>> building a better bay area, moving forward, finding solutions, this is abc 7 news. kristen: you are watching on abc seven. we talk about issues important to the bay area and get answers in real-time. many people are stressed about how to get along with relatives. sharing expert tips for making the most of familial interactions. the head of ftx group the child of law professors espousing ethics. our media partner goes into a deep dive of sam bankman-fried.

it was an all california showing in the sixth and final game in the jeopardy tournament of champions. it was a fan favorite who came out victorious. >> amy snyder, that is your third win. 4 welcome back oakland's very own tournament of champion amy snyder. are you relieved you can tell the world? >> i told more people than i should have but this time around they were very serious about not telling anybody so i had to really keep it right. pretty much my mom, my brother, and my wife were the only ones that knew. kristen: a lot of people

watching you, so anything you say. i know this is such a trite question. but how do you feel? >> i feel great. the better question is how i felt five or six weeks ago and it was amazing. it was something that i had been trying to tell myself it would be ok if i did not do well in the tournament but i wanted to prove that i really was that good and there was nothing hokey about my first one. it was very validating and this kind of imposter syndrome that was kind of a little bit in my mind and i'm actually headed to play jeopardy. kristen: not amy snyder with imposter syndrome going into this. you knew andrew before the 40

win streak? >> i was hoping it wouldn't happen. i felt we would meet again in this tournament of champions. i knew there were others that could beat me but he was the only one that i had that account -- that feeling of losing again. >> he is from pacific grove and we talk about the software developer from san francisco. you went and having won two games and then sam one. you entered a final jeopardy with a slight lead and here's what happened.

>> his response, what is our american cousin? that is the name of the play. 2801. he is now in the lead by $1401. it comes down to any snyder. did she know it was our american cousin? she did. on friday, you are correct but made a small wager. what was the wager today? $15,000? any snyder, that is her third win. >> what were you thinking? >> i knew when i made that bet, if i got that question right i would win and if i did not, andrew would win.

about and it was the play that lincoln was watching when he was assassinated. i knew as the clue came up that i one. it is a strange surreal feeling. kristen: the poker face you have developed is so good. >> the one that all three finalists were in, it was. you can't fight football. i get that. kristen: they can take down

football. was there something behind that was funny, surprising, or interesting? >> the main thing i would say is just how much fun we had and how much all of us liked being together. anyone in the tournament of champions is likely going to be a similar type of person. after the taping and i had one, i went down to where the contestants were hanging out and i walked in and they burst out in applause and i realized, that is a sign and so for the rest of the evening, anybody that walked by, we would burst into a big round of applause for them. kristen: it's the best kind of conspiracy. so much has happened since you

became one of the goats. you got married and we did this really sweet picture. she was right there after your win. that expression says it all. >> i'm so glad she was able to be there. the funny thing is, i knew that she's not really a big fan of jeopardy and i knew that she would be kind of annoyed that i made her sit through one more episode. but seeing her come up and seeing how happy she was for me, i could not be here without her. kristen: glad you did not make her sit through one more but you have certainly become one of the most physical -- visible advocates for transgender rights. you took time to travel to ohio

to testifying on a bill that bans transgender medical care for minors. what is your message on that? >> i understand that this is not something that people get immediately or that it's easy to understand from the outside but the gender affirming care saves lives. it is really lifesaving care. and i just wanted to try to explain from my perspective as a trans person why it is so important for kids and for everyone to have access to that care. because i know many of the people supporting bills like this truly think they are trying to protect children and keep children safe. and they are not. they are putting children in danger and i wanted to explain why that was the case. kristen: you are in a unique's issue and to reach a lot of people and people really listen to you. i know you will keep spreading your message and sharing your story and one way you are doing that has to do with the sticky

notes behind you, right? >> i am working on writing a book and turns out that is a very hard thing to do. it is something i'm really excited about and the message of the book is why it is so important to learn and be curious about the world and why it's important to being open to being wrong. i understand people who are transphobia or whatever you want to say because i used to feel the same way. i was raised with the same stereotypes they were and if you can't accept being wrong, you will never grow. that is the message i hope to get across. kristen: i will offer an answer and you tell me what the question would be. who is amy schneider? >> an oakland resident, a trans woman, and a jeopardy champion.

>> everybody's favorite jeopardy champion. no more imposter syndrome. we look forward to your book. i don't know how we will top that but when we come back we will offer up an author who has great advice about dealing with

kristen: the holidays can be stressful for a number of reasons including spending time with family. it's not always easy for some, but there are ways to reduce stress. joining us is the author of a little less of a hot mess, a guide on setting boundaries and getting along with family during

the holidays. it's that time of year, isn't it? >> i'm excited to be here to have this important conversation with you. kristen: it's a happy time but along with it comes some stress. it can be difficult with family and expectations. >> the holidays tend to come with the expectation for things to be joyful and fun and for all this connection to happen which is really great. but at the same time, with those implications comes a dynamic where there is a pressure cooker for all the stuff we already deal with, struggling to set boundaries with family, perfectionism, over committing. struggling to manage our finances. those things can already be hard

and then the holidays act as a pressure cooker for those things. it is fun and can be stressful. kristen: we can manage the fun and minimize the stress with four major tips. walk us through that. >> the first when i talk a lot about is this. picture your being the main character in your own holiday show. make sure that you're putting out front and center of the holiday season what it is you want. as women and moms, we tend to forget that we are grown adults and we do get to choose how we want the holidays to go. so this will look like having a conversation with yourself and maybe your significant other before the holiday begins and go how do we want this holiday to feel? and what do we need to do to make sure that it feels that way? what boundaries do we need to have in place?

and then we can make some decisions about how to set boundaries with family members, how to plan our day. we end up going with however things were done in the past and not being intentional about what we want for the holiday season, which is really our choice. >> the only person you are truly responsible for his yourself. >> that's a big one and when we come to family gatherings, but especially during the holidays, we tend to bring in a lot of different family dynamics. sometimes we will feel like we need to change the way a certain relative thinks about something or feels about something. and what i want us to remember and remember for myself is we are responsible -- we are not responsible for the way anybody else behaves. just focus on you and how you want to feel.

at the end of the day, the holidays aren't really the time, like this one specific day to change how somebody thinks and feels. if you have a particular family member who is really triggering, just remind yourself that joe is going to joe. joe is going to do what joe does. >> this will help avoid the arguments that people have. lower the bar. tell us about that. i think that is something we have learned to accept more during the pandemic. >> one of the silver linings during the pandemic is that we learned that we can do things in ways that are more flexible. there are lots of different ways to connect with the people that we love. and with that flexibility has come a little bit easier for us. the way things are cooked, the

way the table looks or how the children behave. god forbid they actually behave like children. it will make for a much more enjoyable time for everyone. kristen: i will have a lot of gravy this year. ditch the toxic positivity and focus on the good. toxic positivity? what is that? >> it is a term you might hear on social media these days. really what it means is this idea that we will keep it super positive and only focus on what is great. and try to make everything perfect. that's not how the holidays go, so we don't have to pretend everything is perfect or even fine.

we will shift to what is going good on that day. ed allows us to be in the present. maybe the food is particularly tasty or somebody says something that's really funny. stuff that doesn't go right or things go haywire. larry: -- kristen: hopefully it will be a little less of a hot mess for you. we will be right back. when we do come back, we will talk about who is the guy behind ftx? ftx? he grew i had no idea how much i wamy case was worth. c call the barnes firm to find out what your case could be worth. we will help get you the best result possible. ♪ call one eight hundred, eight million ♪

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kristen: if you have been following the demise of ftx, the biggest fraud scandal, you may have heard that the bay area founder's family bought over

$120 million in real estate in the bahamas. with assets gone missing and investors out billions of dollars and lawsuits raging. you may have not heard the bay area back story of the young founder and former ceo sam bankman-fried. that is why our media partner looked into his background and it is an interesting one. joining us live is anna tong. thanks for joining us on the show. ftx is or was one of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchanges and has celebrity endorsements from the likes of steph curry and tom brady. give us a brief history and explain her on ftx for those unfamiliar. >> it is an extremely large cryptocurrency exchange. you go on and deposit your dollars and in exchange you can buy a slew of cryptocurrencies.

>> it can go proof. >> there is a lot of cryptocurrencies and bankman-fried is the ceo. but especially overnight, his rival who is the ceo of the largest cryptocurrency exchange finance took to twitter and started a rumor that ftx and created a classic run on the bank. basically within a day or two, customers would try to withdraw $5 billion of funds and lo and behold they did not have the money to cover the deposits.

kristen: sam bankman-fried is no longer ceo and might be in legal trouble. elizabeth holmes has just been sentenced to 11 years for fraud. >> i think they are both very young. elizabeth holmes went to stanford. sam bankman-fried grew up on stanford campus. they are both hailed as these child geniuses and investors really ate it all up. almost $2 billion. kristen: he also went to one of the priciest private schools.

>> it was a very fancy suburb and located in a mansion. the tuition is $56,000 a year now. and a lot of wealthy people's children go to the school. >> it's almost a very silicon valley type of story. i understand that they have rave reviews and progressive values. what does that mean? >> they described them is very classically progressive and open-minded. they are known to be very kind to students. this mother had students over at her house and that's pretty rare for a professor. she talked about anxiety outside the classroom. his father became a licensed

therapist and they both wanted to do good for the world. his father was a huge fan. he did not do it just to make money. >> now are your -- kristen: now we are hearing assets were unaccounted for, went missing, and top executives had hundreds of millions in real estate. is there any evidence of criminal dealings? >> it is almost certainly true that he secretly took all of these customer deposits and transferred it over to a sister

trading firm called alameda research. if that is the case, it is almost certainly going to be charged criminally and be held responsible. kristen: did you talk to people who can shed some light for the tom brady and steph curry and teams like the warriors. was their personal appeal? >> one investor invested and lost some money and he was saying that everyone just loved sam bankman-fried. he was kind of kooky and was a genius. he wanted to save the world. he wore cargo shorts and did not care about his appearance or spend a lot of money personally,

although that may not be true now. he just charmed people and wanted everyone to believe the story that he was a boy genius. it caused people to look the other way. they did very little due diligence. kristen: the data editor, thank you so much for coming on to share that story. and you can check out the standards other original reporting at sf standard.com.

kristen: thank you for joining

us today for getting answers. we will be answering questions from experts around the bay area. tonight, breaking news as we come on the air. the alarming moment in the air. the plane in chicago hitting a flock of birds. the sparks. and the top u.s. military official onboard. the dramatic images showing what happens when the jet hits those birds. the military plane then making an immediate landing. a member of the joint chiefs of staff onboard. and stephanie ramos standing by. also tonight, the busiest travel week of the year under way at this hour. 55 million americans driving or flying this thanksgiving. the biggest number since before the pandemic. and after a summer filled with delays and cancellations, gio benitez tonight inside united's command center. are they and the other airlines better prepared? gio benitez on that and ginger zee tracking two systems this thanksgiving week. and it might be comin