>election interference, including hacking. security threats loom over the election from cyber attack to deep fakes. >what is the best way to protect yourself from scammer emails? today we'll look at the challenges of misinformation and how the fbi is working to protect our elections and our democracy

>liz>election day is just 70 days away and the feds say the integrity of our election is under attack. from foreign actors to advancements in artificial intelligence that could all influence the outcome come november. so today, we're asking you about the evolution of those threats and what's being done to stop them. we'll have that conversation in just a few minutes. but first, a look at your news headlines. a brush fire burned a berkeley hillside this afternoon. our chopper was overhead just a few moments ago. this is around inspiration point in tilden park. it scorched about three acres. no one was evacuated. the transformation of san quentin is entering a new chapter. the state says it finished tearing down a former warehouse to make way for a new educational complex. this project is part of an effort to turn california's most notorious prison into a model for rehabilitation. san jose police arrested four men who they say tried to meet up with minors for .... police say officers pretended to be children online and then agreed

to meet up with the suspects, and then arrested them after they got there. teachers in san francisco plan to rally this evening to bring attention to staffing shortages. they say the school district is in desperate need of counselors, nurses and social workers and that the state is blocking hiring. we've reached out to the district for a response and are waiting to hear back the nation's first fully electric school bus fleet launched today in the oakland unified school district. there are 74 busses in the fleet and each can carry 100 people. parents will be able to track bus routes. for now, they're only available to students with special needs levi's stadium is getting a $200 million upgrade. the 40 niners say the stadium will get extra field seats, remodeled suites, led screen upgrades, and two more bars. levi's stadium is preparing to host super bowl 60 and the world cup in 2026. all right, let's move on to first alert weather now. today is the hottest day of the week with some inland spots

during the triple digits. meteorologist jessica burch has your forecast. hey, jess. it's another hot day throughout our inland areas. this afternoon with daytime highs sitting in the 90s. anywhere from san jose all the way off into the east bay, close to the triple digits today in antioch, concord and walnut creek. and even though today is the hottest day of the week, the good news is we're cooling down fast as we head into our weekend forecast. today, we're in the 70s along our coastline, anywhere from half moon bay into pacifica. so a beautiful beach day with 70s also into san francisco. the moment you pass the golden gate bridge, though, 90s return into the forecast near novato, petaluma and santa rosa. so as we drop, the temperatures, go fast and show you what's happening into this afternoon, one thing i want to mention we still have that coastal marine layer, that kind of just hangs on tight to areas like half moon bay all the way over into the golden gate bridge. so keep that in mind if you want to head out there. and of course, take that beautiful, iconic photo of the bridge. another thing to mention too the winds are going to get gusty as we head into this afternoon this morning it was nice and light moving in from offshore but those winds really start to ramp up the more we head into

the afternoon hours. anywhere up to around 25 mile per hour winds are expected today so let's actually dive into that right now. here's what we're looking at this afternoon. about 10 to 15 mile per hour winds into the 2 to 3:00 hour. by the time we head into dinnertime hours, san francisco is dealing with a nice breeze, and it's a lot lighter into areas like bodega bay and half moon bay. now, heading all the way into the next couple of days, an area of high pressure that's currently sitting over us will slowly start to move away. so that's going to cool us off fast. let's take a look at the next seven days. big changes in the forecast right around the corner. but as we take a look at the bay, it's a little bit less noticeable. 80s today, 70s tomorrow, low 70s heading into this weekend, a pretty simple forecast. but you saw what we were dealing with in our inland areas today. upper 90s in the forecast this afternoon near antioch concord and walnut creek. by tomorrow we're down into the low 90s. we continue to cool down into this weekend, 80s and then low 80s right around the corner saturday, heading into sunday, which is perfect for any outdoor activities

>liz>the trump and harris campaign squared off today over the economy. both sides said that they'll make homes more affordable for everyone especially younger americans. and as skyler henry reports, there may be a new deal a pre debate republican vice presidential candidate j.d. vance rallied with voters in the battleground state of michigan tuesday. >michigan is going red. fans focused on the economy and inflation. >when you talk to a young person today. young people cannot afford to buy a home in their own country. we're turning a generation of 20 and 30 year olds into permanent debtors. vice president kamala harris is also talking about the economy, with a new ad focusing on affordable housing. >my mother saved for, well over a decade to buy a home i was a teenager when that day finally came and i can remember so well how excited she was. harris's plan calls for building 3 million housing

units in four years, with new tax credits for builders targeting first time home buyers and 25,000 in tax credits for the buyers. harris has been off the campaign trail and has been reportedly using that time to prepare for the september 10th presidential debate. >i want to do a debate. former president trump says he's ready for the debate. he posted on social media tuesday that he has come to an agreement with the harris campaign on the rules for the debate. he says it will be the same rules as the previous trump-biden debate. the harris campaign wanted to change the rules so that the candidates mics are left open. the entire time, as opposed to the biden trump debate, when they were only on when it was the candidate's turn to speak. sky >liz>cam and former president trump also says the harris campaign has not agreed to a proposed debate on fox news. on september fourth. both sides say they may be open to a second debate in october a federal judge in texas temporarily blocked a landmark immigration bill after 16

states filed a lawsuit with republican attorneys general. president biden announced the executive action in june. it would allow unauthorized immigrants to apply for a temporary work permits and have deportation protections if they married a u.s. citizen. >they are members of the community, contributing both economically and in the job market. so it's an unfortunate setback for them and for the administration. >liz>the judge made his order valid for two weeks, but suggested he could extend it. both sides have until october 10th to file briefs. in this case and the attorney general of texas could face a federal investigation. he's accused of authorizing illegal searches at the homes of latino democrats it is evident through his patterns of lawsuits, raids searches and seizures that he is trying to keep latinos from voting. >liz>attorney general ken paxton says he is investigating alleged election fraud and efforts to register noncitizens

to vote. his office says it uncovered enough evidence to obtain search warrants. a latino organization sent a letter to the justice department asking it to conduct an investigation into the attorney general's actions. up next, the fbi joins us live to talk about potential cyber threats this election cycle and what's being done to stop them. plus, children also becoming targets for cyber criminals. the new tools teaching them to stay safe online. and employment scams on the rise. what you need to know to keep your information safe

all right. you might know how to steer clear of online scams, but what about your kids? children are increasingly becoming the preferred target for cyber criminals and national consumer correspondent arshad qureshi reports. what kids don't know could put their

futures, even their finances, at risk. keep going. go go go go go go. the kids at this computer summer camp outside chicago are definitely having fun oh but the lessons they're learning are serious. what should you do if you think your account has been hacked? they're playing a game that teaches them how to spot online fraud. what is the best way to protect yourself from scammer emails? i got it, i got it, i got it. kids are basically being born with an ipad or a phone in their hands, and for them to understand how to become part of a connected society, the university of chicago's marshall chetty designed the cybernaut app to help them become cyber safe. so that we're not just throwing them in a pool with sharks, we're trying to get them comfortable with the pool before any sharks in the water. fbi data shows money lost from online crimes against children. more than tripled, from about a half million dollars in 2022 to

$2 million last year. that's why chetty thinks cybersecurity education should begin as early as kindergarten. and she says teachers need better training, too. like, they'll say to a kid, well, here's your password. it's got a class number, your personal name, like personally identifiable information. and they'll put it in a little card and give it to them to give to their parents. and so that's their first experience with the password is it's written down. you can change. you can give it to other people information. and then a few years later we're like, don't ever do that. do not do that. it's a very bad idea. so that's why it's important to start these lessons early, because otherwise you get this poor security hygiene. and it's really hard to undo lessons like a zero trust approach online, which includes avoiding malicious links, attachments and downloads, usually from emails and texts. also, strong passwords for parents and school districts, keeping software updated, installing security patches and using good antivirus protections there are circumstances where compromised student accounts have led to significant

disruptions and issues in schools. kids at school are increasingly vulnerable to another kind of cybercrime, one aimed at taking down their entire school system. your children's digital identities were compromised everything on my children, their doctor's information, their bus stop information, if they walk to and from school, what bus stop they go to, their medical records. where we live, where we work, every bit of information about our lives they have. >liz>well joining me now is fbi, san francisco special agent in charge robert tripp. robert, thank you so much for joining us. we're going to talk about those back to school scams in just a moment. but i want to get back to our elections. the fbi and other national security agencies confirmed that the trump campaign was the target of hackers from iran. and in fact, they also attempted to hack both presidential campaigns. should we be concerned that this election is vulnerable to foreign interference? >live>well, i tell you, that's a concern of the fbi. and we're working hard not just in my office, but across the country

to uphold the integrity of the elections, which are less than 70 days away >liz>now, what about the concerns of the ballot boxes as election day gets closer and closer? donald trump has said that the 2020 election was stolen, even though so far there's no evidence to support that. but it put doubt in so many voters minds. what can the fbi do this election to prove to voters that their ballot is protected? >live>well, i'll tell you what. we have a very aggressive program to investigate any allegations of election fraud. that's part of our traditional election crimes mission, which has really been unchanged for decades. we do have investigations that look at that across the country, but we're really not seeing really significant endemic use of those techniques to undermine the integrity of the elections. i tell you, where we're really concerned is the issue that you talked about at the beginning is malign foreign influence. we're very concerned about nation states that are either doing these so-called hack and dump operations to expose

sensitive information of candidates, or to flood our social media platforms with misinformation to make to influence people, to vote in a way that they wouldn't ordinarily vote. so that malign foreign influence, that's a key priority for the federal bureau of investigation >liz>and has the risk of foreign interference changed since the last election in 2020? has it gotten more? has it gotten worse? >live>the risk is the same, but the tools that are available to nation states have gotten better and not to our favor. and what i'm referring to here is the use of generative ai. ai has increased both the quality and the quantity. the volume of misinformation that we're seeing on the internet that directly impacts how voters are getting their news about election candidates. >liz>i want to dig into a little into that a little bit deeper, because it's not illegal to put something up on the internet. that's not true but what about using someone's image or identity to spread

that misinformation what can the fbi do about that? >live>we are indeed looking at that. but this is where the social media platforms themselves have a role in enforcing their terms of contact on their terms of service, on their platforms. that kind of activity invariably violates the social media platforms terms of service, and they are working aggressively to take that down. but what the fbi would do in terms of enforcing a law pertaining to that, that's a much more complicated question. >liz>so when you see that happen, though, is it illegal to use somebody? i generated image that looks exactly like the person to have them speaking about something that never happened on the internet, is that actually breaking the law? >live>the fbi does not want to get to the point where we're weighing in on the legality or the illegality of the content. what we do is look at who is posting it is that a nation

state, or is that a person in the us? and where appropriate and indefinitely, in keeping with our policy and with the law of letting that be known, that is a violation of the terms of service. but really, we depend on the platforms themselves to enforce their own terms of service and take down content that violates those terms. >liz>now, i want to get to other kind of frauds and scams that are happening as well across the country. the fbi launched a campaign last week to raise awareness of those scams. tell us about that campaign and your focus specifically on this back to school season >live>what we call the campaign a take a beat campaign. and that's really referring to the idea that people just need to slow down a little bit when they're dealing with an unsolicited contact from somebody they don't know. and we have a theme that we do each week and unfortunately, well, unfortunately or fortunately, depending on if you're the student or the parent, it's back to school time in the bay

area. and we're seeing a real uptick in scams that are trying to take advantage of that. we're seeing scams that touch on services associated with registering your children, of paying taxes associated with schools, with loans, and with scholarships, all trying to take advantage of that need to get things in order to get your kids back to school. >liz>yeah, it's really tricky because so much of their schoolwork nowadays is done on some sort of electronic device, be it an ipad or a computer. what can parents do to help protect their kids and themselves from these hackers? >live>well, the most important thing parents can do is to be aware that these things are out there. and if they get a contact from somebody they don't know, insisting that they pay money and pay money right away, either to register their child or to make up for so-called tax that wasn't paid or to make sure that they have a chance at a scholarship to slow down and to verify that the person they're dealing with is actually who they say they

are and with a little bit of due diligence and a little bit of internet searching, parents have the tools to be able to do that. >liz>all right. just make sure you're looking over their shoulder at every moment. all right fbi special agent in charge robert tripp. thank you so much, sir, for joining us. >live>thank you. >liz>all right. coming up. be careful of a job offer. seems just too good to be true. how criminals are using text messages to steal personal information

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easy prep. easy cook. easy clean. a warning for you about a new type of job scam on the rise. the identity theft resource center says employment scams rose 118% last year. the fbi says they cost people more than $70 million in 2023 alone.

anna werner has tips to keep you safe. experts say criminals are using artificial intelligence to send text messages with job offers, claiming to pay hundreds of dollars a day for remote work. but before you start, they'll need sensitive personal information like your social security number. experts say it's a scam. according to the better business bureau, text messages will say things like, we offer a job that takes only 30 minutes a day, or they'll post phony listings on job search websites like linkedin. or indeed, the job could be anything from reshipping products to selling things to people you know. it will include phrases like being your own boss, setting your own schedule and beware if you're being asked for money up front, they may send an invoice for advance payment of on the job equipment certificates or job training with the promise they'll reimburse you. scammers often ask for that personal information to fill out things like employment paperwork. it's all to steal your money and your identity, so beware

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>liz>the niners will set their 53 man roster today, and as vern glenn explains, they had several young players battling for spots during training camp this is the audi red and gold report second year cornerback darrell luter jr. is hoping he showed enough to make the roster. >he >>got a little help from one of his college teammates friday night in las vegas. it was kind of crazy because during the game, i totally forgot that he was freaking quarterback carter bradley was under center for the raiders in the fourth quarter. his pass to the endzone was picked off by lewter on fourth down. and by that point, lewter was aware that his old teammate at south alabama entered the game. i'm lying in the middle. we got in the huddle to a little bit, waiting for them to break and then just out of nowhere, i don't know what told me to just look at the quarterback but >like >>i looked at him like it was two different quarterbacks at the time. and carter wasn't in at first. >so >>like, i'm thinking it's still the same quarterback. and then

next thing you know i see carter bradley out there. i'm just like, man, i'm really going against my my quarterback. so it was just it was just it was just great man. with the red and gold report i'm vern glenn coming up on the cbs evening news, about two thirds of elementary students in the u.s. are struggling to read at grade level for ai in america. we look at lessons in literacy and a new method schools are using to teach kids how to read that. more headlines tonight here on the cbs evening news. >liz>and coming up tonight right here at five, we're getting a firsthand account of an attack at an east bay high school that has students and parents on edge. that story and much more. with ryan yamamoto and myself coming up tonight at 5:00. and thank you so much for joining us for today's conversation about the threats to election security and how the fbi is working to counter them. the evening news is next. local news continues on our streaming service cbs news, bay area. i'll see you at five.