had ejected more than 300 miles an hour landing in the everglades. that's a lot of fun, huh? i tell you what, he was back in the cockpit the next week with a new call sign, swamp thang. i asked him inside the oval, what was it like, but i'll tell you about that later. general brown is also a war fighter who's commanded in europe, the middle east and the indo pafblg pacific and he has an un -- indo-pacific and he has an unmatched knowledge of our operational theaters and a strategic vision to understand how they all work together to ensure the security for the american people. and while general brown is a proud butt kicking american airman, first and always he's also been an operational leader in the joint force. he gained respect across every service from those who have seen him in action and have come to depend on his judgment. more than that, he gained the respect of our allies and partners around the world who regard general brown as a trusted partner and a topnotch strategist. no matter how complicated the mission, from helping build and lead the coalition now of more tha

. >> of course it could be reptiles as pythons in the everglades, plant species out competing native ones and they are a huge problem. in fact the comprehensive study of biodiversity and extinction worldwide invasive species was ranked one of the five drivers of the biodiversity and extinction crisis. it is a huge problem. even muscles in the great lakes so there is a lot of examples we know invasive species are fundamental threat to biodiversity. host: reporting on birds worldwide with a volunteer organization how can individuals or people who are hikers or people who fish or hunters, how can a best be engaged on the issue of endangered species? >> federal policy focused and and you get out there and watch birds and hike and follow congress closely from congress and the political threat to endangered species are profound i would urge people who care about nature like to get outside not only watch the birds and look for the animals as they should but ask themselves to figure out what members of congress are doing and those that support endangered species. host: we have several calls

the alligators in everglades national park in florida. >> what do we find this time?or, but asleep, thank heavens. >> reporter: and tonight, 93, visiting all 63 national parks. right here tonight. >> this is grandma joy coming to you from the national park. >> reporter: where she is the oldest person in history to visit every u.s. national park. >> david: a grandmother and her grandson and their inspiring message. >> this has been a wonderful journey, and when you do something younger something like this. it really does. >> david: we all wish we were as cool as grandma joy. see you tomorrow night. >> building a better bay area, moving forward, finding solutions this is abc7 news. >> the outbreak is not over. larry: a warning from the cdc on mpox. plus. >> residents are frustrated. they are frustrated with the high cost of living and quality-of-life issues like homelessness, crime and blight. kristen: the declining bay area. the dwindling population of several bay area cities. larry: thanks for joining us. we begin with the murder of the text executive -- tech executiv

for decades, the river prevented panthers from moving nofrth of the everglades. >> that had been thepanthers had been seen north of that river since 1973. >> so we've had nothing break the beam since last friday. >> reporter: but then a small miracle. somehow a female panther north of the river nicknamed babs. >> she's amazing. >> she's a pioneer. she swam the river. >> reporter: for ward, babs became an obsession. >> why is it so important for you to capture a crystal clear, beautiful image? >> people connect with beauty. people connect with their hearts. and to see the eyes of these panthers and to see the beauty of the habitat and the place where they live. >> reporter: now with their numbers creeping above 200, florida panthers have a new and unlikely ally. yes, cattle ranchers. at least some ranchers, like elton langford. >> protecting the panther also protects your way of life. >> yes, sir, it does. >> reporter: he says the same development that threatens panthers might make ranchers an endangered species. >> if you lose a habitat, you're losing everything, you know? if you thi

anyoneoue torginia.if sit the alligators at everglades national park in florida. >> what did we find >> another alligator, but he's asleep thank heavens. >> right under our feet. >> tonight, at 93, grandma joy and brad have now visited all 63 national parks right here tonight. >> greetings, david, this is grandma joy coming to you. >> she just became the oldest person to visit every national park in the u.s. >> david: and their inspiring message. >> this has been an exciting and wondrous journey. it makes you feel younger when you do something like this. it really does. >> david: we all wish we were as cool as grandma joy and brad. good >> building a better bay area, moving forward, finding solutions this is abc7 news. >> the bay area can no longer claim to be home to the top 10 most populous cities in the country. is it a question of what we lost or what other cities gained? ama: good evening i am ama daetz. dan: the top 10 cities have familiar names but no longer a local one. new york, l.a. and chicago are the top three, houston is the largest of four texas cities san diego comes i

. >> for decades the imposing caloosahatchee river prevented panthers from moving north of the evergladeses. no female panthers have been seen north of that river since 19 1973. >> reporter: but then a small miracle. somehow a female panther north of the river nicknamed babs. >> she is amazing. >> she is a pioneer. she swam the river. >> reporter: for ward, babs became an obsession. >> people connect with beauty. people connect with their hearts. and to see the eyes of these panthers and to see the beauty of the habitat and the place where they live. >> reporter: now with their numbers creeping above 200, florida panthers have a new and unlikely ally. yes, cattle ranchers. at least some ranchers like elton langford. protecting the panther also protects your way of life? >> yes, sir, it does. >> reporter: he says the same deelopment that threatens panthers mate make ranchers an endangered species. >> if you lose in habitat, you lose in everything, you know, if you think about it. we need to do our part adds good stewards of the land. >> reporter: and babs? well, here she is with one of her

she grew up in the small towns, on the outskirts of the everglades near lake okeechobee.ked her, and she liked money. she wanted a rich life. she wanted nice things. >> she was very attractive. long brunette. she had long hair. >> deborah: on the podcast "the killer clown of wellington," the former office manager at bargain motors, suzanne gould, remembers sheila keen, and that she made quite an impression. >> that first encounter with her, never saw her before, and then bam, she's there. the very first time i saw her, i remember her long, dark hair, and she was prettyan very young. >> she was 27 years old. mr. warren was, i think, almost 40. >> sheila keen started working for michael warren as a repo woman. >> she would repossess cars, sometimes in very rough areas, and so she was fearless. >> she repos the cars. michael warren recovers his asset. sheila keen gets paid by the repo that she brings in. >> sheila and michael, they apparently began an affair. the other residents at the complex where sheila lived said "we thought michael and sheila were married, he was there

we had record support for conservation efforts in florida, places like florida everglades and our beaches and our precious habitats. we enacted the death penalty for pedophiles in the state of florida. [applause] we signed legislation blocking the mentation of central-bank digital currency -- implementation of central-bank a digital currency in our state. we went after pharmacy benefit manager middlemen causing your drug prices to be higher. that ended in florida. we increase pay for police officers and fire fighters. we have stiff penalties for anybody dealing fentanyl in our children. they should be treated like the murderous they are and that is going to happen in florida. we ended disney's self-governing status in florida. company does not get their own government. not on our watch. [applause] we passed the strongest measures to combat illegal immigration. we did a record increase for teachers salaries and also parroted that with paycheck protection -- paired that with paycheck protection so there is no automatic deduction for school unions to take money out of the check. [applause] o

you know, i got to go to yellowstone and the olympics in the everglades. we'd have a pontiac and station wagon and a trail or i grew up in northwest ohio, the midwest, and we would then just go see the country and had asthma as a boy. and and it was horrible. and wherever went, i was so reinforced by picking up brochures like we used to do in those days and on it i would sit at the place would saved by theodore roosevelt who also had asthma as a boy and was would suffer mightily. so identified with tr and i realized that he ended up as i did more more looking save 234 million acres, 234 million acres of wild america. he created today's us forest service. you know he all these western national forests or theodore roosevelt he took and created 51 federal bird reservations with executive fiat. they showed him that birds were being slaughtered in florida because. he was a feathers war. anybody coming? hear me speak. between 1910. let's just say circa 1900 would have come this morning if you were a woman here. whether you think you would have or not, you would

the whole idea of corralling people, putting 'em in the krome detention center down in florida evergladeshem can easily leave and go back to haiti. - i think he is possessed with the anger of the exile. i think his family ran away from black people, from brooklyn. - he looks out the window of his manhattan office, he can see across the river to brooklyn where he was born. when he was six, the family moved to the suburbs in long island. - east flatbush was a working-class, middle-class jewish, irish, italian neighborhood that, within a very fast amount of time, like, maybe 15 years, had transitioned to becoming a working-class, lower-middle-class, mainly west indian, also haitian, neighborhood. - i reminded him. i said, "the community that i represent is the community that your forbearers came and lived in." and i said, "we've purchased "their old houses that they didn't take care of. "and we have redone those houses, "and we live in them right now. "and the only thing that have changed in that neighborhood is the accent and the color of the people." - the institutions stay, but the people

had to eject more than 300 miles an hour, landing in the everglades. that's a lot of fun, huh?t week with a new call sign, swamp thang. i asked him inside the oval what it was like, but i'll tell you about that later. general brown is also a war fighter who has commanded in europe, the middle east and the indo-pacific and he has an unmatched firsthand knowledge of our operational theatres and the strategic vision to understand how they all work together to ensure the security for the american people. while general brown is a proud butt-kicking american airman, first and always he's also been an operational leader of the joint force. he gained respect across every service, from those who have seen him in action and have come to depend on his judgment. more than that, he gained the respect of our allies and partners around the world, who regard general brown as a trusted partner and a top-notch strategist. no matter how complicated the mission, from helping build and lead the coalition of more than 80 nations strong to counter isis threats in the middle east, to positioning our a

he's going to say, look, i boosted teacher pay $1 billion, i basically got money for everglades restoration. there are some things on his list of accomplishments in terms of florida that they could try to sell to people in terms of a moderating influence. but i mean, i think the thing is you know the biden campaign, if he in fact is the republican nominee, the biden campaign is going to focus on the culture war stuff. >> no doubt. i'm about to talk about that campaign. gary, great to see you. i appreciate your insight. >> no, thank you for having me on. >>> so let's talk about the other side of the aisle. now to president biden's campaign. does he have a new hampshire problem? for 50 years the nomination process has started in iowa and new hampshire. this year the dnc voted to adopt a schedule suggested by president biden making south carolina the first contest on february 3rd and moving new hampshire to february 6th, the same day as nevada. the idea being to better reflect the demographics of the national electorate and presumably to give president biden an advantage. so far new hampshire

you returned to the basin florida, he had to eject more than 300 miles per hour landing in the evergladesn, huh? well, i tell you what, he is back in the cockpit the next week with a new call sign, swamp thing. new call sign. i asked him inside the oval what it was like, but i'll tell you about that later. general brown is a war fighter who commanded in europe, middle east and indo pacific. has unmatched knowledge of operational theaters and strategic vision to understand how they all work together to ensure the security for the american people. while general brown is a proud butt kicking american airman, first and always, he has been an operational leader of the joint force. he gained respect across every service from those that have seen him in action and come to depend on his judgment. more than that, he gained respect of our allies and partners around the world who regard general brown as a trusted partner and top notch strategist. no matter how complicated the mission, from helping build and lead the coalition now more than 80 nations strong to counter isis threats in the middle east

attract many people to come to florida, because of the business climate, what he did in helping the evergladesgains in the primary. never going to win a general election with these issues. >> victoria, nbc news is reporting that there's been a gusher of cash being spent by all the republicans with presidential ambitions so far. candidates and super pacs have spent $30 million on ads. that's earlier in the season than ever before. >> you need the money in order to start reaching people, the air war, the ground game. at the end of the day, every additional person that enters the race just makes former president trump stronger. earlier this week, we saw senator tim scott get into the race. now we saw ron desantis getting into the race. no matter how much money you are spending, there's still the presence of a donald trump. also, as we know from seeing elections in the past, money by itself can't buy you love. there is also the character of the candidate in addition to the issues. right now, donald trump has a lot of love within his base. >> governor, nbc news broke a story exclusively that employ

, to make sure we clean up supersites, to make sure that the great lakes are cleaned up and the everglades and the coastal parts of america and to get ready for the existential crisis that is upon us now, the climate crisis. we all need to prepare for a clean energy economy. that is why this $1.2 trillion bill is so critically important to the people of america and that is why it was on the top of the president's list. we're going to do this on time, on task and on budget. we're actually getting it done. to date we have announced over $220 billion in funding for over 32,000 projects, reaching over 4500 communities in every state in the nation, all of the territories and d.c. and today we are launching a new map at bill.gov to showcase our progress, not only for the 32,000 specific projects but for the major projects highlighting all the signature projects in all of the states, territories and in d.c. that's a lot of projects and investments in a short period of time so let me dig into some of the details and tell you what that really means. on the president -- under president biden's leade

he helped put through billions of dollars into the everglades.be that is why people keep attacking him. we have wampsd all these candidates get in the race, including the former president. i have never in my life seen people attack the second place guy like they are attacking him with the amount and the velocity and the fervor. what do they see about desantis that is such a threat? >> lawrence: i think it's clear that it's a two-person race right now. it is against desantis vs. donald trump right now. and, look, the governor has a story to tell. unfortunately, i thought the conference call last night was pretty boring. and as someone that travels around the country talking with the voters, there just doesn't seem to be that amount of excitement when it's coming from desantis. especially whether you have someone that was on that conference call yesterday was essentially reading from a script. it was not an ad-lib, talking with folk. kind the like the interview that he did with trey gowdy which i thought was a better format for him. just listening

returned to the base in florida in 1991, he had to eject more than 300 miles per hour landing in the evergladesk in the cockpit the next week with a new call sign, swamp thang. i asked him inside the oval, what was it like? i'll tell you about that later. general brown commanded in europe, the middle east and indo-pacific. and he has an unmatched firsthand knowledge of our operational theaters and a strategic vision to understand how they all work together to ensure the security for the american people. while general brown is a proud butt kicking american airman, he's also been an operational leader in the joint force. he gained respect across every service from those who have seen him in action and have become to depend on his judgment. more than that he gained the respect of our allies and partners around the world who regard general brown as a trusted partner and a top-notch strategist. no matter how complicated the mission, from helping build and lead the coalition now more than 80 nations strong to counter isis threats in the middle east, to positioning our air force for the future in the

we had record support for conservation efforts in four places like the florida everglades and our beachescious habitats. we enacted the death penalty for pedophiles in the state of florida. [applause] we have signed legislation blocking the implementation of a central bank digital currency in our state. we passed and signed landmark toward reform. we went after the pharmacy benefit manager middlemen which are causing your prescription drug prices tour be higher. that ended in florida. we have increased pay for police officers and firefighters. we have stiff penalties for anybody dealing fentanyl to our children. they should be treated like the murderers that they are and that's going tog happen in florida. we ended disney's self-governing status in florida. company doesn't get their own government. not on-g our watch. [applause] w we passed even the "new york times" admitted was the strongest measures to combat illegal immigration anywhere in the country. we did a record increase for teacher salaries but we also compared paired that with paycheck protection so there's no automatic deducti

we had record support for conservation efforts in florida, places like the florida everglades and our beaches and our precious habitats. we enacted the death penalty for pedophiles in the state of florida. ms. [applause] we've signed legislation blocking the implementation of a central bank digital currency in our state. we passed and signed landmark tort reform. we we went after pharmacy benefit manager middlemen which are causing your prescription drug prices to be higher. that ended in florida. we've increased pay for police officers and firefighters. we have stiff penalties for anybody dealing fentanyl to our children. they should be recent thed like the murderers that they are, and that's going to happen in florida. we edged disney's self--- ended disney's self-governing status many florida. a company doesn't get their own government, not on our watch. [applause] we passed what even "the new york times" admitted was the strongest measures to combat illegal immigration anywhere in the country. we did a record increase for teachers' salaries, but we also paired that with paycheck p

guest: they could be either reptiles like pythons in the everglades.y could be plant species that are out competing native ones. they are a huge problem. according to this comprehensive study of biodiversity and extinction worldwide, invasive species was ranked as one of the five drivers of the biodiversity extinction crisis. we know it's a huge problem. zebra mussels in the great lakes are one of them so there are many examples of how we know invasive species are a fundamental threat to biodiversity. host: you mentioned the audubon society and the report on birds worldwide, huge volunteer organization devoted to nature particularly to birds, how can people who are hikers or people who fish or hunters best be engaged on the issue of endangered species? host: most of my work guest: his federal policy focus and legislative and congressional. for me, i get out there and i watch birds, i hike but i also follow congress closely. the threats from congress and the political threat to endangered species are profound. i would urge people who care about nature l