Transcripts, these are notes, not an official transcript, but as close as is available. It is the best record of this call. Made july 25th, from the white house residence by President Trump to president zelensky ukrai ukraine, the call lasted about 30 minutes. And let me walk you through the call after having read the notes of the call. Trump begins by congratulating zelensky for his election victory and midway through the call says, quote, id like you to do us a favor those because our untry has been through a lot and ukraine knows a lot about it, id like you to find out what happened with this whole situation with ukraine. They say crowd strike. I guess you have one of your wealthy people, the server, they say ukraine has it. Now, frankly, it is hard to tell exactly what the president means. Jchlt doj officials werent able to shed light on it. But perhaps he is thinking that somebody in ukraine has one of the missing clinton email servers. Frankly, it is impossible to tell. And then
A senate agent on robo call fraud. A pennsylvania sheriff, u. S. Postal inspector and Telecommunications Consultant testify on the impact of robo call scams and how to better educate the public. An hour and 45 minutes. The hearing will come to order. Good morning. Protect american seniors from scammers who seek to defraud them is a central goal of this committee. In the past six years we have held 23 hearings on fraud and scams targeting our seniors. Using phones and the internet, they have proven to be relentless. To protect our nation seniors, we must continue not only to prosecute con artists who steal literally billions from our seniors, but to also find new, more effective ways to block a legal spoofing and robo calls at the network level. Last year robo callers generated more than 26 billion unwanted calls that reached American Mobile phones. When land lines are included, the number soars to 48 billion. In may alone, our residents received an astonishing 93 million robo calls las
Recovered so far, of the 34 people presumed dead. The cause of that fire is still unknown. Reporter the process of identifying the victims and notifying families is underway very search efforts for survivors ended tuesday after labor day dive boat excursion of Southern California turns tragic. 39 on board, 33 passengers, six crew. But early monday morning a fire broke out, dropping those sleeping in bunks below deck, blocking, according to the sheriff, the one exit and escape hatch. 34 died in the inferno, 20 bodies recovered. Deputies hope to find remaining victims today, but the conception remains upside down and unstable and 65 feet of water. It is never an easy decision to suspend search efforts, we know this is a very difficult time for families and friends of the victims. Five crewmembers sleeping on the top deck escaped by jumping off and taking a small boat to safety. Two went back to look for survivors but found no one. Today efforts will be made to stabilize the boat so that
Okay. From what we understand, two structures threatened and again, fear about the fire spreading into these subdivisions. Media briefing is about to get under way. I hope to get more information for you and to be able to bring that back to you later in the show. Reporting live out here in dublin, Lesley Brinkley, abc7 news. Thank you. We will check back with you. Numerous abc7 viewers provided video of this afternoons grass fire. It put up smoke visible for miles. It spread quickly which is why homeowners were told to be ready to evacuate. This video shows how close it came to houses even from across the freeway. It put up a thick white cloud of smoke. This picture was taken everybody quiet a distance from the fire, giving you an idea of just how big it got in a short amount of time. Let us quickly go to Spencer Christian with a look at conditions in the area in particular of the wind. Wind is the main concern. In terms of weather conditions. Only 79 degrees in dublin right now. Its n
Feel good, look good. Here is a look at whats going on. What is this . Thats what we were talking about yesterday. This is verga. Its way too dry below 14,000 feet for this to make it. Its mainly cloudy out there. You can see some of the stars through them as we look from the exploratorium camera. Mid 50s to 60 at 7 00. 65 to about 80 with increasing sunshine this afternoon. A gorgeous evening on tap, silkts to low 70s. Hope you enjoy it. Here is frances. As you mentioned, you can see some of the stars through San Francisco. Here is a live shot at the golden gate bridge. No fog this morning. There we go. Theres one car. Weve got friday light traffic right now. Well head to the south bay and check out a live shot of 280 and highway 17. Headlights are on northbound 280 looking good through cupertino. Thats highway 17 moving across your screen. Problemfree as you come out of the santa cruz mountains. We check out drive times. Westbound 80 from highway 4 to the maze is 16 minutes. Across t