$5 million. that's actually the price tag of a lot for sale in san francisco. so what is signifies about the city's housing crisis now and then the latest and last new beatles song ever is out today. how this track came to be after the death of two of the four band members.

but first, as new israeli airstrike brought gaza, right now, the house of representatives is voting on us aid to israel for. against hamas. you're watching getting answers. i'm kristen sze. thanks for joining us. the house voting right now on the israel aid package. this is the first big test for new house speaker mike johnson speaking live now about all of this. all the political headlines with us today, abc news deputy political director avery harper. avery, thanks for joining us. >> thanks for having me. >> yeah. so the israel aid package, i think it's going to go through, although many democrat s don't seem to like the fact that ukraine aid is not in there. tell us what's going on. >> right. and so there are republicans who have been dead set on separating israel aid from aid to ukraine. and we know not only do democrats not like that, but there are republicans in the senate who do not want to see the two issues, issues separated either. also we know

that the white house has been very clear in saying that it will veto any israeli only funding bill. so it is setting up a huge fight on capitol hill. but again, what else is new right? >> what does this say so far about what the new house speaker ? >> well, listen, we have lots of things that our lawmakers are going to be confronting in in recent week in in the future weeks. right. we know that the funding of the government is coming up that deadline, november 17th, is fast approaching and mike johnson is going to have to be able to govern his caucus, his his conference in order to be able to confront some of these large issues, some of this is going to play out in the next few weeks. and so there are lots of eyes on the house of representatives to see exactly how speaker johnson handles all of this. >> nothing is a slam dunk right now. right. but avery, meantime, president biden and secretary of

state antony blinken are pushing for a cease fire in gaza, partly to get americans out, partly to get humanitarian supplies in the house, speaker, though, says no way. israel doesn't need to let up right now. it needs allies to support it. what do you make of that battle? >> well, i want to be also be very clear about what they're calling for. they're calling for pauses in order to allow for humanitarian aid and which they are differentiating from an extended sort of cease fire that they believe will aid hamas in finding new ways to get on the defensive and be on the attack for israel. and so this is coming as the biden administration is under enormous pressure from democrats and parts of the democratic party to allow for more humanitarian aid to get into gaza. we know that folks who are on the ground there are suffering without food, without water, electricity, communications. and this is really something that is happening also as we're seeing

muslim and arab leaders across the country call for a cease fire as well. there was a letter that was published, an open letter in which some muslim leaders say that they were going to withhold support from the biden campaign and more broadly, the democratic party as next year's elections approach. and while muslim voters are a small slice of the electorate nationally, it could make a really big difference in states like michigan or pennsylvania, where those folks are really influential. >> you know what? you were reading my mind because i was actually going to bring up if the president was kind of between a rock and a hard place, because i also saw his approval rating from arab americans has plummeted to 17, which matches what you were just telling me. so i ask you, how does he pivot it if that's the right word or how does he deal with that? because like you said, he can't really afford to even lose. is that small but real slice of the voting population? >> ian right. i mean, listen, jewish voters also are really

important voting block in this country for democrats as well. and so, you know, politically, he which i can't say that the president is dealing with this purely in a political lens. but when i'm looking at it through a political lens, i see that it is very difficult for this administration to try and straddle both sides of this issue. there are parts of the democratic party that are calling for a cease fire, and those calls are only going to grow louder while there are more folks. who are you know, a part of the part of the democratic party who do not want to see a cease fire, want to continue to see the us support for israel's war with hamas. >> so, yeah, tricky, tricky for sure. but meantime, president biden's presumed rival, former president trump, is in the news today in his trial in new york, where he and his sons are accused of fraud and misrepresentation to get more favorable loan conditions back in the day. so today, donald trump, junior wrapped up his testimony and eric trump took the stand. what is the picture? they're trying to paint right.

>> well, both eric and don took the stand today. this is a fraud case. this is a civil case. to be clear, there's no jury. all of this will be decided by the judge in this case. both of them tried to distance themselves from the allegations in this case. right. the allegations are that they inflated the prices and the values of properties in order to be able to create greater leverage. they are both saying that they they were allowing for their financial staff or their accountants to make accounting decisions and that they were not involved or aware of these efforts to inflate the properties. we'll see what the judge in this case has to say about it. but that is the path that they're taking at this point. >> any sense of the judge or others watching this closely find their arguments credible? >> well, it remains to be seen right? we're waiting for the judge to look at this. but we do know that the judge has already determined that they have, you

know, done some of these things that they have inflated the numbers of their their properties. right the value of their properties. i think what the bottom line is, is how much money in a penalty are they going to have to pay the attorney general in new york, letitia james, she asked for the trump organization to have to pay a $250 million dollar penalty that is an incredibly large sum. and so we'll see what happens in that case right. >> but since it is a civil trial after all and not criminal, will the results one way or another affect trump's campaign or even eligibility for the white house? again, no, no, it won't. >> and like we've seen with all of trump's cases, both, you know , civil and criminal, they have not really had much of an effect on the amount of support that he has seen within the republican party. he's so far outpaced, as any other gop presidential contender in all recent polling across the board. and so despite all of these legal troubles, he

is still running ahead of all of them. now, it does become an issue. come next year, he's going to be in court a lot as the campaign trail is revving up as folks begin to go to the polls and vote in primary contests. so we'll see how that affects him. then >> all right. well, meantime, age is an issue in this campaign for both biden and for trump. but abc news had a very interesting article and looked at data. voters seem to punish biden more than they do trump for age. and some of the verbal gaffes that at least they associate with age right. >> uh, you know, i think it's really important when we talk about the discussion of the age of our lawmakers that we are not framing it as an issue for one lawmaker over another. i think more broadly, we are seeing folks who are calling out and asking and talking about the age of our leaders and so we've seen biden have some mobility issues. he's always been known for the

gaffes that he's had on the campaign trail. but there's also folks on both sides of the aisle who are calling attention to the issues that trump and the mistakes that trump seems to be having on the campaign trail as well. so the biden campaign is beginning to amplify and talk about the mistakes that we hear trump make in remarks when he goes out on the trail and speaks to audiences at his rallies. we know that desantis team is also tallying those mistakes that he makes, and there they are pointing out that, you know, this may be a time for a new generation of leadership. ultimately, it's voters who will decide. >> all right. thank you so much. abc news deputy political director avery harper. great chatting with you. and you guys just have the best blog and information on your website. i hope folks will check it out. >> thank you. thank you. >> thanks, avery. there is a housing crunch and san francisco has an ambitious goal to meet. so why has a prime location sat empty for decades? we'll get to the bottom of that with our media partner, the san francisco

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nob hill neighborhood. it is available at $13.5 million. our media partner, the san francisco standard, has an article today looking at how the mystery behind this lot could help explain the city's housing crisis. joining us live now is josh kane with our media partner, the san francisco standard, where they went looking for answers. hey, josh. >> hey, kristin. how are you? >> i'm good, thank you. so give us the quick details. the 401. on this particular lot, right? >> yeah. so sometimes the story starts out with something as

simple as an editor telling you. i found a real estate listing. and this looks weird. and so basically what i did was i looked up redfin and found this property at 941. powell street. and it's basically a steep mound of dirt with a cottage in the back. and i called up the broker and i asked him about the property. and it turns out that actually the story about 941, powell goes all the way back to the 1906 earthquake. he told me that the structures on the property burned down. and then as i dug a little bit deeper, it turned out the first owner is just this amazing entrepreneur who started a restaurant after escaping the armenian genocide. he passed it down to his son. his son tried to develop the land and then wouldn't you know it, san francisco opponents of housing came in. block the project in this massive fight. and it's essentially this story is almost a microcosm of a larger issue of how san francisco got its current housing crisis. >> you know, you just gave us

the cliff notes version. and josh, normally i love that for tv. however this story is so good. i want the whole 900 page version as well. not exactly 900 page, but you wrote in your article and i love this line, so i'm going to say it. it's a tale of risk and opportunity and a stark reminder that san francisco's current housing crisis, in many ways is a monster of its own making. explain that. give us the character of the main character of the story that entrepreneur you talked about and what his big plans were and then what happened. give us the whole story. >> yeah. so george mardikian, an armenian immigrant, came. he was born in 1903. he went to war twice as a teenager, later was taken prisoner the second time. and because he had actually helped form the armenian boy scouts, which was an outreach mission by to americans, he actually got spotted by one of them. and by chance, the man told the soldier, hey, this guy is an american. you've got to

release him right now. it was a total lie, but it worked. and george mardikian was able to come to the united states. and from ellis island all the way to san francisco. so he eventually, over the years, creates a restaurant called omar khayyam's, which was a armenian restaurant on the corner of powell and o'farrell. it was in a basement, but it became just this huge success, and people would flock from all over the city and even all over the country to come to this restaurant, because he became a radio personality. he was featured in magazines. he was kind of like the guy fieri of his time. um, and so he starts buying up property in nob hill and over the years accumulates this land and he eventually passes it on to his son who inherits it. and his son is just like, this is this is a time it's 1987. let's go for it. let's b out to almost 100 units of new housing on it. have some of the units would be kept to make sure that tenants of a neighboring

property wouldn't be displaced, but the rest would be probably nicer apartments, some of which could view the transom aka pyramid. but an attorney at that time named ed lee, who would go to on become mayor of san francisco, helped lead the fight that ed lee actually helped lead the fight, saying that the project didn't do proper outreach, that they were concerned the tenants of a building next door would be displaced and then they just started this massive back and forth. and eventually after a decade, the property owner just gave up and this property is essentially been sitting there languishing and right now, though, there are changes in laws in san francisco and the state that are going to accelerate housing because we know we're doing such a poor job. but this property is a great example of why so many people were able to oppose projects and put us in the bind we're at, which is we need 82,000 new units of housing by 2031, right? >> okay. so the arcadian

mardikian told children eventually gave up, right? they encounter the challenges just like he did. so they're going to sell it. so it's been sitting there for 13.5 million. what is the problem? does nobody want to pick it up now, even in this new era of some laws to speed up housing production in expecting fewer obstacles, still, nobody wants to touch it. >> i mean, it's been on the market for more than 500 days. they actually dropped the price from 14.5 million to 13.5, hoping that they could get someone to sell to buy it. you know, the question is, will some developer, will someone be willing to take the bet that actually san francisco is willing to work on building housing now and sign off on the permits, assuming everything is all right environmentally with the property. but right now, when i talk to some developers, they're like, i still don't know if this property will sell because we can't necessarily trust san francisco officials to get things right. >> so it's developer fatigue, which you mentioned in your article, right? >> it's real. so given that

right, if that fatigue doesn't change very, very soon, will the city be able to meet its state housing mandate in terms of the number of units they have to create? >> yeah. i mean, developers, i think, are not going to necessarily just throw up their hands and completely quit. san francisco is still a very lucrative, real estate market when interest rates come down, construction costs and all of that. i think we are going to see some renewed interest. i think there's got to be somebody out there who's going to be like, oh, a vacant property a block away from the fairmont hotel. and i think someone probably will take that bet. and if so, they're going to be writing a new chapter in history for this really incredible property. >> josh i don't know if you want to start an investment pool, but i got $100 that i could probably scrounge up. if you feel like starting something, i mean, i got 50, i'll throw in 50. >> how's that? >> all right. josh kane, thank you so much. >> fascinating article. thank you. >> you can check out more of josh's reporting and also the san francisco standard's other

original reporting on their website as of standard.com and abc7 will continue to bring you more segments featuring the standards city focused journalism. look for that twice a week right here on getting answers at £0.03 pm. don't go away. because you know the beatles are back with one final song. we think you'll get a little lesson or listen and maybe a lesson of now and then and hear how they pulled off this track with the help of artificial intelligence. when w

all now and then. it just dropped today. so now all right. well, that's the only five seconds we get to play without getting in trouble now and then by the beatles. wow.

decades in the making. and joining us right now to talk about it is jim harrington, the music critic for the bay area news group. jim, thank you so very much. this is so exciting. i'm sure, for you today right? >> yeah. hi, chris and hi, tvland. very exciting. new beatles and 2023. forget taylor, beyonce, whatever. we got the beatles to talk about. yay! i know. >> yay! okay, before i ask you what you think about it, because i can't wait to hear. i want you to tell us how this song came to be right. i understand it started with a recording by the late john lennon, and then it got put aside. and then, of course, there was also harrison death. and then i came along. so explain to us how it came to be. >> yeah, i'll give you a quick rundown on the timeline. sure so john lennon recorded this in the late 70s and said, you know, that was about ten years. know eight, nine years after the beatles broke up. probably meant it as a solo track. never got around to doing anything with

it. he ended up being killed. in 1980. fast forward 14 years from that, and yoko ono ends up giving to the other three beatles uh- paul, george and ringo. this track. and they look at it and they're like, hey, let's do something with this. but they just couldn't they didn't have the technology at the time to isolate the vocals well enough to actually do anything with it. they were trying to do something. this would have been in 94 or 95, 95 would be the last time they recorded added any new material for the beatles using john's tracks just like this. but they couldn't do it with this one, so they just put it aside, they worked on it, and they couldn't do anything. so they put it aside and then come around. 2021, peter jackson's documentary on the beatles, the get back, the beatles, the look at the making of the let it be album. finally, the technology

is there and they're able to isolate the vocals. so they're able to pull the vocals out. of course, at this point, george harrison died. he died in 2001, but but he laid down some guitar tracks back in the mid 90 for this song and so they're able to put it all together here with the, you know, greatness of technology and add you've got a track in 2023 with contributions from all four original beatles. >> so unbelievable. okay, so technology enables all pieces to be pulled and put it together, but it didn't create anything. i mean, we're so used to ai creating sounds. now, that wasn't by the original person. there's nothing that is artificial. all correct. am i understanding that right? >> you need to get our technology reporter on to like explain all the ai stuff or whatever. all right. but the key thing is that we have got contributions from all four beatles on this and whether do we need to put an asterisk on this like we do on like some

baseball records or whatever. okay. you know, maybe. but that's george's guitar. paul does some playing in george's style on this. so it's not all, george, that you're hearing the guitar playing, but it's the beatles. it's the real deal. separated by decades and decades coming together for us in 2023. amazing >> i'm going to use that same five seconds we're allowed to use one more time here and then we can talk about it and get your thoughts on what you think. >> okay? sure donah and then okay, that's all we get. >> oh, it's just such a teaser, but jim, what do you think? i mean, is that does that sound like a beatles song? do you love it? what do you think you know, i don't love it other than the fact that it's a beatles and it's like a shakespeare sonnet or something like that, you know, it's just something that the more we can get by these guys is fantastic, right? >> is it going to be remembered as one of their great songs is, you know, let it be long and

winding road or, you know, my favorite rocky raccoon or anything like that. no, you know, no one's going to be talking about this song among the greats or even just like they put out. i love that one, too, right? the hey jude, are we going to do a little. no, no, no, no, no, no. oh, you're better at it than i am. that's good. >> oh, you're too kind. you're too kind. that coming from the music critic? i really do appreciate. so how is it doing? i imagine there's tons of interest in, like, downloads and listens. >> oh, yeah. it's flying on all the on all the, you know, streaming devices and all that sort of stuff. and you know, spotify and, you know, people are super excited about it and the reaction has been very good to it. and i think that it's going to be fantastic. there they're going to be releasing the video to it. peter jackson directed video to it tomorrow, 6 a.m. our time. and i expect that that's just going to be probably really touching. i'm really i'm almost more curious to see what the video is going to be like and what type of footage you know, whether it's going to be lennon related or whatever. that should just be really great.

looking forward to that at 6 p.m. on the beatles youtube channel me too. >> so they're not eligible to win a grammy for the song, right ? >> oh, that's a that's a good question. i you know, i don't think it's grammy caliber. i wouldn't see it. and plus, the grammys have been going away and away from classic rock and that sort of stuff and more pop and hip hop. so i wouldn't expect this. >> there's an i component as well, jim. but before we go, we have about 15 seconds. i want to ask you if you think we might see more of this type of music, like where there is i participation, you know, maybe after the artists has passed or they discover something in the future? >> absolutely. i think that there will be continue to mine this because there's such a strong interest still in these sort of legacy acts like that. and the technology is there that you can get new doors songs with jim morrison vocals or jerry garcia grateful dead songs and things like that. so i think so. absolutely. it's probably here to stay. >> thank you, jim.

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tonight, breaking news. the extraordinary images coming in right now from gaza. the massive assault in the air. and now face-to-face battles in gaza city. tonight, some u.s. citizens getting out of gaza. and here in the u.s., in new york, the gas explosion. multiple victims, including children. first tonight, missiles and explosions lighting up the sky over northern gaza. on the ground, israeli troops surrounding gaza city now. reports tonight of fierce face-to-face fighting now under way. president biden