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Ext i knew the driver was on top of me trying to put his tongue in my mouth. Reporter three of the 20 women suing lyft appeared before reporters saying they had been sexually assaulted by the ride share companys drivers. Their lawyer. The bottom line is lyft does not take safety of their passengers seriously and never has. Reporter this is the second lawsuit filed against lyft since september. 14 individuals said in that suit they were the victims of rape and Sexual Assault by their driver. Since September Lyft says it has added more safety features. Bomberger says they dont work. The reason we know these dont work, eight of the women that are part of this lawsuit had their incidents occur after these features were in play. Reporter and there have been even more victims, he says. Weve gotten calls from 100 different women since just september of this year. Reporter one plaintiff who went by the name of ashley and her husband said lyft was uncooperative. They wouldnt give the police any information. Yeah, when i was with the police, we contacted lyft, and they werent helpful at all. Reporter the lawsuit asks the company to digitally record all rides. If an employee knows that their employer is watching them, theyre not going to be committing crimes in the car. Reporter now lyft responded with a written statement that says in part, we are relentless in our work to build safety into every aspect of our work. Lyft says it has launched more than 15 safety features including criminal background monitoring and inapp Emergency Assistance to make reporting easier. Lawyer bomberger says expect more lawsuits to come. Vic lee, abc 7 news. Vic, thank you. In our ongoing effort, abc 7 news spent a week earlier this year exploring the ride share industry. The iteams dan noyes with a look at how they check the background of their drivers. You can see the stories on our website, abc7news. Com. To our storm watch coverage. Its dry right now as you can see from our sutro camera but more rain is coming. So when . Spencer christian is tracking the storm. Spencer . Its not that far away. Lets look at whats happening right now on live doppler 7. You can see most of the bay area is experiencing fairly calm weather. But down in the southern most part from morgan hill to gilroy to hollister, some areas of fairly steady downpours in the region. Its all moving eastward away from the main part of the San Francisco bay area. Whats left of our storm ranks 1. For the remainder of the night scattered showers giving way to just isolated pockets of rain during the overnight hours. Notice well see some wet spots later tonight but by the time the morning commute rolls around tomorrow we should be looking at vastly improved conditions. Then the bigger storm comes friday. Ill give you a look at that in a few minutes. Rain this morning caused several problems around the bay area including this crash involving seven vehicles in san jose. Three people were taken to the hospital. In san bruno workers are now shoring up a landslide. Abc 7 News Reporter Amy Hollyfield has the story. Reporter as the next round of rain rolls in, bay area residents are preparing. Im going up in the attic to make sure my roof is not leaking because we had a couple of really heavy downpours. I thought it was branches hitting my window. I guess it was hail. We did one of those french drains on the side of our house. We live up in the hill over there. There was a problem with water flowing down to our house and flooding into the bottom level. So we dug a ditch so its draining out to the street better. Reporter there are concerns about the possible side effects like this one in san bruno. A landslide where about 30 feet of earth has crumbled to the ground. Authorities are watching it and hoping to stabilize it for the winter and protect san bruno avenue and the sidewalk. Its scary. I was just thinking about the trees that are leaning over and a little worried about that. Reporter even as we deal with serious rainrelated issues, people are also focusing on the positive. Im glad its raining. I know we need it. I dont have to water. I love it so i run on the trail all the time daily, and for a while there, because there was no rain, it was looking really dry. Reporter no homes are impacted by the slide. This is all crumbling into a canyon. They will work on a design for a permanent fix that will be constructed when the rain stops but right now the city manager says theyre focused on a temporary fix and theyll know within the week whether they will be able to open up this lane of san bruno avenue and this sidewalk. In san bruno, Amy Hollyfield, abc 7 news. Now can you track the next storm with the abc 7 news app. We have live doppler 7. You can enable push alerts to get weather advisories on your phone or tablet. The impeachment inquiry of President Trump is now in the hands of the House Judiciary Committee. Today members heard from constitutional scholars on the issue of what is an impeachable offense. Among them stanford law professor pamela karlan who produced a memorable moment when she took exception with a suggestion from Ranking Member doug collins of georgia that she and the other scholars were partisan and didnt know all the facts about the case. Dear mr. Collins, i would like to say to you, sir, that i read transcripts of every one of the witnesses who appeared in the live hearing because i would not speak about these things without reviewing the facts, so im insulted by the suggestion that as a law professor i dont care about those facts. For more on what happened during the days hearing to reporter Serena Marshall who is live in washington. Serena . Reporter ama, at the heart of todays testimony is the question of abuse of power. The democratic witnesses claim its true and its clear the president abused his office or the lone republican said with the Current Evidence presented by them it would be them abusing the power of congress. Two arguments hitting at the heart of the impeachment debate. If Congress Fails to impeach here, then the impeachment process has lost all meaning. If youre going to accuse a president of bribery, you need to make it stick. Because youre trying to remove a duly elected president of the united states. Reporter what is a high crime and misdemeanor . Thats what four constitutional scholars were asked to answer as the impeachment probe enters a new phase in the House Judiciary Committee. The three law professors invited by democrats agreeing. President trump has solicited president Volodymyr Zelensky of ukraine to announce investigations of his political rivals. Soliciting itself is the impeachable offense. Reporter and a single legal scholar for republicans echoing gop sentiment that the process followed by democrats was flawed. This call was anything but perfect. This is not how you impeach an american president. That has not been explained to me why you want to set the record for the fastest impeachment. Fast is not good for impeachment. Reporter but actually if mr. Trump does get impeached the process in the house will have taken longer than for president clinton in 1998. President trump weighing in from overseas. It is the most unfair thing that anybody has ever seen. Reporter but the white house rejected democratic offers to participate in the hearing. One of the reasons democrats argue waiting for the courts to weigh in for the 2020 election isnt an option. We cannot wait for the election to address the present crisis. The integrity of that election is one of the very things at stake. Reporter an Impeachment Vote in the House Judiciary Committee would come as early as next week. Democrats expect it to begin drafting articles of impeachment in the coming days setting up a full vote in the house before christmas. Live on capitol hill, Serena Marshall, abc 7 news. Serena, a Top White House official has said they do plan to participate in the senate, though, right . Reporter yes, ama, thats correct. Even as the white house has rejected offers to participate in the hearings happening right now in the house on capitol hill, they said that if it moves over to the senate, which would likely occur some time in january, they plan to participate fully including requesting live witnesses. Ama . Serena marshall reporting live from washington, d. C. Thank you, serena. President trump heads back to washington. His time with fellow World Leaders marked by some drama. New efforts to clean up the tenderloin. A possible solution to a big trash problem. Well explain. And protecting yourself a gun charge has been dismissed for the man who went on trial for Kate Steinles killing. Jose ines garcia zarate, who was acquitted of all but a gun possession charge in the 2015 shooting death of steinle on San Franciscos pier 14. An Appeals Court later overturned the sole conviction saying the judge improperly instructed the jurors. Today San Francisco District Attorneys Office said it will not retry him on the charge. We make these decisions very methodically. This particular person is also charged by the federal government for the same conduct thats alleged here. As a result of it were going to step aside and let the federal government take their case. Garcia zarate is in custody awaiting trial in federal court next month. San francisco is busy trying to clean up the tenderloin and a new program revealed today will add 100 recycle bins with a bad trash reputation. These bins have newly designed locks making them much harder to open. The hope is this will directly solve one of the biggest sources of the trash problem. We have a huge problem in this neighborhood, in particular, where trash goes in a bin and coming out of the bin because its pulled out or its kicked over or pulled away entirely or weather. To start the bins will go to tenderloin businesses and larger apartment buildings. If it goes well the plan is to order 1,000 more. Trash pickup times will be tight to limit the time theyre out in the open, and steam clean and wash the tenderloin every week. The security of Homeland Security wants people to be aware when browsing or shopping online as so many of us do. 7 on your sides Michael Finney joins us with more. What holiday scam should you be aware of this season and how do you protect yourself . The founder of cyber scout, Cyber Security and Identity Theft website, also a very good friend and joins us now. Thank you for being here. Thank you for inviting me. You wrote the book on Cyber Security actually. And we did a thing together about it. Why now . Why is it this time of year . Because the holidays are a perfect season. You end up being the gift that keeps on giving because of one big thing, distraction. Theyre counting on the fact youre distracted and you are their day job. Right, okay. So youre busy, you fall for it. Give me, i dont know, what are the top three we should be watching out for . The top thing is phishing attacks in general. You may see a bargain for travel, a bargain for shopping. You may get a notice that theres been a problem about the package thats going to be delivered or that what you ordered from amazon or another Ecommerce Company theres an issue. Please log in and give them the information. I would say beware of the ishings and that is call from your bank, they just need to you give them the Security Code on the back to make sure youre you or you get a text and says your account has been frozen. You panic. It says click here. You do. Suddenly your computer becomes a transmitter, your phone does, or they could put ransomware on your device, too. Lets go for ecards and gift cards. Ecards the problem is that you get an ecard, you get all squishy except it may not be who you think its from. It might be a real buzz kill. If you get an ecard, contact the person who supposedly sent it and say did you send me the ecard . Gift cards the problem is if theyre on a rack far away from the cashier somebody could get to the card, take off the back, look at the authentication code or the activation code, then put the backing back on, put it always get a gift card behind the cashier not somewhere off to the side. Thats why you see them behind glass counters sometimes, right . It would be even better if theyre behind a glass counter but somebody should be nearby. So what should people do to protect themselves other than the three things you just told us . Just generally holiday protection. The big one, first of all, dont just download any app you see. Go to a legitimate app store. Secondly if you get contacted by anyone, never authenticate yourself. Only you a effectively better protect you. And dont use public wifi for anything other than browsing. Do people still use this to place orders or whatever . They do. Never do a sensitive transaction on public wifi. I mean, one of the good situations if you dont have a Virtual Private Network is just turn wifi off so euroyoururiy operating within your mobile provider. You could be clicking into a network you think is the real network but its something established by the tracker to trick you. Adam levin, cyber scout. Thank you for joining us. Happy holiday. That is fabulous information. It is scary out there. You have to Pay Attention all the time. All those ishinges. Got to keep track. On to the rain. This current storm is vanishing. But another one is approaching. Not quite an ishing. Live doppler 7 and you can see that much of the bay area has quiet weather conditions. Lots of clouds and some damp spots. Its way down in the southern most part where we still have active weather, some showers and some steady downpours in the gilroy area now. Thats all moving eastward away from the central part of the San Francisco bay area. The view from sutro tower. You can see we have clouds of various levels of the atmosphere, low clouds, mid level clouds and these are our current temperature readings. Basically about 55 to 58 degrees for most of the region now. San francisco, oakland, redwood city, san jose, gilroy and half moon bay. This is the view of a colorful western sky from our emeryville camera. Thats gorgeous. We have temperature readings right now right in the mid50s at santa rosa, petaluma, napa, concord and livermore. And this is how it looks at the golden gate. Lots of clouds there but a few breaks and bright spots as well and these are our forecast features, showers tapering off overnight. Mainly dry tomorrow but clouds will linger and there would be a couple isolated spotty showers. Then we get a windy, rainy storm coming in early friday. Our current storm, whats left of it, ranks 1 on the storm impact scale. Tonight look for scattered showers. Little to no measurable rainfall. And well have light winds. On we go to our forecast animation starting at 6 00 p. M. And still at that point well see a few areas of light, scattered showers and they will continue into the evening hours and the late night hours. During the overnight hours going into the morning commute well see the rain tapering off and once again although were at the end or near the end of the storm system there could be wet spots for the morning commute. Bear that in mind. Overnight lows will be mainly in the mid to upper 40s and then tomorrow we can expect highs ranging from well, not much of a range. Upper 50s to about 60 degrees. A fairly narrow range of temperatures. Now lets move ahead to friday morning as the next storm moves into the bay area starting at 5 00 friday morning well see a wave of rain and some steady downpours and wind gusts associated with an approaching cold front that will push into the north bay first and by midday into the evening hours on friday well see rain becoming more widespread. Then on saturday the rain continues here. It starts to ease up just a little bit, but the storm starts to produce significant snowfall in the sierra on saturday and that will continue into sunday as the storm breaks up here in the bay area to just scattered showers. The rain, the snow, rather, continues over in the sierra. So lets move along and take a look at the accuweather 7 day forecast. We will have lingering clouds and maybe a couple isolated sprinkles. The main event in terms of weather coming our way now comes in on friday. A level 2 storm ranking 2 on the storm impact scale, moderate intensity, windy, rainy. Showers will linger into saturday and sunday. Then some clearing on monday. Thanks. Were going to get a good rainy season. Absolutely. Thanks, spencer. A target takeover in the south bay. The special sh the ones that make a truebeen difference in peoples lives. And mikes won them, which is important right this minute, because if he could beat americas biggest gun lobby, helping pass background check laws and defeat nra backed politicians across this country, beat big coal, helping shut down hundreds of polluting plants and beat big tobacco, helping pass laws to save the next generation from addiction. All against big odds you can beat him. Im Mike Bloomberg and i approve this message. Warm feelings of home this season. 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Handinhand they started their day with breakfast. The first time being here helping them out, looking forward to just being able to help them out. Reporter for officer gonzalez he has something in common with his buddy sophia. She went to the same Elementary School i went to when i was younger, also. Im super excited for that. When i was in school, when i was in Elementary School, we had officers come to our school. So its something that i looked forward to. Reporter after breakfast came the fun part. A 150 shopping spree at target. I usually dont go shopping like this, and this is my first time. So im trying to get stuff for my family. Reporter the hope is these children get to shop for families and themselves. A day like this is one officers look forward to. Its a wonderful experience. Ive been doing this for the last five years, and i enjoy coming back every single year. Its a great opportunity to connect with a child today. Reporter and its a day officers hope children will remember as they grow up. We are out here helping them out. Were friends and they can always count on us if they have any questions or fears or anything they might want to talk about. Were here for them. Reporter in san jose, lauren martinez, abc 7 news. Well, the new year may bring some relief to the bay area Housing Market. The new report that predicts a price drop in 2020. Tension and drama during President Trumps trip overseas. How canadas Prime Minister tried to smooth things over after a hot mic moment caught on camera. But you dont feel good. With polycythemia vera, pv, symptoms can change so slowly over time you might not notice. But new or changing symptoms can mean your pv is changing. Lets change the way we see pv. You track and discuss blood counts with your doctor. But its just as vital to discuss changing symptoms as well. Take notice and take action. Discuss counts and symptoms with your doctor. Visit takeactionpv. 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It will include 320 market rate apartments and 80 veteran preferred Affordable Housing units near the cal train stations. One of our keystis, of cose housing crisis. A new report predicts some relief next year. It says sales will flatten and even go down. Laura . Reporter hi, dan. Were going to give you a little bit of a tour and show you whats typical in the Real Estate Market. This is a 1,400 squarefoot home that will sell, im sure, in a few days for Something Like a million dollars. Pretty typical of whats been happening out here in the east bay, all over the bay area in recent months. Now this new report is saying the Real Estate Market might cool a bit even here in the bay area. Just when you thought the hot bay area Housing Market might never cool theres a new report from realtor. Com that says thats exactly what could happen in 2020. Here and across the country. In the bay area itself we expect to see weak sales, a small decline in home sales in 2020 and r flat prices. R. Com 20 sales will nationwide in the San Francisco metro area, down 3 in the south bay. Home prices will change less dramatically, up 0. 8 nationwide but down 0. 4 in the San Francisco market and up more than 2 in the san jose area. The realtor. Com report indicates the market will cool because Economic Uncertainty will cause consumers to cut back on spending and inventory will reach historic lows especially in the entry level category. I cant refute all of it. Reporter he says the report may be accurate to some extent but no one trend or prediction especially at the National Level applies to all of the micro markets and highpriced bay area. Our market is very specific. This corridor we call 680 24 corridor were seeing buyers coming in from San Francisco, the Santa Clara Valley because we are more affordable. We have excellent schools, great quality of life. Starter homes like this one or even into the higher priced markets are great value. Reporter now the market according to the report will go as millennials go for the first time in 2020, according to the report millennials will take out the majority of the mortgages. This home, im told, is one of those places where the generations might clash. You might have your genxers trying to move up. Millennials looking to buy a larger house. And then baby boomers like me who want to stay put or even downsize which might further limit the inventory. All of this to come in the months to come. In walnut creek, laura and thony, abc 7 news. The governor is meant to protect tenants from being displaced. Some are taking advantage of the window before the law goes into effect on january 1st. Reporter Lyanne Melendez is live to explain exactly how. Lyanne . Reporter well, basically these landlords have said we know these restrictions are coming at the beginning of the year but nothing can stop us or no one can stop us from increasing rents now or even evicting people. Thats when local overnment stepped in. Even before Governor Newsom signed the state rent cap bill last october 8th, some landlords were already handing out eviction notices like this one. Isabel perez of daly city got hers september 19th. She told me her landlord gave her a 60day notice with no just cause. Her calls went unanswered. Here is why some landlords acted so quickly. The rent cap bill says as of january 1st, a landlord anywhere in the state cannot raise someones rent by more than 5 with an added cost of living increase with in total would amount to a 9 hike. The new law also states you cant evict a person just because. The eviction window was wide open and, yeah, we saw a lot of landlords spring into action there. Reporter so as the eviction complaints came in cities began passing emergency ordinances to protect tenants. They adopted ordinances 20 days after the governor signed the bill. The cities were being responsive to what they were hearing from tenants which was droves of people getting eviction notices within days of the bill being passed by the assembly. Reporter unfortunately for perez the ordinance doesnt protect her because it was passed after her eviction notice. Shes fighting it. She told me, we are worried because if we cant find something we can end up homeless. And there are 20 cities in california that already have rent control laws on the books. San francisco, of course, where we are right now, oakland, berkeley to name a few, nothing will change for these cities, and its not snowing. Sorry for that. Were just right in front of christmas festivities here coincidentally. Nothing will change for these cities because they are doing better than the state. They are doing more to protect tenants. Im live in San Francisco, Lyanne Melendez, abc 7 news. Thats what you get for live tv. It works. Lyanne, thanks so much. Governor gavin newsom is sending 650 million to california to combat the homeless problem that we here in the bay area feel every day. The emergency aid was set aside in this years state budget, but newsom says hes growing tired of what he calls bureaucratic roadblocks from the Trump Administration and actually releasing the money for the state to use. In san diego today the governor then gave a challenge for our local communities for what to do with the funding. I expect this time next year, i say this lovingly, i want to see results. We dont see results we cant not going to keep money. More isnt better. Better is better. Cities and counties can start applying for the money. One official told our partners at the mercury news the bay area is likely to get 145 million. Now we want to hear your ideas about building a better bay area. Share them by joining our better Bay Area Group on facebook. A man fatally shot and killed by Concord Police after attacking his parents has been identified. Officers used lettal force against 60yearold Donald Everson just before noon sunday. It happened after police say everson seriously wounded his 90yearold father and straddled over his 80yearold mother with a knife. Both parents were injured and are still in the hospital but they are expected to survive. Police didnt identify everson until today because his mother hadnt been notified of his death. The family of an inmate who died in custody is filing a wrongful death lawsuit against the Alameda County sheriffs office. This video was released from the june incident that led to the death of armstrong. It shows armstrong struggling with authorities while being transferred to another unit. Civil rights lawyer john burris announced the suit with armstrongs family arguing there was excessive force. He was a working man with children, and within two days hes dead and hes a young, healthy man. And its hard to accept those conditions. The coroner later determined a device called a spit guard placed on armstrong during the struggle contributed to his death along with his posture and body type. The district attorneys investigation found no criminal negligence. President trump is headed back to washington following a twoday trip to the uk. It was marked by heightened tensions with allies. Abc News Reporter Karen Travers is in london. Reporter President Trump cut his trip short, canceling his last event at this meeting of nato leaders. In less than 48 hours there was tension, drama, and impeachment loomed large. President trump left the United Kingdom early, abruptly canceling a press conference. His reason, he said he had already taken plenty of questions over his two days here. I think thats enough. There would be nothing to say. Reporter on tuesday the president was especially talkative. He spent 121 minutes, two hours total, talking to reporters over the course of three meetings. And canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau noticed. Without mentioning the president by name trudeau appears to mock mr. Trump while talking with other leaders. Reporter President Trump fired back criticizing but also complimenting trudeau in the same breath. Well, hes twofaced, and honestly with trudeau, hes a nice guy, i find him to be a very nice guy. Reporter trudeau later trying to smooth things over. Last night i made a reference to the fact that there was an unscheduled press conference before my meeting with President Trump and i was happy to take part of it, but it was certainly notable. Reporter President Trump was more than 3,000 miles away as the House Judiciary Committee hearing got under way. But impeachment loomed large here in the uk. The president weighing in on the report released tuesday by the house intelligence committee. And its a joke. Everybody is saying it. Reporter everybody, according to President Trump, is fox news sean hannity and laura ingram and legal scholars. He criticized democrats for moving ahead with impeachment while he was overseas. Karen travers, abc news, london. Another recall of air bags made by Japanese Company takata. Investigators discover a malfunction that could cause the air bags to explode. Well show you the makes and models of the cars affected coming up. Im spencer christian. Dark clouds over the bay area. How long will it last and when is the next storm coming in . Ill the man acquitted of the shooting death of Trayvon Martin is suing the family of the florida teenager along with prosecutors and others. George zimmerman is seeking 100 million in civil damages claiming his Constitutional Rights were violated. The suit also names Martin Family attorney who zimmerman claims defamed him in a new book. Zimmerman shot and killed Trayvon Martin in 2012 while serving as a Neighborhood Watch volunteer thinking the teenager was an armed intruder. The jury found him not guilty of murder charges in 2013. A massive recall by takata, the company that manufactured faulty air bags that led to the deaths of at least 24 people. The new recall affects driver side inflators in 1. 4 million vehicles sold in the united states. The move comes after investigators recently discovered a malfunction that could cause the air bags to explode and hurl shrapnel or not properly inflate at all. The vehicles affected include bmw 3series cars from 1999 to 2001 as well as certain audi, honda, toyota and mitsubishi vehicles made from 1995 to 2000. Lets go back and talk about the weather changing as always. Here is spencer. We have little patches of light, widely scattered showers over the bay area. Some steadier rain falling in the gilroy area. Its winding down. Whats left of the storm tonight ranks 1 on the storm impact scale, of light intensity. Scattered or isolated showers and light wind. On to the forecast animation going into the evening hours notice patches of green moving across the screen indicating widely scattered showers that will be more widely scattered tonight and by early tomorrow morning as the morning commute gets under way. There may be damp spots left on the roadways. Were not likely to see much in the way of precipitation. A chance of isolated showers and high temperatures right around 60 degrees. The weather takes my breath away. The accuweather forecast. A bigger storm coming in on friday, rainy, gusty wind and that storm is going to weaken and leave us with periods of rain and showers. We do start with sunny skies. Which will also take my breath away. Up next, hes a writer and speaker with a large social media following. 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Eloise joseph was honored with the Lifetime Achievement aword. The Nonprofit Organization helps inspire people from the bay areas poorest communities to follow their hearts and create success in their lives. In that theme diego perez is a writer and speaker. You may know him as yung pueblo on social media. Has quite a following. A book out called inward and holds speaking engagements. Thank you for being here. Thank you so much for having me. Youre here for a couple speaking events. You spoke last night in mountain view. How did you start as a writer . After i did a few courses, i really started dealing with my personal anxiety and sadness that was really impacting my behavior and being a burden on my life. Once i started seeing it was decreasing and real healing was happening that was a big surprise and took to writing. I dont want to pry, you mentioned burden and sadness. What was the cause of that . I was always inclined in this way. I dont think there was really one particular moment that wasnt a series of traumatic issues. I always felt inclined i was wired in this way i leaned in towards sadness and i realize that because i never really dealt with it and didnt want to grapple with it, it became worse and worse over time. Has that changed for the better now . That was the big shock that healing was possible. To me nobody taught me that when i was growing up. In my writing i wanted to inspire people that whatever way its possible to get to know themselves they can get the work done. Good for you. Lets talk about inward, the book you have out of poetry. I love poetry and always have. I was an english major. What is the goal of this book . What do you want readers to walk away from . I really want readers to understand and really build a new intellectual framework, appreciate change, having change within themselves that when they start engaging with all their personal patterns and start releasing that upper layer of human habit that the real human nature will come forward, that they will experience more creativity, have a new ability to problem solve and really be able to engage with life in a much more energetic way. True power is living. The realization that you are your own healer, hero and leader. What does that mean to you and those of faith may challenge those words. What does it mean to you . Even those of us of faith, we have figure that is can inspire us. Though we may have had traumatic things happen to us we have the power to heal these things. Another passage from the book. To be so broken to have fallen so deeply that the only thing you can do is rise into a new you. Sounds like thats a little bit of what you did. Absolutely. I felt like i sunk so low and had such a different way on the way down that when i hit the bottom all i could do was come up and try to transform my life. This is a congratulations on a book that i know you hope will uplift and inspire others. Thank you so much for being here. We appreciate it. And a lot of exposure for this young man. Night line is doing a feature story on diego. Well let you know when it will air and more information on our website, abc7news. Com. Thank you, dan. The Trump Administration will give 200,000 uninsured americans access to hiv preventative drugs for free. Health and Human Services is launching a program called ready, set, prep, allows patients not enrolled in the federal Health Program to get it which is a daily pill. The Drug Company Gilead promised to donate after discussions with the Trump Administration. Some cities already have programs to help people pay for prep. 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Even those outdoors. We showed you this deer with Christmas Lights tangled in its antlers in marin county. Wayne freedman found out it happens more than you think. Reporter is there anything left that isnt potentially dangerous anymore . How about exterior holiday lights so bright, so cheerful, so celebratory. Its awful. Reporter shes speaking of the most unusual effect, a male deer seen roaming with his antlers enmeshed in lights and is not surprised. We find wildlife get tangled up in a variety of objects but deer antlers we can depend o happening each year. Reporter a common sight in neighborhoods where they take shelter and often feed in peoples yards. Lights are part of the territory. This buck had been roaming on the border where residents have gotten to know him and others. We have the same four for the last three years. They stick together. Reporter when they saw these photos they found them to be disturbing. Oh, my gosh. Oh, wow. Oh, my goodness. I think they didnt secure their lights well. Its dangerous. Were in their land. Reporter marin humane says they first learned about this entangled buck last week. They say hes more likely annoyed by the lights than in pain as entanglements go they have seen much worse. A deer with a plastic lawn chair wrapped around with a hammock net and other pieces of garbage. Reporter for this buck the problem is likely to disappear when he sheds his antlers another close call from the intersection of man and nature. In marin county, wayne freedman, nbc 7 news. I hope he stays okay. You can get the latest news with the abc 7 news app. It has enhanced live video features and push alerts. Thank you for joining us at 4 00. Im ama daetz. Stanford professor now in the spotlight, her fiery exchanges at todays impeachment hearing including one that has her apologizing. Claims tonight that lyft knowingly let sex predators behind the wheel. The damning accusations for more than a dozen women. 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