kristen: hi there. you're watching getting answers live on abc seven. every we talk with experts about issues important to the bay area and get answers for you in real time. a russian court denied brittney griner's appeal to reduce her prison sentence. what comes next? a foreign policy will join us to explain how the u.s. can bring her home. career coaching for young adults. whether a college student, recent rad or looking to change careers, former cnn correspondent andrea koppel is here to help. but first, yesterday's earthquake southeast of san jose

is a reminder of the risk we all face living in earthquake country. we want to tell you about some help that has become available to prepare your home for the big one. joining us live is jamil mcphail from the california earthquake authority. thank you for joining us. you have just announced a major expansion of a grant program that helps homeowners retrofit their homes. >> that's right. it's called earthquake brace and bold. we opened registration last week and will be open through november 29. this is a grant for up to $3000 turban of eight the crawlspace of your house. this is appropriate for a pre-1980 house, three to five steps up to the first floor with access panels to the crawlspace. these are houses constructed before we had seismic elting codes available for single-family dwellings.

they can topple off their foundation. the great news is the retrofit takes about two to three days and it is all done under the house and we have a grant to help. kristen: tell us how much the cost is estimated to be. >> the estimate is about $5,200. no surprise to those of us living in the bay area, it is more expensive. it is more in the $6,000 to $8,000. but it is very important and we have additional help for households that qualify that have incomes of $72,000 or less. they can get another grant on top of the 3000 to get close to the complete cost of the retrofit. kristen: i want to bring map we brought up for our viewers. last year, homeowners and 400 california counties were eligible for grant money. those are the grantees -- those are the counties in dark blue.

you have added another 126 zip codes. in total, 521 counties are available. tell us how many homes that represents and how you decided these areas to add? are they higher risk? >> absolutely. 520 one zip codes total throughout california. we started with due -- two in los angeles in 2014. we select bit -- we select zip codes based on risk, hazard and vulnerability. hazard committed adjacency to a major fault. vulnerability, the number of pre-1940 houses. we have been growing. we now have really good coverage in the bay area and other areas of high hazard throughout the state kristen: did you say growing like an amoeba? >> i did. [laughter]

kristen: that is the first time i have heard that, i did get. we could see a 6.0 like the napa quake, or the 6'9". experts think we could get a 7.5 here. if we get something of that magnitude, what kind of damage might we see in homes that are not retrofitted? >> the richter scale makes it very difficult. a magnitude five is not 5/7 of a magnitude seven. it is just exponentially greater. so we would not expect damage in a five. it is a heck of a jolt if you are right on it. if we have the high sixes and sevens in the bay area and it is in your backyard, or you are on very soft soil where have a vulnerable structure, you could see tremendous damage. the retrofit we are doing is

aimed at preventing siding off the foundation. houses in napa that had this kind of damage about two years before the event. hundreds of thousand dollars. all the while still paying for the mortgage why are -- while you are looking for funds to rehabilitate your house. kristen: is the grant only good for retrofitting homes with crawlspaces? what about the sob story buildings? >> the bad news is it is not part, but we are in fact going to be opening a pilot program for earthquake soft stories. think of that classic san francisco house. big garage door, lots of open space. that will be opening next year. once again i get to use my favorite word, we will be growing that program like an amoeba as well. the idea is to get -- amoeba.

we will be going to fema to look for additional funds to put them back into resiliency. kristen: i want to put the map back got -- map back up to see where people are eligible to apply for this grant. again, it is the blue areas. both light and dark. you talked about how you selected these areas for their risk in part of that is the faultlines but what about the type of soil? we have a lot of communities that are on phil as opposed to bedrock. does that make those homes more susceptible? >> if you put strong shaking in your backyard, the fault ruptures really close to you, it matters a little bit that you are on soft soil ended will ground motions but the reality is you are going to see tremendous brown shaking which will lead to damage. where the soft soil comes into play is where you have tall, flexible structures. or as we saw in loma, very poor

structures and in particular, poor structures on soft soil saw much more damage. there were areas of san francisco that didn't see the kind of damage we saw along the perimeter of the soft bay mud. you never want to say you will have no damage because you are on bedrock. if you put that earthquake close to you, you will see damage because there will be a tremendous amount of shaking. kristen: finally, how can people apply and get more information? is there a deadline? >> there is a deadline, but i do not want people to panic. you can go online and find if your zip code is in fact included. if not, put in your email and we will let you know when we grow. we are open through november 29. you've got some time to go online and look at the

animations and videos and drawings, read the text, figure out if this is right for you. and then register. no harm, no fee. we would like you to register and we've got great customer service. kristen: you can get some free money to renovate your home. thank you so much. >> i appreciate it. kristen: up next, brittney griner. now that a russian court has denied her appeal.

kristen: wnba star brittney griner is facing nine years in a russian prison after she lost

her appeal in court. she spoke behind bars about her regret over accidentally bringing one gram of hash oil into the country and the impact of her detention. >> i have been here almost eight months. people with more severe crimes have gotten less then what i was given. it has been a very stressful, traumatic to my mental psyche, being away from my family. kristen: joining us to discuss the effort to get her released and home, dr. daniel gilbert, a fellow in u.s. foreign policy and international security at dartmouth college. thank you for your time. >> thank you for having me. kristen: was the denial of her appeal a surprise? >> the denial of her appeal was not a surprise. that does not make it any less devastating. it is hard -- heartbreaking to

listen to britney talking and think about what she is going through. she is absolutely correct, people who have committed more serious crimes have gotten a lesser sentence. most people who have the kit -- who have committed to the crime she pled to have gotten lesser sentences. it is devastating, but not surprising. kristen: a lot of people are asking if she is actually a prisoner or a hostage? >> i am careful about using that terminology. i would say 100% brittney griner is a hostage of the putin regime right now. because of the exceptionally severe sentencing she has been given, the fact that the russian government is making demands for her release, those are characteristics of a hostage situation, not a legitimate criminal trial. kristen: let's talk about what the -- let's talk about those demands. what are they? >> one thing interesting about

when a foreign government uses foreigners as hostages is that they do not often come out and make explicit demands for the prisoner release. we know based on reporting in state owned media by reports of what the russians are asking for behind-the-scenes, that they want a prisoner swap. they have asked the for the release of a notorious arms dealer who is imprisoned in the united states who was tried and convicted of participating in arms trades that hurt victims all around the world. it seems the russians also want more. the biden administration has made clear that they made an offer to trade victor boot for brittney griner and another american named paul eiland and the putin regime has balked at that request. they probably want more from this deal, including other prisoners. kristen: does this also includes something in regards to the u.s.

support for ukraine in russia's flailing war? >> that's a great question. these cases always take place in the midst of extreme geopolitical tensions. these are our adversaries, our worst adversaries who use their criminal justice systems to take americans hostage. it is often in the context of a war or other tension that they use americans for leverage. the administration has been clear that they are committed to supporting ukraine and that is not something that is on the table. i think the russians are pretty clear they want to keep this in the realm of a prisoner swap, or other alternatives. i would not expect the administration to lighten up on its support of ukraine to bring an american home. kristen: president biden promised to keep fighting for her release, but celebrities are also talking. you probably saw the warrior's

home opener last week in which steph curry used her birthday to say, we have got to get her home. keeping it in the spotlight, i am wondering if that helps the negotiations or perhaps make negotiations more delicate behind-the-scenes and more dangerous. >> it is difficult to know. we can see reasoning's that keeping her case front and center might make things better and it might make things worse. on one hand it is clearly advertising to vladimir putin and our adversaries around the world the kind of value the american public into the biden administration puts on protecting our citizens abroad. they have made clear they are willing to make concessions to bring americans home. i think that kind of attention will raise the stakes. at the same time, putin is well aware of how valuable britt greiner is, or how any american is in the situation. it is hard to -- if media

attention has the potential to make that worse. kristen: has putin or another russian official commented on this? or go to my knowledge, i have not seen any statements that they have made since the appeal yesterday. in the past statements we have heard from the russian government, they have encouraged this to continue through back channels. they stress the american government should stay committed to negotiations behind-the-scenes. i think that they will be committed to coming to the table. it is an opportunity for vladimir putin and his regime to show that they value the international community, which is hard to believe in a time like this, and that they value the kind of sports participation and diplomacy that i know is so important to the russian people. this is a way to demonstrate

their protection of athletes abroad by letting her go. kristen: anyway to use the past to judge this current situation and make a guess as to how long this will take? >> the difficult thing about these cases is that they take months, if not years, to resolve. they are typically not something that is over in just a couple of weeks. unfortunately we have been in the long haul for britney. she has been there for over eight months. it's almost impossible to imagine being in that condition for even one day longer. i would hope to see this resolved as soon as possible but it is something that often takes months or years. kristen: dr. daniel gilbert, thank you for your insight. >> thank you for having me. >> up next, we shift years. are you feeling stuck in your career? or maybe you just got out of college and you're looking to land your first job? we've got tips and trick

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kristen: if you have lost your job recently, you may feel devastated and lost. someone who knows that pain well is andrea koppel, longtime cnn correspondent before being hired. and yes, she is the daughter of tv news legend ted koppel. andrea koppel has not only recovered from that low point, she has found a new career that has her helping young people with their careers. joining us and it is andrea koppel, founder of the college to career academy and host of the time for coffee podcast. welcome, andrea. >> thank you so much. it is great to be here. kristen: i was wondering if you could pot down the playback because i can hear me. that may be distracting. >> i'm going to plug in my

headphones. kristen: isn't that funny with tv people? this is our business. [laughter] >> i used to have to vamp all the time. i get it. kristen: perfect. i used to watch you on cnn. you are everywhere. colin powell's mission to afghanistan, you covered beijing , but 15 years ago you just disappeared and i did not know you have been fired at my goodness. [laughter] >> we work in a very subjective business. a subjective industry. it was 2007, i was 43, there was a new president of cnn and i was just not his cup of tea. the truth is he did me a huge favor when he fired me after being at cnn for 14 years. i had been unhappy there, but didn't have the courage to quit

because i didn't think there was anything else i could do. kristen: was that firing even greater because her father is icon ted koppel? >> i don't think so. they leaked it to the media. it stung, it was a gut punch. it was humiliating. i tried to make it seem like it was mutual, it really had nothing to do with my dad, the fact that it hurt that much. it certainly helped that i had a father who understood the business and was able to commiserate with me. kristen: that's good. you talk about that experience in your recent linkedin post, then realizing you had transferable skills. walk us through that. that is so important not just for college grads but did career professionals who need lose -- who may be losing their jobs. >> totally. i will speak to college students, but for those

midcareer people, this applies to you as well. when you are in school and in the working world, you are honing hard skills, technical skills, and soft skills, interpersonal skills. whether it is having been on a sports team, having been in a club, as a manager or communications officer, you have wonderful skills that are transferable to the college student far outside of your major, far outside what you have studied in the classroom, and into all different kinds of job functions. the same thing applies to soft skills, interpersonal skills. whether it is creative thinking, analytical skills, all of these skills -- and you and i,

communication skills. whether you have gotten up in front of a classroom or a boardroom deliver a presentation . all of those skills aligned with different job functions. what are job functions? they are categories of jobs. things like communications. the creative space. engineering job function. finance. human resources. information technology. marketing. project management. each one of those job functions, here's the big take away is crosscutting into just about in three single industry that exists. you are on the west coast, silicon valley, everyone thinks of big tech, but you don't have to be an engineer or coder to work in technology. there is a whole ecosystem around that industry that needs

communicators, finance people, project managers, marketing, research, sales, tech, i.t. so when you are a student or a midcareer, early career professional, just remember that avery job, whether you love it or hate it, is teaching you valuable skills that are going to help you bed that into your next job or next industry. kristen: i love that. i especially love knowing it is a freedom, empowering you to think whatever skills you have now, there is a function that calls for that in just about any sector. that's so many jobs that are available. it's not just tv news anchor. >> it was one of the most empowering things that i learned after i left journalism and met with people in real life, we did not have zoom in 2007.

i met up with people for coffee and breakfast and said, what can i do as a former journalist? little did i know that the -- a dozen years forward, i would be a code college students. kristen: look at you. i love this picture. >> i am loving it. it is all about empowering gen z to recognize that the first job after they graduate is not aware they are going to end up 10 or 20 years from now. it is a first step. they are going to have at least 17 jobs over the worse of their lives in watcher or five different dentistry spirit -- four or five different industries. i tell them that their major is not going to be a tiny house

they will be forced to live in, but is instead the foundation of a professional skyscraper. the same is true for you and i. kristen: i love that analogy. once a storyteller, always a storyteller. and year koppel, founder of college to career academy in one of the top job search experts on linkedin. thank you so much. >> my pleasure. kristen: you can get our live newscast, breaking news, weather and more with our streaming tv app. it is available on apple tv, google tv, fire and roku.

kris tonight, breaking news. the verdict in the case of the driver plowing his suv into a holiday parade. that terrifying attack in wisconsin, killing six people and injuring dozens more. the youngest victim just 8 years old. now the verdict, and what one family brought to the courtroom. pierre thomas standing by. tonight, the new allegation against senate candidate herschel walker. another woman coming forward, and what she now claims. walker responding tonight. and linsey davis is here. and the other key senate race making news tonight, the debate in pennsylvania. the democrat john fetterman recovering from a stroke, on that stage, what he said about the stroke at the beginning of the debate. and then, how he performed. what his campaign is now saying tonight. and what the voters are