after ron castille was abraham, a legendary prosecutor for seeking the death penalty. new york times said she was america's deadliest d.a. at the time. so, you know, when i got into the homicide unit, i was in the first homicide unit for years, philadelphia did not let the public defenders handle homicides for political reasons. once we started in the defender homicide unit, we were only doing 20% of the cases, and, you know, i'd say 70% of the cases that the commonwealth of philadelphia district attorney would at least seek the death penalty. so it was, you know, it was trial by fire right from the very beginning. >> [inaudible]. there was an expose about how they said people in these death penalty cases that the people in the court system wouldn't want to be represented by the lawyers that were assigned to traffic court that the lawyers were so bad. there was a real expose of just terrible legal representation of people facing the death penalty. >> yeah, a good friend that you know as well, you know, rick is the one that wrote this expose. he think he won a pulitzer

after ron castille was abraham, a legendary prosecutor for seeking the death penalty.ew york times said she was america's deadliest d.a. at the time. so, you know, when i got into the homicide unit, i was in the first homicide unit for years, philadelphia did not let the public defenders handle homicides for political reasons. once we started in the defender homicide unit, we were only doing 20% of the cases, and, you know, i'd say 70% of the cases that the commonwealth of philadelphia district attorney would at least seek the death penalty. so it was, you know, it was trial by fire right from the very beginning. >> [inaudible]. there was an expose about how they said people in these death penalty cases that the people in the court system wouldn't want to be represented by the lawyers that were assigned to traffic court that the lawyers were so bad. there was a real expose of just terrible legal representation of people facing the death penalty. >> yeah, a good friend that you know as well, you know, rick is the one that wrote this expose. he think he won a pulitzer pr

but they clearly both to show it can defend its allies, including turkey and romania and many other castile countries as well as the supporting countries like ukraine but they say, and they tell us doing what it's doing, but this rational feel in bold. and given that what we're seeing enough canister with the retreats of the u. s. and the nato forces, i mean, the press in china and russia had a field day with this. the retreat told the west, if this thing to russia confidence in the area, knowing that the seeing the to in the west being bitches out of a country. and that gives them more and more appetite to keep doing what they're doing. when i, when i read to literally the propaganda headlines coming from big and most cool because the reality is the us we've jo was and natal withdrawal from our getting some mean practically that then nato will be able to spend much more. it's focus on the real challenge ahead, which is both russia and china. so if i way more school, i would not welcome that withdrawal because it's going to free up some bandwidth both in washington but also in europe. and k

. >> the yellow america, a documentary by b >> castille focused on asian hate. >> not enough action has- >> i felt i was able to stand up for our asian community through this documentary and open up my classmate's minds. >> the producer -- their teacher hey were more than just video for -- video producers, they became content creators. >> they don't see themselves reflected in today's media. oftentimes, those stories they often want to tell because no one else is telling them. >> others include orange skies from the east side and the alabaster awakening, putting east side san jose in the national spotlight. kristen: are looking out there. we are starting to warm up. spencer: a warm week ahead for sure. tonight, a thin layer of clouds. maybe -- overnight lows in the upper 50's to low 60's. mild overnight and warm again tomorrow with temperatures ranging from the upper 60's on the coast to up to 100 degrees in the warmest inland spots. that heat is going to hold through the weekend, maybe dropping off a couple of degrees thursday and friday, but for most of the week, expect highs near 100

i am amanda del castille, abc 7 news. julian: you can always track air quality live on our website, abc7news.com. we have a map you can see here we are constantly updating with current conditions. you can also view it using our abc 7 bay area news app. for the first time since february, the u.s. is averaging more than 1000 new cases a day. 57% of all americans are now fully vaccinated. every state in the country is reporting high or substantial community transmission fueled by the delta variant. researchers are also tracking another variant, called lambda, first detected in south america, now reaching the u.s. in small numbers. early data suggests that the lamp out variant may slowly gym away at vaccine efficacy, but for now, lambda is not considered a variant of concern. off to a new cdc study finding people who were unvaccinated are more than twice as likely to be reinfected compared to those who were vaccinated. abc 7 news reporter and vaccine team member list for -- lose peÑa -- luz peÑa luz: "i've had covid, so prote

given minnesota has had extreme issues with police violence, george floyd, philando castile and others fact that in 54% of people seeing january 6th as patriotic. it's because, jonathan, if you say something enough times, people begin to believe it. it was a tourist day at the capitol. these people were patriots. i got into an heated argument with a family member about this trying to tell me, well, capitol got blown up in the '60s and those people weren't considered insurrectionists. huh in the misinformation coming off fox and the right-wing talking platforms is severe and facebook and others are elevating it and not policing it. so why wouldn't you believe it? to our fellow americans who are white, all i can say is if you're buying into this and believing this, i really need you to do a self-check and sit with yourself and ask yourselves is this really the america you want for your grand kids and great grand kids? america is browning. it's not going back. we have to figure out how to model -- where this nation is not going to stand divided. a house cannot stand divided. >> whiteness