cornell, the ivy league. more than 13,000 undergrads here working towards degrees will with good fortune take their places in medicine, the law, the arts. there's no doubt a cornell education can be a gold-plated entrance ticket to adult life. and only the best need apply, students like charlie tan. he was so kind, his classmate featured him in a video, random acts of kindness. giving gifts to complete strangers. >> not just a great kid but the greatest of great kids. >> charlie was the son of chinese immigrants who became "mr. everything." scholar, class president, the guy with the cool friends, hannah valentine opened up her parents' summerhouse to charlie and his other teenaged pals. >> he was always happy and energetic. >> the guy that tells jokes? >> everybody knows him. he'll like walk in. the room lights up, he starts telling a funny story. >> so you'd think charlie tan was another ivy league overachiever poised for takeoff and great things to come, but that's not his story. this is about the charlie t

stand by, cornell. there's more to discuss.e're going to pick it up right after a quick break. all her aches and pains. and i said "come to class, let's start walking together" and i said "and i bet you money you'll be able to do that senior walk". that day i said "ok it's me and you girl, me and you!" i said "if you need to stop, there's a bench we'll just hang out in the shade." she said "absolutely not! we are going to finish this race!" and we were the last ones in, but you know what? we finished the race. and she goes "desiree, i'll never quit walking. ever" alzheimer's disease the fi is out there.survive and the alzheimer's association is going to make it happen by funding scientific breakthroughs, advancing public policy, and providing local support to those living with the disease and their caregivers. but we won't get there without you. visit alz.org to join the fight. >> a dramatic end to the trial of dylann roof, who shot and killed nine people in an african-american church. the jury saw video of roof's confession to

cornell bernard continues the coverage live from news 7, cornell. >> alma and dan, somewhat back to normal after this creek gave everyone a very big scare. coming dangerously close to flooding. it was no drill when the flood horns sounded alerting everyone in downtown to evacuate. dan hillman moved to higher ground. >> i actually got an alert on my phone also as well as the sirens. >> what did you think of that? >> things are going down. >> by 6:00 p.m. police had streets blocked off. downtown was deserted. the creek was at 12 feet just a foot away from jumping its banks. >> it's barely fitting under some of the buildings. i haven't seen it this high. >> check out this video from the ross valley fire department's web cam showing just how fast the creek rose from calm creek to raging water in just a matter of hours. >> if we get six inches of rain in 12 hours we know that the creek is going to come up. this is a significant amount of rain. >> make sure all of the product that we had that was sitting down lower is up off the floor. >> brad mckenzie at three ring cycles tried saving all of th

cornell bernard continues the coverage live from news 7, cornell. >> alma and dan, somewhat back to normal after this creek gave everyone a very big scare. coming dangerously close to flooding. it was no drill when the flood horns sounded alerting everyone in downtown to evacuate. dan hillman moved to higher ground. >> i actually got an alert on my phone also as well as the sirens. >> what did you think of that? >> things are going down. >> by 6:00 p.m. police had streets blocked off. downtown was deserted. the creek was at 12 feet just a foot away from jumping its banks. >> it's barely fitting under some of the buildings. i haven't seen it this high. >> check out this video from the ross valley fire department's web cam showing just how fast the creek rose from calm creek to raging water in just a matter of hours. >> if we get six inches of rain in 12 hours we know that the creek is going to come up. this is a significant amount of rain. >> make sure all of the product that we had that was sitting down lower is up off the floor. >> brad mckenzie at three ring cycles tried saving all of th

cornell is from ohio. and last he was arrested outside a gun shop in cincinnati. he had bought two semiautomatic rifles and ammunition. >>> police are trying to find out if two shootings minutes apart are connected. a man would shot at 78h 8:30 along curtis hills. he died at the hospital. that man was taken to the hospital and is in critical condition. no arrests have been made. >>> chopper 4 above a nasty crash between falls road and route 28. two cars slammed into each other 6:30. one of the cars flipped over. we are told everybody inside both of the vehicles is okay. there was a major backup while crews cleared the debris away. >>> again by the verizon center after crews fixed this sichg hole. it opened up north 6th street a few hours ago. it just reopened about 30 minutes ago. >>> a sheriff in can't says he doesn't expect to find any more victims from that massive warehouse fire in oakland. 36 bodies have been pulled from the so-called post ship. firefighters in dc and prince george's county. new at 11:00 my fear, fright. >> reporter: lawrence ball describes h

cornel west is professor emeritus at princeton university. he served on the democratic platform committee. we will be back in a minute. ♪ [music break] amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with nermeen shaikh. nermeen: in charlotte, north carolina, people took to the streets wednesday night to protest the announcement that police officer brentley vinson, -- will not face charges for fatally shooting african american father keith lamont scott. at least people were arrested as four protesters marched with signs reading, "how to get away with murder: become a cop." >> hands up! >> don't shoot! >> don't kill us dead in the street. amy: keith lamont scott's killing by police in september sparked massive protests in charlotte and nationwide. scott's family says he was reading a book in his car in the parking lot waiting to pick up his son after school when he was approached by police officers. the dashboard camera video of the interaction, which was released after the protests, shows scott exiting

cornell? >> reporter: ama, dan, we have a new perspective of the ghost ship fire scene tonight after barricades have come down. this is the front of the building. the atf says rain will not deter investigators from finding a cause. meantime, one man came to the fire scene tonight to honor the victims. >> i'm just here to show my respect. >> reporter: he traveled far to pay respects to 36 victims of the ghost ship fire. he was shot six times during the orlando nightclub shooting massacre. he knows the tragedies are different, but the support he received was a god send. >> i was very overwhelmed but in a good way with love and now it's my turn to do the same. >> reporter: on friday, special forensic mapping teams from the atf will create 3-d imaging from inside the ghost ship warehouse to find a cause. >> no evidence that they have found that it was intentionally set to indicate arson, so then they do a systemic approach of what else could have caused the fire. >> there i was a little bit of fir

cornell? >> reporter: ama, dan, we have a new perspective of the ghost ship fire scene tonight after barricades have come down. this is the front of the building. the atf says rain will not deter investigators from finding a cause. meantime, one man came to the fire scene tonight to honor the victims. >> i'm just here to show my respect. >> reporter: he traveled far to pay respects to 36 victims of the ghost ship fire. he was shot six times during the orlando nightclub shooting massacre. he knows the tragedies are different, but the support he received was a god send. >> i was very overwhelmed but in a good way with love and now it's my turn to do the same. >> reporter: on friday, special forensic mapping teams from the atf will create 3-d imaging from inside the ghost ship warehouse to find a cause. >> no evidence that they have found that it was intentionally set to indicate arson, so then they do a systemic approach of what else could have caused the fire. >> there i was a little bit of fir

i'll talk about that and more with the head of the naacp cornell william brooks. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> this is cnn breaking news. >> the breaking news tonight, president obama speaking at length about russia's interference in the u.s. election and obliquely blaming the russian president, vladamir putin, in his final news conference before leaving for hawaii for the holidays. the president said, and i'm quoting him now, not much happens in russia without putin. the president also revealed he confronted putin over the cyber attacks on the side livlines of g-20 meeting in china, saying "cut it out or face serious consequences." also breaking tonight, the cia director is moving to dispel suggestions that there's disagreement between the cia and fbi, saying they're all on the same page when it comes to russian hacking. we're covering all of that much more this hour with our guest, including former senior adviser to the trump campaign and former congressman jack kin

cornell will learn his fate later today. it's xx and we're just getting a local restaurant-- shut down after a man walks in armed with an assault rifle. the standoff with police all connected to bogus news reports about hillary clinton! the latest on the gunman.. and what witnesses are saying deadly inferno. dozens of people dead after flames rip through a warehouse full of people-- with no way out. why police say criminal charges may be on the way.. redskins coach jay gruden has loss on the road. and he did not mince words. we'll have highlights and that reaction.. coming up. good morning washington. - morning clouds, afternoon sun - rainy, chilly tuesday (some sleet possible in the morning) - coldest air of the season on the way today: early morning clouds, then partly to mostly sunny. highs: 52-57 winds: sw to nw 5-10 mph tonight: cloudy and lows: 32-40 winds: e 5 mph tuesday: rainy and chilly. sleet possible in the morning at the onset. highs: 39-46 winds: ne 5 mph

cornell bernard is live in oakland with more. cornell? >> reporter: the rain really starting to pour down here. still no cause for this tragic fire now being called the nation's worst blaze in 13 years. the atf says the lower floors of this -- of the ghost ship warehouse were likely fully engulfed before the people upstairs knew what was happening. the mayor of oakland vowing changes with building inspections today. in fact, the director of the building department made a stunning announcement. the building hadn't been inspected in three decades. >> we will learn from this tragedy to make oakland safer. >> reporter: in the wake of a fire which claimed 36 lives, the mayor announced a task force with officials to help oakland develop new regulations for the safety of its buildings. >> enhanced building safety, event safety and complaint procedures. >> reporter: before the fire, there was several complaints about light and garbage outside the ghost ship warehouse. building inspectors visited as recently as last month but never went inside. in

cornell bernard, abc7 news. >>> our storm watch coverage as we look at live doppler 7. more wet weather is on the way. we're tracking showers for your wednesday. that's not all as we go live outside to our camera. the big storm we're waiting for is now just two days away. >> team coverage tonight. drew too many malin live doppler 7. >> we are tracking an approaching storm that has a strength we haven't seen at all this rainy season. on the scale, this one approaching on thursday gets a 3. it is a strong storm. the last time we saw a 3 back in march. we're tracking moderate to heavy rain and wind gusts over 30 miles an hour. the evening rush on thursday as absolute mess. we're twrak tracking heavy rain causing localized flooding. the combination of wet conditions and it will be dark out means it will have delays on thursday. live doppler 7 along with satellite, you can see the stream of moisture. we'll about show you the downpours and gusty winds in the forecast just ahead. >> thanks very much. >>> heavy rain over the weekend may have caused a cracked sewer pipe to lead

in castro valley, cornell bernard. >>> police find a mummified body in a ft. bragg apartment and now a caretaker has been arrested. officers did a welfare check on the woman in her apartment, that's when they found her body. she'd been dead for at least a week. friday police talked to her caretaker and took her into custody. police found no signs of abuse but there was apparent neglect. an autopsy will help determine how she died. >>> one of hollywood's most flamboyant celebrities the has passed away after years of health problems. zsa zsa gabor died at the age of 99. crowned miss hungary she and her sister eva became famous hollywood socialites living their life in the public eye. a look back at her life and career. >> zsa zsa gabor was known more for her larger than life personality than for her big screen performances. a former miss hungary, she began appearing in films in the 1950s. the original moulin rouge was considered her best work. >> i see them as i want them to be. not as they really are. >> reporter: she also developed something of a cult followin

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good morning. >> hey, cornell.chill factor, feeling like 29 up in santa rosa, 41 in san francisco, freezing at gilroy, looks nice and sunny. no delays, but across the midwest, there is. freezing in concord. today, just in the low 50s. >>> lisa, thank you. the news continues with oh no. oh no. i hate this belt. man oh man. mom, we have a situation. life's bleachable moments need clorox bleach. >>> welcome back to "gma" on a saturday morning. happening right now, the polar plunge. the central u.s. headed for a deep freeze. winter storm making its way from the midwest to the northeast. snow, freezing temperatures, and ice making for dangerous conditions. so be careful out there. the heaviest snow is expected in new england today. >>> also right now, family vacation. the obamas are waking up in hawaii this morning. as they begin their 17-day getaway marking their final vacation as the first family. well deserved. but it is not just fun and play. the president is scheduled to make an historic visit to pearl harbor. to m

cornell bernard, abc7 news. >>> our storm watch coverage as we look at live doppler 7. more wet weather is on the way. we're tracking showers for your wednesday. that's not all as we go live outside to our camera. the big storm we're waiting for is now just two days away. >> team coverage tonight. drew too many malin live doppler 7. >> we are tracking an approaching storm that has a strength we haven't seen at all this rainy season. on the scale, this one approaching on thursday gets a 3. it is a strong storm. the last time we saw a 3 back in march. we're tracking moderate to heavy rain and wind gusts over 30 miles an hour. the evening rush on thursday as absolute mess. we're twrak tracking heavy rain causing localized flooding. the combination of wet conditions and it will be dark out means it will have delays on thursday. live doppler 7 along with satellite, you can see the stream of moisture. we'll about show you the downpours and gusty winds in the forecast just ahead. >> thanks very much. >>> heavy rain over the weekend may have caused a cracked sewer pipe to lead

. >> heavy rain cornell bernard is live with a look. cornell? >> . >> reporter: nobody taking chances. check this out. caltrans built a wall behind it's facility. this goes on about 100 feet ant tonight. people are getting ready. >> we have jumper cables so i'm set. >> eric gritter is getting ready for whatever mother nature dishes out. the parking lot flooded before. he took this picture in 2014. >> i worry about whether or not i can get home or not. >> king tides heading for the bay area. >> it's time to really be on full alert. >> ernie hubbard is getti ready for a rain. >> not only is he battening down the hatches he's having his house owe boat line secured needs adjustment. the house starts going crazy. >> this week, the tides are high. two years ago a winter storm and king tides collided. parts of highway 101 got flooded out owe. michael st. john is monitoring the weather. >> we have tide over seven feet wednesday. on thursday we've got a 6.9 tide. from experience, we know it can makeup for that. >> the sheriff is sending these weather al

cornell admitted he did research on building bombs and the capitol layout and purchased two semiautomatic rifles with ammunition. >>> police in prince george's county are investigating two shottings that happened minutes apart. the most recent curtis drive. at last check the victim was in critical condition. no arrest has been made in either shooting. >> it's 5:04. president-elect donald trump will meet with mayor muriel bowser. bowser requested the meeting. bowser said the growing economy is on her list of talking points. statehood or la suit against d.c. mark segraves will be on. you can follow him. >>> trump will hold a campaign-style rally later on. his choice for defense secretary is expected to join the president-elect in that heavy area. he'll hold rallies iowa and grand rapids later this week. >>> donald trump hasn't been sworn in yet and people are looking a hid to the next election. in fact, vice president joe biden's name seems to be coming up for 2020. >> he told reporters he was running for president. he said it with a smile and backed off the comment when they questioned him

cornell bernard is live with a look. cornell? >> . >> reporter: nobody taking chances. check this out. caltrans built a wall behind it's facility. this goes on about 100 feet ant tonight. people are getting ready. >> we have jumper cables so i'm set. >> eric gritter is getting ready for whatever mother nature dishes out. the parking lot flooded before. he took this picture in 2014. >> i worry about whether or not i can get home or not. >> king tides heading for the bay area. >> it's time to really be on full alert. >> ernie hubbard is getting ready for a rain. >> not only is he battening down the hatches he's having his house owe boat line secured needs adjustment. the house starts going crazy. >> this week, the tides are high. two years ago a winter storm and king tides collided. parts of highway 101 got flooded out owe. michael st. john is monitoring the weather. >> we have tide over seven feet wednesday. on thursday we've got a 6.9 tide. from experience, we know it can makeup for that. >> the sheriff is sending these weather alerts. drivers, be careful, it will be s

cornell. >> danger is over tonight. that is the good news when san anselmo creek got very, very very close to flood stage tonight. in fact one foot from flood stage. in fact the creek as you can see is still running very high this evening. city took no chances evacuating the downtown area merchant and off. area pretty much a ghost town by 6:00 p.m. as the creek rose to 12 feet. 13 feet. is when flooding starts to happen. business owners they scramble. did what they could. getting merchandise off florida higher ground. despite -- this bike shop did what they co-the business owners know the drill here. they have flood gates. sand bag at the ready to put in front of the doors. and at least 100 business owners did exactly that tonight. fortunately the creek did not flood but this area did get 6 inches of rain in 12 hours. that's according to the town manager. no danger, no danger tonight n.fact danger has passed but as we all know too well winter is far from over. we are live in san anselmo tonight, abc 7 news. >> cornell t

in san francisco, cornell bernard, abc 7 news. >>> abc 7 is joining 70 other media outlets and taking a closer look at the homeless crisis in san francisco. check out the stories that we've done with our abc 7 news app and you can download that for free. >>> happy friday, everybody. we're in store for good sleeping weather overnight tonight as downpours move through in the early morning hours. live doppler 7 along with satellite showing you the cloud cover overhead and there's a few showers moving east at 40 miles per hour hand this weak line holds true by .7 and san jose likely seeing a light shower moving through the south bay and around 7:50 p.m. and gilroy around 8:25 and this light shower along salinas and this is all well to the north and bringing soaking rain to eureka and it will bring us some downpours and heavy rain of what we saw and early tomorrow morning and ahead of that front it feels kind of mild out there. a nice south wind and we're in the 60s. 64 in san jose and 61 in oakland and 690 current number in san francisco and a bit cooler in the north bay and 59 napa and c

abc 7 news reporter cornell bernard is live in san leandro now with the details. cornell? >> larry, a lot of up wanted excitement here today. this is san leandro towing where the front gate has been repaired and a suspect rammed the gates early this morning driving a stolen tow truck. that suspect was finally stopped by police. he's now in jail. a stolen tow truck blows through the bay bridge toll plaza with police in hot pursuit and the chase following 24-year-old suspect moses miller looked more like a motorcade escort coming off the lower deck of the bridge into san francisco. >> took the truck and rammed right through the gate and not much you can do. >> reporter: toeing owen e butch archuleta said he was going in to retrieve his chef silverado pickup impounded by police and miller was driving without a license. he used the flatbed tow truck to ram the gates and a tow truck driver heard the commotion and tried to stop him. >> and the driver jumped in forklift and blocked the vehicle in and he wound up taking our tow truck instead. >> reporter: after the brimming the po

i'm cornell barnard in for chris wisconsin. let's start with the weather with meteorologist lisa argen. hey, lisa. >> good morning. more cold weather to come. nice and clear on the visibility. no issues. temperatures continue to drop before sunrise. already in the upper 30s from napa to santa rosa. 36 in morgan hill. and this is certainly cooler than it was yesterday. itit will be warmer this afternoon. the early sunset 4:51. look for more changes for the second half of the weekend. details in a few minutes. >> lisa, thank you so much. breaking news out of oakland this morning where a three-alarm fire damaged at least one building. the fire started around is 11:30 last night on 31st avenue and international boulevard. one person inside says the building house was 18 people who uses it as an artist collective. about 50 people were inside last night when the fire started. he was treated on the scene tore some minor injuries. he tells us he's unsure if one of his friends made it out safely. >> i haven't seen him. i'm hoping for th

cornell. >> reporter: as many as eight families could be displaced from this fire. after the fire swept through at a apartment townhouse on laguna street we're near downtown concord. sky 7 hd was over the fire which started just before 2:00 p.m. the fire swept through eight units and two people we're told by the fire department had to be rescued off of their balconies and the smoke and flame for that and a 5-year-old girl suffered some smoke inhalation and she was taken to a nearby hospital and we were told her injuries are not major and show will be okay. 22 people in all displaced from their homes tonight. the cause of the fire still under investigation but there is quite a large scene and just if you came back live and past these fire trucks and a lot of people out and what happened and when they can return. no word on that. we're live in concord, cornell bernard, abc 7 news. >> now to the cold snap hitting the bay area. if you live in the ignacio valley and felt like you were freezing, you are right. izy cars and plants hand those working in the cold were certai

then as they approach the cone tell hear these very unusual sounds that were obtained from the cornell orinthology lab. >> we have the largest recording of birds, mammals, frogs and insects and a huge library of videos. so this is an absolutely perfect opportunity for us to team up with a world renown, very creative inspirational artist and put the sounds and sights of the animals that we study into a brand-new context, a context that really allows people to appreciate an esthetic way of the idea that we might live in the world without these sounds or sites. >> in the scientific realm it is shifting baselines. we get used to less and less, diminished expectations of what it was. >> when i came along lobsters six feet long and oysters 12 inches within they days all the oyster beds in new york, manhattan, the harbor would clean the water. so, just getting people to wake up to what was just literally there 200 years ago, 150 years ago. you see the object and say what is that. you come out and hear these intriguing sounds, sounds like i have never heard in my life. and then you step closer

i'm cornell barnard. good morning, lisa. >> good morning.and the visibility. where it is reduced along the coast. three quarters inch in half moon bay. heaviest along the coastal hills. look at bodega bill, a heavy cell there to the beach. penngrove, and as i widen the view you notice not much going on yet in napa or fairfield or elsewhere. but but we have mist and drizzle as you head south down through san francisco, along the golden gate bridge, the richmond san rafael bridge. we numbered the system a 2 on the storm impact scale with the urban areas anywhere from a third inch to an inch in santa rosa. as i said before the coastal hills will see the heaviest rain. 60 in haywood. there's the golden gate bridge. the front pushes through midmorning, and scattered showers this afternoon. we will time it out for you. you are going to get your tree today, do some holiday shopping, it may be a better idea to postpone it for late today or tomorrow. i'll show you why in a few minutes. >> lisa, thank you. a reminder, you can track the storms on live

reporter cornell bernard tweeted a photo showing the effects of recent rain and the coming king tide.ht at 5:00 cornell talks to people planning for the tied and return of heavy rain. >>> and laura anthony tweeted that people are pouring in to play their respects to the 36 people who died at the ghost ship warehouse and at 5:00 the special tribute people have for tonight. >>> and donald trump's inner circle continues to take shape with another general for a top position and however the president-elect is focused on the cia findings that the russia hackers impacted the election in his favor. abc 7 news reporter karen strafrs live with the later. >> reporter: good afternoon. the cia said russia did this hacking to help elect donald trump but some other officials in the u.s. intelligence community say they expect that russia expected little hill to win in november and they were doing this to weaken her when she took office. now, the big question here in washington for lawmakers and analysts is what does the u.s. do next to send a message? growing calls for a thorough investigation into r

. >> good morning, cornell. we have chilly temperatures outside. mount tam, 39 to 50. 50 in san francisco. temperatures are frosty still. not much recovery yet. we're looking at 44 in oakland, you drop down to 41 this morning, 43 in san jose, gilroy still at 35. vollmer peak, fairfield and livermore, 41, so this is certainly the coldest morning we've seen in a while, 11 degrees cooler than yesterday. and 9 degrees cooler, beach, plenty of 60s, warmest day out of the next seven. we begin to feel the warmup by noontime. the winds have dialed back, the december sun should feel good and early sun set. rain and frosty temperatures to talk about. >>> lisa, thank you. in other news, san francisco police say an important clue that may help them track down the driver in a violent hit and run crash. it happened earlier this week on potero avenue, right next to san francisco general. sergio quintana has that story. >> reporter: at first glance, dana looks like she is recovering from her injuries, but when you look closer, you notice her bruised eye and a seri

podcast and maria teresa kumar and cornell belcher.was the new deal, we have nothing to fear but fear itself. if you go to john f. kennedy, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. let me play you lyndon johnson's branding of the democratic party in 1964 at the university of michigan. >> we have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful siety but upward to the great society. the great society rests on abundance and liberty for all. it demands an end to poverty and racial injustice to which we are totally committed to in our time. >> let's fast forward to january 8th, 2008, when barack obama, then senator, after losing in new hampshire to hillary clinton. >> when we have faced down impossible lies, when we have been told that we are not ready or we shouldn't try or that we can't, generations of americans have responded with a simple creed that sums up the spirit of the people, yes, we can. yes, we can. yes, we can. >> i want to go around the panel and start with you,

. >> cornel west exchange of all the victims to a nearby hospital, their conditions are not known or searching for the suspects. find a suspect to escape from fairview hospital glassy run into the woods in the rocky river reservation is about 5-foot 11, baldhead and they sa he has on a prison jumpsuit see one laurie hoerrie two people david calhoun junior is armed and dangerous also goes to believe that he shot there i revealed lashawn sanders and sara marsh while they were in a car on henderson in ravenna township sheriff says it was no a random shooting suspect the above victims if you have information his whereabouts contact the portage county sheriff's dept. >> a former ridgefield officer sentenced to years probation fo stealing money from the shop with a cop program michael simmons the guilty to grab thef in october they say he took money over six years of the charity resolve personal use on top of ovation he was ordered t complete 500 hours of kielty service and pay $50,000 they change as coach of the eas bank of the flats, a popular local brewery and restaurant to be moving in

then as they approach the cone tell hear these very unusual sounds that were obtained from the cornell orinthology lab. >> we have the largest recording of birds, mammals, frogs and insects and a huge library of videos. so this is an absolutely perfect opportunity for us to team up with a world renown, very creative inspirational artist and put the sounds and sights of the animals that we study into a brand-new context, a context that really allows people to appreciate an esthetic way of the idea that we might live in the world without these sounds or sites. >> in the scientific realm it is shifting baselines. we get used to less and less, diminished expectations of what it was. >> when i came along lobsters six feet long and oysters 12 inches within they days all the oyster beds in new york, manhattan, the harbor would clean the water. so, just getting people to wake up to what was just literally there 200 years ago, 150 years ago. you see the object and say what is that. you come out and hear these intriguing sounds, sounds like i have never heard in my life. and then you step closer

now in '95, bill clinton let the president of taiwan give a speech at cornell. george w. bush allowed the president of taiwan to visit in transit to countries in latin america. you would think this is the biggest, i guess, presidential faux pas because he took a congratulatory phone call from the president of taiwan. dick cheney said trump request transcend the media. he doesn't need these guys anymore. for example, does cnn really deserve a seat after being caught colluding with the clinton campaign? does nbc deserve a seat in the white house press office and dealing with the press secretary when we know they have an institutional bias or is it time top throw them all out and start over? >> well, those are two different questions. let me say first of all about taiwan. this was a deliberate well thought out specific signal. he accepted a phone call from the freely elected head of a democracy of 23 million people. and frankly, if it's okay for president obama to go down and hang out with the castro dictatorship, it ought to be okay for donald trump to talk to a democracy a

university, cornell tweeted out congratulations and can't wait to meet you in the fall. >> that's the excitement we want to see for higher education. ch we countdown the days until one of the oldest tunes came out on top in the polling institute survey. that's a long name. silent night, a classic dating back to 1818 took the top spot with more than 50% of people listing it as their favorite. next up early berlin's white christmas with 48% followed by jingle bells and rounding up the top five were come all ye faithful and joy to the world.>>> how to keep religious traditions alive when you are fighting for your life. we speak to the local holocaust survivor who shares his story.>>> >>> we're 12 days away from a hanukkah and a silver spring man preparing to celebrate with his family for a weighty celebrated during the holocaust. >> tonight is a tradition that he shared with his faith.>> reporter: he says his father owned the dairy farm and they were well off but like that in four hours he and his family found his family poor in a dark room of a jewish ghetto outside of germany. in every

in san francisco, cornell bernard 7 news. >> time to turn to our weather did www.rew. >> we are tracking our fix!nex round of rain and with this next round we get decent downpo in the pre-dawn hour moderate system moving through. tracking it all and the action is winding back up. we go in tighter head to the south bay. we see milpitas. the fremont light returns at this hour. light green you see on the screen as we head north couple light showers moving on shore in the north bay. light rain around mill valley north of novato. heaviest rain around santa rosa, guerneville and all this will slowly sink to the south along with more energy that brings heavy downpour in the overnight hour. san rafael camera dotted with drops and that's how it looks first thing tomorrow morning. early on saturday you want the rain gear. other thing to notice it's mild out there. look at these numbers. nice south wind and combination of cloud cover overhead keeping us on the rather warm side. numbers you see right now. these are the afternoon high this time of the year. 61 currently in san

cornell bernard shows you a team effort under way to help. and trying to find permanent housing in pricey san francisco. >> times where it was just, it was hard. but, i -- a smile on my face. keep it going. >> help is on the way. now is your time -- to come forward. and to get every child in san francisco into a home. >> sales for ceo and philanthropist challenging others to match his $10 million donation to make family homelessness a thing of the past. >> you can see there are zip codes in san francisco that really can be destinations for kids and success. and attend san francisco public schools. he's teaming up with the heading home campaign. a $30 million partnership with hamilton families, an organization already providing housing assistance. and what they can afford today. and provide a subsidy. >> the program is working. 95% of families, don't return to homeless not. and permanent housing through the program. >> i just wanted to have a christmas with my son in our own home. >> other parts of homelessness are going to be more difficult w

joining us now, cornell belcher, of brilliant research and strategies.he is the author of the new book "a black man in the white house." as the votes keep coming in and being count, and you see the three states that donald trump just mentioned, he won in each one of those states by less than 1% of the vote, and margins that are getting narrower in these final counts every day. so it seems like at best there were some very tiny chips in the top of the blue wall that needed to be repaired, and maybe the only repair you need is a candidate who's not subject to fbi investigation in the last couple of weeks of a campaign where you get hit with two different fbi public statements about that candidate. >> well, a couple things. one is, and thanks for having me on, lawrence. i love your show. one is, the outcome of the, of the race was catastrophic for a lot of, for a lot of people. but if you get inside and look internally, this is not a sea change election. quite frankly, if you look at where he is right now, he doesn't even have the vote that mitt romney got,

here's lisa argen. >> hey, cornell. that's right. it may be some of your little friends have their sweaters on, the dogs going for a walk, because it is certainly cold out. still, with the sunshine, here is a live look outside, where you see nothing blue skies. half moon bay has dropped to 36. san jose, 36, mountain view, upper 30s, oakland has dropped into the mid 30s, and speaking of oakland, a live look from emeryville, and freezing in livermore, a few degrees, awfully cold in hayward this morning. numbers any where from 12 to 14 degrees colder by the bay. so your forecast, in san jose this afternoon, everywhere else in the low 30z. we'll detail the week leading up to christmas and hanukah coming up in a few minutes. >>> san francisco police is holding a gun buy back event, hosting in the soma neighborhood, $100 will be given out forehand guns, $200 for semi-automatic weapons, with no questions asked. the buy back runs from 8:00 until noon on howard between sixth and seventh streets. >>> after eight years, president obama has less

had his entire family and friends and his school holding his breath to see if he was accepted into cornell, the ivy league university. he is the first member of his family to go to an ivy league school and his only the six person to go to an ivy league from his college prep school. he plans to study animal science to become a veterinarian. firefighters in california pulled off an extreme rescue. check out these firefighters taking the tax to ice to save this 500-pound moose from the ice. it took firefighters on the land to pull him out and he ran off to safety. >> one of my least favorite things is shoveling snow. your freezing and sweating and it's terrible start to finish. take a look at david from wisconsin. he's found a temporary solution. he's hover board and well shoveling. i'm pretty impressed he has a wiped out in the hover board hasn't caught on fire. it's a win-win. >> we are on a journey today to save one life, if we can. >> we have treatment waiting for him. if you have a chance to change something would you be open to (my hero zero by lemonheads) zero really can be a hero. get

abc7 reporter cornell bernard has more. >> it was a sudden closer no one saw coming.s a former kitchen employee in san bruno. he got a text december 26th saying don't come to work. the restaurant chain was closing its doors for good. >> we waited for the money. >> gusto just got his last paycheck. but some of his former co-workers say they have not been paid and many still have personal attempts inside that they can't retrieve. >> i have my stuff inside. i don't know what's going to happen right now. >> the restaurant chain's finances are in question. this notice on the door of the san bruno cafe demands $19,000 in back rent for december. we found a similar notice on the door of this san jose restaurant. 18,000 in rent was never paid. the property management company told us off-camera they were shocked to see it vanish overnight. wendy's posted this note on the door asking laid off employees to apply with them. the chain is hiring across the bay area, especially in the south bay, where this new restaurant needs workers. >> we are offering $13 an hour for crewmembers s

i'm cornell barnard in for chris nguyen. it's cold out there. here's meteorologist lisa argen. >> good morning. we have the freeze warning for most neighborhoods and a frost advisory closer to the bay. as we look at doppler 7 you notice we aren't picking up any precip but temperatures are ranging from freezing conditions from santa rosa, mountain view, and morgan hill 32. and livermore 33 and in concord. this morning even colder than yesterday. 7 to 15 degrees cooler. freeze warning until 8:00 and that's for the north bay, the east bay and south bay interior valleys. we should see temperatures drop further and a frost advisory right around here closer to the bay. so it's going to be frosty again tonight. we will talk about when we get out of this freeze and if we have any precip in our future. >> lisa, thank you so much. breaking news overseas this morning. a tsunami threat has been issued following a powerful magnitude 7.9 earthquake offer the coast of new guinea. the quake struck just before 3:00 this morning our time. it's the blue dot. the q

cornell bernard shows you a team effort under way to help. and trying to find permanent housing in pricey san francisco. >> times where it was just, it was hard. but, i -- a smile on my face. keep it going. >> help is on the way. now is your time -- to come forward. and to get every child in san francisco into a home. >> sales for ceo and philanthropist challenging others to match his $10 million donation to make family homelessness a thing of the past. >> you can see there are zip codes in san francisco that really can be destinations for kids and success. and attend san francisco public schools. he's teaming up with the heading home campaign. a $30 million partnership with hamilton families, an organization already providing housing assistance. and what they can afford today. and provide a subsidy. >> the program is working. 95% of families, don't return to homeless not. and permanent housing through the program. >> i just wanted to have a christmas with my son in our own home. >> other parts of homelessness are going to be more difficult w

blanca: el momento en que se enterÓ que habÍa ingresado a cornell fue captado por uno de los celularestros hijos, pero la educaciÓn es algo que definitivamente podemos darles. dice su mamÁ, que lo trajo de repÚblica dominicana los nueve aÑos y se asegurÓ que siguiera sus estudios. >> lo he utilizado como motivaciÓn para trabajar duro y un recordatorio que tengo que hacer ciertas cosas y poder, bÁsicamente complementarlo que ella ha hecho por mÍ. blanca: ingreso al colegio reciÉn inaugurado hace cinco aÑos y es la primera clase que postula a la ciudad. el colegio estÁ ubicado en harlem, son 65 los estudiantes que cursan el Último grado de secundaria, el 65% de ellos son de origen hispano. quienes presenciaron este escenario -- escena dicen que fue un momento inolvidable. ocurriÓ en este salón, ver un jrecoger los frutos, es algo muy es algo muy especial. jorge: maravillosa historia, y por supuesto, nosotros padres inmigrantes que queremos que nuestros hijos vivan mejor que nosotros. gracias, buenas noches, nos vemos maÑana. [mÚsica] [mÚsica] >> ahora estÁ usted bien informado, noticiero

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cornell bernard is in pacifica with the story. >> i think there was something that was waiting to happens to walk on the beach, but now she can't get there. the only coastal access route off esplanade avenue was wiped out after a 30-foot section of the concrete path buckled and collapsed into the pacific during recent storms. >> it's terrible. a lot of the people are really scared. those who live close to the ocean and the properties, their values are going down. >> reporter: abc 7 news viewer dave moorhouse shared drone video showing a large green pipe now exposed. a clear view through the hole down to the surf. >> it didn't take el nino to do this. >> reporter: feet away, morers underneath the apartment building at 310 esplanade has crumbled, putting it even closer to the edge. >> so this succession thection out thursday. >> reporter: he used to live here until the city yellow tagged the building last winter and demolished two other buildings on esplanade last march after erosion made them unsafe to occupy. now. >> now a foot path has failed. >> these cliffs are primarily sandstone and