david louis, abc 7 news.tle over the effort to recall governor newsom it turned into a battle over which psychodrama the other today. [crowd chanting] anchor: a couple of recall supporters tried to upstage the known the recall side during a no on the bus tour during the peninsula today. as you can see, the congress was right in the middle of the scrum, which seemed good natured for the most part. vice president kamala harris will be hitting the campaign trail with governor newsom. the campaign announced that you are going to appear together next friday at an event in the bay area. you can check out the documentary about california's last recall in 2003 called total recall. you will find on the abc 7 bay area news app available for apple tv and other devices. anchor: abc 7 news is committed to building a better bay area. among other issues, we are focused on climate change and the environment. the u.s. secretary of energy toward it berkeley energy lab and a solar powered home today as part of her push to use m

david louis, abc 7 news. sandhya: air quality in lake tahoe is the worst in north right now. side-by-side of two cameras shows you the conditions. you can see great haze hanging in the air. smoke from the caldor fire instructing down to tahoe. hazardous and it is at 600. to see it is awful. larry: is this likely to continue? >> it is because two of the main factors are the proximity of lake tahoe to the bigbr pushingr from here, smokelo the pattern e set up now, this study onshore breeze which is good for us, cleansing our air quality, a refreshing breeze improving air quality through tomorrow, but nds and --rnhae ur weakens. looking at green dots and yellow dots throughout the bay area, good tomorrow air quality, the darker color around lake tahoe indicating unhelpful -- unhelpful to hazardous air quality. 21n san francisco, 36 these numbers indicate good, 50 to 100 is moderate. san jose is moderate. lake tahoe, earlier when i put this together, the index was 309. now it is five to 600 depending on where you are in lake tahoe, but is very hazardous to your health. the surfac

in san jose, david louis. dan: embattled santa clara county sheriff laurie smith was hit with a no-confidence vote cast by the entire county board of supervisors. the board voiced their displeasure with the scandals that have rocked the sheriff's office under smith's tenure. the resolution is symbolic, since the sheriff is elected, so the board cannot do anything about that. smith said she will not step down. kristen: turnout is expected to be light in today's special election to fill the assembly seat. state attorney general rob bonta. they will choose between his wife, mia bonta, and social justice attorney junot he rummage on grin. the winner will represent st. andrew and alameda when the term expires. dan: let's turn our attention to the weather forecast. spencer is watching weather conditions. also in the sierra. spencer: winds posing problems for firefighters and people in the path of the fire. in the bay area, we are experiencing a different pattern. continuing onshore breeze. it is cooling us down and

abc7 news reporter david louis shows us what santa clara county is doing to implement this new initiative help build a better bay area. david: santa clara county is already diverting millions of pounds of food from being wasted thanks to second harvest food bank and other groups that redistribute it. in four months, a new climate law aimed at reducing carbon emissions from discarded food takes effect statewide. >> it is a real opportunity to get food to people that need it and divert food that could be in -- be eaten from the waste stream instead of thrown away. david: the initiative will cast a wider net to include grocery stores and restaurants to stop tossing out nutritious food. it will be a new mindset for many of them. >> they have to make sure it either gets sold or ends up with an organization that can redistribute that. it is a new way of thinking and could have a huge impact in making sure food is not wasted. david: social service groups, churches, and food pantries long depended on surplus food. volunteers have been key to sort and distribute it. now there will be even more foo

david louis, abc 7pposition to the decision to play officers in oakland to combat the spike in violence was requested by the mayor. the plan calls for officers to assist oakland police in patrolling high crime areas. community groups against the move say ringing in the c.h.p. will not reduce crime. dan: conditions seem to get tougher for crews battling the massive dixie fire burning mostly in butte county and plumas county. >> today we have a red flag warning for southwest wind gusts up to 30 miles per hour. that is coming out of this direction, southwest winds pushing to the northeast. dan: that red flag warning runs through 10:00 tomorrow evening, just another major obstacle for crews doing all they can perceive structures in the area. the dixie fire exploded over the weekend, burning another 27 thousand acres, bringing the total acreage for 570,000. more than 1100 structures destroyed and thousands more are still threatened. the fire is just 31% contained, so we are by no means near the end of this. you can see live updates of all the fires burning in california with our interactive

david louis shows you how a san francisco company is building a better bay area.orter: you are not alone if the wildfires, covid health concerns, returning to the office, and even caregiving have stressed you out. san francisco bay's health has been working for three years creating a database that allows artificial intelligence to detect your stress level. >> that is internal reflection of your mental state. reporter: by answering some questions from categories you pick, algorithms developed from input from more than 15,000 adult test subjects can deliver a report in a minute or two. >> based on the patient's speech, it allows you to see what is the risk of this person having a mental state, in our case, loneliness, depression, anxiety. reporter: will is not meant to replace a doctor. instead, it provides an barley snapshot leading to a care plan. it can be used to track progress. researchers and health providers have found people from 18 to 80 are comfortable with the process. >> we have seen in our clinical practice is people opened up more when they are talking

reporter: david louis, abc7 news.nger tony bennett canceling his tour scheduled to start next month and did not include california dates. last week the 95 world performed in two shows with lady gaga, announced as his last new york performances. no reason was given for the cancellation, but his family revealed he has be battling alzheimer's for nearly five years. larry: that is too bad. he still has an incredible voice. kristen: some excitement from hollywood. >> a bit of a pinch me moment. larry: kristen: tonight on abc7 at 8:00 , holy moly, abc7 ryan reynolds tackles a new hero in "free guy," perfect for this film. >> my name is guy. >> a background character in a videogame becomes a free guy in a movie released three finishedg the premier especially meaningful for ryan reynolds. what is going through your head and heart standing here? >> it is a bit of a pinch me moment. reporter: the film's release may have been delayed by the pandemic, but the director said it made "free guy" more relevant. >> we made it in the sp

david louis tells us how you can sign up and what is expected back from the free ride. vid: it's a big step forward for waymo. they launched a san francisco test program inviting adults to apply on its mobile app to hail rights for free in its electronic jaguar suv in exchange for feedback. >> we want to make sure we get a diverse set of opinions and feedback. this is the right step for us because it is an important part of being able to make sure we build a product that satisfies the needs of the communities where we operate. david: while the suv is operating autonomously using cameras and litter technology, a driver will remain at the wheel to intervene if needed. waymo has been operating a similar test with passengers for two years outside of phoenix, but san francisco's sometimes narrow and congested streets will be more challenging. the volume of pedestrians and bicycles will add complexity. the trusted tester program will be amended to certain neighborhoods such as sunset, richmond and castro. it's a big step to making autonomous vehicle ridesharing a viable commer

david louis shows us how a special partnership was formed. d: every child was impacted by the pandemic. maybe it was a lack of exercise, or academic challenges. in san francisco's visitation valley, special partnership has been formed, linking parents, teachers and nonprofit groups. alicia stevens has a nine-year-old daughter starting fourth grade this week. >> matter how difficult things get, they have someone or somewhere they can rest, if they feel like mom is not the best at it. david: they have run neighborhood youth programs for 27 years and launched a study to set priorities. students listed social emotional learning as their top priority. families and nonprofits listed academics at the top of their list. teachers put mental health concerns first. kurt is the exact of director. >> we want to have an even balance between three of those to get started and not just emphasize one over the others. david: kids are under pressure to excel but she will monitor needs closely. >> academic needs are important but if we need to just let me know, so

education is key part of building a better bay area and david louis shows you how a- a inputo use. r nond at woodside priory, all students will have an app that will trace with whom they have been in close contact in case someone develops symptoms or confirms a case of the virus called trace, and it is designed for schools. >> they forget who they had lunch with yesterday, who they interacted with in the classroom a few days before, and so being able to provide more reliable information and quicker can really remove that human error from the contact tracing process. david: it uses bluetooth to track proximity allowing a school nurse or administrator to narrow down who might be a risk without closing down an entire classroom or campus. >> they provided us that confidence that if there was tracing that we needed to do, we had really clear kind of unequivocal data that we could use. david: it collects contact details for 14 days and then is deleted, laying privacy concerns. >> parents had concerns but they felt confident -- comfortable incompetence, but that is a good check for us. da

abc7 news reporter david louis shows us what santa clara county is doing to help build a better bay area santa clara county is diverting millions of pounds of food from being listed -- being wasted thanks to group that redistribute it. a new climate law aimed at reducing carbon emissions from discarded food takes effect statewide. >> it is a new opportunity to get food to people that need it and divert food that could be in the waste stream instead of thrown away. david: w -- a wider net will be cast to include grocery stores and restaurants. it will be a new mindset for many of them. >> they have to make sure it either gets sold or ends up with an organization that can redistribute that. it is a new way of thinking and could have a huge impact in making sure food is not wasted. david: social service groups, churches, and food pantries long depended on surplus food. now meet growing demand. >> we believe with food being made available, we will be able to motivate and get the resources out there so the food can be distributed to the needy. david: teams this summer have already been reachi

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david louis looks at the trends and how their some ways to stretch your budget. >> families are facinges as the school year starts. kids outgrowing clothing, and pajamas will not cut it in the classroom. it is time to start shopping for back-to-school clothing. back-to-school spending is expected to hit $37 billion this year/u[$4 billion -- year. up $4 billion from last year. the remainder is for electronics and shoes. retailers are busy promoting new styles, keying in to work something fun and fashionable. there's always uncertainty whether the rising number of covid cases might cause a last-minute return to remote learning. walmart is prepared. >> we are trying to be prepared to meet those demands and offer items that are used at the home for school, or used in the classroom for schools. reporter: what shoppers might find disappointing is few sales. amanda is with the retailing consulting firm. >>erss promotional. they know people will be shopping for clothing, so they don't have to have sales. they are trying to make up for last year. reporter: shoppers will find deals at thrift sto

david louis found many of them hoping to break into a more secure future in tech, taking such a risk as part of the changing economy that we focus on in our effort to build a better bay area. >> reporter: over 2.5 million jobs were lost as the pandemic took hold. it caused some to seek a more secure future than the service sector. bartender ruben lopez took that leap. >> it was definitely scary at first but i had faith in myself and my ability to do the work and i just took that leap. >> reporter: he took coding classes and was asked to join the apprenticeship program at a private training program that works with employers and funders to address the need for more diversity in tech. >> it takes willing to break the mold and create new pathways for internships, apprenticeships so that it is not just one way and one avenue for people to enter the tech workforce. >> reporter: the program is opening a door to some whose life has had setbacks and challenges. lopez never went to college. >> i was full of anger. i was very resentful. that wasn't going to get me anywhere. >> reporter: bitwise

days after david was shot and killed in st. louis she called for defunding the police and st.efunded the police $4 million in 2020. they had the highest homicide rate in 50 years and murders are surging in st. louis county. that's a tough neighborhood. i travel a lot. that district in st. louis was the toughest neighborhood i have ever been to. >> [overlapping talking]. >> i have to blame the people of st. louis. they voted her in and took a loud mouth off the streets and put her in congress. she is a professional protestor. she cut her teeth in the ferguson deal. mike brown hands up and don't shoot. that was a career. she was out in front of the mccloskey's home with a bull horn screaming you can't stop the revolution and praised antifa for all of the work they did in ferguson which burned to a crisp. she said if the january 6th rioters were black they would be shot dead. there was someone shot dead. ashli babbitt who was white. i looked at her profile on social media it's a mess. she does the pronouns there. it's all for attention. she is on netflix in a squad documentary. e

louis, shot four police officers that night, killed a retired police captain, david dorn. onth between when they stormed st. louis when they stormed my house they shot a total of nine police officers in st. louis and i'm supposed to believe they are nonviolent? >> sean: i would say that's not the definition of nonviolence. you're running for the u.s. senate. tell us about it. >> i sure am. that was kind of an awakening. as i said before, god came knocking on my door disguised as an angry mob. the most important thing was that after that i went to work with the trump campaign and going around the country, we were doing, on the team trump bus in pennsylvania, seven rallies a day and getting out there and talking to the folks around the country. we learned that everybody is just really upset with the status quo. sick of cancel culture and critical race theory and the lie of systemic racism. they want some real change. i was listening to mark levin. it's time, as he called them, or tough guy republicans to actually stand up and make a difference. not just talk about problems bu

. >> reporter: republicans opposed david shipman's nomination for his support for gun-control. >> member the st. louisrotesters last summer? they just received a pardon for missouri governor mike parson but not everyone is elevating the news. >> there are pardons we've been asking for, pardons that should actually happen in missouri and that was not one. i would not stand by and allow him or our government to hurt the very people doing the work they should be doing. >> st. louis attorney in missouri senate gop candidate mark mccloskey. thanks for being on the show. you heard corey blessed they, quote, she won't stand by while you get a pardon. are you worried by that threat was last june's event over now? >> she said my they will come. she may direct threat but if she thinks she can intimidate us she's mistaken. when she was standing outside my fence chanting into a megaphone you can't stop the revolution, she has the gall to stand up in the halls of congress and say anyone who supports insurrection shouldn't be allowed to walk the halls of congress, she's the only one i know who advocated the violent

david. also breaking tonight, missouri republican governor mike harr sons is pardoning the st. louisancing demonstrators. he and his wife pleaded guilty to misdemeanors. they say they felt threatened by these protesters and that the marchers were trespassing on a private street. now to the border crisis, fox news has s. told the border patrol is overwhelmed with many agents pulled from the field so they can help with paperwork and the crowds just keep coming. correspondent bill melugin reports tonight from la joya, texas. >> the summer surge is ramping up here in the rio grande valley. in la joya monday evening a gleeful group of migrants celebrates reaching the united states as thousands continue spilling across the border every day. and once again, fox's drone right over the bridge in mission today showing hundreds of migrants still waiting to be processed by border patrol. this as the federal government says preliminary numbers show there will be a staggering 210,000 migrant encounters in our southern border just in the month of july. that would be a new 20-year record high. cbp d

louis that resulted in the life of david dorn being lost.eing pardoned for the charges brought against them. it was cori bush who was leading the marches against patty and mark mccloskey there at their homes not once but twice. now she is a member of the united states congress and sitting on the house judiciary committee call for more violence, obviously. call for defunding of the police. so when you look at the left and how the democrat party has become so radicalized they have someone that led violent marches, a member of their body up in washington, d.c. steve: well, talking about violence. she said she has already spent $70,000 on private security and would spend 200,000 on private security to keep her safe. but, you wonder where is that money coming from as a member of coming you know she is only paid $147,000 a year. how is she going to pay for $200,000 worth of private security. >> well, when you have people like robert francis o'rourke here in texas blank rolling the texas democrats to go up there and have a vacation in washington, d

david reynolds. i want to especially acknowledge our gratitude for nick gilder for all he did including through his support of the lincoln prize and a wish to thank louisrman for his vision and leadership and commitment to improving our understanding of the world in the studies of our past and lastly a big thank you to all of you so much for joining us in a special event in a tour to seeing you at the gettysburg college in the years ahead. take care now. >> thank you bob. i'm a senior in new york city and member of the student advisory council of the gilder lehrman institute for history. i'm pleased to announce i've been accepted into three colleges including syracuse university manhattan college and i am a college and will start soon in the fall but i'm honored to take the next that. lincoln prizewinner martha hodes suppressed besser of history at new york university winner of the 2016 gilder lehrman lincoln prize for her book mourning lincoln. professor sipri will present the finals for the 2020 lincoln prize. take it away martha. >> thank you sebastian and good evening. my name is martha hodes and it's my honor to introduce the finalists for the 202

remember david koch's disastrous bid for vice president on the libertarian party ticket that showed how unappetizing his right-wing extremism was to normal people. and remember the louis powell playbook which advised quote, strength lies in organization and in the political power united through organizations. no one organization needs to get too far out in front and make itself too visible a target. end quote. let intermediaries do that work. big tobacco and the fossil fuel industry have for a long time used coordinated webs of national front groups in their plots to fend off accountability for the dangers of tobacco and carbon emissions. these front group webs grew and multiplied and specialized all while concealing their true interests and funders. they got more numerous and they also got smarter and more strategic over time, polishing up front-group names like the not too subtle tobacco institute to names like the more wholesome sounding heartland institute. it's quite a web. they created science groups to counter real scientific research on public health and climate change with fake science. think tanks to churn out papers and hire sound bite friendly fake experts