joining me is bernard kerik. mr.kerik later served as new york's police commissioner, a position he held on 9/11. he was nominated to be secretary of homeland security, in 2009 he pled guilty to tax fraud and other charges and served three years in federal prison. thanks for being with us. >> thanks john. >> let me start with this question and sort of get this out of the way. there may be people who watch this and say what sort of credibility does bernard kerik have when he's gone to prison and served in a federal prison to talk about this issue? >> when i took over at rykers as the first deputy, over a six year period, i reduced violence by 93% and took from it one of the worst jails in the nation to an international model. of safety and security. >> in fact an iron hand at rykers island drastically reduces violence. that was in 1999. what did you do to reduce violence at rykers? >> most importantly it was accountability. it was accountability, it was leadership it was getting the staff the resources they needed, th

michelle bernard is the president of the bernard center.rence paige is a columnist for the chicago tribune. i suppose we have to do it. i will go around the table. clarence, do you believe that hillary's grandmother to be makes her more or less likely to run? >> it doesn't hurt. it softens her image. it certainly helps everybody who's been a parent to identify with her. i think it's marginal but it's fun to speculate about. >> michelle, same question to you. i guess as a woman, when you hear that, it softens her image, i wonder how that strikes you. that has been said a lot, that she needs softening somehow and this does the trick. >> she needs softening with some people but i think before we even get to that question, one of the things we should talk about is whether or not anyone would ever ask if jeb bush or mitt romney being a grandfather would somehow impact their decision to run for president of the united states. it's really to me very bizarre that people quite seriously are asking this question. pregnancy, motherhood and grandmother

well michelle bernard is the president of the bernard center for women, politics and public policy. i wish i had one of those things. and the author of "moving america toward justice." and alex wagner the host of msnbc's now with alex wagner. here we are now. the question about this thing. this is sticky, to talk about. i think the president doesn't like talking about it for political strategic reasons. michelle, we have the treatment of louie gohmert and another birther. and farenthold, another birther. texas guys who get their wheaties in the morning, they get up and they start thinking this guy shouldn't be president because of his background. and then they do all of the other stuff on top of that. >> and they go to bed thinking the exact same thing. it really is i think a test of the nation's conscience and when john boehner goes out there and says that this is not a matter of race he has to realize he's representing the entire united states. people all around the world are looking at this and it doesn't pass the sniff test. a year ago president obama spoke at morehouse college,

the play for this program, saint joan, by george bernard shaw. special guest, julie harris. w your host mr. jose ferrer. saint joan is essentially about sainthood, but there is a certain romantic quality to it as george bernard shaw sweeps his audience along in an almost poetic flight. it is not a biography in the sense that you can turn to the play for an accurate reporting of the facts, rather shaw selected the facts which suited his purpose. he approaches joan, his protagonist, historically, but develops the character mainly in terms of ideological clashes. primarily, shaw is interested in joan as someone who imposes her ideas on history. she is led by the voices of st. catherine, st. margaret, and st. michael who instructed her to acquire a horse, soldier's clothing with armor, and an army and drive the english out of france. so her actions are based on her faith in her voices. shaw was a co-director for the first london production in 1924 with sybil thorndike in the title role, and he reminded her that joan was a sturdy, independent 19-year-old woman, not a sweet angeli

bernard, here's my question. is the president going to suddenly approve this right before the midterm elections? >> i would hope he would approve it in the next few weeks -- >> is he going to do it to bolster the democrats and say, i finally came to this exhaustive decision and it's going to look as if it's completely political. >> everything in a political year is viewed through a political lens. i would hope the president would approve it in short order because it's the right thing for the american people -- >> why hasn't he done it thus far? >> because he wanted to make sure there would be little environmental impact. and we've seen that to be true in five studies over five years. he should have come out right after the review that i mean out in january. he's waited too long. it needs to get done and get done now. >> good point. the studies have been in for some time. have to wrap it up there, guys. >>> we have exclusive new information about the missing malaysia airlines flight 370. one expert tells us defini

yes, sir. >> one question, bernard. growing up in brooklyn, i was curious to know what impact jackie robinson had when he, you know, joined the dodgers and what impact that may have had in your community in benson hurst, your family, and perhaps did it change? >> i want you to know, i was in the stands the day jackie robinson walked to first, stole second, on an error went to third and stole home. [laughter] and everybody, everybody including the pitcher, including the coaches, everybody in the stands knew he was going to steal home. he was an extraordinary person. i have to tell you, i didn't know as much about jackie robinson then as i do now because there's been a lot written about him. he was truly a noble person. >> a movie made. >> yeah. he was truly a noble person and courageous. and i give him credit for the courage he had to go out there and be the only black person on the field. >> rockefeller, republican. >> yeah. but there you are. [laughter] >> so, you know, you wrote this book. are you going to write anoth

. >> tony fox news contributor, bernard, former bill clinton pollster and democratic strategist. you, gentlemen. >> good to be here. >> kind of like a broken record, tony, on the advice of my counsel i have decided blah, blah, blah. now what's going to happen? the house oversight committee are getting together today. >> they were put in this position by lois lerner herself when she testified she recorded in pleading the fifth. the committee took a vote and said she waived her right to plead the fifth. this hearing march 5th we showed video from was when she did give testimony. she backed out at the last minute. this is the only way by having this contempt charge can congress compel her to give testimony in a criminal court in front of a grand jury and stop obstructing the investigation. >> bernard, what would be the problem with that? america would finally find out what lois lerner knew. >> this is kabuki theater at its worse. >> why? >> the investigation going on for over a year, not a shred of evidence conservative groups were more targeted. we have documents -- >> lets keep to

i'm cornell bernard. a fishing trip in the delta ended tragically as they tried to save a man who had fallen into the water and could not find him in time. tiffany wilson has details of the search. >> a fishing boat floats next to the dock. both men who began with dreams of bass are gone. the drivers onshore, the passenger found somewhere in the delta water. >> the person who is missing is a 41-year-old asian male wearing camo clothing with a blue and yellow vest on. >> the accident happened so fast, they are trying to determine how and what happened. they say alcohol was not a factor. at this point we know the impact knocked the engine off and at some point the boat hit the railroad bridge. >> it was a pretty loud crash. >> multiple agencies converged on the cruiser marina and coast guard helicopter said divers searched the murky waters below. dangerous and tricky currents complicated search efforts. they searched for one hour into two into a pledge to work through nightfall. >> very dangerous with the c

abc7 news reporter cornell bernard is there live. take us through it. >> dan, firefighters have just left the scene of the two-alarm fire which started in the top floor of the house here on castillo street. the smoke and flames so intense it claimed the life of a grandmother and forced one man to jump from the second story window. >> it was crazy. the flames were coming out of the window. it was like a dragon inside. >> he shot this video of his neighbor's house on fire. minutes later a man living there jumped from a second floor window. >> he just jumped and it was crazy seeing him laying on the floor full of blood. >> one victim jumped from the window. >> that man and four others were taken to the hospital. 84-year-old jane thompson did not survive. neighbor carlos crespo tried to save her. >> we did everything we could to try to help her. we had to leave it to the firemen. >> the firefighter had could not reach her in time. witnesses reported hearing a small explosion before the fire started. >> we have our fire investigators on t

in san francisco, cornell bernard, abc7 news. >> they sent abc7 news these pictures. you can see the flames creeping out from the roof so dangerously close to other homes. the fire put out a lot of thick, black smoke that was seen for miles. and look a at this one from the journal. you can see the flames really pouring out of the roof. >> that was one of the emergency calls that the fire crews got within an hour this afternoon in san francisco. one firefighter was hurt at this market on irving street in the sunset district. sky 7hd was overhead. crews responded to smoke coming out of a compressor and a firefighter stepped through part of the roof and had to be rescued. >> we now know what caused one of the biggest fires in san francisco history. 2* sky 7hd shot this video exactly five weeks ago. the fire in mission bay destroyed a massive apartment complex under construction. today the fire department revealed the flames began with a, quote, hot or smoldering object left at the construction site. that fire caused $40 million damage. developers do plan a to rebuild. >>

. >> let's go bernard smith, standing by in kabul. how is the big day shaping up? >> elizabeth, it's pouring with rain, we've had thunter and light -- thunder and lightening and the threat of taliban violence. kabul is almost locked down by security forces. despite all of that there seems an enthusiasm to vote. there has been long lines at polling stations. people getting drenched. taking a turn to vote. the first time in 5,000 years there'll be a democratic transfer of power. many afghans want to be part of that, despite the taliban's threat to target those taking part in the election. joined by a mayor monitoring the vote. haroon, indications are that there has been a good turn out. how important is that? >> it is important for us. it will help to improve the legitimacy of the election. we face challenges and deadlock. this is a good indication that participation will remove doubt that existed in 2014. also, there's the pressure on the independent election commission, because the voter turn out will make sure that all the fraudulent votes will be discounted and e

that's bernard smith joining us from kabul. >> to other news. the death toll from flash demruding in the so'oialo -- flooding in the solomons islands is expected to rise. dozens have been killed many are missing. it's been described as the worst flooding. whole communities were washed away. >> a number of my staff have witnessed dead people particularly children washed away by the flash floods. the water came up so quickly at times. >> syrian opposition activists report a major government air strike in aleppo. more than 45 people have been killed in the alshabbier neighbourhood. pictures have been posted online on government forces in latakia. >> thousands of anti-government protesters have been demonstrating where this weekend's formula 1 grand prix has been held. the mass rally coincided with the practice session. many in the shia muslim majority say they want more say. >> al jazeera is demanding the release of its journalists who have been in prison in egypt for 98 days. the trial of peter greste, mohamed fadel fahmy, and mohammed badr has be

cornell bernard is live tonight with crucial new evidence. cornell? >> carolyn, you know, the gunman is still on the loose tonight, and very little is known about him. his target may have been a doctor at this medical office. no one was hurt, but the drama put schools and a neighborhood on lock down. >> 7hd was over the chaotic scene in daly city minutes ter someone reported a man with a gun inside a medical office run by seton medical center. police s.w.a.t teams swarmed the area. 60 employees along with patients inside were safely evacuated. a three-hour search of the building turned up nothing. >> we have no victims. we have no suspects at this point. >> earlier this evening bullet fragments were found on the second floor. the same area where a doctor reported seeing a man in his 60s with a gun. minutes later heard a shot. >> the doctor did not immediately recognize this person. we are investigating if this person was known to anybody in the building. >> the doctor may have been the target, but a motive is unclear. detectives rushed this man out of

bernard and eye reason schwartz. rosalind p. walter. and provided by mutual of america. that's why we're your retirement company. additional l support is provided by -- and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs stations from viewers like you. from new york. >>> good evening. thanks for joining us. ukraine's national security council held an emergency session tonight after pro russian activists seized new buildings earlier in the day. the interior minister promised what he called a very tough response. they were armed with pistols and rifles and seize add police head kaurs in an eastern ukraine can city. there were hundreds of pistols and ammunition stored at the police head quarters. in a nearby city, they also seized the police head quarters. protestors have occupied a government building there for nearly a week. eastern ukraine has a large russian speaking population. >> there has been another poison gas attack in syria. an amateur video posted online shows men and children cro

abc7 news reporter cornell bernard is there live. take us through it. >> dan, firefighters have just left the scene of the two-alarm fire which started in the top floor of the house here on castillo street. the smoke and flames so intense it claimed the life of a grandmother and forced one man to jump from the second story window. >> it was crazy. the flames were coming out of the window. it was like a dragon inside. >> he shot this video of his neighbor's house on fire. minutes later a man living there jumped from a second floor window. >> he just jumped and it was crazy seeing him laying on the floor full of blood. >> one victim jumped from the window. >> that man and four others were taken to the hospital. 84-year-old jane thompson did not survive. neighbor carlos crespo tried to save her. >> we did everything we could to try to help her. we had to leave it to the firemen. >> the firefighter had could not reach her in time. witnesses reported hearing a small explosion before the fire started. >> we have our fire investigators on t

cornell bernard has the story now from berkeley. cornell? >> carolyn, the young gerl -- girl remains hospitalized. she was found on piedmont. neighbors say she was naked and she was calling for help. they are investigating how she got here, but they believe it is linked to human 6 trafficking. sex trafficking. >> help, help, i can't see. >> she woke to the screams of a teenage girl outside her home on piedmont avenue. the girl had been pepper sprayed. >> she couldn't see anything. we brought her a bottle of water . it was cold. it was 5:00 in the morning. she poured the whole thing on herself. she was completely naked. >> the girl said she was raped. neighbors called 9-1-1. >> piedmont she is a female and she was pepper sprayed and naked. >> the girl was taken to the hospital. police believe she was the victim of human sex trafficking. police say she may have been raped, robbed and kidnapped and then left in berkeley. >> the use of the pepper spray looks to me and sounds to me like a buyer that has decided that he is going to take advantage

cornell bernard is live tonight with crucial new evidence. cornell? >> carolyn, you know, the gunman is still on the loose tonight, and very little is known about him. his target may have been a doctor at this medical office. no one was hurt, but the drama put schools and a neighborhood on lock down. >> 7hd was over the chaotic scene in daly city minutes after someone reported a man with a gun inside a medical office run by seton medical center. police s.w.a.t teams swarmed the area. 60 employees along with patients inside were safely evacuated. a three-hour search of the building turned up nothing. >> we have no victims. we have no suspects at this point. >> earlier this evening bullet fragments were found on the second floor. the same area where a doctor reported seeing a man in his 60s with a gun. minutes later heard a shot. >> the doctor did not immediately recognize this person. we are investigating if this person was known to anybody in the building. >> the doctor may have been the target, but a motive is unclear. detectives rushed this man out

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in san francisco, cornell bernard, abc7 news. >> the family of o of the teens killed in the deay bus crash and fire two weeks ago near chico filed a $100 llion lawsuit today. 17-year-old jennifer bonilla of los angeles was on that bus when a fed ex truck rammed into them. 10 people died. the lawsuit against fed ex alleges the company's trucks have a history of catching fire. one witness reported flames shooting out from under the truck and investigators have not been able to con official that. the lawsuit names both drivers and the bus companyor not having adequate exit doors. >>> a registered 6 offender faces charges afr police say he tried to grab a a girl from her parents at u berkeley. they witnessed this man attack the girl along bancroft way on saturday. they say he tried to pull the girl from her father and the force of the struggle actually lifted her two feet off the ground. officers then fought with olive as they rescued the girl and he is in jail tonight. >> firefighters blame gusty winds causing a fire to spread to three buildings in san francisco toda it started around 1

in san francisco, cornell bernard, abc7 news. >> they sent abc7 news these pictures. you can see the flames creeping out from the roof so dangerously close to other homes. the fire put out a lot of thick, black smoke that was seen for miles. and look a at this one from the journal. you can see the flames really pouring out of the roof. >> that was one of the emergency calls that the fire crews got within an hour this afternoon in san francisco. one firefighter was hurt at this market on irving street in the sunset district. sky 7hd was overhead. crews responded to smoke coming out of a compressor and a firefighter stepped through part of the roof and had to be rescued. >> we now know what caused one of the biggest fires in san francisco history. 2* sky 7hd shot this video exactly five weeks ago. the fire in mission bay destroyed a massive apartment complex under construction. today the fire department revealed the flames began with a, quote, hot or smoldering object left at the construction site. that fire caused $40 million damage. developers do plan a to rebuild. >>

now let's go live to bernard smith who is in kabul. turn out seems to have been high. there has been a turn of bad weather, but has the voting gone smoothly. >> to answer that question, yes. in fact, security told us that the number of attacks that there have been today are less than the daily o average. security personnel have been stationed around the country to make sure that votes go smoothly. it will stay open another two hours if people are still queuing. that is showing a very high turn out. people want to vote fo vote fore first democratically voted in president in this country's 5,000 year history. the capitol has been effectively sealed off from the rest of the country security forces imposing some of the strictist control of movement this country has ever seen. >> we have the right to vote. we have always had to endure these attacks from the taliban. for how long does this have to go on? we have to elect our next government and president. >> yes, we are afraid of taliban. they will get theimany cannot vn areas they will get their fingers cut off if they do.

cornell bernard is liv -- is live with the story. >> the crackdown well happen twice tomorrow during the morning and the evening commute. police will be looking for jaywalkers and speeders here on busy van ness. too many pedestrians have lost their lives this year. crossing busy van ness avenue can't be a dangerous game of beat the clock. there is no time to wait. >> it is dangerous to walk because of the traffic. people have to walk or they lose their life. >> this year seven pedestrians lost their lives in san francisco. four of them were killed on van ness including the person seen on this surveillance video. moments before getting struck by a car. >> we know that those streets were designed not for pedestrianses and not for anyone's safety. >> streets like van ness were designed with cars and not people in mind. she hopes wednesday's police crackdown on speeders and distracted drivers will send a message. >> collisions are preventable. they are not accidents. they are preventable things. >> they support the vision zero plan to eliminate the pedestrian deaths in the next 10 years

cornell bernard shows us the damage today. >> reporter: the five-alarm fire saturday was incredible, lighting up the night sky. 70 firefighters from around the east bay spent hours trying to contain it. when the sun came up, the damage was clear. >> boy. i can't believe what i see. i can't believe it. >> reporter: bill decarion is getting a close-up look at what is left of the warehouse he owns after the fire destroyed $1 million worth of inventory at his import tile company and heavily damaged three furniture businesses, including the wooden duck and joshua tree. >> joshua tree is -- doesn't exist. you can't even tell where it used to be. >> reporter: during the firefight, live power lines arced, shooting sparks on to the street below. not only did these lines spark during the fire, several live power lines actually fell right on to firefighters. >> dropped across the battalion chief's vehicle. and actually, one of the power lines did touch one of our firefighters, but they didn't get shocked. >> reporter: this aerial picture was taken by a berkeley firefighter from a ladder truck.

reporter: in berkeley, cornell bernard, abc7 news. >>> fire destroyed another east bay business this morning, this one in newark at the love at first slice pizza shop. fire broke out around 8:00 this morning. firefighters say the pizza shop's neighbors businesses sustained some smoke damage but no one was hurt. >>> new details tonight in that deadly bus crash that killed ten people. ntsb investigators announced they cannot confirm a witness report that a fedex truck was on fire before the collision with the bus in um bolt county. a fire expert found in evidence that flames were coming from underneath the truck when it crossed the median. the ntsb will still leave all options on the table. the truck and bus were gutted by flames. they believe a blood test on the truck driver could tell them if he inhaled smoke before dying, and also look at other factors outside of the crash scene. >> we're weeing to go over that driver's last 72 hours, at least, and wearing go to be looking at when they were at work, when rest took place, the cell phone use, why is that important? in this okay we don

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cornell bernard has the story now from berkeley. cornell? >> carolyn, the young gerl -- girl remains hospitalized. she was found on piedmont. neighbors say she was naked and she was calling for help. they are investigating how she got here, but they believe it is linked to human 6 trafficking. sex trafficking. >> help, help, i can't see. >> she woke to the screams of a teenage girl outside her home on piedmont avenue. the girl had been pepper sprayed. >> she couldn't see anything. we brought her a bottle of water . it was cold. it was 5:00 in the morning. she poured the whole thing on herself. she was completely naked. >> the girl said she was raped. neighbors called 9-1-1. >> piedmont she is a female and she was pepper sprayed and naked. >> the girl was taken to the hospital. police believe she was the victim of human sex trafficking. police say she may have been raped, robbed and kidnapped and then left in berkeley. >> the use of the pepper spray looks to me and sounds to me like a buyer that has decided that he is going to take advantage

reporter: in berkeley, cornell bernard, abc7 news. >>> fire destroyed another east bay business this morning, this one in newark at the love at first slice pizza shop. fire broke out around 8:00 this morning. firefighters say the pizza shop's neighbors businesses sustained some smoke damage but no one was hurt. >>> new details tonight in that deadly bus crash that killed ten people. ntsb investigators announced they cannot confirm a witness report that a fedex truck was on fire before the collision with the bus in um bolt county. a fire expert found in evidence that flames were coming from underneath the truck when it crossed the median. the ntsb will still leave all options on the table. the truck and bus were gutted by flames. they believe a blood test on the truck driver could tell them if he inhaled smoke before dying, and also look at other factors outside of the crash scene. >> we're weeing to go over that driver's last 72 hours, at least, and wearing go to be looking at when they were at work, when rest took place, the cell phone use, why is that important? in this okay we don

abc7 news reporter cornell bernard is there live.ake us through it. >> dan, firefighters have just left the scene of the two-alarm fire which started in the top floor of the house here on castillo street. the smoke and flames soed the if a grandmother and forced one man to jump from the second story window. >> it was crazy. the flames were coming out of the window. it was like a dragon inside. >> he shot this video of his neighbor's house on fire. minutes later a man living there jumped from a second floor window. >> he just jumped and it was crazy seeing him laying on the floor full of blood. >> one victim jumped from the window. >> that man and four others were taken to the hospital. 84-year-old jane thompson did not survive. neighbor carlos crespo tried to save her. >> we did everything we could to try to help her. we had to leave it to the firemen. >> the firefighter had could not reach her in time. witnesses reported hearing a small explosion before the fire started. >> we have our fire investigators on the scene trying to deter

as lisa bernard showed us, they're starting and running their own businesses instead. >> robin is the boss on the factory floor. her mattress manufacturing company is among the 1.1 million businesses incal ownebusinessesd by women. >> california is open minded. >> nationally women are opening businesses in record numbers. and california leads the way. women-owned businesses in the golden state employ almost a million people with a combined annual revenue of $200 billion. dee dee is now the owner ceo of her own technology company. she formed it, she said after years of hitting the glass ceiling in male dominated corporate america. >> when i came up with an idea or something that i felt was energy and unique and different, i would be told no. after a while i got tired of the nos. >> okay, one minute. >> at this event in san francisco women are mentoring other women in business using the speed dating model. using five minutes to collect as much information as possible. >> the san francisco business times sold out this event. >> women very much aspire to learn from each other. they very m

bernard and irene schwartz. rosalynn p.and corporate funding is provided by mutual of america, designing customized, individual and group retirement products. that's why we are your retirement company. additional support is provided by -- and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tisch wnetcenters in new york this is pbs news hour weekend. >> good evening. i'm allison stewart. the pro-russian separatist displayed ukrainians had his men recently took hostage. seven of those being held are european observers who the separatists claim, are a charge refuted today. all appear in good condition, however an eighth hostage was released on medical grounds late in the day. in addition, three ukrainian security officers being held by separatists were also put on display. they were blindfold, bloodied and stripped of their shoes. the men traveled from crimea. the separatists seized control of the office of regional state television in oorn ukraine.

cornell bernard is live tonight with crucial new evidence. cornell? >> carolyn, you know, the gunman is still on the loose tonight, and very little is known about him. his target may have been a doctor at this medical office. no one was hurt, but the drama put schools and a neighborhood on lock down. >> 7hd was over the chaotic scene in daly city minutes after someone reported a man with a gun inside a medical office run by seton medical center. police s.w.a.t teams swarmed the area. 60 employees along with patients inside were safely evacuated. a three-hour search of the building turned up nothing. >> we have no victims. we have no suspects at this point. >> earlier this evening bullet fragments were found on the second floor. the same area where a doctor reported seeing a man in his 60s with a gun. minutes later heard a shot. >> the doctor did not immediately recognize this person. we are investigating if this person was known to anybody in the building. >> the doctor may have been the target, but a motive is unclear. detectives rushed this man out

bernard and eileen schwartz. roslyn p. walter. corporate funding provided by mutual of america. designing customized, individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. additional support is provided by -- and by the corporation for public broadcasting and contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tish wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, hari . >>> renewed violence in eastern ukraine days after diplomats reached international agreement in geneva to defuse the crisis. five people were killed including three pro-russian separatists during a shoot-out at a checkpoint the separatists had set up. russia accused ukraine of failing to protect russian speakers in the area. russian president putin acknowledged the possibility of russian military intervention in the region. during a television interview, when asked whether moscow would press armed pro-russian separatists in eastern ukraine to pull back, the russian ambassador to the united states called for the disarming of ukrainian militias in the western part o

in san francisco, cornell bernard, abc7 news. >> they sent abc7 news these pictures. you can see the flames creeping out from the roof so dangerously close to other homes. the fire put out a lot of thick, black smoke that was seen for miles. and look a at this one from the journal. you can see the flames really pouring out of the roof. >> that was one of the emergency calls that the fire crews got within an hour this afternoon in san francisco. one firefighter was hurt at this market on irving street in the sunset district. sky 7hd was overhead. crews responded to smoke coming out of a compressor and a firefighter stepped through part of the roof and had to be rescued. >> we now know what caused one of the biggest fires in san francisco history. 2* sky 7hd shot this video exactly five weeks ago. the fire in mission bay destroyed a massive apartment complex under construction. today the fire department revealed the flames began with a, quote, hot or smoldering object left at the construction site. that fire caused $40 million damage. developers do plan a to rebuild. >>

cornell bernard is liv -- is live with the story. >> the crackdown well happen twice tomorrow duringorning and the evening commute. police will be looking for jaywalkers and speeders here on busy van ness. too many pedestrians have lost their lives this year. crossing busy van ness avenue can't be a dangerous game of beat the clock. there is no time to wait. >> it is dangerous to walk because of the traffic. people have to walk or they lose their life. >> this year seven pedestrians lost their lives in san francisco. four of them were killed on van ness including the person seen on this surveillance video. moments before getting struck by a car. >> we know that those streets were designed not for pedestrianses and not for anyone's safety. >> streets like van ness were designed with cars and not people in mind. she hopes wednesday's police crackdown on speeders and distracted drivers will send a message. >> collisions are preventable. they are not accidents. they are preventable things. >> they support the vision zero plan to eliminate the pedestrian deaths in the next 10 years throug

cornell bernard has the story now from berkeley. cornell?> carolyn, the young gerl -- girl remains hospitalized. she was found on piedmont. neighbors say she was naked and she was calling for help. they are investigating how she got here, but they believe it is linked to human 6 trafficking. sex trafficking. >> help, help, i can't see. >> she woke to the screams of a teenage girl outside her home on piedmont avenue. the girl had been pepper sprayed. >> she couldn't see anything. we brought her a bottle of water . it was cold. it was 5:00 in the morning. she poured the whole thing on herself. she was completely naked. >> the girl said she was raped. neighbors called 9-1-1. >> piedmont she is a female and she was pepper sprayed and naked. >> the girl was taken to the hospital. police believe she was the victim of human sex trafficking. police say she may have been raped, robbed and kidnapped and then left in berkeley. >> the use of the pepper spray looks to me and sounds to me like a buyer that has decided that he is going to take advantage of

bernard smith is kaboul. how did this happen, bernard?is was at supposedly one of the most well defending buildings right in the center of kaboul. we're told a suicide bomber joined a queue of police officers in a place where you go to get patted down before you get into the building, that's where this attacker blew himself up. kaboul is very quiet at the moment. a lot of the ministries have closed down as a security precaution ahead of the election and there is an awful lot more check points in the city, and yet the suicide bomber was still able to get through. this happened on the last day of official campaigning ahead of saturday's vote. and during the campaign three front runners have emerged, and i went out on tuesday with one of those front runners. he was the man who was the runner up in 2009 and that was a very controversial election. he is determined to make sure it doesn't happen this time. >> reporter: it was chaotic, crowded, and almost out of control, but that seems to be just how this man likes it. tens of thousands of peopl

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michelle bernard is president of the bernard center for women, politics and public policy.s male, let's start with you, because you were there. what is their prescription? is it normative? are they saying since most women who are single vote democrat, let's get out of that category and get them married as if you can control that. >> you'd think they'd look at the gender gap and say, what do we have to do to appeal to unmarried women? change policies. no, no, no, let's get rid of unmarried women by marrying them off. if more women would get their mrs degree, get out of the workforce, stay home -- >> a lot of people, most people want to get married at a certain point and looking for the right person, obviously. it's about the crap chute if you will, trying to find the right guy, sometimes you get the right guy. sometimes you have to find the right guy. the fact of the matter it's not easy. because some nerdish place like the heritage foundation says, your answer to your problems, young lady, is to get married. they have to still find the guy. >> it doesn't change anything. mo

of the bernard center for women.ou both. first of all, the lingo. regime. whatever else you say about president obama's politics, his ideology, whatever you can figure about him, he was elected president of the united states in a democratic vote. he carried the electoral college twice. he is the only president i think since ike whose gotten two plus 50% of plurality votes. he is a legitimate president of the united states. this is not a regime. people who talk like that are trying to do something i think is ugly. i think they're trying to create in the minds of the rattled brain people on the far right something that is really disturbed, that somehow you can disagree with somebody and leap over the fence to it's a regime of liars. it's a coup. it's somehow brought in illegitimately. they're finding a new way to say what they've been trying to say since the president was elected the first time by majority vote. this guy isn't president. that's what they're trying do, regime. >> that's exactly it. it's a new firm of bi

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bernard's where her condition has stabilized. police say the shooting was preceded by confrontation involving a group of teenagers. family members told the tribune the dispute may have originated on face book. the girl's family are moved her closer to home to keep her safe. police just canceled off days and weekends for dozens of cops. gun teams and in high crime neighborhoods this comes after a weekend in which 38 people were shot. >> it's worse. they are just babies. >> just saying it's bad. of our community is not as strong as the city to stop the violence. >> the girls were among seven shot monday into tuesday. police are questioning a person of interest. back to you. >>former state representative keith farnham goes to court today, to face charges of child pornography. the democrat from elgin abruptly resigned in march, a week after federal agents seized computers. they say they found pornographic videos. farnham is accused of trading child porn images, and engaging in online chats in which he said he prefers sex with young c

lisa bernard, al jazeera, san francisco. in. >> there is a real push in california to encourage women. there was a female ceo boot camp held in los angeles recently, and there are a lot of mentoring programs popping up around the state. the women executives that we spoke with tell us that when younger women ask them for advice, they always say to them, find a mentor who is the best at what they do regardless of whether it's a woman or a man. >> nice, nice. we need more of what is happening there to move east. lisa bernard for us. >>> search crews have not heard any more underwater sounds that would lead searcher to missing malaysian flight 370. finding the sounds is crucial in narrowing the search in the indian ocean and time is of the essence as batteries on the black boxes could soon die. >>> after being polio free, iraq is seeing a return of the crippling disease. jonathan betz is more on its return and the occurrence of polio. >> the virus had been largely wiped off the map. and then in of course polio spread from pakist

let's go to bernard smith who is live in kabul. how is the process going so far?the polls have been open for about an hour, it is unfortunately a very wet, dreary, cold day here in kabul, but karzai himself has voted in the last ten minutes or so, and has urged afghans despite the poor weather and the security situation to get out and vote. and we have seen people queueing up to vote. there is tense security -- high security in kabul. i have never seen so many check points in this city. but there does seem to be an enthusiasm to get out and vote. >> tell us about the significance of this election. put it in some perspective for us. >> well, i lost a little bit of your question there, but i can tell you that imagine this is the first time in the 5,000 year history of this country that that will be a democratic transfer of power. that really is an historic event. so that is why there is enthusiasm amongst afghans. in 2009 when karzai retained the presidency, that was widely seen as a fraudulent vote. this time afghans are much more conscious of the risks of fraud. t

abc7abc7 news reporter cornell bernard is on the scene. >> a big police expense in the neighborhood where we are told that a march was shot multiple times including in the head here on snow drive. the man was found lying in the street. police are looking for a shooter in this neighborhood and asking a lot of questions from witnesses who may have seen what happened. they telling police exactly what they may have seen. we are told that the victim is suffering in life-threatening injuries and treated at a local hospital. police are looking for the shooter and talking to witnesses here on snow drive in south san jose. >>> developing news in san francisco, police are investigating the death of another pedestrian on city streets. police say a driver was headed northbound on van ness in a truck when they hit a previous near golden gate avenue at 11:00. the pedestrian was not in the crosswalk and died at the scene. the driver is cooperating. this is the 7th deadly pedestrian accident in san francisco this year. >> skier died in a california resort to lake tahoe. the emergency crews responded to t

and michelle bernard is the president of the bernard center for women, politics and public policy.hank you both for joining us. you know, i was watching -- you know, history is a funny thing, michael and michelle. when marsha blackburn, i thought she really made a mistake saying that rankin was this wonderful fighter for women's rights all that stuff. she opposed world war i, then opposed world war ii. after pearl harbor she opposed world war ii. she's an odd emblem of the republican party given its hawkish ways these days. let me ask you, what should the republicans do to get back in a race that 11-point differential between the mitt romney vote and the obama vote by, say, november? >> well, the first thing on the whole idea of women and republican party of history. and i think a lot of women understand and appreciate the history of republican party as do many african-americans. the question becomes what have you done for us lately? that leads into the conversation we need to have now. so ied a mere the push and the drive. but there's still substantive questions that need to be an

joining me now bernard whitman, former pollster for former president bill clinton.mark larson, radio talk show host. the headline with the story today is that steve green, the president of hobby lobby, just met with his family with the pope yesterday. now, mark, is this ironic timing? because president obama just met with the possible on thursday and they had varying degrees of analysis about what exactly they talked about. >> first of all, they have ever right you get an audience, who wouldn't go? the reason the green family were in rome is because they have this traveling show of artifacts and biblical history and that was the main reason to thank the pope for the vatican items on loan. people were stirred up because i thought the president -- not this one -- the president -- >> apparently bernard, the pope did ask them about what was going on with the hobby lobby case. >> here's the thing. this whole hobby lobby case is a joke and here's why. corporations, much to mitt romney's some -- chagrin are not people. they set up separate entities from business and people

bernard smith reports. >> reporter: a last-minute rush to register in saturday's presidential election these people are involved in a process that will end with the first democratic transfer of power in this country's 5,000 year history. despite the security threats there is clearly widespread enthusiasm to vote. these people have been cueing to register since before dawn. the pressure is on the election commission to stop the widespread fraud. then ballot box stuffing was widespread. this time it won't. >> the timeline legislative and other provisions and also the delivery of ballot papers with sensitive and non-sensitive material with the 6,000 odd centers. >> reporter: in kabul security has rarely been tighter. there are check points every few hundred meters. the taliban cast a long shadow over this election. the capital has enjoyed a series of attacks as the group carries out it's promise, and there will pockets where there will be no voting because of the taliban threat. >> does the threat of the attack put you off? >> i'm enthusiastic to vote. it does not put me off. you cannot l