yes, on 27. announcer: building a better bay area. moving forward, finding solutions. this is abc7 news. kristen: hi there. i am kristen sze. you are watching "getting answers," live on abc 7, hulu . today there is no followed surrounding the fbi raid at mar-a-lago. the justice department said it has uncovered efforts to obstruct its investigation into classified documents found at former president trump's florida estate. we will talk with abc news political director rick klein. also, the san francisco sheriffs department has signed a pledge to bring more women into law enforcement. sheriff mia model will be joining us to talk about that effort. but first, the bay area is bracing for a heatwave, several

days of triple digit temperatures ahead, and it is expected to put a strain on the power grid. a short time ago, governor newsom signed an executive order meant to wrap up the state two -- -- meant to ramp up the state's energy supply. clearly the governor taking it seriously. how hot is it going to get? they should take it seriously. this is the longest heatwave for the bay area and the central valley this year. fresno could be near 110 degrees for several days, and that is definitely where you need to find some cooling centers. already a flex alert issued today from 4:00 to 9:00. and temperatures are nowhere close to being as hot as they will be saturday, sunday, monday and tuesday. it is also oregon and washington. if we try to get electricity from other states, it may not be possible because they will try

to keep all their electricity for their needs. almost the entire state is under some type of excessive heat watch or warning as we head through the holiday weekend. 103-110 in sacramento. 108-112 in fresno. even l.a., part of it will be greater than 100 degrees. low to mid 90's. back here at home, we have some changes, an excessive heat warning in the pink. the coast, san francisco, and bay shoreline, temperatures will be in the 1980's and 19 -- will be in the 80's and 90's. with overnight lows in the 60's and 70's, it it will make the house is even harder during the day. here is a look at the holiday weekend forecast. i know it is the unofficial end to summer in parts of the country. but what goes with holiday weekend gatherings, grilling or

cooking out? we need to be vigilant about that because it will be so hot and so dry, it will be easy to set a fire. not only do we have heat concerns, we have fire concerns and now not concerns. know the signs of heat illness. you just need to find some ac and bring cold -- drink cold water. heatstroke is where you stop sweating and your body temperature soars and that is what can kill you ultimately, so call 9-1-1 or find a hospital quickly. this will be a very long event, some places inland, seven days of 100 degree heat. kristen: that is so long and that is the worried, not just that it will get so hot, but that it lasts. we will continue to follow this and i know that you will keep us posted. by the way, folks you can keep track of the heatwave

from anywhere you live using the mobile app. we will shift gears and talk about the new filing by the justice department that is reviewing more information about the fbi raided mar-a-lago. it claims members of president trump's legal team likely moved and hid classified documents at his florida estate. officials say it was part of an effort to obstruct a federal investigation into whether trump improperly removed and mishandled documents after leaving office. reporter: in its strongest rebuke yet, the justice department alleges former president trump and his legal team likely obstructed to federal investigation. it comes in response to the trump team's motion for a special master to remove materials seized from trump's mar-a-lago estate. the 36 page filing provides new details into why the fbi took the unprecedented move to such a former president's home on

august 8, revealing inmate, a grand jury subpoena was issued for classified documents at trump's estate. officials say they developed evidence that government records were likely concealed and removed from a storage room in mar-a-lago, and efforts were taken to obstruct the government's investigation. >> none of this is good for donald trump. anything here simply increases the chance of a possible indictment. em: according to the filing, when federal agents came to the estate in june, one lawyer allowed agents to visit the storage room, but got them from looking through any of the boxes. that same day, two trump lawyers certified in a sworn sentiment that it was a diligent search and that all records from the white house had been turned over. but the doj question to that in one search, the fbi in a matter of hours recovered twice as many documents with classified markings.

the department also included a first look into the raid with this photo, showing several documents labeled "secret" and "top-secret" recovered from president trump desk and office, alleging that offensive conduct occurred at mar-a-lago. now, trump lawyers have until tonight to respond to the filing. today, trump once again claimed he had declassified the documents found in mar-a-lago, but has not provided evidence of that. a hearing is set for tomorrow for a judge to consider whether to grant trump em nguyen, request for a special master. em nguyen, abc news, washington.

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kristen: as we reported, as a result of last night bombshell filing by the department of justice, there is new information about the top-secret documents seized at the former home of former president trump, and the things he did to hide them. discuss these and other developments, we have abc political director rick klein. good to have you on the show. rick: thanks for having me. what were the most jaw-dropping things we kristen: have markings on them, we heard from national security experts who think they had never even seen some of these markets before, they were so classified. it doesn't appear to be how the documents were stored, but it is a stunning assortment of classified documents. the two things that stood out to me, what -- one is the

extent to which that negotiations occurred over many months and every time they were delayed, they were blocked at times. that leads to the second take away that there is reason to believe according to the department of justice, therer my have been obstruction to prevent them from getting documents back. that may hold more legal jeopardy for the former president than the taking of the documents themselves. sometimes the. cover-up is worse than the crime. kristen: going back to that picture, where those files taken from mar-a-lago or from his office? rick: his office at mar-a-lago, is my understanding. his private office at his residence in mar-a-lago. kristen: so they are staged in no way where it is put there for an evidence photo and that is what we all saw. do they serve as a smoking gun when it comes to either the obstruction element you talked

about, or the improper taking of national secrets? rick: well, clearly, the documents were there. whether they were improperly taken or whether there was an effort to obstruct their return, gets to the key question that the former president has claimed, as we just heard in the report a few moments ago, the former president is saying he declassified the documents. he has provided no evidence of that. is lawyers haven't yet claimed that in any formal filing. these are just things he has been staying publicly. many of the statements he has made about the documents have proven to be false. many were taken on directly by the department of justice. in fact with kmart yesterday was a direct result of his efforts to get a special master to reveal the documents -- to review the documents, and as a result, more incriminating information has come up. we know what the markings mean. the question about whether their

removal was improper or whether the efforts to get them back where obstructed or impeded in some way, will be what the doj has to figure out in deciding with her to pursue a criminal case. kristen: when will the decision be made on whether a special master will be appointed? rick: the judge in the case already said she is inclined to grant the motion for a special master, it -- this is an attempt by the department of justice to say, we don't need it, that some of these documents appeared to be intermixed with things like trump's passport, one of which was retired. they are saying, we donate a special master, it would impede the pace of the investigation. everything would need to be put on pause. that before the justice department can decide whether to use a document from persecution, it would have to be deemed

appropriate for them to use because there is no executive privilege or attorney-client privileged to be covered by that. so the question is whether the judge changes her mind. she could grant it on the spot. is no timeline on whether she could grant it. kristen: what is the impact on trump and his hopes to be, one, not indicted, and two, to regain the white house in 2024? kristen: he has the obvious legal peril here. whether he himself gets indicted is a question the doj has to pursue through a grand jury. there is a process, and i don't think we are. this could happen before the midterm elections. it could impact his decision on whether to run or not. but the impact, to my mind has been the silence of republicans.

the initial angry reaction from republicans to the initial execution of the search warrant has faded away as more details have come out, they are harder to explore. i think it plays into the argument that we will hear tomorrow in the primetime address from president biden. he has talked about the so-called soul of the nation. he will be in philadelphia, symbolic important to the constitution there. whether or not he will address mar-a-lago, i don't know, that this is a tenuous time for democracy. january 6, the way that the constitutional norms were abused, in his view, by the former president, all three into these issues. the last couple of weeks have produced headlines that will play into the themes that he wants to talk about tomorrow. kristen: i mean, with that big speech tomorrow and primetime,

president biden sharply turning on the rhetoric on both trump and the republicans will follow him, what is behind it for him to do all of that right now? because it is that characteristic of him. rick: the big thing for democrats is to make the selection into a choice as much as possible. democrats say look, we have run national campaigns against donald trump before. we lost interest in, but we won in 2018 and 2020. their view is, if we can make this election about donald trump, more than a referendum on leadership of joe biden, the choice between trumpism and the democrats, that, to them, is a winning strategy. the historic norm of losing badly in the midterm election could get back potentially in a scenario like that. still a lot of reasons that it will be a rough november for democrats, but they are starting to see hope in the air races. if we make this about trump, then they have a fighting

chance. kristen: but judging biden for biden -- are those numbers improving? rick: yes, they are. the quinnipiac university poll has the president's approval back in the 40's, a number he has not seen for the last 11 months, basically since last fall. his approval numbers were steady in the negative direction in the last year. delivering on some promises, getting some legislative accomplishments done, the student loan piece of it, the inflation reduction act, the vision of democratic dysfunction has been replaced with an image of them getting things done. the abortion-rights rulings, the decision from the supreme court to throw out roe v. wade, that has lit a fire under democrats. it has been a bit of a winning streak for joe biden as he goes to the speech tomorrow.

kristen: you mentioned the inflation reduction act. tomorrow vice-president kamala harris is going on tour to promote it. she will be in north carolina. but at least one senate candidate does not want to appear with her, it democratic senate candidate. isn't that unusual? rick: it is surprising. sherry beasley is a democratic candidate for senate in south carolina. right now there are no black female senators in the u.s. senate, kamala harris was the last one. she talks a lot about not being the last person to be in that particular job. i think the beasley campaign is saying that this is an official event and shall be elsewhere, but this has campaign overtones. it would be easier enough for her to fix her scheduled to be there. but we have heard from a lot of democrats nationwide when pressed on these issues, they have mixed feelings about both biden and harris. they are keen on running their own races. it will be interesting, we are to see a lot of midterm-related

travel. harris making the trip to north carolina. president biden in pennsylvania, ohio on monday, the record of whether democrats want to be seen with them is different in different places. but this did surprise me a bit because i did think it would be eased enough for sherry beasley to be there. kristen: it is interesting is everything we have talked about. rick klein, thank you so much, we appreciate it. rick: thanks for having me. i'm jonathan lawson here to tell you about life insurance through the colonial penn program. if you're age 50 to 85, and looking to buy life insurance on a fixed budget, remember the three ps. the three what? the three ps? what are the three ps? the three ps of life insurance on a fixed budget are price, price, and price.

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especially involving people of color, is to have more women in policing. women are greatly underrepresented in the field, making up only five only 5% of police officers in the u.s.. we are joined by sheriff. what percentage of your officers are women right now? sheriff miyamoto: 12.8% of the total amount of women. the great thing about our office is we actually have women in leadership positions. we reflect a higher percentage of women in our command staff, 42% with our cheeks, our undersheriff and assistant sheriff representation, but we can always do better. kristen: so what are you pledging to do right now? sheriff miyamoto: sheriff miyamoto: the 3030 pledge is our office to boost the number of women up to 30% by your 2030, and to make sure the law

enforcement policy and culture supports women police detectives and officers. kristen: to talk about their equipment, i want to ask you, what are the consequences, as you see them, of this underrepresentation of women in policing to the community, and to the force? sheriff miyamoto: i can speak to my personal experience first, i have been in the department 27 years now. a lot of my mentors and the people i look up to and helped my career move forward were women. we have a gap right now in regards to the total number of women in our department to bring up through the ranks, to take place in leadership positions, and our goal is to move the number forward. that matches up perfectly with the 30-30 pledge. with regards to policing and providing public safety and law enforcement services to everyone, it is very important to have different perspectives

and our jobbik. the different perspectives in law enforcement leads to better outcomes. having different perspectives in terms of women's perspectives and men's perspectives is one thing that can lead to better outcomes. there are positives in regards to communicating, especially with women. when women see other women communicating with them either as witnesses, employees, apt to and including subjects or arrestees, there is a better understanding and connection with women in law enforcement uniform. kristen: something ac can do 30-30 materials, women officers tending to use less force and less excessive force, and the fact that they are named in fewer complaints and lawsuits, is that real? if that is real, are there things you can do in training to make sure that also doesn't happen with men, where they don't use excessive force?

sheriff miyamoto: in our profession, all the training remains the same, regardless of gender. our office and members of the department reflect the community. some of the biases that sometimes happen when doing a job between male and female roles sometimes manifest in the job itself. sometimes males jump forward and take over, physically use of force and control situations. that is something we can work on in terms of working together to reduce that number or that kind of disparity in the numbers. one thing i do know here in the sheriffs office and in my experiences, nobody considers whether it is a man or woman jumping into a situation to take control, everyone jumps in collectively. i have confidence that the men and women of the sheriff's office definitely work together to make sure everyone is safe.

kristen: let's talk now about how you achieve your goal of getting 30% more women in your recruiting classes. are you going to do a special outreach? what is the plan? sheriff miyamoto: we are absolutely putting out the word, and this is helpful in this moment. making sure people understand we are looking to fill our ranks with qualified people interested in helping others. one of our slogans is "the future starts here." we want to make sure everyone understands that as part of the criminal justice process, we always look to help people get second chances, get fresh charts , rehabilitate and grow out of the challenges that they faced in the justice system. the same thing is reflective of the opportunities to become a deputy and peace officer here in the sheriff's office. we want to make sure people understand there is a future in helping others. we have very positive, very

active and aggressive hiring campaign right now, monthly testing, we're advertising everywhere we can in order to get people interested in joining our ranks. we are very understaffed right now which is also reflective of law enforcement in general. we have a lot of competition, but the package and opportunities we offer are unique to san francisco and san francisco values, is something i believe is a strong selling point to getting people to join the sheriff's office here. kristen: well, you definitely need to create an environment that feels welcoming. is that on the table as well? sheriff miyamoto: absolutely. one thing in terms of who we are as an office, we are a family. in the sheriffs office, not just ourselves, but also professional law enforcement. we always push for family values and focus on helping each other and helping others.

that nurturing sense of our community here at the sheriffs office is something that would appeal especially to -- especially to women. we are shortstaffed, but even being shortstaffed, we all work together. one of the positive things about being here is that we are all family. kristen:

kristen: thanks for joining us for "getting answers." abc7 news will continue to cover the weeklong heatwave. again, governor newsom just signed an executive order to help boost the power supply, so plans will be able to generate more electricity, especially during peak hours.

and a reminder, a flex alert takes effect at 4:00. much more on this heatwave on tonight, breaking news involving former president trump. what the department of justice has revealed, and at this hour, awaiting a response from trump's legal team. the department of justice revealing far more about its investigation. the doj now saying it developed evidence that the government records were like you will concealed and removed from that storage room at mar-a-lago. and that efforts were likely taken to obstruct the government's investigation. federal authorities releasing an fbi photo, saying it shows just some of the classified documents that were recovered from desks in donald trump's personal office. and some of those documents classified at the highest level. the justice department urging a judge to reject trump's request to appoint a special master to review what was seized. arguing in essence, the doj has