she's gone from being a popular politicianve in her south l.a.ty, to chair the congressional black caucus. now clearly sitting at the top tier of this short list. karen has been both a fighter for communities and fighter for people. her -- as long as i have known her, which has been 30 years, and that means, you know, sort of building out the infrastructure that was necessary in the '80s and '90s to address substance abuse epidemic in south l.a., her incredible leadership during the uprising in 1992, ensuring that businesses were rebuilt in south l.a., that communities were brought together to build coalitions. also, clearly her leadership as the speaker of the california assembly during an incredible financial crisis, says she worked across the aisle with then governor schwarzenegger was just a demonstration of the leadership that she will bring. >> amy, a lot of people have talked about joe biden's age, the fact that he's 77 years old, the fact he might serve one term, and when you look at your vice presidential candidate who may in four years

. >> joined by democrat who represents california district including south l.a. house committee on homeland security, and andy crull. all jokes aside, congresswoman, this is your portfolio, looks like blatant use of the president and homeland security department powers for campaigning, a convention activity. your response? >> absolutely. and we have to remember that chad wolf is appointed illegally. i saw nothing but hypocrisy in that. two guys doing everything they can to end legal immigration. to have that done was pure hypocrisy. i thought about it for a second, chad wolf helped put kids in cages, separate kids, and when you look at picture as well, agency that administers the oath of office shut down. there has been no citizenship ceremonies happening. here they are doing one for the purposes of a political convention. two months ago they sent notice to 134,000 employees saying they were going to be fur lloughed, trying to end immigration as we know it. to see this hypocrisy for political purpose was distasteful. >> appreciate your candor. there was aspect wh

a longer explanation, just so you all know, i proudly worship in south l.a.these criticisms appear to be weakening the possibility that she'd be the pick? >> there's potential for that, certainly. right near the end we've seen a lot of different, you could call it potentially opposition research being thrown out, whether it's about karen bass or kamala harris. though both of them are being highly considered for the vice presidential pick, bass in that statement didn't directly address what her views are about scientology. as you say, she said she's not a part of that church. she goes to a baptist church. she also sought to clarify that she was just trying to find some area of agreement between her religion and the church that she was speaking at when she was speaker of the house in california. >> we don't talk often as much as we used to talk about senator elizabeth warren and the potential she would be the pick. is there an active lobby on her behalf? we know that there are lawmakers pushing for harris and some pushing for rice and bass. what about senator w

you know we can talk now that they're here these are not republican talking points i'm from south central l.a. they were just shooting down from the sounds that we're talking about chicago to talk about was another guy just got here is you know i'm born and raised or not is that you know you're not buying a house there and i don't want to just problems are going south if you don't i'll be here and you're going to see that your school and. maybe. not will in new york in los angeles tell me how is this and the rest of the recipe is the exact same just in many communities. the east the how the let up look i'm sorry about that old police car you know when i say i'm just not going to know where i'm going to start very of violence and i'm sorry i'm in a certain radius of those. that i didn't see right over time and those things are better have been studied are what over again we had and still very particularly in areas we're not going to see them or do overreach of there is no one will understand what you're saying or let me ask my last year and it's something a question that we're all concerned. a

l.a.'s south bay, clouds were rolling in over one household. it was july 2004. el segundo real estate agent known to the world as deedee keller was missing. her son mike had gone to her home when she was missing for three days. the biggest red flag, her dog left without food or water. >> what did you think happened? >> i didn't know at that point. i just knew something was very, very wrong. mike called his mom's best friends. cindy who had last spoke ton deedee three days before as she prepared for a date rushed to the house. >> you could tell the dogs had been running around for days, but the way the tv was on and the way the shades were, i felt like thursday night had never ended. i felt like friday morning never came. >> cindy immediately called her new boyfriend, bobby low. he reported they had dinner thursday and returned to her house for a night cap. >> he said she had too much wine, laid down on the couch and started to fall asleep, so he said good night and let himself out. >> anything bobby low said sound suspicious to you? >> not at all. >> the next ca

to the south, you can see it there off the coast, near the l.a. area. remnants of what was hurricane genevieve. this will bring the biggest threat, because i'm going to push this down so you can sort of get an idea, follow me with the radar there on the monitor. you can see that surge of moisture pushing up along the coast there, pushing northward. that's that low pressure system that will be interacting with the high pressure system to our east. the interaction of these two systems is what's going to cause the instability in the atmosphere. all of that unstable air will bring a chance for fast-paced thunderstorms, higher elevation thunderstorms, and also the chance for dry lightning. as far as rain, some of the model runs are showing us the chance of maybe seeing some precipitation heading into this afternoon, around 5:00, 6:00. of course with a lot of wildfires burning around us, ideally we would rather see the rain and the dry lightning. but we won't know until that surge of moisture really makes its way into the bay area, which is why that red flag

the visual album moves you from new york to l.a., south africa, west africa, london, and belgium.rom lieupida nyong'o to kelly roland, pharrell williams and beyonce's husband jay z. it has a rare appearance from all of the beyonce's kids, blue ivy, rumi and sir carter. it's only available for streaming on disney+. we checked it out last night. it is absolutely extraordinary, guys. >> queen b. what would you expect? amazing. >> the production value, the outfits. >> peter has a few of those. joe, thank you for that. appreciate it. >>> maria back with a final check of the forecast. >> all right. all eyes on florida over the next 12 to 24 hours, approaching hurricane isais. even if it doesn't technically make landfall in florida, all of the impacts go along with it. storm surge, heavy rain, 2 to 4 inches and rough dangerous surf. already seeing some of the northern most rain bands begin to effect florida. we also have severe weather in the ohio valley to parts of the mid-atlantic. gusty winds, even some hail. another day of record highs and excessive heat across parts of the west and

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i want to turn your attention toward satellite radar because you notice to the south in the pacific in the l.are will push further northward. this will bring us a chance of seeing another round of possible dry lightning in the bay area and thunderstorms heading into sunday. there is a fire weather watch that will be in effect starting tomorrow through tuesday. i will go into more detail on that in the full forecast at 7:00 a.m. >> we look forward to seeing you then. thanks. >>> the wall bridge fire burning in sonoma county is getting more attention from fire crews. it is burning in the rugged hills north of guerneville. fire crews are defending homes, hoping to keep flames from advancing south. we spoke with one person who did not evacuate her home. she is keeping a close eye on crews dropping walter from the air and fighting flames on the ground. she is prepared to pack up and leave. >>> fire crews are staging along mill creek and west side road, preparing to stop flames if they advance overnight. it is 5:29. coming up on "today in the bay" we have a live report on the fires raging across san

tinterhooks waiting where he was going to go and he said i'm taking my talent to south beach and then he ended up at l.a the biden campaign not just lapping you will up a of this attention? >> i think it is that, but i think this is what happens in presidential elections every cycle, which is they know that there is a built-in drama that creates segments like this on msnbc for them that gives them attention. >> oh, don't say that, seana. that makes me feel played when you say it like that. don't say it like that. >> well, they are playing us. that's ok. i think there's something very concrete here. i have no idea if former vice president joe biden has made a decision or not. they want to use that decision making, how they announce it and then roll that person out in a virtual convention, i guess, they want to use that to get attention, to get positive attention. that vice presidential pick historically is one of those big moments. i think it's even more so one of those big moments this time because we're in a pandemic and joe biden is not barn storming the country and neither is the president of the uni

south central, caca. >> i'm donna in san antonio. >> i'm barbara ferrer, l.a.: we brought together a group of current and former public health officials. show of hands. how many of you got into this job for the money? >> that's a joke. >> reporter: lori jones has been a community health director in rural washington for 17 years. >> reporter: is the way you're being treated right now different than anything you've experienced in your career? >> absolutely. completely different. >> i started to hear about how other colleagues that were working in public health had their cars broken into, been followed home, had rocks thrown through the building. >> reporter: how many of you have had personal threats against you? three of the four of you. okay. >> that fear, you know, i've never felt that before. a person posted something to the effect f her, f them, let's start shooting. >> reporter: when jones checked in on a family she asked to quarantine, a facebook post accused her of surveilling them and threats poured in. >> i felt like i needed to get surveillance equipmen

l.a. is not a natural place it's turning out like they have been saying all of that it's not. the south it is makes for saying. that it's simply just it's a little different because i'm more at home in african dance afro dance. i have a dance school in ivory coast i do performance as a choreographer and performer. but my dance is african afro dance afro beat and all that. with richard it's very different with richard it's classical contemporary afro japanese march choreography it's japan. europe. africa a mixture that. you know i'm watching them work right now it's really interesting for such some of some of the vocabulary of you know textures is quite electric now let's hope that in classical ballet by and large you always keep your shoulders over your hips fight like vertically and these styles of. dancing african styles and what the 1st thing that i'm that i'm imitating when i'm trying to do the steps is there is the posture of the torso and of course as soon as you bring into your shoulders in front of your it's and you bend your knees and you can you and you lecture and measure but

south. this is the radar and rain moving in towards the l.a. area and absorbed off the coast. from the remnants of what was the tropical system hurricane and now it weakened and spreading rain across southern california. as that moves in, we'll feel higher humidity and we're talking about temperatures that will reach over 100 degrees with high humidity. it's going to be very oppressive and really uncomfortable if you're going to be working outside over the next few days. and, mike, you were saying that commute is looking a little confume confco confortable, too. especially going across the bay bridge. >> we have it right now. we had it for a while. look at the bay bridge live shot. a horrible drive right now as far as the time goes getting over from oakland into san francisco. we're just under an hour right now but we should see good recovery. notice the approach towards treasure island. you see all those red lights moving much more quickly and rippling back just like at a stop signal because they just cleared lanes there. the bay bridge toll plaza itself filled in just about

l.a. lakers ine, the nba playoffs. highflying action, just ahead, with peterer in sports. growing controversy surrounding south korea's most famous boy band. a k-pop stars are facing questions on when a plan to do military service, as required under lines of korea. we have reports. >> they are a global sensation. as evidenced by this record-breaking virtual concert, reaching an estimated 750,000 fans worldwide, defying the pandemic. as the most famous k-pop band, bts has managed to connect to an audience far beyond south korea. >> they are different from the typical k-pop band. tellsentity of bts their life history, there life experience. experience.e it can be shared by youth who had similar experiences and a younger ag. >> part of that experience includes this, compulsory military service for young men, regarded as a duty that all met over 18 should be proud to fulfill. and that no one should skip. >> but there is a provision to delay your military service until you are 28 years old if you are studying. members into their 20's, all of them have enrolled i courses -- enrolled in courses, leading to suspicions

l.a. and 42 degrees if n las vegas. now we're looking at the remnant of typhoon bobby in east asia. the storm will continue to bring heavy rain in northeastern china and southestern russia as we go into friday. there is an attached frontal system across the peninsula all the way down to eastern china. severe thunderstorms are expected along with the front. we have a a new tropical depression far south of japan. it's likely to become the next tropical storm by saturday as it moves toward the north. winds and rain will be picking up in okinawa as we go into the end of the weekend. meanwhile, heat will persist in tokyo with a high of 35 degrees. that's all for now. stay cool. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> that's all for this edition of nhk "newsline." thank you very much for staying with us. ♪ ♪ >>> hello there and welcome to "newsline in depth." i'm catherine kobayashi in new yoyork. today we take a a looook at wha happening here in the united states at a time when our habits, our rhythms, our customs are being challenged. the coronavirus pandemic has made what was routine into the exception. it sparked discussions about thi whether things we do every day should become thing

l.a. today and still 100 in fresno and 111 in palm springs. kumasi. >> thank you, mike. >>> some bay area transit agencies are making changes this month. in the souths frequency on a number of lines starting on monday. now partitions around bus and train operators. vta started collecting fares again on saturday. in the east bay, a c transit cko 75% of normal starting ce on monday. the fares are still not being collected. muni will restart metro service on august 22nd. bringing back some bus routes and increasing on its core bus lines. >>> b.a.r.t. is making its best day of ridership since the pandemic started. i shouldn't say only, it is still a lot, 80% from average on sunday. week day ridership recently has been down 90%. at its worst, b.a.r.t. lost 94% of its riders. >>> a nonprofit financial firm in oakland is providing grants to keep small businesses afloat during these extraordinary times. it's now seeking nominations from businesses who find themselves in some really challenging circumstances. the oakland based nonprofit microlender is trying to mix economic and social justice into its mission. in two weeks, the team has provided $239,000 in

south central colorado. >> i'm dawn. i'm in san antonio >> and i'm barbara, l.a.er health officials show of hands. how many of you got into this job for the money? >> that's a joke >> reporter: laurie jones has been a community health director in rural washington for 17 years. is the way you're being treated right now different than anything you've experienced in your career? >> absolutely. completely different >> reporter: i started to hear about how other colleagues that are working had their cars broken into, been followed home, had rocks thrown through the build. >> reporter: how many of you have had personal threats against you? three of the four of you okay >> that fear, you know, i've never felt that before a person posted something to the effect "f" her, "f" them, let's start shooting >> reporter: when jones checked in on a family she'd asked to quarantine, a facebook post accused her of surveilling them >> i felt like i needed to and threats poured in. >> i felt like i needed to get surveillance equipment at my home >> it makes everybody fearful at a time

jim clyburn of south carolina is going to be joining us later on this hour. lots to come. stay with us. >>> this is from "the l.a. times" in early 2015. quote, i have always entered races early and run hard, and that's what i've done in this race. i make no apologies for it. that was kamala harris in her first big interview after she announced a bid for the u.s. senate for the senate seat left open by the retirement of senator barbara boxer. harris, of course, would go on to win that senate race. but that first interview she gave after jumping in, she gave it to l.a. times political writer seema mehta. seema mehta had covered harris extensively during her tenure as california a.g. long before she was a national figure, long before she became a household name in the senate. and now, as of tonight, a member of the 2020 democratic presidential ticket. joining us now is l.a. times political writer seema mehta. thank you for joining us. it's nice to have you here. >> thank you for having me on. >> so this isn't exactly like winning the journalism lottery, i know, especially because it comes with no money. but it is a

l.a. lakers strike back against portland us coming up with peter. much of the middle east of the south is in the use the maps of the cloud bringing the chiles of afternoon shabbat as we go through saturday is going to be to the north who can see some fairly persistent rain and at times it could be very heavy you can see this mass of blue hair all the way from the north east and turkey right the way across georgia on towards that rain could be heavy at times it could have some localized flooding and it doesn't tend to really caraway by sunday just means for the tools east and again some heavy rain really coming through as a santa faunal decent section of turkey away from there it's dry the winds not quite as strong say in fact as we go through sunday it should be too much in the way of sand. typically in the mid to high forty's to sign a cooler day with a high the over 36 then down into africa central areas plenty of activity in fact the rains quite extensive across much of the democratic republic of congo extending further tools the south and that is the case of scattered showers all t

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l.a. times created this map shing the here is a size of these fires. the lnu fire is now the second largest in state history. it's burning in sonoma and napa county and south into solano. the scu fire is also in four counts. the three wildfires have burned more than 775,000 acres. all of these fires started by lightning one week ago. >> reporter: heather, good afternoon to you. contain system up, which is good news. also good ws, a large no longer in direct threat from the flames. but if you look screen left, off in the distance, that's smoke rising above the hilltops here in the santa rosa mountains. those homes along the highway 9 corridor are still in danger, so crews are using an old technique in hopes 0 of making gains the firefight. just north of felton, firefighters are taking advantage of higher temperatures higher humidity to work gains the fire. >> the weather is cooperating to help us get those containment lines around those communities that are involved. >> reporter: firefighters are using fire to fight the 78,000 acre fire.. the difficult task burning the vegetation on the ground but preventing the flames from going up into the trees, because

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l.a., the worst riot in american history. but out of that awful tragedy can come a message of hope. hours after that riot ended, i went down to the army compound in southngeles, where i met the troopers of the 18th cavalry who had come to save the city of los angeles. an officer of the 18th cav said, "mr. buchanan, i want you to talk to a couple of our troopers." and i went over and i met these young fellows. they couldn't have been 20 years old. and they recounted their story. they had come into los angeles late in the evening of the second day, and the rioting was still going on. and two of them walked up a dark street, where the mob had burned and looted every single building on the block but one, a convalescent home for the aged. and the mob was headed in, to ransack and loot the apartments of the terrified old men and women inside. the troopers came up the street, m-16's at the ready. and the mob threatened and cursed, but the mob retreated because it had met the one thing that could stop it -- force, rooted in justice, and backed by moral courage. greater love than this hath no man than that he lay down his life for his friend. here were 19-year-

played the east coast and then they play texas and a few places in the south and then they came directly to san francisco. they skipped l.a media centres. san francisco was really the biggest show for them pick it was their biggest show ever. their tour manager was interested in managing the adventures, my band. we were asked to open to support the pistols way to that show. and the nuns were also asked to open the show. it was certainly the biggest crowd that we had ever played to. it was kind of terrifying but it did bring people all the way from vancouver, tee seattle, portland, san diego, all up and down the coast, and l.a., obviously. to san francisco to see this show. there are a lot of people who say that after they saw this show they thought they would start their own band. it was a great jumping off point for a lot of west coast punk. it was also, the pistols' last show. in a way, it was the end of one era of punk and the beginning of a new one. the city of san francisco didn't necessarily support punk rock. [♪] >> last, but certainly not least is a jell-o be opera. they are the punk rock candidate of the lead sin