melinda, thank you.ere are some of the other stores now that are making headlines around the world. demo n pelosi has been nominated for her old job as speaker of the u.s. house of representatives, despite calls for younger leadership. the 78-year-old lost the post when republicans took control of the house back in 2011. the new democratic majority will take their seats in january. indonesian investigators say the lionair aircraft that crashed last month had suffered technical problems the day before the accident and should have been grounded. 189 people, everyone on board the boeing 737, were killed when it crashed into the sea shortly after taking off from jakarta. e chinese scientist who claims to have created the world's first genetically enhanced babies says a second such pregnancy may be on the way. he revealed the possible pregnancy yeyesterday when he me remarks defending his work. his claim to have altered the dna of twin girls to protect them from contracting hiv sparked outrage among scientist

and with me in a studio as our chief political correspondent melinda crane melinda we've been talking about keeping the multilateral system together that's one of the objectives at this summit what needs to happen to keep it together well certainly there needs to be some form of agreement and affirmation on the international trading order meaning the world trade organization and the need for disputes over trade to be resolved within the w t o rather than by unilateral action which is what we're seeing here with this these excessive new trade sanctions that have been imposed in the u.s. the u.s. acting outside the w.t. you know rather than presenting its complaints many of which are justified by the way the u.s. accuses china of theft of intellectual property it accuses china of using joint ventures that it forces essential u.s. companies that want to look at we have some live pictures i'd like to let our viewers know we're seeing the u.s. president on trump arriving now in buenos aires he has a big job ahead of him he wants to convince china we are we understand that. it's a trade dea

we'll see if we can fix the sound problems there melinda let's just talk about these summits the g. seven the g. twenty they're referred to many times as these expensive talking shops that you would we're talking about earlier today but at the same time they're seen as underpinning the very multilateral world order that seems to be you know facing massive erosion right now absolutely the g. twenty for example it came into being as a way to deal with the international financial crisis and the idea is that by bringing together these leaders of these powerful economies you can hopefully underpin the world order that does in fact make global trade in goods and services possible and this particular meeting was actually meant to be addressing fair and sustainable development which is quite a long way.

melinda jackman back to talk about this.ving this amount of funding for this proposition? >> interests. this is how propositions work in california. you have money it pay signature gatherers to get things on ballot. >> that's an inordinate amount of money. >> it is. there were several props this year i think voters maybe felt like why do we have to decide these things that these are business regulations. >> we say this every election. why the respect lawmakers deciding some of these? >> why not sacramento. >> that's what we elected them for. there were all always propositions on the ballot in california that voters question. >> while we always complain about all the homework we have to do to sort through there it, at the same time, polls show californians do like having that direct power that, accountability, that check. >> we like our say. >> we like our say, exactly. >> can you talk a little bit about the controversy over prop and die al sis? >> the controversy is that the unions were backing prop to put put it on the ball

ok well that's the way to be important things at least melinda crane appears to be a host of international fires if i can put it that way that a raging of the moment but do seem likely to sort of take over this music so they absolutely are likely to deflect attention from what was supposed to be the main topic at the meeting namely fair and sustainable development but in fact due to the tensions between russia and ukraine due to the allegations that the saudi crown prince crown prince mohammed bin simon ordered the murder of a journalist and the crown prince is of course also attending this summit there are a lot of sort of frictions that the various leaders are going to have to deal with theoretically overcome and then there's the whole set of trade issues now they are a core topic for a meeting like the g. twenty the g. twenty actually was created to bring international leaders to talk about trends that affect the global economy so certainly trade is amongst those trends that will be big on the agenda we've heard that there's still a lot of tough negotiation going on in regard to a final

now for more i'm joined by our chief political correspondent melinda crane welcome melinda and the conference began with the interior minister c. hall for saying that muslims belong to me does that come as a surprise given his very conservative views on the issue. absolutely it does he's been taking quite a different tone in the past shortly after he took office as interior minister he directly contradicted chancellor. merkel she had said islam belongs to germany and so he said at that time no it does not now he said as the conference began quote unquote naturally muslims are a part of germany and they have all the same rights and obligations as other citizens so quite a difference in direction he did go on after that to say germany is though deeply deeply shaped by judeo and christian values and to tradition but what we need to remember is that he is the head of one of germany's most conservative parties he has been trying to stop the rise of a party further to the right the alternative for germany are f.t. by playing on prejudices against migrants and against muslims and the fact that he ha

so the survey says from the chief political correspondent melinda crane welcome melinda what can we expect from this week and we can expect some very difficult negotiations until now they have not been able to agree on a final communique apparently the sticking points are trade no big surprise there and also climate change and that just a couple of weeks before or actually couple of days before the new climate change conference of the u.n. opens in poland both of those of course areas where there are very significant risks that can only be handled by international coordination and yet we do have deadlock and we've got a lot of pull raking news turbulence here at the summit including the arrival of the crown prince of saudi arabia who of course has been accused by turkey of having murdered or ordered the murder of a journalist in the consequence of it in turkey so that very much be occupying people at the summit and then also the russian ukraine tension so there's a lot on the table and as usual a tug of war between donald trump with his unilateral approaches and for example european leader

them so should i just want our community to know of course that his project is led by the bill and melinda gates institute for population and reproductive health but he brings it back to the women and says this is where they want. yeah of course it does but let me just point out one thing the event he's taken from the i c f b the international conference on family planning is an opposition that has been held in africa every other year except two years ago when it was held in indonesia it is usually sponsored by about twenty five organisations and he's thinking about it like this i need a national event but even it isn't because anyone can go to their website and say what the sponsors it is big pharmaceutical companies that have come from the west it is still a tropical music come from the west they're western organizations to african countries. and canada george there's so much to talk about and we've done that in half an hour and we've only just scratched the surface thank you so much for coming on the show and talking about family planning and birth control as a controversial issue in so

we'll see if we can fix the sound problems there melinda let's just talk about these summits the g. seven the g. twenty they're referred to many times as these expensive talking jobs as you would were talking about earlier today but at the same time they're seen as underpinning the very multilateral world order that seems to be facing massive erosion right now absolutely the g. twenty for example it came into being as a way to deal with the international financial crisis and the idea is that by bringing together these leaders of these powerful economies you can hopefully underpin the world order that does in fact make global trade in goods and services possible and this particular meeting was actually meant to be addressing fair and sustainable development which is quite a long way from a lot of these headline issues that we've been talking about that in fact are diverting attention there in buenos aires but the point remains none the less on crucial issues like climate change like international trade it is only by working multilaterally that we can really hope to make progress in d

good evening to you melinda the german is long conference it began with the country's interior minister horse over saying that muslims belong to germany now he is known as being a very conservative politician did that statement surprise you. absolutely it did and it surprised many others as well this is the same man who shortly after taking office as interior minister directly contradicted the chancellor she had said islam does belong to germany and he said no it does not and he went on in the months after that to essentially instrumental ised prejudices both against immigrants and against muslims in the hope of trying to win voters away from a party on the far right the alternative for germany the party that has been on the rise his own party is one of the most conservative in the political spectrum and he's anxious to keep it that way and not allow this other party to grow up further to the right but he did to some degree change his tune today he talked about the fact that muslims do belong to germany that they have rights and obligations just like any other german citizen so to some

melin melinda, thank you for coming from the scity of san jose and e appreciate your expertise on all things politics. melinda is going to be on the set election night and the morning after as all of the results come into the station. and this is a little bit of information so you can figure out how to vote. abc 7 news has put together a complete election guide to outline all of the measures and props that you will find on the ballot. go to abc7news.com/election and count for us on coverage on election day. we will have coverage of the biggest races around the kcounty beginning at 5:00. and live local election coverage right here on abc 7 and then 9:00 on coffee tv 20, and right back here at 11:00. so it is a great day for coverage, and we are excited for everyone to come out the rock the vote. i know that you will be voting, lisa, and also keeping a look out at the forecast for everyone. it is changing a little bit? >> yes sh, certainly cooler wear is arriving and still not what you would expect for early november, but looking out from mt. tam, the low clouds and the high clouds and

of brussels a bureau chief is and what a satirist so welcome max and chief political correspondent melinda cry. miaow welcome both let's let's start with you in buenos aires that much of one as i was saying the german chancellor angela merkel hasn't arrived because of the plane trouble is a picture of her on board and iberia flights and it's pirates not even business. so while she's been walking up and down the corridor as it looks like a boy about plane what does she actually missed. right up. business is better than what we fly just to say we're not sure though we don't have confirmation that it's business maybe even economy so what has she missed she's missed the opening ceremonies she won't be part of the so-called family photo that's the photo where all the heads of state and government of the g. twenty are and so she won't be on that she's going to miss that by lateral meeting that was scheduled with the u.s. president donald trump but maybe they can make up for that on the sidelines or even schedule it for tomorrow after all donald trump is going to be here quite some time on saturd

it hasn't only been small initiatives which is open source large foundations such as the bill and melinda gates foundation are also to. covering the benefits of free software with their project. the open source project aims to make it easier for users in developing countries to pay their bills online pay platforms such as mpeg are often incompatible with banking systems the open source platform will connect them to the relevant banking system what's special about it is that the foundation publishes the source code instead of delivering a finished cloud solution programmers can use this code and adapted to their local needs their foundations all across the world the gates foundation is the largest of them all who are investing incredible amount of resources in addressing the social problems that we see in the world around us but the fact that they're now looking to open source as a tool i think is incredibly stressed formative and i want to see more foundations and philanthropic actors look to technology as a possible solution for many of the world's problems solving social problems with o

so i just want our community to know of course that his project is led by the bill and melinda gates institute for population and reproductive health but he brings it back to the women and says this is what women want want they. yeah of course it does but let me just point out one thing the event he's speaking out he got the i c f b the international conference on family planning is an opposition that has been held in africa every other year except two years ago when it was held in indonesia it is usually sponsored by about twenty five organisations and he's thinking about it like this i need a national event but even it isn't because anyone can go to their website and say what the sponsors it is big pharmaceutical companies that have come from the west it is a tropical music come from the west they're western organizations african countries . and has george has so much to talk about and we've done that in half an hour and we've only just scratched the surface thank you so much for coming on the show and talking about family planning and birth control as a controversial issue in some

. >> reporter: political science professor melinda jackson predicts voter turnout will be high tuesday with younger voters making a big showing. >> based on the data we're seeing so far, we do see a bump in voter registration among younger voters. we do think we're going to see higher turnout among younger voters. >> this is the perfect person for this time and this era for the city of oakland, and that's why i'm here supporting this mayor. >> reporter: recording artist and oakland native m.c. hammer brought the power power in the re-election of libby schaaf, he one of many encouraging people to vote. >> i encourage read up on the h issues, come and express your vote and voice this tuesday. >> they expect voter turnout will be big but it's a tight race. will president trump rally his base and create momentum on tuesday or democrats show up and vote for a change in the house and senate. no doubt about it, enthusiasm is high on both sides. cornell barnard, abc 7 news. >> cornell, thank you very much. >>> a turn california red rally at the state capitol got heated when counter protesters

melinda jackman. does nancy pelosi have a mandate here if she resumes leadership in the house? have to be re-elected as speaker. that he looks very likely. the democrats would have liked to have an even bigger wave tonight. they did what they set out to do which was gain a majority in the house. she's very likely to be the next speaker again. >> whether it was a wave or a ripping, they still got it done. >> they goit it done. >> talk a little bit about the net gain. 30 or more seats wat the projection. california democrats account for one in five seats in the new caucus. >> it's interesting because president trump was demon mizing it california running against california setting up california as you know, the of heart of the resistan resistance. and california's congressional delegation has a chance to push back now. they have some power now to perhaps push back against the president and lead that would resistance. >> but then let's go two years down the line. what are the odds that thinging will swing back the other way republican? >> well,ing that all depends on the president

melinda crane spoke to patrick a german m.p. and member of a party and also a supporter of matt's candidacy. it's just in sport tell us how would the c.d.u. change if we teach math becomes party leader he says of himself that he is business friendly and conservative in values what would that mean in terms of policies i think we have a good situation now that we have three candidates in the conservative party for the leadership i think other parties would be really happy if they have got that situation i think it's a further math comes into power of leadership he can bring the different groups in the party together the conservative economic liberal group and also the ones who are very close to christian topics so i think he can bring these people together under one leadership he said today that he would like to sharpen the conservative profile of the party and he made it clear that he'd like to win back some of the voters who have drifted away for example to the right wing nationalist a.f.d. he's not going to do that with busines

melinda's queso fresco. >> anthony: with chilies.ing but love in his heart and a desire to make beautiful things, he ushered in this entire new world. with the invasion of, you know, gourmet coffee or, you know, trained baristas. how did he feel about that? >> rainer: i mean, my dad made his own coffee every morning, so he wouldn't be that into the fancy coffee available now, but the people who come here now, as long as they're contributing to being a good citizen, it's actually a good thing that people are here. ♪ [ spanish radio ] >> dave: dos carne asada. tambien chili verde. >> chef: chili verde? >> dave: si. ♪ >> chef: digame. >> anthony: i'll have a barbacoa. >> dave: barbacoa tacos. ♪ >> dave: most of the better restaurant chefs, you can find them at least once a week getting their food here, even if they're making food down at their place. >> anthony: unbelievable. at a gas station. [ laughter ] >> dave: in the morning, everybody's here. it's all the border patrol guys, like all of them. >> chef: there you go. you have a grea

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melinda jackson. pleasure to talk to you this morning.t night president trump essentially put himself at the top of the ballot. he said it himself. this is a referendum on his presidency. did he win or lose or something else? >> i think it's a little of both. somewhere in the middle. certainly it was expected that the democrats would win majority in the house. and that's what happened. they didn't get the huge big wave they were hoping for. so i think the president can rightly claim a small victory there. of course the republicans did pick up seats in the senate. and where president trump was campaigning the last couple of weeks, those candidates tended to win last night. >> it's a complicated story. you can say this was a huge wave for the democrats. it was a win but not a huge win. they picked up strength nationwide in places where it is very important. ohio and florida. especially when we look two years ago. >> exactly. some of the states unexpectedly went to trump in 2016 have now shown democratic governors winning in midwest, westbel

melinda jackson. i know you were here last night. so it's quite an early morning for you. thing that really has made headlines is just how many women have been elected to congress. >> absolutely. we had a record number of women running for congress, many who are first time candidates, many of whom won their races. a record number of women will serve in congress. partly this is in response to president trump's election. we saw the women's march right after he came into office. we are seeing issues around gender issues and the desire to have more women serving in public office. >> as we talked about that, there were some republican women elected obviously into congress. a lot of those newly elected, the first time running were on the democratic side. and there has been a shift now in the democrats holding onto the house of representatives. how is that going to play out as we look into the future. especially as president trump wakes up with a very different washington, d.c. this morning. >> yeah. it will be a different political dynamic the next couple of years. the republica

let's talk to professor melinda mills of oxford university who's conducted her own research into thisg it very much with what you have been looking at as well? definitely. we were not surprised we saw the results because we have known this for quite some time. we know that there's a few reasons about why we have had this drop in fertility. 0ne reasons about why we have had this drop in fertility. one of societal and structural reasons and the other is division of household labor. savic about societal reasons this factors such as women entering into education in the labor market and increased contraception. also value changes are limited to children such as women moving increasingly for being childless to child free. we've had also other factors that are very important childcare availability and something we have forgotten that was not highlighted that much in this study was availability of housing. can you buy a house and start family? the other last societal factor that is quite important is economic uncertainty. in periods of economic uncertainty. in periods of economic recessions a

earlier, i spoke to professor melinda mills of oxford university, who's conducted her own research intostructural reasons, and the other is division of household labour. so if we think about societal reasons, there's factors such as women entering into education and the labour market, increased contraception. also value changes related to children, such as women moving increasingly from being childless to child—free. we've had also other factors that are very important — childcare availability, and something we have forgotten that wasn't highlighted that much in this study was availability of housing. so can you buy a house and start your family? and the other last societal factor that's quite important is economic uncertainty. so in periods of economic recessions, or the uncertainty that we're experiencing at this moment, people tend to postpone having children, and in the end we have fewer children. so lots of factors at work here, but factors that differ depending on where in the world you live in. the picture you have outlined is a western european model and yet we see in other coun

. >> reporter: san jose state university political science chair melinda jackson says she expects pelosi and the president to be combative and called his congratulatory message real. >> i think he respects her as a politician, and appreciates a good opponent. >> reporter: but professor says that will only go so far because democrats are pushing for bipartisanship and more investigations i pnt trump, and the president says you can't do both. live in san jose, robert handa, nbc bay area news. >>> did you see this fiery post midterm news conference at the white house as the president insulted and berated a white house correspondent. now we're learning the trump administration is suspending the press access of cnn white house reporter jim acosta. the president called acosta a rude, terrible person after acosta asked a question about the immigrant caravan in mexico. during the exchange, an intern that went to grab microphone away from acosta, but acosta didn't let go of it. the white house released a statement about an hour ago saying acosta's white house credentials are being suspended until

seattle at 57 with rain, la looks good for melinda not bad but you wouldn't be surprised to find outeathrow they are respecting all almost -- a mostly cloudy day. overnight tonight in the mid 40s and low 50s, some up at 7:02 and four tomorrow, high temperatures will be in the 60s again, maybe a notch or two higher than they were today. some clouds will fill the baby later in the day we have sunshine and mid-sixties in the south bay and east bay. 67 at dublin, 67 for pleasanton, and 64 at pleasant hill. in the north bay we will look at mid 60s along the shoreline, cooler, in campfield, 64 tomorrow, 63 in san rafael, up around ukiah and lakeport, numbers in the low to mid 60s. extended forecast, a few high clouds come through time to time, fog in the morning but generally monday looks nice. tuesday increasing clouds and rain, more rain on wednesday. lingering showers on thursday and next weekend is looking high and dry, we get a break from the rain. we will also get this break. back in a minute. >>> can't find a 100% contained, a task force is headed home tonight. the 45 members of sea

we wanted to talk to women voters here, kim and melinda, thank you for joining us.you said something that is what i heard in the other three states i have been to in the last week talking to women voters and that is civility. marsha blackburn says she is politically incorrect and proud of it. what does civility mean to you in terms of your vote? >> it means a lot. our country is a democracy, it's something that's pure, it's about communication, phil bredesen is a fair man. he will speak directly. he speaks the truth. it's his truth. >> reporter: when you hear mars marsha blackburn and donald trump, and they were both together in chattanooga, what goes through your mind? >> i think it's a shame that this is happening in our country, that there is this incivility, that there are lines being drawn that are pitting folks against one another. >> reporter: kim, are you hearing this among your family and friends? >> it's more divisive than ever. i think good governance does come down to this level, and it's causing more division. >> reporter: thank you both. thank you both

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melinda jackman from san jose state university. we've been talking a lot about the governor's race. to win but yet he still had so many ads out there. >> that's true especially in the bay area where he was almost a lock for sure. he wanted his face out to bay area votes are. >> it wasn't a close race. i think he wants to win as big as possible. the bigger his victory, the more power, the more leverage he has in sacramento. >>, quote unquote, mandate? >> exactly. more he can claim an electoral mandate. if the dras win a super majority again in the state legislature, we've really got a democratic coalition going forward. >> in a lot of ways all these ads you saw on television gavin new sml ran against president trump not so much john cox. >> well, the campaign for 2020 starts tomorrow morning i think so he may be signaling looking ahead. >> do you think that's the case? everyone says. >> there's been a lot of speculation. >> will he run in 2020 or wait till '24. >> i'm sure ellen joy being governor of california. we'll see how his plans evolve. >> stand by, melinda. >> we've been wait

that is melinda in pennsylvania giving her thoughts from last night.eard earlier the president is expected to hold a news conference later this afternoon. nancy pelosi also expected to hold a news conference over last night's result. we now hear the current speaker of the house has weighed in on what happened last night. here is the statement. that2: the speaker with statement earlier this morning saying tonight, history has repeated itself. a party in power always faces tough odds in the first midterm election. it's hard to see friends and good colleagues work so hard and fall short. i am proud of the campaign our members and candidates ran. paul ryan saying i congratulate democrats on a new house majority and senate republicans for maintaining. we do not need an election to know we have a divided nation and now we have a divided washington. we must find a way to come together and find common ground and build on the success of this congress. it has been an honor to lead the house over the past three years. for that, i will always remain proud. the out