. welcome to a daily program called "getting answers." we'll talk with one of the faces behind san mateo county's compliance unit, plus we'll talk about voting concerns with the press secretary for california's secretary of state. so all that coming up. but we begin with a prominent proposition we're voting on in california with a prominent champion. prop 24 is the california privacy rights act and the chair of its advisory board is none other than former democratic presidential candidate andrew yang. andrew has been a guest here several times since launching his candidacy and we welcome him back today. good to see you, andrew.

>> thank you for having me. >> always a pleasure. i remember our first interview you called attention to the fact that tech companies -- and we have a bunch of those here in silicon valley -- have had free rein with our data and we have no chose. >> prop 24 is going to give californians privacy rights that are unique here in the united states but have already come the law of the land in the eu, so the eu has been the trail blazing entity in california's going to hopefully catch up and then after this becomes a law in california, i believe other states are going to look up and say why do californians have all these data and privacy rights that we don't have. california could end up leading the way. i'm incredibly excited about prop 24. people think they're making billions of dollars and we need to change it.

we need to get control of our own data. >> how does that add on to the california consumer privacy act of 2018 that took effect earlier this year? doesn't it give us the right to opposite out of the sale of our personal info and the right to have our collected data deleted? >> there's enforcement resources in mace. right now it's being left to the district attorney of california to enforce the data rights that were provided in 2018 and the da came out and said we got a lot of stuff on our plate, this is not actually going to be on the list. which makes sense. they're balancing a lot. the new act makes it so that there's a dedicated set of resources and enforcement mechanisms essentially dedicated regulators to this. it makes so it that district attorneys at the state and county level can get involved. you'll see compliance shoot up

because all of a sudden the tech companies know we'll be looking at their treatment of our data. >> got it. ok. as a parent i'm most concerned with the data privacy violations involving children. i know prop 24 would triple the fine for that. what do you think is important as voters decide what to vote? >> right now, whenever you're saying i agree or i con send, you're hoping for the best. nobody reads that stuff. i'm a parent like you are. we know our kids are getting addicted to these screens. we're seeing growing anxiety and depression in teenage girls in particular. maximize the time spent, maximize their ad revenue and the engagement levels. this proposition 24 is the first big step saying enough is enough. this is actually our property, our data even if we're letting you make use of it in isolated circumstances.

we're going to make so it that when you're agreeing to a consent to it, you actually have the government backing you up as opposed to clicking and hoping they're not using it too badly. >> all right. well, safeguarding our data is one issue. thanks for clarifying some of the issues surrounding that proposition for us. i want to move on to the campaign trail. i know you're back on it yesterday in philadelphia stumps for the democratic presidential ticket, joe biden and kamala harris. i want to ask you what you think your primary role is here? who do you think you'll be reaching out to? >> i'm thrilled to be stumping for joe and com l co i spoke to a group of college students. i spoke at a community center. i spoke to business owners, to people who were getting out the vote in northeast philadelphia.

so right now frankly i'm going wherever the biden campaign thinks i'll be useful. the folks who i think could be helpful in reaching are people who haven't been engaged politically in the past, young people, asian americans, small business owners. those are folks that frankly like i feel like my campaign spoke to it at a higher level, perhaps, than others. >> kristen, am i lost? >> no. you came back. thank you. >> ok. i'm back. >> we were seeing video of you in philadelphia, socially distanced, everybody wearing masks, talking to young people and the audience there. that was great. ok. i want to ask you about the stimulus text. time is running out. as we know house speaker nancy pelosi set tomorrow as the dead line to get a deal done before election day. of course, madam speaker wane a

$2.2 trillion deal. do you agree with holding out for the whole package or do you think the party needs to accept the smaller deal and fight later? >> i take it from the perspective of the people who have lost their jobs, the fact if if we don't get this deal done before the election, congress will not pass it in a lame duck session. so you're looking until alnew administration is installed in january. it will be without support through november, december, january. i hope that speaker pelosi and automatic of congress keeps that family in mind in terms of getting a deal done before the election. >> you know you have a pretty big yang gang following in the bay area. someone watching closely in

particular so here's our little surprise for you. someone here in the bay area wants to say hello. you ready for this? >> i guess so. so fun. >> hello. hi there, mini-yang. >> good afternoon, mr. yang. the yang gang -- >> oh, my god. >> texting you, hey, mr. yang, i came on here to say in a it was really fun campaigning for you and i hope we can do it again. >> well, i think you might have just celebrated a birthday recently mini-yang and happy birthday. keep listening to your mom and dad. they know what's best and love you very, very much. >> nick ham mond's nine-year-old and has been following andrew yang. andrew, if you wanted to follow in your footsteps, what would it be, 2040, maybe would be when he would make his run?

>> it would. [ inaudible ] to become 35 because that's the real age for which you can run for president. so 2046. nick hammond in 2046. >> get that butchmper sticker m. good luck on the campaign trail. >> thank you. get out there and vote. let's go! joe and kamala. >> 24! >> you've got that down. all right. thank you both. all right, folks. when we return we'll take a look at the new covid-19 compliance unit. what exactly is it? we're

. welcome back. starting today covid 19 compliance team will start enforcing mask and social distancing rule in san mateo county, mainly to assure that businesses are doing their part. but how will this work? joining us to talk about it is is county supervisors david knepa. thank you for making the time. >> good afternoon. >> j the compliance unit? what were you seeing in the county that needed targeting and addressing? >> well, look, 98% of businesses comply, but there are those 2% of businesses that don't. in fact, we've had a business operate in san mateo county that hasn't closed during the pandemic. to be quite frank with you, that's just not fair to everyone else. and so what we're going to do is we're moving forward with the compliance team comprised of eight county employees and to make sure that people are

complying to the health orders. we've had 1.1 million people throughout the world who have died of covid. so this is very, very serious. >> uh-huh. >> and so -- and people flout the law. we're going to make sure they're held accountable. >> you gave us an example of a business that never closed. there's that hot yoga place in the coup that continues to operate in that up door environment in which people are breathing heavily and sweating. i president what to ask you, though, if that is the case, even though they are outliars and there are not that many, why vice president there been any citations given out so far? >> each city were giving warnings individually. what we've done is we've created a team that's going to operate county wide. that's just important. so making sure that we have a database that encompasses all of the cities and making sure that we hold people accountable. we've been trying to educate

people for months. it's gone extraordinarily well. there are those people like the yoga studio you mentioned that refused to close, so if we can't get them to close through education, we'll get them through to close through your checkbook. >> explain how this would work, right. do you expect people to call in the they see a business that's not complying and then does that team of eight go out there and then what happens when they go out there? walk us through the process. >> sure, so there are a couple of things. one, they could do it anonymously. the county has the 211 system. in addition, we've set up a web portal. once that complaint is filed -- and remember, we only have eight enforcement -- on the enforcement team, so they're in pairs of two. they can go out. it's based on complaints. we're not going to be able to cover the whole county and get to every restaurant, but if there are complaints we're going to be able to have those assigned.

from there, what will happen is the officers go to the establishment, warn them, warn them, and then what they'll be able to do is they'll be able to fine up to $3,000. >> would that be a first fine or is that, you know, after a few times? >> exactly. so it's at the discretion of the officer. it could be $250 starting and there after they could come back and do $500. it's resident at the discretion of the officer. and so we'll see how it goes. obviously, you want to educate, but there are certain percentage of people that just don't believe that this virus is killing people or serious and they believe that they can get away with it. to those people, we say shame on you and we're going to do what we can to make sure that they're abiding by the health orders. >> i wonder, though, if you think it's maybe not realistic

to ask small businesses that are barely making ends meet already to have to con front their people and ask employees who are struggling to confront people to enforce those rules. we've all seen confrontations on social media. can you expect those store clerks to really risk their safety, if you will? >> yeah. i think that's a really good question. in fact, we're actually making it safer. we're seeing videos on social media where people are fighting because -- over masks. why not make sure that we have the enforcement team there to make sure that they're abiding by it? there has to be an intermediary. instead of us having these confrontations between civilians. i think these folks, they are -- who are they? they're in health, they check our restaurants, they're park rangers, so we're taking the burden away from law enforcement and we're putting it in our county workers, and there's no one more well equipped than

those people, because that's the job that they're currently dealing with now when it comes to inspections or other needs. >> just want to confirm, people can call if they say arrive greemgs violations by businesses and by individuals, right, that is, if they see someone who's unmasked that's causing on people, they can call for that, too. it's not just targeting business. >> distinctly different. no. so the two in one line is for businesses. >> ok. >> if you see something relative to a person not wearing a mask outside, what will then happen is you know, that -- you got to call your local police -- nonemergency number police and report that. >> got it. this initiative that we're discussing just for businesses, are there any other efforts that you're considering as a next step? >> you know, one of the things that we have to look at and our health officers really address this issue, and i don't know how

you go about it, but we really have to begin to look at social gatherings, thanksgiving and these other holidays coming up, there are going to be people who want to spend time in larger groups, and so we have to recognize that we know and epidemiologists and those scientists are saying that the spike is on its way. we see that with influenza. we have to recognize that and kind of address that through education, but then keep ourselves aware of the we're not able to do it through education, do we look at other remedies. >> thank you for talking with us about the 911 line you can call to call the compliance -- i'm sorry. 211 is the phone number to call. don't call 911. to ensure that businesses are doing their part to contain covid in the county. thank you for your time. keep us posted on how it's

going. >> thank you kristen for the time. >> thank you, supervisor. >> all right, folks. we're going to take a short break. when we come back, an important california dead we made usaa insurance for members like martin. an air force veteran made of doing what's right, not what's easy. so when a hailstorm hit, usaa reached out before he could even inspect the damage. that's how you do it right. usaa insurance is made just the way martin's family needs it - with hassle-free claims, he got paid before his neighbor even got started. because doing right by our members, that's what's right. usaa. what you're made of, we're made for. usaa

welcome back. the election is less than two and a half weeks ago r away. today is an important decline in california. it's the last day you can register on line or by mail to vote here in california. joining us to talk about this and other voting news is sam ma hsks of course of course d, the press secretary for the california secretary of state alex padilla. how you doing? >> thank you christen. 15 days until the election is an incredibly busy time for us but today is an incredibly important day, as you noted, for everyone who might have waited to the last minute who need to update your registration do it tonight

by midnight online. >> if you miss this, you can still vote in california in person on election day, correct? >> yes. but this is also jill straits why it's so important that californians could register tonight if they need to do so. through midnight you can easily register to vote on line. it only takes a few minutes. it's mobile friendly. you can do it from your phone, your laptop, your desktop. if you miss today's decline, you have to do same day voter reg industries, then you have to go in person to either the voting location or your county elections office and just given everything in the pandemic in 2020 it's that much hardered for people toe get out there. we want to avoid that if possible. it's better for you as a voter, have the ballot mailed to you and avoid having to do all that

process. but one of the key things is having safety nets for voters. that includes an election day process that hinges on the next 1 days all the way through election day. >> do it before midnight tonight. california's republican party admitted to placing those ballot boxes that is your bosses called misleading all around the state. what is the latest with this? we're hearing they will continue to do this. what are your thoughts? >> well, i think there's been a big gap between what's being said in the press and what's actually happening. there were pictures of boxes that were listed adds firm on line. those boxes have been removed. they've admitted that they'll not have any boxes out there in any unsecured boxing that can mislead the public. in california, yes, campaigns,

you can stage ballot collection but somebody has to know who they're signing their ballot over to. if i wanted kristen to return my ballot, i need to know she's returning it. i can't return my ballot to an unstaffed drop box. really, my message to voters in all this is do not let this discourage you. there's been a lot of oxygen spent on this issue, but let's keep perspective. 3.7 million californians have already cast their ballot by mail. >> how many? >> 3.7 million californians versus already cast their ballot by mail. that's huge. we need that this year to get ahead of election day problems. given covid we can expect there to be more lines than normal. you are in ultimate control of your ballot. you have the decision, the ultimate power to decide how you're going to return that ballots. every ballot in california comes with a prepaid postage envelope

or you can walk it in to the elections office or the drop boxes ca early voting. >> i have to tell you i'm loving the new feature where's my ballot. i went on to check. you can see my little i voted sticker. i tracked my ballot and saw that it's been counted. that reassurance is everything in this election cycle when we have so many questions. so that's great. quickly, i want to ask you, we're hearing about a ballot box in southern california at a library that was intentionally set on fire, or at least arson investigators are involved in that what do you know? >> i think the investigation is just beginning. we're here to offer any assistance that we can, but actually comes back to the last point about ballot tracking about how important that is as a

tool for california voters. obviously, this is an extraordinary incident that we don't expect to happen very often if at all during an election, but by signing up for ballot trabing you'll know was your ballot received, was it counted. >> right. >> you'll know that. that way, god forbid, something happens to your ballot, hey, i vice president gotten notification that the ballot was rooifd. maybe i should check with that or log in to see if it has been received. that's a good reason but obviously we're going to be following up with the investigation ongoing in los angeles county. >> ok. but what happens, let's say, if your ballot was destroyed in a fire in a situation like that or some other situation? what can you do as a voter to make sure your voice is heard. >> if you think there's an issue with your ballot where you think it might not have arrived or it has some issue like damage, reach out to the elections office right away. they're the one processing it,

so they can usually pretty easily reissue your ballot and invalidate the old one so that way, you don't lose your right to vote. given everything in 2020, if something like happens to you, don't wait. don't wait till the last minute. l.a. coup was saying if anyone dropped off their ballot, there was a time at that drop box to get contact with the office to review the remnants and contact the voters. for voters who might be concerned they dropped off their ballot and had some kind of damage, best to get in touch with the county right away. >> real quickly, our last question. you mentioned over three million people have already voted. that's a big number compared to past years in terms of where we are in the election cycle. but what is the voter registration looking like at this point? >> voter registration is incredibly high. our last report showed about

21.2 million californians registered. we're at 21.8 million today. that's an all-time record for the state. what's more, that represents over 84% of eligible californians registered to vote. >> that is pretty incredible. for the longest time people in california felt like we don't matter out here in the west in california. that's the case and not the sentiment right now.

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