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Julie, let's start with you. why does a sanctuary city even exist? i know some people don't like that term but what is it and why does it even exist? >> it exists because there are some communities that were not happy with ice imforcement or immigration enforcement in general. they work together with cooperation from ice. an ice program that identified victims in jail. sanctuary cities have been around and the problem got worse as ice enforcement got more aggressive. >> there's two schools of thought. we need sanctuary cities because ice enforcement is random and chases a lot of people it shou...

That all goes into the ocean. >> reporter: researchers say what happens in alaska doesn't necessarily stay in alaska. nasa's ice program monitors the environment and ecology here, and they say this could be a precursor of what could happen hundreds of years from now on a much larger scale. as the climate warms and glaciers thin, nasa says the sea level is rising at about one inch every eight years. while it's a slow process, all of this is important, because without proper planning, just five feet added to the sea level would flood almost all of miami and new orleans. many other parts of coast...

Gary brown veto it? joining me is the author of the bill, tom ammiano. i've read reports from law enforcement personnel who feel this proposal by you puts them at odds with do they follow state law or do they follow the rules of the federal government in place? >> we're not really violating the federal law. i understand. i have sympathy for law enforcement. we or working very well with them. >> you've heard that feedback, right? >> yes. the more we converse with law enforcement, the more they are convinced, you know, we have quite a few police chiefs, et cetera, who are supportive of the trust...

About seven out of ten of them -- rather only 30% of them had anything seriously wrong. it cost the cities a lot of money, caused families to be broken up. that's not how we want to do it in california. we'd like to take the lead on this and exercise some standards and some -- >> what would be those standards then? if a law enforcement person pulls over someone -- it was only two weeks ago the supreme court did strike down certain portions of the as adds law, but they did let stand that "show your papers" provision, allowing police to check someone's immigration status. >> yes, only if there's...

An election year. and obviously the governor understands it. it is good political fodder. nevertheless, it is not fair. and the fact that jobs are being lost at -- american citizens should have or legal residents should have that undocumented, that has never been proved. and ---ing in fact, you know, the jobs that undocumented are taking are the jobs nobody wants. >> how -- >> cleaning of hotels and working in fields. >> the situation with regard to the i.c.e., customs officials arresting almost 3,000 illegal immigrants over a one-week period and deporting them, i mean -- how do you -- >> thos...