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barbara lee losing ground. i'm christine xie. thanks for watching. getting answers on abc seven. every day we talk with experts about issues important to the bay area and to you, of course. so we'll have some of those segments coming up for you in just a few minutes. but first, we want to talk about the tragic death of a four year old girl in oakland. it is prompting an east bay group to honor her by fighting to protect cyclists. the group staged a rally last night exactly one month after the little girl's death following a bike accident near lake merritt. abc seven news reporter tim johns attended the rally and spoke with the girl's family. she is a firecracker firecracker, sassy, told you how she felt all the time. >> tears and trauma on the shores of lake merritt in oakland on wednesday afternoon. dozens gathered for a rally and vigil in honor of four year old maya correa, who died last month after a crash near the intersection of hanover and lakeshore. maya was riding a kids seat on her dad's bike when suddenly a driver in a parked

car opened the door, leading to a collision. maya fell to the ground and cracked her helmet after getting checked out by emts. maya and her father went home later as her family kept an eye on her. she took a turn for the worse and ultimately ended up in a coma. after a blood clot formed in her brain. we could keep her body alive, but she would never know us. >> she would never be able to receive our love anymore. and that the maya we knew and the maya we love wasn't coming back to us. >> this is not something that we can accept as part of this rally . >> many are calling for change. they want to see the city of oakland do more to protect cyclists and pedestrians. here on the other side of the lake from where the accident happened. the bike lanes are protected and kept away from traffic. that's something that maya's family, as well as many cycling advocates here in oakland, want to see all over the city. oakland officials tell abc7 news they're working on plans to make this part of the lake safer. among other things,

they say they'll be putting up better signage as well as looking at options at repaving the street come 2027, options that advocate say don't go far enough, quick enough. >> we're here to protect our children. and the city has chosen not to in this moment. right. and this happens all the time. >> as for maya's family, they say they know nothing will bring her back. they just want to ensure others don't have to suffer the same pain they are. >> i just want that maya's death not be in vain. and something good come out of it in oakland, tim johns, abc seven news. >> all right. coming up, we'll explore that new poll that shows that congresswoman barbara lee may be losing her position in terms of the race to replace senator dianne feinstein in that election. coming up next year. we'll take a short break

congresswoman barbara lee is falling behind in the race for senator dianne feinstein's seat. as you know, that election is next november. and before that, there's a primary in march. mark thanks for your time. my pleasure. so the conversation had been focused on the top three all democrats, all congressional representatives, burbank's adam schiff, irvine's katie porter and oakland's barbara lee. but your new poll has it looking more like a two way race, right? >> it does. we have adam schiff at 20% and katie porter at 17. barbara lee is now still in single digits at seven. we have seen a slight shift in and increase in support for schiff over the past four months. but

barbara lee has stayed in single digits and now those two are separating themselves from the field. right. >> and we keep this up. let's just take a look at that. at 7, barbara lee is now two tied with two republicans, one of whom hasn't even officially gotten into the race yet. right there is businessman james bradley, the other is the one who hasn't jumped in yet, but many think he will. that's dodgers baseball legend steve garvey. why do the poll include garvey when he hasn't declared? >> well, it was just the test. we included him both had measures, both with his name in and with his name removed, just to see what impact he could potentially have have. and what we found was that garvey basically draws from other republican voters. so he really just pulls down the percent levels for each of the other republicans that are listed in the poll. he doesn't really take away support from schiff, porter or lee. it was just the finding

that we wanted to uncover more as a test. >> i see. and so he neither increases or decreases another republicans shot at possibly getting into the top two, which is what you need to get into the general. >> well, actually, he divides up the republican support. so his inclusion actually reduce his the chances of any of the other two getting double digit support. and that's why they're all now in single digits, because the republican voters are basically splitting their votes among the three candidates that were listed. i see. >> by the way, who and how many did you poll for this? >> over 6000 registered voters were included in the survey, but the results to this poll are the likely voters was from that poll from that portion of the sample, which is about half of it. it's about 3000 voters are included in this. these particular results. >> i see. and of course, this comes you know, six months before the primary. so a lot could still change, especially i'm focusing on the fact that i

think one third said they were undecided. >> and that's true. it's pretty wide open for those voters. but that's not that unusual when you don't have an incumbent running and you have kind of a set of new candidates that voters aren't that familiar with. a lot of voters just hold back until the final months before turning their attention to the particular race. and i think that's when you're going to start to see a lot of the campaign ring gear up. you're going to see ads in various outreaches by the candidates during that final two month period. so you still have a lot of things that could happen. it really depends on the campaigns themselves and how much visibility each of the candidates have for the voters. there were some that thought perhaps barbara lee would have some of an advantage because she's the only one from northern california where, as schiff and porter are both soquel's, so they could divide up the socal name recognition and vote. >> but it does seem here that in your survey shows lee's name recognition is actually lagging

. >> now, that's true. i think in the early going, the advantage is always to the better known candidate. ross schiff has actually improved his standing with voters over the past four months, and i think that has to do with just his visibility as a constant critic of trump, who is obviously in the news almost all the time. and i think he probably will be planning to take advantage of that as time passes, as we get closer to the primary. >> that's true. that has certainly helped his visibility. he's in the headlines. he's in the news. right. and certainly talking about trump does galvanize a lot of democrats in california's heavily democratic . but also worth note thing is that congresswoman barbara lee is the only black candidate in that field. and she actually has less of the black support. in your survey, doesn't she compare to porter and schiff? >> well, it's true. and the problem for lee is that she's really known primarily in the bay area. and actually most of the black voters in california

are not in the bay area. they are in southern california. and that's where her name recognition and visibility is much less. and so i think what you're seeing when you're looking at the black vote or even the strongly liberal vote is really the fact that voters in the lower half of the state, the southern part of the state, really don't know who she is. and i think if you had a chance to look at the results in the bay area among black voters or in the bay area, among strong liberals, she'd probably be in the lead. but that's only about 20% of the state she needs to get better known throughout the rest of the state. >> all right. her strategists are probably poring over your study or your poll now to see what they need to do in terms of ads. but i do want to ask you about porter and schiff in terms of whether there are generational differences, as in terms of the support for either one of them. of course, we know porter has carved out a more progressive lane right? trump is more well known for i'm sorry, not trump, but schiff is more

well known for being impeachment manager. but porter has got her white board and she seems to have the younger voters talk about that. >> that's very true. they're very prominent. early differences in voter support between the two leading democrats. schiff is getting a lot of support. most of his support from voters over the age of 50, whereas porter's support is coming from the younger half of the electorate. so it's going to be interesting to see what turnout effects have. a porter will need to get the early the younger voters motivated to vote because it's usually the case that older voters are more likely to turn out in a primary election, which gives an advantage to schiff. but, you know, we'll see each election is different and the campaign could have, you know, certain impacts on who turns out to vote. >> you know, maybe this is from decades ago, but there was a time when republicans were more likely to show up at the polls than democrats are. but what is the dynamic now?

>> the problem for the republicans is they're less than one out of four voters statewide . so even if they show up in large, higher than expected or larger than their share of the electorate, it would still only comprise about a third of the vote. i mean, that's about as much as they'll likely get. so you're going to have most of the voters being democrats or non-parties than voters. so the republicans have, you know, just lost a lot of their voting share over the past 20 years. >> all right. well, is there anything else worth noting in terms of this particular poll? >> no. but again, i would you know, hold off on making too many conclusions from an early poll with 32% of voters undecided, things can change and campaign gains can have an effect. >> this is a separate poll. but you also just conducted it and released the results this week. i think in terms of trump's popularity amongst the republicans anyway, here in california, despite all the legal troubles and the indictments, it's true.

>> this was actually a, i think, a very influential poll in the sense that california republican party just changed its rules to allow that any candidate in running in the republican presidential primary who gets over 50% of the vote would be awarded all of the state's delegates. and there are 169 delegates to the republican convention from california. that's the most of any state. and our poll showed trump at over 50. he was actually at 55% in the latest poll, which would imply that he's on the way to doing that, which is, you know, quite a thing. it would be a big advantage to the trump campaign lane to grab all of california republican primary delegate votes. >> interesting. i mean, do they do that specifically for him? >> yes, they did. it was his campaign who was motivating them to try to get them to change the rules. and they certainly did. >> all right. well, you're conducting these polls about who

might fill dianne feinstein seat, by the way. she is not running for reelection. that's why this is happening. and she'll serve out her term, which ends the following january. but i wanted to ask you, what if she steps down before that? that changes the whole dynamic, doesn't it? because governor newsom would then have to appoint somebody. >> that's true. and we actually added a question to the survey in a very general way saying if newsom were to be in position to nominate somebody to fill the vacancy of feinstein, if she weren't able to serve out her term, which would you prefer someone that would be running full for the full term seat next year as which therefore would become a candidate? or would you just want an interim appointment of someone to just be a caretaker taker for the next year and almost by a 2 to 1 margin, voters would like him to nominate someone who would be a candidate who could serve beyond just the year or year and a half

that would be remaining in feinstein term. so that would have a huge effect. it depends on who newsom would pick. if it's someone outside of the candidate field, that person would have a huge advantage in the primary. or he could even pick barbara lee or someone, one of the other candidates that are currently in the running. it's certainly a wide open kind of appointment, and i think the governor would be under cross pressures from each of the campaigns as to who he should appoint in that situation. >> ryan oh, you just know governor newsom is saying, please let that not be the scenario because somebody or many somebodies will be very unhappy. right? that's a tough choice because he had said in the past that he would appoint a black woman, which could be lee. but then, of course, you have schiff and porter, who are leading in the polls right now. and they might be like saying, what about me? and then, of course, if you chose one of those two, then the other one says, hey, i'm very close. so gosh, difficult position. but

mark dicamillo, thank you so much for joining us with that very interesting study and poll . i appreciate it. >> sure. my pleasure. thank you. >> coming up, the good and the bad of artificial intelligence. it could be putting your kids in danger, but it could be the key to saving san francisco. so we'll explore the pros and cons

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office market. the city's economic recovery is one focus of abc7's building a better bay area. joining us live now is the author of that article, standard business reporter kevin truong. hey, kevin. hey how are you doing? i'm doing pretty well. i mean, let's see how san francisco's doing. mayor breed has declared the city the ai capital of the world. so is ai the answer to filling those empty office buildings? >> well, ai is part of the answer. the problem is ai is so early stage right now, although we're seeing, you know, blue chip brand names almost develop within the industry companies

like openai, anthropic scale ai, and they're all happen to be based in san francisco. the problem is with a lot of the tech companies that departed san francisco's downtown and office centers, those took years to develop. and right now we're just seeing ai at the very beginning. so it's just a little bit of a matter of scale at this point. got it. >> but it's got potential. it's going to grow and right now, two of those brand names you talked about in the industry, openai and i think anthropic are getting big leases in the city. talk about that. where are they going to be? >> right. so anthropic, which is bills itself as a kind of a humane ai company. they're taking about a quarter million square feet at the former slack headquarters in soma 500 howard street and open ai is thinking about taking about the same amount of space a little bit more in one of uber's bills things in mission bay. but that sort of represents a bit of the irony here, right? these companies are the ones that are

growing, but what the space that they are taking are the ones that were vacated by some of the larger tech companies that that grew during the last boom. >> that is very true. but still, these are not renewals, right? they're better than renewals. right >> right. yeah. these are actually new leases, new activity coming to the market yet. and when i talk to an analyst about this, he said you know, ai is responsible for about 1,000,000ft■!s right now f companies looking for space, but they represent three fourths of the new interest. so a lot of the overwhelm ing number of companies are looking for renewals, looking for downsizing . a lot of the new growth that's in ai. >> okay. by the way, you shared with us an ai generated image of what downtown san francisco could look like under the influence of an ai dominated industry sector, if you will, which is i don't know if it tells us anything, but it's a cool picture. so if we have that, let's go ahead and throw that up. and i'm just going to ask you, once you have like

chatgpt, its maker, y know, openai and some of the others here. right. is this going to be sort of le that sand hill road effect for vcs where it's like, , we all want to be there. i'm an ai compan going to re on market street, just like these guys or in the mission bay area, just like these guys. >> that's really the hope from a lot of the real estate folks i spoke to. they spoke about ai not necessarily being the solution, but being a catalyst, something that can sort of spark this next tech boom. you know, one one person i spoke to kind of compared it to the development of the smartphone phone. right. not everyone was working on the iphone, but the iphone, the android phone, the smartphone really developed an entire social media ecosystem, airbnb ecosystem, um, e-commerce ecosystem. so there's a bunch of surrounding services and companies and platforms built upon that core technology. >> hey, i think you mentioned that these companies now eat up 1,000,000 square foot or square feet in the city, but how much

was lost? i guess that will give me something to compare it to, right? how scope, how big the scope is like, did we lose 5,000,000ft■!s in terms of tenas who had left or what? >> right. so since 2020, we've actually lost some thing like 16,000,000ft■!s. so to call it a bit of a fraction, i think is fair. but the hope is that if ai continues at its continue at its current rate of growth by 2030, it should have maybe up to 14,000,000ft■!s of demand. and that's only ai. so if you can think about how that sort of translates to the rest of the city in its fiscal health right. there's a good story ahead. okay >> but i wonder if since some of these ai companies may make it so that, for example, a different kind of tech company would need to have as many engineers? could that also lead to job losses and less office space needed right. >> and that's kind of a concern that i might lead to the replacement of some of these industries. you know, i think

goldman sachs came out a report that said ai will significantly impact or modify around 300 million jobs around the world. and if you talk to ai optimists about it, they say, well, what about all the new jobs that will be created, things like prompt engineer or even jobs that we haven't even really thought of before that will be using ai as a tool to enable whatever that next big thing is. >> well, i'm no futurist, so i can't imagine it, but i hope they're there and plentiful. well, kevin, look, you also took part today in a virtual zoom event exploring the future of downtown san francisco with some of your colleagues, including your editor in chief from the standard. what did you guys explore? what was the conversation? >> so obviously, downtown san francisco is at the top of mind for a lot of folks. and this was the first in our zoom event series where we're kind of taking people a little bit behind the scenes here at the standard and talking to two folks, answering their questions. we really looked at what the current state of downtown is. we looked at some of the crime and public safety

problems that you and i have talked about in the past, kristen, and we talked about what downtown is on the verge of transforming into whether that is a new business center, whether i can solve some of those problems like we've been chatting about and whether there is a future for downtown as an arts and culture destination right. >> and i know there are efforts there, right? there are other ideas like bringing universal city campuses. there what do you foresee, i guess in five, ten years, you know, unfortunately, i don't have a crystal ball, but i will say that i do think we are at a bit of a turning point precipice. >> we're starting to see buildings trade hands, which means kind of a real estate reset in the market out. and i think that is kind of a good thing to kind of make sure make it so that maybe buildings are trading at lower cost as leases are a little bit easier to come by and a new crop of businesses can be started. and i think once you solve some of those cost problems, then maybe we can kind

of start bringing in a little bit more vibrancy and activity. you know, all the return to office numbers are improve, moving some measures of foot traffic are improving. it's slow, but hopefully we definitely i think by the by the ten year mark will be back to whatever the next phase of downtown all the time we have today. >> thank you, kevin tran. check out his reporting on sf standard.com and we'll see you back here tomorrow tonight, breaking news as we come on the air. the new possible tracks just in, a category 4 at this hour, set to become a category 5 tonight. also, severe storms coming to the northeast. the well-known actor sentenced to 30 years to life for rape. and the passenger jet and the emergency landing. first, hurricane lee rapidly intensifying over very warm waters at this hour. potentially a category 5 hurricane by later tonight. winds up to 160 miles per hour