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in the east bay, i am leslie brinkley. abc 7 news. >> more consumer news. we are well acquainted with potholes in the bay area. >> michael finney joins us now with the tips on how to deal with them. especially financially. >> potholes can do some serious damage to your car as well as your wallet. let's look at why those repairs are costing more now than ever before. >> more than 30 million drivers experience potholes related damage to their cars each year. anything from tires and rims to shocks and stress costing more than $3 billion. >> sometimes you can't avoid a pothole until it is too late. slow down as much as possible without catching the driver behind you off guard. hold the wheel firmly, drive-thru the pothole and if something feels amiss after that, you can pull over and check out the tire. >> inspected tires for any cuts, blisters or bubbles. if you see anything, it is important to replace the tire right away. driving on it could lead to a dangerous situation like a blowout. could a new trend in tigers -- tires be leading -- >> new tires are more

leslie brinkley reports, they've even started conversations with the firefighters and police and that their neighbors all virtually. reporter: living in berkeley, this journalist and mother of two started keeping an eye on their kirkwood family cabin, via their security camera there. >> so we started watching pretty regularly. reporter: on tuesday they saw firefighters on patrol, stopping to eat at a neighbor's porch. >> tell my husband, i hope one of them walks by so we can talk to him. and sure enough. after a while, you know, one of them walked over and kind of wad we pressed the button and started yelling. and he came and we talked a little bit where we were like thank you so much for everything you're doing. and we see -- if you need a place to lie down or rest, this is where the keys are. [laughter] reporter: she started posting on twitter and providing updates, amassing followers. and meeting neighbors for the first time online in the chaos. >> someone said on twitter, like you know, your posts are really helping with our anxiety about our home. reporter: so security cameras ar

leslie: in venetia, leslie brinkley.ing out free family passes to visitors if they got vaccinated for covid. there has been an enthusiastic response. the pass is good for a one-day admission for two adults and two children plus free parking, valued at $98. >> this is our second pop-up vaccination. we have two more upcoming and we hope we can be a resource for our community and help stop the surge. kate: the next event is september 30. drop ins or -- are welcome or you can make an appointment on the zoo's website. you can use the pass on the day of the shots are on a future day of your choice. the impact from the fire of northern california is being felt through the bay area. how to create cleaner air in your home. a live look from santa cruz. still a bit foggy at man, look at that internet that doesn't miss a beat. that's cute, but my internet streams to my ride. ok chill, cause mine's so fast no one can catch me. sweet, but my internet gives me unlimited wireless with 5g. that's because you all have xfinity. whoa! inter

c-span, bless their hearts. 150 prominent historians, douglas brinkley is among them and they asked them to rank the presidents in order and then you have to ask yourself where would you put obama among those and i know this is the first year by the way in which both trump and obama. thank god for james pierce and buchanan and chester arthur. barack obama, top ten. number ten. to put that in perspective, ronald reagan got number nine. and this is the way historians think. i the scandal is only a scandal if it is onon the front page from that perspective there were no scandals in the barack obama presidency. by the way, the difference between "the new york times" the readers of the process. part of the reason for my book and presentation is to intervene in this process. no one else is doing it. the truth is there. it's not that hard to find. the stock for obama will drop as it is dropping for several presidents most notably, woodrow wilson. he was six in the polls about 12 years ago and now he's 13 and that will continue to drop. and i will tell you why it will drop out. just to summarize

join me now, cnn presidential historian douglas brinkley. douglas, good evening to you.since the 9/11 attacks, and for some of us who lived through it, it's years ago but also, just yesterday, all at the same time. um, where are we historically with that day? >> well, one reason we relive it is the film footage is indelibly seared in our imaginations. it's the same as the kennedy assassination in that way. we watched the world trade center collapse over and over, again, in our minds. you know, 20 years ago, our -- our country pulled together. that was the deadliest terrorist attack in world history. we lost nearly 3,000 americans. we've had 25,000 injured. many people were later sick from environmental problems developed from the attack. in the immediate wake at the time when george w. bush spoke from the oval office to the country, and then days later came to new york with the bullhorn. american flags went all up over the country. as you remember, don, we were like united. we were living the united states of america and we were going to stand together. and that, quickly

here's abc 7 news reporter leslie, brinkley.don bleu trained baker hannah lee pervan stopped baking bread for french laundry and set up one house bakery in downtown benicia. they stayed open with to go orders during the pandemic and helped out local food pantries, but 2021 brought another challenge. january completely lost my taste and smell i've gone from you know being able to taste of the jam is slightly overdone by a few degrees to not being able to tell the difference between strawberries and raspberries anymore. so it's it was really heartbreaking as some smell returned. it was all wired wrong apples taste like, you know citrus and pecans taste like pears and everything tastes like burning her band said she's trying smell therapy that is using roses lavender eucalyptus and lemons every day to try to stimulate different parts of her brain. she relies on the taste buds of others on her team to keep her recipes on target still wowing her customers the fact that she can still come to work and sir people and i can't tell the di

joining me now, cnn presidential historian douglas brinkley. good evening.at lived through it, it's years ago but also just yesterday all at the same time. where are we historically with that day? >> well, one reason we relive it is the film footage is sered in our imaginations. it's the same as the kennedy assassination and that way we watched the world trade center collapse over and over again in our minds. you know, 20 years ago, our country pulled together. that was the deadliest terrorist attack in world history. we lost nearly 3,000 americans. we had 25,000 injured. many people were later sick from environmental problems developed from the attack. the immediate wake at the time when george w. bush spoke to the country ask days later came to new york with the bull horn, american flags went up over the country as you remember, don, we were united living the united states of america and we'll stand together and that quickly dissipated probably by mission over reach in the united states. we went into afghanistan to fair out al qaeda and the taliban but 20

i'm leslie brinkley abc 7 news. two community leaders in oakland are hoping teamwork can lead to change to help curb the violence problem abc 7 news insider field meteor. spoke with them and joins us now with more on their perspective. phil that's right, you know carl chan who is the president of the oakland chinese town chamber of commerce and bishop bob jackson, who is the head of the axful gospel church come from two distinct parts of oakland, but they share a common problem increased violence and increased crime on their neighborhood streets. we sat down and talked to him. we said that they both said that while police are not the full answer to the problem getting enough police on police on the streets is still critical part of any solution absolutely. i totally agree with the presence of police are actually helping us to stop much crime happening. especially the last few weeks when they were there. bishop black people say that cops aren't the answer. why do you say police more police helped? well a lot of peopl

douglas brinkley is among them and ask them to rank the president's in order and then you have to ask yourself what would you put obama among that list? this was the first year the most recent one in which both trump and obama were listed. so where do they go? trump gets 41st place out of 44. that doesn't surprise you. whatat surprise you is he didn't get 44th out of 44th. thank n god for pierce and buchanan and i think chester arthur. barack obama, top ten, number ten. just put that in perspective, ronald reagan got number nine. this is theum way historians think. i scandal is a only a scandal if it's on the front page of "new york times." from that perspective there were no scandals and a barack obama presidency. the difference between the "new york times" and the old soviet pravda is the readers of the pravda knew they were being lied to. the readers of "new york times" still haven't figured that out. this is tragic. part of the reason for the book and my presentation is to intervene in this process. no one else is doing it. i sort of sort of my obligation, citizen of the united st

and just to give you a case in point is douglas brinkley, you may have seen this guy on tv, prominent historian, written at least-- books about at least six different presidents, many of them current or recent i should say. on the eve of donald trump's inauguration he was asked to sum up the obama presidency, and i'm paraphrasing here, but i'm close. first of all, he said, his presidency was almost unimpeachable, that's a quote. he governed with honesty and integrity, quote. and then he said this, he leaves us a lasting legacy of eight scandal-free years. now, those in the audience to studied obama or paid any attention to the news, the real news, know that that is a blow me over kind of comments. eight scandal-free years, what doesn't count? i guess benghazi doesn't count. i guess the suppression of the irs suppression of tea party doesn't count. i guess fast and furious didn't count. pickford doesn't count. the whole libya intervention doesn't count. what counts, the 34 lies told publicly to support obamacare that got obama named the lie of the year, if you want your doctor, keep yo

brinkley is live after talking to vendors and pumpkin patch owners today about what's happening thisl les. hi alma. yeah, it's a lot of fun to always come out to these pumpkin patches and see what there is. year though at the ones i went to today. i saw plenty of people suffer from sticker shock in some cases $40 $50 pumpkins much more they said than last year and that's the problem. you can blame it on the drought the pandemic and the lack of workers. one don't be startled if youf yu find a shortage of pumpkins this halloween season and knowing you might be haunted by higher prices, marty martinez has been buying pumpkins for 25 years at orchard. nursery in lafayette in some cases.s almo pe the specialty white ones that are very hard to come by like other businesses. they're trying to not scare away customers and are keeping prices as low as they can it started with the pandem. last year and no one being able to work and a lot of the patches just went out of business. they just didn't. get theirs they gave up they gave up add to that the drought it's hit hard in the pumpkin capital

in the east bay, leslie brinkley, abc 7 news. dan: a strange night for this time of year, crazy. ama: it was exciting but not too exciting from a fire starting level. >> and as leslie said, we are not done with the fire season yet, it is going to continue as we do have very dry fuels right now. we were fortunate though. let me show you live doppler 7 taking you back the last 24 hours. it was an extremely active scene not just locally but around the northern portion of california. over 1000 lightning strikes locally between 125 and 150. i want to show you the view from our south beach camera, clean air following that system. for one hundredths of an inch four 100s of an inch here, trace amounts in oakland. september and october occasionally we get this so it's not that out of the ordinary although it was an active scene. good air quality across the bay area so if you are stepping out you have got to enjoy and for the weekend as well. good moderate saturday and sunday. a live view from our santa cruz camera, blue skies, a beautiful view, a sign of what is to come this weekend. 59 i

expect bay, leslie brinkley, abc 7 news.iz: san francisco city leaders are urging governor newsom to sign legislation that will help treat substance abuse disorder. time is of the distant -- essence to stop over -- overdose deaths. senate bill 110 is headed to the governor's desk for his signature. it would legalize contingency management to treat substance abuse and authorizes medi-cal funds to cover it. the practice uses incentives like financial rewards to get people off drugs and keep them sober. state senator scott weiner offered -- authored the legislation. >> contingency management is a proven tool that the san francisco aids foundation has been using for a decade, the veterans administration has been using for a decade. that has proven results. liz: officials today say the state should not delay with this strategy. the city recorded 657 drug overdose deaths in 2020. this year's total is expected to exceed that number. dan: a massive show of support for sonoma county sheriff's lieutenant who died from covid-19 complic

but there were some repulsive technical glitches earlier today putting the online voting system, brinkley, out of action. it has since been fully restored. and officials blamed i hacking attack these attacks were planned and organized, which shows an intention to prevent services from working normally in attempt to block the work of electronic voting systems. while they were to, in fact, so called the dos attacks, that when computers receive a huge amount of requests all at once, it's an attend to overload and crash computer system. half of those emanated from the united states. a quarter came from germany, according to russia's communications ministry. and even before the hacking attacks, russia had been flagging up foreign meddling in the votes. cooling on big us tech companies to remove content this band in the country. and following along stunned off a pro opposition article in the valley, after the prominent criminal critic has been deleted from google and apple apps, stores with moral math is always constantine oshkosh. the app in question is somewhat an extension of nevada and his

the key moment she says came when she realized she was christy brinkley and she was married to billyoel. jesse: joining me to eulogize his old friend. greg: i wouldn't say he was my old friend. he was someone whom i had an amazing encounter with. ebb who came into his presence always came away as though they received a gift. he wasn't just funny. he had a moral center. he was full of wisdom. i spent an evening with him on a train going to see him perform and hanging out with him before the show, after the show. and all he did was bet. he had a betting app. all we did was sit there and bet while all the passengers on the train were yelling at him to be quiet. er who heard this news was equally heartbroken. whether they agreed politically or not with him, it was devastating. there were people who didn't even like him that were distraught. he kept his cancer private that he thought the audience was so important he couldn't let anything get in between him, his act and the audience. jesse: i'm glad we had you on to talk about norm. as much as i hate to say it. greg is the king of late rig

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

very consequentially, all at the same time here on capitol hill in this game of brinkley ships that both parties are engaged and is making many people very nervous. barbara, how does your castro with the latest from capitol hill? heidi thank you. was staying in the us, the country has experienced its biggest annual increase in murders, new figure is released by the f. b. i sharp increase in homicides during 2020 and some us cities that reporting their highest murder numbers since records began. john henderson has more from chicago, murders in the us increased by 30 percent last year. that is the largest year over year increase since the f b. i begin compiling an annual report in 1960 law enforcement official say. there are many reasons for it is partly the economic and social stress of the pandemic. an increase in purchases of firearms and possibly a pullback by police after massive protests against them in 2020. those numbers remain well below the highs of the mid 19 ninety's. but the trend continues for 2021, and it is a national trend, not a regional one. it occurred in all regions of

. >> i am leslie brinkley, abc 7 news. >> as extreme weather gets worse, the impact is being felt disproportionatelye who is dealing with it the most and how much of a difference it can make. >> northeast with deadly consequences. consequences. the x-rays from your urgent care visit look good. just stay off that leg, okay? what about my rec team? i'm all they got. next season. thanks doc. wow, he already scheduled my pt. i love doctors who work with athletes. does he know you tripped over a basketball? that's a sports injury. at kaiser permanente, we make getting care easy so you can get back on the court quicker. >> now from abc 7, live, breaking news. >> we have a glimmer of good news from the caldor fire. com wind and improving humidity are helping firefighters make progress. even so, fire officials still caution that along fight is ahead. lake tahoe is not safe for people to return to their homes. the fire has now burned more than 210,000 acres. up to 6000 acres since wednesday, containment is at 25%. some evacuation warnings were lifted for communities on the western edge of the fire and some n

ama: isaac leslie brinkley found they have even started conversations with firefighters and police andighbors all virtually. reporter: living in berkeley this journalist and mother of two study keeping an eye on their family cabin via their security cameras there. >> we started watching regularly. reporter: on to state saw firefighters on patrol stopping to eat at a neighbor's porch. >> we could talk to him. sure enough after a while, one of them walked over. we press the button and started yelling and he came and we talked a little bit. we were like, thank you so much. if you need a place to lie down or arrested this is where the keys are. reporter: she started posting on twitter and providing updates, amassing followers and meeting neighbors for the first time online in the chaos. >> someone sweat on twitter -- said on twitter your posts are helping with our anxiety about our home. reporter: security cameras are not providing protection, but they are providing connection, community service if you will. this san francisco man monitored his security camera as the fire not within half a

leslie brinkley is covering the issue. >> paint is scarce and costly for the foreseeable future accordingare struggling to keep product on the shelves. >> prices are changing. materials are unavailable. >> this paint store owner says every day he only gets one out of every three gallons he orders. his customers are shocked. prices have jumped over 10%. >> it is a perfect storm. there had been a worldwide shortage of metal cans. you are starting to see in the store a lot of plastic cans. the big freeze in texas did a lot of damage to raw material. production has literally stopped. >> add a shortage of truck drivers and a backup of containers. painting specialty tools are on backorder for up to eight months. >> you have shortage of major materials across the board. plywood, dimensional lumber. >> contractors say the biggest challenge besides the cost is the time. can they even get materials like windows and doors? it used to be -- >> it used to be six a -- six to eight weeks. >> more people are doing home improvement projects. this store predicts paint is up 20%. >> if you are going to do a

." >> christie brinkley told reporters this week that her marriage to billy joel was over long beforerealized that she was christie brinkley and that she was married to billy joel. >> reporter: known for that droll delivery and that signature cynical smile. >> well, this coming monday is oscar night, and three films, "the english patient," "secrets and lies" and "shine" are locked in a tight race in the category, best picture, there's not a chance in hell i will ever see. >> reporter: during his five years on "snl" he impersonated burt reynolds. >> mr. reynolds, what are you doing? >> i found this backstage. oversized hat. funny. >> no, it's not. >> sure, it is, it's funny, it's funny because it's bigger than, you know, a normal hat. >> reporter: larry king. >> the more i think about it, the more i appreciate the solar system. >> reporter: and bob dole. >> bob dole, not male, not female, not even human. bob dole, beam of pure energy. how about that? never tires, never ages. >> reporter: the former senator shared this photo of the two writing, norm was a great talent and i loved laughi

leslie brinkley reports that includes more prescribed burns. >> 50 homes and two burned down in 1894. there have always been fires in california, but never like this. fires this year have twice crested the sierra nevada, burning at high elevations over peaks with sparse vegetation. that is stunning fire scientists. >> we are not able to contain these supercharged fires feeding off of climate change induced conditions. we need to start approaching these fires differently. >> fires scientists are advocating fighting with fire. >> we could do burning in the winter. we need a workforce to do that. right now we have more workforce. firefighters are generally hired for the fire season. there is talk to have year-round resources. we might be able to do aerial ignition. >> the science tells us we need more of the low intensity fire that california landscapes evolved with. having 1000 fires across the state, only a day or two, producing much smaller amounts of smoke. >> off-season controlled burns could mean learning to live with a certain level of smoke in the air year-round. the density of t

their hearts did a survey, they do this every four years 100 to 150 prominent historians, douglas brinkley is among them and they ask him to rank the presidents in order and then you have to ask yourself where would you put obama. this is the first year by the way the most recent one in which both trump and obama were listed so where did they go? trump gets 41st place out of 44. that doesn't surprise you. thank s god for pierce and buchanan. barack obama, number ten. to put that in perspective, ronald reagan got number nine and this is the way they think. from that perspective and the presidency the differencee between "the new york times" and the old soviet is the readers who knew they were being lied to but they still hadn't figured it out. part of the reason for my book and the presentation is to intervene in this process. no one else is doing this. most notably, woodrow wilson was sixth in the polls about 12 years ago and now he's 13 and that will continue to drop. so i will tell you why this would drop, in an anecdote and i double checked this this morning because i wanted to make sur

joining me, presidential historian douglas brinkley and mr.on, his show "the circus" will be back this weekend, hope you have some good material for it. >> never a lack of material, ever. >> good to see you. mark, former president bush drawing a line, comparing domestic terrorism to international terrorism, saying they're similar. he's made a point of staying out of politics since leaving office. what did you think? >> it was really important, coming out now, as you said, he's been staying pretty much off the radar. he picked his timing at a really important time in our history. and in our current era of incivility and insurrection, right? i mean, the fact is that we can debate the last 20 years and the loss of lives and money but the fact is we haven't had a foreign domestic attack since 9/11 in 20 years but we have had a domestic terror attack and we need to call it what it is. the problem is that donald trump and his supporters have made martyrs out of these people. they're calling the people who are being prosecuted political prisoners and

this is nell brinkley. any man who loves and reveres his mother and his country should idlize if he wore ships at all the three graces, suffrage, patriotism and americanism. sorry, my dog is going off on the mailman. and also at this time, margaret sanger was actively agitating for rights for women for birth control and getting attacked by police and driven off the stage time and time again. so this is from our book. go ahead, speak freely. and fast forward again to the man who was probably our most eloquent ever user of free speech, martin luther king, whose whole -- his only weapon was his free speech and he used it as we all know brilliantly, and he paid for it, of course, with his life. but to put it in modern terms, i mean, if you switch how you look at things, the police who were suppressing and attacking him, we find your speech to be hurtful, dr. king. it was more than hurtful, of course. onward, in my career religions have been the most insensitive. it's okay if you're praising them, it's a blasphe

leslie brinkley, abc 7 news. larry: spencer christian joining us now, it seems like an eternity since we had measurable rain in these parts. spencer: it has been a long time and what we had was barely measurable, did not last long but significant because it had been so long and so dry. so dry for so long. here is the morning numbers, for hundreds of an inch in santa rosa, two hundredths here, one hundredth of an inch in napa. early estimates about 110 lightning strikes and later the national weather service said we confirmed somewhere between 125 and 150 lightning strikes, very fortunate we did not have a serious fires breaking out because of strikes. the lineup right now, low pressure that brought us some of that instability and oyster into the atmosphere, drawing closer to the bay area but all of the moisture is pushing to the east. no rain in the forecast this evening, i will show you what is coming later. kirsten: our lake tahoe captured lighting, a bit of relief though for the caldor fire. calfire says lucki

earlier don lemon spoke with douglas brinkley to get his take.ere it is. >> indeliblely seared in our imaginations like the kennedy assassination we watched the world trade center collapse over and over again in our minds. you know 20 years ago our country pulled together. that was the deadlyiest terrorist attack in world history. we lost nearly 3,000 americans. we had 25,000 injured. many people were later sick from environmental problems developed from the attack. but the immediate wake at the time when george w. bush spoke from the oval office to the country and then days later came to new york with the bull horn, american flags went all up all over the country. we were like united airlines. we were living with the united states of america and stood together. that dissipated by mission overreach. we went into afghanistan to ferret out al qaeda and taliban. here we are 20 years later taliban is in afghanistan. we had our longest war in average without a clear victory. so we're having to scratch our heads tomorrow, somberly prayerfully rememberi

joining me now, cnn presidential historian douglas brinkley and former adviser to george w.ush, mark mckinnon. his show the circus will be back this sunday. back and better than ever, baby. hope you have some material for it. i'm kidding. >> never any lack of material, don. >> good evening. mark, the former president bush drawing a line between the terrorism of 9/11 and the threat of domestic extremist, saying that they're similar. president bush has made a point to stay out of politics since he left office. what did you think when you heard his speech? >> well, i was really proud of him, and i thought it was a really important not only what he said but when he said it. coming out now, as you said, he's been staying pretty much off the radar. so he picked his timing at a really important time in our history and in our current era of incivility and insurrection, right? i mean the fact is that, you know, we can debate the last 20 years and the loss of lives and money. but the fact is we haven't had a foreign domestic attack since 9/11 in 20 years. but we have had a domestic te

a good review but he gets some attention, the introduction was by historian named david douglas brinkley and johnny depp so i think they're trying to sell copies by having a superstar on the cover. i divided the discussion into four themes. philanthropy, medical research. scientists, and ethical issues. let's start the way we always do in looking at anything we have to read and that is, first of all who is david o. >> a professor of the university of texas at austin. and a distinguished scholar and residents at nyu. >> fairly reputable. >> we'd say. >> yeah, probably knows what he's talking about. yeah, david. >> i saw he won the cartwright award from columbia university medical center in 2010 for his research into the history so he had some cred inter. >> definitely. >> also won the pulitzer prize in 2006. >> yeah, winning a pulitzer prize is substantial for sure. what did you think of his writing and research, elizabeth. >> i was impressed by the thoroughness of his research i think he went above and beyond researching the relationships between the scientists and between the politician

the introduction was by a historian named douglas brinkley and johnny depp. i think they are trying to sell copies by having a superstar on the cover. i divided the discussion today into four sort of major themes. we can't cover all of the books. i thought the most interesting were looking at philanthropy, medical research, scientists and the various personalities, which are interesting, and also the ethical issues. with that, let's start the way we always do when looking at anything we have to read. first of all, who is the author? >> a professor at the university of texas at austin and a distinguished scholar in residence at nyu. >> fairly reputable. probably knows what he is talking about. >> i saw that he won the cartwright prize from columbia university medical center in 2010 for his research into the history of polio. it adds credit before reading. >> adds credibility. >> he won the pulitzer prize award in 2006 for this book. >> winning a pulitzer prize is substantial. what did you think of his writing, his research? were you impressed? >> i was impress