dealing with your own bank i don't see a lot. >> okay. >> ter frefremont asked when is did the new warm springs b.a.r.t., that new station going to be completed. >> you know, i'm laughing. i love, larry. >> the people that live down there are not laughing. >> i'm laughing because they gave a bunch of dates and now they won't even give a date. they will let you know. any idea not so far, not the last time i checked anyway. passed all the deadlines long, long time ago. >> zachery asked and i've been getting, many, many known calls from the irs and others at 2:00 a.m. and others at 6:00 a.m. anything can i do about it. >> it's very tough to cut them off. it's clearly not from the irs.
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as you know thieves worldwide that are calling american telephone numbers. right now there is some work going on with the fcc pushing companies to do away with these. if you want to go to our website abc7news.com we've taken a look at a couple of ways that you can cut down on the robo calls right now to very, very tough. no morobo is very good if you have voice over internet protocol. one for your iphone or android. go to the website and the information is in. >> what's coming up at 11:00? >> i'm very proud of this report. a lot of credit worthy people who have either no credit or a lousy credit score but now there's a whole new credit world emerging and you've probably never heard about it. i've been looking into it. i can tell you what it is and how you can cash in. watch abc 7 news tonight at 11:00 and then possibly watch your credit score soar.
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>> thank you, michael. >> in "today"'s wellness report. colorado voters reject single payer health care. >> and can cottage cheese ever be cool? here's jane king. >> reporter: colorado voters rejected amendment 69, a public referendum to establish a single-payer health care system in the state. the proposed system known as colorado care would have had far-reaching effects for consumers and aimed to largely replace the employer-sponsored insurance system as well as the individual private plans available under obamacare. well, cottage cheese wants what greek yogurt has, the darling of the dairy aisle has soared in sales and is now riding obsession of high protein food. cottage cheese has more protein and less sugars and now they are introducing new flavors and packaging. more people are moving back in with their parents because of a financial or health setback. "the wall street journal" says national data show adults number
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of adult children leaving parents rode and a brand new amenities packed outpost to help people stay healthy. the hotel line has zen-like destinations in new york city and washington, d.c. and sometimes business calls somewhere else, somewhere else like omaha, nebraska which is the latest company to get the treatment. from the nasdaq, i'm jane king. here's to your health. a day after voters in ol any, oakland and san francisco voted to tax sugary drinks comes a new study about the beverages. uc san francisco scientists found that people who sleep five or fewer hours a night are likely to also drink significantly more sugary caffeinated drinks. the authors say it's not yet clear whether drinking sug sugar-sweetened beverages makes people to sleep more.
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>> when with you return, back to the election and the contentious race in the cook. >> and kristen with a look the a what's coming up. >> cheering for the first female president until they weren't as hillary clinton concedes the race. we talk with people who worked for her and now are trying to figure out what went wrong. the state proposition that divided part of the bay area split the country and the drone that already afoot and light-hearted i take to the open road. healthy, free, the world before me, the long brown path before me leading wherever i choose. the east and the west are mine.
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here's tonight's primetime lineup. at 8:00 it's the gold fergs followed by "speechless" followed by "modern family" and then "black-ish" and then, of course, "deathignated survivor." >> more politics now and we get to that contentious congressional race in the south bay. >> abc 7 news reporter chris
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nguyen smoke to khan na today and joins us live. >> reporter: ama hand larry, can you call it a changing of the guard. mike honda will most likely move out of his santa clara office at the end of the year and now the attention moves over to what he plans to do. >> a race watched by so many people. an eight-term congressman fighting to save -- >> it's been a tough election year and got to bring people together and put the country first. >> anywhere anywhere wants to be represented by someone who understands that and understands what matters this them. that's what he understands. >> last night the two parties could not have been more different. joy and celebration inside the khan na camp and a more
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reflective tone at the honda camp. he declined to speak on camera but issued a statement saying all the work that i've done in my career, every decision i have made, every action i have taken has been to give all mernlts tools and conditions to build a country that works for everyone. the incumbent went on to congratulate his opponent and concede the race. san jose state prove sorry garrett percent value believes the ongoing ethics probe in honda weighed on the minors. >> really became a crass, about trust. >> a new voice and change of leadership with khanna at the helm. >> to go to congress and represent one of the most influential districts in the world it's an incredible honor and i'm excited for the opportunity but i'm also committed to really working hard and earning people's trust. >> voters in silicon valley having the last word. in the south bay, chris nguyen, abc 7 news. >> all right. that will do it for this edition
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of abc 7 "news at 4:00." thanks for joining
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trump's win sparks student walkouts and angry protests across the bay area. we're live rat several cities brace for the next round. >> flag fallout. the election descent that had tongues wagging and neighbors at odds. >> and donald trump's pledge to make america great again. can we expect him to really deliver on his promises when he takes office? >> i'm abc 7 news meteorologist sandhya patel. our accuweather seven-day forecast has a spring and a fall feel. i'll detail it out coming up. >> the day after an election shocker people across the bay area had taken to the streets to protest donald trump's victory. this is a live picture from sky 7 of demonstrators gathering in oakland. protests are also about to get under way in san francisco and san jose.
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>> even though most of them are still too young to vote. 2,000 high school students in berkeley walked out of school in response to the election results. good evening, i'm dan ashley. >> and i'm kristen sze. thanks for joining us. many people across the bay area refused to hide their anger and frustration following last night's election results. >> president-elect trump as well as hillary clinton attempted to quell some of those bitter feelings today each hoping for a new beginning following one of the most divisive elections in recent history. >> it is time for us to come together as one united people. >> donald trump is going to be our president. we owe him an open mind and the chance to lead. >> we have team coverage on the protests tonight. >> let's begin with abc 7 reporter melanie woodrow in san francisco. melanie? >> reporter: in the last couple of minutes we've seen this crowd multiply and take a look. it went from a couple of people that were here to possibly hundreds. we're at market and fifth

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