>> the state of hawaii and dbedt on the back of the screen. well, you got you. have this one too. >> we got it right there. give you a chance to say. >> though, james tokioka, director of the hawaii department of business, economic development and tourism. thank you so much. mahalo. >> thank you very much, christine. have a great day. tell larry biel we said hello in hawaii. >> all right, we'll do it. happens to many of us. you're scrolling on your phone and you see an ad for something you didn't even know existed, but can't live without. up next, the this wednesday ahead of tax day. get your questions answered by tax professionals by sending them in now. just go to abc seven news.com and click seven on your side and you'll find the form right there. then watch on wednesday right here on abc seven. the bay area has some work to do when it comes to closing the gender pay gap between men and women. troc info net compiled new data in honor of women's history month. it found san jose ranks fourth on the list of large u.s. cities with an earnings gap. women earn $0.7

yeah, i, i'm originally from hawaii and i appreciate the hawaii anecdotes and leaders you feature in the book. and i'll never forget early on in my career as an education reporter and i started reporting on education in hawaii, i visited this school called navajo colonial pew. and it's a hawaiian immersion school on the big island, hawaii. numbers mean they teach and learn exclusively in hawaiian. and this is it's an official language in hawaii, but it's one that in the seventies was on the brink of extinction because of the legacy of assimilation and oppression and colonization. and that that defined hawaii for. four generations. and this the school, it it it got a zero on the state accountability test like its students all got a zero and that was because they were dumb it was because they boycotted it because the state accountability test was only offered in english. mm hmm. and i thought, you know, first of all, it was i thought it was such a powerful form of resistance. but it really struck me, especially when i was reading your book and i was reminded of that example, that even

so i don't know. >> but hawaii does that and they're fine. so yeah.waii and arizona it's good enough for us okay. >> right. i mean imagine if they do away with it they'll just stick with standard time. >> is that would make sense? yeah, yeah. >> all right. there's a growing movement to fight the impulse to buy something you see on social media. no buy in 2025 is taking off thanks to a tiktok influencer. she says she's taking two steps to avoid the temptation to buy everything she sees. first, changing social media settings to avoid personalized ads, and second, unsubscribing from brand emails and texts. >> smart. >> yeah. slippery slope. are you guys subject to that? do you find yourself buying things because you saw it on tiktok or instagram? >> yes, i'm so influenced. like i'm the target market for a lot of these influencers. they're like, oh, here's this amazon gadget that will improve your productivity and blah, blah, blah. and i'm like, click link in bio. it's so easy to like they make it too easy to buy stuff. and so i'm like, okay, sure. you kn

i'm a native to the bay areaismt grew up in oakland, spent high school years here and lived in hawaiiars. moved back shortly. been in san francisco proper now for about 8 years. when i realized i wasn't a dealer anymore in san francisco, i found openings and decided to opening my own store in north beach in 2016. north beach was a great place to start. i got a neighborhood feel from it. i got involved in the community, but as far as business turnover, fisherman's wharf is 2 fold, 3 fold because there are so many more people here. we have been here going on 3 and a half years. i started as a hobbyist. i started collecting movie posters in high school. not originals. just favorite. when i mouved to hawaii there was a gallery that specialized in viptage posters and that taught me about the variables beyond movies and that is where this is my career path and what iment to do. i with irked for them for 8 years, took a portion of pay in store credit so i built a collection basically and turned it into a brz. business. hobby turns business and forch int. i got bitten by the poster bug it spi

well, when the lawsuit came up of trump versus hawaii, the muslim ban, then it became the immigrationed it, you know, military necessity. now we call it national security. this is the same pattern that the government has used from generation to generation. it's the same old story of you're guilty because you're looking like the enemy. and that's clearly wrong. my father was an example of working across communities, and that's what we need to do now more than than ever. the intersectionality of our communities is so important. if we're going to make change. ahead on matter of fact, once it is in our drinking water, it tends to stay there. the new free resource that shows you the pfas levels in your area's drinking water. plus, the united states has more than 60 national parks. the back story of the very first one to stay up to date with. matter of fact, sign up for our newsletter at matteroffacttv. pfas are everywhere. [ car engine revving ] get exceptional offers at your local audi dealer. [ car engine revving ] get exceptional offers at your local audi dealer. d now a new database le

we have part of the administration that says taiwan is to china as hawaii is to the united states. we have others like national security adviser says i want to unlock the $20 billion of arms that we are to be providing to taiwan. so i think we have to wait to see. i think things have not shaken out. but i would say contrary to my expectations what i had thought would be a similar group to what we had with hr mcmaster constraints and restraints on president trump. >> fair point and it's only been five weeks. >> to orin, we have had since 2018 the new relationship between the u.s. and china. specifically in trying to get the technology component of this in here. with the technological vulnerability how far have we come and how much more do we still have to go? >> i guess the question is where do you think we're going to? it seems to me that the u.s. and china are pulling apart. i don't like the decoupling term it's used by people that mean stay close together. but say pulling apart. i think the reality as you have heard, china has an opportunity to respond to a variety of different a

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no power steering, it's physical in the cockpits hawaii's why our drivers are athletes through and through- you won -- i mean, i don't know -- [laughter] you won this race here in st. petersburg. what does it take to just dominate the 14 turns, the 1.8 miles, the variability of this type of track in. >> it's a tough track. there's very little time to rest, so it bringing manies in that physicality side of it. there's nothing that really replicates the forces inside the car, so there's something we call driver fit, race fit. no one's race fit in the first race of the season, so the physicality is quite high. it is zero or room for error. it's a great place to start the season. it's one of the races drivers love to win because they're kicking off the year in such a fun spot. 27 people and 100 lap ares, it's a heck of a race. >> reporter: i rode yesterday in one of the two-seaters, and he said it feel like you're holding three times your weight for a hundred laps. so i can't imagine what you go through. you get to watch -- i know you have been experienced it -- >> those who can, do. and those

. >> i represent hawaii the largest is the critical to our nation's defense. i am glad that you testified that politics should not enter how the d.o.d. is run but we have elon musk with his chain saw cutting government programs and eliminating positions without any transparency or criteria. do you think this approach will hurt navy strength and readiness? mr. phelan: thank you for the question. senator hirono: that is yes or no. mr. phelan: i don't know what doge is doing. senator hirono: you are going to be the navy and i don't think you need a lot of information to conclude that a slash and burn approach to programs and personnel is the way to go. in 2021, a massive leak contaminated along with drinking water, 93,000 people were affected. they had to move to hotels and some left the state all together and hurt the military's reputation although it was a naval facility. for people of hawaii they don't make a distinction that the navy was responsible for that the navy, army or air force or marines. it is taking a lot to rebuild the confidence in our navy. so u

thunderstorm: i was born and raised in hawaii, but i live out here in nashville, tennessee. oh!nna sing? this song is called "don't let me let you go." it's an original song of mine that i wrote. it's about mine and my wife's journey and just about the hardship of relationship, as well. especially in the times where it feels like you might be pulling away at times. and it's important for the other person to be that anchor for you. and so this song is a little bit about how she's my anchor and holding me down in the times when i'm weak. music is like, you know, not the easiest, i guess, road that people take. but he's been working at this his whole life, and... yeah, i'm just so proud of him. [ laughs ] ♪♪ ♪ spent every night out of my mind ♪ ♪ wondering why we went wrong ♪ ♪ walking the line right on the edge ♪ ♪ one step away from too far gone ♪ ♪ i don't know what we're fighting for ♪ uh. mm. ♪ i don't want to lose you to find me ♪ ♪ and i know you're tired of fighting ♪ ♪ i wish that my words said enough ♪ ♪ but they don't ♪ ♪ so don't let me let you go ♪ [ chuckles ] ♪ all t

keith morrison (voiceover): and then two years later a marriage in hawaii. mom and dad just got married. what do you say? keith morrison (voiceover): just the three of them. see my beautiful ring. keith morrison (voiceover): back in vegas, it was a busy, complicated life, what with george's 24 hour shifts and shauna's night-times at the casino. and then it was september 29, 2012, 3:00 am. she walked the empty lot to her car, started it, pointed away from the strip, and under that full moon, headed home. no idea what was waiting for her. it was 9:00 am when george arrived with their daughter. she'd spent the night at grandma's, he at the firehouse. but why was the garage door open? and what was that inside? george had grown accustomed to trauma and death. but this? george (on telephone): i think i need to report a break-in and a murder. it was a chilling discovery, shauna tiaffay found beaten to death inside her home and then some of his personal items found outside the house. what might they reveal? coming up. what crosses your mind when you realize it's som

. >> a lot of federal workers in new york and hawaii, governor hochul and josh green are saying, comeome you here. and i think. >> that's a. >> real a real sharp contrast, especially when these economic issues have been on everybody's minds, as we heard from voters last year. >> so when you look at places like new jersey and virginia, where you do have these governor's races coming up, i know that virginia is sort of this special microcosm right now because of the role that it plays for federal workers, the proximity to d.c, such a large swath of them live in virginia. is there a way for that to be a blueprint in the 2025 elections, and then broadened out writ large come 2026, 2028? well. >> i think there's nothing more personal than you being able to count on having the job that you need to have. and these these layoffs have a real impact on, on the economies of these states. i think what's happening at the federal level, in particular, has a real impact on on what we're seeing medicaid, as we've been seeing house republicans vote on gutting that program, will have an impact on the h

our government said fema had no money for those people in hawaii when they were burned out.hey didn't have any money for the people in ohio. they didn't have any money for hurricane victims in florida or north carolina but in the time that those things were going on they handed out one $1 billion to illegal aliens, including the roosevelt hotel which is owned by the pakistani government. i have no faith in the media. alec soros and his father just bought hundreds of radio stations, and c-span, you guys are about ready to put a traitor on the air at 9:00, alexander vindman. he leaked trump's phone call to zelenskyy when trump was trying to find out why all those millions flowed in to the biden family pockets. host: you said you don't trust the news media, but you work talking about people who are getting paid. where did you get that information from? caller: i do my own research and i'm not going to tell you where because i don't want those sites to be knocked off-line as soon as i get off the phone and our government has the opportunity to do that, and they've done it before

our government said fema had no money for those people in hawaii when they were burned out.y didn't have any money for the people in ohio. they didn't have any money for hurricane victims in florida or north carolina but in the time that those things were going on they handed out one $1 billion to illegal aliens, including the roosevelt hotel which is owned by the pakistani government. i have no faith in the media. alec soros and his father just bought hundreds of radio stations, and c-span, you guys are about ready to put a traitor on the air at 9:00, alexander vindman. he leaked trump's phone call to zelenskyy when trump was trying to find out why all those millions flowed in to the biden family pockets. host: you said you don't trust the news media, but you work talking about people who are getting paid. where did you get that information from? caller: i do my own research and i'm not going to tell you where because i don't want those sites to be knocked off-line as soon as i get off the phone and our government has the opportunity to do that, and they've done it before.

happened here in 2021 where capital police were speared with the american flag, you had a tsunami in hawaiin 1968 and fire in 2023, you had economic turndown in 1868 and $15 egg under trump right now under 2025. same environment, toxic, hostile, destructive, deadly and let's be clear, they had immigrants then too. irish, jews, germans, italians, people who couldn't speak english but they saw through the moment and passed the 14th amendment and it's not like this country has not had moments where people have felt under attack, we've had jim crow, world war ii with the germans, mccarthyism, the japanese and internment camps, birthright citizenship has survived all of that and now, not because of war, but because somebody can't get a job at wal-mart because of xenophobia, fragile ego we are going to look for culprits instead of protecting the constitution. it is the epitome of lazy and if they could put the 14th amendment during the constitution during hostile times we can keep it in law during ours. the climate is not different. it is the patriotism of the republican party that is different a

hawaii depends a lot, gets most of its tourism from california. and officials want you to stay away from the ocean today. there's a high surf advisory this morning and hazardous beach warning for the bay area until 9:00 tonight. >> all right. those dangerous waves led to tragedy up in sonoma county. the sheriff's office there says a man standing on the rocks was swept out to sea and drowned near jenner. a helicopter crew in contra costa county had to rescue a father and son who fell out of their boat in the rocky waters near hercules. >> they were like hovering over the water. you can see, like a tether, you know, kind of floating from the bottom. and then i seen them kind of have a man at the end of it. >> the national weather service says more dangerous waves are expected at local beaches today, some as high as 20ft. there's also a small craft advisory. people are being told not to take their boats out today. >> time now is 709 and we've seen some slow traffic out there as usual. let's go right to the bay bridge toll plaza. i want to show you th

his contributions to the naacp california hawaii state conference further underscore his dedication to justice and empowerment. cedric spencer is not only a leader he is a bridge builder, a visionary and an inspiration to those who strive to create a better future. >> on a personal note, i would like to add that i learned so much from cedric about how to become an elected official. he not only mentored me in fraternal roles and positions but laid the foundation and taught me what was needed to successfully get elected. he helped me flesh out my values, set an example and gave me examples of how to be strategic and keep the true essence of yourself. importantly he taught me that to be in a leadership role requires you to set and live by a certain example. as we honor him today, i want to make sure that he knows and everyone knows how important it is to have examples of leadership that stay true to their values. on behalf of district ten here in the chamber i extend my deepest gratitude for his unwavering dedication and tireless efforts. his work reminds us all of the power of advocacy c