heads are in mourning, flocking to san francisco's

haight-ashbury neighborhood to grieve and honor phil lesh, a founding member of the grateful dead, arguably one of the best rock bands of all time. good afternoon, i'm kristen sze phil lesh was born in berkeley in 1940, and originally formed the grateful dead alongside jerry garcia in 1964. they would go on to define the psychedelic sound of san francisco in the 1960s, writing songs out of a house in haight-ashbury. lesh was a classically trained violinist and jazz trumpeter, but found his true calling reinventing the role of bass guitar. lesh carried the torch of the grateful dead long after garcia's death in 1995, making him one of the oldest and longest surviving members of the band. despite several cancer cancer battles, we just spoke to denis mcnally, a grateful dead historian and former publicist to the band, about lesh's impact and legacy. >> it's devastating. it's uh. it's the end of an era. it's,

you know, it's all those clichés that that when someone is, is essential and famous and part of a very powerful, you know, semi subculture like the grateful dead. it's just it's a little shocking. i will say that the last time i saw phil, i thought, oh, he looks so thin. i mean, he was so active and so, you know, and i know, you know, he's had health issues over the, you kno, since i mean, he's got a new liver for starters. but the last time i saw him, which was a few months ago, he he was definitely seemed to me to be. oh, just so you know, so thin and pale. and i wondered, but, you know, he was obviously had so many musical plans and so, so, so forth that it was definitely not something he was, you know,

planning on immediately. >> deadheads are now flocking to the old grateful dead house in the haight-ashbury to pay homage to the cause of his death is still unknown. he was 84 years old. we'll have more on his legacy on abc seven news at four. the san jose state university women's volleyball team has had another match canceled, all because of a controversy over a trans athlete on the team. the nevada volleyball team officially forfeited their upcoming game with the spartans. the game was originally scheduled to be played in reno on saturday, then nevada asked to move the match ahead of a likely forfeit. last night, the school made it official with a statement saying the team didn't have enough players to compete. the school says the players who opted out of the match will not be punished. the spartans have won five games via forfeit this season over reports that a player on their team is transgender. some bay area cities are testing out new technology to put a stop to sideshows. it's a sensor that

listens for them, using artificial intelligence to identify specific tire screeches. if detected, it will send an alert to police. flock safety makes the device and is behind the license plate. readers that are used in several bay area cities, including san francisco, oakland, and san jose. flock says the license plate readers at least the ones in san francisco, cannot record audio. fall is in the air, and here's abc seven meteorologist drew tuma with your weekend forecast, the accuweather headlines. >> we're calling for a mix of sun and clouds today will keep those warm temperatures today and tomorrow. now heading into sunday, we do have to talk about some drizzle. the best chance of any moisture is in the north bay outside of the north bay. most of us will remain dry as we head into next week. sunshine is back in full force and it feels a lot more like fall. we'll have those temperatures more in the 60s and 70s in the afternoon. here's live doppler seven, along with satellite. you can see the high clouds streaming in from west to east here. they're almost

through the bay area. we'll find more sunshine as we head deeper into the afternoon, but we're watching this area of low pressure. this will impact us on sunday. the main center of that low will go off to the north, but a cold front will pass by sunday morning and supply us with that chance of drizzle. here's future weather. deeper into the afternoon. it feels lovely out there. 70s to be found. lots of sunshine. so we continue that warm trend that we've had for much of this week. so high of 80 in san rafael hit 74. in richmond, about 66 in half moon bay, 80 in concord, 76 in palo alto, hit about 82 in san jose. overnight tonight, we'll have partly cloudy skies. we keep the theme of our cooler overnight lows in the low 40s to the low 50s, but we bounce back nicely tomorrow afternoon once again. here's future tracker on saturday. you see those temperatures still a bit above average for this time of year, mainly in the 70s and 80s away from the coast. but by sunday, you'll feel that cooler air move in here, and these temperatures will mainly stay in the 60s and low 70s. that comes with a

chance of some drizzle. so future weather saturday, you'll find a partly sunny sky throughout the day. no issues out there. then on sunday in the morning there you find that chance in the north bay and along the coast of some drizzle outside of the north bay. it's just mostly cloudy and cool out there. so any drizzle we have, you could see it's just a few hundredths of an inch of moisture that we're finding to finish the weekend. here's the accuweather seven day forecast next seven days for you. it's mild fall weather today. sun and clouds tomorrow. there's that isolated drizzle in the north bay, but everybody feels that cooler air moving in on sunday. but the next week sunshine is back. fall-like temperatures will last through halloween. >> all right, now to the race for the white house. both presidential candidates are in texas today with contrasting messages. former president donald trump is sitting down with popular podcast host joe rogan. meanwhile, vice president kamala harris rallies on reproductive rights in houston with hometown superstar beyonce. abc news reporter christiane cordero has the details.

>> dueling campaigns today in texas looking to win over young male voters. former president trump sitting down for the first time with joe rogan, host of the number one podcast in america with an audience of more than 15 million, according to spotify. at a campaign event in austin, trump helping get out the vote for republican senator ted cruz locked in a surprisingly tough reelection bid. >> we're here today in the great state of texas, which under kamala harris has been turned into ground zero for the largest border invasion in the history of the world. >> last night, the former president escalated his anti-migrant rhetoric by calling the u.s. a, quote, dumping ground for the world. >> we're like a garbage can for the world. that's what's happening. >> it's just another example of how he really belittles our country. >> vice president harris today targeting a different demographic campaigning in houston for reproductive rights in the face of an increase of restrictions on women.

>> the elected leaders of texas, a lot of them have made texas ground zero in this fundamental fight for the freedom of women to make decisions about their own body. >> there, with her hometown superstar beyonce, harris uses beyonce's freedom to open almost all of her campaign events. lines to get in stretched far outside the stadium more than eight hours before the event, and sources tell abc news. chinese hackers are believed to have targeted cell phones used by trump and running mate senator jd vance. it's not clear what, if any, access was granted to those devices. christiane cordero abc news, washington. >> four astronauts are back on earth after eight months in space, but officials say one of them remains at a pensacola hospital in stable condition. they say the crew member is under observation as a precautionary measure. the space capsule landed in the gulf of mexico overnight. that's what

you're looking at after it undocked from the iss a few days ago. the four should have been back two months ago, but their return was delayed due to technical problems with their capsule. they were delayed again over weather conditions from hurricane milton. meanwhile, former nasa astronaut jose hernandez spent the morning with elementary school students in san jose. and as abc seven news reporter lena howland shows us, he didn't show up empty handed. reporter. >> it's not every day that the namesake of your school pays a visit. >> i think it was really exciting. it's like we talk about him all the time. we're mentioning his name. his name is everywhere. but some of our students were still like, whoa, this is this is who i'm, like, representing. when i'm here at the school. >> jose hernandez is the son of immigrant farmworkers who went on to become an engineer and a nasa astronaut. the stockton native stopped by for jose hernandez school friday morning to share a few words of wisdom. >> i was telling these kids over here in the fifth grade in the

back that i was their age when the dream was born, of me wanting to be an astronaut. >> hernandez talked about how he became an astronaut and how nasa turned him down 11 times before he was hired, but before he put on that orange spacesuit, he said it was reading that first inspired him. >> and what helped me learn english as leer libros reading books is what helped me learn english. >> not showing up empty handed. his visit also came with a generous donation of 6500 new books from gordon philanthropies and the reaching for the stars foundation, including a few about hernandez becoming an astronaut. principal giuliana parra says two of the three books with his namesake were bilingual, which is really, really big. >> we get to serve a community that is majority hispanic. we have a very large population of students that are learning english as a second language. and so being able to say, like, you have this book to learn about who our school named

after. and even if you're still learning your second language, you can still have access in san jose. >> lena howland, abc seven news. >> the warriors blowout win in portland on wednesday just got a little bigger. one point bigger and better to be precise. the nba is correcting a scoring error to give the warriors an additional point. the league erroneously missed a free throw from shooting guard de'anthony melton during the game. statisticians recorded melton as missing both free throws. after checking the tape, the league found melton actually made one of them, but the scoreboard never changed. the dubs are back in action tonight in utah, before playing their home opener sunday at chase center against the clippers. the fall classic is finally here tonight as game one of the world series. between the new york yankees and los angeles dodgers. it's not just east coast versus west coast. it's also got baseball's biggest stars, aaron judge and shohei ohtani. the yankees will be trying to end a 15 year title drought, while the dodgers will try to validate spending over $1 billion in salary commitments this past off season. game one

is going to be at dodger stadium. election day is less than two weeks away. candidates from local to national are fighting for your votes. but the rhetoric lies and in some cases, violence are ratcheting up. we'll speak to an expert on political d

for your votes there fighting lies and sometimes violence. recently, we've seen fema workers threatened after hurricane helene due to false claims by the trump campaign. and today, as my colleague anser hassan will report on abc seven news at four, oakland city council member and candidate carole fife is alleging her canvassers were physically

attacked. >> this is insane. this campaign season, i'm telling y'all, has been uh- like the energies around people's positions, the polarization, the lies have got people out here tripping. >> some experts see this as a result of the explosion in political lies and disinformation. joining us live to talk about this author of beyond the big lie, founder of the political fact checking platform politifact and duke university journalism and public policy professor bill adair. professor adair, thank you for joining us today. >> thank you for having me. >> so you wrote in the atlantic this month that you misunderstood something about lying in politics. big time. what did you misunderstand? >> well, i think i had when i started politifact in 2007, i, i had high hopes for the impact of fact checking, and it just hasn't worked out the way that i that i wished it would. and what's happened is that social media and partizan media has

really become a venue for so many lies that the fact checking has just not been able to keep up. and, you know, and so we find ourselves in this situation where there is just this avalanche of lies and the fact checks just are not inhibiting the liars from saying what they say and from spreading them widely. >> you mean like drowning in too many lies? is what's happening? >> well, i think yeah, i do think that's what's happened. i wish more people would do what the nba did and correct their mistakes. like they did with with the warriors score. we used to see that when i started politifact in 2007. we would we would see politicians correcting their mistakes on occasion, and we see that a lot less. >> look, political disinformation has always been a thing we don't want to suggest this is new, right? i mean, hello nixon, but in the past two cycles, it seems to have openly

reached the highest echelons. right. witness this at last month's presidential debate. right. well, sorry about the audio not being there. >> well, i can tell you what the audio is, which is they're eating the cats. they're eating the dogs, probably. right. and you know that. yeah. that that lie, which not only did donald trump say that and say it again and say it again, but that lie is really interesting because it has been debunked so widely, not just by politifact. the fact checking site where i used to work, but also by so many other journalism organizations. and yet, donald trump and jd vance continue to say that. and it's really troubling because it you know, it speaks, i think, to the dysfunction in our system and the imbalance in political lying. >> and we forget to write. there are actual victims as a result of some of these lies.

>> absolutely. and so in my book, one of the things that i that i show is that when politicians lie, there are victims, both people who fall for the lies and then act out, but also people who are victimized, who get threatened. i follow nina jankowicz, who was the head of an agency within the department of homeland security, and she sort of forms the backbone of the book. she was the head of a, a coordinating group within the department of homeland security, and she was the target of many, many lies. and then threats and death threats. and the lies just turned her life upside down. so lying is not a victimless crime. okay. >> can i just ask you, then why is it that seemingly politicians are more willing to engage in it? that is, you know, you refer to, hey, there used to be a consequence, right? if you were caught. oh, okay, i'll correct it. ha, ha. because i don't want

to either lose votes or lose credibility. what happened to all that? what's changed? >> well, i think two big things have changed. one is the districts that politicians represent are are so much more partizan that it's easy for politicians to say what they want and not face retribution from with, from their own voters. and also they're they're often only answerable to partizan media that not only doesn't question their lies, but echoes their lies and often has a business motive for repeating the lies. and so that's what's changed. just since i started politifact in 2007. >> so this is where we get to, oh gosh, doom and gloom right now. but what is the answer? what will save us? >> well, i'm not sure i'm that optimistic about the next couple of months, but i do think long term the key is for voters to care about this. i think if we

can get people to care about lying and do a few things, one is to get the companies that that provide advertising to politicians to, to take responsibility. and they can charge incentives, they can create incentives for politicians to, to tell the truth by charging lower rates to politicians who have better records for fact checking and charge higher rates to politicians who lie a lot. that's something they could do right away. they just need to show the courage to do that. another idea i propose in the book is a lying pledge. republicans love this when it comes to taxes. they should embrace it when it comes to lying. >> do you actually think that is possible when media outlets are already not making endorsements of candidates to display courage? >> i'm hopeful. i am optimistic by nature, and i'm hopeful that

people will realize lying is crippling our discourse and will tell the politicians they want them to be more honest. >> all right. i mean, i'm hoping that we can still sort through all the lies and know what truth is at this point. it does get difficult, but i will stay positive as well and optimistic. bill adair, thank you so much for joining us. really appreciate the conversation. >> thank you for having me. >> up next, shark tank airs right here on abc seven tonight. and two local entrepreneurs are being featured. we will hear from the brother and

at golf. it's a portable backyard golf game that's customizable every time you want to play. on our midday show today, we talked with tyler and jenny simmons, the sibling duo from marin county, about their

invention, our bucket golf. for those who have not heard of it. what is it? how does it work and how did you guys come up with it? >> so bucket golf is a portable par three golf game where it all fits in a bag. you can set up and custom design your course anywhere you want. it's great for people who are good golfers or people who have just never played golf before, but want to try playing. and then the way it kind of all started is we started playing just as like a homemade set from like 6 or 7 different stores and realized how much fun it was. and everyone loved it, and then at the same time realized it wasn't really even a thing yet and just thought, i guess it's our job to make it a thing then. >> how did you come up with the design of this product? were there any challenges and is this meant for a specific type of golf shot like a chip? or what are we trying to get at here? >> yeah. so the original design was just like buckets from gardens, like a garden supply

store and like pieced together stuff from all these places. i was in my roommate's room and he had like a pop up laundry hamper and kind of just was like, oh, i could make the buckets, like, pop up. and then everything is more portable, fits in like a small bag to carry it around. and that was kind of like how it switched from like this, like homemade set into like kind of a real thing. and then as far as, like how to play it, like, is it chip shots like, no, this is like full, full on golf. you can set the holes up there. the balls travel about like 40 to 50 yards if you hit like a full swing on it. so you get kind of the entire game of golf packed down into this bag. and you can set it up at the park, backyard or wherever you want. >> okay. so how did you guys like the experience of being on shark tank? what was that like? any funny, funny, intimidating moments? >> yeah, yeah, it was really fun. definitely a little nerve wracking. it is a completely like, surreal experience out there. but we had a great time. we will keep the spoilers, so

you'll have to tune in to watch us tonight. but yeah, we did have a lot of fun. definitely very nervous, but it was so cool being up there with my brother and we've been talking about it since we were kids of wanting to work together and build something. so the fact that we actually got to do it and go on shark tank was like, so cool. we had so much fun. >> so yep, no spoilers, but what is your advice to other entrepreneurs who might want to start a business? >> oh, best advice is just probably keep going and don't quit. nothing's going to work for the first six months, first year, maybe in first couple years. but if you keep going, eventually you'll you'll find a way to make it work for sure. >> and you can watch the bucket golf entrepreneurs take their shot on shark tank tonight at 8:00 right here on abc seven. up next, halloween is less than a week away in a bay area staple is hosting a special event. details about the unhinged

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the winchester mystery house is hosting an immersive event, and this year's theme is unhinged hotel. guests have to navigate the maze like home, which is filled with ghoulish characters. i thought it was really like, realistic, and it was creepy, but also funny. >> and it felt so real. it felt like i was in a horror movie. to see everyone here dressing up and just the fog that they put on and just the ghoulies who hide in the corners and freak you out. >> they are freaky. all those

corners and places. tickets are around $85. it runs on select nights through next saturday, november 2nd. and remember, abc seven news is streaming 24 over seven. get the abc seven bay area app and join us whenever you want, wherever you are. and that's going to do it for today. thanks for joining us on abc seven news at three world news tonight with david muir starts right now. and i'll see you back here at four. enjoy your weekend. it's going to be nice. and. tonight, breaking news as we come on the air. the new national poll tonight. vice president kamala harris and former president donald trump. where this race stands.>