Transcripts For KOFY ABC7 News 900PM On KOFY 20161116 : comp

Transcripts For KOFY ABC7 News 900PM On KOFY 20161116

Reporter Vice President he president elect pence smiling leaving trump tower. But just hours earlier one of trump Top National Security advisors abruptly resigned from the transition team. Former congressman mike rogers reportedly pushed out. And hes not alone. Low level trump staffer also gone after requesting National Security clearance for the president elect oldest children. Sources say it was not a formal request from trump or his kids. But it comes under if you scrutiny over the blurred lines between the Family Businesses and the white house that trump children are helping assemble. Meanwhile trump also dealing with criticism over his chef strategist bannon former chairman of bright hart news. People didnt vote for donald trump to bring a white supremacist into the white house. Reporter but of course there are ongoing protest. In washington, d. C. Hundreds of students on pennsylvania avenue shut down the lincoln memorial. Want to let donald trump know that he can not divide us with his racism, sexism, all the bigotry. Since the election dramatic in harassment and intemperature daysment more than 400 incidents. 4 times more than an average week. It appears trump himself is not immune to the complaints. The president elect tweeted quote if the election were based on total popular vote i would have campaigned in new york, florida and california and won even bigger and more easily. As of now Hillary Clinton is winning the popular vote by nearly 800,000 ballots. This is abc news washington. Mean time wall street journal reporting tonight the the Vice President elect mike pence ordered removal of all lobbyist from the transition team. Officials say despite all the changes the 10 week effort to build an administration is on schedule. In reaction to the results of the election we are continu continuing to see protest and rally across the country and here in the bay area. Vic has more from central area in man may teo. Demonstrators from san mateo high were joined by those from hills dale high schools. The crowd crew had 1,000 students. Largest group came from san mateo high. About 300 left the class rooms. Many others in the school of 1700 did not join. This is walk and we are. Election already over. All the rally really are kind of pointless to me. As they march to central part of san mateo those along the way express their support. Jessica is annual um from san mateo high. Seeing the kid. You know. Support something they truly believe in makes me really proud. Reporter Student Government leader wanted to clarify a misconception. Pro respect. Pro love. Pro accepts. Pro understanding. Its not antitrump. Reporter student after student reiterated that theme. Volatile election divided so many people. Stay united. Come together as one even if we have to use our different background. Please now head just left. Reporter for the students voicing their beliefs was democracy in action. Vic lee, abc 7 news. There was this scene at protest in los angeles over the weekend. Capture a moment of respect between officers and demonstrators during a protest against president elect trump. They shake hands and officers for keeping them safe. They tell them to stay safe and thanking them for keeping the protest peaceful. The video has had a had 3 and half million view on facebook. Well today House Democrat delay a vote to decide who will be minority leader in congress and some see it as sign that nancy pelosi leadership is in jeopardy. Shes made history during her nearly 3 decades representing the bay area in congress for 14 years she served as democrat leader in the house. First woman to do so. Now her future in donald Trump Presidency is unclear. Laura is on that story. Reporter nancy pelosi down playing but others in the party are now saying its time for a change at the top. Try to repeal the health care bill, privatize medicare well fight you. Reporter ohio congressman ryan indicated would he like to succeed pelosi. Not clear who the leadership of the party is at this point. Reporter steve is a professor of politics at st. Marys college here. There is a fundamental polarization going on in the country. Democratic party has to decide what it wants to do to rebuild winning coalition. Reporter but congressman told us by phone from dc at the would be in mistake to replace her. Shes inconceivable we would replace her. Shes too valuable especially now for the country and for the congress. Pelosi is a great leader for our party. Reporter but others like cocoa Central Committee member told us he still sees the San Francisco democrat contract as the best choice to lead the party into the future. Especially during the trump administration. I understand the inkling, the interest that some members may have in making a leadership change. But one of the things that has been hall mark of pelosi leadership of our House Democratic caucus whenever members come to her even if its just a few of them and express concerns about how things are done, she license. Reporter democrat now have their leadership vote set for november 30 so challenger to pelosi have i two week to stepu. Laura anthony abc 7 news. Today cavalry tiring senator Barbara Boxer will abolish the Electoral College. She wants president ial election to be decided by the popular vote. Donald trump won the presidency through Electoral College but Hillary Clinton is leading the popular vote by 1 millionvote votes. Some votes are still being counted. Senator boxer spoke with us by phone about one hurdle to making the change. This is common sense and it will be an uphill battle because small state like the way it is but its not right. Every Single Person vote should count and if they really dont in the system. They will stop allowing fake news site to use the Advertising Software on google. Came after critic complain the search who won the popular vote showed an ad that took them to a fake news site. Bbc interview google ceo conceded fake news on google could have changed the way some people voted. Given the time margin fake news could have affected some peoples vote and maybe enough people vote to affect the out come. Sure fake news is a bulk from our perspective this should just be no situation where fake news gets distribute sod we are all for doing bette better. Google says it will restrict ad that misrepresent, conceal information about publisheser of an ad. Change could be death nell for these sites. Trump lost the popular vote by nearly 800,000 votes but won the Electoral College. San francisco supervisor scott weiner claiming victory tonight at the race for the state senate. Opponent says not so fast. A week since the election and today weiner declared victory but his challenger kim isnt conceding. Cn kill reports still 93,000 ballot to count and t. Her face and name remain mystery but millions know the story of survival. Woman attacked by former Stanford Brock turner using her experience to strengthen other others. She released new statement saying the past year has been hard through the worst times i discovered im indestructible. Slow to learn but now i cant forget. Emily dough released leather last night honor theed during the glamor women of the year award and she wrote a letter to brock turn and she addresses girls everywhere. On nights when you feel alone i am with you. The when people doubt you or dismiss you, i am with you. I find every day for you the now never stop fighting t. Tibl you. Turner served three month in 6 month sentence. We have much more ahead for you on this tuesday night. Coming up. Demonstration against Sexual Harassment and accuser shares her story with abc 7 news. Lieutenant governor explains why he will never run for president. Time to pull out the winter clothing. Ill explain why coming up. And how finding this is is. Architect professor in berkeley investigated for Sexual Harassment. Graduate student who lodged the complaint is telling her side of the story. Heres melanie. The graduate students made sure the voice were his heard today outside the hall. They were here to support p hd candidate fisher. I feel like everybody who is stand with me is standing with the issue that is bigger than me and i feel so protected. And valued. Reporter fisher says from 2010 to 2014 her advisor professor sexually harassed he her. What happened to me was 4 years of escalating isolation, intimidation. As report showed hostile Work Environment which then turned into Sexual Harassment. Reporter investigative report by berkeley found most of fisher claims were sustained. I feel validated. Professor strongly denies he was involved in think Sexual Harassment. He is concerned that people are jump to judgment. There was a report that was supposedly confidential. Reporter email student from berkeley says while the professor is not scheduled to teach next semester the university does not prejudge any ongoing process. Or impose punitive sanctions prior to completion of applicable p students who support officialer say thats not enough. We want his immediate suspension from teaching. While the investigation is ongoing and if found guilty we want the tenure removed. Deep effort to address Sexual Harassment on campus and this is something that is ongoing problem. Professor Attorney Says he will have a hearing. In berkeley, melanie, abc 7 news. We have update on walnut creek appeal to stay open late later. The sports bar and grill ordered to close at 12 30 am instead of 2 00 am. After hearing from police and owner of the bar today the Planning Commission decided to delay the decision. Council members said they have alot of new material to review and will continue to hearing the early next month. One resident we tucked to was sympathy iing with the bar saying the city need night life. There is such an influx of youth coming in here. We need an area for entertainment. You socialize in bars and restaurants at this age. Reporter late tonight restriction came after man was killed outside the bar in august. They have had more than 600 calls for Police Assistance since 2012. Protest in to the streets in the east bay to stop the did coat a access pipeline. We were in albany where demonstrators gather in front of City Bank Branch on so solana avenue. City bank a major financial supporter of the piline. Another group rallied in San Francisco as part off protests today more than 80 cities across the country. Pipeline would carry oil from north dakota to illinois and run under the missouri river. Prime World Trade Center sourc source. Like where is it safe to destroy peoples water sources . Because its going to go under the river in order to get to where its going and it doesnt need to be going in the first place. Reporter pipeline would also run near the Standing Rock indian reservation on the north dakota a south dakota a board. Yesterday the army corps of engineers paused the project saying additional discussion with the tribe and analysis are warranted. San Francisco Mayor newsom trying to climb the political ladder but he has no desire to run for president. Then interview at the enterprise conference if San Francisco today the said he thinks seems like the most miserable job in the world. He says he doesnt want to even talk about i. Hes running for governor in the 2018 elect. Poll shows him with the commanding lead. Lets turn our attention to the weather forecast. Midweek woo. Thats right. Ready for some chilly weather tomorrow morning. Right now ill show you a time lapse from the camera. Sunset tonight as you know earlier and earlier. 4 58 p. M. And as we did see the sun going down burst of color there. Quite a bit of cloud cover as cold front came through here and heres what is left of radar. We have a lot of cloud right now but we did have some showers earlier in the day and snow showers up in the Northern California mountains. This is a cold stem you can see some of the snow showers activity in the sierra nevada. Mixed precipitation. Seeing some rain and also some snow south of tahoe but if traveling up there snow levels coming down and tomorrow morning they are looking at snow showers down to about 4000 feet. Rainfall total from nothing to about 4 hundredths inch of petaluma at radar site. 12 hundredths inch trace amounts in places like san jos jose. Winds right now a little bit breezy outside. 15 miles an hour at fairfield. 14 at sfo. The wind and cloud cover holding your temperatures up tonight. It is going to be chilly tomorrow morning and only gets colder the following morning. From east bay hills camera spectacular view right now. Visibility is good. Upper 50s San Francisco. Gilroy. Oakland right now and live look from the emeryville camera. Clearly see across the bridge to the bay bridge there. Temperatures already 50 degree ins santa rosa. Its cold. Livermore 55. One last live picture from the sutro camera and we are watching chilly conditions coming up wednesday, thursday morning potential for frost on thursday morning. A cool breezy tomorrow afternoon. Unsettled pattern this weekend. When you get going tomorrow morning dont forget the heavy coats. Its going to be chilly. Low 40s to low 50s only patchy fog unlike the last couple mornings. Take a look at the hour by hour forecast here whats left of the system could produce possible sprinkle. 5 00 a. M. But most of this is right over the water. Not expecting it to be a rerun 0today. Tomorrow afternoon there will be plenty of sun for your wednesday. High though will remain on the cool side. Low mid 60s at best. Few upper 50s as well with the breeze pwlochlingt it feels raw out there despite the fact its sunny. Storm impact scale for the wea wean. One light moderate rain expected with the light system. Early estimates about half inch to inch andand breezy at times so heres the hour by hour look at the weekend. 5 00 a. M. Primarily in the north bay on saturday and then by evening it spreads. Rain will continue on sunday and right four its looking like potential is there for few showers early monday morning before everything winds down. You can obviously down load the 7 news app and help you track all the rainfall potential we do have with live doppler 7. Heres what we could see by sunday night. Possibly up to inch and a half. Wet east north bay location. Accuweather 7 day forecast look like this it is chilly tomorrow morning. Breezy and bright tomorrow afternoon. Cold morning coming up thursday even colder than wednesday and the temperatures will both overnight low afternoon high will come up on friday. Only to drop again for the weekend as we bring in the possibility of the rain. Slight chance monday morning then we go back to dry conditions. Thanks. Up next. Three years later. We tell you how hes doing after the make a wish surprise that touched the world. Whether if a pill could mack you alert and smarter. Bay area ground zero for new type of supplement and users say they are giving them edge at school, home and at the job and potential risk of course and more. Jon batiste has mastered new ways to play old classics. With chase atms, he can master new ways to deposit checks too. Easy to use Chase Technology for whatever youre trying to master. The uncertainties of hep c. I dont want to live with or wonder whether i should seek treatment. I am ready. Because today theres harvoni. 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The film has been a huge hit for pixar and producer is still getting letters from kids who are so excited by the story they actually write to the fis fish. Some are addressed to the fish in care of pixar so we deliver those. The faithful that she delivered a message of feeling okay with yourself. We have a look at the mural inside pixar today and of course pixar like abc 7 is part. 3 years ago today something very special happened in San Francisco. Seriously. It was like brad pitt just walk up. It wasnt brad pitt but 5yearold boy who had leukemia got the movie star treatment. Make a wish greater bay area help miles scott become bat kid for a day. Story so moving it was turned in a documentary. So you may be wondering what hes up to these days three years later. Miles now eight years old and we are toll he is thriving. He plays Little League baseball and two younger brothers miles says having the wish granted was an important part of his recovery. 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