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is something hopefully they'll address more. okay, i want to shift to another big medical story. polio it's a childhood disease that we don't think of as being in developed countries anymore. but a case has been found in new york. what do we know about this? we don't know a lot, kristin. but we do know that this individual presented with some early symptoms of polio and unvaccinated, which is an important note, and what the suspicion is, is that this may have come from an overseas cases . somebody who got a live polio vaccine. that's the oral vaccine , which can sometimes shed live virus now anyone out there who's saying oh my gosh, that's from the vaccine. we don't use that vaccine that type of vaccine here in the united states. now

again. this is not confirmed. but what i think the important thing to notice. is that this individual was unvaccinated. so this is much, much less likely, if not going to happen if you actually took the vaccine here, three dose vaccine but also chris and this is something i tell any family out there who is hesitant about getting the polio vaccine. people say all the time . well we don't see paulie anymore. why don't you give my child this vaccine? well we don't see paulie anymore because of the incredible effort of vaccination over the past 60 plus years, but also i was just a flight away. that is a very famous saying to tell us that global eradication is the metric, not local. mm hmm. you still have to get the polio vaccine to enroll in school, right? you do? it's part of the set of required vaccinations. let's talk about speaking of vaccines. monkeypox that's been hard to get. the city now has 141 confirmed cases. maybe more. you tell me but a clinic this morning s f general we saw had 100 people in line hours before it even opened. how worried? are you about the lack of vaccine? i'm very worried kristen not

only about the lack of vaccine, but about all the potentially un diagnosed cases out there and then also what the potential social cost is going to be of this unmitigated outbreak. people out there are saying like, hey, there's a very low risk of winding up in the hospital or dying unless you're high. risk your young child pregnant individual army compromised. but if we're looking at these individual cases, and we're following the cdc isolation guidelines that say, hey, well, you have to wait until any potential rashes scabbed over and falls off before you break her isolation. that could be the course of a month. that is someone one month isolating. think about covid. when people are isolating for 1 to 2 weeks, that is one month of people right now away from their families, their friends and their jobs. that is not something that will be able to tolerate on a large scale with after what we have just seen over the last two years. look today, california's assembly speaker asked health and human services secretary javier bezerra to declare a public health emergency. what would such a declaration do? i think

the biggest thing is what it would come down to. we you and i talked about this as awareness but also with funding and what funding might be able to mobilize when it comes to testing antivirals, possibly what could happen with vaccine manufacturing, but also a conversation about paid leave. is there some temporary relief that can be offered to people out there if they are taken away because of a monkeypox infection , and you know, we heard nancy pelosi making make an estimate that california alone probably needs over 300,000. vaccines that is far higher than what i heard was about a few 1,000,000. so that's one small gap. that's a bottleneck that needs to be addressed. tell look how much we covered in 9.5 minutes. thank you so very much. great to talk to you. move, kristen. i kept it speedy. alright, thanks, doctor patel. coming up. next is america on a path towards civil war, an expert from uc davis, who is behind a new study joins us to look into that question. stay with us. the house select ce

investigating the january 6 capital insurrection will hold its eighth hearing tonight. it begins at 5:00 and you can watch it right here on abc 7. the committee is looking into whether former president trump had a role in the deadly riot meant to stop president biden from taking office experts have been studying the impact of that. day on our american democracy and this is what a new uc davis study has found. 50% of the people surveyed agree with the statement in the next several years. there will be civil war in the united states. joining us live now to talk about this alarming finding and others dr. garon wintermute from the uc davis violence prevention research program, dr. wintermute. thanks for joining us. thanks for having me. so that finding that half of us

think there will be civil war in the us in a few years political violence in a democracy the leading democracy in the world. are you shocked by this pessimism? not shocked we expected pretty grim findings. these met are worst expectations on the hopeful side the number of people who believe strongly that there's going to be civil. or is much smaller than the number who think it might happen. what was of equal concern actually maybe even greater was that 20% of adults agreed strongly or very strongly with the statement that a strong leader is more important for america than democracy right? and then there's also this one equally disturbing 20% think that political violence is at least sometimes justifiable in general talk about that, too.

yes, we asked people in general. do you think political violence is justified got that answer. we then proposed 15 specific sets of circumstances and said what about in this case and in this case and in this case and if you added those up 80% of people said in one or more of those cases violence might be justified and there's also this i saw in your study that a small percentage granted four percent said they would shoot someone with a gun if they felt like they had to use violence to achieve a particular aim. yes. and we didn't ask that question once we asked something very similar just to double down and we got a very similar answer when we asked people would you kill somebody about five percent of the respondents said they were willing to kill somebody to advance the political objective. i mean, we saw some of that

willingness to kill on that day on january 6th. i'm just going to back you up one step because i would like to know were the respondents you know was. diverse group and did you do this after january 6. what was the time frame? we did it between may and june of this year. okay, actually the buffalo mass shooting happened while the survey was in the field. there are 8,620 respondents to this survey. it's a nationally representative sample selected and then statistically weighted to provide answers that represent the entire country. okay. did you? ask any questions that revealed the mindset of the people who feel justified in resort. to political violence we did we've only had the data for a few weeks and we haven't analyzed those data yet. so is there anything that could shed some light on? what are some of the things they worry about in terms of the direction of this country or what may make them feel like it

might be reasonable to take up arms against someone. from this survey. we haven't analyzed the data but experts in the field have been saying and writing for years that people resort to violence when they don't think they have a nonviolent option when they're not treated fairly when they feel disenfranchised when they don't feel that government has their backs and implicit in that are recommendations create a government a society. that is fair doesn't exclude people allows people to believe that others can protect them. they don't have to buy guns and take protection into their own hands. but what about when a process that is inclusive is making some people from you know actually making them feel like they're being left out or cheated. so i would argue that there's an oxymoron there that if it's really inclusive it's not leaving people out. we may need to rethink what

inclusive means. like so it's very clear that there are people who feel that they're being left behind as our society changes frankly at both ends of the political spectrum. we need to do a better job of having a government having social institutions that allows those people to feel that they have a stake in the game. i'll give one specific example. we need to have open and fair elections in which everyone is able to vote in which every vote counts equally. right, i think how to achieve that is what a lot of people are battling over right now. was there anything worrisome in this study in terms of how people view the main pillars and institutions of democracy? i think the most worrisome single finding was that the one that i mentioned that 20% of the

population if given a choice in as they were in this statement chose a strong leader over democracy. we think of ourselves as a society that is a democracy period without question. we need we need to not take our democracy for granted. and by strong leader, did you define that further to kind of explore what people thought of as a strong leader? we did not we allowed people to make their own choice. so i i can't if that means an authoritarian leader or not, but the statement explicitly asked people to choose between such a leader and democracy. i see look has there been a shift in attitudes. recently and that is had there been studies done by you or someone else exploring these similar attitudes that over time showed a slow evolution or was this kind of a sudden change?

so we've only done this once other studies have shown surveys and also just monitoring of events have shown an increase in instances of political violence have shown a surprisingly high prevalence of belief in delusions about how the country is put together and run the qanon delusion complex. those questions about is the government and is society run by satanic pedophiles etc have been asked at least five times over the last year and a half and and the results have been stable, but they've been much higher than people think 20% of adults at least to some extent endorse those beliefs about american society. alright, dr. winter mood. thank you very much for sharing the results of your study, but also embedded in the disturbing. endings is some solution. so hopefully we'll continue to talk. thank you so much for your time today. thanks for having me. and the house select committee

investigating the january 6 attack on the capitol will be holding its eighth hearing tonight in prime time. it's scheduled to start at 5:00. you can watch it live here on abc 7 and wherever you stream coming up next we'll dig into san francisco's parking enforcement or just driving enforcement problem our media partners at the san francisco standard will jo three two one'e

ever driven in san francisco whether you live here or not, you probably noticed that bad drivers are growing problem and it seems like very little is being done about it. but is that perception or reality our media partners at the san francisco standard have published and article finding traffic enforcement in the city virtually fell off a cliff during the pandemic joining us now to talk about the story is annie gauss editor. for the standard. hi andy good to see you. good to see you, too. so how do the traffic enforcement numbers look these days? well, your viewers can go read our story because in that we embed a chart that shows just

how dramatic the drop-off has been. so, you know, it's really been a slow decline for the past several years, but it really dropped off a clip particularly in in the pandemic. you know, i think i checked the last month where there was data available and there were fewer than 300. i'm recorded traffic violations and that compares to typically thousands per month if you look back eight years ago, so that gives you a sense of just how much it has fallen. so i know you've talked a lot of people. what is their feeling with regard to? okay, very little enforcement. what's the consequence? what's the result? yeah, well, you know, i think that the general sense that many residents have in the cities that there is a lot of as you mentioned just crazy driving out there. there's a lot of risky driving. i mean i myself observe people, you know, pulling all kinds of crazy maneuvers. i live near venice avenue and i see stuff almost every day and so in response people are kind of taking matters into their own hands a little bit, you know, we talked to a lot of people for this story who said they'd

started installing dash cams. our vehicles or their bikes just to you know capture an accident if one does occur or you know, make sure that they can keep track of things like that and and involve their insurance that they need to if an accident does happen, you know, we even spoke with people who sort of investigated their own hit and run accidents using camera footage, you know when police, you know, we're weren't being that helpful. so it does seem that people are sort of taking it upon themselves to to find ways to protect themselves because traffic enforcement just really isn't there right or put it on next. are hoping that somebody saw something and i see what you're saying by the way, just to add to the mountain of evidence. this is anecdotal. but yesterday i actually encountered a situation on the embarcadero yesterday. lots of drivers were entering the intersection and getting stuck there. they were turning right and they knew they couldn't make it because the traffic wasn't moving on the street. they were trying to turn on to but look what happens notice the green light. yeah, so it turns green, but could i move could the car in front of cross cross the inters?

no. soul because there were tons of cars just sitting there when they shouldn't have entered and this is what you go where are the police where are the police to issue these folks the citations so they do this again, right mm-hmm. alright, so i assume that that's that you're talking about. so okay taking things into their own hand. what about the police or you know the sf mta or the people who are supposed to enforce parking and traffic in san francisco. i assume you talk to them about this. what do they say? yeah, well sfmda has has a little bit of an automated system, but it's very limited. they do have red light cameras at a few select major intersections in the city, but those really just issue tickets after the fact, you know, they can't really stop accidents from happening, you know, the police have said well police chief bill scott brought this up at a police commission hearing a few months ago and he basically blamed it on a lack of staff and he said that the pandemic was a factor, you know for a time a lot fewer people. driving on the streets and that

you know naturally led to a decrease in violations, but he's kind of blaming it on a lack of staff. it just seems that you know, the department has long maintained that they're that they're understaffed and i think last i you know heard they say they're 500 officers down. so that's seems to be what they say is the main factor. well, that doesn't seem good enough for a group of protesters. i understand called safe street rebel tell us what they're doing about the situation. yeah, well, you know they they are what other main focus focuses is to just kind of call attention to what they consider traffic violence. i mean we have we have had enough a number of sad incidents, you know in the past few months. for example, there was a very dangerous crash on fillmore. i'm sure you've heard about it or reported on it. you know that injured a number of people there have been some very sad fatal accidents in the city. so part of their mission is to is to shine a light on that and make sure people are aware that it's happening and really call on the city to do more, you know, not necessarily with

police increased police enforcement but things like, you know infrastructure upgrades and other and other improvements bike lights, you know infrastructure improvements that they think can help deter kind of the crazy driving and also sort of create a more pleasant. driving or walking experience for everybody. all right any gauss editor with the standard? thank you so much for sharing your report and you can check out more of the san francisco standards other original reporting. a website sfstandard.com abc7 will continue to bring you more segments featuring the standard city focused journalism. look for that twice a weekeek rt here on getting answers at 3 o'clock. and of course you can get our live newscast news weather and more on our abc 7 weather and more on our abc 7 bay area str i was injured in a car crash. weather and more on our abc 7 bay area str i had no idea how much my case was worth. i called the barnes firm.

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