to furnish their apartment and every time it's special hey, also >>>special john's annual veterans christmas party which has grown to 300 guests. he's creating community and connecting them to resources. >>>>sober >>for 14 years, john found faith and recovery at church, and that's changed his focus. >>>>anybody that's involved with veterans, if you're sleeping on the floor, you're homeless whatever it is, i want to help you. oh, beautiful. in >>>fact, john's recruited frank to help encourage veterans who are getting back on their feet. >>>>but >>the navy veteran never imagined john would go to such lengths to celebrate his birthday. >>>>i'm just so special is beyond words. i mean, i never thought i had so many friends would come out and wish me 100 birthday. as >>>frank and his son john abramo discovered, that's just how john helen lives. >>>>he >>puts others first. >>>>there's no self-involvement. it's he wants to share with the veterans the things that they deserve, and they fought for our country and give us the freedom that we take for granted. so we all really appreciate what john does. it's like my fo

here to talk about it. >> reporter: the party at the san mateo elks lodge, just one of the ways john has served veterans for the past six years. when we first introduced you to him in 2022, we toured the san carlos warehouse where he collects donated gently used furniture. >> john, would you like to peek your head into my apartment? >> reporter: that he uses to fill the homes of formerly unhoused military veterans for free. john, who runs his own moving company, has so far helped 800 service members turn their living spaces into comfortable places. >> yesterday, you know, i helped out a veteran that had two young children. they were sleeping on the floor. i was able to furnish their apartment and every time it's special. >> reporter: also special, john's annual veterans christmas party which has grown to 300 guests. he's creating community and connecting them to resources. sober for 14 years, john found faith and recovery at church and that's changed his focus. >> anybody that's involved with veterans, if you're sleeping on the floor, you're homeless, whatever it is, i want to help you.

so john has declared a called her academic is weeks of heavy rain contaminate drinking water. health ministry says at least 22 people have died in the break. authorities are repeating for urgent humanitarian aid for thousands of people displaced by flooding. thousands of indians have joined doctor's and medical staff, protesting the rape and murder of a female training in coal kata. many doctors have stayed away from work beyond the end of a nationwide strike. demonstrators are demanding a hold to violence against women, tighter security and hospitals. heavy rain has huge austria closing flooding and the capital vienna, the city, so its largest recorded summer dime pours in over a 150 years. a woman who was critically injured after being swept under a close fight thoughts. it's long after the partial legalization of cannabis and germany funds of the plants complain, the infamous national bureaucracy is still a real diner. and you have joined kind of us clubs to share their enjoyment of the drug, only to find red tape, getting in the way scenes of jubilation that berlin's brand

john. donald trump has of course never stepped — john. - john. donald trump has of course never stopped repeating the - john. donald trump has of course l never stopped repeating the claim, made completely without foundation, that he won the 2020 election, falsely saying thatjoe biden essentially one as a result of voter fraud. there can be little doubt that mr trump attempted to cling to power. the question has always been, was that attempt criminal? the justice department clearly thinks it was and it brought charges against him in 2023. but mr trump is a man of course with deep pockets, the case has run into all sorts of delay and challenges against it, not least the challenge that was taken right to the very pinnacle of the us legal system, to the supreme court, where mr trump enjoys a conservative supermajority, three of those justices are appointed during his time in office, and they issued the landmark ruling a few months ago that mr trump enjoys broad immunity from prosecution, particularly for acts relating to his official busines

so john has declared a cholera epidemic as weeks of heavy rank contaminate drinking water. authorities are repeating for urgent to humanitarian aid. for thousands of people displaced by flooding. the eastern state of casala is badly affected. sizes of indians have joined doctors and medical staff, protesting the rape and murder of a female training info counter. many doctors have stayed away from work beyond the end of a nationwide strike. demonstrators are demanding a whole to violence against women and tighter security and hospitals. and the warranty done has displaced more than $11000000.00 people since fighting between the government and rebel forces broke out last year. people have slide 2, neighboring chad sides to sit down and kenya where are corresponded. phoenix, maureen, met a group of soup needs creatives. they're using art to raise awareness of the conflict in their home at at inside remains of gotten one photographer and that gives me knowledge flips again, 6 months. i go after classes around, he's hometown that left many people did. he's one of a group. also dennis, at le

john holman, has more from mexico city? well, monday, the nicaraguan government out the 1500 non governmental organizations. what it said is that they haven't fulfilled their obligations, especially related to releasing financial information, including to do with donations. but in reality, this is part of a trend in nicaragua. the really started in 2018 in which president daniel tega and these administration climate sounds on protests against him. and the government in that context continues. ever since, more than 5000, no government groups, media outlets and private universities have been closed since that opposition political policies have been banned at some latest have been sent into j o x. so the same for the catholic church clergyman joad or sent in to ex, so hundreds of thousands of people have fled, especially to neighboring costa rica. and what it's really left in the country is a sort of black hole in terms of descent. but also in terms of information on the situation, especially as independent media, like how cel

he says he prefers for that debate to take place on fox but, john, no date has been set. >> john: all will see if they agree to it or not grady trimble in front of a will crowd. not confident there will be a peaceful transfer of power. the president did an interview with cbs that will be broadcast on sunday. after initially misspeak the president said a trump loss could lead to trouble. >> are you confident that there will be a peaceful transfer of power in january 2025? >> if trump wins, no i'm not confident at all. i mean, if trump loses i'm not confident at all. he means what he says. we don't take him seriously e means it. all this stuff about if we lose, there will be a bloodbath. stolen election. look what they are trying to do now in the local election people count the votes. putting people in place in states that are going to count the votes, right? you can't love your country only when you win. >> republicans are attacking what some have called the most progressive democratic ticket in u.s. history. let's look at some of the specifics regarding vice presidential pick tim walz

john has all the details. good morning, john. yeah, good morning. we are looking at nothing but sunshine now above the east bay hills. >> until you get right over to the golden gate where we do have some remnant fog sitting right there at the coast. that spot to get to if you just don't to be dealing with the heat today as we are going to be seeing temperatures building really quickly, not much of a sea breeze. so we're already seeing those upper 70's and san jose at 77 degrees. hey, where you're at. 74 now. pittsburgh got 75 fairfield already at 80 degrees. currently now as we move into the afternoon, it's going to be a tease to upper 90's today being the very hottest one of the forecast tomorrow. not much different, though. i'm talking some relief later on in this forecast. still ahead, dr. >> thanks a lot, john. our top story is the wrong way. driver speeding on a freeway in san jose. the wrong way crash head-on into vehicle killing a woman and a child covers. michael thomas is in san jose with what we know. >> we're still learning details about

and john has the forecast. i mean, stay local. enjoy it. save a couple bucks.be head out to the coast. you won't get as much sunshine as the y at our coast, though. >> you're looking at a little fog out there. of course, that's the expected this time of year at the coast in the bay. elsewhere, though, you've got all that sunshine. air-quality is all in all not bad this morning. it's good for most of the bay area. couple of inland areas like just east of livermore. couple moderate spots out there. very poor air quality. when you head north of sacramento in the central valley, now we do have wildfire smoke that is still present across the region. if you have respiratory issues, do note that especially inland in the bay itself. now we've been talking a lot about this potential of dry lightning. as of right now on the radar. there's not a lot going on, but we do have this high pressure. ridge steering up that monsoonal moisture direction in with that fire danger increases because we've got warm, dry weather and then we do have that potential thunderstorm building y

he has never showed himself to do that. >> john: if you go back. i hope that calmly harris has gotten better. >> she is really good now. >> john: but history has proven she was a very good. remember when lester holt said. >> you make an outstanding point. every time the biden administration would say let's let the vice president be the lead on this issue, she failed so miserably that they said you won't be in charge of this issue anymore. at least you won't be the v lead spokesman. i will give you an example of where they sent her to pennsylvania to promote the energy policy and what does she say to western pennsylvania employee use of energy companies? if you lose your job you can go find another one. contrast that with she went to pennsylvania to announce her vice president because as was reported earlier pennsylvania is the ultimate battle ground and who wins pennsylvania has a big leg up on who will win this. and saying things like she does to energy workers is not going to help her when that state. we won and the trump campaign is breathing a s

john: it has been an unprecedented run-up to this week's democratic convention.nt president, dropping out under pressure from his own party, and the vice president taking his place. newshour anchors geoff bennett and amna nawaz are in chicago for the next chapter. geoff, what's this week expected to look like? geoff: john, democratic officials say the convention will open tomorrow night with the theme, "for the people." we'll hear from secretary hillary clinton, the first lady, dr. jill biden, and president joe biden, whose prime-time keynote address will make the case for electing kamala harris. tuesday will be organized along the theme of what democrats call their "bold vision for america's future," with evening keynotes from michelle and barack obama. wednesday night, expect the campaign to draw a contrast with the trump ticket, when we'll hear from former president bill clinton and harris' running mate, minnesota governor tim walz. and on the last night, as is customary, we'll hear from the nominee herself, kamala harris, as she formally accepts the conventio

we shall yeah, john has an idea what the weather is going to look like for the week ahead.y great out there this morning that fish marine layer going to take a while to burn through today. once we get there, though, we've got a cool comfortable and pretty sunny afternoon. and that's the way we're staying for the most part through this forecast. so very much so cooler forecast ahead of us. this is your view about the great getting a little sunshine from the top of mount tam this morning. we are seeing winds in addition to that low grade around 30 miles per hour around the delta this morning. so a brisk and blustery morning for a lot of us. don't forget that extra layer if you're going to be out and about for more than just a few minutes. 50's for current temperatures for almost everyone. double in at 58 degrees right now. oakland and alameda 57. 55 in petaluma later today we get to the 60's 70's and 80's. nobody getting into the 90's and that is the trend for the rest of the forecast, which i'll get to still ahead. all right, john, thank you for that. those drive times on yo

abc seven news reporter tim johns has more on the reunion. >> it's a reunion.wo years in the making, and it all started back when edward ayton says he lost his airpods at the burning man festival in nevada in 2022, and it was just, you know, an hour or two away when i realized that i'd forgotten my airpods. >> you know, it's that first moment you go to make the phone call and you realize you have to hold the thing up to your face. >> after he realized they were missing, ayton says he was able to track the airpods with the find my app on his phone. he began making videos on social media, documenting everywhere they went. eventually attracting thousands of viewers over the coming months, they traveled all over the united states. >> they spent time in iowa. they spent time in north carolina. we caught them walking down the street in new york at 3:00 in the morning. one night, which was really exciting. >> that was until just last week, when the airpods suddenly appeared in santa rosa, just minutes away from ayton's home. >> and i realized, i've got to go over ther

well, starting us off, russian president vladimir putin has arrived for a state visit and as a by john straight off the play. and he was great as by top officials and an on a golf the the visit kicked off with it in full then on the residential v as a by johnny president. and how leads page under the next 2 days and been strengthening the biological strategic partnership. and now by pressing regional and international issues on the, on sunday, the oil which location nation to plaid, it's designed to join the brakes a line but west is aging. and the best thing, new questions on precedent, it persecution of silky thoughts. the message from archbishop there is to solve that. your resume charge. he answered that the whole world is closing his eyes to kids. fox, we are very said into them president and persecution against the canonical orthodox church, and ukraine continues in full force. they accomplish this em. conspirators of these terrible acts against the canonical orthodox church in ukraine or the western political forces that are making every possible effort to destroy put an end to

john has also try to go to any responsibility by saying it doesn't own well parade. the restaurants in question and, and my colleague nick aaron discussed the case with nichol. i need to unless 9 know who says it could deal a serious blow to disney's image every single time you use an application. what if somebody were to say you for ever wave from now until the trinity, your errors and assigns your survivors any and all claims against anything that you've used an application for an app up to and including, let's say something intentionally, let's say somebody actually does, will be intentionally to harm you. have you waived this every body is just their jaws are dropping because let me ask you something. have you ever signed and you are greedy. do something without reading every one of the $27.00 pages. oh, i know constantly and that's, that's what it highlights, doesn't it? is it a lot of it has to blindly click on the green button without reading it, cuz we don't have the time or which is the cat. and i'm just wondering how many other companies have similar polici

it's been a success to john picks has been amazing. everyone just what suppressing support and stuff. it's really rare for us special or i kids. um. so it's really amazing to see that special focus, emotional fellows, he's incredible faith of winning the 200 meters. both a flight and 2 to meet his press broke on the same night. even us great michael folks watching on and the joint coach, the bowman wisdom, east coast and my coast are here really want me to that because he was kinda as possible to do. i was never done before. there was a really big challenge for me and i was really excited to, to do it. but i didn't know it was possible. swim fans allow it to be hearing a lot more about little muscle. a subsidies record of 23 olympic godes might seem far away. the france and that was the drink expectations of a full week or 2. john candice from china has made the public debut at san diego. so the 1st to arrive in the united states in over 2 decades. the chinese government often gives panders to other countries as good will and pass it.

abc seven news reporter tim johns has been following this story and has the details. yes >> so this is at a special meeting on wednesday. the richmond city council voted unanimously to approve a $550 million settlement agreement with chevron. the company has been the largest employer and source of tax revenue in the city for years, but has received scrutiny for the pollution it causes. >> i don't know that there's an amount of money that's enough money, you know, because i think that we're talking about generations of harm, of death, of sickness, of pollution. >> as a part of the settlement, richmond has agreed to pull a measure that was set to appear on the november ballot. that measure would have asked voters to approve a refinery tax on chevron. >> we were talking to hundreds of voters, a day, and they were excited to vote in november, and they were excited to hold big polluters accountable. >> the city council expressed their support for the refinery tax on wednesday. however, mayor eduardo martinez believes the settlement is an easier, gauaranteed way to get the

this pos of john has produced some funding to us actually has been northwest in china. that you'll notice the reason they're heading slowly size, and that's going to be notable the how car there are no other than home chairs are closing on both sides here. this is shannon john, slightly moving and therefore probably strengthening quite significantly on his way to congress him. which is going to be the probably some time on thursday. full cost and gives us just a pretty nasty day. but i haven't noticed extreme winds. i have to say this a lot of writing this time and there's probably going to be a storm such 2 or more. is that near the time the writings in india? second, i think language. right. so there's been funding in east ridge as time has been flooding all sides in providence, in pakistan. that's an obvious connection. there's still some more shaft to come in bangladesh, but nothing like that where it says the fronts can slowly recede. whereas here, then we would like to be reformed. of the and the stillness, think them documenting 2 decades and one of the most in b

john has a big side cafe and 3 months ago, he became a member of a senegalese association that help restaurants, capstone on plastic literacy. they want to say a committed to this course because a walk on the beach applies. oh, my activities take place here on a librium, we a deputy affected by pollution and we're on the front line of fighting plastic and waste come back to that's what what you've read to me to become part of the 0 waste initiative around came out only makes coffee within his personal machine instead of using plastic cups hills, he has replaced single used tools with metal once he's completely done away with plastic. and that means he qualifies for 30 waste, senegal labels. setup in 2021. the association now has around a 100 members across the country, osborne and he is like mario and she will finish here and up. license will run to the cobb branch of civil rights. 62 restaurants have joined the initiative, half of them in the capital. when liberties have been that us of to yet we go back to the restaurants to see how it's going. been because he asked them some questions at the

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journalism twice a week, right here on abc, seven news at three and abc seven news reporter tim johns has spent the day at san francisco superior court following the story. he'll have reaction from crime victims and their families. you can see tim's story on abc seven news at four, and we'll have updates on abc seven news.com. prices will drop for ten of medicare's most popular and costliest drugs under a new deal reached by the biden administration. abc news reporter perry russom breaks down the impact and takes a look at which drugs are involved. >> president biden says the lower drug prices will be a relief for millions of people on medicare, taking medication to treat issues including heart failure, blood clots and diabetes. >> the white house says the costs will be lowered for ten prescription drugs. the expected first year savings are $1.5 billion in out of pocket costs for medicare recipients, 6 billion for medicare as a whole. the prices are set to change in january of 2026. this is the first time the government has been able to negotiate pricing with drug companies about the cost

elton john has dropped out of performing at next month's dreamforce conference in san francisco.n slated to perform during the conference, which runs september 17th through the 19th in the city. today, though, the company announced he is no longer able to perform due to, quote, unforeseen circumstances. so singer pink and rock band imagine dragons will perform instead. annual concert benefits ucsf benioff children's hospitals in san francisco and in oakland. an updated covid vaccine is expected to be available this week. the fda authorized new. moderna and pfizer vaccines reformulated to provide protection against the newer covid strains currently circulating. doctors hope these new shots will help stave off another winter surge. hospitalizations are going down every successive summer, but the winter is really when all the action occurs, not only because covid comes then, but you have flu and rsv and other colds, but the priority group is really those who are older than 65 and those who are very immune compromised. but for many reasons, i think it will be a good idea for everyone

so the head here analysis here, a huge rooting against google us court says that the tech johns has been illegally exploding its market to minutes the the of the watching out this era mind to about top stores this shape has seen, has resigned those kinds of dishes prime ministers fled to india. crowds have been celebrating on the streets of the capital dot com on 300 people have been 2 weeks on 2 government process. got to nations has completed its investigation into stockman, this view, an agency for protestant and refugees. israel accused of being involved in the office for the 2nd time, you and found no insufficient evidence to support the obligations against attentive it stopped. the other night they said, may have an unemployment has been terminated despite the you and not being given the evidence to independently verify it. several american minute treat personnel had been injured and the suspected won't kick the attack on an air base housing, us troops, western iraq, the rocky security officials also confirmed the attack. no group is kind of responsibility. the us federal courts ha

launched last week and was the largest cost for the attack by you claims since the world again, john has reports with the same old data data mark there incursion into russia a week ago. you create in forces, say they were advancing here on patrol in a village in the coast region. what looks like a civilian these apparently unmoved, by the presence of the vehicle best, the wide triangle in sic, neither of these ukrainian cross border operation. there is no sign of resistance. briefing. presidents are lensky, the head of the army, said they were making ground, were pointing as to how defense falls troops continue that are offensive on the territory of the cask region. since the thoughts of today, our troops have advanced one to 2 kilometers in various directions. to similarly bold was this report filed by a ukrainian journalist on russian soil. as the russian flag is thrown to the ground . the reporter explains that she arrived in the coast region with a ukrainian con void, delivering a to civilians. she describes people sheltering in the basement and says that while russian ministry vehic

john has the visa, celebrated 79 years of independence and talked to roll. if people pull onto the street on the dark, saying what kind of side jean awhile to renounce forms of color. even if you're gone through disney is you'll subscribe to it streaming platform. the altima of the company is noise. i'm making in the rooms to death case of a visitor to the house. yes. place on the buyer will welcome dawkins, national. while on sundays, we talked through the big stories of the week of the pools. i mean, and what about a month was talking with this one russian president vladimir putin has arrived press states because it in azerbaijan. well here you can see him being greta's front, straight off the plane on the agenda is the next 2 days is the biological strategic partnership. as well as pressing regional and international issues. the on sunday, the what, what school case, a nation declared, it's designed to join the bricks. i'm on the west is a thing on the best thing. ukraine's unprecedented persecution of salt seats, and that's the message from archbishop fe

and then john john has illustrated for some of the coolest brands locally and international ending. so what is attracting the worlds to his optic? i came across the clock, those work on instagram and i loved his pop box and his ability to, to really feel local. adama came through coffins to be designed to give them similar clause this and within their international concepts. i left this with a couple of months working with international teams to refund the designs, which it, in essence was bringing the quint central elements of job that like the director entities, some of the, the buildings and the job because the very open space. so we brought some of those and, and, and made it fun. so it's great. i mean, you like dream about like working with different clients, but like, we never use trying like on the, on the, comes along. it's really special and it's something that you want to do more of you try your little best to like, fulfill the brief and let to create the work that you're going to be proud of. and also that, you know, you look back and do that or, you know, i did that one

there. >> john: vice president harris is off the trail today attending that security meeting but her vice presidential search is now getting down to the final hours. reports say that she has narrowed her down to governor's josh shapiro of pennsylvania and tim waltz of minnesota. we are in philadelphia and when can we expect an announcement of who the running mate will be? >> john, if there are not any leaks which is a big caveat that campaign we believe according to a report from politico anyway will make an announcement. we know obviously tomorrow but it will likely be a video released on social media. the new democratic ticket will then have a rally here tomorrow night in philadelphia launching a five day tour of seven battleground states this week. as you mentioned, sources told reuters that the two top finalists for this job are pennsylvania's governor josh shapiro and minnesota's governor tim walz. it is unclear though if a final decision has been made. harris interviewed six potential running mates over the weekend including shapiro, walz, arizona senator merkley, transportation secretary pete buttigieg, andy beshear, and amy pritzker,r preference yesterday. >> i be

i think he has a scott kind of referenced in his question to john. he certainly has a connection, particularly with white working class voters that other democrats have struggled with over the last couple of decades. and so that's a place where i think he can be really helpful. i would imagine we would see him out. imagine you'll see him speaking to pennsylvania. you'll see him in scranton. his hometown is a place where he can help put that bigger broader coalition together. i would imagine that they will use him strategically on that front john sort of touched on the question i had in his answer to van, but part of the discussion over the course of this last ten months has been about young voters, whether they can overcome some of this frustration that they have particularly around the gaza issue. i'm wondering if you if you see john that these young voters see vice president harris as aligned with joe biden, judge, does she carry that burden? i guess that joe biden has had with young voters over the gaza issue, or do they see her as a clean slate? y

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has live in denver. what more do we know about that frightening video? >> john, aurora police are actually not confirming that the men in this video are connected to the gang. however, some who live in the denver suburb including a city council member and cyst it has a large and dangerous presence. and the doorbell video shared with fox, you can see a group of five men walking up the serial at the end of lowry apartments. one is a long gone and three others with handguns and one is on the phone peered we don't know who lives behind that door but watch the second video. [gunshots] >> those guys appeared to be forcing their way into that apartment. edward and sidney romero said they felt so unsafe they decided to be unsafe. this is how they used to lock things up. >> when we come home, we need to do this everything a time we go outside to check out the gar garbage. every time we tried to go to bed at night. we need to keep it like this so no one can kick in the door. >> aurora pd is not linking the building to the gang a telling fox apd has been increasingly colle

. >> for 25 years john has owned this sporting range and gun store in new york city, a city with somef the strictest gun laws. how hard would you say it is to own a gun in new york city? >> very hard. >> for all of his four-plus decades, to carry a concealed firearm in the city, you had to be a cop or show proper cause, a provision from 1913. >> it is all about money. you had to have a gun dealer, a diamond keeler, 24-hour gas station. >> in june of 2022, all that changed. in 6-3 decision, supreme court struck down new york's law saying it violated the second amendment right to keep and bear arms. >> shocking. absolutely shocking. >> new york governor reaction is immediate. >> this is shocking. this could place millions of new yorkers in harm's way. >> but for john, the supreme court's decision in brewin, has been a huge shift who can get a concealed carry permit including for new yorkers like michael. >> i applied for it recently due to the change in the law and honestly, to take advantage of my constitutional right. >> but even after the supreme court's decision getting a concealed

commissioner of the virginia department of transportation and i know she has a real championship in leading the efforts in virginia. and john is the president and ceo of the alliance for automotive automation. he has a tremendous career he is also a cyclist and really has been a tremendous partner. but i am going to turn it over to the ntsb chair who has been just a tremendous warrior for safety. she really gets this stuff. chairwoman can you hear me? chair homendy: can you hear me? shailen: i can, take it away. chair homendy: thank you dr. hampshire, deputy minister at her white and certainly the secretary -- the secretary and deputy secretary for your leadership. i truly appreciate the strong partnership that the ntsb has with dot on this and so many other issues. there has been no greater champion at ntsb on connectivity technology than a microgram leader -- michael graham whose leadership i want to acknowledge. he was not able to be with us today but he is celebrating in spirit. today i'm coming to you from the ohio turnpike commission's office. very close to where we are investigating a series of fatal crashes on inter

sharon chin has an update on a jefferson award winner. >> reporter: john surprised frank. >> good today party for the world war ii veteran. 119,000 of them, fewer than 1% are still living according to the national world war ii museum. >> thermodell they are model men i want him to feel like he is loved and appreciated. >> south pacific and mainly in the sullivan islands on a destroyer. thank you, got, i came back not wounded. i'm still here to talk about it. >> reporter: the party at the elks lodge, one of the ways john served veterans for the past six years. when we first introduced you to him in 2022, we toured the warehouse where he collects donated gently used furniture. he uses it to fill the homes of formerly unhoused military veterans for free. john has so far helped 800 service members turn their living spaces in to comfortable places. >> yesterday i helped out one that had two young children sleeping on the floor. every time it's special. >> reporter: also special, john's annual veterans christmas party that has grown to 300 guests. he is creating community and connecting th

sharon chin has an update on a jefferson award winner. >> reporter: john surprised frank. >> good toter: john organized a 100 birthday party for the world war ii veteran. 119,000 of them, fewer than 1% are still living according to the national world war ii museum. they are mow dell men. i want him to feel like he is loved and appreciated. >> south pacific and mainly in the sullivan islands on a destroyer. thank you, got, i came back not wounded. i'm still here to talk about it. >> reporter: the party at the elks lodge, one of the ways john served veterans for the past six years. >> reporter: when we first introduced you to him in 2022, we toured the warehouse where he collects donated gently used furniture. he uses it to fill the homes of formerly unhoused military veterans for free. john has so far helped 800 service members turn their living spaces in to comfortable places. >> yesterday i helped out one that had two young children sleeping on the floor. i was able to furnish their apartment. every time it's special. >>> also special, john's annual veterans christmas party that has

has previously claimed. so have attacked. uh, is there any relates of sides or even the nose or by john, which has close relations with israel without itself directly attacking is right. but i think this really depends on the way in which it is scheduled as far totes and full on thursday. kind of thing, stand the prospects of military price, because a mazda is claiming that israel should i agree to the may version of the proposal, which they have accepted at the time. and how much may not even participate in distorts on thursday, which case is ready with having, you know, a plausible excuse that decides which kind of preventive as far too to succeed is how much and not is right. right? and despite all these public proclamations, whether that comes from, from iran, or from israel, from from us or whom ever despise, well the shouting in the media doing spent but quieter, front door diplomacy with iran is already happening. i think diplomacy is happening, but the diplomacy, as far as we know from statements made on the western media is that the united states messages are relate to iran. and this message is basically, um, you kn

um, so john has asked you whether, if you know us, made weapons were used. there is reporting actually cnn reports that us made small diameter farms were indeed used in the school of fact. so i just want to understand if the state department trying to verify that information or not. so i do myra. we have a strong us made rough ends and you regularly spend these lessons, israel. so while i understand it's been adf operation, there is reporting that the weapons use are us supplies. so i'm wondering if there is a systematic effort at this building to monitor how us made weapons are being used for us. there is which we have talked about a number of times in this briefing room. there are of course, a number of tools and levers at the united states disposal to continue to ensure that us security assistance is used within appropriate confines of international humanitarian law. so far we've talked about 10 hours, they are not going to speak to the therapy, going into looking at properties. and my record is real, is a country in which we have a robust security partne