violence at the capitol yesterday. he said those who broke the law will pay. president trump also told supporters serving as president has been an honor and that their journey is just beginning. good evening. thank you for joining us. i'm ama daetz. >> i'm dan ashley. so far police arrested 90 people from yesterday's protest. the u.s. attorney for the district of colombia says all options aron the table for charging rioters including sedition. democratic members of congress are calling for the removal of the president before his term is up in 12 days time. >> yesterday, in my view, one of the darkest days in the history of our nation. an unprecedented assault on our democracy. an assault literally on the sidell of liberty. >> the white house finally

responded but took no questions or acre knowledged any responsibility. >> the violence we saw yesterday was appalling, reprehensible to the american way. we condemn it. the president and this administration in the strongest possible terms. >> sources familiar with the discussions told abc news president trump has suggested to advisors that he wants to grant himself a pardon before leaving office. now to abc 7 news reporter mel know woanie woodro that spo members of congress that were at the capitol. >> some say they expected this to happen and while outraged, they're not surprised they say. in t this is the gas mask barbara lee reached for. >> it was pandemonium in some respects although we were very disciplined and followed instructions. >> reporter: lee shot this video from inside chambers.

>> i expected something and actually, i wore tennis shoes to the hill. >> reporter: she says the response was shameful, disgraceful and inequatable. >> you can't tell me that there is not some systemic racism in the disparities how black lives matter protesters would have been pushed back and dealt with and how these protesters because they are donald trump's protesters and they were there by the orders of this president, they were told to insight violence. they were told to come to the capitol and primarily white. you can't tell me that the response was equatable and it wasn't. >> reporter: representative zoe was concerned by the security response. >> we can't allow terrorists to come in and invade the capitol of the quiunited states. it's unacceptable. >> reporter: ro khanna was locked in his office until 10:00

p.m. >> you could hear from the windows and yelling and shouting and protesters. >> reporter: many are calling for president trump to be removed from office. >> i think that the president has indicated through his behavior that he is a threat to the security of this country. >> reporter: representative jared huffman. >> on the one horn, it did feel surreal and shocking. on the other really all of us saw it coming. this is so predictable when you look at everything over the last four years and especially everything that trump has done to fuel this fire and set it in motion the past few weeks. it needs to be removed right away and there is only one way to do that, the 25th amendment. >> lawmakers got back to the work at hand with many returning to their homes close to 5:00 this morning. melanie woodro, abc 7 news. >> tank you. a hand full of people demonstrated in san mateo this afternoon calling for president

trump to be impeached again but this time removed from office. the group called yesterday's siege at the capitol a failed coup instigated by president trump. they're calling on americans to contact their representatives and demand action be taken immediately against the president. president trump could be removed from office through two different procedures, impeachment or by invoking the 25th amendment. >> if he's deranged then the 25th amendment is the proper way to go, but if he's actually just calculating, if he's got all his marbles but sort of deliberately engaging in demagoguery to frustrate the defeat at the polls, then that's really more a matter of impeachment. >> professor michael mcconnell is the director of stanford's constitutional law center. the 25th amendment that would require vice president pence and the cabinet will be quicker than impeachment. in either scenario, pence would

take over until joe biden's inauguration. one of the loud it's conversations coming out of yesterday's capitol siege, the lack of force used against rioters even as they scaled walls, broken windows and destroyed offices. abc 7 news reporter kris reyes spoke with organizers and they did not mince words. >> usa! >> reporter: punches were thrown, a brief scuffle but that's where the police confrontation with protesters ended in the moments before the capitol was breached. this was last may in san jose. a black lives matter rally. kayla remembers a very different outcome when her husband derrick was shot in the groin with rubber bullets. >> my husband was 30 feet away from the line of officers, and was holding a sign that said we are worthy of life and was not inciting any violence at all, and he was shot. >> reporter: bay area organizers from last year's black lives

matter rally say the same thing. that images like these are very different from the ones they experienced on the ground. >> if it were black protesters, we would have been shot just light right then and there. it would have been a massacre. >> a lot of activists saying if protesters yesterday were black, they would be dead. do you believe that? >> yeah, yeah, we would all be dead. it would not -- it would be a spray of bullets. >> reporter: this is the painful confast they and others are talking about. this was from a protest in oakland last summer after the shooting of jacob blake. protesters were arrested for throwing rocks and bottles at uf officers. police tear gas fired. this from inside the capitol right before offices were ransacked. one police officer armed with a stick unable to hold back protesters as they advanced inside. >> you saw that he was scared, and he has every right to be scared because these are white men and probably white women, as

well, that really don't care. >> reporter: they say watching these images have been retraumatizing but validation of what taif hey've experienced firsthand, a double standard. >> it communicates they see one, they see white people as valuable and non-white people as not valuable. >> reporter: kris reyes for abc 7 news. two silicon valley tech titans found themselves squarery in the middle of the chaos. twitter and facebook suspended him. twitter lifted the suspension today but facebook said his page will be off limits until inauguration day. the chaos at the capitol was certainly a wakeup call for an industry that has gone unchecked for years. >> we need to figure out what

social media needs to become and it can't just be the whims of two male white ceos who are currently in charge of facebook and twitter. >> we tried reaching both twitter and feet neither company has gotten back to us. americans are still trying to make sense of it. many are asking what happened to our democracy? wayne freedman examined in detail during election week. we named the nine-minute segment "dear democracy kp." tonight a sequel. >> reporter: welcome back to the democratic republic that woke up this morning in a bit of a fog. still reeling and recovering from an electoral college vote that should have been are you teen that wasn't. >> chaos. >> shots fired and hostile takeover like that, i'm surprised. >> i'm embarrassed to be

american. >> reporter: that was not the outcome we expected when we entered election week, then and today we asked viewer as simple question. if you could write a letter to democracy, what would you say? alarmed, hopeful, resilient said one, fragile, i'm balanced, unequal replied another. dear democracy, majority still believes added a third. >> we need to talk to each other and try to understand where we are actually coming from and turn down the volume. >> reporter: that from san francisco supervisor rafael. he was not the only person we sought out today. >> this was a small group of people that did something probable inappropriate. >> reporter: she would like to have been there yesterday. she's a staunch republican, not the only one that spent this morning removing any trace of herself from social media after having accounts blocked. >> we're talking about 80 million people who voted for president trump and who are conservative in this country and we are -- we're being assaulted.

>> social media devalues civil discourse. it actually encourages the opposite of civil oudiscourse a encourages >> reporter: can the words democracy co-exist. >> we'll walk down to the capitol because you'll never take back our country with weakness. >> i didn't hear any incitement. >> they have some narrative in their brain how they were saving democracy. they think we're the people who are taking it away. >> this did not start with donald trump and it will not end with donald trump. at that time what people need to understand. this is not about a person, this is about an idea. >> reporter: and if anyone was hoping for a new beginning for democracy after january 26th. there is cold water thrown on it. >> we don't watch the same tv

anymore. we don't watch the same news shows. we don't come together to see the same movies so we're able to inhabit parallel universes getting different facts. >> reporter: in the capitol yesterday, those universes collided. >> are you proud of yesterday? >> that's not a relevant question. >> reporter: but it happened and happened in his name? >> no, it did not. >> reporter: with it, the fog such as it is remains. in san francisco, wayne freedman, abc 7 news. >> our thanks to those folks for their thoughts today. >> we have more coverage from the fallout but some breaking news now. the associated press is reporting that education secretary bet sey devoss resignd tonight saying the riot was an inflection point for her. she's the second candidate to hit. elaine chow became the first. that happened earlier today. at least eight other administration officials resigned all since yesterday. the fallout from the rioting at the capitol.

we have more coverage of what happened at the capitol on our website abc7news.com and a photo gallery of images from those events. >> stay here with us, more to come on abc 7 news at 6:00. california breaking covid records again today sadly. while here in the bay area, funeral homes are rushing to increase capacity. and the state unemployment agency has frozen more than a million claims as it tries to weed out fraud. how honest applicants in need of cash are getting swept up in the effort. >> i'm spencer christian. we have another light storm coming our way, maybe the last one we'll see for quite sometime. i'

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this has been a deadly day in california for the pandemic. the virus taking 583 lives in one day in the golden state, up 2% from the day before which was also a record. hospitals are straining under the unprecedented case load now at more than 36,300 new cases. icu capacity is falling at 3.5%. the department of health says that's the lowest icu percentage we've seen under the stay-at-home order. two of the bay area's largest funeral homes have nearly tripled capacity in the last few weeks reporting the highest spike in covid deaths since the onset of the pandemic. stephanie sierra has the story. >> reporter: exhausted and overwhelmed, dan dougen in daly city says it's the

they've been. >> we've gone from 10 to 30 covid related deaths in the last month. >> reporter: back in march, dougen doubled the storage to accommodate the surge. >> thank god we did. during the first nine months we wondered was it totally necessary? it was definitely 100% necessary. >> reporter: with the extra space, his capacity is at 80%. he's accommodating families with safe outdoor services where pews are spaced six feet apart. dougen served entire families who have tested positive for covid after losing their loved one to the virus. >> we're just starting to see the christmas holiday surge and i'm sure it is going to be an additional surge or continuing surge with the new year's holiday, as well. >> reporter: robert gordon president of sigh press lawn funeral home agrees it's only getting worse. his facility's combined total capacity spiked to 80%. >> last month we doubled the number we normally would see of

families we helped through that and this month we'll probably do four to five times the number of services for families that were affected by covid-19. >> reporter: in march, gordon purchased these two storage units that can accommodate an additional 100 bodies. >> until november we really didn't use them at all but now we are starting to use both containers to help us through this time. >> reporter: he knows of several smaller funeral homes across the bay area that have already reached capacity and have started to turn people away. a grim reminder. >> this is much more dangerous at this stage than any stage back in march. >> reporter: stephanie sierra, a abc 7 news. in the south bay, community based clinics are preparing to start large scale immunizations as far as vaccines are available. there are obvious ly challengin including getting health care

providers and concerns about safety. david louie looks how one large clinic operation hopes to protect the vulnerable latino community. >> reporter: we've seen other health care workers get vaccinated, these visuals are expected to be an important tool to address the surge of infections in san josjose's lat community. these are front line staff members that run the clinics and covid testing sites in east san jose. >> we're willing to take it. we're going to be vaccinated and they should seriously consider being vaccinated, as well, because it's going to benefit the community at large. >> reporter: the infection rate at the testing site has been 17% for the past though weeks. >> that needs to be controlled. and i feel like the only way that that surge can be controlled is by mass vaccination. >> reporter: however, there remains reluctance to get vaccinated due to concerns about side effects. that is not only among residents but within their health care

team. >> 30% of our health care workers are reluctant to get the vaccine. >> reporter: gardener and community partners are working on a competent education campaign to lower the resistance. >> it will be print, text messaging, social media and so forth and in addition to that will be collaborating with other agencies just to get the message across in the various communities we serve return t. >> reporter: the governor is allocating community out reach and education especially in heavily impacted communities. >> i'm hoping that the reluctance will definitely go down as more people are getting the vaccine and they see lesser side effects of the vaccine. >> reporter: they believe staff will ramp up quickly to get vaccinations underway. in san jose, david louie, abc 7 news. >> and right now on our website you can see where you may fall in line for the vaccination. just answer a few questions on this calculator at abc7news.com.

all right. onto the weather forecast. weekend is almost here. rain is coming, too, ama? >> yes, let's get to spencer to find out when it going to be here, spencer? >> ama and dan, it getting close. a few hours away. as you can see on live doppler 7 there is a disturbance moving just north. that's the system that will bring us light rain. right now we're looking at partly cloudy skies in san francisco, 55 in the city. low 50s in oakland, mountain view, san jose and half moon bay and partly cloudy over the bay now as we look westward temperatures readings in the upper 40s. 52 napa. mid to upper 40s fairfield and livermore, concord 51. these are our forecast futures showers developing overnight. they will develop late tonight and continue overnight into the early morning hours. sunnier and drier days lie ahead and we'll have milder winter weather next week. the approaching storm is a light storm that ranks one on the storm impact scale.

we can expect light to moderate showers, maybe a few lunhundred of an inch to a quarter of an inch and rough surf developing tonight. here is the forecast animation by midnight, we'll see some fairly well organized showers swinging through the north bay and after midnight into the early morning hours down south of the golden gate as the front will weaken in the early morning hours and by the time the morning commute gets underway, 5:00, 6:00 a.m. we'll see a few pockets of scattered showers and partial clearing by midday. rainfall totals generall lly .1 lower but up to a quarter of an inch in the north pay and i mention the high surf. we have a high surf advisory from 6:00 a.m. tomorrow to 6:00 a a.m. saturday and a risk of sneaker waves. overnight lows will be mainly in the mid 40s and highs tomorrow will range from upper 50s at the costa about 60, 61 around the bay shoreline to low 60s inland.

here is the switeven-day foreca a mild winter pattern developing next week. by midweek next week, high temperatures inland to be in the mid to upper 60s around the bay shoreline. so it will be a long dry spell, doesn't look like any more rain inside for awhile after tomorrow morning. dan and ama? >> can't change it. might as well enjoy it while it lasts. thanks so much. >> oh, yeah. coming up on abc 7 news at 6:00 if you or your kids are feeling overwhelmed by the barrage of news out of the capitol, we can help

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limiting your intake of news and taking a long walk and surrounding yourself with love, healthy and nutricius food. hundreds of thousands of california nursing students are ready to administer covid-19 vaccines but stuck waiting. the abc 7 news i-team puts pressure on the state to give those students the green light. the edd froze more than 1 million unemployment claims on new year's day. i'm michael finney. ahead on 7 on your side, will workers ever get their benefits? tomorrow's "jeopardy" episode is the final one with al

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vaccines. the problem county health deputies have yet to give the green light. >> i-team reporter stephanie sierra is pushing the state to get involved. disrupting the vaccine distribution chain, more than 1.5 million doses of covid vaccine are now stuck in transit according to state data updated tuesday night. that's up from 900,000. so what's causing it? we've asked the state four times this week but have yet to get a straight answer like janice, the interim director for the nursing program. >> there is no direct line of communication. >> reporter: she contacted the health department five times since october about a possible solution to help aid the backlog. she has 100 trained nursing students that are certified to administer vaccines and need to complete clinical hours. >> so i have 100 students and by the way, all last semesterer were practicing with the flu

vaccine can totally help with this. >> reporter: her students are required to complete 100 hours per semester. that totals to 10,000 injections that could alleviate the marin, santa clara and alameda counties have made attempts to do the same. >> what is sad and happening on a huge disconnect. >> reporter: dr. sharon ann is associate degree nursing programs that oversees 30,000 nursing students qualified to help but need to get vaccinated first. >> when you listen to the news, we need people to vaccinate. we have 30,000 students have been taught to do a vaccine. >> reporter: a problem that still remains unanswered. >> since we're not hospital or clinical aphysicffiliateaffilia

place to get these vaccines. >> reporter: we are told the state is now looking into it. for the i-team, stephanie sierra, abc 7 news. millions of americans maybe you were relieved when congress expanded unemployment benefits into the new year but here in california thousands of workers found out that they aren't getting benefits at all. the edd shut down 1. 4 million claims looking for possible fraud so it left struggling workers with no income. michael finney is here live covering this on going problem that just doesn't stop, michael. >> dan, we have talked about this you and i over and over again and you and i and everyone else had hoped all the edd chaos of 2020 would somehow evaporate in the new year but not so. instead, workers across the state woke up on new year's day to a brutal greeting from the edd. >> it's like the 2020 hangover. >> reporter: sarah cane thought

her troubles were over when the president signed this stimulus bill extending unemployment benefits into the new year. she had lost her accounting job and the new benefits would arrive just in time to pay the rent but before she could pop a cork, sarah received a sobering message from the edd. >> it's exhausting. it's exhausting. it's scary. >> reporter: the notice mist mysteriously said your claim is suspended because it may be tied to fraudulent activity. nearly 1.5 million californians woke up to the same message. >> oh my gosh, way to start out the new year like this. >> reporter: it couldn't have come at a less time for lessee simmons and her 23-year-old son darion. >> his years were hurting. his eyes were hurting. hiss fa his face were hurting. >> reporter: he tested positive for covid-19 on new year's eve and quarantined to his room when he got the email from the edd. >> my son texted me like midnight. he said mom, what is this?

>> reporter: his benefits cut off, too. >> way to start my new year. got covid. unemployment got suspended. >> reporter: adding to the stress covid is spread, leslie now suffering symptoms. >> it's too much to push somebody over the edge. people are struggling and we're drowning and we have to deal with edd. >> it's tragic because people are desperate right now. >> reporter: state senator scott weaner says edd should have v verified accounts before depriving struggling workers. >> instead, they ran out and froze everyone's account asking for information after the fact. it ready, shoot, aim. >> reporter: the edd tells us it used fraud detection tools to identify highly suspect or fraudulent claims. officials said they quickly suspended 1. 4 million accounts to avoid paying scammers the $300 bonus in benefits. the hundreds of thousands of honest workers were cut off, too. the edd admits it can't always tell real claims from fraud

leng since many scammers use stolen identities. suddenly legit 7imate workers mt prove they're not the bad guys. >> it's not fair for me as someone that committed fraud to have to prove i haven't committed fraud. >> eight to 12 weeks and get no money at all? that's crazy. >> that's really like happy new year. >> edd has promised to quickly verify all of these identities and get the benefits out however some workers are being told it could take as much as eight weeks. now, if you are having problems with the edd and your payments, let me know about it. go to abc7news.com. dan? >> eight weeks? that's a long time, michael. coming up. >> it could have been avoided. >> only on abc 7, we hear from the family of an accused hit and run drive near a deadly crash.

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me mother, the parolee responsible for the deadly hit and run that left two dead. we talked to sylvia mccalister about the arrest. >> reporter: from the moment sylvia mccalister saw the news on new year's eve of this double fatal hit and run, she knew the driver was her son troy. >> they didn't have his name, but you know i know my child. >> reporter: troy mccalister a parolee with a lengthy record drove a stolen vehicle in the deadly crash that killed elizabeth platt and hanna abe. i greeted the family at sfo wednesday morning as their mean landed from japan. at the accident scene, we heard from theo smith, sylvia's bother and uncle who sent a strong message regarding the district attorney for letting his attorney back on the streets after a 2015 armed rob by. >> i don't understand why they released him. i really cannot understand that. >> reporter: sylvia a single mother of two says the system as

a whole failed her and her son. >> the probation officer, i called them once. i called in ten, 15 times. i tried to call the crisis center several times. you call and they said they will call you back. they don't. >> reporter: i reached out to the california department of corrections and rehabilitation to try to talk about what happened after sylvia's calls. no one replied today but earlier this week they sent me a statement saying our parole office followed all procedures including conducting investigations and making appropriate referrals. sylvia claims her son's mental health suffered during his time in jail and acknowledged he's been in trouble more times than she can count but no excuse for what happened new year's eve. here is her message to the abe family and the bay area. >> i'm very sorry and i wish it hadn't happened, and i will be praying for her and i hope that

she's doing like-wise for us even though troy didn't get hurt or killed, life. we go to the south bay where a fire damaged a commercial building in an already struggling section of down ttow san jose. the flames broke out this morning. the fire department says the two-story building was and nobody was hurt. this is no word yet on the cause. more to come here before alex trebek's final jeopardy episode airing tomorrow night, some of the show's executive producers are remembering his legacy. how they say he changed the ups and downs of frequent mood swings can take you to deep, depressive lows. or, give you unusually high energy, even when depressed. overwhelmed by bipolar i? ask about vraylar.

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tomorrow night right here you'll see the final new "jeopardy" episode with alex trebek as host. he died in november after a battle with pancreatic cancer. reporter george from our sister station in los angeles spoke with two executive producers of "jeopardy" about his legacy. >> reporter: before we say

good-bye to alex trebek host "jeopardy" we're getting behind the scene stories for the man and the show part of his life for 37 years. >> his legacy among other things is jeopardy and the fact he made being smart cool. >> sometimes even between rounds, between the "jeopardy" round and double "jeopardy "round he's reviewing material and double checking he has pronunciations and all of that. it was a work ethic that was to be admired. >> reporter: harry freedman ran "jeopardy" for 23 years. they dropped the five-show appearance limit. >> that paved the way for people like ken jennings to become stars of "jeopardy". >> reporter: mike feels he's the stewart of what alex and harry built saying when ken jennings begins guest hosting the show next week, alex will still be there. >> his dna is so in the show

that you still feel him there. and whether it's his image in the open or us referencing him throughout the course of the episodes, we're not forgetting him. we're embracing him and his greatness and he's there. i believe he's everywhere in that building. >> reporter: harry members when alex took the stage in another building, new york's radio city music hall. >> alex trebek. [ cheers ] >> thank you. ladies and gentlemen. >> just the roar of 6,000 people in the audience and you could see how moved he was that this was oh my city music hall. we have a game to play. >> reporter: the game will continue on initially with guesf people and a number of people

reached out to us to say we're interested in this and some of them you go wow, okay. that's a testament how important and great alex was these people are going i would like to take a shot at this. trebek's final episode area tomorrow night here on abc 7 at 7:00 p.m. we'll also have a special tribute tomorrow at 6:00 p.m. but tune in tonight featuring a local contestant by the way from n newark someone to root for locally. to weather. it won't be the same without alex trebek. >> absolutely yes. missed but there are great candidates out there, as well to take over. let get to spencer and see where the rain is coming, spencer? >> okay. ama and dan, it's getting closer and closer. here is a look at our storm impact scale showing that the storm was a light one. it will be pushing in late tonight, early tomorrow morning

with moderate light to moderate showers. about .10 for most of the bay area and a quarter to the forth bay. here is a forecast animation showing the first wave of showers come income before midnight as the front sweeps down south of the golden gate. it weakens and falls apart but scattered showers through the early morning hours and wet spots for the morning commute and rough surf advisory, high surf advisory i should say in effect from 6:00 a.m. tomorrow to 6:00 a.m. saturday and the danger of sneaker waves. here is the accuweather seven-day forecast after tomorrow morning's showers, a dry weekend coming our way and a mild week ahead with high temperatures reaching into the mid to upper 60s by midweek next week. looks lovely. >> it does. we will enjoy and wait for more rain but have fun in the sun while we can. thanks. >> exactly. all right. time to switch gears. let's take a look at sports. we have chris alvarez for us. >> busy off season for the

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♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ warriors super star stephon curry is probable for tomorrow after tweaking his ankle late in the loss to l.a. it happened spot shot steph. he steps on patrick beverley's foot. he was held to a season low 13 points last night but dub nation

can breathe a sigh of relief with regards to number 30s ankle. >> he told me he's feeling pretty good. just a tweak. we had a very light practice. steph, draymond, kelly and andrew all just walked through some things early in the practice and then went and got treatment when we got into a little bit of court work. they were all spaspartial participants. jeremy lin will sign a deal in santa cruz. he was close to a deal in december but that didn't get clearance to leave. the 32-year-old from palo alto last played in 2019 with the toronto raptors. >> to the nfl where it's super wild card weekend and 6-10 weekend the 49ers will be watching at home like the rest of us. it will be an interesting off season for san francisco. robert sala completed interviews with the falcons and lions tomorrow. he expected to interview with

the jags and chargers about their head coaching vacancies with a likely coaching staff and key decisions on free agents, john lynch and kyle shanahan have their work cut out. kyle was overcome with emotion when talking about his upcoming free agency. >> even you just asking that already has me choked up but just a lot that will come into may here. >> with nearly 40 free agents and the salary cap dipping by 20 million, the 49er haves difficult choices to make. >> we have a lot of guys we want to bring back and we do believe we have a good team, a really good team. >> we finished a 6-10 season and that's not to our standard. we have to improve. >> reporter: san francisco has the 12th overall pick along with seven other draft picks. the question remains how much of the core will be retained? >> i can't wait to get to next year. honestly, it's been eating at me but i can't wait to attack this

off season into next year. >> we'll keep this thing going and the guys next year will come ready to go. we have the right mind set. >> our standards will be competing for a super bowl year in and year out. this was not our standard this year and can't really make excuses for and just that our expectations to be in the playoffs next year and to be competing for a championship. 49ers offensive assistant coach katy sowers announced today she will not return with the team next season. reports say she is leaving on good terms but she's looking for an expanded role with a different team. sowers made history last season becoming the first female coach in a super bowl. katy sowers, what a wonderful story. the mayers talked aboplayers ta glow about her. >> exciting to see where she ends up. she'll do well always. chris, thanks so much. all right. coming up tonight on abc 7 at 8:00 celebrity "whi"wheel of

fortune"" and "the chase" and "the hustler" at 10:00. a bay area company is working with the cdc to do more genetic testing or coronavirus samples. coming up at 11:00, we'll talk about why more of this testing for that new variant hasn't been done yet and what some researchers worry could happen. >> president trump suggested to advisors he wants to pardon himself before leaving officer. bay area constitution experts ex main if this is possible. >> finally tonight, a few thoughts about what really matters. what we saw yesterday was a disgrace. people wearing maga hats waving flags and trump signs, assaulting the capitol under a mistaken belief that they were somehow protecting america. when in fact, they were endangering it, harming it, tarnishing it. president trump manipulated them and repeatedly lied to them. the election wasn't stolen by the democrats rather president trump is the one trying or

attempting to steal it and he conned his followers into trying to help him yesterday. if there were any significant voting irregularities, they would have been uncovered by judges who rejected legal challenges by secretaries of state and by the media. it simply didn't happen. if it had and was being covered up, trust me, the media would eat its own young to get to the story. we win awards for that reporting. if i continue to insist the world is flat despite evidence to the contrary dismissing proof it's round, that doesn't make the earth flat. it makes me a fool. a mob of fools duped by a president desecrated one of our most sacred buildings and most solum rituals in a truly shameful display. what matters is to hold those responsible accountable and to never allow it to happen again. i always love to hear from you. let me know what you think on twitter and facebook at dan

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