donna crane, adjunct professor of political science at san jose state university. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> and you can watch the presidential debate right here on abc seven tonight. coverage starts at 5:00. and the cnn presidential debate begins at six. up next, drinking water that fails to meet the standards for contaminants. it's a problem in california, as we learn hundreds of water systems, including some in the bay area, are not making the grade. more on that when getting almost are living in areas where the drinking water isn't meeting state safety and reliability standards. this map shows you bay area communities where the water is either failing or at risk of failing to meet the requirements. failing is in red and at risk is in orange. you can see a number of dots, especially clustered around santa rosa, santa cruz, and antioch. joining us live now to talk about this is darren polhemus, deputy director of the division of drinking water at the state water board. darren, thank you for joining us. >> oh my pleasure. >> i gave a couple of numbers the

but it looks like she signed off so we're going to go ahead and bring in donna crane. she's live in joining us now for more perspective on the presidential debate, sir, thank you so much for being here, donna. so, yes, i mean, hate. would love to put that question to you. do you think we're going to get announcement on the vp pick on trump's side? >> oh, boy, i would not attempt to out showman donald trump, but my sense from having watched him as we all have in recent years is that he wouldn't step on his own story. my my guess is he's going to use this as sort of an opportunity to some hype around the pick will have all the potential candidates but he'll announce his decision at a later time. so they get another another bump out of it. >> all right, gotcha. thank you for that. and of course, tonight is expected to be a pretty historic night. the first time a sitting president debates with the former president. this is also a matchup between 2 of the oldest candidates in american history. so so what are some of the major policy issues that you expect the candidates to a

donna crane, political science lecturer at san jose state university and joining us by zoom, tom delm. tom is great to see you for party. chairman of the state republican party. tom's new book, by the way, is the lessons of the american civilization. all right. we don't have a lot of time will be dive and i find it kind of hard to believe few, too, that people have not decided between trump and biden at this point. but post say, yeah, they are up there. so who are these undecideds? donald, start with you in what might they be watching for tonight? well, some of these undecideds are people who just are not that politically engaged right there. it's really early. it's still june. they're not paying that much attention. they don't follow the details of policy fights >> and then others are people who maybe are conflicted. right? we have seen there were obama trump voters. there were hillary trump voters. there were trump biden voters. so they're undecided and they're conflicted time. what do you think? >> we can add that. you have a story numbers who say with concerted different candidat

for more on that, we spoke with political science professor donna crane. >> you know, we'll need to see what the decision is. but my sense is no, i i just think that is that's a process issue. i think it's unlikely to to be just positive one way or another. i just don't think it's going to be that the term itself. >> well, after the about tonight and president is set to go off to north carolina for a campaign tomorrow and trump is going to be rallying with the governor. glenn youngkin in virginia. and you can watch the debate right here on kron 4, starting at 6 o'clock tonight, kron four's catherine heenan is going to be moderating a panel of political analysts both before and immediately after this debate. >> it's not all about girl scout cookies for this troop. how these scouts are taking on gender equality. and we've heard a lot about the fbi raided the open mayor's home. and now we're looking at cow waste solutions is involved and the investigation. but first, fireworks already being heard across the bay had a 4th of can you keep your four-legged friends say got coming up. ♪ hey, co

here's professor donna crane of san jose state university. >> history tells us that the public doesn't make its decision very much based on debates, but it still feels like there's a lot at stake. and i think that there is. but the rules of this debate will most certainly have an impact. >> a mute button will be used by the moderator. so the speaker is able to talk uninterrupted. >> it's going to be interesting. this is the first time, i think, since the 1960 debates between nixon and kennedy, where there's no audience. >> zev yaroslavsky, a longtime los angeles city council member and supervisor, is now a ucla professor. he's a democrat and favors biden. going into this debate, the x factor here is how how trump is going to behave. >> and it's all speculation. i don't think he can control himself for an hour and a half. so if he if he makes a, a spectacle of himself, as he did four years ago, then, i think that hurts him. >> but crane says the rules in place a mute button, and no audience could actually favor trump. >> it's going to prevent him from being so domineering, both over pre

here's professor donna crane of san jose state university. >> history tells us that the public doesn't make its decision very much based on debates, but it still feels like there's a lot at stake. and i think that there is. but the rules of this debate will most certainly have an impact. >> a mute button will be used by the moderator. so the speaker is able to talk uninterrupted. >> it's going to be interesting. this is the first time, i think, since the 1960 debates between nixon and kennedy, where there's no audience. >> zev yaroslavsky, a longtime los angeles city council member and supervisor, is now a ucla professor. he's a democrat and favors biden. going into this debate, the x factor here is how how trump is going to behave. >> and it's all speculation. i don't think he can control himself for an hour and a half. so if he if he makes a, a spectacle of himself, as he did four years ago, then, i think that hurts him. >> but crane says the rules in place a mute button, and no audience could actually favor trump. >> it's going to prevent him from being so domineering, both over pre

donna crane, don, is political science lecturer at san jose state university. welcome donna.e professor, steve fish. steve has a new book out. it is called come back and joining us. i hope he's there by zoom. tom del beccaro. hey, tom, can we see you? the fort there? can see. former chairman of the state republican party and tom has a new book called the lessons >> of the american civilization. all right. >> what did the candidates need to prove tonight? did they do anything to help or hurt themselves? i think i know some of the answers. but, donna, you begin. >> i think a president biden the media narrative that he is old and maybe not in command of. he doesn't have a commanding presence and perhaps not even a full command of material. and that came out of the gate pretty early. will let people listen in a minute. what do you think, steve? i would largely agree with her. >> catherine biden, it was really incumbent upon biden tonight to show the kind of vigor, the kind of a mental acuity that would allay these these concerns about his age. he could have done so by really bein

san jose state professor donna crane says these rules could actually favor trump. >> it's going to prevent him from being so domineering both over president biden and over the moderator. so i'm wondering if that it will just sort of take away some of his more unpleasant tendencies when he debates. those just won't be possible. so, you know, that could that could result in him appearing less, less of a bully. >> crane says she believes president biden is coming into this debate as the underdog. you can watch the presidential debate right here on abc seven tonight. coverage starts at five, and the debate hosted by cnn, begins at 630. >> 508 this morning, we're in the south bay with a live look from our san jose camera. it's looking lovely out there. we do have clear skies this morning. not nearly as cloudy as we were yesterday. 57. that current temperature in san jose. great visibility and high humidity. right now. taking a look at our highs today versus average a very similar story to yesterday a few areas below average, a few areas above average. but for the most part we're pretty close to

san jose state professor donna crane says these rules could actually favor trump. >> it's going to prevent him from being so domineering both over president biden and over the moderator. so i'm wondering if that it will just sort of take away some of his more unpleasant tendencies when he debates. those just won't be possible. so, you know, that could that could result in him appearing less, less of a bully. >> crane says she believes president biden is coming into this debate as the underdog. you can watch the presidential debate right here on abc seven tonight. coverage starts at five, and the debate hosted by cnn, begins at six, 6 to 8. >> this morning. let's take you to our exploratorium camera right now where that sun is up. you can see a partly cloudy sky from this vantage point. we have a cloudy coast right now. some clouds around the bay shoreline, but winds are certainly active across parts of the area this morning, especially san francisco. look at these winds gusting 35mph. concord, fairfield, rio vista between 10 and 20mph. and just like yesterday, the winds will increase area