the freedman were there african-american slaves that were part and became part of the cherokee nation following the civil war the cherokee nation agreed with the united states government they would take care of the freedman and their descendents in perpetuity and that cherokee indians have turned their backs on those descendents, the vast majority of whom have indian blood in them. they have violated that treaty and so with all due respect this a lot of hypocrisy going on this morning by these two individuals.th thank you. >> guest: i appreciate the call but without respect you have a sketch of history that is accurate and you're completely wrong on the current state of affairs. he is referring to the treaty of 1866 which can referred to earlier. since 2017 we have had full citizenship for cherokee freedman our secondary estate of the cherokee nation at the time and kim was and still is our executive director of government relations and we are fully engaged and then fully engaged now on hernd treatment citizensp as i believe is right and what the caller said is factually wrong. >> hos

but osin the context of the freedman litigation. i want to mention something that's important here because we've heard some folks ask is that treaty still alive? is it still valid? yes, it's still valid. we have that federal court case which is a recent court action in the past two years. we actually have about five federal cases in recent years that have directly tied cherokeh nation to those treaties andes even saying that cherokee nation is obligated to comply with ourh own treaties too.s i think that's an important historical fact there. those recent court cases also: stand for the proposition that these treaties are in full forcn and effect.sk >> the delegate house of representatives for the cherokee nation. thanks for the conversation. >> car manufacturing in the city is very, very important to us. that industry is one of the backbones. we have three things, michigan state university, we have the state capitol. and we have automobile manufacturing. those three components have kept lansing a very successful town. >> c-span's ci

live in stockton, wayne freedman, abc 7 news. >> she sounds great. wayne, thanks very much. >>> the brother of one of the divers on conception spoke out today with heartfelt words about his sister. she was a beloved member of the santa cruz community. her company worldwide diving adventures is based there. abc 7 news reporter kris reyes has that part of our coverage tonight. kris? >> reporter: good evening, dan and kristen. santa cruz is a city reeling from this tragedy. they've lost several members of their community and they're still waiting to hear more information. one of those people a well-known local diver and students who went to school in the area. >> my sister was one of the most skilled and intuitive, vibrant, loving, compassionate women that i've ever met in my life. she had a skill set that many don't have, a survival skill set. and i know that if there was a 1% window of opportunity for her to make it out, that she would have somehow made that opportunity become a reality. >> reporter: that's the brother of kristy finstad who was leadin

reporter wayne freedman joins us live with the latest. wayne? >> reporter: good evening. this story has changed throughout the day. we haven't had a lot of facts until the last hour, now a better picture of what happened. we still don't noknow the namesf the mother and two children injured in the accident. the little boy was 3 years old. his sister was 6 years old. they're both in the hospital as is their mother. they owe their lives tonight to three good samaritans, three witnesses, who saw this accident, got out of their cars, got into the ravine and pulled these people out after burning vehicle. this was the suv this morning at the bottom of a ravine. when the fire department, a california highway patrol arrived, they found the female driver in very bad shape at the top of the hill 80 feet above. >> she was conscious. she was able to talk to our paramedics on our helicopter a little bit in transit. definitely major. >> reporter: nor was the woman alone in the car. rescuers found her 3-year-old son and 6-year-old daughter on the shoulder of the road. the boy was unconsc

wayne freedman is in san rafael tonight with new details on the case. reporting live, wayne? >> good evening, dan. the suspect, javier burillo is well-known and respected in tiburon. he owns restaurants and hotels in mexico. he now faces a million bail. even the police department that arrested him understood the pain he was going through, but they said they had no choice. here is tiburon police chief michael croenen. >> it's very difficult, you know. this gentleman is going through what has to be unimaginable pain. and we have no desire to arc the tiburon police tell it, the accident happened just before 7:00 p.m. in the dangerous area known azraq coop strait between tiburon and angel island. the boat,rer appears to have hit a ware unclear, but both suffered severe cuts from the propellers. >> there is a fair possibility that they were immediately swept under the boat when they went off the bow, or they were hit when he turned the boat to rescue them. >> after the accident, javier burillo pulled his sonsconthi ye forhelp. the 11-year-old had already died. when police tested b

. >> abc 7 news reporter wayne freedman was in berkeley today talking with students. >> september 11th. if we looked 18 years in the future, 18 years ago, these are the children of that day, all grown up. >> june 28th, 1999. i was 2 years old. >> i was 2 years old when 9/11 happened. >> i was born on october 10th, 2001. >> i was 4 years old on 9/11. >> if time heals wounds, so, it would appear, is inexperience. >> what do you remember of that day? >> 9/11? >> yeah. >> i don't remember anything. >> nothing? >> no. >> what did you understand about it then? >> that something bad had really happened. because they, like, my mom came home early from work. >> when were you first aware of it? >> hard to remember. maybe like in like fourth, fifth, sixth grade. >> these are the kids born on the cusp of post-9/11 world, who never think twice about it. for them, this country has always been at war. there have always been long lines at the tsa, survelance cameras a constant. social media, their lifeblood. in 2001, facebook was still three years away. and twitter five. >> can you imagine trun twitte

abc 7 news reporter wayne freedman is live for us in the north bay. >> we begin with drew tuma and ak at the hot weather heading our way. drew. >> in just a matter of hours a red flag warning will go into effect for the north bay mountains and east bay hills. our fire risk is increasing tonight. at 9:00 p.m. tonight lasting through wednesday at 11:00 in the morning. wind gusts of 30 to 40 miles per hour, that combo of low humidity means fires can easily start and easily spread. look at the fire danger index and it takes into speed wind speed, humidity and temperatures. as we go through the early morning hours of tuesday, tomorrow at 4:00 in the morning, you can see those pops of yellow and orange indicating high to very high fire danger in the north bay mountains and that continues through 10:00 in the morning as well. winds are gusting 30 to 40 miles per hour. then we'll warm up throughout the entire region, not only tomorrow but also wednesday. a heat advisory goes into effect at 11:00 a.m. for much of the bay area. get ready to sweat tuesday and wednesday. we'll take a look at tho

wayne freedman, abc 7 news. >> i think they'll have lots of takers.thank you. >>> passengers on a delta airlines flight say fear and panic filled their plane's cabin when a rapidly dropped in altitude and the oxygen masks were deployed. the atlanta flight bound for florida made an emergency landing at tampa international airport about an hour after takeoff. delta wrote the plane was diverted out of an abundance of caution over cabin pressure irregularity. >> there was panic. there wasn't any forewarning. it was just the oxygen masks dropped down. the flight attendants grabbed the intercom indicating do not panic, do not panic. it's a hectic moment. passengers around me, a lot of people were hyperventilating. >> delta said the plane is being evaluated by maintenance technicians. no reports of any injuries. >>> consumer news now. you have your whole wheat, multigrain, organic, gluten free -- what do they all mean? so many bread labels. so many choices. >> thankfully michael finney's 7 on your side is here to explain it. >> cinnamon toast. >> we get that

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wayne freedman live for us tonight. thank you. >>> meantime, pg&e is moving forward with an $11 billion settlement with insurance companies over wildfire claims. the utility company said the deal covers 85% of claims stemming from the 2017 north bay fires and last year's campfire. >>> cal fire is making progress on six fires that started saturday east of milpitas. calaveras road was closed because of rocks rolling onto the road. the fires have burned 128 acres and are 70% contained. ths still under investigation. >>> new developments now in the case of a man detained by san francisco police after neighbors reported him jumping from roof to roof in the outer mission yesterday. >> abc 7 news reporter luz pena spoke to a spokesperson which is where the man was luz. >> reporter: ama, that's right. this is the house where the man was jumping. he went close and many neighbors consider concerned. we're basically 700 feet away from the hospital. that's a four-minute walk. that's the sound and commotion many residents of the out

in san francisco, wayne freedman, abc7 news. >> and san francisco will be voting on proposition c in november. it would legalize the sale of vaping and e-cigarette products while introducing a way to regulate them. the city banned vaping earlier this year. supporters of the measure filed a lawsuit saying the language being used in the ballot question drafted by the city attorney was misleading. the city attorney's office is rejecting that claim. >>> new developments. pg&e is now offering nearly $17 billion to pay wildfire claims. the offer is part of the utility's formal reorganization plan submit just today. creditors, the state public utilities commission, and a bankruptcy judge need to approve this plan. if it's accepted, it would help propel pg&e out of bankruptcy. pg&e filed for chapter 11 in january, saying it faced an estimated $30 billion in claims from the campfire and the 2017 wine country fires. the utility previously announced $1 billion to go to local governments and agencies that were harmed by the fires. >>> now, this is a live look at san francisco international airpo

>> they're friends. >> reporter: in san francisco wayne freedman, abc7 news. >> what a story. news app, it has enhanced live video features. there's a lot more customization and push alerts to get more of the news you want delivered to your phone in real time. that's going to do it for this edition of abc7 news at 4:00. thank you so much for joining us today. i'm ama daetz. abc7 news at 5:00 starts now. >> roger, there's 33 people on board the vessel on fire and they can't get off. roger, are they locked inside the boat? >> a dive boat catches fire with 39 people on board off the southern california coast. as many as 30 people are missing. >> also this slow-motion disaster that's moving through the bahamas, officials calling it destructive and unprecedented. we're tracking the hurricane as it moves west. >> bart crews working on a repair emergency knocked down power lines. how that caused major traffic delays in the east bay. >> and one man's battle with wild pigs. the solution he hopes will save his lawn. and the pigs, too. >> announcer: now news to build a better bay area fr

there in brighton thank you very much indeed well stay with us joining us now from london is bobby freedman he's a barrister and the biographer john burke speaker of the u.k. house of commons very good to see you here on our dizzier 1st of all just start by putting this in context just how much of a game changer wards that. ruling from the supreme court's. well it's an extraordinary ruling that we saw from the supreme court today i think it's probably the most extraordinary ruling in my lifetime what it will do to the brics it process is slightly less clear because the houses of parliament who already passed a law meaning that boris johnson would have to go to the e.u. and ask for an extension if he hadn't agreed a deal that was passed by parliament and if we were heading for no deal so i'm not sure in the short term it would change the brics it outcome but it is extraordinary it's extraordinarily is century politique who outcome from the supreme court case this is blown wide open what's going to happen over the next few weeks because the house of commons will now start city again from tomo

in oakland, wayne freedman, abc7 news. >> sochi motion there tod much m wayne, thank you. it was sent out on the push alert. we continue to send alerts out today that came out. download the app so you'll be among the first to know as soon as news breaks. >> and we will have more on the ghost ship case verdict throughout this newscast. >> also ahead here, the latest on the deadly boat fire off santa cruz island in southern california, which claimed 34 lives. >> i'm spencer christian. we have a little weekend cool down coming our way and i'll have all the your brain is an amazing thing. but as you get older, it naturally begins to change, causing a lack of sharpness, or even trouble with recall. thankfully, the breakthrough in prevagen helps your brain and actually improves memory. the secret is an ingredient originally discovered... in jellyfish. in clinical trials, prevagen has been shown to improve short-term memory. prevagen. healthier brain. better life. >>> a brush fire in southern california is now up to 2000 acres and about 24 hours. overnight, the tanaha fire burned

wayne freedman spent time with people in one neighborhood who were left without coverage. >> reporterhey make for beautiful homes but non-insurance for people who buy them, people like this woman who received a notice from allstate shufrpinsurance. >> they said because of the fire damage. >> reporter: and also for this woman. even after cutting back brush from her home. it has happened in fire zones across the state. ? it doesn't seem that the insurance companies are operating in good faith. why aren't theyiv in ar untouched by the firestorm of 1991. but after major blazes the last few years, homeowners in many regions face similar woes. insurance companies don't like what they're seeing. >> they're taking a good look at their portfolios. the last two years, the risk of wildfires has gone up exponentially. >> reporter: sue well. she's on a board that advocates for disaster victims in negotiating with insurance carriers. >> they need to have insurance, particularly if they have a mortgage. they can't have a mortgage if they don't have homeowner's insurance. >> reporter: in sue's case,

so patrick freedman chose and he said if we made our own lands and instead of over control, we votedwith our houses by moving them about and choosing the neighbors we want, we could unleash an economic solution to political problems, we could choose the societies we want and selection by citizens and unleash evolution and government, -- >> so who essentially govern it is people off of thailand and who is governing the people of sealand, there's still property of britain, correct? >> sealand is property of britain because territorial seas have expanded to encompass sealand and sealand takes position that it's independent and britain ignores them. incremental steps towards independence and they want to evolve new societies from the bottom up and not governance of land but among people who could choose neighbors that they want. >> on your book you write if the great depression had happened in the 50's, you predict that we would be going seastead? >> it was funded by japanese funder who died and taken on and funded by u.s. government and it was so provisionary and spent time in the white

here is the latest from wayne freedman. >> reporter: martin luther king boulevard in berkeley is open again but only after a tense afternoon that began with reports of a man with a weapon outside that elementary school over my shoulder. john, the building manager was the first to call police. >> there is probably 15 people that work in there and probably 15 kids and then just student teachers, probably 40 people in there total. >> reporter: later today a person inside the east bay therapy nursery school described the incident as random. outside they responded in force and closed martin luther king blvt, to boulevard and took cover. mo montez had been working nearby. >> i came out and saw guys running. >> reporter: after two and a half hours of waiting police detained two suspects. one was under arrest and police say they did find a rifle inside. >> was it a real weapon? >> yes. >> reporter: was it loaded? >> yes. >> reporter: do you have a motive? >> no. >> reporter: police say their investigation will continue. the good news nobody hurt or injured especially the kids in that preschoo

in napa, wayne freedman. >> he is something else, isn't he? 6:00 a world renowned treatment center in the bay area is about to get a lot bigger. >> stanford is getting ready to open a new state of the art hospital and preparations have begun. >> heart rate in the 140s. >> if this were a real trama case, the patient on the gurney would begin receiving treatment. the drill is part of final preparations for the opening of the new stanford hospital. besides the emergency department, the $2 billion plus center featured 28 state of the art operating rooms which allow rotating teams of doctors to treat a single patient without having to move them. >> surgeons intervention radiologist can work together to take care of really, really complex cases and really complex patients. >> reporter: the new stanford hospital is nearly a decade in the making and sits alongside the existing hospital and clinics. helen is vice president of facility services and planning. she says the hospital and emergency department are built to the latest standards and powered by

we sent wayne freedman out to check on the situation. wayne? >> reporter: well, it's an interesting situation. i'v i'm at bark station. over here, the gates on b.a.r.t. are something similar. muni has a similar problem. roughly 7%. that coffers the entire system, costs them $17 million a year in fare jumpers. many could not break down how effective these gates are. clearly b.a.r.t. sees an advantage and wants gates of a similar style. if you ride b.a.r.t. this could be your future. gates are higher, not as easy to jump through. we took a look a paengers who us stemts. sarah rothenberg thinks the muni gates are better. >> yeah. those gates would be better for safety. >> reporter: physically, they're more -- >> jump. >> reporter: not that you're a jumper? >> i'm not a jumper. those would be harder to jump. you have to be a track runner to jump over those. >> reporter: the b.a.r.t. gates? >> i could jump over those. >> reporter: it's worth noting b.a.r.t. and muni put people on trains to enforce their fares. we rode along with some of muni's peopl

abc7 news reporter wayne freedman has the story.. >> reporter: it has been said that what goes around comes around, but never in this particular form. >> if you had not known what it was, would you know what it is? >> no. >> um, i don't know what this is. >> reporter: and that's from tom loughlin, the man who sculpted it. >>> so you like the fact that it -- >> vibrates. >> reporter: that's hardly the intended function of this 22 ton steel ring and riveted sections with a light on top, a signal light, we might add, that you may have seen before and never noticed. that light had been on the bay bridge since the day it opened in 1936, as was the steel. through trains, and an earthquake, and a demolition. now some of that same steel is reincarnated as commissioned public art in what might be a perfect spot on treasure island in full view of icons older and newer. >> we just cut some wedges out of the girders and folded them up, welded them back together. >> reporter: and then he put in electric motors for that vibrating resonating effec

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so the black community in hattiesburg in early 1900s would send updates to the indianapolis freedman, the white newspaper did not press their stories in the local paper. now i can search it, i find what they're doing, i find them going to cakewalk, church, reading groups and societies. i think that is something that is very exciting about writing african-american history in this point time. were able to recover of what has been a race because black people were not included in newspapers and archives. >> i want to open it up for questions from the audience. i would like if you have a question for any of her panelist, i would like you to go to the microphone at the center of the room at the podium. any questions for her panelist? >> hi, is a song? i patricia, and i have more of a comment than a question. i reallyal enjoyed listening to all of you talk about your books. i would be remiss if i didn't talk about the raid last week that led 680 migrants here. and he mentioned immigration in mr. till mentioned tallahassee county. so i want to make sure that everybody knows there is a detenti

our reporter wayne freedman plains. >> reporter: it has become of a extreme measure. pg&e turning off power to prevent ignition of wildfires now a new twist and early notification before warning. >> any of our customers could be impacted. >> blame the dry grass, warm weather, the electrical power lines, a fire triangle likely to materialize early next week prompting an early warning on twitter from the santa rosa fire department. >> you can do exactly what we want people to do and be prepared. >> the tweet cites early report from pg&e about elevated fire conditions causing the utility to cut power in an area ranging from the bay area to the sierra foothills a public safety power shut off psps. >> what's notable is it's the first of the year in sonoma county but not the first of the year in the region. you can ask east napa about that. remember june 8th. >> no power, internet, nothing. we got to go. >> that was martha sanchez as they cut power near lake bar he issa. communities might go 48 hours without power. this year santa rosa asked pg&e for notifications as early

wayne freedman is in san rafael with more. >> reporter: good evening. the suspect left the jail about an hour ago after posting a $1 million bail. he's a well known and respected resident of tiburon and belvedere. his family owns hotels in mexico. in a neighborhood of spectacular homes, it may be the nicest of them all. that did not keep tiburon police and sheriff's deputies from serving a search warngt on it today. they would not say what they were looking for but what led to it is catastrophic on multiple levels. >> it's a tragedy. we're all heartsick about this. it's something that's every parent's worst nightmare. >> reporter: but that did not keep police from going to this house and arresting javier barillo. his 27-year-old suffered severe cuts from the propellers. his 11-year-old died. >> there was a possibility that they were immediately swept under the boat when they went off the bow or they were hit when he turned the boat to rescue them. >> reporter: after the accident he pulled his sons from the water and hurried back to the yacht club and ca

in san francisco, wayne freedman, abc 7 news. >>> san franciscans will be voting on proposition c inze the sale of vaping and e-cigarettes products while introducing a way to regulate them. it banned vaping earlier this year. supporters filed the lawsuit saying the language used in the ballot question drafted by the city attorney was misleading. the city attorney's office is rejecting that claim. >>> new at 6:00, the family of a man who died at the santa rita jail filed a civil lawsuit. oak the suit was announced today. crist tan madrigal's parents say he needed mental health assistance. his family says officers arrested him, beat him and took him to the santa rita jail in dublin. his family says deputies chained him to a cell door. he died from injuries after trying to take his own life. his family says police ignored their pleas to take him to a mental health facility. >> i begged for multiple times to the point that the police got annoyed at me. they said -- they told me i should stop. that i was just trying to look for the best for my boy. >> neither the city of fremont nor alame

abc 7 news reporter wayne freedman explains. >> reporter: it has become an extreme measure.e turning off power to prevent ignition of wildfires. now a new twist. an early notification before a warning. >> any of our customers could be impacted. >> blame the dries grass, the warm weather, the electrical power lines, a fire triangle likely to materialize early next week which prompted an early warning on twitter from the santa rosa fire department. >> so you can do exactly what we want people to do, be prepared. >> the tweet cites the early report from pg&e about elevated fire conditions that mights haase cause the utility to cut power in an area rage ranging from the bay area to the sierra foothill, a public safety power cut off. or psps. >> what's notable about in is it's the first of the year in insomnia an county but not the first of the year in the region. you can ask east napa all about that. remember june 8th? >> no power, no internet, no nothing. so we got to go. >> that was marguerita sanchez last june as they cut power near lake barry he issa. when these happen commu

wayne freedman is live there with the latest. wayne? >> reporter: good afternoon. this is a story still developing. we still do not know the names of the victims yet. there was a woman driver and two adolescents in the back of the car presumably her children went to two separate hospitals. we also know those two kids in the car may owe their lives at this point to three good samaritans who pulled them from the burning wreckage. it remains a miracle mystery even now how the suv stopped rolling and caught fire at the bottom of a ravine and the driver was on top of the hill 80 feet above. >> as best we can tell as the vehicle was rolling she was ejected from the vehicle. she was conscious. she was able to talk to our paramedics on our helicopter. definitely major. >> reporter: there were two kids in the car, presumably her children. one was unconscious. it appears that somebody rescued the kids from inside the burning vehicle but the chp is not saying who. >> anytime you have children involved it brings a different level to the crash. it's a tough one. >> witnesses sa

abc7 news reporter wayne freedman went for a look today. now, wayne, i got to admit, i saw some of your tweets. i'm looking at the rivets. i've seen this thing a million times, yet i have no idea what it is. >> that's right. that's it over my shoulder right there behind the palm trees. let's call this a person and object story. the object has a name. they call it signal. and yes, larry, you stole my line. it's riveting. it has been said that what goes around comes around, but never in this particular form. >> if you had not known what it was, would you know what it is? >> no. >> no. >> i don't know what this is. >> and that's from tom laughlin, the man who sculpted it. >> you like the fact that it -- >> vibrates. >> though that's hardly the intended function of this steel ring in 14 riveted sections with a light on top, a signal light that you may have seen before and never noticed. that light had been on the bay bridge since the day it opened in 1936, as was the steel, through trains and an earthquake and a demolition. now some of that sam

in napa, wayne freedman, "abc 7 news". >>> way to go, jim. a better bay area. share them by joining our facebook group, better bay area. >>> next year on "abc7 mornings," a celebration now in its 29th year. what you can expect at this weekend's festival in san francisco. >>> here are the win innumbers frinnumbers -- win innumbers from last night's mega million drawing. 4, 11, 13, 19, 31, the mega number 10. nobody picked all six numbers. there is still a chance for all of us. tuesday night's jackpot increases to $154 million. >>> and happening today, san francisco's chinatown is celebrating the autumn moon festival this weekend. the official holiday is not until friday, but the festivities are today and tomorrow. the opening parade kicks off along grant avenue at 11:00 this morning. you can enjoy traditional dance, music and line dancing. organizers are hosting a free screening at 12:30. there will be plenty of vendors selling moon cakes, art and jewelry. >>> next on "abc 7 mornings" at 6:00 a.m., sfo's most important runway is closed today f

we sent abc7 news wayne freedman to find out. >> a busy day for muni, as if there would be any other kind. places to go, things to see. >> one of bochy's last daytime games. >> it's off to the ballpark in a system which they've become accustomed, too accustomed in some cases. >> nothing surprises me. >> iowa heard everything. >> eduardo pena, a familiar face on muni if he catches you without a ticket. >> good afternoon. could everyone have their payment transfers, clipper cards, lifelines? >> system-wide muni loses 7% to fare evasion, $17 million a year. but on the light rail system, they believe they're doing better, and because of these gates. >> i actually don't see very many people jumping them. >> that would be an interesting contrast to the problems on bart where the honor system appears to have gone on full-time hiatus as abc7 news has documented on several occasions. >> i think these things are still too easy. people can push in behind you and people aren't going to want to stop other people from doing that. >> the gates are higher. they're quicker. more of a psychological ob

wayne freedman has the story live in the east bay today. wayne?er: well we're in the highlands. this is one of the areas that burned in the 1991 fire storm. pretty much every home around here to the ground. and residents are now paying for that. in fact, residents across california are paying for california's wildfires. when sue of berkeley received a letter from allstate saying they would not renew her homeowner's policy it left her angry. >> they said because of the fire danger. >> reporter: and for a woman who paid insurance premiums for 17 years and cut back trees around her home, allstate appears to have made a digs based on location. in the oakland hills. nine others on the same street received similar letters. it is happening in fire zones across the state and more insurance companies have made similar moves. >> it doesn't seem like the insurance companies are operating in good faith in a way. because if they're going to ensure wenneorodbut le ma o homes innde iustry calls a urban interface. as the climate changes insurance companies do not

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in napa, wayne freedman, "abc 7 news". >>> really nice story there.ice weather as well this weekend. let's check in with meteorologist lisa argen for your accuweather forecast today. hey, lisa. >> hey, joe bean archbishop. good morning to you. we certainly are bringing in the clouds, not only the low level clouds but we are looking at some mid and high level clouds, so changes are arriving due to a system that is pushing in from the north and west. yes, it is going to feel a little bit like fall out there temporarily. this is walnut creek. a pretty view for you here, but it shows how far the marine layer has pushed on into our inland valleys. as we check out our forecast highlights, we are starting that with a lot of cloud cover, even some mist and drizzle and the winds. they will pick up today and be quite brisk out there, anywhere from 15 to 40, even 45 miles per hour some of those gusts. a lot of sunshine on the way. temperatures will be a little below average as we get into the rest of the weekend. early next week as another shot of cool air heads

all right let's bring in our panel joining me from london bobby freedman political commentator on u.k. politics and the author of berkow mr speaker rowdy living in the tory party from birmingham on skype alex to reuters director of the center for briggs and studies at birmingham city university and also from london sania pranav journalist and author of just boris a tale of blonde ambition welcome you all to the program sonia let me start with you boris johnson has lost 6 important votes in 6 days just how damaged is he right now. isn't it thing any other time insead has ever gone through a loss he has i mean he does that quite often not get a man defeated a man who's had the rug pulled out from under his feet and interestingly actually last night he gave a form cite the best in the comments and he has done to date but i think he doesn't like a man who knows he's in a corner now we just have to guess or possibly trying guess how he gets out of this corner will he resign if some people say he might will he call a 2nd referendum on bret's it as other people say that he might it's a perfe

alright let's bring in our panel joining me from london bobby freedman political commentator on u.k. politics and the author of berkow mr speaker rowdy living in the tory party from birmingham on skype alex to reuter director of the center for briggs and studies at birmingham city university and also from london sonny upon our journalist and author of just boris a tale of blonde ambition welcome you all to the program sonia let me start with you boris johnson has lost 6 important votes in 6 days just how damaged is he right now. thing any other time insert has ever gone through us he has i mean he does that quite often like a a man defeated a man who's had the rug pulled out from under his feet and interestingly actually last night he he performs slightly better in the commons and he has done to date but i think he doesn't like a man who knows he's in a corner now we just have to guess or possibly trying guess how he gets out of this corner will he resign a some people say he might will he call a 2nd referendum on bret's it as other people say that he might it's a perfect storm so ma

. >> let's go to wayne freedman about what the federal government lands to do to help build a betterea. >> reporter: we're still waiting for some details as to what they would do. we were hoping we would get details when ben carson came today. that didn't happen. there was a lot of noise outside, though. >> what do we want? >> housing! >> when do we want it? >> now! >> reporter: in aprec ree frankly, why we have to have homelessness in this country. >> reporter: while outside, there were those who say they can count the ways. >> it is the federal government and hud who have created

freedman's government is trying to line up foreign investors who will help finance improvements high on the list of potential partners or chinese businesses. i'm not afraid of china in general i think china. and metals and minerals. it's an important investment country. last year a company owned by the chinese government submitted a bid for the expansion of 3 smaller ports in greenland but the government in denmark stepped in and blocked the bid citing security and financial concerns. in any case greenland needs to make a serious effort to improve its infrastructure. that it definitely the. very difficult it is far away from both europe and north america and it's a very big island the biggest island and world spread out over a very large area so definitely look just tickle challenges and also environmental challenges and from one form of bad weather. in large parts of greenland many people earn a living by hunting. one of them is to be as ignites usent who lives in the lock on the southeast coast. during the summer he goes hunting every week. in the winter months he could just fish.

debated so i'll posit that what you think about that but i want to bring in another viewpoint laurie freedman here on twitter she says a lot of the coverage seems to miss the fact that the catalyst for this department of education letter was an attack on the gaza conference and i think that you reference out a little bit earlier she says it claimed anti-semitism the fact that the department of education didn't take it up that claim she's referencing demonstrates how thin this is so this is a point that a lot of people are raising in our community and i want to share a video comment from someone who elucidates out a little bit more this is ohashi is a staff attorney at palestine legal here's what she told a stream. the government's letter really seems to be unprecedented in terms of the level of overreach in trying to dictate what's being taught at these schools the context is that the u.s. government launched a federal investigation into an academic conference on the. bus a conference isn't mentioned in the letter but it's clear to anyone who's following the story like other middle eastern st

wayne freedman explains. >> reporter: it has become an extreme measure. pg&e turning off the power to prevent the ignition of wildfires. now a new twist on that, an early notification before a warning. >> any of our customers could be grass,weather, electrical power lines. it prompted an early warning on twitter today from the santa rosa fire department. >> so you can do exactly what we want people to do, be prepared. >> reporter: the tweet cites an early report that might cause the utility to cut power from the bay area east to the sierra foothills, a public safety power shut off or psps. what is notable is that it is the first of the year in sonoma county but not the first of the year in the region. you can ask east napa all about that. remember june 8? >> no power! no internet, no nothing. so we got to go. >> reporter: that was margarita sanchez last june as pg&e shut off power. communities may go as long as 48 hours without power. this year santa rosa asked for notifications as early as possible. today they got one, with 100 hours' notice, twice the n

alright let's bring in our panel joining me from london bobby freedman political commentator on u.k. politics and the author of berkow mr speaker rowdy living in the tory party from birmingham on skype alex to reuter director of the center for briggs and studies at birmingham city university and also from london sonny upon our journalist and author of just boris a tale of blonde ambition welcome you all to the program sonia let me start with you boris johnson has lost 6 important votes in 6 days just how damaged is he right now. this isn't a thing any other time instead has ever gone through us he has i mean he does that quite often like a a man defeated a man who's had the rug pulled out from under his feet and interestingly actually last night he he performs sightly best in the commons and he has done to date but i think he doesn't like a man who knows he's in a corner now we just have to guess or possibly trying guess how he gets out of this corner will he resign a some people say he might will he call a 2nd referendum on bret's it as other people say that he might it's a perfect

. >> let's go to wayne freedman about what the federal government lands to do to help build a better bay area. >> reporter: we're still waiting for some details as to what they would do. we were hoping we would get details when ben carson came today. that didn't happen. there was a lot of noise outside, though. >> what do we want? >> housing! >> when do we want it? >> now! >> reporter: in a model project, a contrast between the ideal of housing secretary ben carson. >> and i don't see any reason, quite frankly, why we have to have homelessness in this country. >> reporter: while outside, there were those who say they can count the ways. >> it is the federal government and hud who have created homelessness in san francisco. let's be clear! >> reporter: and so what dr. carson called as a fact mission, the housing secretary entered through a locked garage, but he had to hear the housing advocates waiting for him. >> making people homeless is your game! >> it's a blame california thing. it's let's talk about all the ways california has done wrong, and we're here to fix it. >> what we rea

near rachel, nevada, wayne freedman, channel 7 news. >> since wayne filed that report, the u.s.ent has purchased more and more land around there so you can't even get that close any more. >> i feel like maybe he needs to go back and reexamine this if he could even access it. >> interesting idea, i think. >>> still ahead on abc7 news at 11:00. >> we are tracking a beautiful finish to the weekend tomorrow hey. ♪ go where my baby lives hey.y the strolle♪s you must be steven's phone. know who's on your network and control who shouldn't be with xfinity xfi. switch to xfinity internet for $29.99 a month for 12 months and get complete control over your home wifi network with xfinity xfi. call. click. or visit a store today. >>> an 11-year-old boy with special needs and his mom are furious after a teacher moved his desk into a bathroom. lukas goodwin's mother danielle said she'd spoken with the teacher about her son's autism and autoimmune disorder and that he does best in a quiet place. they say the teacher's solution was to put lukas's desk over a toilet and give him a camping mat to

as part of our rideshare realities week in april, wayne freedman applied to be a driver and drove passengers around. he said it was easy to sign up. he answered a few questions and provided his license and social security number. he did that online. background checks depends on local laws. >>> a woman whose rape case is coming forward with a new book to reclaim our identity and story. it comes three years after the suspect received a sentence that outraged many people. michelle wants you to know her name. we have the story. >> reporter: this is not emily doe asheas once known. she is making her name public and to emphasize it she is releasing a book called "know my name." miller tells what it has been like since she was sexually assaulted in 2015 by brock turner. she was a college graduate and was attending a fraternity party . she was unconscious at the time of the assault. >> you don't know me, but you've been inside of me. in newspaper my name was inconscious, intoxicated woman. ten sii had to force myself to relearn my name and my identity to relearn this is not all i am. >> reporter: pr

here is abc 7 news reporter wayne freedman in santa rosa. >> when we last saw earl small in last yearlard bankruptcy. it seemed this vacate lot might remain fallow months to come high pressure his insurance payment did not cover the cost of rebuild. >> i'm 64. i my wife 63. >> one day after pg&e reached agreement with snurns companies to compensate them is 11 billion forn payouts to victims vic earl still wasn't happy. >> we're continuing to go through hell. >> pg&e agreement in principal with insurance companies covering any and all fire in which pg&e may have played a role in 2017 or 2018. the $11 billion represents about half of what the insurance companies paid. many victimseivero. >>e get nothing and we have to wait? >> certainly i would have advocated that pg&e pay the survivors first. >> norine evans an attorney represents thousands of fire victims suing pg&e for the difference between in re insurance payments and in re actual losses. earl for instance received $390,000 and spent 7 oh oh thousand attorneys believe earl and others will see the money eventually. >> it's likely to

live on potrero hill, wayne freedman, abc 7 funews. >>> yesterday a report of the state of homelessness in america. it argues states on the east and west coast have the highest rates of homelessness due to strict building codes that reduce the supply of housing and blames california's crisis on police tolerance of, quote, people sleeping on the street. it says crackdowns on street activities would reduce homelessness. in response governor newsom asked the president to provide more federal aid for housing vouchers. keeping the political theme former president barack obama will be visiting san francisco tomorrow. the chronicle reports mr. obama will be speaking at a small invitation only event hosted by the tech company splunk. the beginning of everything conference will focus on how big tech companies can responsibly collect and manage data across the internet. >>> political reporter and analyst cokie roberts died today. her career spanned five decades lead to go countless awards including named as one of the 50 greatest women in the history of broadcasting. >> karen travers has a look b

my father did and a volunteer lawyer named marty freedman and they marched into the real estate agentsffice and this should be the end of the story but it's not because real estate agent was so upset he been caught in this conspiracy of love that he gets up and punches my dad's lawyer in the face and six a dog on my dad. let me tell you, as i grew up in this beautiful town every time my dad would tell the story the dog would get bigger. [laughter] eventually my dad said i had to buy a pack of walls to win the south and every one of us here drinks deeply from wells of freedom and liberty and opportunity that we did not dig. everyone of us this year descendents of immigrants amongst every one of us here latinos, blacks, all of us come from that humble story and we are all here because people who cannot even imagine us for this day and age were willing to fight and sacrifice to put their life on the line for the ideals of america that we would be a people to put more indivisible in this one nation under god that we would affirm the ties that bind us a stronger than any lines that divide u

abc 7 wayne freedman spent the late afternoon speaking with people that knew her and joins us live. wayne? >> reporter: good evening. we arrived here in stockton right about the time school let out. a lot of people heard about this accident and their victims and friends this morning they were still trying to sort their feeling feelings. >> she was nice. >> reporter: it never easy to quantify loss especially for kids barely in thirteens but that was the task at sierra middle school today where staff, students and families mourned science teacher angela rose. >> she was a cool person and i didn't know that she was so loved by this school. >> she was good. she was kind. good teacher. >> reporter: angela's story is one of five from yesterday morning from the same family. two of her sisters worked locally as nurses. they perished a accestepmother. these losses reverberate through the region. >> you can never imagine, you know, would be this close and hit our community. it's unim what do you remember about her? >> she had purple hair. >> reporter: really? >> yeah. >> reporter: so she was

here is abc 7 news reporter wayne freedman in santa rosa. >> when we last saw earl small in january ofyear pg&e just declared bankruptcy and it seemed this vacant loft that used to be his house might remain fal p.o. morp fonts to come. his insurance payment candidate cover the cost of rebbld. >> look at eight months later. one day after pg&e reached agreement with insurance companies to compensate them with $11 billion to compensate them for pay outto rimes victims. earl wasn't happy. >> we've been threw, kipting true hell. >> pg&e agreement in principle with insurance companies covers in and all fires in which pg&e may have played a relevant in 2017 or 2018. the $11 billion represents about half of what the insurance companies paid. victims will receive nothing from this settlement. >> they get $11 billion, and we get nothing and we have to wait. >> certainly i would have advocated that pg&e pay the survivors first. >> norine evans an attorney represents thousands of fire victims suing pg&e for the difference between their insurance payments and in re actual losses. earl for instance

. >> tom freedman wrote it's an unusual combination of autobiography, moral obligation, and manual on how to breast feed a child with one hand and talk to john kerry on a cell phone with the other. tom describes it as a wonderful book which it is is the way you weave together all the threads and reveal personal things, personal failure. in the obama campaign when you were caught off guard calling hillary clinton, his opponent, a monster and had to leave the campaign. that was a very public failure. >> yeah, watching yourself become a global scandal is unique experience. i don't recommend for any of your viewers or you. >> we've all been through this. i have to tell you. >> that's true. >> not global. >> but we're out of time on the left and right, there's a lot of skepticism about u.s. leadership in the world, about internationalism. by telling my own story, warts and all, and opening up my immigration to the united states at a time that immigration is controversial, to tell the story of the privileges the country gave me and what it's like inside the government, trying to promote hum