judge brinkley found him in technical violation multiple times. in november 2012, she banned meek from touring for a month after he was arrested for suspected marijuana use but nevr charged. in 2014, she sent meek to jail for four to six months for testing positive for opioids and added more years to his probation. and two years later, she slapped him with house arrest without permission to work for 90 days. again, for travel violations. and for giving a fake urine sample. and again, added more years to his probation. >> a lot of law-abiding people who hear this story and think technical or not, you knew what the rules were, you violated them. how do you explain that? >> you know, we've never made any excuses for anything. they're expected to tow a line. but when you put somebody on a tight rope, and i don't mean probation, but tight rope for their entire adult life, they are going to fall off. >> according to the bureau of justice statistics, meek was one of a staggering number of people on probation, one-third were african-americans. >> it's two

leslie brinkley is digging into what is at stake. >> a group called seven hills ranch is spearheading an effort to stop the structure of 30 acres here, which some have dubbed a rossmoor junior. if built, it would support views of mount diablo from 354 housing units, most of them apartment style buildings with parking garages. >> there's also an element where they are single-story buildings, looking kind of like villas. >> the city of walnut creek would weigh in on a list of concerns, including affordability and traffic. >> traffic concerns, if there were a significant development, the impact to the neighborhood. >> my biggest issue is the impact on the environment, density, how many trees they will take out. close to 400, 300 of which are a special species, highly protected, oak trees. >> the developer pointed out what could make this a cutting-edge retirement community with a new medical facility. >> the unique aspect is the health care center next to the main campus, which includes assisted living, memory care, and skilled nursing. as residents age and need higher care, their conven

thanks for the update leslie brinkley reporting live in alamo. governor newsome came to san francisco today to announce an emergency order requiring all students to get the covid-19 vaccine. want to get this behind us get this economy moving again. make sure our kids never have to worry about getting a call saying they can't go to school the next day because one of the kids are a staff member we're tested positive. the new mandate will take effect. once the vaccine is fully authorized by the fda for younger age groups. it is expected to be sold out in two phases with students in grade 7 through 12 expected to be vaccinated by july of next year based on current fda timelines. there's no real timeline for kindergarteners. sixth graders as the fda has not approved the vaccine yet for even emergency use in children younger than age 12, although that's expected to come soon. the governor is expecting backlash over the new order if you want to attack someone attack me, i was the first governor of the country to acquire masking for all our public school

leslie brinkley is looking into what is at stake. a group called save seven hills ranch is spearheading an effort to stop construction of a senior community, what some in the group does -- it would views of mount diablo from 354 housing units, most of them apartment style buildings with parking garages. >> there is an element where there are single-story buildings that look like villas. leslie: the city of walnut creek would weigh in on a list of concerns including affordability and traffic. >> traffic concerns, if there were to be a significant development, what the impact would be. >> my issue is the impact on the environment and the density and how many trees they will take out, if they will take out close to 400, 300 of which are special species, highly protected oak trees. leslie: the developer pointed out what could make this a cutting-edge retirement community with a new medical facility. >> the unique aspect is the health care center we build right next to the main campus, which includes assisted living, memory care and nursi

reporter leslie brinkley digs into the dilemma. reporter: the state wants to make it easier for single-family homeowners to build adu's otherwise known as in law units, or their property. but up on these twisty narrow roads in the east bay hills, more people living and parking and potentially blocking emergency vehicles is a big concern. >> there is a one formula fits all for the entire state, and basically, cities have been stripped of their ability to use land use planning. reporter: she says in berkeley just is not the same as bakersfield when it comes to building adu's. that is why she is pushing an ordinance before the city council tonight. >> i am not suggesting that we prohibit adu's, i am suggesting that we limit the number to one rather than two. it is a tiny baby step. reporter: the worry is another firestorm like the one in 1991. more people living in hills means more cars stuck in bottlenecks, trying to >> we saw it in the 91 fire in oakland, in the tunnel fire. we saw it in paradise. we saw it just a few weeks ago in s

i'm leslie brinkley abc 7 news. moving on we are on storm watch tonight as the bay area braces for the next round of rain that's coming in. this is a live look now north from our camera in emeryville and while everything is dry at the moment. that's all about to change later this evening and abc 7 news meteorologist, sandhya patel is here with a forecast. we've been waiting for sandy. absolutely dan beneficial rain coming our way. so let me show it to you the storm on live doppler 7. it's a light level one storm. it is going to be moving. later on tonight and it will bring with it. not just the rain but the wind as well as we show you our local radar here the rain. still off the mendocino coast it will be moving in late tonight going into tomorrow winds are beginning to pick up out of the south mount saint helena 33 miles an hour. the stronger winds are expected later tonight wind advisory 8 pm tonight until 4 am tomorrow. you might want to tie down any loose objects because those strong winds 45 some of the windies

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erica lewis and douglas brinkley join me. good to see you. errol, a recent research poll shows 47% of republicans want trump to run again in 2024. you've said they should be careful what they wish for. why? >> absolutely, because many of the actions that candidate trump will take -- and i think we have a preview of it in this rally last night -- won't work to the benefit of the rest of the ticket. donald trump is out for donald trump. and he's pretty good at that. but this is the same person who managed to lose the party's control of the white house and both houses of congress in two years. he was enormously unpopular when he was voted out of office. he lost arizona and georgia. he's heading potentially for a repeat of that disastrous performance. those who like the rallies and the applause lines and think he's a winning candidate should really look at the numbers and look at where they stand right now in national politics and not just try and rely on past patterns. you know, the past pattern is that the party in power, in this case, the demo

catheterization program at george washington university hospital, also presidential historian douglas brinkley. doctor, i'm going to start with you. let's discuss the former president and his hospitalization in california tonight. urinary tract infection spreading to his bloodstream. can you tell us about his condition and how dangerous this is? >> good evening, don. it's been reported that he's doing well, and his team is considering switching him from intravenous antibiotics to oral antibiotics perhaps as early as tomorrow. so sepsis is an infection that has spread to the blood. a lot of things can do it. it's much more common as we get older, and it's very common to have the urinary tract as the source. commonly the kidneys or the bladder. sometimes there's, you know, no underlying cause. sometimes there is. i suspect that the president's physicians both in california and new york will search for whether there's an underlying cause for the infection, such as a kidney stone or an obstruction somewhere in the urinary tract that would set him up for infection. >> the potential danger of this,

live in alamo, leslie brinkley, abc 7 news. kristin: sky seven video from earlier today showing the aftermath of a severe crash on interstate 880, in which two cars involved caught on fire. one of them was fully adult. officials reported to the scene just before noon. five cars were involved in the collision. two were treated for nonserious injuries. casey: denise -- larry: in the south bay this morning, students had to evacuate los alamos high school after reports of a bomb threat. law enforcement received a call that there was an explosive device on campus. shortly after, authorities raised to the school and were pleased to see evacuations were already underway. >> they know how to evacuate. they have done a wonderful job, frankly, in initiating these evacuations. larry: a few hours ago, a search was completed. authorities did not find any explosive devices on campus. authorities are currently investigating where the initial call of the bomb threat came from. kristen: on abuse scandalal women's professional soccer. games canc

here's leslie brinkley. >> -l it's the wild, wild west. it's not just because of oak land's police force. it's because we live in a different world now reporter: community activist ken houston knows the streets of oakland well. he's not surprised at what happened monday morning at 8:30 when a hit-and-run driver struck a woman as you see in the surveillance video. she was killed. council member know well gay yes, sir came after the woman because she was trying to brake into his car. >> -l the individual went after her and ran her over and killed her. it's a sad outcome. anyone loses their life, but clearly what the person was doing was breaking into people's automobiles from my understanding. >> -l if somebody does that to me, i'm going to run them over too. it's the way it is. i hate to say that. but the crime and the violence is escalateing because the lack of services, the lack of opportunity that's it. nothing stops a bullet more than a job. >> -l police later arrested the suspect. the case is being investigated as a homicide. i'm lesli

joining us is chief political analyst gloria borger and cnn presidential historian douglas brinkley. we just got in new reporting about congresswoman jayapal who told cnn after that meeting of the progressive caucus that she's a no if there's an infrastructure vote today, that they are going to block the virginia vote, but that the progressive caucus is planning to vote on a resolution that would outline their support for the framework of the bill that was released this morning, so she hasn't spoken to senator sanders yet. the fact that we're seeing all of this play out, look, we know it's messy. >> yeah. >> we know this is part of the process but even congresswoman debby dingell said she's never seen the sausage-making this bad. you've got senator sanders telling house progressives not to vote on infrastructure. congresswoman jayapal is a no, and i say where does this end, not just for the president but frankly for the american people? >> look. they are trying to keep their leverage. don't forgot. these are democrats arguing with democrats. it's not like these are democrats arguing

i'm leslie brinkley abc 7 news scary. lift has released its first ever safety report shows the company received more than 4,100 reports of sexual assault. this is from 2017 through 2019 360 of those cases were rape. they're also 10 reported deaths from physical assaults uber's first report revealed nearly 6,000 reports of sexual assault involving passengers and drivers as well as 64 reports of rape again same time frame 2017 to 2019 an effort to put some of these numbers into better context both the uber and lyft say there were no reported safety incidents for more than 99% of their trips during that same time period target says it is closing its downtown san francisco store on bush street on november 20th because of for sales employees will be offered the option to transfer to other stores. the bush street. target is in the financial district, which does not have the same amount of foot traffic. it had before the pandemic now target says a published report that shoplifting threats were forcing the closure of the large mi

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i'm leslie brinkley. abc7 news. dan: abc7 news is committed to building a bay area. and education is one of the major issue that is we focus on. a big focus right now is the teacher shortage including finding substitute teacher. the shortage so bad that some districts are asking counselors and staff to nil as subs. >> the south san francisco unified school district sent out a dire message today, they're experiencing such a shortage in substitute teachers the district staff and a superintendent herself are being used to fill in as subs. >> it's obviously not an ideal situation. >> volatile that's the word i have for it. >> san jose unified have been asking counselors to fill in when they can't find a substitute. >> the pool of substitute teachers was diminished during the covid school closure year >> she says in order to recruit substitute teachers some districts are raising their daily rate. >> some have gone from $100 a day to $200 or $280 up up to, $350 a day. >> the substitute shortages is part of the statewide teacher shortage driven in part teachers choosing not

brinkley from the 1920s in the 30s. there's a good book by diane and i think pope brock is his name. he was a guy who convinced tens of thousands of american men to transplant goat into their private parts and it was totally fraudulent and many people died but he was great at he had these huge stations first in kansas and then on the mexican border for hewitt advertises products. he's considered a great early pioneer. country music started with the carter family so i think sometimes these guys are a step ahead of us but they understand the shifting in the environment in ways that may be wouldn't occur to us necessarily. they think how can we game this? .. one that is fueled, spread by the mass communication means you just been talking about. and yet it is happening minus the magnetic personality of the center entrance center pushing the star we have theories about hugh queuing on is, it is purely anonymous for. >> in this decentralized medium i don't think you need it. i have an old friend from high school who appears t

i mean you did mention it just brinkley then, but when i this has been happening since july. what's the sort of mood on the ground there from to museum paypal and also from, you know, the likes of fellow journalists and politicians. well, frustration i and impatience, i think would be the key things. i think we could, jo is talk, we'll talk to politicians. we talked to you yesterday, a manifestation people in the crowd and nobody has really understands what's going on in july, the 25th. we thought we're seeing part of this very so the 3 dimensional chess intricate check game and allow tobar that's not the case. he seems to be moving very slowly until now he's not mentioned the economy. and that is one of the vital issues and this was, is his greatest risk. and it's also possibly great opportunity. ah, i think the protest yesterday was a factor, but i would not say a deciding factor. these names these people at all when interviewed long in the past and here to assemble them. it seems, i mean, that's very early days, a fairly reasonable team. i would need to do some more study.

i am leslie brinkley, abc 7c 7c7 news. >> i only heard them. i was pressed against the window.ands of people will come to san francisco to enjoy the blue angels. san francisco is the only city in the country hosting this event because the city's covid numbers are so low. businesses that have suffered during the pandemic could not be happier. >> fleet week has been one of those san francisco traditions. laster when it was canceled because of the pandemic, many of those who lost out were restaurants. >> it a sense of normalcy. -- it is a sense of normalcy. >> san francisco is the only city in the country hosting a fleet week. the other cities were forced to cancel. >> follow the covid restrictions so you don't get in trouble. make sure you do your part because we are still in a pandemic. >> the navy band -- the destroyers played at this iconic corner of fisherman's wharf. these military bands will be performing in every area of san francisco from the marina to the bayview. fleet week in a way is a sign of a new beginning. >> everybody is ready for li d it is like we all forgot wh

leslie brinkley is live at heather farm park in walnut creek for an overview of the damage and the cleanup in that area. >> things or at least start to look back to normal here. heather farm park, big pond menasha pond in the middle of the park overflowed its banks yesterday. it has all receded, getting back to normal. streets were flooded throughout the used bay. storm drains clogged. those issues are starting to get resolved. >> all of a sudden, it felttt an earthquake. the house just moved. it was a flood. >> this homeowner had a huge tree come crashing onto his home at 3:00 a.m.. thankfully not smashing windows, but creating chaos. >> we see a lot of down due to the big storm we had. it is unexpected. our crews are dispatched all the way from orlanda to tiburon. reporter: in arminda, a mudslide first -- oozed onto the court set a tennis club as an overwhelming amount of rain fell. this map from contra costa county shows totals across the region topping six inches in danville, rossmoor, and atop mount diablo. nearly seven inches fell in moraga. debris flows were enormous, usually an ear

leslie brinkley is live with the story. >> i am here at heather farm park and this is a the natural pondpeople know really overflowed yesterday. i have been told it is since back to normal and that's the case across much of the east bay today, getting back to normal. many calls for help in various municipalities. streets flooded, but all of that is getting resolved. >> all of the sudden, it felt like an earthquake. the >> house just moved. >>this homeowner and the berkeley hills had a huge hawthorn tree come crashing onto his home. thankfully not smashing windows but certainly creating chaos. >> we've seen trees fn trees trees coming down. it was really unexpected. we have multiple cause -- multiple calls. our crews are dispatched all the way from orinda. >> a mudslide collapsed fen fenf the tennis club as an overwhelming amount of rain fell. this map shows totals across the region topping six inches in danville, rossville and mount. nearly seven inches fell in moraga. debris flows were enormous. usually an early-season storm has lighter rain. even though crews were prepared, this monste

also cnn presidential historian douglas brinkley. thanks both of you for joining us. on this show we have tried to cover this pretty much every weekend. this threat to democracy, the concerns about future elections, and, adam, that was very stark comparison bill maher made between undermining an election and 9/11. is that fair, that prediction, do you think? >> i mean, you don't need to reach into -- you don't need to go to al qaeda to find examples of democratic elections being overthrown in the united states. we have precedents for this in the american south after reconstruction with the violent overthrow of the reconstruction governments by democrats and their paramilitary allies. so, you know, this is not something that is unheard of in the united states except we have never seen it at this level, the federal level. i think what, you know, on the one hand, you know, i think it's probably more likely that donald trump may actually win under the electoral college system that, you know, privileges republicans because of the geographic distribution of their coalition.

order leslie brinkley who worked on this special i had a friend who went up to try to help and endedinhalation because he was just overwhelmed but what are we going to learn in this special us? well, i think what we le that fires can and do happen in our backyards. i think we all think of wildfires as being in up in the mountains up and open space in parks bordering open space, but this was a true urban wildfire in the sense that this fire was approaching the city of berkeley. it was a scary moment in time. i think we that i think we also learned and i know i did personally from covering the fire. it's good to live somewhere where you know, you're escape routes and it's good to know that you've got perhaps you live somewhere where there. to escape routes not just one narrow one lane road going away from your home. so a lot of lessons to be taken away from this larry and kristen and leslie you cover the east bay hills fires for a long time after and and just going there in the aftermath what stood out to you because just looking at the video i think deathly and desolate is how it feel

brinkley, -- frankly, when i tell people when i told my friends like, yeah, i'm gonna be testifying on capitol hill about vi[laughter] he can do some other things and i can't talk about it here. but i actually fear right now for what my little six year old is gonna experience, i mean in our country, and so i think this committee is doing valuable business. i appreciate you being here. i think that uh we gotta get out of this thing where we can't even acknowledge relationships because we afraid to do it. thank you, mr chairman. >> can i -- sorry, i just wanted to jump in really quickly. because the idea came to my mind while you're talking, it does not solve the problem of death threats, unfortunately. but in terms of we're talking about the hallmark movies and i think one of the reasons that you know the hallmark movies are so popular is because everyone knows for that one month you can turn on that one channel and you will get a feel good movie, but you could actually imitate that behavior in congress where you had to sort of like this is the bipartisanship month or the week, you know

brinkley, -- frankly, when i tell people when i told my friends like, yeah, i'm gonna be testifying on capitol hill about civilities, like there's an amazing select committee on the modernization of congress that's doing really powerful work to make congress work in. there is? so there is a responsibility. and i don't know, on your websites, if you have this front and center, this is something that people can actually see. so people are aware of the work that you're doing. it could make a huge difference to know that there is hope on the horizon. there are people who understand this problem because i'll tell you on the ground, people are just like, yeah, this is the way congress is broken. that's the way it is. it doesn't seem like anyone's taking the effort to fix it. so this hearing, hearings like this and the work that you all are doing needs to be publicized even more than it currently is. >> the problem. i'm sorry. i'm from kansas city. it's the home of hallmark cards and uh, the whole family, i'm not doing a commercial. although the family, they're good friends of our, but don ha