Sitting right next to him in the starbucks behind me and witnessed his last moments. It just all happened so fast. He was really fast. He was really brave. We were sitting next to him. The guy ran in, grabbed his laptop. The kid who was working chased after him. It happened very fast. He jumped in the car. And then and we were all just watching because we were sitting right here skmt th. And then they drove up the street dragging hip. I was screaming in the starbucks. They are dragging him, they are dragging him. It was like everything was in slow motion. We couldnt get to him fast enough. People werent moving fast enough to help. I called 911. After i did that i went up to check on him because i didnt see people around. But the oakland fire department, some of the guys were around. Thats what we were hoping was the saving grace, how quickly they were on him. But then i walked up to him and you instantly knew it wasnt good. It was very sad. Reporter as you came back today what are you thinking . I feel so bad for his family. Think the day that we get to have versus what they are dealing with. Reporter police are still not releasing the name the two suspects that were arrested. We are also being told that the victims family is being notifi notified of his death and thats why his name hasnt been released yet. Oakland police stress the investigation is ongoing and there could be more arrests. In oakland, laura anthony, abc7 news. Abc7, as you know, is focused on building a better bay area. Part of that is looking at the struggles impacting Homeless Individuals and also how that impacts the larger community. In the north bay there is growing concern about safety at one homeless encampment after the release of this video, a propane tank exploding. Wayne freedman has our story. Reporter when a propane tank exploded two nights ago at the homeless encampment it became a problem. I see a flame ten or 12 feet high and another tank exploding. Reporter this is the man who shot the video. He lives along britain lane who feel undersieged by 200 residents stretching more than a mile along this trial right next door. I dont feel safe. My wife doesnt feel safe. I have three kids. They cant play out here . I heard the other day somebody got cut with a machete. I wouldnt take my biggest dog i have down that trail. Reporter it is county land wedged between city land on one side and a state highway on the other. I want to know i am working around the clock on this and i apologize. Today the county supervisor lip de hopkins looked around and listened to neighbors. The county has declared this a disaster area and pledged almost 12 million to clean it up by moving these people into shelters. But the time line for this extends months. Hopkins and the neighbors want something done in weeks, if not yesterday. The neighbors living around this encamp member taking too much responsibility, too much of the burden. It is unfair to have 200 people tra concentrated on a trail camping outdoors on a not camping reporter a mystery of how kpoktly city and county governments can get it deny. Weighed freedman, abc7 noose. New year, new laws, a new Domestic Partnership law for heterosexual couples. Lyanne melendez is in the newsroom with the pros and the cobbs of the Domestic Partnership law. Heterosexual couples always had the option to marry. It wasnt a big issue. Now they have both. Reporter the thought for heterosexuals was we can get married, we dont need anything else. But that wasnt an option for gay couples, marriage, right, until 2013. What they had instead was the same sex Domestic Partnership, recognized in 1999. But now 2019, straight couples in california have both, like everyone else. In a city that has had Domestic Partnerships for all, it was a shocker to think the state had not followed San Franciscos lead when it came to opposite sex couples. I know San Francisco is more progressive than the rest of the state, but still. Reporter senator scott wiener authored the bill. It was discriminating against straight couples. We ended that discrimination. Reporter until now, this option was only available to same sex couples and anyone over the age of 62 who receives Social Security benefits. For seniors, remaining unmarried can mean higher Social Security benefits for the two combined than being married. Reporter in 2013, californias same sex couples were allowed to marry. So they had the option toess choose between marriage and a Domestic Partnership. The benefits are nearly the same. The rights of survivorship apply. One can adopt a previously born child to a domestic partner. You can add a partner to your health care plan, and both have the right to own community property. It is a personal choice. But at least there is another option out there. Options are good, right . Sthoor but under federal law there are thing that a Domestic Partnership does not give you. One cannot sponsor a noncitizen partner. No adopting a killed from another country. There are few rights when traveling to certain states. And you must file federal taxes as two single partners. Brent and kristen opted to get married. It is a form of recognition, recognition for your relationship. Reporter by the way, dissolving a Domestic Partnership is identical to getting a divorce so we married them and divorce them all in 1 30. Sorry about that. Hears a copy of that form for a Domestic Partnership to be filed with the secretary of state in sacramento. The fee is 33 the 33 and only people over 62. Who knows, this may be the predominant lifestyle. In the newsroom, leann melendez, abc7 news. Also with the new year, some new local laws going into effect. Including minimum wage increases in several bay area cities. Will it make a ditches for employees . Julian glover spoke to people today who arent quite sure yet. Reporter a new year means a new bottom line for minimum wage worker like diane slowlia. It was a 25 cent increase make a difference over the whole year. Reporter she has been a server at flings restaurant in san jose where the minimum is increasing from 15 to 15. 25 an area. Good news. But it is a price that will be passed on to her customers. I think you made a mistake. No, i thought it was 13. 50 or 14 now they have to increase the price because we had an increase. Reporter some customers we spoke to dont mind and say an increase of a quarter an hour is not enough in such tough times. I think it should be 17, 18. Reporter other cities across the bay also with a new years day minimum wage increase include oakland and santa clara. Here at the hobies restaurant in sunnyvale, none of the employees inside wanted to go on camera but several of them told me they are excited to now be receiving that 16. 05 minimum wage, one of the highest minimum wages in the entire state of california. With the cost of living so high, will it make a difference . This deliver driver in the city isnt sold. Whether or not the rent is going to go up, too. The cost of living might go up. It might be helpful for minimum wage workers out there. I hope it is that way. Reporter in the south bay, julian glover, abc7 news. On our website, abc7news. Com, we have an extensive list of New California laws in 2020 and what they mean for you. Now take a look at this. First sun rise of the new year. Sun coming up this morning over the Ferry Building in San Francisco. Spencer christian we had the new i dont remembers celebration, he stayed up to take that shot for you. Is that correct . You stayed up all night waiting for that beautiful picture. Of course. Thats my work there. Another example. Great way to start the you this year tonight you think. Mild. Clouds hung around a little bit. Oh, come on. Day one. Here we go. Live doppler 7. We have as you have seen, some clouds hanging around. A pleasant day. This is from the east bay hills camera. 58 in oakland. 61 redwood city and gilroy. 57 at san jose. And Half Moon Bay 5 a. High clouds at the golden gate. Upper 50s in napa, fairfield, concord and livermore. The few from emeryville looking west where we see breaks of sunshine there working its way through the clouds. These are our forecast features. Well see mainly bright skies for the morning commuters. Not bay spring offels may develop late friday into early saturday. After that, look forward to a sunny weekend and a cooler pattern early next week. We have a hi surf advisory in effect until 9 00 tomorrow morning. The surf is rough and potentially dangerous right now. Breakers could reach heights of 16 to 22 feet. If you plan to be anywhere near the coastline, please stay far away are the waters edge heres a forecast in animation overnight. We will see the clouds we have now beginning to depart giving us mainly clear skies overnight except for the possibility of a few patches of inland valley fog, maybe along the coast as well. Tomorrow will be a mainly sunny day. Looks pleasant. Overnight lows will be in the low to mid 40s. Tomorrows highs will range from upper 50s at the coast to lower 60s just about everywhere else. Thursday night at 11 00. Notice how the clouds thicken going into friday. Friday is going to be a dreary looking day. We dont expect rainfall until late friday night. Late night showers may develop in the north bay continue in the wee hours of saturday morning. Dissipate giving us sunny skies on heres the awe weather seven day forecast. A pretty nice seven days ahead. Mid week next week we will see a cooler pattern developing, Early Morning chance of showers on wednesday of next week. We have to watch that because it is seven days away. We cant really say much right now about how strong of a system it will be. But it could develop into our first true rainmaker of the new year. Keep watching it for you. Where are we in general . November there was almost no rain. Then december it seemed every other day it was raining. We are around the seasonal afternoon for the total rainfall for the season but we need to start getting more systems coming in here if we are going to stay there. E state is essentially out of drought right now. But if we go two weeks this the rainy season without any rain then we will start to slip behind again. The pope apologizing for slapping away the hands of a woman who was greeting him at an event. How he is explaining his actions. Nutrition labels getting a makeover. 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Ask your rheumatologist about cosentyx. It is time now for the for at 4 00, four stories we wanted you to know about today. Pope francis has apologized for slapping the hand of a well wisher who grabbed him yesterday. The incident happened as the pope strolled through st. Peters square. The woman reached out and grabbed the pope and pulled him toward her. He immediately became well i guess upset. Today francis confessed to losing patience and apologized saying he set a bad example. What do you think . If someone is grabbing you and pulling you, even if you are the pope i would be like hey, hey. I think the woman said it, hey, pope, i am here. But it shows you he is human. You think he is the pope, but he reacted like a human standard. You dont know what that pers is going to do. I think what she doesz was horrible. Did you see her jerk him . Yeah. I dont think he did anything wrong. I agree. It is one thing to reach out and touch him but right. I agree. Lets move on then. We have all probably been guilty of it, except for this guy, eating an entire or this guy over here. Entire bag of chips or pint of ice cream. Now you will know exactly how much damage you have done because today the fda has new nutritional labeling rules. We told you about them. They include labels with two columns. One, for a single serving, and the second with the entire bag or the entire package. Yep. When you look at it you have seen it before, right. Oh, yeah. Where it says 170 calories. You go, okay. But its five servings. Now they have to tell you that. What do you think . I think, yeah it is like a soup can, i look at the back, and i am like, who eats half a can of soup. It is like scared straight. They are trying to scare you into not eating the whole bag or the whole thing of ice cream. I dont know whether it is going to be that effective. But at least you have the information now. Like when you go to a restaurant you can get the calorie break down. If you want to know you can. I like it, too. I like knowing how much of anything i am putting into my body. How many people will not just Pay Attention but will eat according to some standard . Some limitation. You should be eating according the your body, not some external force anyway. Okay. You know . Your body should tell what you to do. All right, decades ago, futurists and experts were making bold predictions about what would happen by 2020. Have all of their predictions come true . In 1999, futurist ray crewsdale predicted computers would be largely invisible. Thats largely true. We have smart homes and smart watches, self driving cars were supposed to be here. They are close. In 1999, bill gates predicted we would have personal companions check your email for and you create shopping lists and stuff like that. We have alexa, siri and google assistant. They do some of that. And technology can do some things no one saw coming. Oh, goodness. Like this. Larry beil looking cool ringing in the new year. The glasses were actually real. Oh, were they . Yes, but the balloons and confetti and snowflakes, that was instagram provided. Special effects. Because i am up on the new stuff. With all the kids i would love to see not just self driving cars. When are we going to get the flying cars . Go right over everything. So we can go over the bay bridge and just look down. Like the jetsons. And my car will be it will fit into my briefcase. It will that would be cool. And expand when you need it to go home. As we dive into 2020 there is a new poll suggesting words that should be banned. Lake superior university released its 45th annual list of words banished from the queens english. Thats that spencer uses. I you. Misuse, overuse, and general uselessness. The results come from on line nominations, most nominated word was quid pro quo. Others words were banned for pretensionness or overuse by millennials. For example, and quote, i am literally living my best life. Oh, gosh. Because today i am totes vibing with my crush. Dont be jelly. And you have to say it like that. If you dont get it like that, then okay boomer. I have got to let go of totes. I like it when you say totes. I wonder if this is going to the year or the decade i wonder if this will be the year when we stop using rando abbreviations. Like what . Rondo. Like rando. And totes, and i think every year we have a new batch. I would like to see the made up words get thrown away. But quid pro quo is real, from latin, and it means something. So thats not it may be overused. Are you tired of sick. I am tired of sick. That is so sick. Something thats great. Oh, thats sick. I am living my best life, i could easily and who is . Who among us makeup at 11 p. M. Do i live for that. All right. Thats four at 4 00. 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One man we spoke with says the swim is invigorating and a great way to start the new year. We swim at least once a week year round. It is exciting to do. It is totally thrilling. When you are in the boat, 130 yards away are the island and you jump, it is special every time. It always will be. 51degree water. The south End Rowing Club was founded in 1873. It is the oldest group of its kind west of the mississippi. Good job, people. East bay congresswoman barbara lee is celebrating the new year with her new husband. The 3yearold democrat tweeted this photo showing her with her new husband. They got married yesterday. Lee wrote her heart has never been so full. Odin recently retired. New video showing the dangerous conditions that firefighters are facing in australia. Coming up, those firefighters describe trying to escape as everything around their truck just exploded. And this year, abc7 has been celebrating our 70 boy grandpa, look what i got woman oh dad, wait till you see the bike we got for jake. narrator hearing loss happens gradually with age. Making it easy to ignore. Yet most Older Americans arent getting their hearing tested. Untreated hearing loss can keep your loved ones from enjoying what they cherish most. woman dad, can you hear me . narrator dont let that happen. Speak up about hearing loss. Youll be glad you did. Announcer now, news to build a better bay area. From abc7. Throughout the past year, we at abc7 have been celebrating our stations 70th anniversary of serving the bay area. On the we bring you the final part of our abc7 original series focusing on the rich history of our station. The channel 7 news gang. Van, the kid amberg, he is not afraid to smoke out his own news stories. Jerry jenson, a Television News legend out here. They rode in on horseback deputyized to rescue channel 7s ratings. Believe it or not, this is a ad for channel 7 news in the 70s. The bey areas most wanted Television News team . Im dion lim. I am proud to be a part this television station. Even though i work here, i didnt actually know a lot about kgo tv newss amazing history. Now that i do, i am excited to share the incredible story of the 1970s with you. Good afternoon. The year is 199. Van amberg is taking over as lead anchor of channel 7 news. If you catch fish in the bay and eat them. Dont. Reporter within months there is a whole new format called news scene that will change tv news forever. Good evening. The basic format looks familiar now. For its time it was a revolution with crazy commercials, Ground Breaking reports on social change, and decade of historymaking news coverage. Its been almost six months now since the indians took over alcatraz. Channel 7 news in the 70s was a no holds barred news operation that made up the rules as we went along. Reporter the shows always included a major dose of hard news. But compared to the formal broadcasts of the past, the new format focused more on peoples every day concerns. Is the toll going stay at 1 . Reporter consumer issues, health news, stories about children, and education, and even pop culture, all started to get more attention. For the officers time in Television News, every single story revolved around people and what they were thinking and what they were doing. It wasnt events that we were covering. We were really cover peoples lives. I got a job. And i dont care what it is. I like the work. I enjoy working. Reporter the news team itself became more relatable, and viewers responded. Everybody was watching kgo tv in those days. The format had changed dramatically and all eyeballs were glued to that television station. And van amberg was at the center of it all. 30 years to he would and getting older. Thats the score card in the San Francisco city work he is strike at this hour. Reporter van was the ultimate promoter. Known for teases. Coming up, a murder, this time in okay. Oaklands kill count continued to climate a record rate, and the latest on the two men who spent all that time for a murder they didnt commit. Reporter the focus was on local news which in the early 70s include administering of terrifying stories from the murder murder of the first black superintendent of schools to the zebra killings to the kidnapping of up in hair he is patty hearst. She was taken at gunpoint from her berkeley apartment. So far there has been no ransom demand at all. Reporter another key to the format was sending reporters beyond the boundaries of San Francisco. That idea became even more modern, when bart opened in 1972 and people began moving farther and farther out of the city. It was a bay area station. Not just a San Francisco station. Reporter reporter david louie was hired in 1972, only thesecond second Asian American on news into there was a lot of curiosity. They wanted to know what generation am i . Where did my grandparents come from. Reporter pete was the first professional meteorologist on bay area tv. He did his own forecasting and environmental reporting. Like this 1976 series on what was then the worst drought in state history. Right now at Crystal Springs where i am standing i would be buried underneath 12 to 15 feet of water had this been a normal year. Reporter he even bared it all to promote low flow shower heads. You canake a good shower with them, believe me you can. Reporter he was also part of the attention granning staples that were an early news scene staple. Other ads featured consumer reporter john brian. And a hearty higho 7, the action 7 ranger. When it comes to getting things done, action 7 does it best. Reporter commercials like these added to the teams reputation for what some called happy talk, the chitchat between the april corps that did not necessarily have a serious news purpose but did make them sem like regular human beings. The congressmans bill would not outlaw massaging hands, arms, or legs but would prohibit those ladies from tickling your fancy. Get out of town and we will rub you down. Reporter channel 7ese news was rated one of the highest rated newscast in all of the country. That brought mike wallace of cbss 60 minutes to San Francisco to find out who was going on. He was not a fan and blasted kgo for showing too much crime and sex and not enough international or national news. The general manager made no apologize. Isnt fire, crime, and sex news . Even the esteemed New York Times has to put a little sex in there once in a while. Even on the back page. Reporter van amberg stood by the people first format. We do solve problems, we do things we get the lady the house she has been burn out. It is not a traditional news show in any sense . Absolutely not. No, the traditional news show is what we knocked off the air here. Reporter van was under fire for leading a news with a report that a mans severed genitals were found on a Railroad Track. If we had found a finger beside a Railroad Track in the east bay we would have had it on. I was not up tight about the fact it was a male sexual organ. To me there was a victim somewhere. This was dprabd by many members of the press and said look what they are doing to grab headlines. We didnt duty that off and put it over there. Reporter whatever, the ratings kept growing, so did the diversity of the news team. We are this the line of fire. Thats rodrigo which i cone. He was hired away from another bay area station. It was like grog the Little League to the majors. Reporter the population doubled in the last decade. He launched the south bay bureau and worked to define his role as the first latino reporter on bay area news. When i would explain to people in the mexican that i have to be objective and i couldnt be a spokesman they said, well, what good does it do then, to have you there . Reporter the good came from rigos determination to cover stories that better reflected the diversty of the community. Brought to the table stories that had never been told. I brought out the table stories that wouldnt be to. I brought to the table stories that broadcasters hadnt thought of. So, yes, we made a difference. Reporter valley coleman also joined channel 7 in 1974 as a reporter and weekend anchor. Valerie was the first anchor to appear on Bay Area Television pregnant. At first, she hid it. I wore a huge belt all the time. That was just my fashion. Because im i did not know what would happen if i said im pregnant. Reporter even after management found out, valerie stayed on the air and became a popular part of the news team. Reporter despite the look of this ad, women in the newsroom were still considered secondary. In later years, valerie would go on to push management to make female anchors equal to men stereo when we look at it and see the number of women who are in key anchor positions it is like, okay, i feel good about this, because 50 years ago it was not that. 50 years ago was a pretty solitary course. Reporter one place the use team was always united was serving the community. Even when it was controversial. Back in the 1970s, coverage of child abuse fell into that category, leading to this editorial. Look, i know we upset some of oufr viewers every time we do a story on child abuse. We are to the doing it to be popular. What we are really trying to do is save some lives. As long as i am general manager we are going to continue to serve the community in spite of that criticism. Reporter meanwhile the Community Channel 7 served with a changing. One of the stories of the 70s was the demand for gay rights. The statistics are overwhelming. Look at any crowd in San Francisco and the odds are that up with out of three is gay. Reporter for many, the topic was still off limits but jerry jenson and the channel 7 news team spent six months working on a Ground Breaking series. This has always been known as a place that could accept people with different lifestyles. And certainly, the gay lifestyle is different lifesty lifestyle. Reporter during the mid 1 0s, channel 7 led reporting on other major bay area stories, too. The failed attempt to assassinate president gerald ford. The brutal eviction of elderly from San Franciscos Egyptian Hotel and in 1978, proposition 13 rolling back property taxes. The greatest tax crusader in american history, howard jarvis. Reporter the station was also known for hardhitting investigations. I dont think you are going to like this story. It is about lending institutions that wont lend money for housing certain areas. It is called red lining. It is illegal. More than, that it is disgraceful. Reporter reporter steve davis was asking guess with jim jones and the peoples temple in San Francisco well before in jonestown, guyana. Wers died steves interview with the cult leader was grim. There are mass suicide rehearsals going on inside jonestown. Reporter as a result he received death threats. He moved out of his house as a precaution. Then channel 7 brought viewers another stunning moment. Mayor moss coney and supervisor harvey milk have been shot and killed. Oh. Oh, jesus christ. The suspect is supervisor dan white. Reporter the following year, channel 7 cameras were there as riots broke out when white was found guilty of manslaughter rather than murder. It was a sad end to a decade marked by a lot of tragedy. But a new era was beginning. In december, 1979, van amberg and david louie led the first local news team to visit mainland china, which had been closed to westerners for 30 years. In this country of pagodas and temples and beautiful gardens is now racing toward the year 20 0. Reporter it was an ambitious effort connecting the bay areas Chinese Community with its chinese roots, a sign of how much broader the local news would be in the next decade. Heading into the 1980s, stations all over the country were copying channel 7 newss winning formula. Better Technology Made it easier to get news and pictures to viewers fast. The controversial format, that mellowed a little, but abc7 kept the focus on real people, and the issues that matter to them. Then, as now, we are committed to building a better bay area. I am dion lim, celebrating 70 great years of abc7. Wow, amazing seeing all of that. Fascinating. So much stuff. I had no idea. Just to see van amberg was fantastic. You can see more of that. 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You dont have to go to a bank and set something up and abide by their transaction rules and things like that. You can get and send money easily. A lot of banks have their own payment apps. When you buy something using a dabbette card or credit card you get certain protections against fraud. If somebody steals your credit card number and buys a bunch of stuff you are not responsible for those charges. Your checking accounts with major banks it is insured. The payment apps, not so much. Most of them dont offer any fraud prevention. It was set up to pay your babysitter or give money to friend and family. Scammers are using these accounts all the time. You have no resource if money has been stolen from you due the fraud. How are scamster setting me up, getting my money . Lots of ways. A common ploy is they will put an ad out, give me a deposit before i meet up with you to show this apartment and then the money is gone. A lot of them are putting ads up on facebook for pets. Puppies for sale kind stuff and they are getting a lot of people that way. There is no limit to it. The problem suspect that scammers are using it. Scammers are always looking to scam your money. It is that you really have no recourse if you have been frauded. Should you treat these Services Just like wiring money . You ought to ignore people when they tell to you do that. Oh, no, no. You should assume that if you give money to someone using one of these apps it is like handing them cash and walking away. If thing dont go right, it is up to them, their good will, to give it back to you. Got it. Another big problem is the good news is you only need an email address or a cell phone number to have one of those accounts. You dont have to have a physical set address. The problem is if you send money to the wrong cell phone number or email dras, that money is gone, too. If somebody has that cell phone number it is up to their good will to send that money back to you as opposed to somehow being able to pull it back. We have had complaints about this, where we have the wrong number, we will contact the person who has got the money and they think they are being scammed. They are going, no, michael finney, you are not going to take me. I dont blame them. Right. This has become such a common problem about the payment apps that i think fraud is widespread. Again, the bad news is there is little resource. If you are using paypal and using the goods and Services Part of payment as opposed to family and friends there is recourse. At that point you are channelling the money through its program that does have a dispute resolution service. And you do get really strong protections when you buy things using a credit or debit card. But you need to know if you are buying stuff through the other apps or the payment apps you need to check to see whether you have any kind of brokes. You usually dont. Kevin thank you for joining us. Good to see you. Now, your accuweather sevenday forecast forecast with Spencer Chris tep. Live doppler 7 showing calm conditions. Clouds increasing a little bit. But after midnight clearing out of here giving way to a bright start to january 2nd. Overnight lows in the mid to upper 40s. Low 40s in the inland valleys. Tomorrows highs will range from upper 50s at coast the 60, 61 degrees at most bay shore locations and low 60s in some of the milder inland spots. Here is the accuweather sevenday forecast. Sunny by afternoon tomorrow. Farley mild weather thursday and friday. But there is a chance of light night light sprinkles doeching up in the north bay. Some may linger into early saturday morning. Clearing in the afternoon. Bright sunny skies on sunday and monday. 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Nurse you should know, he did it as mayor, hell get it done as president. Mrb im Mike Bloomberg and i approve this message. Well, many teens are concerned about building a better bay area for the next ten years, the tech next decade as they become adults. A teenager in fremont collected 20,000 pounds of e waste last year personally making trips to the recycling center. As Lauren Martinez shows us, hes hoping to raise awareness of the impact and the me to recycle properly. Talk to the customer even if i am not there. Reporter this 17yearold created his own website, keep bay area beautiful after he saw a need to bring aareaness about electronic waste. It is really something so impactful and not wellknown it is a big problem in the world. At least someone should try to spread awareness about it. Reporter he is tackling this big problem by creating dropoff centers for people to dispose of their electronics properly. His first dropoff location was at mill paid as library. By the first day i would have to come every day to collect the electronic waste and drop it off. Reporter his efforts got attention and recognition from the mayor. In april of 2019, he received the Community Hero award by state Assembly Member chu. If one is far away i will find customers that live near there so one day i can round up all the e waste from that area. Reporter he also personally picks up e waste materials from peoples homes. He also holds drop off drives at lol parks. I will tell all the neighbors and the local residents which park we will start collecting at. Thats what i am doing right now. Reporter with the help from his website and social media he is hoping to expand his organization beyond mill paid as and fremont. I think the younger generation, especially with social Media Technology they have a voice in other previous generation had. I am not doing it for a payment or a stipend of i am actually doing it because i actually want to help the community. 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