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and her meds would get delivered right to her door. >come with me to meet the president of the united states. the race for the white house >is >>flooding our feed. >we just have to be working with them. and if we're not, we're missing a huge way that voters are getting information about the world presidential campaigns tapping into thousands of influencers, >he said to us, the collective presence in this room has more viewership on gen z than all of traditional media combined. but as content creators cash in, >how can you tell what is a genuine grassroots expression of political opinion versus what's being paid for

>anne>i'm anne makovec in for liz today, and if you'd scrolled social media lately, you've probably seen political content presidential campaigns are using it to try to catch voters attention and ultimately win them over. today we are talking with the bay area political and media expert about the tactic and the money behind it. we're going to have that conversation coming up in just a few minutes. but first, a look at some of your news headlines. a murder suspect who spent more than three decades on death row will soon be retried or set free alameda county district attorney pamela price announced a federal judge overturned the conviction of 71 year old curtis lee ervin one of 35 death row cases under review in alameda county because of alleged prosecutorial misconduct. now it's up to price whether irvin's case is retried. in san jose, a small memorial marking the spot where a car hit and killed a 12 year old on a scooter. it happened yesterday afternoon at the intersection of camden and lee avenues.

police say the driver had the green light and is cooperating with investigators. a brush fire scorched this land right next to 280 in san jose. today. our chopper shot this video about an hour ago. this is near mclaughlin avenue. that fire came close to a homeless encampment. and about four acres burned. the contra costa county health department once again recommending wearing masks in crowded indoor spaces. that is because of a rise in covid cases and the spread of the so-called flirt strain. wastewater data shows increased virus levels about an hour from now in oakland. little leaguers going to hit the field at raymond park for the first time in many years the field was recently renovated, so the ballers could play there. the bees are hosting the game between the oakland babe ruth, little league team and the north oakland south oakland team. and check out this video this is from our chopper in pacifica earlier this afternoon we spotted these whales flipping their tails. they seem to be enjoying the afternoon off linda mar beach. first

alert weather. now a lot of us enjoying the afternoon though it is pretty warm in some parts, including the south bay meteorologist darren peck. following the latest advisory, >darren>i just want. chopper five over wales every day what cool shots those were and it is a very different story if you're inland because there is a heat advisory which anne just referenced. so let me talk about that first. if you're in the santa clara valley the heat advisory stays in effect until 9:00 tonight. it's the only place in the bay that's got it. and the temperatures here in the low 90s are not as hot as they are in the inland east bay but there's just a perspective item here. consistent low 90s with relatively warm overnight lows in the south bay. you've had this for a couple of days now so the national weather service has just got this out to make sure you're aware, this is a little bit more than you typically get in most other parts of the bay. while warmer than average are able to handle this a little bit better. this is a view from the salesforce tower and we're looking out west over the shoulder of mount

sutro. and you can see all the marine layer out there. so that real pretty aerial footage we had of the humpback whales near pacifica is pretty gray out that way did not start the day that way and it's part of the reason why tomorrow is going to feel different. i'll show you how the marine layer is going to fill back in in one second. first is where high stands so far. daytime highs well into the upper 90s in the east bay valleys, low 90s for san jose and just for comparison, where the averages are, we're running well above that for many locations. this is where we started today. this is a playback we're using high resolution satellite imagery, which is different than the futurecast, which we're going to look at in a second. but this is actually how the marine layer has behaved today. it was not there. this morning. watch it build back in today. and now we're going to switch from looking at actual high resolution satellite to go to the forecast imagery to see where it's going to go from here, and it will fill back in the entire bay overnight tonight. so we're going to wake up tomorrow at 7 a.m. and we're

going to have our foggy skies back. had a nice little break today where you didn't have it. and the two really do go hand in hand. heat advisories, temperatures well above average those are going to be on the days where we do not wake up with this, but we're going to have it tomorrow so if we look at the forecast for tomorrow's daytime highs, instead of being in the 90s for san jose, you're going to be in the mid 80s and everybody gets a little bit of a break. inland valleys, maybe not as much. you'll probably still be well into the mid 90s for inland valleys tomorrow. but if we jump ahead to the one day in the seven day forecast which stands out, the most, it's probably monday of next week look at the different color scheme on here. got a nice cool down coming our way. it's going to be gradual. so for the next few days you're probably not going to notice a whole lot of change. you'll see that when we get to the seven day forecast. there's one other item to discuss it's always a good idea to check in on the big picture view and see what smoke plumes might be emanating from california. and no doubt you've probably picked out the one right here. we're still seeing smoke coming off of the

park fire, and you kind of see that there on the northern edge. there's our marine layer building back in, but there's still a very visible large plume of smoke emanating off the park fire concerns on the front lines there for sure. any concerns here at home from smoke are actually kind of minimized because the general pattern over the next few days using that high resolution smoke forecast, you can see the flow in the atmosphere wants to continue to move that smoke away from us. so at least if there's any good news on that, that would be it. from here at home standpoint, we'll keep covering the park fire on those front lines as we have for the last several weeks. now more on that coming up later through the day. all right. here's your seven day forecast. san francisco and oakland. you don't get a big swing here. when we look at the inland microclimates you see the temperatures bottoming out as we get to early next week. so by monday we've got some of your coolest numbers in that plays all the way through for the inland east bay beaches are not changing much. good whale watching out there though. all right. and back to you

>anne>vice president kamala harris and her running mate, governor tim walz, are in their first full day of campaigning together for the democratic ticket. here's a look at the long line of people waiting for them earlier in eau claire, wisconsin. they've wrapped up their event there and are headed to another battleground state, michigan. now republican vice presidential candidate j.d. vance was also in eau claire, wisconsin today. in fact, he landed there at around the same time as the vice president. vance walked over to air force two and had this to say to reporters, >just get a good look at the plane, because hopefully it's going to be my plane in a few months. but i also thought you guys might get lonely because the vice president doesn't answer questions from reporters and hasn't for 17 days. >anne>well, the candidates are working to win over voters in person through tv ads and more. and more often online. and they are tapping into the reach of influencers to do it cbs reporter jo ling kent takes a

look at the sophisticated and often expensive tactics >look at the volume in this hair 23 year old al-hassani made a name for herself dispensing beauty tips on tiktok. >i just peed in the white house so when she posted this video of her white house bathroom break, her half a million followers took notice. >i was just shocked. i was like, did you guys see that marble sonny, who met us in houston, was one of a few dozen influencers invited to the white house to watch the state of the union and meet president biden. >he said to us, the collective presence in this room has more viewership on gen z than all of traditional media combined. so here's my birth control vlog it was this viral video she posted after the fall of roe v wade >over the united states of my uterus that initially caught the attention of a democratic super pac on the right turning point usa has mobilized influencers for years, raising nearly $200 million since 2020. >we realize they're coming for you guys next.

now, democratic organizations are flooding the creator community with cash and providing behind the scenes access. >come with me to meet the president of the united states. we just have to be working with them. and if we're not we're missing a huge way that voters are getting information about the world. rob flaherty runs digital strategy. previously, in the biden white house. and now for the harris campaign. >you think you just fell out of a coconut tree? he called the highly memorable harris a massive asset as the campaign reaches out to thousands of influencers, >what kind of coaching do you give influencers acting on behalf of the harris campaign? talking points resources, base language while flaherty says the harris campaign does not pay influencers directly, cbs news found a constellation of other democratic political organizations that do in may, future forward, the super pac supporting harris, hosted panels like gaming the algorithm and how advocacy can benefit your business. >in the first 100 days of a

republican presidency under trump project 2025 talks about sacking thousands of civil servants. last month, sun says she was hired by protect our care, a progressive advocacy group that relies on anonymous donors she made a video warning about trump's second term agenda. >they almost help you script it, right? right. definitely she takes their talking points and puts them into her own voice, saying she always discloses when she's being paid. >what's your rate so a video just for a creator in my size and average can go from $3000 to $10,000 depending and upwards this is a bid by campaigns to create authenticity at a small scale university of pittsburgh's sam woolley studies political influencers. >how can you tell what is a genuine grassroots expression of political opinion versus what's being paid for? if you see multiple influencers spreading the same exact message, you can start to

realize some kind of coordination is going on next up for sunday, the democratic national convention. >they just told us that if we wanted to put on our own show, that they would give us all the resources to do that. the democrats are rolling out the red carpet. definitely and i'm glad to be on it. the beauty influencer now applying her own filter to this presidential campaign. >anne>well could this social media tactic actually backfire for a campaign? and is this whole thing good for democracy? our conversation with the bay area political expert coming up next

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>live>absolutely, in the last, few presidential elections and all indications are it will be true of this election as well. there's been a razor thin margin between the winner and the runner up. and if the right social media content, you know, hits those people on the periphery, that could change enough votes to change the outcome of the election. just to give an idea, you know, we're talking about roughly 45,000 votes separated trump and biden in 2020, roughly about 120,000 between clinton and trump and 2016. so we're not talking about a lot of people you have to convince to change the outcome of an election. >anne>so in that report, just before our break, we talked about the fact that they have more of a reach than most of the traditional media combined when you're talking about people who might not be super political savvy or necessarily interested in the truth, does that become dangerous yeah, >live>it can false information or, you know, political advertising it's as old as democracy itself but the kind

of safeguard against it is that hopefully you have a population, citizenry that can tell the difference between, you know, journalism or political advertisements. and. right now the studies show that, unfortunately, a lot of the electorate can't tell the difference between the two. and that's where you start to get problems in a democracy, when people start conflating things like, political advertisements with fact based journalism, >anne>right? and we're seeing this more and more. i mean, what do you see for this? you know, when it comes to democracy down the road >live>i think it's going to make things quite complicated, you know, there's been you know, plenty of critiques of news outlets over the history of the united states but news media have always, at some level, acted like gatekeepers or referees. right we would go to the news outlet of the day or the major newspaper when we needed information, but increasingly audiences are turning to influencers. they're turning to podcasters, they're turning to social media

accounts, so we don't really have that sort of agreed upon referee or group of referees that we used to have. and as a result, a lot of folks end up in their own reality or their own definition of truth. >anne>well right. and that's what we're talking about. these echo chambers that social media often turns into. it depends on who you're following and what you're going to see. >live>true. you have some control, who you follow, will dictate what you see. but also the algorithm decides what you're going to see so the platform itself, whether it be a meta or x or whoever may be they, their algorithm decides what you're going to see in your feed. and nobody's feed is the same as somebody else's. they're all different so we get a really, manufactured version of what we do, and don't see on social media. >anne>now, when it comes to how republicans and democrats are using social media with their campaigns, is there a different any trends that you're seeing there >live>it's really tough to discern because a lot of this

stuff happens behind the scenes, you know, for instance, and in 2016, we didn't really find out about the ways in which the trump campaign had worked with facebook until years after the election was over. we got more details about it. so usually this stuff doesn't come out until afterward. but i would be surprised if both parties are not doing everything they can to get their message out on social media. >anne>and when it comes to some of those influencers, like we just heard from somebody who's, you know popular for doing their hair, why are we listening to that person >live>every every audience, i guess, chooses their own person to listen to, you know, maybe just for entertainment purposes or relatability, whatever it may be. but, in the process of listening to these individuals for something like hair, for example, you may also get political messages from them. and then audiences like this person for what they've done for the hair videos or whatever, and then they also end up liking what they're doing for politics. so it's kind of a a gateway in getting

in people to, listen to your political views >anne>yeah. i mean, anybody who can give you a good hair day you know, usually a win. all right doctor nolan higdon from csu, east bay thanks for that. well, still ahead finding fame thanks to one particular presidential candidate california? comedian is really leaning into this political season >the bay area events calendar, brought to you by broadway san jose. here's what's happening in the bay area this weekend. enjoy island cuisine ukulele music, and celebrate the spirit of the pacific islands at the 29th annual bay area aloha festival in san mateo, or sink your teeth into the gravenstein apple fair in sebastopol >somewhere in the middle of nowhere, the award winning best musical come from away is

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>anne>well, social media influencers are not the only ones capitalizing on the

presidential campaign season. some comedians are also getting a boost online reporter elizabeth wagmeister has that story >the former vice president kamala harris, >are you ready to get to work rocketing to the top of the democratic presidential ticket? >yes you may laugh not necessarily a laughing matter. >it's a kamala nomination unless you're a comedian like allison reese >first off, i'm hilarious her impressions of harris have lit up social media, a few getting millions of views. >we did it, joe i am the perfect nominee restarted impersonating harris back in 2019. >it's story time. president joe biden sudden end of his campaign and handoff to harris has boosted the la based comedian's platform. >i was like a cartoon with my jaw on the floor for a good, like three minutes and just like in shock, it's go time.

let's do this let's make content, give us the breakdown of what makes a good kamala impression. but the laugh. you got to start off like it's a big energy, and then you like really said, it's like yeah, but then also you got to get the cadence okay. and let me be clear let me be clear. the cadence okay. so important harris herself has said she likes impressions of her >mr. vice president, i'm speaking. i'm speaking namely from snl's maya rudolph. >i grew up watching saturday night live. yes. so the thought that anyone would be in any way depicting me on saturday night live was just i was a bit overwhelmed, harris says. pop culture relevance has exploded in the last week, largely thanks to viral memes, pop star charli xcx gave the vice president the ultimate effortless, cool girl stamp of approval by posting just three words on x kamala is brat, a

play on the singer's latest album, which propelled harris into the gen z conversation. >if the pop culture stuff gets a little silly, like could that have some downsides? sure. but that's also what movements are about. there are creators, there are artists, there are people who write songs so that is all left to them. and she'll do what she does best, which is just say, if you elect me, here's what i'm going to do. well, let me just tell you something. i have my mother's laugh. harris making no apologies for her style. >don't be confined to other people's perception strategists point to past pop culture success in pushing harris to lean into the moment. >what's your message for her, kamala? if you're watching, please let me introduce you at the dnc you >anne>she is pretty good now. she says she's not impersonating vice president

harris solely for the entertainment value. she says as a black woman seeing harris as vice president and now running for president has had a real profound impact on her. we're going to be right back stern grove festival presents a free concert featuring jazz and funk legend herbie hancock and the all star ensemble the sfjazz collective. sunday at two. stream

coming up tonight on the cbs evening news. a battleground blitz as the harris campaign and jd vance make dueling appearances in the midwest. how the political competition has ramped up overnight with a newly minted democratic ticket. that and more headlines tonight on the cbs evening news >anne>and coming up at five, we're going to meet a marin county husband and wife team, making sure that people don't go hungry at ages 82 and 79. we're going to see what keeps them going day after day thanks for joining us for today's conversation about the growing use of social media in political campaigns. we'd love to hear what you think. is it good for democracy or creating a deeper divide? post your thoughts online using the hashtag kpix >> major: breaking news. terror plot thwarted. the new details that led to the sudden cancellation of three taylor swift concerts in vienna, austria. the disruption to the european leg of the eras tour sure to disappoint