velasquez, as he is known, is an innocent man. >> i am granting that application. so this matter is dismissed. [ applause ] >> reporter: j.j.'s family and friends following him to a nearby park where he sat down with me for the first time untethered to the criminal justice system. your name, you got your name back. i think people maybe don't appreciate how important that is. >> absolutely. i mean, when we're born, our name becomes our identity. so, when we're taken through the system, they strip you of your identity. they put you in a shower, butt naked, hose you down like a slave. and then they give you a number and brand you. and that wasn't who i was. and i've been fighting for 27 years to tell them that my name is john adrian "jj" velasquez. >> reporter: velasquez has been physically free since 2021 when then-new york governor andrew cuomo commuted his sentence, granting him parole but leaving him stained with the mark of a convicted felon. >> i had curfew. i couldn't travel out of the state without permission. if i wanted to go on a date, i needed permission.

velasquez. >> reporter: also there to witness his exoneration, "date line,." sitting in a cage. >> reporter: dan, every time we've talked about the story, you say you're not advocating for j.j. you're advocating for the truth. did the truth prevail today? >> the truth finally did prevail today but, frankly, everybody knew the truth for a very, very long time. >> reporter: the d.a.'s review of j.j.'s conviction looked at several factors included recanted eyewitness testimonies and dna evidence. j.j.'s case, one of several wrongful conviction cases unerpt unearthed by slepian. >> i know i left a lot of innocent people behind. >> reporter: now j.j. catching his breath for the first time in a very long time. does the world feel a little different now? >> it definitely does. i can feel the air is cleaner for me, and i feel different. >> reporter: for "sunday today," lester holt, new york. >> lester, thank you. >>> this week we highlight another life well lived. matthew lewis jr. grew up in a family of photographers. his father was one. his grandfather was one, but

let's call that supply and demand in economics and george velasquez understands that. that's why he asked the question. that stumped donald trump. new york governor al smith became the first catholic nominee for president when he ran in 1928 and lost to republican herbert hoover. al smith has always been remembered in our politics for that one simple biographical fact. he was a catholic. the first catholic. major party presidential nominee. and that's why the huge annual banquet for catholic charities in new york city is called the al smith dinner. by tradition every four years, the democrat and republican nominee for president are invited to the al smith dinner where they are expected to make lighthearted comments which have in the past included some great jokes making them the funniest speeches of the campaign. like when john mccain appeared at the dinner with barack obama. tonight, donald trump who does not know how to be funny attended the dinner and was not funny. stood up there as of the first convicted felon to speak to the al smith dinner in its history. stood

velasquez is due in court on friday for a probation and sentencing hearing.ast month, he pleaded no contest to a vigilante shooting spree that wounded an unintended target and sprayed bullets near an elementary school. velasquez was trying to shoot a man accused of molesting his young relative. that man continues to face pending felony child molestation charges. governor newsom's gas price bill is facing its final hurdle tomorrow. the proposed bill would require oil refineries to maintain a minimum inventory level to prevent price spikes during peak driving months. the bill has been supported by several california mayors and other local leaders, but gas companies oppose it. they claim refineries are already full and they don't have the tanks to hold extra oil. the state senate passed the bill last week. it now moves to the assembly for a final vote. a san francisco restaurant is asking for community support as it deals with a fourth break-in. the united dumplings restaurant in bernal heights posted about the break in on social media. they estimate their losse

eliÁn: velÁsquez dijo que su tiempo en la cÁrcel le dejÓ lecciones de sobrevivencia y que ahora tienema de fuego en nueva york. un pistolero matÓ a tiros al muchacho que acudiÓ a defender a su madre luego de que ella le llamÓ para decirle que un delincuente le golpeÓ con una bicicleta. [llanto] reportera: es el grito de una madre por la muerte de su hijo de 29 aÑos. fue baleado en la cabeza por defenderla. >> me siento culpable. yo lo llamÉ a ese problema. reportera: la madre recuerda que anoche ofrece una bodega un individuo casi la atropella con una bicicleta y ella le reclamÓ, y su hijo la defendiÓ. >> Él buscÓ su pistola. me iba a matar a mÍ. mi hijo lo vio y se fue detrÁs de Él. Él comenzÓ a tirar tiros y le pegÓ a mi hijo. >> Él estaba defendiendo su mamÁ. Él estaba tratando de apartarla. reportera: devonte es el segundo hijo que pierde esta familia por violencia con armas. representante de este distrito dicen que los tiroteos aquÍ no son aislados. el bronx sigue teniendo mÁs crÍmenes que otros condados, segÚn el concejal. >> hemos visto una reducciÓn de violencia en este condad

attended of the art is he turned on as long as there is peace arch will continue to exist. rembrandt velasquez and leonardo da vinci are just a few examples of great artist who have left their mark on the world are, should be promoted regardless of whether someone else wants it or not. this is true for both world art and russian art, which has always been rich and talented artists like reaping. sure, skin, and sort of cost. russia has also produced many great musicians and writers. when people try to deny art, they are actually denying themselves. there is something going on inside their heads that needs to be addressed. people need more than just bread and circuses. they need food for the souls, if they don't have that, they lose the meaning of life and become lost in mundane activities. like simply eating and sleeping. work is important, but it's not the only purpose of life. a person doesn't just live to work. they live spiritually and think about the future. while that's older for this is as a what is good to have you here on, on the inside. it'll be filled to check out all to come some gr

elyangÉlica: uno de los indecisos fue el agricultor jorge velÁsquez, quien preocupado le pregunto quiÉnue le pasÓ a los agricultores. tenemos que tener mucha gente que venga a nuestro paÍs, pero tiene que ser de manera legal. elyangÉlica: sobre el cambio climÁtico dijo. >> les preocupa que suba el nivel del mar un octavo o cuarto de pulgada, a mÍ lo que me preocupa son las armas nucleares maÑana, porque el poder de las armas nucleares, y con este gobierno, si ella es elegida, tendremos la tercera guerra mundial. elyangÉlica: cuando se le pidiÓ lo dicho por melania, quien apoya los derechos operativos de la mujer, no titubeÓ. >> le dije a melania que tiene que seguir su corazÓn, tiene que apoyar lo que ella quiera apoyar. elyangÉlica: hubo comentarios jocosos. >> muy buen pelo, muy buen peinado. >> me preguntaron si me debÍa sentar, es una silla muy incÓmoda. elyangÉlica: siempre respondiÓ de inmediato, excepto cuando llegÓ la Última pregunta, la de teresa yedro, quien al igual que hizo con kamala harris, le pidiÓ a trump tres virtudes de la contrincante. >> quÉ difÍcil pregunta. [risas]

eva velasquez is the ceo of the identity theft resource center. >> any time an industry creates solutionke umbrage. provide protections and some support for everyoneg rect acceo customer support for millions or billions o ridgeways, it was an expedient $15 resolution. >> it's well worth it ialready reluctant to give it up. so to protect your account, make sure you enable two factor authentication. and if you'veemn account takeover, you can contact us here at seven on your side and we can help you. but as you can imagine,ing to do it hef is just like, come on. issue le this one team to look into, go to abc seven news.com/7 on your side. >> california voters have ten propositions revenge ballot measure. reporter phie first need to know that it's connected to prop 3 .d proposition intrinsically would require cern health care providers to spend 98% the measure will apply to providers that have spent over $100 million on purposes other than direct patient care, and that own and operate multi-family housing units with at violations. althcare foundation. and they are doing that because the aids

. >> jessica: we showed some of his response to a man named jorge velasquez who has picked strawberrieshis career and he asked trump, what are you going to do when you deport all these people who do the hard jobs? we know these are jobs that americans don't want. and what will happen to prices. trump had a factory answer. he said i'm going to get pricing down. he had no compassion, no sympathy, no empathy for these people. it went viral from all of this, from the 56-year-old latino construction worker, ramiro gonzales. he says "i was a registered republican." now he's not registered anymore. but he was disturbed by the events of january 6 and how donald trump didn't care about it. these so what of it. and ask him if he were to apologize for it, why aren't the people who work for you to supporting. donald trump, who can never give a gracious answer in any way immediately jumps down his throat, saying i don't agree with mike pence. he should have certified the election. claims 95% of the people who work for him still like him. maybe that number is accurate but everyone atop job doesn't. h

[habla en inglÉs] [habla en inglÉs] jorge velÁsquez es agricultor y tiene una pregunta. duro trabajo ese realizado en su mayorÍa por gente indocumentada. si usted deporta esta gente, ¿quiÉn harÍa ese trabajo y quÉ precio pagaremos por la comida? trump: el problema que tenemos es que durante mi gobierno, venÍa gente de forma legal. yo soy lo mejor que le pasÓ a los agricultores, y ahora a los agricultores se les va muy mal con este gobierno. bajo mi gobierno, a los agricultores les fue muy bien. tenemos que tener mucha gente que venga a nuestro paÍs, pero tiene que ser de forma legal. han liberado a cientos de miles de personas que son asesinos, narcotraficantes, terroristas... nadie sabe quiÉnes son y de dÓnde vienen, y la gente que estÁ en contra de esto es la comunidad hispana. otra cosa que puedo decir es mus empleos que tÚ tienes y otras personas tienen, estÁn siendo tomados por estas personas que vienen, y la poblaciÓn afroamericana, la poblaciÓn hispana en particular, estÁn perdiendo empleos ahora, porque millones de personas estÁn llegando. llegan, per tambiÉn lle

. >> jessica: we showed some of his response to a man named jorge velasquez who has picked strawberriesroccoli for his career and he asked trump, what are you going to do when you deport all these people who do the hard jobs? we know these are jobs that americans don't want. and what will happen to prices. trump had a factory answer. he said i'm going to get pricing down. he had no compassion, no sympathy, no empathy for these people. it went viral from all of this, from the 56-year-old latino construction worker, ramiro gonzales. he says "i was a registered republican." now he's not registered anymore. but he was disturbed by the events of january 6 and how donald trump didn't care about it. these so what of it. and ask him if he were to apologize for it, why aren't the people who work for you to supporting. donald trump, who can never give a gracious answer in any way immediately jumps down his throat, saying i don't agree with mike pence. he should have certified the election. claims 95% of the people who work for him still like him. maybe that number is accurate but everyone atop jo

la de jorge velÁsquez. los hispanos y deportaciones no tiene que ver con ellos. si tuviera que titular lo que pasÓ ayer. escribirÍa un titular teniendo en cuenta esto. en miami uno de los bastiones mÁs importantes en estados unidos latino donald trump defiende sinvergüenza su polÍtica migratoria econÓmica. abajo pondrÉ un subtÍtulo: y no lo sacaron corriendo. Él sigue en su apuesta de dar duro a la migraciÓnporque le estÁ funcionando. marÍa: vamos a empezar despuÉs con ustedes. vamos a ver otro de los momentos virales que fue cuando josÉ de arizona le preguntÓ sobre las mascotas o lo que supuestamente ocurriÓ en springfield ohio. >> mi pregunta con todo respeto es, usted cree quÉ estas personas se comen la mascota de la gente? >> eso fue lo que se reportÓ. yo sÓlo dije lo que se habÍa reportado. tambiÉn comÍan otras cosas que no se deben de comer, pero bueno. lo Único que hago es reportar. yo estuve ahÍ. voy a volver ahÍ. vamos a revisar. te puedo dar un reporte cuando lo haga. eduardo: estas otra falsedad

meets with the department of housing and community and the housing community director, gustavo, velasquez, to help resolve encampments, create stronger accountability for counties and to help those experiencing homelessness throughout our state. that meeting starts today at 11. and the union representing 45,000 striking dockworkers on the east and gulf coasts has reached a deal to suspend their strike until mid-january. the union's contract with 36 ports stretch from maine to texas and that expired tuesday due to a dispute over pay and the automation of certain tasks, person who was familiar with this agreement said the port's help agreed to increase the wage of the wages of the worker of the workers. excuse me from about 50% over 6 years to 62%. the unions were asking for 77%. the union's membership. they say they won't need to vote on the temporary suspension of the strike, meaning the giant cranes involved in all of this should have already picked back up in will be unloading and loading shipping containers. and you'll have to leave the bay area. if you want to see wax record, recruit

eva velasquez is the ceo of the identity theft resource center. >> any time an industry creates a problem and then monetizes solution, we are going to take umbrage. >> facebook ceo mark zuckerberg responded to such criticism in a blog post, saying, we already provide protections and some support for everyone, but verifying government ids and providing direct access to customer support for millions or billions of people costs a significant amount of money for the ridgeways, it was an expedient $15 resolution. >> it's well worth it for seven on your side. >> i'm stephanie sierra, abc. >> glad they can smile now. now, if you have an issue you'd like seven on your side to look into, just head to abc7 news .com/ seven on your side. we'll take a look a first glance. oh how sweet. at the smithsonian national zoo's newest pandas as they acclimate to their new habitat. d.c. area residents do have to wait until january to see the pandas for themselves, but the zoo released this video of the pandas playing with some balls. keepers gave the pandas the toys to help keep them physically active and ment

. >> good morning, chair, ranking member velasquez, distinguished members of the committee. i am associate commissioner of the puerto rico energy bureau. on behalf of the bureau i appreciate the opportunity to present our review regarding the challenges faced and the steps the energy bureau has taken to address these challenges. the energy bureau is an independent and specialized body that regulates, monitors and enforces puerto rico energy policy. this is not filled by any other entity. events highlight our ongoing challenges such as the outage that incurred of june of this year. highlighting the fragility of our electrical infrastructure and the urgent need for improvements. in early june this year, a major outage occurred at a transmission substation, affecting customers. on june 12, puerto rico experienced another large scale outage, affecting 300,000 customers. the energy bureau immediately launched formal investigations into each of these events. the electric power resource institute serving technically in these investigations, and turn your analysis is based on curren

. >> reporter: eva velasquez leads the identity theft resource center, which keeps track of every data experience post-breach, there is something there. >> reporter: she says ticketmaster should enable stronger security to protect user accounts like issuing alerts before tickets are transferred, and consumers need to use a combination of words to make a pass phrase instead of a single password. for now, fans should change their banking, email, and ticketmaster pass phrases and turn on two-factor authentication. that means you get a secondary code texted to your phone when changes are made to your account. "today" show viewers jessica and blaine got their tickets restored after contacting us for help. >> i literally had just been scammed, and i just knew that hopefully you would know what to do and help me. not only that, but i had done some research and saw i wasn't alone. there was -- there's a lot of us. >> so, here's the deal. there are a lot of dates still left. is there something they can do to get ahead of it? >> fans are telling us ticketmaster is now restricting the transfer of

my name is karina velasquez, and i stand before you today as a proud venezuelan immigrant, a survivor of the oppressive chavez and maduro dictatorships. i fled my homeland in search of freedom, democracy, and the opportunity to live in a society that values history and the lessons it teaches us. what i see happening here in san francisco, the calls to take down monuments and erase symbols of our shared past. it strikes me deep and a troubling court in venezuela. we witness a similar strategy used by those in power. they tore down statue, erased names and rewrote history in an attempt to control the narrative, reshape national identity and consolidate their grip on the people by erasing the past, they silenced debate and suppress dissent. slowly suffocating democracy. here, in a free society, i believe we must tread carefully. monuments memorials. however controversial, are pieces of our collective history. they represent a complicated and imperfect past that we cannot ignore. if we start erasing history, we are no better than the regimes that seek to control the truth. instead, we sho

hello, i'm karina velasquez, i'm president of stop crime sf is, really emotional, listening to a mother. and that's what our organization tries to do to listen to victims of crime, to support them in the courts, and for being advocating for victims of crime. we have been attacked and being called names far right and whatnot. so and i only been living in the bay area for 22 years. so when i started coming to the police commission and i saw her with the picture of, i went out and googled, and i'm like, wow, no words can describe it. so i'm thankful for this resolution and i want please to that you guys pass it and i want you to bring attention to those that have been calling for defunding the police. we have a robust police force. we will not have to name streets after victims. we have now technology, we have drones, we have robots. we have a lot of things. and i've been in these rooms in city hall when people have been disrespecting our police force, and that's unacceptable. why because they are more of them then we don't have victims. and that's important to say. endorsements have conse

elizabeth: te has mudado y abriendo camino hoy estÁs debutando junta patricia velÁsquez.11 tras el intento de asesinato de donald trump. a menese en la cÁrcel del—— amanecer en la cÁrcel. entÉrate quÉ medidas toman funcionarios electorales y que reportan testigos del atentado al expresidente en pensilvania [habla en inglÉs] fran: donald trump toma la delantera en las encuestas con una ligera ventaja a nivel nacional. esto justo cuando insiste en que cerrarÍa la frontera el primer dÍa de su mandato. aquÍ sabrÁs la reacciÓn de kamala harris y lo que ella dice ahora sobre la frontera. satcha: flores, burros y banderas conforman un altar improvisado en el estadio. demostramos el tributo a fernando valenzuela. la entrevista de marÍa antonieta collins con un narrador y embajador de los dodgers. fran: un adolescente se quita la vida tras recibir un mensaje de un personaje en una aplicaciÓn de inteligencia artificial de quien Él se habrÍa enamorado. ahora su madre en tabla una demanda contra la compaÑÍa. tiene una advertencia para los padres. satcha: esta maÑana alejandro fernÁnd