ann bridges, thanks for being with us. ann: thank you.tt: "press:here" will be back in a moment. ♪ scott: welcome back to "press:here." have you noticed there are a lot of words for dog online? people talk about their puppers and their doggos and their floofs and their good boys. this is more than just slang. it is a form of language. gretchen mcculloch is a professional linguist who studies the development expertise on the internet. her new book which i have been looking forward to is "because internet: understanding the new rules of language." gretchen, good morning, and let me start out by pointing out there is no internet slang for cats and yet there are dozens orbecause dogs are better than cats and that is pure science right there. gretchen mcculloch: i think you're forgetting about the first animal meme of all which was the lolcat and therefore, you know, proves the superiority of the cat. scott: i had forgotten about lolcats. all right, explain the title to your book. i got it immediately but "because internet." explain that to me

bridge. >>> i'm anne makovec at the news desk and we are going to hong kong where the airport is still shut down for the second straight day with protesters taking over the terminal. all departing flights right now are canceled but we are seeing some sign of movement with the airport taking and arriving flights including those leaving from sfo and that is good news if you have travel plans and this is what you will face with protesters upset about police tactics in the past and for a couple of weeks, as the protests go on, they are pro- democracy protesters and the u.n. top rights officials is calling on the protesters to resolve this peacefully as soon as possible. >>> authorities and riverside county are investigating a horrific shootout that left a chp officer dead. >> the attack also wounded two other officers and we have new video to show you on the gun battle as it happened. >> these are [ bleep ] human beings. >> accounting video of the gunman carrying an assault style rifle ducking behind his truck. he was wearing all black and dodged a hail of gunfire. the officers took cover from

toll plaza but you are moving along just fine past the toll plaza westbound at the san mateo bridge. >>> i'm annend we have new video just in of the search of the hotel room where the two teenagers, the bay area teenagers accused of killing an italian police officer were staying. the lawyers for the two teenagers were at the property this morning. the teenagers are named finnegan elder and gabriel natale-hjorth. the lawyers have petitioned to get their clients released from jail but no court date has been set and they are accused of stabbing an officer as he was talking to them about allegations of a drug deal and a stolen backpack. we are waiting to find out when the next court appearance might be. >>> i'm jackie ward live at napa headquarters where they are investigating a fatal crash and there was a pursuit involved and it happened last night. it's intense with this car completely flipping over on its back off the side of the road. this is a long big ranch road north of the el centro avenue and it started just after 7:30 and this was behind a raley's where the driver was reportedly passed out

bridge. >> i'm ann mackovich at the live desk. new video from hong kong this morning where the protests have moved to the airport. after several countries have issued travel advisories to their cities including in the u.s. over the past few weeks in hong kong have grown violent. so the optics on this are very important. they want to show they can protest very peacefully. >>> developing this morning a man is in custody after entering a missouri walmart store. shoppers in springfield were terrified yesterday with recent mass shootings in gilroy, el paso, and dayton fresh on their minds. the man was wearing body armor and recorded himself walking through the store. the walmart manager pulled the fire alarm. no one was injured. an off-duty firefighter who was at the store and armed detained the man as he tried to flee through an emergency exit. >> his intent was not to cause peace or comfort to anybody in the business here. he's lucky he's alive still to be honest. >> the suspect's name has not been released. this incident comes less

they've cleared it southbound at mill valley and then at the san mateo bridge, real slow. >>> i'm anneakovec at the live desk with new video of a crash that led to this in oakland with a torrent of water heading into the air. the fire department is on the scene and witnesses took this video to say a speeding suv hit several trees and then a fire hydrant but the dispatch is in giving information. they did cite a potential medical call involved but the person who posted this video said it's at san pablo and mead in west oakland, three blocks from the high school. be aware if you are heading there this morning and we are trying to find out more information. >>> house speaker nancy pelosi and jackie speier will be in the bay area to discuss gun violence prevention efforts as the fbi investigates a host of possible mass shooting threats. >> it's a national epidemic, gun violence. if you combine it with white supremacy and xenophobia, it's an explosive issue and all aspects must be addressed. we are not taking no for an answer. >> house democrats call on the senate to pass a bill to require

bridge. >> reporter: i'm anne makovec going live to the airport at hong kong, crippled by protesters with theecond straight day. these protesters are pro- democracy demonstrators right now and many of them are young people but there have been several clashes with police. that is a controversy coming into play with some chinese officials now moving into the area. this has been a nightmare for travelers with many travelers facing off against the protesters. there are barely any departing flights leaving the airport right now as this continues and we've been monitoring the flights into and out of san francisco leaving from sfo. you are generally good at this point but at least one flight has been delayed coming in to sfo from hong kong because the check and gates are blocked. >>> day two of the forest bill teachers strike with a small group expected to return to the picket lines this morning, one day before school starts. 16 teachers make about $60,000 per year but want a 14% raise spread over three years and according to the teachers, the district offers one half% less but the union rejected th

get through the altamonte pass and boy it is empty at the richmond san rafael bridge it's just light and easy. >>> i'm anne makovec live at the news desk and we have some video of rallies going on in hong kong, continued protest this is actually a group of accountants coming amid their own stance. this comes amid police brutality. one woman who was arrested and says she was abused in custody. these protesters want shut down 200 youtube channels for quote misinformation about these continued protests. thank you. >>> and this morning officials are looking into what caused a test train and two car passenger train to collide in sacramento injuring 17 people. the sacramento fire department says 13 were brought to area hospitals. two of them had moderate injuries the others were treated at the scene and released. >> it just flipped over the top of my bike. the guy in front of me hit the bench in front of him so hard and tore his lower leg all the way across. >> the accident happened at about a quarter to 10:00 last night the sacramento regional transit hopes to clear the trains this morning. >>> there's been a s

you can clearly see why because you can't see the bridge at all. >>> i'm anne makovec live at the news desk. we're live in downtown san jose where a man was hit by a vehicle and left for dead in the middle of this street this is on east san fernando street as we mentioned we believe it's near the library. it's also just a few blocks from horris man. police are going to have those roads closed for the next several hours and we do have our jackie word the way to that scene. >>> starting today san francisco will be packed with visitors in town. the first events get under way at the hill ton in union score in just about two hours. in the bay area for the three day event. it all wraps up saturday with the dnc's general session starting at 10:30 >>> the expulsion ban protect kids boys and students with disabilities are disproportionately disciplined. it's heading to the state snalt for a vote. >>> some students and teachers in contra costa county >>> this is all thanks to measure d a facilities bond that votersse back in 2012. >> originally designed as a karn through 8th grade middle school.

spider is back on the san mateo bridge but the traffic is not. guys. >>> i'm anne makovec at the live news desk venlt right now a hospital is on fire and at least one person has died that fire jumping from balcony to balcony just raging. you can see it started burning last night and it burned into the morning hours. one woman is dead. eight people are injured right now. this was a tough fire fight outside of paris. back to you. >>> and authorities have arrested more than two dozen people for threatening mass shootings. the latest suspect is a man from california. john lawrence reports on the effort to prevent these kinds of attacks. >> police in long beach, california stopping a man they say was set on violence. >> in the city of huntington beach led to the seizure of multiple high-powered firearms, hundreds of rounds of ammunition and tactical gear. >> the suspect was planning a shooting spree at the marriott hotel where he worked as a cook. >> plans, intent and the means to carry out an act of violence that may have resulted in a mass casualty incident. >> in vol

same thing at the san ma at a i don't bridge, moving along slowly and just fine. >>> i'm anne makovec. firefighters are still on the scene of this house fire overnight in vallejo. it destroyed a two-story house. this is video by firefighters after they arrived last night. this is on carter street. when they got there, they heard a couple of explosions, possibly propane tanks coming from the back of the house. that was one of several challenges for firefighters. there was also apparently ammunition in one of the bedrooms. they had to pull back and re-evaluate how to put the fire out. six adults and three kids lived in the house and got out okay with a dog and a cat. and there are three cats unaccounted for. the cause of the fire according to firefighters who spoke to one of the people that lived there, he tried to put out a cigarette in a flower pot filled with saw dust. >>> and out of philadelphia, an hours long standoff that started with a police shooting has come of the an end. the six officers shot are all back home. >> yesterday afternoon, police when to a home to serve a drug war

anne makovec, kpix5. >>> and a severe traffic alert. a live look to the bay bridge. it looks like rush hour. you are stacked up at the toll plaza back under the flyover to the maze and beyond. the overall picture of the map, it's not great. let's zoom in to exactly what i'm talking about. this crash is on treasure island. both the outside lane and one of the center lanes is blocked due to an injury accident. so emergency crews are on the scene and in the process of trying to clear that. down to 2 miles per hour passing out of the toll plaza on the east shore freeway and on to 580 at this hour. the drive time across the bridge, that's the only one in the red. 24 minutes to san francisco. elsewhere, the other bridges look all right. just the bay bridge. we'll bring you the latest. >>> and we are following breaking news. a major crack down on san francisco's tenderloin district. 17 federal law enforcement agencies going in to clean up the s roughly 50 blocks will be targeted. be it the area's homeless population and those suffering from addiction will not be look in el paso, texas. president tr

bridge direction. you are looking good to go. >>> i'm an mack anne makovec live at the news desk. boris johnson wants to suspend parliament and he's asking the queen to do to. set to return in september and if that is suspended parliament would only have a couple of weeks to stop johnson by taking the u.k. out of the e.u. by the october deadline without a brefkt deal some say he's really trying to help this through. >>> looking live now in puerto rico this morning before tropical storm dorian makes impact later today. things looking kind of calm right now. but president trump approved an emergency declaration for the u.s. territory last night. >> laura podesta has how pedestrians are preparing for that storm now. >> with higher gusts that can get to hurricane 4 winds. >> the storm hit the french caribbean island of martinique yesterday. >> this will be a very quick storm. this will come through in 6 or 7 hours and is it will be over and we can assess the damage. >> two years ago hurricane maria ravaged puerto rico. and the power grid remains unpredictable. some residents are fleei

slight tap of the brakeste volue ogh than usual inner loop branch avenue to the wilson bridge a little delay annto pennsylvania. earlier c by eastern did clear. freeway jams just slightly to thenn third streeel. heavy two and from t street bridge as usual. and then 395 on look at that. just a little touch of noing fro trible express hov lanes look good. maryland d overierut except norl volume outer loop in college park 95 to georgia avenue. 17-mile per hour average.so mething else exciting to tell you about.>> it's summer and you love carryi beach, right? well i love going to the beach as well. good news for you. the new fox5 dot. lry tote the way to go. just go t foxdc.com/conrsts to ente our fox5 d.c. lotte tote $12 d.c.o zero zerscratcher give away. one winner selected by random drawing. youave from now until 9am to enter. allmu entrast be 18 or older. complete res at foxdc.com/contests. b love thisag right here. do wiser if that out at the zip trip to hagerstown. you got a car.an you w a bag to go with it right. welcome to hagerstown, maryland. where we are - we are -- >> whoo! >> excited to

i will say the bay bridge metering lights are on and that is getting backed up. >> i'm anne makovec livethe news desk. we are going live to sacramento right now where the two trains collided on the track. the sacramento regional transit district is trying to pull them out a little bit later on. it was a test train and a two car passenger train that collided last night leaving 27 people injured. this happened just before 10:00 last night. at that point some of the injure wrd being taken to the hospital. 13 of them were injured so badly they had to go to the hospital. this was at macaroni avenue. so we are going to keep an eye on that scene throughout the morning as those trains get under way and the investigation continues. >>> two pacifica residents are behind bars this morning accused of running an organized retail theft ring. 44-year-old ruby rivera and 44-year-old mercy sandoval are under arrest. rivera's home was used to store $40,000 in stolen retail merchandise as well as $30,000 in suspected stolen property like laptops, purses and high -end camera equipment. four other suspects w

backups and the cash lanes at the bay bridge but if you have a fast track, you are moving along just fine and the same thing nimitz northbound and southbound. >>> i'm anne makovec with new video from ohio where a stabbing suspect is accused of stealing a police cruiser and then crashing it into two cars, killing two children and injuring nine others. the cars he crashed into were parked at a library and when he tried to escape and the stolen police car, he hit two other officers and their vehicle. a total of 12 are injured including that suspect. back to you. >>> investigators are trying to figure out if two smash-and-grab robbery 70 miles apart are related. these are surveillance photos of the milpitas smash-and-grab suspects that they are comparing two photos of thieves in modesto. these suspects targeted jewelry stores located in the mall sunday night just hours apart and the first group has hit the vintage faire mall in modesto just before 5:00, using a sledgehammer to break display cases and 2.5 hours later at the great mall, a similar smash- and-grab. >> it appears to be the same ammo. for the modesto area, the possibility could be there. >>> some

other right wing groups across one of portland's main bridges where similar protective services offered to an tearfula the counterprotesters? jo ann let me clarify that. thank fofor you thatat question. what porortland police did w wa make a tactical decision. so 45 minutes into the protest, ththe proud boys contacted the police and said they were ready to leave because, quite franankly, they were so outnumbebered. they wananted to get out of tow and so because e we'd already closed off the hawthorne bridgege, it was the best way t get them back to their automobiles s so we could gogo of town. what we didn't't want is ththe counterprotest tors and white supremeists meet up in any form. that was a good decision made by the police. the police didn't escort them but just made it available for them to be able to utilize the bridge to get back to their automobiles so they could go back to vancouver or wherever else they came from. amy: shane burly, you were out there covering the protests. you're also an author of the book "facism today" what it is and how to end it. if you could talk about what you witnessed, the protests, the counter

bridge waiting on the wash lanes. otherwise, good to go headed to marin county this morning. >>> i'm anne makovec.nd we are live to danville where there was a water main break early this morning. roadways still shut down right now. this happened at about 3:30 our time. franciscan drive is still wet. and east bay is on scene and we don't know at this point how water service might be affected in the area. but the cleanup is underway. and don't know when the roadways will reopen. keeping an eye on it. >>> and storm watch, hurricane dorian is taking aim at florida. this is a live look at dell coaf the sunshine state. on the left, things are calm this morning. but there is now a state of emergency. dorian pounded the u.s. virgin islands as a category one hurricane. puerto rico dodged a direct hit. the storm is gaining strength and forecasted to reach florida this weekend, possibly as a powerful category three. store shelves emptying and homeowners filling up bags and installing hurricane resistant windows and doors. >> people think putting basic materials on the windows and tape and all that will work.

bridge. not an accident. maybe someone is pulled over or a shoulder is closed. we'll keep an eye on that. but you are smooth sailing through that toll plaza as well. >>> i'm anne makovec and we are going to to vallejo. this video from the fire department of a house fire on carter street. it started around 11:00 p.m. and the fire was going up by the time they got there. they heard a couple of explosions, possibly propane tanks. and there was ammunition in a bedroom that caused them to re-evaluate attack plan. everyone got out with the dog and the cat. there are three cats unaccounted for. and firefighters hearing that they tried to put out a cigarette in a flower pot filled with saw dust instead of soil as they had thought. >>> and 4:32. >>> a live look in philadelphia this morning. a lengthy standoff that injured six police officers has come to an end. the suspected gunman has surrendered. report tom hanson is in philadelphia. . >> reporter: the m who police say shot six officer during a standoff surrendered around midnight. for more than seven hours, the suspect was holed up in a north philadelphia building. . >> shots fired from the second floor. >> reporter

anne thompson headed out to sea with a team of researchers to find out what they're learning >> reporter: nantucket, the charming resort island, once a whaling hub, is now on the lookout for sharks jason bridges is a business owner. what kinds of threats does a shark attack post in nantucket >> our economy is 100% on tourism. we have to be really, really careful about everything that happens at our beaches >> reporter: so the island is partnering with ocearch, a shark research group led by chris fisher, this month working five miles off nantucket's coast. >> locally here at nantucket, we're trying to create a program where we give that community the maximum amount of data for its sharks for its own public safety management so they can be prepared if they have an incident >> reporter: among the most unnerving science projects on this trip, georgia tech's zo platt trying to take bacteria from a shark's mouth to help the island's doctors treat potential bites. >> if somebody gets bit by a shark, doctors are going to have specific information regarding which bacteria they are and how to treat them. >> reporter: tagging the sharks like this one will help allen warden's community data platform laye

ann known device on the floor and send hundreds running. a woman and her son were trampled in the chaos. the man is charged with making a terroristic threat. this morning here at the golden gate bridge. a few cars on the road getting started with this monday commute coming up in just a bit. >>> 4:54. someplaces in the bay area like oakland. a north bay is hoping to avoid a teacher's strike. forestville teachers association will meet one more time this morning to try to reach a agreement. if an agreement can't be reached by 7:30 this morning it will be the first time the teachers in sonoma county went on strike. they want a two year contract that will give them 5% salary inskprees better benefits. >>> a fight to cover up a controversial mural. san francisco school board president steve cook is promising compromise. don't paint over it. just cover it up with panels. we are talking about the decades old mural of george washington at the high school named after him. critics point out it includes images of slavings as well as dead native americans. in june the school board voted to paint over the artwork. that decision sparked controversy. cook is proposing to cover the objectionable par

bridge we'll have a busy morning seeing stack ups in that cash lane already. customers doing just headed into san francisco. no emergency closures on the san raphael either. >>> and i'm anne makovec, and in hong kong, protests continued all weekend long and the airport is paralyzed right now. all departing flights are grounded. there were thousands of demonstrators over the weekend. still hundreds though, the crowds have gone down a little bit. some people alleging police brutality after police unleashed some teargas there around the airport. hong kong international is one of the busiest in the world and has some flights to sfo. at least two flights have been canceled, those headed from hong kong to fso, and so we're watching the departures and the arrivals and certainly if you know anybody going to or through the hong kong airport you're going to want to check that out. >>> a lift driver is in jail accused of raping a passenger in his car after she passed out. san bruno police saying that 46-year-old picked the woman up at a bar in san mateo, and drove her about 60 miles to his home in tracy, according to authorities, where he had sex with the woman without his consent.

bridges starting to pop up into the yellow, as well. we're seeing quite a few people who are headed over to the peninsula. >>> i'm anne makovec at the news desk and we're going live to the airport in hong kong which is paralyzed because of continued protests. these have been going on for several days, pro-democracy demonstrators and all flights are grounded, no flights coming in and out of hong kong and some of the people that have been protesting are alleging police brutality. we have some pictures from outside of the airport and you can see police taking down some people. also they have been accused of spraying teargas in the area. hong kong international is one of the busiest in the world. we've been watchin sfo. two are canceled right now. if you know anybody going into the hong kong airport, let them know. >>> and ac transit will be up and running. buses have already begun unloading and loading passengers. it's so early right now so of course it's going to get a lot busier later on. here's some new video this morning. the first time in more than ten months ac buses have rolled through here. the transbay center was shut down last sum

metering lights are on at the bay bridge, meaning we will see the backups stretching closer to the maze. it's just past the 880 flyover and just onto it. >>> i'm anne makovec and we are keeping an eye on puerto rico. we are going there live, about to be hit by what is expected to be hurricane dorian, a tropical storm bearing off the coast of florida including the dominican republic with wind up to 50 miles-an-hour just past barbados and puerto rico is reeling from being hit by hurricane maria. >>> incredible video to show you this morning with quick thinking bystanders rushing in to help a los angeles county deputy struggling with a suspect that was trying to grab his gun. take a look with a spokesperson saying the suspect went for the deputy's gun, in the holster. at one point, the suspect pressed a release button causing a magazine to eject and three men came to the rescue from different directions. >> the officer was yelling, get your hand off of my gun. i ripped the dude's hands off the gun and then the other good samaritan took the clip out and slid it away, just in case the gun got loose. >> the deputy, a trainee, was treated for minor injuri

not least the richmond san rafael bridge that approach is packed but not slowing you down at this point. you're good to go northbound and southbound on 101. >>> i'm anne makovec at the live news desk and we're going live right now to puerto rico which is bracing for tropical storm dorian. president trump has approved an emergency declaration for that territory right now. heavy rain is expected to strengthen as it approaches the island later today and it could hit florida as a hurricane next week. looking now at some video from the caribbean island. dorian washed out roads and flooded homes. trees are down. back to president trump. he is planning on sending fema to puerto rico. he just tweeted about it a few minutes ago. he also included some harsh criticism for san juan's mayor who he has gotten into a spat with before about the u.s. response to hurricane maria. he is calling her now incompetent. >>> and more on the storms puerto ricans are getting out of the u.s. territory. those who are staying are preparing for the worst. residents stocked up on supplies this week, boarded up their homes and started pulling boats out of the water. two years after h

blocked after 97, as you make your way through anne undel, we have of a slowdown, 295 southbound delays, 11 mile per hour average towards the 11th street bridge, delays back to pass alabama avenue and under 20, 50 inbound 202 to 295, new york avenu past bladensburg, normal. light volume to the across andbehe w oxon hill, volume on the inner loop.ne >>> check other he, a maryland man facing charges for threatening kill hispanic people. police arrested eric lynn in seate he made multiple threats on facebook to hurt and kill a flora restaurant employee. and e,to, unquote, exterminate all historics in miami and other places, according to cdocuments, lin sent the employee more than threats of motor, rape, racial slurs, and pro hitler comments. >>> the trump administration is expected to announce it is ad moving ahe with new rules that would allow longe term detentions of families at the border. the government'sen h been limit less than 20 days but president and republicans believe the rulr has encoe undocumented mirants to arrive at the b with their children expecting to be released into the united states. >>> meanwhile in the dist,rictmy tiac to

looks like the san mateo bridge has eased up just a little bit in the last 15 minutes or so. you are smooth sailing into the peninsula this morning. >> i'm anne makovec at the live news desk and we're keeping an eye on this terrible situation in mexico where 23 people have died in a bar fire overnight that appears to be arson. this is in the gulf coast state of vera cruz. authorities say there may have been an attack where this fire was started with gasoline bombs in the crowded bar and it might be a product of a gang dispute. so in addition to the 23 people who were killed, 13 people were injured. the attacker still on the loose as authorities work to identify them and the motives behind this. back to you. >>> ann thank you. >>> new this morning police in martinez are investigating a pipe bomb. yesterday morning a resident on wayne street called after finding a device and moving it onto the street. a bomb squad was able to safely deactivate the device. it's still not clear how it got there. police urging anyone who finds a suspicious device to call law enforcement immediately and not move the object. >>> happening today a court hearing suspe

bridge the many differences. manus: thank you so much, our senior editor from italy. jerrold, thank you. stephen is still with us. when you look at the market was annble sense of relief that have this demise of the one-year coalition and the prospect of five-star and democrats coming together. does the political angst irked you in anyway when you look at the euro complex? stephen: we are at a risk of looking at things in the wrong manner. all, the mainstream view on italy is that this is normal for italian politics. you have all sorts of messy, we coalitions that break down and you have this successive line of new governments coming in. there is nothing typical about vini's rise to popularity in italy, nothing at all. he is very atypical, trump-like. this is a new phase for italy. and i do not think the real issue in italian politics is whether or not the democratic party can ally with the five-star movement. us re starting to get with already, it isis how much brussels can manipulate italy, how much they can to block salvini from getting the premiership of italy. that is the main battle. a battle between salvini and brussels. that is not going to