>> melanie: yes, i think so. >> tanya: yes.of maids. >> anthony: what are maids? >> tanya: maids, as in helpers. >> sudhir: helpers. >> tanya: i think you'll find that actually, if you look at singapore, a lot of woman are in the workforce. and the reason why that is so is because everyone's got a maid looking after their child at home. so maids are kind of like the opiate of the masses. >> anthony: wait, opiate keeps you slothful and laying on the couch. >> tanya: exactly! >> anthony: but if you have a maid, you're saying it frees you up to join the workforce. >> tanya: it frees you up, but it also means that my husband now, he doesn't know how to service himself water. he goes, "hey, water." >> anthony: laundry? >> tanya: sorry? >> anthony: do you do laundry? >> tanya: no. >> anthony: really? >> tanya: no. >> anthony: does anyone here know how to do laundry? >> melanie: we know how to -- >> tanya: we kind of know in theory, we haven't done it. >> sudhir: the guys can do it because we've done two years of military service, but

melanie woodrow, "abc7 news." >> just fascinating, melanie woodrow. thank you very much. we sent out a push alert to the abc 7 mobile app. less than ten minutes ago after the ruling came in. the app is free to download. if you enable the push alert feature, you'll receive breaking news updates as soon as they happen. >>> san francisco's fire chief is stepping down. joanne hayes-w450i9 johite join accident in department in 1990. she dealt with a number of controversies as chief, include kg longer ambulance response times. hayes-white is the longest serving fire chief in the city's history. >>> 11:59 tonight is the deadline to register to vote in california. that means you have less than seven hours to register or update your registration if you've moved or maybe changed names. the election is on november 6th. online registration is also available through the secretary of state website. nearly 570,000 californians have voted in the november election, about 100,000 more than in the last election, 2014. however, 3 million more californians received mail-in ballots this year,

we'll just have to wait and see. >> melanie, one more thing. i've been hearing on the trail. everyone is talking about health care, and then, of course, we heard from former president obama. is there a sense he's helping democrats to capitalize on health care and propel this issue forward? >> yes. since obamacare was passed, we've seen obamacare go on the offense. it's one of the most popular parts of the law. it's only grown in popularity. it's put republican candidates in a corner and they're scrambling to defend themselves. i think it's no coincidence that president trump has put out a very aggressive plan to cut down on drug prices. it's a difficult argument to make especially when you have a texas a.g. lawsuit that would dismantle obamacare working its way through the court system and having obama on the campaign trial reminding voters of the health care plan he gave them. >> melanie zanona. thank you so much. >> thanks for having me. >> thank you so much for watching us at msnbc. at the top of the hour, it's "up," but up next it's "your b

melanie, thank so much. melanie woodrow reporting for us. >>> we wondered if commuters were switching to b.a.r.t to avoid the transit center closure. here are the ridership numbers b.a.r.t provided us this afternoon. on a typical weekday there are 420,000 b.a.r.t riders. friday was the only day below average, just barely. bear in minute the salesforce dream force convention was last week and that brought thousands of additional people into the city. we also reached out to san francisco bay area to find out if it carried more passengers. so far no response but we will follow up with them tomorrow. >> it has been a week since the transit center and fremont street shut down. the current estimate is that fremont street may open next friday, october 12th. we have been on top of the story every single day, asking tough questions of the people in charge and finding out information for you, and we will continue to do that. you will find a timeline of what is happening and what has happened so far plus all of our sto

. >> more now from abc 7 reporter melanie woodrow. melanie? >> kristen and dan, you can see a lot of the tall buildings behind me. this is a study that was commissioned by the late mayor ed lee, and it looks specifically at buildings that are higher than 240 feet. san francisco's skyline is rising, with threats to tall buildings from earthquakes looming. >> we don't expect to have complete failure of these buildings. our bigger concern probably is the longer term recovery and when can we get people back in their residences and businesses back up. >> a review of more than 150 tall buildings in san francisco included building a database, cataloging in part the age of the materials used in the buildings. stanford university professor greg deerline is one of the authors of the resulting report. >> current building codes are geared to protect life safety of a building, don't necessarily address recovery. >> deerline says 60 to 70 buildings used the same type of steel wells that fractured during the 1994 earthquake in los angeles. >> it was due to a

. >> but they got in touch with melanie woodrow late last week desperate for help.elanie. >> we met this couple last wednesday after police announced the drop in car break-ins. they were so distraught they didn't want to speak on camera, but the following day they got in touch with me frustrated with the lack of response from the san francisco police department. i reached out to the deputy chief we interviewed about car break-ins, and as you are about to see the response quickly changed. thieves shattered the windows and stole everything from inside this rental car. >> computers, little tablets and jewelry, medication. >> passport. >> passports. >> she and her boyfriend, tom chewy, were visiting san francisco from australia. they parked their rental car here at the 350 beach street garage in fisherman's wharf for less than an hour. the break-in happened last wednesday. "abc 7 news" was with san francisco police at a meeting that same day for positive news. car break-ins are down 14% year-to-date. after the meeting, deputy chief michael rednick told "abc 7 news" if y

live in san francisco, melanie woodrow, "abc 7 news." >> thank you, melanie. >>> no fascist usa. no trump. >> "abc 7 news" was in san francisco as the political organization refuse fascism bay area and its supporters held signs and marked along market street denouncing president trump and his pick for the u.s. supreme court. >> oakland congress woman barbara lee is in the bay area tonight. she stopped by the common well it club in san francisco and discussed the fight over kavanaugh's nomination and what we can expect next. >> if and when kavanaugh is confirmed, i am certain that we're going to move forward to investigate a lot of these allegations. and who knows where that's going to lead, but we can't let it stop now. every woman deserves their voice to be heard and to be believed, and so, you know, trust me, we're moving forward. >> all right. let's look live again in washington where senate democrats plan to keep speaking all night up until tomorrow's final vote on judge kavanaugh, which everyone expects will be confirmed. >> if you have the "abc 7 news" app you will get an a

in san francisco, melanie woodrow, "abc7 news." >> all right. thank you, melanie. larry is among them. let's look at the results of those votes coming in. 88% of you are saying they toss it straight into the recycle bin. skimming, 4%. saving 8%. >> next year we have to add peruse. >> that was a good one. >> warrior head coach steve kerr is trying to get out the vote. he says he's teaming up with rock the vote. the deadline to register to vote in california is monday. >> if you want to vote by mail, you can request that kind of ballot until the day before halloween. the election is on november 6th. to learn what's on your ballot, go to abc7news.com/election for a local voter guide to the people and propositions you'll be deciding. >> let's turn to the forecast now. just spectacular sunset. >> sandhya patel is here. >> we have fan ttastic weather coming our way. a lot of people enjoy the fog, so it's coming back near the coast. it did clear away from the coast this afternoon, and the temperatures were in the low 60s to low 80s today. it's not warm enough for you, it'

we're in san francisco, melanie woodrow, "abc7 news." >> melanie is working it. if you didn't get a "hamilton" ticket today, there is still a chance. >> yes, there will be a lottery for every performance. we have all those details on abc7news.com. >>> coming up next on "abc7 news," silicon valley vceos may be avoiding a conference in saudi arabia, but they're not turning down their money. >>> and i'm meteorologist drew tuma. we are watching willa, a major hurricane off the southwest coast of mexico. that >>> live where you live, this is "abc7 news." >> here are the storeys making headlines at 4:30. if you're not registered to vote, you still have a few hours to sign up. midnight is the cutoff to get on califoelecon office, as well.mv the ballot includes a u.s. senate seat, the governor, and attorney general's race, and 12 statewide propositions. >>> former president barack obama is out campaigning for democrats. he is in nevada here, telling the crowd he wants the state to be the capital of voting. and cameras worn by police are under scrutiny after one used by t

melanie, you nailed down a possible date for fremont street to reopen, right? >> reporter: exactly, kristen. officials are saying that fremont street could be opened by october 12th. they're hopeful it will be opened by october 12th. that's not this friday but next friday. we'll show you the traffic situation right now on main street. there's a little bit of a backup. we joined you just an hour ago. traffic was looking pretty good compared to what we saw on friday when there was quite a big backup. again, free lamont street expected to be closed through the end of this week and next week, as well. yellow and blue jacks installed are providing the initial stabilization for the sales force transit center. >> these jacks were brought in just to ensure that the bus decking was secure until we can get the system we want. >> reporter: it will likely be a series of towers and column, that will reduce the number of lanes available. >> it's ten feet wide. and then we will have what we call k-rail, which is a concrete barrier that will protect this shoring from any traff

. >> abc 7 news reporter melanie woodrow is live with the very latest. melanie? >> reporter: the homeowners association today issues a second report from a second structural engineering firm that says there was some external source that caused the crack in the millennium tower window, not the fact that the building is leaning or sinking. still supervisor is calling for an independent review. these new photos of the cracked window are part of a report from the architectural firm. abb conducted an investigation and found the crack was from a source break due to exterior impact. unrelated to building movement and settlement. >> what are they talking about? >> he questions the conclusions and credibility of the report. >> it's one of these there's nothing to see here, everybody move along reports. >> reporter: the report references an interview with the homeowner after labor day weekend when the window cracked. the homeowner described being awoken by a massive bang at 2:30 in the morning. quote, the sound was so massive in scale, it sounded like a huge, thick vault d

we didn't really understand what was happening last perhaps melanie knew more do you want to tell us about it. yes he so often but stay over there. we children must already have been asleep when suddenly we heard a loud noises coming from our parents' bedroom where they arguing. arguing my mother of all people arguing with my father no she was patience personified she put up with everything so what happened yet for you my he lit

almost every year melanie batman and her colleagues survey the sea bed with the ocean floor observationsystem. attached to a steel cable the device scans the ocean floor from a distance of about a meter taking high resolution photos and videos. the researches have compared images from different years and reached. some devastating conclusions. as. there is now twenty times more waste in the northern zone is increased from about two point five chunks of plastic in an area the size of a football pitch to sixty fifty tile a pool was part of it because people want us in an arctic region that's completely remote found funny little sent home. that would mean the polar seabed is in fact one of the world's most polluted marine regions on a par with the mediterranean. sea ice but not really disappointing of course we take these images because we're searching marine life on the sea floor and there's all this plastic waste that fortune on and it's not what you want to see the interest. one cause of the worsening pollution in the arctic ocean could be the gulf stream. it carries litter from southern

melanie woodrow is live with more. melanie? >> reporter: yeah. what do you do with them? that's the big question. i'll tell you the idea for this story came from our own mailboxes. so many brochures and flyers, we wanted to know who is printing them and where do they wind up. >> daily, we're probably shipping out 40,000 to 50,000 pounds much political mail. >> campaign broe smurs, postcards and flyers. he prints so much of it, the local post office gave them a nickname. >> they have said we're the kings of political mail. >> from the printing press to the post office to your mailbox. >> how much is too much? >> all these big flyers, little flyers. gobs and gobs of paper. >> do you read it? >> no. >> it's a waste of paper. >> i actually look it over. >>> i threw out. recycled. >> this is recycle central. the largest recycling facility in san francisco. >> along the initial sort deck, employees are pulling out plastics. we're pulling out campaign mail. >> another. by the way, i'm sorry i didn't bring plastic gloves. >> would it be better if there was less election mail? >>

live in san francisco, melanie woodrow, abc 7 news. >> all right, melanie, thank you. a new report shows traffic congestion in san francisco continues to get worse. it places some of the blame on rideshare services. according to t untynsatnage tra city streets in 2010 was 24 miles per hour. in 2016 it was 20 miles per hour. half of the slowdown is attributed to the number of uber and lyft cars on the road. the other half is attributed to population as well as job increases. some rideshare drivers feel unfairly blamed for the traffic congesti congestion. abc 7 news anchor christianitien zee went in searchar their perspectives. kristen. >> reporter: ama, first we hit the streets to get an uh-uh scientific count on rideshare vehicles. we staked out bush and taylor for about a half hour. take a close look at what we found. just in one traffic cycle you can see eight out of nine vehicles passing by had uber or lyft stickers op on average nearly 40% of the vehicles were rideshare. we also spotted a few traffic infractions such as driving in the red bus lanes or stopping in t

melanie woodrow is live from union square with more on the story. melanie? >> reporter: well, there are a lot of tourists out here in union square, and while they were shopping and dining and sight seeseein sightseeing, a panel discussion about those concerns were going on. tourism and spending in san francisco are up, but public perception could be bad news. >> they said there was a lot of homeless here, and people were defecating on the streets, and just to be on the lookout. >> reporter: tammy montgomery's co-worker she might want to go on vacation somewhere else. >> she didn't tell me until we got here. >> reporter: as the plane was landing? >> yes. >> reporter: what was your reaction? >> i was a little surprised, just kind of seeing the area on the way to the hotel, how run down it seemed to be. >> reporter: san francisco travel's president says recent national news coverage of san francisco's dirtiest block and car break-ins could cost the city greatly. >> right now, we're doing well. but if our brand is damaged in the long-term, it could be negative f

in san francisco, melanie woodrow, abc7 news. >>> another major tech conference is setting up in san francisco, so taxis should get rides out of it. work under way for oracle's open world at moscone center, monday. howard street closed to october 30th. weeklong and concert headlined by beck. >>> michigan man is hoping someone will identify a couple he snapped a picture of in yosemite. tweeted picture. wrote, twitter, hep, i don't know who the two are but i hope this finds them. >> just stunning. >> oh, gosh. >> right in the distance see a man on one knee, taking woman's hand. tweet has had more than 217,000 likes and 98,000 retweets since it was posted wednesday. looks like they meant to be there, they hired him. but they didn't. >> looks like a movie shot. fantastic. perfectly framed an she's wearing a flowy dress. perfect. >>> smoke from wildfires in northern california and oregon is making way to the bay area for stunning sunsets. >> sandhya patel. >> because of the fact that we have so much haze, not strong wind to clear it out today, and combination of that along with smoke expe

melanie, how do you see it? because you could see it as, i think to david's point, those independent voters, those who are maybe on the fence, this may, you know, have the opposite effect on them, right? >> yeah. >> or also just energizing democrats. energizing women to say, we're not taking this. >> right. so mitch mcconnell called this a gift. and i think he's right that it's a gift in the senate. but i think it's going to be a curse for them in the house. and that's because you -- the republicans are defending dozens of vulnerable seats, many of which hillary clinton carried in 2016. these are suburban swing districts for these independent, moderate women, are a crucial voting bloc. they are already energized by the me too movement, fed up with trump, and i think this whole kavanaugh play is just pouri ii gasoline on the fire. so you could really see this come back to haunt the gop. now, i think they might have made the calculation that the house is already gone and they might not care and they did get the co

melanie. >> reporter: i like that, scoot and skip. one of the companies that had applied for a permit but was denied felt that the way the sfmta issued the two permits was unfair. however, lime was unsuccessful in its attempt to halt the process today. scooters are coming back to san francisco on monday. >> we're really excited. we have 625 scooters ready to go out. >> reporter: the san francisco municipal transportation agency issued permits to scooter companies skip and scoot. >> our approach has been to work with governments and cities to make sure the process and perhaps are serving all members of the community. >> reporter: scooter company lime questioned whether the choice was fair. lime, whose scooters are all over oakland, filed a temporary restraining order against sfmta is an attempt to halt the process. a judge denied the temporary restraining order today. the san francisco city attorney's office says the permitrogram been fair and transparent. also, that san francisco residents deserve companies that are safe and reliable.

in san francisco, melanie woodrow, "abc 7 news." >> a lot of people have a lot to say on this, melaniethank you so much. >>> and, of course, those medallions can be a burden. joining us is kqed reporter sam harnett who profiled one taxi driver who died, leaving his family with a debt of his medallion loan. >> it is expensive obviously and it is a heart-wrenching story, an immigrant who loved to drive and used the skill to support his family. >> he thought of it as a heritage. he was so stressed driving, his aorta ruptured while he was at the airport. this turns into an emotional and physical burden. >> they essentially decided not to pay. >> right. >> and other families have done the same. >> over 150 drivers have defaulted on loans for the medallions. >> and they're being taken back? >> they're sitting there idle and useless. this is the flip side of disruption. lyft and uber, customers love it, they're cheap, but the flip side is that the industry is being crushed into paste. >> i think what is fascinating is that it was not too long ago, sam, you and i were talking, medallions was l

melanie woodrow is live to explain. melanie. >> well, dan, they're coming back, but they almost had yet another delay and that's because one of the companies involved in all of this, a company named lime wanted the sfmta to rethink its decision to give two other companies permits for those scooters on monday. today's the efforts to halt this process were unsuccessful. >> it seems no matter what direction you look, people are scooting around oakland. >> i like to ride them. they're fun. >> it gives people more mobility and it's more affordable than transit. >> reporter: oakland is working out practices and policies that will come back to the city council for final approval in the coming weeks. >> people who use them will throw them, leave them on the corners. >> that's not all. our news producer took these pictures in lake merritt. >> they all have kick stands. people are just lazy. >> reporter: you'll find plenty of pedestrians and cyclists, but for now, no scooters. the city pumped the breaakes on those. >> we've got s

in the newsroom, melanie woodrow, "abc 7 news." >> thank you, melanie. >>> the agency in charge of theroubled salesforce transit center is fighting back against a lawsuit from the contractor. web corps abashi claims design and manning mistakes by the trans bay joint towers authority led to the cost overreturns totaling $150 million for the contractor. it also blames the tjpa for delays in completing the project. the agency says many of the claims involve delays that happened before web corps's commitment to complete construction on time. the $2 billion transit center has been closed for 22 days now after cracks were discovered in support beams. >>> all right. we are officially midweek. >> that's right. >> it is wednesday, right? i have to double check. >> you lose track. spencer christian is here with the forecast. >> yes, we are midweek and mid month, month of october. feeling a lot like july. here is a look at live doppler 7. we have sunny skies across the bay area except a few patches of the coastline where fog is building right now. we have a growing surf o causing elevated wave he

melanie: yeah, that is true. in a way i am grateful we are not sending hundreds of thousands of people to be killed. there are people being killed in europe right now. there are people killed in afghanistan and nigeria and other places. those things are serious. i don't know the government secrets about that kind of stuff , we are not invaded in the same way, the way we were fighting the civil war. that were other things took place. there were deportations and violations of civil liberties in that respect. the nation is not at war in the same sense we have been in the past. there is not a draft. there is an authorization, a declaration of war can change things. i don't know that it would be legitimate to change speech in the same way it would change the economy or physically taking people and putting them in a place they might be killed. , you talked about the tensions between this, these core values, and you have to protect secrets. is that one of those things that can never be really resolved? what kind of less

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abc 7 news reporter melanie woodrow is live in union square. a lot of people complain about this constantly. >> they do, dan. where we are standing, there are a lot of tourists we've been talking to here today. while they've been shopping, dining, sightseeing, a panel discussion has been going on about these issues on homelessness and also the clean streets initiative. our be loved city by the bay may be getting a new reputation. >> they just said there was a lot of homeless here and that people were defecating on the streets and just to be on the lookout. >> reporter: tammy montgomery's co-worker warned her she might want to go on vacation with her daughter somewhere else. >> she actually didn't tell me until we got here. >> reporter: as the plane was landing? >> yes. >> reporter: what was your reaction? >> i was a little surprised, just kind of seeing the area on the way to the hotel. hoe rundown it seemed to be. >> san francisco travel is aware of the power of perception. recent national news coverage of san francisco's dirtiest block and ca

over to you, melanie. >> okay. i want to talk about the right of citizens to speak against their government in times of war, and i might touch a little bit on the press. we have very mixed feelings about speech and the war. the war is the most serious situation our country can take. a lot of treasure will be expended. important other national priorities will be on hold and how we can just leave this awry. what if the war isn't going as well as it should be, or what if it's wrong in its goals? as a very serious undertaking, shouldn't we be sure it's the right thing to do to protect us from morality? no matter how high or how low might be legitimate and valuable in aid of decision making, but we may cause more time to be spent in conflict and more american lives to be lost. so these questions about speech and national security, what's appropriate for the government to prohibit or allow, have history as long as the country itself. so against the backdrop that we were having in france, in 1798, president adams signed t

reporting live, melanie woodrow, "abc7 news." >> thank you, melanie. i love the live look you get there. it's the end of the line for the fight over a controversial beach in san mateo county. the decision that ends the legal fight over martins beach. >>> a runway backlog. hundreds of flights were your c warriors in action. >>> right now, police officers and sheriff demties are investigating the discovery of a body. the family of 18-year-old mariah davis says that's her pbody. she was last seen at a restaurant last week with the boyfriend. the family says the ex-boyfriend confessed to killing her. the medical examiner and police have not confirmed the details. as soon as we get more information, we'll bring them to you here on "abc7 news." >>> a billionaire's effort to keep a beach to himself was rejected by the supreme court when it refused to hear his appeal. >> martins beach is a popular surfing spot. david louie joins us from san mateo county where the public will once again have access to the beach. >> reporter: that beautiful beach is right at the

abc7 news reporter melanie woodrow has more. >> welcome to the wing. >> reporter: co-founder and coo our tour guide in this brand-new co-working space for women located in the financial district. >> we wanted to create a space that was designed for women with women's needs in mind. >> reporter: inside the grand room, there were meetings. women working and lounging. the bookshelves are filled with books by women and about women. there is a cafe, conference rooms are neighborhood after notable women like christine blasey ford and author amy tan. phone booths like the dancing queen offer more privacy. the personal space six even more so with beauty room, blogger room and puff room. if you wonder where the name the wing came from, the author says it has a few meanings. it is an extension of your home, also the idea of lifting up other women. the space will feature events with notable public figures. the wing is not without controversy. in new york city the human rights commission tells abc7 news there is an open and ongoing investigation for possible violations of new york city human rig

reporter melanie woodrow is live at travis. you had a chance to board that c-17 before it took off. >> reporter: i did. we'll show what you it looked like on the inside in just a moment. first, travis air force base is the largest mobility air force base within the air force according to officials. think of it as the u.p.s. of the air force. here is the video of the c-17 from earlier today. officials say they received word at 11:30 they needed to have a c-17 ready to depart within three hours. you can take a look inside. lots of empty space that will soon b picks up supplies at davis air flying to mississippi. earlier today travis critical care nurse, and respiratory therapist. >> i think not knowing what we're walking into is part of the excitement, knowing that our training has prepared us for anything that we may encounter whether it's a medical emergency or a military emergency. we're ready. >> it's a point of pride for travis air force base we're able to support our civil authorities for any kind of natural disaster whethe

melanie woodrow, "abc7 news." >> certainly is. but you reported something similar last year as well, right? >> reporter: i did. it was in 2017, april of 2017 that we met another young woman named julia wilkinson, here from charlotte, north carolina to spread her father's ashes. she stopped at a parking garage and her rental car was broken into and her father's ashes were th wt comeut toak a report. she got in touch with the news. we then made some call to command staff and police responded within days. they recovered her father's stolen ashes and she decided not to spread them here after all and took them back home with her to north carolina. >> melanie, thank you. >> it's great that she's been able to get results, but it would be nice if there was a swifter police response. we welcome your thoughts on this topic. house the #betterbayarea and join the conversation about cleaning up and making the bay area a better place to live overall. >> better place to live and better place to visit, as well. >> great weather. >> it's going to

melanie woodrow has been following the story. she's live with new details about when we might find out what caused the beams to crack in the first place. >> reporter: dan, we might know the answer to that bit end of october. get out your calendar if you're following along with all of these dates. we know that fremont street will reopen next friday. that's october 12th. it will take about two weeks of test to go determine what caused the cracks. that would bring us to the end of october. we're also hearing today that the rooftop garden here could reopen before bus service resumes. the big question in all of this, when will the sales force transit center reopen. officials say they don't know. >> the price tag for the $2.2 billion salesforce transit center expected to go up by the thousands if not millions once officials figure out what caused two beams to crack. repairs expected to follow. much like an appliance or cars, they say the building is under warranty. meaning whoever is responsible will ultimately pay for those repairs. >

at travis air force base, melanie woodrow, "abc 7 news." >> thank you, melanie. >>> airbnb is also providingelp. the san francisco-based home sharing company has activated its open homes program in parts of florida, alabama and georgia. it allows hosts to rent their homes free of charge to people displaced by disaster. >> a lot of people are posting hurricane ordeals on social media, of course. "abc 7 news" anchor kristen sze is here with videos people are sharing from frightening to a little bit of fun, surprisingly, kristen. >> that's right. let's start with the frightening. this one was posted by a man in panama city, florida. take a look at all of the flying debris in the parking lot, whipped up by merciless wind as michael made landfall earlier today. also, lots of rescues today. take a look at this one. i will play it for you. an arizona police chief who is actually on vacation in florida, bryan jarrell, posted this video of his wife and ots rescuing a pelican that washed ashore. they got the bird to a hospital okay. i want to show you this one. people trying to make the best of the st

melanie woodrow is live from the transit center with the latest. melanie? >> reporter: alma, behind me you're looking at one of the reasons for that unanimous vote to suspend funding to the tjpa. the closed sales force transit center. right now rule bid the tjpa isn't working. the san francisco county transportation authority voting unanimously today to suspend funding to the transbay joint powers authority. cutting the pursestrings and effectively cutting tjpa's power over the sales force transit project which is the downtown extension from fourth and king streets to the terminal. >> a crumbling park at the top, a cracked beam at the bottom. this is just not the right agency. and we have to rebuild public confidence. >> reporter: this supervisor says the three to six month hold on funding will be a catalyst for figuring out which agency will oversee phase two. does it feel like a punishment to you because of these cracked beams? >> you know, the board of supervisors is very disappointed about the developments in the transit center. i understand that. but m

. >> what's your sense, melanie, of the political impact of kavanaugh's confirmation? >> mitch mcconnell said this is going to be a gift, and i agree it's probably going to be a gift for them in the senate, but i think it's going to be a curse in the house. that's because defending dozens of vulnerable seats in the swing state that hillary clinton carried in 2016, so they need to woo over these independent, modern women. they're already fired up by the me too movement, and i think this will pour gasoline on the fire. yes, they got kavanaugh on the bench. they may end up keeping the senate, but i think it could cost them the house, which is also particularly interesting, because that is where democrats could launch impeachment proceedings, open up investigations, hearings, not just against kavanaugh but the entire trump organization. they've been calling to the left to impeach the president himself, so they'll have choices to make going forward, but it could really cost them in the long run. >> howard, i know you wanted to talk about senator graham and how he talked abo

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amy: melanie, we just have 30 seconds.you have a message to refugees this week with the hate filled violence in the united states, people coming into this country now afraid to come? >> we don't see refugees as anyone different than we are. are a jewish -- we organization and i think this is true of nearly all americans. our relatives also came in as immigrants and refugees. your stories are our stories. we stand with you. amy: melanie nezer, stay with us for a post-show interview that we will post online at democracynow.org. we want to ask you about the refugees shabbat and other of the -- activities of your group. melanie nezer the senior vice president for hias. i am amy goodman with juan

. >> let me shoot this to melanie. let's conclude with a positive note. all things being equal we are better off today civil liberties wise than in the past. that is that in part because of the conflict we are in although authorized are not a war as world war ii? >> that is true and i am grateful we are not spending hundreds of thousands of people to be killed, hundreds of thousands of people being killed in europe right now. there are people being killed in afghanistan and nigeria and other places in the world. those things are serious. i don't know the government secret of that kind of stuff. we are not in gated -- we are not invaded in the same way we were fighting the civil war. we were invaded on 9/11. there were other things that took place, there were deportations, violations of civil liberties in that respect but the nation is not at war in the same sense as in the past. there is not a draft. there is an authorization but declaration of war can change things but i don't know it would be legitimate to change speech laws in the same way it would cha

we didn't really understand what was happening last perhaps melanie knew more do you want to tell us about it. yes he so often that stove over there. we children must already have been asleep when suddenly we heard loud noises coming from our parents' bedroom where they arguing. arguing my mother of all people arguing with my father no she was patience personified she put up with everything so what happened. for you know he lit a fire i heard him opening the stove door and be off then i got up it was the middle of the night five my father was burning stacks of paper i didn't know what exactly was said of you but i only found out later that he burned all of our shareholdings so it's fun the glow from the fire fell on his face his. face those eyes all the illuminated face of a father who had gone mad and so was like to be part of and fought us. how did you handle it did you talk to your brother about it but i talk about it with him by then my brother was living in close to new i book. we never discussed my father i was shown that look at a glance work that was his way of talking about

it's unsolved mystery going back 18 years when a mother o two melanie alnwick spentt six months investigating case.mo last week on "forning she talked about what she learn and what you can exp to hear when you download the podcast and listen to it. >> she was a mothe of two, divorced. she was supposed to start a new job with washington volvo station w found noun cno clues. evidence never revealedre. all i allison's being a set up. >> the who idea you can commit suicide and hide your own body, you know, it's completelyabsu absurd. >> what weow know allison thresher was trying toct prote one. the detectives first assigned to her caseer made seval mistakes including the assumption she wanted to disappear. today the cold case investigators have a different take. >> tce scene, s being her apartment, what lookedike was set up in our opinion to look like she was distraught o suicidalnd just at the end of her ro and was going t take, you know, some kind of action tr drive he a mile at cno canal and jump in. that was the beginnings o story that evolve. >> we did volume up forensic things that supporte

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says it has lost faith in the country's leaders melanie reports from malta. remembering her hero one year after her murder activist mourns the journalist stephanie carr and i got. on the activities of the corrupt and criminal. why did she have to die she did not die because she lived she died because she told the truth and she was uncovering too many uncomfortable truths for too many people this is the spot to a camera was assassinated just after three pm on the sixteenth of october twenty seventeen she was driving down. this hill one remote controlled bomb detonated under her seat the explosion threw her vehicle off the road and into this field this memorial at the site of the nation pays tribute to the journalist who dared to ask the powerful of this country difficult questions questions over money laundering government corruption and the breakdown of the rule of law these questions haven't gone away and neither has the question over who wanted. that in the first place. police were quick to arrest three man suspected of planting the bomb one year run author