new concept. it's been around for a while. abc seven news reporter luz pena looks into exactly how effective it's been. luis. >> yes, larry. the relocation assistance program has been around for 20 years in san francisco, but it's had different iterations throughout the years. the latest version launched in 2023 with the name journey home, and since then it has contributed to the city's overall operation, leading to the relocation of close to 300 homeless individuals this year alone. a bus ticket out of san francisco before shelter or housing. that's the new directive. city workers are mandated to follow as encampment resolutions or sweeps continue. >> this is our van. >> cheryl fields works with the city's homelessness and supportive housing department. her job is to transport homeless individuals to shelters, housing options or greyhound stations if they have a family member outside of the city ready to welcome them. how often are you driving people to greyhound? >> it varies on a it varies week to week. sometimes we may do 2 to

jon, sources now telling abc news that rfk jr. reached out to the trump campaign, but we've also learned rfk jr. reached out to the harris campaign as well? >> reporter: here's what we know, david. we know that rfk reached out to try to get a meeting with harris, and there were reports he wanted to talk to her about getting a place in her cabinet in exchange for his endorsement. and we know that went nowhere because the harris team simply didn't respond. >> david: jon karl, we'll see you right here in the convention hall a short time from now. jon, thank you. >>> tonight, former president trump holding his first outdoor campaign event since the attempted assassination, speaking from behind bulletproof glass now before a tightly controlled crowd. set to focus on national security today, trump react together obamas who, of course, were right here in the hall last night. here's rachel scott. >> reporter: tonight, former president donald trump holding his first outdoor event in a battleground state since the attempt on his life. trump

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abc news reporter em nguyen is in washington. ce entering a new phase as former president trump and his running mate, senator jd vance, hit several key battleground states this week and 69 days, my friends, we're going to take this country back. >> vance in grand rapids, michigan, slamming the biden-harris administration on the economy. >> they are cooking the books to hide how bad the economy really is under kamala harris. >> vance behind bulletproof glass. the first time it's been used at a solo event for the republican vice presidential nominee. the move underscoring new safety measures in place following the assassination attempt on former president trump in july. trump set to rally in wisconsin thursday and then head to pennsylvania friday. must win states for the former president in michigan monday. trump making a quick stop at a campaign office. >> if we can this state, we win the whole thing. we win the whole thing. >> today, the trump team confirming both robert f kennedy jr and former democrat tulsi gabbard have joined t

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and abc news. the network will have special live coverage of the democratic national convention both tonight and tomorrow. our live coverage this evening airs from 6 to 8 p.m. >> other news now to the search for a woman accused of repeatedly threatening to kill and kidnap preschool children at playgrounds in san francisco. abc seven news reporter tim johns looked into why she's still on the streets. tim. >> yeah. kristen i spoke with several people who have had encounters with this woman. they tell me this has been going for on years with some of the woman's threats and attacks going all the way back to 2020. now, neighbors say they're frustrated and they want something to change. >> i'm just astounded that we're still talking about this, that we're still dealing with this san francisco mother, jenna p has had enough for years. >> jenna tells me she and her family have been on the receiving end of threats from this woman. we're showing you her photo because police say she's a threat to the public an

you can also get breaking news alerts with the abc news app. 'll have a full wrap up tonight on world news tonight. for now i'm whit johnson in new york. have a great day. >> this has been a special report from abc news. >> so that's a major breaking news this morning that we are continuing to follow. and of course there's still information we don't know like who this prisoner exchange was, who the exchange was. yes we know who you know. we know two people who have been released, but we don't know for whom, who's going the other way, who's going from the us to russia. yes. >> and what details are kind of wrapped up in the entire swap. but we know that abc news, as they mentioned, is confirming the men are among 24 people being released as part of this prisoner swap that has been organized. and so all of this breaking this morning overnight, as you're waking up. >> all right. we move on here at abc seven news this morning, a long and memorable career of service comes to a close in the south bay. we'll tell you about this 98 year old crossing guar

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then we'll bring you a special edition of abc seven news at 10:00. and of course, our regular abc seven news at 11. we have a drug, homelessness, and economic recovery crisis, because the system that's supposed to fix things is the problem. record budgets. fewer officers. business killing bureaucracy. the insiders won't change a system built for their benefit. i'm daniel lurie and san francisco needs a mayor unafraid to take on the status quo, bring accountability, and stop the excuses. you can go home of >> really fun afternoon out at the oakland coliseum. i had the privilege and it is that of singing 16. oakland did win the game 3 to 1, by the way. meantime, we're getting a look today at how the oakland roots plan to configure the field at the oakland coliseum. this animation, released by the team shows the pitch running along the baseball third base line. the team says that's going to give fans the best sightlines and an intimate atmosphere. the team is now taking deposits for the 2025 season tickets. all right. we still have much more ahead. let's

and with it comes new tech. as abceven news reporter lauren martinez shows us, it's the future of the modern sports experience. >> the nfl league office is rolling out facial ticketing for credentialed people. they've teamed up with the company wicked, a facial authentication platform provider. ceo jeff beam tells us wicked started in the height of covid when the cleveland browns were looking for a way to get fans in instead of manual barcode scanning. fans who have enrolled can show their face to validate their ticket. >> fans opt in to use this solution in order to gain the convenience of faster access to a stadium, or even faster concessions, or faster access to an event, beam said. >> browns fans are now getting into the stadium four times faster when you actually take a picture and you take a selfie at home to register for the system, and then when you show up, there's a camera that is used, typically an ipad, to access the event. >> those pictures are immediately uh- changed into a mathematical representation tha

now i'm julian glover, abc seven news. >> all right, lots of action tonight. >> thank you julian, for sure. >> and you can watch julian's coverage from chicago all week long right here on abc seven news. and each night abc news will have special live coverage of the democratic national convention tonight and tomorrow from seven until 8 p.m, wednesday and thursday from six until 8 p.m. >> a car burglary suspect is facing federal charges for breaking into an fbi truck in san francisco, the mercury news reports. gregory acosta alvarez is accused of stealing thousands of dollars in equipment from an agent's vehicle back on august seventh, including a gas launching gun and a ballistics vest. the break-in was captured on security cameras. investigators say alvarez can be seen getting on a bicycle and riding away from the crime scene. they found him at a hotel nearby, but not some of the stolen items. authorities say alvarez claimed he traded those items for $20 worth of methamphetamine. >> fire investigators in san francisco say they cannot figure out what sparked a fire at a home near alam

abc news reporter zohreen shah has more on the quake >> we felt the earthquake here in the abc news l.a. bureau. it was a strong rattle and others across los angeles also reported feeling it in pasadena, a magnitude of 4.4, according to caltech. cbc's chopper was over in wilson high school in el sereno, which was evacuated as a precaution. you can see all the students there on the athletic field and l.a. county fire and lafd saying they are now in earthquake mode and checking buildings and other structures for any major damage. right now, there are no reports of injuries, so we can't predict earthquakes. >> we cannot. i'll say it more clearly uh- the what we can do is forecast, but it's still very exact. we'll say it's still we can only give a small numbers. and so we know after an earthquake like this, there is an increased chance of many aftershocks. but it's still not a very likely that we're going to get a larger event. >> there have been smaller earthquakes in california recently, but caltech says those are not believed to be connected to this one. zohreen shah, abc news, los angel

julian glover, abc seven news. >> electric and loud. all right. thank you. julian. can feel the energy. >> yeah, well, you can catch julian's coverage from chicago all week long right here on abc seven news. >> and each night, abc news will have special live coverage of the democratic national convention. tonight from 7 to 8 p.m. and then tomorrow and thursday, it's from 6 to 8 p.m. >> all right, let's move on. emergency crews have recovered the remains of a person who was electrocuted during an explosion in richmond. the recent. this incident happened at about 330 this morning inside a p-g-and-e's vault at second avenue and cutting boulevard. investigators say it appears the person came into contact with energized electrical lines inside that vault. that person has not been identified, and it's unclear why they were in that hazardous area. >> residents in a santa clara condo complex are relieved to know a major mail theft operation is now shut down. security footage captured the thieves using stolen mail keys to access dozens of mailboxes. abc seven news south bay r

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news. all right. >> thank you, julian. and of course, abc seven news anchor julian glover has our special coverage from the dnc. you can look for his reports through tonight. >> kamala harris's campaign also reporting a huge jolt in fundraising. according to newly released filings, her campaign raised nearly $230 million in july. trump's campaign reported $151 million in that same month, a harris campaign official believes they're going to pass the $500 million mark in fundraising within the next few days, and abc news will continue special live coverage of the democratic national convention leading up to the acceptance speech tonight. it all begins at 6:00, right here on abc seven. donald trump may soon have a new high profile supporter, amanda. abc news sources say rfk jr may drop out of the race as soon as tomorrow. >> yeah, reggie, that probable decision to drop out was hinted at by rfk jr. s running mate nicole shanahan, earlier this week on a podcast, but sources are now telling abc news an endorsement of trump would come with a price.

we do still have much more news ahead for you. >> we do. let's go to abcen news anchor luz pena for a look at what's coming up today at 530. luis. >> thank you. don and emma coming up on the show, we'll be speaking live with san francisco city attorney david chu today. his office announced a first of its kind lawsuit against websites that have been using ai to create fake nude images of women and girls. and we'll talk to him also about the role his office is playing in the citywide homeless encampment sweeps. plus, we're tracking the latest on the forty-niners player, brandon aiyuk. is he staying with the niners or what's happening with him? abc7 news sports director larry beil will be here to speak about that. join us for those stories and more. at 5.30 on abc seven. bay area streaming tv. dan. excellent. >> thank loose. >> and you can download the abc seven app or head to abc seven news.com to join loose in two minutes. >> be sure to do that. and if you're watching us here on tv. world news tonight with david muir is next for sandhya patel. all of us, we

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trump going before the cameras at mar a rag go t-a-lago agreeing to the abc news debate to challenging vice president harris to meet for two others next month. trump criticizing the vice president's intelligence and lodging complaints about coverage of the large crowds at her rallies. he also claimed abortion a key focus of her campaign will only be a small issue come november. and he was pressed, will there be a peaceful transfer of power if he loses? on the campaign trial today, vice president harris and governor tim walz met with uaw members in michigan. their blitz of battleground states takes them to phoenix, arizona, tomorrow. abc's selina wang leads us off. >> reporter: tonight, it's official. former president donald trump and vice president kamala harris will face off in a primetime debate on abc next month. the debate, one of three trump agreed to during a mar-a-lago press conference, his first public appearance since the debut of the new democratic ticket. >> i just look forward to these debates. i think it's very important that we have them. i think they'll be very revealing

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gloria rodriguez, abc seven news. thank you, gloria. >> the u.s. postal inspector tells abc seven thieves are targeting mail carriers who service smaller suburban bay area towns and cities. the latest attack happened just yesterday a daytime robbery of a mail carrier in danville. sky seven was over the scene off of camino tassajara. the attacks have become such an issue. the usps recently increased rewards to $150,000 for help and arrests. abc7 news reporter j.r. stone is in the east bay with that. >> deputies scouring an area of unincorporated danville near black hawk, where authorities say a mail carrier was robbed on wednesday. this is video from sky seven showing that carrier, who is physically okay. shortly after the thief took his keys on portola drive, he came up as if they were a customer and then demanded the carriers keys, snatched the keys, gestured that he had a weapon. >> scared the carrier off and then fled on foot through a foot path there in the danville area. >> matt norfleet is a u.s. postal inspector. the law enforcement arm of th

abc news will have special live coverage. it returns tonight and tomorrow, starting at six and going until 8 p.m. wherever you watch abc seven. >> today, former president trump and his running mate, senator jd vance are set to appear together in north carolina to talk about national security. yesterday, both made appearances, flanked by law enforcement talking about crime and policing. >> they go they go after guys like me, but they don't go after people that kill people. it's a shame what's happened in our country, but we're going to turn it around. we're going to win big and we're going to turn it around. we're going to turn it around fast. >> we are going to end sanctuary cities in this country. we're going to bring back pro law enforcement cities. we are going to deport the violent, illegal aliens that have come into this country over the last few years. no more free rides, no more amnesty. >> tomorrow, the former president is heading back west, making a visit to the border in arizona. developing news pro-palestinian prote

abc seven news starts right now. all right. >> the third session of the 49th quadrennial national convention of the democratic party will now come to order. let's party with the purpose. >> and with that, day three of the dnc is underway at the united center in chicago. topping off tonight's speakers will be san francisco's nancy pelosi, former president bill clinton and vice presidential nominee tim walz. good evening. i'm ama daetz and i'm dan ashley. >> thanks for joining us. and in a nod to tim walz and his state of minnesota, john legend and the bay area's own sheila e are scheduled to perform a prince tribute. >> that's right. let's take a live look at the scene inside united center right now. short time ago, the parents of hersh goldberg-polin, who is the israeli american man from berkeley who was taken hostage by hamas, spoke to the crowd. >> and abc seven news anchor julian glover is there for us. live with the story. julie we. >> good evening, dan and ama. currently right now, senator cory booker on the sta

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it's just another way to retain as much independence as possible. >> andrew dymburt abc news, new yorkloved community theater group ends today. cal shakespeare in orinda says it's less than $15,000 away from its $350,000 goal in an online campaign and private matching pledges. the theater company says the last day it has to raise funds is today. cal shakes had a serious financial blow because of the pandemic, and then other expected funding fell through. it's hoping to produce one play this summer season. >> we are just four days away from san francisco's biggest music festival. friday marks the start of the three day outside lands festival at golden gate park, and road closures around the park start today. the rec and park department says jfk drive will close starting at 6 a.m. today and will remain shut down through august 14th. most entrances into golden gate park will be closed to cars starting thursday night. mlk jr drive will be closed to cars friday through sunday when the festival ends. >> fine dining awards is special event tonight on the peninsula that could award bay area ch

and today on abc seven news at four, abc seven news insider phil matier talked about the significance that so many california power players have in the spotlight tonight. we'll talk about that in a moment. but right now, let's go back live to milwaukee. and vice president harris i'm awake. >> i'm awake through the waters. tell the tide don't move. i'ma riot. i'ma riot through your borders. call me bulletproof. and the vice president is going to speak again. >> this is live in milwaukee. >> yeah. this is the very same stage where former president trump accepted the republican nomination. just last month. let's listen. everyone joining us from exciting chicago. >> the delegates at the democratic national convention. >> well, they just completed their roll call. and they have nominated coach walz and me to be the next vice president and president of the united states of america >> and i thank everyone there and here for believing in what we can do together. >> we are so honored to be your nominees. this is a people powered campaign and together we will chart a new way forward >> a future

they were first installed eight years ago after an abc seven news i-team report in 2015 identifying something that needs to be fixed, an important safety issue in this case, and pushing public officials to get it done. abc seven's dan noyes found there were 116 collisions involving cyclists on mount diablo over a four year span. 70% of them were around blind curves. it's actually, over 300 blind curves as you go up the mountain. >> anybody who's driven up the mountain or ridden up the mountain knows that not only is it arduous, but there are a lot of turns. >> randy madera, with the california state park foundation, says cyclists started raising money for these turnouts years ago. >> the rest was donated by the general public, which was it was a process. it's exciting, and it was only like two years from fundraising to construction, which was pretty quick for the state parks and state process. so we're excited about that. >> this saturday, officials are gathering with cyclists to celebrate the recent addition of 22 turnouts, bringing the total on mount diablo to 67. and according to park offi

and with it comes new tech. as abc seven news reporter lauren martinez shows us, it's the future of the modern sports experience. >> the nfl league office is rolling out facial ticketing for credentialed people. they've teamed up with the company wicked, a facial authentication platform provider. ceo jeff beam tells us wicked started in the height of covid when the cleveland browns were looking for a way to get fans in instead of manual barcode scanning. fans who have enrolled can show their face to validate their ticket. >> fans opt in to use this solution in order to gain the convenience of faster access to a stadium, or even faster concessions, or faster access to an event, beam said. >> browns fans are now getting into the stadium four times faster when you actually take a picture and you take a selfie at home to register for the system, and then when you show up, there's a camera that is used, typically an ipad, to access the event. >> those pictures are immediately uh- changed into a mathematical representation t

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then stay with us for abc seven news at 11. remember that abc seven news is streaming 24 seven. area app so you can join us whenever you want, wherever you are. >> all right, finally, this friday, a few thoughts about what really matters. i often think about how different life was 100 years ago, 200 years ago, or a thousand. no modern medicine, no air conditioning, central heating, refrigeration, electricity, or indoor plumbing. for me, it's hard to imagine life without ice cream, let alone anesthesia. how we live today is so very different and so very convenient. cars airplanes. amazon food right to your door. it's all great. consumerism really changed in america from the 1920s to the 50s, where before, buying something you couldn't afford with cash seemed wrong. suddenly, though, credit meant get it? and we've never looked back. credit card debt is out of control. but hey, if it's good enough for our government, why not for us? i suppose, right? the national debt is now a staggering $35 trillion. the government will spend close to 900 billion this year just to service that debt

abc seven news at 10:00 starts right now. >> from abc seven live breaking news. >> and that breaking news, the final step of today's historic prisoner exchange. look at this. americans held for years are back in the u.s, and the reunions just couldn't wait. families running to each other. good evening. i'm ama daetz, and i'm dan ashley. >> thanks for joining us. it was remarkable, poignant moments. just over an hour ago, emotional reunions as three americans, including wall street journal reporter evan gershkovich and former marine paul whelan, are back on american soil, the trio arrived just about 90 minutes ago at joint base andrews, just outside washington. they were greeted by their families and loved ones on the tarmac, along with president biden and vice president harris. whelan was the first one off the plane. he is a former marine, had been held since 2018 by russia. >> gershkovich was next to get off the plane he had been held since early 2023 and was recently sentenced to 16 years in prison on espionage charges. he was based out of the wall street journal's moscow bureau. i

glover, abc seven news. >> and you can catch julian's coverage from chicago all week long here on abc seven news. and each night, abc will have special live coverage of the democratic national convention tonight and tomorrow from 7 to 8 p.m. then wednesday and thursday, it's from 6 to 8 p.m. you can find it wherever you watch abc seven. >> while many will be focused on the democratic national convention this week, former president donald trump will be on the campaign trail visiting several battleground states. the trump campaign announced a series of what they call messaging events. they'll be held at smaller venues and will focus on 1 or 2 policy issues. today, former president trump will be in pennsylvania to speak on the economy. he's expected to also go to michigan, arizona and north carolina. polling continues to capture the shakeup in the landscape of this race. here's the latest abc news ipsos poll. it shows harris leading former president donald trump by five points. overall, however, trump has the upper hand on two top issues cited in the poll the economy and inflation. he al

seven news starts now. >> always live abc seven news starts right now. >> plenty of talk about the doom loop and demise of san francisco, but today, community leaders cut to the celebration with a block party in the tenderloin. thanks for joining us. i'm j.r stone. building a better bay area is our mission here at abc seven news. that means going beyond the national narratives and getting the real story on our communities from the people who live here. that story isn't always straightforward. and we saw that today in the tenderloin. today's love fest sf block party brought music and crowds to the streets with organizers celebrating progress for small businesses. abc seven news reporter cornell bernard talked to business owners who see signs of improvement with a long way to go. no one, former san francisco mayor willie brown, cutting the ribbon, unofficially ending the city's so-called doom loop, a post covid economic narrative. >> san francisco is still trying to shake. we wouldn't be here if it wasn't interesting, attracted fascinating, etc. as we love san francisco, we got to en

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abc news is your place when it comes to everything 2024.on day, you can find complete coverage and live updates on abc seven news.com and the abc seven news app. >> new this morning, a two alarm fire that burned in an abandoned restaurant in oakland is under investigation. flames broke out around 1230 this morning on dennison at cotton street. firefighters say the restaurant that was there has been closed for about a year and a half. and in that time, there have been a dozen different fires in the building. crews got the fire under control in about an hour and no one was hurt. p-g-and-e's equipment has been responsible for some of the most destructive wildfires in our history. over the past few years, the utility has pushed to raise rates multiple times to help them address the situation, but it seems their equipment is still sparking flames. in fact, so far this year, 62 fires have been started by pga and pga equipment, and that's almost the same amount as all of last year. abc seven news reporter gloria rodriguez is following this story.

because hamas says there is a previous framework deal it is willing to accept. >> rhiannon ally, abc newsork. >> thousands of taylor swift fans from around the world were still singing along to taylor swift in vienna, austria, over the weekend, but just not in the way they'd hoped. the three concerts had to be canceled in a precaution. as a precaution after a foiled terrorist attack plan was discovered. well, fans still gathered in groups in the streets celebrating their love of taylor swift's music and community. >> because we don't want to let them win like, you can take the concerts. you can try to, like, make us afraid, but you can't take away swiftie joy. and that's what i love about this fandom so much that we always come together. we always come out on top because we like taylor swift, and that's what connects us. yes, and we won't let another safe space be taken from us. >> the eras tour continues this week in london, where five sold out shows at wembley stadium start in just three days. >> the ultimate disney fan event d23 wrapped up its weekend gathering honoring a new set of di

new initiative. it's called the oakland exchange. as abcen news reporter anton anser hassan found out, it aims to help build wealth in underserved communities by making major investments in black businesses. >> nba greats jaylen brown and jason kidd are coming to play in oakland, but not on the basketball courts. they're known for. >> today was a great day to commence. you know, being able to be the identify the next location and be able to have collective people of influence show up here. >> brown, who just won the nba championships with the boston celtics, recently launched the boston exchange. it aims to address the wealth imbalance by creating a black wall street in boston. he's teaming up with kidd to do the same in oakland. >> he did win the championship on the floor, but we can also create championships off the floor and i'm here to support that. >> kidd grew up in oakland, played at cal, went on to become an nba all star. he says oakland already has the talent and the mentors to make this a success, but that black businesses have lo

for abc news, i'm danny, new. >> let's keep talking about dog.ur dog? dolce and gabbana. hope that you go pretty far. they have a new dog perfume. it's called fifi, and it's named after the pet dog of domenico dolce. dolce. the scent is described as gentle and delicate, with musk, sandalwood and a floral essence. the bottle has a 24 karat gold plated paw print. you also get a dog collar with a gold plated doggy paw. it's $109 a bottle. >> first of all, if this is fifi, fifi is gorgeous, imposing, and really serving the look and making me want to buy it. >> got a blow out. >> it's like look at the blow out and the just the smize. >> >> tyra. be very proud. is it weird i want to try this. >> no i want to i don't think this is a bad idea because you know a lot of people have those like little cute little fifi dogs and they're like right here by you and i'm sure you're smelling the dog all the time. why wouldn't you want the dog to smell like. >> >> it's not. no, no. >> yeah. on the flip side, my dog is very sensitive okay. to certain things like sha

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