Hear and why do you persist in behaving as a democratic super pac. Were not doing that. And this is why i opened this hearing with calls for more transparency. We realize we need to earn trust more. Rerealize more accountability is needed to show intentions and show the outcomes. One of your researchers warned Senior Executives our algorithms exploit the the brains, more decisivdecisivenes time on the platform, more time on the platform, the Company Makes more money. Does that bother you what its done to politics . Senator, i respectfully disagree with how the systems work. We design our systems to show people the content thats going to be the most meaningful to them, which is not trying to be as divisive as possible. Most of the content on the systems is not political, its things like making sure that you can see when your cousin had her baby or okay. Okay. Im going to move on to google here but im telling you right now thats not what im talking about. The cousins and the babies here. Im talking about conspiracy theorie theories. We approach work with political bias. To do otherwise would be contrary to our business interest and mission which makes information accessible to every type of person, no matter where they live or believe. Reporter lawmakers are split on ways to hold big tech accountable under section 230 of the Communications Decency act that protects companies over content posted by users. There is a lot of consternation about Silicon Valley and a lot of it comes from not understanding how it works and also seeing how poorly it handled. Digital rights advocates say lawmakers need to be careful about the law and not only big tech but smaller startups and businesses. I was quite disappointed to see that our congressional representatives only felt they needed to hear from three companies to evaluate this very, very important law. Reporter another step from the government towards possibly regulating the tech industry. In Silicon Valley, chris nguyen, abc 7 news. With less than a week to election day, Many Community groups, big and small are mobilizing the residents to try to get out the vote. Abc 7 News Reporter kris reyes tells us what is driving them to make sure as many ballots are cast as possible. Gestures big and small are happening all over the bay area. Grass Roots Organization bay rising action is reaching out to under served communities, especially new immigrants. Everyone has face masks, gloves, sanitizing hands. There is texting, phone banking and door knocking. Reporter a bay area nonprofit that helps girls get into tech and entrepreneurship started the Online Campaign vote for me encouraging members who cant vote yet to write adults in the circle and encourage them to represent values. Empowering our young people to say just because you cannot work doesnt mean you cannot really inspire people to take action. Reporter san mateo countys Republican Party engaged 400 volunteers to distribute 5,000 door hangers. Their hope is for more representation in the county made upmostly of independents and democrats. Its helpful to have, you know, basically a mixed view and a mixed opinion represented when certain decisions are being made that will impact the entire community. No matter the party, the community, Many Organizations and leaders say this is one election that cannot be taken for granted. I love it. In a nutshell, what is your rally call to get people out to vote . Do it for your children. Reporter kris reyes, for abc 7 news. We have plenty of voting resources on our website. Head to abc7news. Com election. We posted an interactive map showing the early voting and ballot dropoff locations all across the bay area as well as a guide to the 12 state propositions. Now to the latest on covid in the pandemic a new study by the mount signee Health System says antibodies found in most people that recovered from covid19 last up to five months. France and germany will go into a partial lockdown due to a surge in cases. The lockdowns are less harsh than those imposed in the spring that brought germany and france to a standstill. People between 18 and 24 have the highest incidents now of contracting covid19. Cases in that age range began increasing in june. Dozens of employees and patients at ucsf are under quarantine after several positive covid19 tests. At least two patients and three Health Care Workers tested positive last week. Ucsf said the patients sharing a room tested negative for the virus when they first arrived at the hospital. But one of them later tested positive before they were set to be discharged and that triggered contact tracing. Thats when three workers showed up positive, as well. More than 40 other people connected to the hospital are now quarantining out of caution. That includes 28 employees and 15 additional patients who have been placed in precautionary isolation. So far, all of those people have tested negative. Just shows you how quickly this can spread. Now that Alameda County moved into the orange tier, more schools will be allowed to reopen for in person instruction. Starting november 9th, middle and high schools that complete a covid19 reopening plan will be allowed to reopen if theyre ready. County says the final decision will be up to each school and school district. Two weeks ago, Elementary Schools in the county were alloweded to reopen after they got permission. As of today, 58 schools either have opened or have made a plan to do so. Parents should contact their kids schools for more information. This week were looking at the new way to holiday and how activities are changing because of the pandemic. Todays focus is education coming up at 4 30, how some bay area teachers are getting even more creative with their celebrations. And starting today, three more bay area counties rely on businesses to expand indoor capacities. Marin, contra costa and san mateo are moving into the more lenient orange tier. Restaurants can double the number of people allowed inside so theyll be going from 25 to 50 capacity. I think its time. I do. I think its been done responsibly in a measured way and i think its hard for these restaurants to, you know, operate if they dont have additional capacity inside. In addition, gyms can fill up to 25 of their capacity before it was only 10 . San mateo county Officials Say residents are doing things the right way and the county is seeing a rate of three positive covid tests per 100,000 people in a test Positivity Rate of 1. 6 . A big milestone in the rebuilding and healing process for santa rosas coffee park. Usually, there will be a reopening ceremony but because of covid the city released this video. The park and neighborhood surrounding it was destroyed in the tubs fire in october of 2017. 1422 homes were lost in the flames. The fiveacre park is completely redesigned and rebuilt with the help of the community and federal state and local governments at a cost of 3. 8 million. Pg e is working to get the power back out to everyone in the bay area following Public Safety power shut offs there are a couple areas without electricity in the north bay. This pg e map shows them indicated with a purple triangle. Its early data shows 76 instances of weather related damage and has sazards like dow power lines. The preventive outages began on sunday. Hurricane zeta, the warning to residents at this point feeling storm fatigue and new technology to detect guns in security video. With triple cheese and bacon or chili cheese. Try my sauced and loaded fries. Its pretty delicious. Seasoned curly fries, with triple cheese and bacon or chili cheese. Try my sauced and loaded fries. Its pretty delicious. Security dam cameras are valuable tools to prevent violence. There is Artificial Intelligence to detect guns in surveillance video. The technology could help to provide earlier warnings of a mass casualty event before a shot is fired. Security cameras alert First Responders of a potential gun violence or other threats. Artificial intelligence of a. I. Is adding a new dimension with the potential to prevent a mass casualty event. We need to move away from the thinking that Emergency Mass Notification System is about notification. His company demonstrated the gun detect technology it claims to be an Industry First utilizing existing Camera Networks in a large scale setting like a school or airport or Large Business and al gla rhytri algorithms can identify a gun and goes to orange as suspicious and red in seconds. It can make a High Resolution determination of whether this is a real threat or not. In this demonstration, a suspect walks into view of a Security Camera briefly casing out the room and pulling out a gun. Artificial intelligence identifies it as a threat. After that its a single click to be able to initiate a predefined set of actions. A popup notifies a security officer. Software provide as still photo to get details of the gun and a description of the suspect and a decision can be made to dispatch First Responders of dismiss as a false alarm. A. I. Knows a sprinkler head is not a gun. Low light or impaired field of vision can impact the aboutty to recognize a threat but a. I. Is showing promise of Early Warning before shots are fired. Mike is an analyst at enterprise strategy group. Over time and as we continue to collect video and as we better train some of these algorithms and models to best detect those images or objects, i think its only going to get better. David louie, abc 7 news. Really Interesting Technology there. Another bad day on wall street. The dow dropping 950 points. The worst performance since june. The nasdaq lost and the s p 500 had the worst day since june in the Third Straight loss down nearly 120 points. The s p on track for the biggest weekly fall since march. At abc 7, were committed to helping build a better bay area including the impact that the pandemic is having on our economy and health. Abc 7 news anchor found a job that actually covers both topics. Once a company gets a vaccine approved, that vaccine will have to be administered and thats partially why cvs is actively by now, you may be familiar with the determine twin demic. The flu season when you have the covid19. Jeffrey lackey says cvs job is to look around the corner to see what is next. That means filling jobs. 15,000 new and existing positions to help during flu season and administer the much anticipated coronavirus vaccine. The need for that to be disbursed quickly is going to be absolutely critical. So we knew first and foremost, we need to handle the here and now and lets ramp up to get in front of the flu. Reporter more than 10,000 of the new roles that by the way are open in the bay area are for full and part time licensed pharmacy technicians. I noticed in anyplace that has an appointment of pharm techs. Reporter people in these rules are vital to administering covid19 tests at the drivethrough cvs sites. Moderna, astrazeneca, Johnson Johnson and pfizer are in three trials. We still dont know when a vaccine would be available to th public, but cvs health isnt waiting around to find out. Were talking, you know, millions, tens of millions, hundreds of millions of people in short order even to an organization as big as cvs, you know, thats still going to be a daunting task and we need to make sure were ready for it. Hurricane zeta made landfall along louisiana just over two hours ago. Take a look. Its a category two storm. People living in the new orleans area are being urged to stay inside. Abc news report er has this is not a drill. Weve had many of them. Its not a drill. We do expect city of new orleans. There is confidence all around that aspect. Reporter forecasters say we could see life threatening storm surge along low lying areas. President trump approving louisiana governor John Bell Edwards request for federal assistance. Zeta is literally on our doorstep. The weather is degrading quickly as we speak. Reporter from louisiana to alabama, hundreds of thousands could be left without power for days. In zetas moving fast, packing damaging winds. Its going to be quick, but its going to be brutal. So these winds are damaging and potentially life threatening. Reporter officials here in new orleans are telling people to not let their guard down on this one. Warning against this Hurricane Season fatigue. Now, zeta will be moving out of here by tonight but could do some damage before heading northeast. While their wrestling with zeta there, here we have pleasant weather. Lets check in with drew. The east coast will get soaked with zetas rain and the west coast is really going to experience autumn warmth. Out side now, well show you sutro tower. You can see nothing but sunshine out there. Calm conditions. I love to show you another video of a rooftop camera equally as beautiful out there. Were enjoying the sunshine on this wednesday afternoon. Love showing you this map, too. Look at the winds in our hills. We seen wind gusts in previous days well over 30, 40 miles per hour, quite a different story today. The offshore winds left us and winds generally are less than ten miles per hour. The fire threat has certainly lessoned substantially today. Right now, it is a warm afternoon experiencing warm days. 72 in San Francisco, 76 oakland and 78 in san jose, 77 concord, some warmer spots in the north bay. Santa rosa right now coming in at 81 degrees so certainly above average. Tonight with the combination of light winds, cool skies, some areas like santa rosa awill dro into the 30s. Chilly mornings tomorrow morning. Around the bay shoreline in the mid 40s to low 50s over the next 12 hours. So satellite and radar, the story over the next 24 hours, High Pressure is strengthening right now just off the coastline and what that will do is bring warm weather tomorrow but also keep the storm track well to our north especially on the boarder of canada and the u. S. So tomorrow its nothing but sunshine and clear skies on the 12hour planner. We have a chilly morning first thing but under calm winds, another warm afternoon with 70s and low 80s for afternoon highs. Very similar story tomorrow to where we are right now. 72 in the city. 78 in san jose. 81 concord. 84 in clover dale and oakland up to 76 degrees. Those numbers just stay pretty warm for this time of the year even into friday. A lot of wide spread 70s and 80s and by halloween on saturday, i mean, it really a treat out there. Were seeing temperatures well above average for this time of the year. The halloween planner on saturday evening showing you some limited fog along the coast but otherwise, well start out in the 60s and 70s by 6 00 before cooling into the 50s and 60s by 9 00. Here is the accuweather sevenday forecast. We have a chilly morning on the way both tomorrow and friday. The fog returns on friday. Halloween certainly looks like a treat this time of the year. Well fall back on sunday but were going to keep that november warmth even sbee electi into election day on tuesday. A stress free day after several weeks of red flag warnings. Nice to see calm conditions as we round out october. Nice break. Drew, how did you get that picture of me dancing to put in your graphic . I didnt see you shooting that. You had a good running man. Im excited to see your frankenstein costume. Some would say i have it now. Thank you. Yeah. Video doorbells, it really exploded in popularity. Everyone has them pretty much. They can be good for safety and social distancing, 7 on your a lot of people have sick cu Security Cameras. It can provide peace of mind and social distancing. Michael finney now has Consumer Reports recommendations on video doorbells. Brandon murphys video doorbell was a car saver when it captured his neighbors vehicle being stolen in the middle of the night. The neighbor said his car got stolen so the first thing i thought, we saved five days worth of camera feeds off the smart doorbell. Sure enough, it was on there. Because they could confirm the sccar was stolen, the polic were able to retrieve the car with no damages found. And brandon is not the only homeowner benefitting from video doorbells. In fact, video doorbell global sells are predicted to grow to 1. 5 billion by 2023. Not only can video doorbells help with the security and peace of mind of homeowners but when synced to a Smart Speaker like amazon echo or google home you can answer the door while keeping a safe distance using just your voice. How do you set up a hands free front door experience . Consumer reports show the best thing to do is keep it in the family. There are video doorbells that claim they work with digital assistance but might not offer all the features to ensure compatibility, stay within the same product ecosystem. If youre a google home user, the nest, hello video doorbell. Paired with the google nest hub max Smart Speaker. As for amazon Smart Speaker owners, Consumer Reports say a perfect pairing is the ring video doorbell 3 and the amazon echo show. Once youre set up, youll be able to talk to visitors from the farthest point of your home. How is that for social distance . Michael finney reporting there. One thing to keep in mind with any connected device on your wifi video doorbells can be hacked. Consumer reports say one way to protect yourself, set up twofactor authentication. Thats a critical security feature they look at in the security tests. Its a big day for patrons of one of