talk about this is warren reena srivastav and rebecca wang. we appreciate both of you joining us right here. two of the creators of siren. thanks for joining us. yeah, happy to be here. can we just start off by saying i love that you all are doing this? this is so important. it's incredible work. but as an adult, i feel as though we have failed you all because you have to create this

device to try and stop school shootings or at least keep yourself as safe as possible during a school shooting. what was your first experience with a school shooting or even a gun on campus? yeah. um as far back i can remember, we've always been doing school shooting drills at school, even since, like, elementary school. i remember in second grade someone had a gun in their backpack and then, you know, the whole school there was a whole thing. and then in third grade, that was my first lockdown because there was someone with a gun in the area. so then, like everyone was crowded in the music room, the lights were off, we were all hiding and it's just something that we can't ignore since like , it's an actual issue for us as students every day. it's certainly something that we can't ignore and something that we know is just happening more

and more. we're already on pace so far in just the first half of this year to outpace the number of school shootings that we saw last year. just terrible numbers when we put it into perspective. but you all are doing something to help protect against this. what inspired you to come up with this technology? technology excuse me. so i have family, friends who are part of the san jose police force, and they have told me that one of the main issues police face during active school shootings is communication. communication from students and administrators at the school who are so confused about what to do, whether or not the loud sound is a gunshot or something just dropping. and this is certainly an issue that we see with the existing technology that's out there. spot shooter, for example . we know those are deployed in a number of neighborhood all across the country. and like you mentioned, sometimes a backfiring car can set off the technology and they're not

exactly sure if it's actually a gunshot. so they don't know if they need to send police there or not. let's take a step back and talk about how your technology actually works. who wants to take that one on? how does siren work? oh i think rebecca has the model with her. but yeah, i can explain the actual hardware and the software as well. so we 3d printed a six by three inch case that we designed using cad. and then there's an omni directional microphone that takes in sound and then that sound is processed in the motherboard and we have an ai model that identify whether the sound is a gunshot or not. and then from there, we use something called twilio and twilio api to send out text messages to every one in the school community, including students, administrators, staff members as well as an automated phone call to the police and a

text message with the map. wow. this this is so incredible that you all have literally thought about how to make this thing work with every step of the process from detection to alerting folks that there is a threat potentially inside of the school. and then obviously, as you mentioned as well, sending out that call for help from police or two police, rather. rebecca talked to us about how you all are hoping that this might be deployed in schools all across the bay area and perhaps someday the country. yeah so you see here the design of siren is much like a spoke detector. smoke detectors in our schools and houses are very discreet. you don't really notice them and they're non-intrusive to students, especially compared to other security measures. so siren would be up onto like ceilings in the hallways and siren can come up to a 50 foot radius. wow okay. so you would have to have a number of these

deployed across the school, like you mentioned, in the same way that we have smoke detectors in the schools as well. have you all tested this in perhaps your school? i know both of you are high school students in the south bay. yeah. so train our machine learning model over 70 k of audio files of false positive sounds of gunshots, such as fireworks, dog barking and sirens. so over that, our machine learning model has an accuracy rate of over 99, but we have yet test to for a real live gunshot since we are underage due to the california laws. well, hopefully it'll never have to detect an actual gunshot. but we do understand the reality of the country that we live in and how prevalent these mass shootings are, especially at schools as well. i understand that you all met at hackathons and coding competitions because you all attend different high schools.

what do you hope to do after you graduate high school? i mean, to be able to do something like this and you haven't even hit college yet is so impressive. what do you hope to accomplish in life if. for now college and during college, we want to continue building siren making siren a reality to schools nationwide, starting from growing it. and here the san francisco bay area and expanding it nationwide. but hopefully we're all very mission driven people. so we hope to build startups that drive social change. quite a noble mission for sure. serena, how about you? what do you hope to do after you finish up high school? yeah i want to go into computer science in college so that i can continue working on projects like siren that can actually have a social impact because, um, like, i really want to learn more about tech so that i can use it to create change. we love

that idea using tech for good here. my final question to you both before we have to go, what would you say to the adults that like i said at the top of this interview, have failed? you have failed to act to protect our schools that you all are having to create this technology instead of the adults coming up with real solutions. yes that's what we have learned from parent teacher associations right now. we all have to collectively act together, work as one to fight for change in our schools and whether that can be protecting students, teachers and parents from these incidents certainly important story. now let you have the last word. how about you? yeah, honestly, like we've been talking to other students, like when we were trying to create this project and we were trying to pinpoint what the biggest issue in school shootings was like, other than, you know, obviously lives being lost and what we found out was

that miscommunication is like one of the biggest problems is just total chaos, because in schools were taught to run, hide or defend. in our yearly school shooting drills. but we don't know like what to do if we don't know what's going on. so with siren, we just wanted to lower the amount of miscommunication and like chaos during events like this. well, we know that your technology will do exactly that. so arena and rebecca, we really appreciate your time. we're so proud of what you all have already been able to accomplish. and we can't wait to see what you all do once you graduate high school and beyond. we appreciate your time. thank you. thank you. coming up next, a different approach to stopping gun violence, but some survivors . the event in san francisco this weekend where dads are having their say. when a truck hit my car, the insurance company wasn't fair. i didn't know what my case was worth. so i called the barns firm. i'm rich barns. it's hard for people

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francisco pride parade live sunday, june 25th on abc seven. welcome back to getting answers. the archeology of silence. it is a brilliant exhibit by renowned artist candy wiley, and it's been on display at the deyoung museum since march. i got a chance to check it out. it is phenomenal. the exhibit of paintings and sculptures explores the silence surrounding systemic violence against black people. it runs through october, but this weekend ahead of father's day, the young museum is teaming up for a special conversation. uplifting the voices of black men and fathers and family members who've lost loved ones by senseless violence. too often at the hands of police. and joining us live now to talk about this special talk happening saturday at the deyoung is the event's moderator, pastor michael mcbride, and chris johnson, better known as uncle bobby, the uncle of oscar grant. we appreciate you both being here. thank you so much. thanks for having me. absolutely. we are so

happy that we could have you here for this conversation to preview the really important conversation. you're going to be having tomorrow. a pastor mike, i want to start with you. this is an important and timely conversation, an even more so on father's day weekend. what can people expect from this conversation when they come out to see it in person or log on to watch it virtually? well, live for us, which is the national network that i lead. well over 20 states across the country working to end gun violence. the mass criminalization of people of color in this country, whether it's through incarceration or over policing, which leads to police brutality. this this series is a culmination of sorts of well over a decade worth of organizing, of helping and healing and transforming the worst conditions related to violence and racism in our communities. we're trying to literally amplify the voices of those directly impacted by these issues. i myself am a survivor

of police violence at the hands of san jose police officers all the way back in 1999. so well over 25 years. myself and so many others have been pushing back against a system of policing that is too brutal through targeted towards our most vulnerable loved ones without accountability. this exhibit is an effort to amplify those voices. and in the silence and the complicity too often present among many of us in our communities, it sounds like it's going to be a powerful conversation. and we know this conversation is a part of a series. uncle bobby, before i get to you, i want to play a soundbite from the first event in this series that took place last month for mother's day. and this one featured mothers talking about what it's like to live with an unimaginable loss of life. let's listen in. when you see families like this, don't say to yourself now, what was that boy or what was that girl doing to deserve that death

? people actually thought that i did something to deserve what he got. mama chose running as a way of therapy, a margaret run to feel better again. just seeing the images from the exhibit. it's so powerful. uncle bobby. you know, it's been 14 years since oscar grant was killed by bart police. fruitvale station, new year's day 2009 date. so many people remember. how are you processing that grief? i share for as much love that i can for families, especially men , fathers, uncles, brothers, siblings that has been impacted by this violence. and that in itself, given the love that i can, has been helping me understand and better deal with the grief that i've gone through in dealing with this very situation. how do you do it? how do you comfort those families? i mean, there's someone that is

covered, too many of these shootings involving black and brown folks, especially black and brown men, beaten, killed at the hands of police. it's exhausting. i'll say it. it's exhausting to cover it. so how do you find the strength, the courage inside of you to continue to be there for other families that have been through this? i mean, for us, you know, the oakland community, you know, pastor mike and many others embraced us as a family. they loved on us. they they prayed for us. they support us. they went back and forth to court with us. but i think most importantly, they shouted out, i am oscar grant. and it was because of that love that embrace, that oakland community just helping us stand up and allowing us to find our voice in our footing and to move forward and hoping to get justice for oscar. and it was because of that love that i can't never forget. and it's so important for me to make sure that i embrace the next family that i love on them, that i support

them, that i pray for them, but most importantly, that i stand with them. so that they can begin to find balance and walk forward in getting justice for their loved one. that is how i do it, you know, and you know, and by passing that on, i found other families to take on that same embrace of other families in their communities, in their neighborhoods and loving them. and love on them and it actually helps empower us to maintain an optimistic view that we will win in other words. we will get accountability transparency and that the families with them find some. peace. are some kind of way after the loved one has been murdered. this is certainly a club that no family wants to be a part of but been through this and will then be there for those folks. i know certainly means a lot as

you mentioned, one of those people for you who was there after the killing of oscar grant was pastor mike. i know you work closely with live for usa pastor mike that's working in partnership with the love not blood campaign and the deyoung museum to put on this event. talk to us about the work that you all do with live free. well, live free takes very seriously that in order for us to end the era of gun violence in our communities, whether that is inter-communal violence between community members that have conflict, that rise to lethal violence, whether that is the violence at the hands of overpolicing or incarceration, whether that is the violence that is voter suppression and denial of the ballot box, we must build organizing power and campaigns, which just means we must bring people together and allow their leadership, their voice, their expertise that is closest to the problem, create the solution. we must compel elected officials and the systems that they steward to be much more

compassionate and willing to invest in solutions targeted those individuals closest to being shot, being harmed, or being violated. and so our work all across the country, particularly here in oakland, sacramento, the central valley, southern california and other states, takes very seriously that the people have the power to change the worst conditions. and we must hold our elected officials accountable by scaling up many, many types of interventions that don't depend on violence in order to secure peace. this exhibit is a powerful way to capture, as kehinde wiley says, the beautiful bodies cast against the ugly system that too often silences our voices in our lives. we have a six part series that runs all the way through october. we love to see folks go to live for support or the museum website and come hang out with us. it is a free event. on these saturdays we'll have

wonderful, wonderful voices, wonderful, wonderful performances, but conversations that lead to action. we can't just stare at the problem, but we have to have a solution. and there is no power like the power of the people to bring solutions. that is certainly right. we appreciate your time, both of you. uncle bobby, pastor mike, thank you so much for being here. we know it's going to be a phenomenalve happening tomorrow at the thyog museum. there's the information on your screen. if y c't make it out there in person, you can also stream this online. head on over to the deyoung museum website to find that information. thanks again. all right. coming up next here on getting answers. if you were overcome with medical bills, we're going to tell you how to get some financial 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

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scan group. it is a not for profit health plan. doctor jane is joining us live now to talk more about his organization and the health they plan on providing. we appreciate your time. thanks for being here, doctor. thanks so much, jillian. great to be here with you. we know that the price of health care and medication, it's astronomical in this country compared to other countries. no surprise then, that medical debt is such a big issue here. how widespread is it? well, we know that there are lots of people who forego medical care or delay medical care because they are afraid of surprise bills. they're afraid that they might find themselves in debt. some people are afraid they may find themselves in bankruptcy. we know that medical debt is one of the top reasons why people find their ways into bankruptcy today, and that's why scan is partnering with care oregon to retire more than $110 million in debt, 40 million in northern california, affecting over 26,000 people. and, you know, we think that this is an opportunity for us to actually show the health care industry that we've created. i think an untenable situation

for ourselves. and we want to make it better. that's incredible. and i know a lot of folks watching right now are probably excited to hear this $40 million in northern california alone is the amount of medical debt you all are hoping to clear. why are you doing this in exactly how are you doing it? who's going to be selected? well, we think, you know, medical debt is a moral issue. we think that at the end of the day, you know, not debt, you know, i think gets in the way of people participating in society. debt, you know, it keeps you from an apartment. debt keeps you from a mortgage. and ultimately, we think debt keeps you away from getting the kind of care that you need. if you're afraid of going to a hospital because of a bill that you're going to get, i think, you know, we're you're not going to necessarily take care of yourself. and we think that there's a huge number of people who are disproportionately affected by this. people of color in low income communities. and we think that this is not just a moral issue, but it's

also a health care issue. and that's why we've decided to step up to do this on behalf of people, the people whose debt is going to be cleared is people who have identified by an organization that we're partnering with medical debt, who have carried this debt for some long period of time, who are in need of this kind of relief. and so we're very excited about this partnership. this is really important work. and as you mentioned, health care is just so expensive in this country. even if you have health insurance, you could still be getting slapped with a bill that you just, you know, bluntly, you can't pay it. it's just too much. so what should people be on the lookout for in terms of are they getting something in the mail to let them know that, hey, you've been selected for this debt relief? they will they'll be getting a letter in the mail saying they've been selected for this debt relief and what it will allow them to do is have their records cleared and they'll be able to live their lives uninjured by the debt that has been created by their health care experiences in what is this going to look like when it comes

in the mail? because we all get so much junk mail, right? so tell people what this looks like so they don't think it's a phony or a scam. and chuck this in the trash. i think it's going to be a letter, you know, from the organization medical debt and it's going to let them know the good news that their debt has been cleared. um, i don't have the logo with me right now for our medical debt, but the letter will come from them. okay. all right. everyone's been put on notice to look for that letter from our medical debt. i know you want to talk about this. what more should be done at the state level? the federal level, maybe even health care systems to reduce medical expenses so people don't find themselves buried by medical debt in the first place? yeah. think you know, all of us remember a time where health plans didn't necessarily have huge deductibles and i think one of the biggest challenges that we've had is that we've we've introduced a new type of health insurance product over the last 20 years called the high deductible health plan. and frankly, julianne, it just hasn't worked. we find that more and more

people have less and less coverage. we've tried to turn health care into a consumer based industry and it's not that health care is a different industry altogether. it's one of the reasons why scans products have low maximum amount of pocket costs for people. you know, in many parts of california, you can get a plan from us for the maximum amount of pocket. i wish we had more time to get into it, but we're out of time right here. thank you so much for telling us about what your group scan group is doing and letting folks know to be in the lookout for that letter from rip medical debt. we appreciate your time. we'll take a short break here. great to be with answers. we'

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weekday at three, answering questions with experts from around the bay area, getting you those answers in real time. world news tonight with david muir is up next. i'll see you at four for abc seven news at four. take care. tonight, several developing stories as we come on the air. the deadly tornado strike. new warnings and watches in effect. the justice department's blistering report two years after the death of george floyd. and the verdict in the deadliest anti-semitic attack in u.s. history. first, that devastating tornado touching down in the texas panhandle. at least three people killed, dozens hurt, hundred of buildings damaged or destroyed. breaking late today, a tornado reported on the ground in virginia. severe thunderstorms moving over the mid-atlantic. dangerous weather alerts heading into the weekend.

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