Welcome to the amine for our, heres where were headed this week this week, we examined power and all the ways it affects our lives. First, were going to compete with china were determined to do that. Todays big Power Conflict between china and the United States. My conversation with veteran diplomat us ambassador To Beijing Nicholas Burns, then people have always been interested and now theyre sort of worried. And concern about oh, no Luck Power unchecked power. And the fact that it might be coming for america, the writer who examined a man named Robert Moses who had the power to build and trample over new York Pulitzer prize winning Author Robert Kara joins me. Why 50 years on his seminal book is still flying off the shelves now its safe, you know, so people stay in the deadly Power Struggle in El Salvador between a Strongman President and the criminal gangs. And what it all means for the United States and then in our letter from london, he unleashed her as his secret Weapon Kingmaker
Sarah in San Francisco. And debbie in riverside county. So, i was really kind of shocked to see four different names with my address on them. She opened them to see if someone had stolen her identity. Instead, the notice said edd paid this person too much in benefits. And it was an overpayment stating that they overpaid by 10,000. Thats a lot of money to pay back. Why was there such a huge mistake that somebody received 10,000 overpayment . I dont recognize the name. No one has ever lived here with that name. David in Huntington Beach got a half dozen of these letters. He was shocked at what he found inside one of them. Heres the debit card still attached to the paper works, still glued to it. And edd debit card from bank of america, addressed to someone named valerie. And here is her award notice, saying, she qualifies for up to 14,000. If somebody fills out a false application in the state of california, you would think there would be some safeguards, a request for department it. If
Recent civil unrest that we saw in the streets of downtown san jose last month. Or the covid19 pandemic. We also heard from the mayor of san jose, who said back here live. The chief says he will stay on in his current role through december, which is when he expects his replacement to be named. Im chris nguyen, abc7 news. Okay, chris, thank you very much. Now to our efforts to build a better bay area. Education is a very important part of that and one oh of the topics well focus on tonight. Is the start of school is coming up quick. Two weeks for San Francisco. The bay areas Biggest School district. In the capital of silicon valley, thousands of low income students and families will soon have free access to the internet. Its part of an Innovative Partnership being launched between san jose and at t. Chris nguyen filed this story earlier. Reporter in the midst of the Coronavirus Crisis, bridging the Digital Divide is now more important than ever. We have heard too often of our children h
Programming that same day when President Trump travels to the area of scranton, pennsylvania. Bidens hometown. To as democratail him as a fail. And says that it will take months maybe years to know the results of the election. Well have an election that takes place on november 3 and usually at the end of the evening they say donald trump has won the election. Donald trump is your new president. Whatever they say. You know what . Youre not going to know this possibly if you really did it right for months or for years. Because these ballots are all going to be lost, they will be gone. And no evidence of major fraud in mailin voting. This morning when jake tapper confronted the white house chief of staff about no evidence of fraud, here was mark meadows. There is no evidence of widespread voter fraud. There is no evidence that there is not either. That is the definition of fraud, jake. Lets get to Kristin Holmes near the president s golf resort in new jersey. And the chief of staff covere
Letter collection boxes off the streets. These photos were taken at a Bronx Post Office facility, although its unclear whether all these boxes were removed recently. Now, today there are protesters gathering outside the home of the postmaster general, accusing him of trying to sabotage the mail system to benefit the president , who continued his relentless and baseless attacks on mailin voting. He tweeted that the election will be a fraudulent mess and that we may never know who won. Kristen hole ma Kristen Holmes joins us from bridgewater, new jersey. Hes claimed that dogs have ballots and that it is rife with fraud. Bring us the facts. Reporter ana, there is no evidence that shows that there is any sort of widespread fraud with mailin voting. Has there ever been fraud with mailin voting . Yes, but the cases are exceedingly rare. And we have to be focused on this as we move forward because President Trump keeps saying this is going to shift the entire election and there is no evidence