kristen: you are watching getting answers, live on abc seven. everyday we talk with experts on issues important to the bay area and get answers in real-time. today, the world set a final farewell to queen elizabeth. united kingdom held a funeral for the late monarch and she was laid to rest at windsor castle. we talked with a british history expert about what comes next for the royal family. also, could -- be a distant memory? climate change experts sounding the alarm, saying it is fading fast. a uc berkeley professor bill join us to explain why.

september is national suicide prevention month. we will share the story of some bay area teens making strides in mental health awareness. but first, storm watch. our weather team is tracking some isolated showers and the chance for thunderstorms. let's get to sandia. sandhya: it has been active in the last 24 to 36 hours. i want to show you live doppler because we have some showers moving through right now. we are getting moderate rain around the altamont pass. you will notice heavier showers moving through this region. rainfall rates just over an inch an hour. later showers moving through bay pointe, wesley lynn road. i want to show you what is going on here that low-pressure still spinning off the coast line. as long as this load is spinning right here, you are going to continue to see waves of showers moving in.

there is potential for thunderstorms. this is from the severe predictions center for the u.s. predicting the best possibility for thunderstorms in the northern and eastern part of the area. it is a level 1 storm today and tomorrow. waves of showers, a chance for thunderstorms. you are probably looking outside and going, what terrain? our by our, showers are popping up around 5:00 tonight. as we continue into 7:00, still some showers in the northern and eastern parts of the area tomorrow, hit-or-miss throughout the day. these showers will continue. right now it looks like the possibility lingering into the early part of wednesday before this load tracks out. in terms of additional rainfall totals committees will vary from nothing to about one of one inch. if you get caught, you may see more rain. so far kim ng here are the --

you will notice the highest rainfall totals were up in the northern part of our viewing area and the santa cruz mountains. infant auto, 9300 santa rosa. half an inch in san jose. seeing the vertical development of the clouds from our south beach camera, which does mean the possibility of a thunderstorm and instability. temperatures in the 60's and the 70's. we are not done yet. kristen: we will hang in there. our weather team will be tracking the storm all afternoon. you can get a lead -- live update every hour on our streaming app. it is free and easy to download on your apple tv, fire tv and google tv devices. the u.k. and the world set a final farewell to queen elizabeth ii with a funeral that

drew presidents, kings and prime minister ministers and was watched by people around the world. now that the second elizabethan era has ended, what will defined the era of king charles? joining us leave is steve pincus the university of chicago. >> it is a pleasure. kristen: as we show some highlights today, what are some thoughts that struck you as you watched the funeral along with everybody else? >> the funeral tried to marry tradition with some indications of change for the monarchy and the u.k. as is tradition, the funeral was very closely modeled on the funeral of queen victoria in the early 20th century. both the procession route committee and the date -- invitations to royalty and foreign leaders, but there were indications also of a change --

a changing britain. there was a short speech by the secretary-general of the commonwealth, the first black secretary-general of the commonwealth, indicating a move towards a more diverse britain. the archbishop of canterbury is himself the grandson of a jew, which would have been unheard of in the early 20th century. in, there was an indication of change. of course, -- body was carried to windsor in a modified hearse, which had not been the way funerals had taken place in the earliest -- early 20th century. an emphasis on tradition, but also indications of change. kristen: i want to dive into the change. her final resting place is st. george's chapel at windsor castle. tell us about the significance of windsor.

it is the name of the town and the royal family and that is not coincidence. >> the family changed its name in the early 20th century from -- to windsor, in the face of deep anti-german sentiment. the family has deep german ties. the significance of st. george's chapel is obviously the place where british royalty has been buried since the wars of the roses in the 15th century. it is also significant not only will her final resting place be -- [no audio] kristen: a lot has been said about what her legacy will be.

we could do a whole hour on that. i want to talk about the changes, the part you talked about in terms of embracing diversity. some of that is due to attitudes changing, but also issues facing the current monarch, king charles. >> this is an incredibly volatile and unstable position, moment in british history. unstable in british history for some of the reasons with high inflation. also, unfamiliar things. scotland is likely to have a referendum to become independent. there are real tensions once again on the border with northern ireland and the republic. generated by the decision to leave the european union. those are two issues in britain, but we are also aware that many states in the commonwealth which were already independent are

thinking about getting rid of the monarchy. antigua has said it will get rid of the monarchy. jamaica, which still recognizes -- well, had recognized elizabeth ii as head of state, is now going to have a serious discussion about whether charles will continue to be head of state. australia had a referendum which just barely failed not long ago. kristen: a lot of it was due to queen elizabeth's popularity that she was able to keep that nexus together. it remains to be seen whether charles can do that. >> that's right. 25 years ago, almost exactly, when diana died, the monarchy's popularity was at its lowest. there had been a bunch of scandals. elizabeth had been slow to indicate any public condolences for diana's death.

it was also a moment when scotland was beginning to move towards devolution, creating its own parliament. at that moment, right when the popularity of the monarchy was at its lowest, the labour prime minister tony blair said, we can't allow scotland to devolve because there will always be a monarchy. elizabeth rose to the occasion and gave a wonderful speech, a highly regarded speech in which she indicated deep sympathy for diana and her grandchildren, but also indicating that she would be happy to remain as monarch over evolved scotland. at that moment, the popularity of the monarchy began to rise again. it was a key moment in which elizabeth rose to the occasion and her own charisma became a symbol of unity for the british people. whether charles can rise to the same level of popularity or

charisma to be a symbol of unity remains to be seen. kristen: i'm sorry, we are almost out of time. since you bring up charles, managing his family relationships with prince harry has got to be a piece of that. i was wondering, do you see any sort of change in the public views of harry and meghan or how the royal family relationship is. >> it is difficult to know the depth but there has been an upsurge in popularity for the royal family and for the monarchy. since elizabeth's death -- of the key thing i think is going to be less the relationship between king charles and harry and meghan and more about whether he can stay above the political fray. it's it -- elizabeth's uncle was forced to abdicate when he indicated public sympathy for

the nazis and fascism. it is absolutely essential that charles appear to be a unifier, not somebody taking sides in various political controversies. kristen: professor of british history at university of chicago, thank you for joining us. >> it has been a pleasure. kristen: could san francisco's famous fog be gone for good one day? experts say yes. how much longer can we welcome fog and what happens when it is no more? kevin: i've fought wildfires for twenty years. here's the reality we face every day. this is a crisis. we need more firefighters, more equipment,

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inspired a twitter account. carl the fog became so popular it inspired a jeopardy question. what if the fog could one day be a thing of the past? scientists say that is a possibility. joining us to explain is uc berkeley professor todd dawson. >> nice to be here. kristen: let me ask, are we seeing our famous fog less and less? it certainly feels like it did >> the records show very clearly that the fog has been on the decline since the 1950's, that's when our records go back to. temperature records go back even farther. it has been on the decline for the past 70 years. kristen: does that mean we are seeing it on fewer days? does that mean it is retreating faster? is the season shorter? >> all of those things.

we are seeing a shorter daily fog time and also a shorter fog season. as you know, san francisco fog usually rolls in sometime in may and goes well into october. that season is getting truncated both in the spring and the fall. kristen: how many days of the year can we expect to see fog now? >> usually it starts around late may and goes into october. we have lost maybe 12 or 15 of those days and we have also lost about three hours a day during the fog season. kristen: and now we get to the why. why? >> it is associated with climate change taking place both across the globe, but especially here in coastal california where we are getting warming land surfaces and warming sea temperatures. those two things together actually lead to conditions that

are not very good for fog formation. kristen: i think we could do 10 more minutes if we talk about how the fog is formed, so i will leave that alone and focus on the impact. why is the fog beneficial? why do we want it, other than the fact that it is mysterious and romantic and help sell t-shirts? >> as an additional water source. it is important for the coastal ecosystems. especially coastal grasslands and our famous redwood forests which are distributed all along the fog belt from northern california all the way down to big sur. if we lose the fog, we lose summertime water input when we normally don't have rainfall as you can tell. -- as you can tell, less fog, less water for all of the organisms kristen: does that mean our hills may turn brown sooner? does that mean we need to water

our lawns more? >> it could be all of those things. water consumption could go up for lots of different reasons. temperatures will go up, and that will be may be more demand on electricity because people will want to turn on their a/c, like we did last week with those hot temperatures. all of those things could happen. both warmer temperatures and more water stress. kristen: with the drought becoming more common, that is a bad situation. my question is, what can we do? surely there is something we can do to prevent the disappearance of our fog. >> it comes down to what we can do to basically combat overall global climatic changes. warming temperatures around the earth are going up because we are trapping more greenhouse gases in our atmosphere. we need to figure out how to stop producing greenhouse gas,

which means temperatures will cool and hopefully we get back the conditions that favor the fog, if we do that kind of thing. kristen: it is important to mention that a lot of our uniqueness of our region is due to fog things like microclimates. you can be super inland, but just stay in parts of san francisco and you can be cool. >> exactly right. that is the wonderful thing about fog. there's so much variation in the way fog loses -- oozes around the bay area. we experience it as we walk around, but also plants and animals appreciate the fog. they choose to live in particular types of microclimates. kristen: for those who do modeling, if we remain on our current track of how long do we

have before the fog is gone for good? i don't even want to think about it but i am sure those forecasts are being done. >> some of them are being done i do not think any of those forecasts currently say they we are going to lose the fog altogether. what we are going to get is shorter fog seasons, less water input, warmer summertime temperatures and particularly may be around the bay area or south of the bay area, we may end up having fewer foggy days. northern california forecasts are pretty much for the climate to be fairly stable. but the bay area and south will be much less stable when it comes to fog and temperature. kristen: i find the fog refreshing. you mentioned all the other benefits it has, so we will hopefully do what we can. uc berkeley's todd dawson,

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kristen: september is national suicide prevention month. all month, abc7news has highlighted resources for those struggling. today, we have the story of bay area teens using their love for filmmaking to advocate for conversations and education. >> social media can create a damaging environment where kids of a young age are comparing and looking at all of -- life should be and ultimately that is not how it is. kristen: that is a clip from a new documentary called "it's time we talk about it." jernigan's today is charlotte and andrea, whom you saw in the film clip.

thank you for joining us. >> thank you. kristen: you and your friends made this documentary to spur conversation around youth mental health. why is this so important and urgently needed? >> great question. coming out of the pandemic, we have seen record high rates of suicide and self-harm in youth. two years later after the start of the pandemic, we are seeing a spike in research studies. it has become a huge issue in our younger generation to bring awareness to mental health and ensure that when we go to school and when we are at home that we have the care and resources to speak up about it. kristen: if it's not too personal, do you struggle with mental health sometimes? >> definitely. as a student athlete, a lot of

us struggle. the recent death of my teammate, it has become such an issue within my team into the sport. we have talked a lot about it with the team and i found out about katie while i was at world cup qualifiers with the u.s. national team. it was devastating. i ended up competing in the world cup with the team. i struggled with my mental health during this time and they continue to rehab me. my trainer told me we are treating this like it is a physical injury and i think that is the most important part of mental health. that it is not treated like a physical issue and they helped me throughout the process to get me back on the field and train for the rest of the year and i ended up being able to play in the world cup in august despite struggling with the trauma of the death of my teammate. i definitely struggle and i know a lot of athletes do as well.

kristen: my deepest sympathies to you. i know this is difficult to talk about but i know you want to do it to help someone else to that journey. i wonder if there are any takeaways. do people see signs that she was struggling? if you didn't, maybe that is a take away for people to know that sometimes it is just not that obvious. >> i think it definitely brought the issue to the forefront of student-athletes and their sports. for me personally, i think it is a matter of when students at -- student-athletes struggle, not friend. with katie's situation and mine, i think there needs to be more mental health support for these athletes and making sure we are treating the mental side of the game just as seriously as the physical. when you are playing at such an elite level, the difference between the top players is

minute. what it comes down to his mental health. if you are not treating your mental game just as seriously as the physical, you are not going to be able to perform at that level. i learned that playing on the biggest stage in the world. dealing with my mental health issues at that time has taught me that i need to take care of my mental health just as much as my physical health. otherwise, it's impossible to perform. kristen: i know you made the film to erase the stigma and get kids to start talking, but i should mention this documentary is just one project you are doing. you are all photography enthusiasts. you have a community photo booth. tell us how you are using photography to support this and other causes. >> thank you. the community photo booth is all about engaging high school photographers and local

communities. we like to call it combining photography with philanthropy. every one or two months we highlight a new relevant need in the community and hold photo shoots, whether that is family photo shoots or event photography, to raise funds. in addition to raising funds, we also aspire to use photography and videography as a way to raise awareness as well. kristen: congratulations. i just want to put the website out there because we have to get off the air. communityphoto booth.com.

kristen: thanks for joining us

on getting answers. we will be here every weekday at three talk on aaron donald live stream answering your restaurants. tonight, from london, the final journey for queen elizabeth. 2,000 mourners filling westminster abbey for the queen's funeral. the end of an historic ehe. the uk's first state funeral since sir winston churchill. the queen's 70-year reign, the longest in prince william and princess katherine bringing two of their children. the procession from westminster abey through the streets of