jobs adviser he's a new york times bestselling author political commentator and president of the dream corps his latest venture is we rise tours launches this week that initiative will be fueled by something he calls the love army. we'll find out what he means by that later in the program then jones joins me here on set ok before we get to your fabulous new idea tell me your assessment of trump six months in as expected better or worse i think that donald trump has done worse than i thought when it comes to his own base in other words i expected to be outraged by his policy when it comes to muslims or mexicans or whatever i thought he would do more for those forgotten americans though i thought he would get infrastructure bill going put those folks to work i thought he would figure out some way to make sure that he did something that they could then feel like they were no longer forgotten i look at a guy that puts a bunch of zillionaires exist in there in the cabinet tweets about all kinds of stuff seems to be more worried about whether or not he's going to get in trouble with the law enforc

and the dream corps is a solution center we support a lot of great initiatives including the love army the love armies and the idea listen let's fight cynicism with solutions and we can say that we're both sides and yell and scream complain and blame each other but part of the problem is you now have a leadership style. both left and right it's all projection no reflection all assigning blame no taking responsibility so that we are says let's take responsibility if we got all these kids in prison they were in president a republican and democrats we're going to help them get these kids with addiction what we're going to do to pull these needles our young people's arms they were getting addicted out to democrats and republicans can we do something to gether forget race for get class forget party and start helping people again because once you start doing that you get a bipartisanship from below we might fight all day in washington d.c. we have to fight in our communities so we're doing our family what do you do on the tour so we're going to fourteen cities we're going to get people

. >> reporter: organizers say 100% of net ticket proceeds from this event go to dream corps, jones' nonprofitmitted to initiatives such as green energy, access to tech jobs and prison rehabilitation. in san francisco, lonnie rivera, "abc 7 news." >>> tonight house minority leader nancy pelosi is offering to work with republicans on health care. she wrote a letter to gop leaders saying, democrats extend the hand of friendship and look forward to our working together in the regular order for the good of the american people. pelosi also said house democrats are prepared to support some of the elements in the better care reconciliation act, which was voted down on tuesday. that includes a short-term stability fund, a long-term state stability, and innovation program, and cost sharing subsidies. >> a judge has reduced bail for one of the two men charged in the deadly ghost ship fire in oakland. lawyers for max harris asked him to release him from jail pending trial. that request was denied. they also asked for a reduction for bail. it was dropped to $750,000. both he and the other operator of ghos

. >> reporter: organizers say 100% of net ticket proceeds from this event go to dream corps, jones' nonprofitmitted to initiatives such as green energy, access to tech jobs and prison rehabilitation. in san francisco, lonnie rivera, "abc 7 news." >>> tonight house minority leader nancy pelosi is offering to work with republicans on health care. she wrote a letter to gop leaders saying, democrats extend the hand of friendship and look forward to our working together in the regular order for the good of the american people. pelosi also said house democrats are prepared to support some of the elements in the better care reconciliation act, which was voted down on tuesday. that includes a short-term stability fund, a long-term state stability, and innovation program, and cost sharing subsidies. >> a judge has reduced bail for one of the two men charged in the deadly ghost ship fire in oakland. lawyers for max harris asked him to release him from jail pending trial. that request was denied. they also asked for a reduction for bail. it was dropped to $750,000. both he and the other operator of ghos

jobs adviser he's a new york times best selling author political commentator and president of the dream corps his latest venture is we rise tours launches this week that initiative will be fueled by something he calls the love army will find out what he means by that later in the program then jones joins me here on set ok before we go .

jobs adviser he's a new york times best selling author political commentator and president of the dream corps his latest venture is we rise tours launches this week that initiative will be fueled by something he calls the love army will find out what he means by that later in the program van jones joins me here on set ok before we get to your fabulous new idea tell me your assessment of trump six months in as expected that worse i think that donald trump has done worse than i thought when it comes to his own base in other words i expected to be outraged by his policy when it comes to muslims or mexicans or whatever i thought he would do what .

we should be working even harder now to get this country back o >> reporter: organizers goes to dream corp, committed to green energy, access to tech jobs and prison rehabilitation. abc 7 news. >>> house minority leader nancy pelosi is offering to work with republicans on health care. she wrote a letter to the gop leaders say democrats extend the hand of friendship and look forward to our working together in the regular order for the good of the american people. pelosi also said house democrats are prepared to support some of the elements in the better care reconciliation act which was voted down on tuesday. that includes a short term stable fund and cost sharing subsidies. and happening today, people across the nation will rally in support of medicare, medicaid and women health. the bay area rallies in san jose and santa rosa. san jose will meet at the corner of winchester and stevens creek santa rosa will be in a parking lot at 2300 county center drive. one will be held later and that event starts at 1:00. >>> a judge has reduced the bail for one of the two men charged in the deadly ghos

. >> actually worked van jones' nonprofit the dream corps.to deconstruct everything, but you can't build crap. you don't have to wait until you're out of college, you can do it now. it's happening now. there are issues that need to be addressed by youth that can affect us in our world now. >> reporter: abc 7 news. >> what a young man. >>> watch our special sunday at 6:30, to learn more about dylan and the other abc 7 star scholar winners. do you know a young change maker in your community? they can apply for a $500 summer of service grant. >>> time for consumer news and "ask finney." michael finney here answering questions. first question comes from emma in danville. what's the cheapest and the safest way to move across the country? >> look, i've got to start off with a warning. it is a wild west out there. there's very little regulation. there's a lot of rip-offs. if you're packing and driving yourself, make sure you understand the entire price. there could be a lot of add-ons. some of the bad guys can get sneaky. if you're using moving comp

marines had multiple deployments under their belt and others fulfilling the childhood dreams of serving in the marine corps. the marine corps special forces operation command held a briefing today calling the organization a tight-knit community, suffering a huge loss. >> while you can't downplay the tragedy of a loss, we intend to honor the fallen, take care of the family and move on. brianne: brianne carter, abc7 news. alison: still ahead, why an lex lec rock climbing gym giving away free classes twice a week. >> 54, 55, 56. larry: later. why the heat won't stop this man from paving the way in virginia. alison: 7 is on storm watch tonight as the line of storms now hits the chesapeake bay bridge. we were just saying that is not where we want to be in a storm. larry: no. please be careful out there. alison: exactly. we'll watch how the storm is impacting everyone around the region. we'll be steve: give you a quick update sew veer thunderstorm -- severe thunderstorms are in effect tonight. the chances are north and west of us that are becoming more limited. the severe thunderstorm warning now continue off to

corp next week. >> sreenivasan: finding and traversing the fabled ice- clogged northwest sea passage linking the atlantic and pacific oceans across the canadian arctic was a dream of explorers for centuries. but it wasn't until 1906 that famed norwegian explorer roald amundsen completed the voyage for the first time. this weekend a finnish icebreaker completed the most recent transit, one that glaringly revealed the effects of climate change on the fragile arctic environment. the trip from vancouver canada to greenland's capital city nuuk took 24 days. onboard to document the voyage was a team of associated press reporters. joining us now via skype from nuuk, greenland is one of the a.p. reporters, frank jordans. >> so frank, the fact that it's 24 days, that's a new record. what does that tell us? >> well, what is new this year is that the finnish ice break in nordica, was able to go from vancouver to nca nuuk and arrive earliest ever recorded. >> sreenivasan: meaning it's a warmer temperature? >> yes, the ice coverage fluctuates year by year. sometimes it increases a little bit. sometimes it's less. what that meant for our trip was, we were able to enter the n

corp.axton lindberg/transgender rotc student"i wanted to in the marine corp because i thought i'd be making a difference." his dreamfollowing president trump's social media proclamation - barring transgender individuals from the military.axton lindberg/transgender rotc student"it honestly made me physically ill to the want to get out of bed i didn't want to get out there didn't want to eat."according to the rand corporation - a federally funded think tank - of the 1.3-million active military members several thousand are transgender. the organizations "save california" backs the president... arguing the government shouldn't pay for gender-transition health care costs. randy thomasson/save california"president trump has put a stop to the taxpayer funded sex change procedures and operations." the rand center estimates two to eight million dollars will be devoted to transgender-related health costs - of the pentagon's 600-billion annual budget. joanna michaels served in vietnam.a transgender air force veteran... wearing a piece of jewlery to reflect on her patriotism at a time of conflict. joanna michaels/transgender v