cornell bernard is live at ocean beach in san francisco with more. cornell? >> reporter: hey, there, happy 4th. behind me, are cseal aop holida. beach goers, as you can see, did come out today, but it's far from crowds that we've seen during pasepter: maryreedn and her two sons, leo and lucas are lugging gear to the field at krissy field because parking lots are closed. >> the parking's closed. there's a pandemic, but we're going to have fun at the beach, no matter what today. >> reporter: w the rise, san francisco officials have urged folks to stay home this holiday. the parking lots are off limits. the beach is open, but not as crowded as a traditional 4th of july. >> this year, we asked everyone to stay home. >> reporter: pacifica mayor dedra martin closed all beaches in her town. >> we were very worried about the congregation of large groups of people, which, as you know, is one of the top causes of the spread of the virus. so we want to make sure our community is kept safe. >> we'll probably pop out on our balcony this evening and see if we can see any f

amy: professors s cornel west and keeanga-yamahtta taylor. we will hear more from them in a moment, but first let's turn to former women's march co-chair tamika mallory. she spoke at a rally in minneapolis d days after the police killing of george floyd. prof. mallory: we are not responsible for the mental illllness that has been inflicted upon our people by the amerirican government, institutions and those people who are in positions of power. i don't give a damn if they burn down target, because target should be on the streets with us calling for the justice that our people deserve. where was autozone at the time when philando castile was shot in a car, which is what they actually represent? where were they? so if you are not coming to the people's defense, then don't challenge us when young people and other people who are frustrated and instigated by the people you pay, you are paying instigators to be among our people out there, throwing rocks, breaking windows and burning down buildings. and so young people are responding to that. they a

cornell talking about. we'll keep you posted on the protests if things widow. we're also streaming live on abc7news.com and our social media accounts. >>> an, heo y weera fire that raced up a martinez hillside this afternoon. firefighters responded just after 1:00. flames burned toward a homeless encampment nearby. at one point some of the hopele homeless ran into the fire to save belongings. the fire was brought under control and the homeowner told firefighters he was trying to create defensible space. >>> a socially distanced block party for the man fatally shot by vallejo police last night. 22-year-old sean mont row is a was held in the bernal heights neighborhood near holly park. there was music, food, and literature readings. he was a san francisco resident and was shot and killed by police responding to reports of looting at a vallejo walgreens on the night of june 2nd. police later found a hammer on him but no gun. >>> the bay area tech ceo caught on camera going off on a racist tirade at a carmel va

live in san francisco, cornell bernard, abc 7 news. >> cornell, thank you very much. >>> hear are today's covid-19 headlines. the latest state numbers show california's seven-day average of new cases is just more than 9100 per day. that's an increase of 463 cases from the previous week's average. testing is expanding in the state and an increase in cases is expected. there have been 7,685 covid-19 deaths in california since the start of the pandemic here in the bay area, there are at least 41,000 cases and 698 deaths. today, the mayor of lose lo ang said that city is at the brink of stay-at-home orders and said it reopened too quickly. >>> another area we focus on to help build a better bay area is health and we are expecting new covid-19 testing requirements in san francisco. city officials say they will enact new health order tomorrow calling for private health care providers to give people greater access to testing. those health care providers will be required to offer same-day testing for people with symptoms of covid-19 or those who have been in close contact with an infected person.

i've been at cornell for 12 years.e had a web site for 0 years, and i've -- 10 years, and i've never seen anything like what is going on now. so in early june, i wrote two blog posts. one had to do with the slogan that people are chanting, hands up, don't shoot. and i'm very familiar with that because i have followed that, the black lives matter movement since 2014 after the shooting of michael brown. and that was the phrase attributed to michael brown in ferguson, missouri, that he was shot when his hands were up and he was saying don't shoot, and that became, essentially, the slogan and the founding narrative of the black lives matter movement. well, i knew that to be false because the justice department investigated it, and they found that that never actually happened. mike brown was shot by police -- [audio difficulty] so when i saw protesters chanting that recently, i wrote a blog post which is something i've done before, pointing out that is a fabbri e case. the hands up, don't shoot, is a fabrication. and i wrot

live in san francisco, cornell bernard, abc 7 news. that we can get. cornell, thanks. well, one of san francisco's oldest restaurants has reopened, after closing for several months because of covid-19. customers can now enjoy outdoor dining and takeout service at the st. frances fountain at 24th and york streets in the mission districts. >> we opened up last week, during the pandemic. we're just utilizing the outdoor spaces required by law. it's been a bit of a slow opening, but we've got a lot of positive reviews from people who have come by, saying we're glad to see you're opening up. >> st. frances fountain opened in 1918 and endured the spanish flu epidemic at the end of world war i. the diner's owner says he'll try offering limited service first, but he might close the historic restaurant if things don't work out. >> a specialty cake decorating and bake historic in the north bay is closing its doors after more than 57 years. abc 7 was in san rafael today for cake art supply's going out of business sale. loyal customers lined up down the block showing the family bu

abc7 news reporter cornell barnard joins us live in san pablo with more on this story. cornell? >> dion, very scary night for firefighters no, professional fireworks shows in the bay area last night, but lots of amateur ones, just ask any firefighter. many started firesis o in san pablo. the firework debris is just feet away. fireworks lit up the skies over san francisco on july 4th, but it's a show firefighters didn't want to see. illegal fireworks caused large grass fires like this one near hunter's point, and this fire less than a mile away. >> we were virtually working nonstop. we were going from one fire to another fire. >> lieutenant jonathan baxter says his department responded to 108 fires, all started by fireworks. at one point fire crews came under attack from a barrage of fireworks being launched. >> i have a bottle rocket shot at my car, m 80s. >> two kids were injured saturday after they got too close to fireworks. in oakland, neighbors were helping clean up lakeshore avenue where lots of debris from fireworks was left behind. after a big, loud show in the sky. >> i

cornell, thanks. one of san francisco's oldest restaurants has reopened, after closing for several months due to covid-19. customers can now enjoy outdoor dining and takeout service at the st. francis fountain in the mission district. >> we opened up last week during the pandemic, we're just utilizing the outdoor space, as required by law. it's been a bit of a slow opening, but we've got a lot of positive reviews from people who have come by saying we're glad to see you opening up. >> st. francis fountain opened in 1918 and endured the spanish flu epidemic at the end of world war i. the diner's owner says he will try offering limited service, first. but he may close the historic restaurant, if things don't work out. >> cake decorating and bakery is closing its doors after more than 57 years. in san rafael today for going out of business sale. customers lined up and down the block showing the family business their support. they offer specialty designs on cakes and sell cooking products. they also teach

the administration building to look at the test scores, it turns out the average black student at cornellat time scored at the 75th percentile which means they were not qualified, they were better than three quarters of all students who took the test, why were they having academic problems, because it cornell college at that time, the average student was at the 99th percentile, those black students would've been so much better off somewhere else where the workers taught at a pace in a manner that was something that would make it easily handled. in graduate and be on the dean's list. but they put them with the top 1%, the amount of reading you had to do at cornell at that time, the amount of math that was presupposed, although that went into making it harder for learning things that they could equally learn. mark: you hear the phrase systemic racism, systemic oppression, you hear from the college campuses, you hear it from wealthy and famous sports stars, you hear it from media types, what does that mean and whatever it means, is it true? thomas: it really has no meaning that can be specif

cornell, what do you think?i'm going to quote another great political philosopher, this one being l.l. cool jay, mama said knock you out. i still think television has a power that the others do not. now is television what it was in 1990? no. is television what it was quite frankly in early 2000 when obama ran in 2008? no, it's not. we see diminishing returns on television because people have so many more platform, especially younger voters. and that's why you see a lot of the penetration with digital going to these younger voters. but still, pound for pound, television is still the best way to convey and reach a broad audience. and quite frankly, to deliver a punch the way my friend at the lincoln project has been delivering punches is still a powerful medium for that. >> so i want to ask you, rick, what your theory in the case here. there is one level which the lincoln level is just trolling donald trump and inside his head manifestly. he watches the ads. he gets upset about them. he tweets about them. there is

thank you so much i apologize to my friend miles for scheduling him after cornell william brooks. i don't envy you but you're up for it. let me repeat, we already have some good questions, before you come in i will ask you, describe the guts of our proposal and why we do what we do and you already have some great questions. if you want to send something in, it's event at brookings.edu or on twitter hashtag universal voting. miles, tell everybody what we propose to do. >> thank you, i want to extend my deep appreciation to my working group who have been an extra neri group to work with. it's been a great institutional partnership between the air center at the harvard kennedy school and the brookings institution, these things are sometimes rare and it's been a total delight to work with you it's been a great partnership. we start with quick personal note. if you go back, and career as far back as the legislature in the chair going on secretary of the state and i've been working on the voting expansion issues for 35 years, i believe in them, i worked on same-day registration and rest

>> i mean, mark, cornell makes the perfect point, right? this worked for donald trump when he scared enough of a coalition, electorally speaking, with promises of whoever was on the other side of a fictional wall that mexico was going to pay for. he tried and failed in '18 with that slow-moving phantom caravan, that somehow miraculously disappeared the morning after the midterms. but i want to ask you specifically about some brand-new reporting in "the washington post" by carol l leonnig. there's a whole lot of morning-after remorse by all the participants and that's why i started asking both of you of whether or not this is all for show. if the human beings on both sides of these clashes are the victims. "the washington post" reported that national guard police suddenly moved on lafayette protesters, used excessive force before the trump visit. it's a new statement by an iraq veteran who now serves for the national guard. here's what he said about the june 1st protest at lafayette square. he said that demonstrators were behaving peacefully

colleagued by my between brookings and cornell, which is why you have cornell on the background. joyce is the chair of global morgan, she only has one employer. at thegentleman you met beginning of the program, the new vice president for global economics and development at given hiswill join us interest in africa. i want to start with joyce. i am interested and whether your view of the world economy matches the one that was just laid out and what you see in emerging markets. you talk in your recent report about a powerful growth in the second half of the year in emerging-market. this is a diverse set of market. latin america is different from our, which is different from china. how do you see the world and how do you see it differently and -- differently than the world bank? -- choice: -- joyce: thank you so much for those questions and thank you for the brookings institution for the invitation and report. let me start with the first question, why is there a disconnect between main street and wall street? then i will go into the emerging markets discussion. the first thing, this

cornell, i see you nodding. you are full, i'm sure, with so many anecdotes and stories and thoughts about congressman lewis. what are you anxious to share with us? >> you know, he meant so much to me as a civil rights lawyer and to so many. i recall as president of the naacp standing right behind him as we symbolically crossed the edmund pettus bridge and thinking, i will forever walk in his shadow and thinking about the fact that when we are trying to stand in his moral image and legacy, we march from selma, alabama, to washington, d.c., 1,000 miles for voting rights. and when we get to washington, who greets us but john lewis who laid down his life for the right to vote. and i think about the time when i went back to my oalma mater yale law school to give a speech. i'm walking across the campus. i see this familiar looking face. the face of a black man, kind of chill. and he says to me, hey, do you know where the bookstore is? i want to get a t-shirt. and so i say, hey, my name is cornell. i'll walk you over.

in oakland, cornell barnard, ab >>> in seattle police arrested 45 people. seattle police said protests threw large rocks, bottles, fireworks, and other explosives, injuring 21 officers. in los angeles violence broke out between police and demonstrators there. three protesters for injured. in portland, protesters breached a fence surrounding the city's federal courthouse building. police there declared a riot. >>> turning to the coronavirus pandemic and another county being monitored by the state. santa cruz county was added saturday to the list. that means if cases don't drop in three days, it will have to roll back its reopening and close indoor businesses. the number of confirmed cases in california is down significantly with more than 8,200 cases. there were over 10,000 yesterday. the seven-day positivity rate also went down to 7.8%, which is back under the state's threshold of 8%. >>> more than 145,000 americans have now died from covid-19. this is the fifth consecutive day where there have been more than 1,000 deaths as states struggle to keep up with

i saw this in the 1960s when i was teaching at cornell and i learned they were on academic probation. went over to the administration to look at the test scores of black students. it turns out the average black student at that time, where the 76th percentile which ones they were not really qualified, they were better than three quarters of all american students who took the test. why were they having academic problems then? because of the cornell liberal arts college at that time,, the average student was at the 99th percentile. the black students would have been so much better off somewhere else with a work is at a pace and in a manner that was something they could handle. they could graduate but they put them in the top 1%, the amount of reading you have to do at that time, the amount of mass presupposed, all of that went into making it harder for them to learn things they could have easily learned at another university. mark: systemic racism, oppression, you hear it on college campuses and from very wealthy and famous sports stars, you hear from media types, what does that mean and

abc 7 news reporter cornell co barnard. cornell, i notice your jacket is now on. >> yeah. it's just a little bit chillier than it was at 5:00. happy fourth to you, as well, jr. the weather has been beautiful today, here, at ocean beach. but, as you can see behind me, parking lots are closed. city officials are hoping folks just stay home. but a lot of people did come out, as you can see. but there is a lot of social distancing happening today. but, far from the crowds we've seen on past holidays. to hg a good fourth of july this year. >> perry freedman and her two sons are lugging gear to the beach at chrissy field because parking lots are closed. by the looks of it, many people stayed away. ach, no matter what, today. e p, >> with covid infections on the rise, san francisco officials have urged folks to stay home this holiday. the parking lots at ocean beach are off limits. the beach is open, but not as crowded as a traditional fourth of july. >> this year, we asked everyone to stay home. >> pacifica closed all the beaches in her town. >> large groups of people, as we kno

i want to bring in cornell belcher. he worked on president obama's campaigns, great to have you with us on the program this evening. let me get your reaction to this development and how it plays into our electoral politics for a moment because as we talk about the most recent polls, everything has shown, not just when it comes to the issue of black voters but when it comes to racial harmony in this country, the pursuit of racial justice. all of this in the wake of the recent killings of george floyd and breonna taylor and all the others we've seen, the president's handling of this, he gets very, very low numbers and now you have the president's niece coming out saying she has heard him use the n word. that's got to make him pretty much unattainable in terms of closing that gap as the rev was just saying. >> well, but it's not really the one thing. it is a dismal tide. it is a multitude of things. it is both his handling of covid, but let's also understand, this wasn't a president who was well-positioned for re-election

cornell bernard, "abc7 news." >>> some unfortunate coronavirus milestones today. the state tallied a record high number of deaths from wednesday, 157. california has more than 425,000 diagnosed cases of coronavirus. that's the most of any state in the country, even new york. in the bay area, hospitalizations set a record for another day with 756 patients. >>> in the south bay, san jose is one of a dozen cities being monitored by the trump administration. dr. deborah birx named the city in a private phone call. >> audio of the call was obtained by the center of public integrity. but the center doesn't include san jose in its reporting. the mayor says he hasn't heard from the white house. >> i can't speak to why the white house selected particular cities, but it seems as though the common theme is the mayors had any contact with the white house about this. but our work is the same. we need to focus on reducing our transmission rate. >> in a statement, the county of santa clara said the increase in cases demonstrates the need for a coordinated and national approach t

and cornell barnard has more. >> we are planning for whatever may come. >> reporter: santa rosa city school superintendent feels like she's preparing for battle. but that is what back to school is feeling like these days. an arsenal of supplies has been ordered. >> we'll have one gallon jugs of sandtizers sanitizer in each classroom and we have face shields. >> reporter: and there is a plan for 16,000 students to return to school august 17. >> we're splitting the student body in half. >> reporter: and the plan looks like this, 8,000 students would be at school just two days a week. and then switch places with the second group of distance learn fwrg hoing from . fifth day everyone is learning vergely. a maximum of 16 students is allowed per classroom, but this is a day after sonoma made the state's watch list because cases are spiking. so many parents are uneasy about sending kids back. >> i'm not feeling that it should be 100% secure for them. it is better for them to just continue with online school. >> it is a rock and a hard place. the kids need to go back to school for more than

abc 7 news reporter cornell bernard continues our coverage. >> but there have been teachers, men and women throughout history who have stood and said no, you cannot take an eye for an eye. >> reporter: jeff steinberg reads from "walking with the wind" the memoir of his long-time friend and mentor, john lewis. >> he was the soul of america in many ways. >> reporter: steinberg is the founder of the bay area bay sojourn project, teaching students about the civil rights by taking them to where it happened. he has led some across the edmund pettis bridge in selma where lewis and other peaceful demonstrators were beaten by police, known as bloody sunday. >> i would challenge any of us, who's more courageous than john lewis? he was arrested over 40 times. he was beaten many times. and yet always nonviolent. >> i feel like i have an obligation to do what i can to tell the story because i was a witness. >> reporter: in 2015, the georgia congressman spoke with abc 7 news about his front-row seat in the 1960s civil rights movement. >> you'll be sitting there in an orderly, peaceful, nonviolent

cornell bernard, "abc7 news." >>> some unfortunate coronavirus milestones today. the state tallied a record high number of deaths from wednesday, 157. california has more than 425,000 diagnosed cases of coronavirus. that's the most of any state in the country, even new york. in the bay area, hospitalizations set a record for another day with 756 patients. >>> in the south bay, san jose is one of a dozen cities being monitored by the trump administration. dr. deborah birx named the city in a private phone call. >> audio of the call was obtained by the center of public integrity. but the center doesn't include san jose in its reporting. the mayor says he hasn't heard from the white house. >> i can't speak to why the white house selected particular cities, but it seems as though the common theme is the mayors had any contact with the white house about this. but our work is the same. we need to focus on reducing our transmission rate. >> in a statement, the county of santa clara said the increase in cases demonstrates the need for a coordinated and national approach t

abc 7 news reporter cornell co barnard. cornell, i notice your jacket is now on. >> yeah.a little bit chillier than it was at 5:00. happy fourth to you, as well, jr. the weather has been beautiful today, here, at ocean beach. but, as you can see behind me, parking lots are closed. city officials are hoping folks just stay home. but a lot of people did come out, as you can see. but there is a lot of social distancing happening today. but, far from the crowds we've seen on past holidays. to hg a good fourth of july this year. >> perry freedman and her

i'm joined now by pollster cornell who worked on both obama presidential campaigns.ood to see you. >> good to see you. >> what do you see obama getting in, then he wanted more, and the relationship that does have its nuances between these two? >> it's funny. when you're talking about "the new york times" article. i hafd out loud when i read in the article, talking about, he finds himself in the political battlefields he longed to leave. for such a gifted campaigner, only second maybe equal to bill clinton, he did not long for the campaign trail. clinton seemed to relish it. obama did not. let's be clear. when you look at the polling numbers in the battle ground states and the battle ground congressional districts, there is not a more popular, not democrat but more popular figure anywhere in the country than right now, barack obama, and his stature has grown since he left office as people compare him to the guy we have in office right now. only his wife is quite frankly more popular. so i think it is critical for biden. he speaks to change and racial healing and bring

.> > sreenivasan: psychologists thomas gilovich, robert vallone, and amos tverskyad cornell universityaduates shoot baskets from where they ftatistically made about half their shots. the philadelphia 76ers duringy the 1980-81 season. it was the only team in the n.b.a. that kept track of consecutive shots during games. >> gonot too longeven just the basic chronology of basketball shots was this motherlode of data. and what happened once they analyzed that data was that they shothwe you were actually no more likely to make your next shots in a row. or three >> sreenivasan: cohen says the findmiing by three acs did not necessarily change the minds of the basketball world. >> one lucky reporter actually got to tellhe great boston ltics coach, red auerbach, about this paper. and red auerbach sort ofneered and sa like, "what is this? i don't care about these professors. like, they make a study. i couldn."'t care le and that was generally the view among basketball players because we'd all feltghhe hot hand, we'd seen the hot hand. and here were these professcoors ming along and telling us the

do you -- cornell, you've seen so much.see glimmers of hope over the past 30, 40, 50 years. you've had reasons to have your heart broken. i'm wondering what this last month has done in shaping your attitude as we move forward together as a country. how are you feeling this morning? are we on the precipice of change? >> you never know. history is unpredictable. brother eddie and i, we're blues men. we wake up every morning to the heartache that billie holliday sung about. i've got pure joy today. any time i'm in dialogue with eddie glaude, i'm ready to fight and go down swinging. >> fantastic. and eddie's book timed perfectly with so much but also with something that happened in his home state and a state that i grew up in when i was younger where they voted to get rid of the flag, which was the last one in the u.s. that featured the confederate emblem. let's bring in anjanou ellis, an emmy nominated actress and an activist who lives in mississippi and who took up the cause to get mississippi to change its flag. very big wee

so they brought us to cornell and n/a test kitchen they set us all up and saw how we worked together. something about that made the difference. i don't know. but really all nine people who were brought in would've been great. at a certain point you people are really interested and unique in and you just kind of feel like it's someone come you ask yourself the question, is this woman i would want to spend four months with? that a lot of what it was about. >> the same time he makes a clear new book it's a little like make-believe, right? you were all pretending to be on this mission. are there moments where you say oh, and you goof off and you say this is really, we're just kidding here. or did you maintain that sort of fantasy the whole time that your. [inaudible question] four months is all long time to spend reality. >> right. so we had a lot of things helping us with this isolation. hoping as really we were not really on earth. one of those was the fact that our munication was delayed by 20 minutes each way. we couldn't have a call home. there was no -- certainly no social media whi

first of all, cornell is in ithaca, new york, which is rural new york state.k state is doing a great job now on the outbreak, has very few cases, and rural new york is probably a pretty safe place to be able to open up a college. it's very different than to think about a primary school or a secondary school in phoenix right now where the mayor was on or in florida or in texas. it's a completely different situation. also cornell has a lot of resources that they're going to throw at this. most public schools don't. it's just going to be much harder, and we've got to get going on planning for a fall where i hope we can get kids back in. >> dr. jha, i've been fixated on this concern about burnout and exhaustion among the doctors and the nurses who have been on the front lines of this pandemic for months. is there a public health solution to this? are there ways that the public or the hospitals should be thinking about how to avoid just the complete burnout of the professionals that we're going to need in the months ahead? in the fall, flu season will start and thi

i'm joined by my colleague between brookings and cornell which is why you have cornell on the background. the chair of global research jp morgan, one employer and we met at the beginning of our program, vice president for global economics developments brookings, is going to join us as well given his interest. you're interested in whether your view of global economy matches the one he just laid out and what you see in markets. you talk in your report, a powerful quote the second half of this year. but we know, markets, latin america from africa is different from china. how do you see the world and how do you see it differently and world bank? >> thank you so much for those questions and thank you for the brookings institution for the invitation and report. let me start with the first question, why is there a disconnect between main street and wall street? and i will go into the discussion. the first thing, this time around, the global financial crisis, we've had an immediate proactive response from all central banks, emerging market central banks. if you look at the size of the expansion

but cornell is welcoming students back for in person classes. dr.says cornell is making the right choice and he is calling harvard on it and the doctor is next. sparkly cheeky... ( clears throat) disciplined dapper prepped smart hopeful brave and safe? well, there is, and always has been. walgreens. everyone's place, for healthy and safe. so rely on the experts at 1800petmeds for the exact same medications as the vet, but up to 30 percent less with fast, free shipping. visit us at petmeds.com today. brian: tale of two openings. two different approaches school year. harvard keeping online classes only and allowing 40% of undergraduate students to live on campus. cornell is working all students on campus in person for instruction. here to react is fox news medical contributor dr. marc siegel. they got one thing in common. both schools are located in non-hot spots. why the difference? >> brian, that's a great place to start. and that's exactly right. because they are not in hot spots. because the risk of students actually bringing it to campus is very

abc 7 news reporter cornell bernard is explaining the changes. >> reporter: david was giving out freemples of deloris park. signs reminding people to wear masks are everywhere in the park but not everybody was playing by the rules. >> rather be safe than sorry. >> reporter: holly is spending the day with her daughter in the park. new rules from the san francisco department of public health now require kids 10 and public. she's 7 1/2 but mom isn't taking chances. >> i'll still keep her wearing one even though she's under 10. she'll wear one until all of this is cleared up and away. >> reporter: a pediatrician says kids are still at risk. >> we have to be careful about the transmission and we know kids can transmit it even when they have no symptoms. >> reporter: the new health order requires face coverings to be wornen sidewalks, in parks and for all food service workers. and even if you're alone in common areas like an elevator. dr. grant colefax said in a statement when combined with physical distancing and other health and safety practices fac the chance of covid-19 spreading in the

cornell bernard, abc 7 news. >> we sent this alert on our free abc 7 news app when we learned of lewis' passing. we will continue to update our app and website all weekend as more tributes to lewis come in. >>> still ahead on abc 7 news at 11:00 the head of sfmta cracking down on skateboarding near deloris park. >>> a thief steals a woman's car from her san francisco garage, a wedding dress inside. her search now to get it back. >>> and i'm meteorologist drew tuma. we've got the fog rolling back in tonight and we're tracking cooler weather in it's about to get bester baby! ♪ menutaur! make it a double, yeah! e!try my $5.99 southwe cheddar cheesebu ket a double orr now taer makfor a buck mor yeah! great day on the lake! it is. lunch is cookin'! and i saved a bunch of money on my boat insurance with geico. fellas, can it get any better than this? whoa! my old hairstyle grew back. so did mine. [80's music] what? i was an 80's kid. it only gets better when you switch and save with geico. get a load of my southwest cheddar cheeseburger. let menutaur make it a doubleeee, yeah! it's beautiful

abc7 news reporter cornell barnard has images and reaction. >> reporter: police say demonstrators set fire inside the alameda county courthouse in oakland saturday night. sky 7 captured another fire set outside the building. the fire department put both fires out quickly. windows were broken here, and at a nearby apartment building. at oakland police headquarters, a group kicked down a barricade surrounding the police department. >> i saw a lot of intensity, you know, people are very upset. >> reporter: vanessa dove joined hundreds on the street. it began as a peaceful protest through downtown oakland in support of black lives matter and police reform. and against federal agents being deployed to portland, oregon, to disperse demonstrators. >> my grandma and grandpa are veterans. and it was just everybody who is all out and they are all so sick of this, you know, political police repression. >> reporter: later, some broke from the larger group, smashing windows and spray painting graffiti, and pointed lasers at police officers. oakland police declared it an unlawful assembly, tweeting

host: we will stop you there, cornell, and get a response. thanks for the call. guest: cornell, i am sorry, i was not able to kind of follow everything you are saying there, , but if i took your one point only, how could i support donald trump him all, he was a andcrat for six decades, therefore, i guess you are and then that he only became a republican to run, well, if he was a racist in the party of racism, which is the democratic party, wouldn't logic at least imply that he should remain a democrat, and he should run as a democrat? please remember, sir, people like al sharpton, jesse jackson, oprah winfrey, and a host of other blacks that are in america actually was not only no donald trump prior to him running, they supported him, he supported them. so, again, if he is a racist, sir, he is doing a horrible job at being a racist, because, after all, he is the president who has reformed prison issues. by the way, that primarily affects blacks. he is the first president -- if he is a racist, he is doing a horrible job, because the policies that this gentleman ha

stories today at campsite in cornell about that.of september which is absolutely astonishing and probably quite bad news who was thinking they might be able to book a last—minute state haitian. we did a poll today which showed that half of people of the regions we probably don't even wa nt to ta ke the regions we probably don't even want to take stay vacation and argued to be staying at home. which is probably the original definition of stay vacation is that you don't go and have a holiday at home. in which case you probably won't even have to carry a mask and antibacterial gel if you're not going to go away. this could be a boost to their domestic economies of countries which of course have been hit. yes, of course. stay vacation are probably music to the heirs of places like campsites. and we know there has been a huge surge in interest in campsites and camping and sort of seaside holidays. all of which are usually popular because they are. people are really clambering. at their being booked up right until children get back school

abc 7 news reporter cornell bernard shows us how hundreds of local therapists are offering counseling all for free. >> we have a lot of stressed nurses right now. >> reporter: michael hill is a veteran nurse in oakland where covid cases are on the rise. he says the stress level is often so high it can't be measured. >> this is an increased rate of patients dying on us and it's all age groups. and you do take that home because it becomes personal. >> reporter: it's a burden health care workers face every day. >> grief, loss, guilt, frustration. >> reporter: dr. elizabeth ross says those emotions often need to be talked about. she's the san francisco psychologist who started the front line project providing free mental health counseling to all essential workers to doctors and nurses to firefighters and postal workers. >> there's of course fear and anxiety about the pandemic at large, about ones own risk of exposure to covid. >> reporter: she said this all began with a simple idea. a few therapists just trying to figure out how to help. it's now grown to over 150 therapists offering thei

cornell bernard abc7>> a new protections for the front line workers. point out the majority of farm workers, koorks laborers --. are people of color. >> when people ask as they often do, where are we seeing the spread? this is where we're seeing the spread. essential workforce, disproportionate represented by implementing education campaign for workers and program to help quarantine safely if needed and working to expand protections like paid sick leave. and this morning the doors are shut on a popular pizza joint in san francisco because of exposure to covid-19. in an instagram post yesterday square pie guys announced they will approximate temporarily closing to keep staff and customers safe. the space on 7th and mission will now be deep cleaned and all team members will take covid-19 tests not. word on a possible reopening date. earlier in the week another restaurant, the deli board also closed from an employee testing positive. and in the east bay alameda became the first bay area county to receive 10,000 diagnosed cases. nearly half from oakland. h

cornell bernard. abc7. >>> and the united states saw 57,000 new cases of covid-19 just yesterday. third record day this week. as holiday weekend is spurring new fears as moats of the country is seeing a rise in cases. one of them is president trump's son donald trump jr., his girlfriend and california governor gavin newsom's >> reporter: americans are celebrating the fourth of july like never before. >> i don't think the beach should be closed. the as holiday. it is a good holiday. and people holiday travelers hitting the road. many joining these long lines ready to pack beaches as koefd 19 cases rise in three fourths of the united states with half the country seeing increased hospitalizations and 13 states reporting rising deaths. >> i don't understand what the problem is. >> reporter: many beach goers around the country, like the hundred thousand converging on myrtle beach this weekend now required to wear masks. in florida amid surging cases closures are left usually packed beaches empty with some cities enforcing curfews. in this miami neighborhood surge teams now going door t

victor daiy, a cornell -- victor daley, a cornell university graduate, alpha phi alpha fraternity member and former officer in the , 92nd division, served as business manager for the magazine in 1919 and 1920. commissioned as a first lieutenant at the des moines officers training camp, daly received honors, but despite this achievement, like other officers in the 92nd division, the pervasive discrimination soured him to america's professed democratic ideals and sharpened his racial and political consciousness. he wrote in an october 1919 letter, published in "the messenger," in response to the magazine being labeled as bolshevist, in promoting racial equality, solidarity, and our resistance to white violence made one a bolshevist, then classify me, too, a former officer, a former united states army officer, as a bolshevist. a second black veteran affiliated with "the messenger" he graduated from virginia union university along with chandler owen and graduated columbia university law school. colson knew victor daily and served in the 92nd division as well and was also an officer. he retur

joined in conversation with cornell west. afterwards,n carmella jayapal with her book "use the power you have." she is interviewed by jim himes. this book tv on c-span2 weekend. >> texas governor greg abbott held a press briefing today in austin, updating the states response to hurricane hanna. he discussed the measure states are taking to keep people safe, especially with covid-19 still spreading. due to technical issues, the first few minutes of the briefing could not be shown. >> we also do want to point out the possibility of tornadoes. there has already been one tornado warning north northeast of corpus christi. there could be others arise and it's always to be anticipated and expected in the course of a hurricane coming on shore. in this regard, and also with flooding, it is so important that everybody in the region affected by the hurricane stay tuned to local news agencies and local alerts so you can be aware of a potential tornado in your region, potential rising waters in your region, so you can take the action reco

abc news reporter cornell bernard said it could setoff opening roll backs. >> reporter: alex burnette will skip a trick to memorial beach this july fourth weekend where crowds of people may show up because state beaches are closed. >> in the water even we're telling people to keep your distance and everybody's been really great about it. >> we're beefing up our staff. >> reporter: down the road amy's wicked slush has expanded its slush garden seating area to accommodate more guests. >> i think it's mostly making sure everyone's got masks on and we ourselves wear masks we've got to sanitize. >> reporter: downtown healdsburg was getting busy. there were lines for caves and the plaza had news to report. >> we are full for this weekend. we were excited about it and we've been working really hard. >> that is my message this weekend. be safe, socially distance. >> reporter: supervisor gorren says independence day is colliding with a spike in 38 new coronavirus cases and six dects since sunday. she fears that could put sonoma county on the governor's watch list and force re-openings to roll

. >> cornell, you lived in data on both of president obama's campaigns.teresting. that's not how we vote. if you look in swing state polling with joe biden leading, as of now, it's only july 10th, leading in places like michigan and wisconsin and pennsylvania that donald trump obviously needs to hold on to, if you're on joe biden's campaign, how are you feeling this morning? >> i'm optimistic but nervous at the same time. and i want to pick up on what my friend just talked about with the economy, stupid. it's racism, stupid, in this election. when you look at how both covid and racism is overrunning the conventional issues right now and the polling data you just showed, the president is way under water on dealing with covid and way under water on dealing with racism. the public polling, you see a majority of voters saying that racism is a major voting issue right now. and battleground polling that we have, 78% of white college voters prefer a candidate who is most focused on race and discrimination. 50%, much more likely among white college voters and tha