at the powell street station in san francisco. shuts down a major transportation hub. good afternoon, i'm kristen z. thanks for joining us. but first, local news that will wait. but the presidential race does come to the bay area today. former president trump just landed at sfo at about 130 and then drove

to woodside immediately for his campaign fundraising event. the l.a. times reports it's being held at the home of tom and stacey siebel, distant relatives of governor gavin newsom's wife, jennifer siebel newsom. trump supporters were out in full force beforehand, waving flags and holding signs on the side of the road, hoping to see the former president's motorcade as it arrived. >> brings out is president trump. just supporting him, letting him know that people here in the bay area in california, we support president trump. >> after his fundraiser in woodside, trump will head to las vegas as his campaign trail continues with a rally in the battleground state of nevada. but while the former president stumps out west, he is facing criticism from his supporters in congress for traveling with a nine over 11 conspiracy theorist. her name laura loomer. congresswoman marjorie taylor greene says loomer's nasty, racist and divisive rhetoric should not be tolerated. abc

news reporter perry russom has the latest from washington. >> at a news conference, former president trump calling out vice president kamala harris's record as attorney general of california. >> we cannot allow comrade kamala harris and the communist left to do to america what they did to california. >> trump, facing criticism for recently traveling with laura loomer, seen here walking off trump's plane ahead of tuesday's debate. and with trump at a nine over 11 anniversary event in shanksville, pennsylvania. loomer is a far right nine over 11 conspiracy theorist who, days ago posted a racist message about harris. some of trump's supporters pushing back on loomer, including congresswoman marjorie taylor greene and senator lindsey graham. today senator thom tillis posting on x a dnc plan couldn't do a better job than she is doing to hurt president trump's chances of winning reelection. enough. loomer responding, saying republicans attacking her are simply jealous they were not on trump's plane. >> laura is a supporter. i don't

control laura. laura has to say what she wants. she's a she's a free spirit. >> today, trump once again talking about haitian immigrants in springfield, ohio. haitian migrants have descended upon a town of 58,000 people, destroying their way of life. the mayor of springfield says schools were evacuated today amid ongoing threats to the city after trump pushed baseless claims of migrants eating pets there. this is just a very difficult time for springfield. president biden blaming trump. >> there's no place in america. this has to stop what he's doin. it has to stop. >> both harris and trump have rallies tonight as they continue their push in battleground states. trump will be in nevada, harris in pennsylvania, perry russom, abc news, washington. >> and we are now less than two months away until election day for more information about the candidates, the polls and how to register to vote, go to abc seven news.com/election. bookmark that page and you'll have one place for all the latest information. as we head

to that big day. all right. now let's turn to developing news in san francisco. we told you about. authorities are investigating a police shooting just outside the powell street bart station in san francisco. sfpd chief bill scott says officers saw a man armed with a gun in a car on jessie street just before 1030 this morning. a foot chase then followed, leading officers to fire shots at the suspect in the powell street station plaza. the man was taken to the hospital in fair condition. >> we did recover the firearm that the suspect had. there were a lot of witnesses out here. as you know, this is a very busy area, a public transportation hub and i want to emphasize a few things. first thing, i want to emphasize is our officers were deployed very heavily in this area for this very reason. we are committed to having a safe, clean city. and that's exactly what the officers were there to do. >> chief scott says there will be a public town hall meeting within ten days. changing

weather in southern california is bringing relief to crews trying to contain three massive wildfires. firefighters have been dealing with temperatures as hot as 115 degrees over the past week. now it's getting cooler, less windy and in some areas it could even rain. the bridge fire is now 3% contained, up from no containment last night. it's covering more than 52,000 acres across los angeles and san bernardino counties. cal fire says the fire has destroyed nearly three dozen homes and is threatening 5000 other structures. containment of the airport fire also increased overnight from 5% to 8%. it's burned about 23,000 acres in orange and riverside counties, and injured a dozen people. and the arson suspect arrested in connection with the lion fire is now facing nine felony charges. the lion fire has grown to more than 37,000 acres in and is 21% contained. meanwhile outside reno, the davis fire is about

56% contained, according to the u.s. forest service. that's up from 37% contained wednesday night. the fire has burned nearly 6000 acres. evacuation orders are being lifted in some areas. it is a warm, nice day here around the bay area, but things will soon be changing. here's abc seven meteorologist drew tuma with the accuweather forecast. >> here are the accuweather headlines. sunny and warm. this afternoon. it looks lovely out there. the weekend outlook we are highlighting cooler, breezier weather moving in here. >> and then by monday morning we do have the chance of some light drizzle in the forecast. so the rest of the afternoon looking nice, looking warm inland, close to 90 with lots of sunshine. the evening will be pleasant as we head around the bay shoreline. upper 70s. lower 80s. patchy fog will return by about 8 p.m. coming in in the mid 60s. right at that hour. uh- along the coast we do have partly cloudy skies. temperatures in the 60s right now, cooling off into the 50s with increasing clouds later on this evening. so highs in our

microclimates starting in the south bay. warm sunshine 85. santa clara 88, in gilroy, 83, in sunnyvale, about 76. in santa cruz, up along the peninsula. we'll go to 84 in redwood city, 80 in mountain view, 77 in san mateo, 60 for the high and half moon bay. pretty sunny across the city today. the lone exception close to the golden gate. you are seeing some fog, so upper 60s to lower 70s for daytime highs in the north bay. it's warm. 88 in novato, 89 in santa rosa, the coast will hit 70 bodega bay about 86, though in napa, the east bay, it is bright. it is getting warmer. 78 in oakland today for a high, 82 in fremont, 84 castro valley and then inland. we're getting hot in the 90s in some areas. concord 91, the same in antioch, hit about 90. in livermore, san ramon coming in at about 88 degrees overnight. tonight we'll keep some patchy fog along the coast. some patchy fog around the bay shoreline. not overcast skies by any means. our marine layer still kind of mixed up right now. so fine temperatures in the 50s overnight tonight heading into saturday we'll see

cooler weather start to move in here. but it's really sunday that we have increasing cloud cover and increase in our winds. and you find those temperatures feeling like fall by sunday afternoon. it does come with a chance of some wet weather here on monday. future weather showing you as a zoom in to monday morning. low pressure is going to sit on top of northern california. it will bring about that cooling trend by the end of the weekend, and then on monday there you can see those pops of green on your screen. will likely have some drizzle, even some light showers possible. first thing monday. here's the accuweather seven day forecast. next seven days for you. sunny and warm today. breezy and cooler tomorrow. cloudier and fall feeling on sunday morning. drizzle very likely monday morning, but it's short lived by tuesday and wednesday we'll bring back that sunshine. >> all right, well, music superstar justin timberlake today pleaded guilty to a charge of driving while impaired. throngs of media were outside the courthouse in sag harbor, new york, when timberlake arrived earlier this morning. he was arrested there in june.

police said. after leaving a bar, he failed to stop at a stop sign and then failed a field sobriety test. the judge today ordered timberlake to make a public safety announcement, so he addressed the media after leaving the courtroom. >> this is a mistake that i made, but i'm hoping that whoever is watching and listening right now can learn from this mistake. i know that i certainly have, and like i said, even one drink don't get behind the wheel of a car. >> the judge also sentenced timberlake to 25 hours of community service and a $500 fine. google is now using ai to answer your health questions, but should you listen? after the break, we'll talk to an expert

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i generated answers are now first to pop up above web links. the new york times has an article about it. google is using ai to answer your health questions should you trust it? many experts say when it comes to health questions, maybe you shouldn't. not completely. joining us live now to talk about this new feature and the implications. doctor seema yasmin, a clinical assistant professor of medicine at stanford and author of what the fact finding the truth in all the noise. thank you so much for joining us. >> thanks for having me, chris. and this is a really important topic, so i'm glad we're covering it today. >> it really is. what are your main concerns regarding the health information provided by google's ai overviews that now appear prominently at the top of your search results?

>> so, kristen, you mentioned in your intro that people may have noticed that google switched up the way it's doing things. my concern is that people didn't realize that back in may, things changed when it came to one of the most loved and trusted search engines out there. google really changed the way that it scraped the internet to find answers to our questions and now it's using ai to do this. it's pulling from all sorts of sources. many of them, i fear, look legitimate. they appear credible, but they're giving people junk science. so one example is now, if you search, how can i get more minerals into my diet sometimes? google's new ai overview will tell you to go eat rocks. and the reason that that's happening is because alongside pulling from credible websites, it's also pulling from satirical ones and not separating the fact from the fiction. >> the rock one you referred to, i remember when it came out, it was so shocking because it

actually pulled from onion, right? the onion, which is like satirical, like you said. i tried another one myself. like, does eating chocolate make you lose weight? and i saw that, you know, some of the responses were built on things from the mayo clinic, which is totally legit. incredible. but then you also had some random retailer that sells, i don't know, some sort of product, and you're thinking, that's not health information or a good source for that. so let me ask you, why does the ai do this? i mean, it's supposed to be smart, doesn't it know which ones are credible sources to pull from and which ones not? >> it's not been trained, as far as we know, to do that properly. kristen. unfortunately, one of the issues and i write about this in what the fact is that such little transparency for us about the process. so we're trying to reverse engineer and figure out why is the new google ai results telling people to go eat rocks or ai? you can also look up for a healthy pizza recipe and sometimes it gives you a result that includes a pizza recipe with glue in the ingredients. so again, it's

pulling from all over the place. it's not always telling you exactly where that information is coming from. and while that can be silly or funny in some instances, i don't know. say you want party ideas for a kid's birthday. sometimes people are searching life or death things on google and it's very concerning to me working in healthcare, researching misinformation and disinformation, that people are searching things and they're coming up with junk science, that they might fall for because it appears legitimate. >> can i just ask you how the potential for misinformation changes or why this is more worrisome than the old google query results right from before may, when you might ask a question and then you'll get these web links. why is this worse? if you will? >> because of all the places that it's pulling from. so for example, i was looking up information about treatments for long covid the other day to just help out a friend, and it brought up results near the top

of the search results that looked credible. but just because of some things that i know and a little bit of digging that i did, it was actually giving me information from clinics that are not credible clinics. these were really shady clinics that are selling all kinds of fake cures and so because of why it's so worrying, whereas before those those uncredible ones wouldn't be at the top of your search results or anything like that, right? so exactly, we have more information about exactly where that data was coming from as opposed to it coming from a clinic that looks credible, but actually isn't. >> got it. okay. so then what do you do? you mentioned you doing the digging and of course you have knowledge and information for the rest of us, though, when we have an important health question. right. and we do use google for now as a tool, how should we go about it? what kind of safeguards can we put on ourselves? >> so first off, be aware that things have changed online. we think that google is trying really hard to stay up with big tech and the advent of ai, and

that's why it's switched things up. so i don't think everyone realizes realizes that things have changed. so be aware of how ai is being used to generate those search results. but the other thing is now the onus is on us to do that little bit more digging. kristen. look up where the information is coming from, click on a url, follow through and ask yourself, is this a legitimate source? i'm so sorry that the onus is on individuals out there and not so much on the tech companies to have more ethical guidelines, and not on the government to regulate this more. but in the meantime, while things are shifting so quickly and ai is being used to generate this data about health and science, the responsibility is on us to do more fact checking than we've previously done. >> all right. sounds like to me you think there's a great deal of responsibility for the companies and also for the government to do more, but until then, we do what we can. doctor. seema, yasmin, thank you so much for that information. author of what? the fact. really appreciate it.

>> thank you. >> iberia university's new warning. warning students about a sharp increase in employment scams. we'll talk to an expert from uc berkeley about how you can spot the scams before you

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on the rise. a better business bureau report last year showed they are now the second riskiest consumer scam, with a median loss of nearly $2,000, and young adults and recent graduates are most vulnerable. that's why uc berkeley is sounding the alarm. joining us live now to talk about it, alison henry, chief information security officer at uc berkeley. alison, thanks for joining us today. >> thank you for having me. >> an important topic. you guys recently sent out an email. i understand to the entire community about fake employment offers. what prompted this warning? have students been scammed?

>> oh yes. it's been a problem. it got really bad right after covid. we started seeing more and more of these coming in last year. we we've been tracking the ones that get reported just to our office. so somebody a student who was scammed reaches out to us and it was over $35,000 last year. just the ones reported to us. and we know there's more than that. and it's really heartbreaking because sometimes that money, you know, it could be a couple thousand dollars for an individual student, but that could be the difference between being able to pay rent and buy food and just meet basic needs. so it's really devastating. right. >> they're hitting the people who can least afford it. right. but what is the range of the scammers offers and how did those phishing messages typically arrive? >> so they come in first through email, but then they'll direct the student to text them. and then we can't track them anymore because they're not within our email systems. and typically what they'll do is, you know, say, i need your help and i need you to order equipment. they will send a check to the student

and say, deposit this in your account and then bye bye equipment. and then of course, the check doesn't clear and the student is out. the money that they spent to you know, purchase whatever was asked for. >> so what is this, like an offer of research or internship or job? but i mean, why would you need to buy equipment for that? >> yeah, a lot of times they pretend to be a professor. and so this is equipment for my lab. they sometimes use stolen accounts, so it looks like it's coming from a legitimate source, and just say i need an assistant, and i need somebody to help me get this equipment ordered, we really encourage students to. you know, look very carefully at these and trust your instincts if something doesn't sound right, we also see these. come in social media or even direct texting. so they come in different sources. right? but they're always askin, i just want to direct our viewers attention to what we were showing there. >> that's the facebook one that you've seen, right? that if we can put that back up, because

that is very helpful because i think looking at this, can you give us some telltale signs or things that we can check about the account or anything else that would confirm whether this is legit or not? >> yeah, absolutely. so if you look, they'll have a name of an academic department, but you can go to our campus directory and find the home page for that department and find their contact information and verify the request. the same thing if it looks like it's coming from a professor, you can look up that professor in the directory and reach out to them with their published directory. contact information. what you never want to do is use a text number that you received in an email, because there's no way to verify who that number actually belongs to. >> okay. i mean, what a real professor actually reach out to a student in this way or ask them to ever buy anything. >> no. so first of all, like a job should be paying you, not the other way around. so you should never be out money of your own money to get a job and then wait to get paid back. so that's a big red flag there.

there's, you know, student employment offices. if you go through legitimate sources for student employment in the campu, that's always your best bet. you know, whether it's a professor or a private company, if you find a job offer through social media or email, the safest thing to do is always look up the known trusted contact information and verify whether this is legitimate. >> yeah. and do you expect to see a lot more of this, especially this year? because i am hearing from kids that this year, internships and new job recruiting is just really hard to come by. >> yes. i mean, with the with the economy being what it is and job availability being hard and also students struggling to meet basic needs, i think this is really fueling people just, you know, desperate for a solution, and, you know, i just remind people, like they say, if it's too good to be true, then it probably is. >> all right. alison. henry, chief information security officer at uc berkeley. this is really great public service, not just to your community, but

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buzzer in celebrity family feud. or are they? >> you know, we had a little practice round beforehand and i froze up. i couldn't it was a name of cartoon character and i couldn't tell you a single cartoon character ever created. >> but the truth is, we like to keep our audiences on the edge of their seats. >> that's true. they're competing against eddie modica, susan berger, david brown, maria russell, cassandra blair, and ronald gladden from jury duty, who also put in some work. >> well, i loved it. i think we all had a great time. everybody here did absolutely phenomenal. we'll see. >> golden bachelor royalty going head to head, including our golden bachelorette joan vassos. we'll also see the star trek cast beamed up against the deadliest catch. let's go meet the legend team, and chrissy teigen and john legend head up a team going against chrissy and dave. dine out costar and chef david chang. george pennacchio for abc news prince harry is having a birthday this weekend.

>> he is turning 40 on sunday, so a british pub is celebrating early by serving a beer to a wax figure of harry. the bar is named after the prince. it's called the duke of sussex. pub madame tussauds in london lent them the wax figure. tussauds also brought one of his wife, meghan markle's wax figure so that he's not there all alone. waxing poetic, the 40 niners are inviting you to kick off football season with a new furry friend. the team shared this video on social media today, showing several players posing with some adorable puppies. or it's from a recent visit to the humane society silicon valley. the niners are teaming up with the shelter to sponsor $49 off adoption fees. now through sunday, the team says welcome a canine owner to your family this weekend. it's just all too clever for us. all right, that's going to do it for now. thank you so much for joining us. world news tonight with david muir starts right now. and i'll

see you back here for abc seven news at four with larry beil. so tune in then. have a good one. >> whit: tonight, the presidential candidates on a blitz of the battleground states. an american city on edge following donald trump's debate claims about immigrants. 33,000 boeing workers on strike. and the alarming scene on the football field calls for an nfl star to retire. first, the city suddenly at the center of a political firestorm. donald trump doubling down on false claims he made during the