senator ben allen: it's extraordinarily damaging, deadly, inhumane gear. bigan: senator ben allen of santa monica authored that legislation to phase out drift gillnets. bigan: but if some fishermen are pushed out of this industry because of this, is that a price california just needs to pay? senator allen: the damage caused by this equipment is so high that if there are a couple of people who lose their job, you know, i think that that is a cost worth paying. bigan: back in 1990, 141 fishermen used drift gillnets. today, only about 20 rely on the gear. senator allen: how much are we going to allow this really small group of fishermen with this one particular type of gear to cause this amount of damage off of our coast when there are other alternatives that can still get good fish on the people's plates, but do so in a much less damaging way? bigan: fishermen argue that they've made several major changes to reduce the amount of marine mammals killed. male: yeah, well, they have, but it's not working. it's not stopping it. i would say the evidence speaks for

. >>> three democrac state senators jim beal of san jose, ben allen of summon and ricardo laura from los angeles county declined to vote on the audit. the state auditor would review why there's been such customer service meltdown at the dmv leading to hours' long waits. >>> a broken pipe leaking thousands of gallons of water will take another week to be repaired. abc 7 news was at the intersection of arastradero and georgia avenue. a contractor accidentally damaged the pipe on july 11th oochs. the replacement part needed to be specially ordered and won't arrive until monday. the city can't shut it off because it's a large water main behind a voter mo several $nearly 6 million increase to fund proposition f passed by voters in june. it provides renters facing eviction with legal representation. the backers say renters without a lawyer almost always get evicted. >> nearly always make a settlement where they move out or they'll go to trial and lose. >> annual evictions in san francisco have jumped by 26% over the past eight years. >>> the changing face of san francisco. >> we've been un

those state senators were jim beal of san jose, ben allen of santa monica, and ricardo lara from los angeles county. they did not vote. critics of department say an audit would have examined the customer service meltdown at so many dmv branches. hours-long waits have left customers frustrated. so too are some state lawmakers. >> and now some of the politicians around here say we ought to trust the dmv to get themselves out of a problem they dug themselves into in the first place. >> assembly man suspects jerry brown had something to do with squashing the proposed audit. governor brown had reservations about it and believe head could fix the dmv wait times without involving the state auditor. >>> the new york city council has passed a one-year moratorium on new licenses or uber, lyft and other ride sharing cars. the council voted 39-6 in favor. supporters say the explosion of drivers is bringing traffic to a stand still and decimating the city's once thriving cab industry. here's how uber responded to the decision. quote, the city's 12-month pause of new vehicle licenses will threaten

some lawmakers were outraged when democratic senators jim beil of san jose, ben allen of santa monica and ricardo lara from los angeles abstained from voting to kill the audit. republican lawmakers said democrats are caving to influence from governor brown who expressed reservations about the review. >> we need to lift the curtain and look behind and what's behind is the manipulation of a termed out governor who is sentencing millions of californians to long waits. he and these three senators don't care. >> the dmv blames a surge of applicants for the federally compliant real i.d. for those long wait times. >>> sales of twinkies, ding dongs and ho-hos are down. they're blaming walmart. hostess officials said changes at walmart cut the shelf space and reduced sales 4%. hostess says walmart is promising to display their products more prominently in the stores. >> i love the hostess cupcake with the least silly name. >> yeah. with the swirl on top. >> yeah. >> those are good. >> coming up next at 6:30, a new development in a school district controversy in the south bay. the attention it'

some lawmakers were outraged when democratic senators jim beil of san jose, ben allen of santa monica abstains from voting to kill the audit. republican lawmakers said democrats are caving to influence from joe biden joe biden -- governor brown. >>> the head of the tsa says it will not get rid of security checkpoints at 150 smaller airports after all. the head of the administration explained the tsa studied the idea as a, quote, budget exercise and it is no longer being considered. the proposal sought to drop federal security staffing at airports only served by small planes so those with 60 seats or fewer. it would have saved the tsa $115 million a year. >>> uber eats launching in the napa area today. the food delivery service will cover napa as well as thompson and oak noll communities. it's partnering with favorites including takarita. customers can place orders on the app at 10:00 this morning. >>> nasa suffered its closest voyage yet to the sun. the space agency's probe will lift off this saturday from cape canaveral and get nearly seven times closer to the sun than previous space

allen, of santa monica; and jim beall, of san jose -- abstained from voting. "i've been here six years and i'm not surprised that legislators have given themselves special privileges and perks that typical californians just don't get," patterson saidwhen asked how constituents might feel about a special office for lawmakers, lara wasn't too sure about the office's purpose."well, i think it's open to the public, if i recall," lara said. "i'm not sure, i haven't used it."the special office, which has a locked door, is not open to the public.dmv officials say that the special office near the capitol has two staffers who handle 10,000 requests dealing with constituent questions or concerns.the department didn't deny serving lawmakers and their staffers, but insisted that 90 percent of the work done there is to solve consumer problems brought to their attention by lawmakers.as for his reason for abstaining from voting on the audit, lara believes more is going to be done to fix the problem.while there will be no audit, dmv is getting an additional $16 million to hir

if you look at the way i mean janet yellin, ben bernanke, allen greenstroke spoke, i don't think anyone is going to turnl against him even if the president as you said is a low interest rate guy doesn't like the fact that interest rates are going up in response to a rising economic condition >> how does the fed forecast factor, barbara, into your outlook on the u.s. economy? the president wants to see our economy doing better we just had 4.1% growth. is the fed raising rates, a potential red flag as the president suggests to that recovery >> it can be but not in this situation. it's a good thing the economy is so strong and doing it in a very measured pace and they are aware of where we come from and they're not about to do anything to derail us from what i see they still are fact dependent, if the economy slows they would ease off. but short of that i think the fed share is really concerned about his currency than the president. >> we will hear from j. powell meanwhile tesla shares closing slightly higher despite jp morgan cutting on the stock. the firm says now it believes, quote, fun

richard allen, thank you forjoining us. now it's time for a look at the weather with ben rich. good afternoon. this is the last day for the time being of temperatures up into the 30s across parts of eastern england, because over the next few days, things are going to turn cooler. still with some sunshine, but some showers as well. generally there has already been more cloud further west, we'll keep that as we go through this evening. across this south—eastern corner, there's a chance we could see some thunderstorms clipping in. some of these could really be on the heavy side but they will be quite hit and miss. some places will avoid them and stay dry. further west, some clear spells, a few showers starting to feed in towards western scotland and northern ireland. temperatures ten or 11 in the towns and cities up to the north—west. some spots in the countryside are lower than that. that fresh air is going to continue sweeping across the country as we go on through tomorrow. there will be some spells of sunshine, some areas of cloud as well and some showers at times in weste