right now on getting answers. president biden is wrapping up a fundraising swing through the bay area. and protesters have been here all along the journey.

you are looking at a live picture of air force one. it is located at moffett field right now, and we are told president biden is on his way here, where he will board and then leave for seattle today on getting answers . president biden is indeed filling up his campaign war chest here in the bay area. but is the current wave of protests on the israel-hamas war affecting his reelection? could it be true the elusive northern lights, usually over the arctic circle visible from the bay area tonight? what's happening in the sky and where you could have the best chances and bay area professional women unite where you can hear from martha stewart , kara swisher, jackie speier and many more inspirational leaders happening in just two weeks. you're watching getting answers. i'm kristen sze. thanks for joining us. president biden is on his way to moffett field from palo alto at the home of marissa mayer, where he just finished his campaign stop, his fundraising event in a whirlwind bay area. stop pounding the

kids. >> have you killed today? no. two. >> earlier this afternoon, biden attended another fundraiser hosted by silicon valley venture capitalist vinod khosla in portola valley. and as you can see, there were large groups of protesters and counter-protesters right outside on the streets. both groups have their grievances against the biden policy toward israel. thus far, only recently withholding certain advanced weapons for the first time since the war began in october. >> they're going to rafa. i'm not supplying the weapons that have been used historically to deal with rafa, to deal with the cities, to deal with that problem. we're going to continue to make sure israel is secure in terms of iron dome and their ability to respond to attacks like came out of you. the uh- in the middle east recently. but it's just wrong. we're not going to we're not going to supply the weapons and the artillery shells used. >> joining us live now to discuss biden's fundraising trip

in his political perils, dustin gardner, california politics reporter and california playbook coauthor for politico. dustin, thanks for joining us. >> thanks for having me. >> hey, how significant is the bay area's financial support for biden to his reelection? >> really? this is one of the biggest political atms in the country. there's a reason that joe biden's been here twice already this year. he was just here in february. i've lost track of the number of times that jill biden has been here. kamala harris has been here many times. this really is one of the biggest cash cows in the country. some of the biggest, zip codes for political donations for democrats are especially in silicon valley on the peninsula. so it's no surprise the president is back again to make another trip to the california political atm, the political atm. >> i mean, that is so very true, right here. we don't ever see him because he's in and out at these private events where they pay a lot of money to, rub

elbows right? whereas in other states, the swing states, people actually get glimpses and hear speeches and maybe even shake hands with him and the candidates. right? yeah. >> oh, yeah. that's totally the dynamic here. i mean, yeah, if we were a michigan or a pennsylvania, there would be a lot more public events. but, you know, it's there's no doubt that biden will win california. and so when he's here, he's not doing public events hardly ever sometimes maybe kamala harris, the vice president, will do an event, or jill biden will do an event when they're here. but for the most part, almost his entire time here is with those mega donors and often mega donors from the tech space and silicon valley. >> yeah, dustin, don't mind this live picture from moffett field where president biden has just arrived. he's about to board air force one and get out of here. get out of town. with his campaign war chest significantly heavier, we assume, but we can continue our conversation about this, which is, look, you know, given what's been happening with the war and with his handling of it and with the protests that we're seeing at uc berkeley even today at the commencements.

right. and stanford and all these colleges. yeah, how is this affecting his fundraising and his support? and i guess we should break that up separately. first, let's talk about the fundraising. does that also affect the tech world? and you know, where a lot of the big money donors are coming from? >> yeah, i mean, i you know what i would keep in mind is that the donor pool for these campaigns and, and the base of base of democratic voters who are more likely to be protesting his stance on the war. we're talking in many cases, two very different pots of democratic supporters, democratic voters, so i think that's a big distinction. i mean, it's the people who are writing mega checks to his campaign are not the people who are generally speaking, turning out at these protests. that's just, you know, that's just a dynamic we've seen over and over. it's, you know, the party establishment kind of the more, moderate mainstream democrat base there. those are often the party donor base, and the, you know, the more kind of progressive, further left wing,

side of the party, that's that's the element of the party where he's struggled with his stance on the war and where he's, we've found in some races, some primary races that he had earlier this year that, that really hurt his turnout with younger voters. and muslim voters, so i think, yeah, it's too it's important to remember there's two very different camps within the party, and the donor class is very different than the protester class. >> so his donor class has not been affected as in his fundraising ability has not been hampered because he is kind of getting criticism by both sides too, right? even. yeah. the pro-israel camp also feels like he hasn't done enough, and he has not done enough to quash anti-semitic ism. >> yeah, i mean, we really haven't seen it hit the president's fundraising numbers yet, he's very far ahead of trump and fundraising in this campaign, his financial advantage has been pretty consistent. and we haven't seen his fundraising numbers take a dip. even if there's evidence of

the war impacting his standing with voters in some primary states and impacting some of his polling numbers, that really has not trickled over to the fundraising side of things, at least in a very pointed way, that we can tell yet, but yeah, i mean, he has taken criticism from both sides. i mean, i think, he has a very tough line to walk here because there is a significant element of the party that is concerned about the humanitarian conditions in gaza. a lot of, you know, there's a significant part of the party that has been supporting calls for a cease fire for many months, and the president and a lot of establishment democrats, they've moved closer to that, that side of the party in terms of their willingness to be critical of israel. we haven't heard biden's utter the word cease fire yet, or we can see him on the screen there about to get on the plane, but yeah, we haven't heard him say those words yet, but other, you know, kind of more establishment party leaders like vice president kamala harris or governor gavin

newsom, they've warmed up to using that word cease fire. i think that's because there is a bigger part of their party pulling them in that direction, at the same time, you know, there's a lot of jewish voters are democrats and a lot of them are concerned about what they see. as, you know, rising anti-semitism on college campuses. and they're concerned that the democrats have not had a strong enough, response to that. and so he's been kind of in this very difficult position where he's trying to straddle that, that tightrope. >> and as we watch president biden live walking the stairs up to air force one, boarding the aircraft that will whisk him to seattle after a fundraising campaign. two day stop here, the president waving goodbye. and he is about to exit the picture and dustin, we can continue to talk about, you know, what is the impact, i guess, in terms of polling numbers that you have seen in terms of the young people who are traditionally a key demo for democrats. right, any sign that he has, in fact

lost any support for not saying cease fire or taking other action? >> yeah. i mean, a lot of polling has suggested this is one of the most dramatic issues affecting his support among younger voters. and these are younger voters who are, in a lot of cases, you know, either they're they may not vote or they might support, a third party candidate, like maybe joe kennedy, or, you know, they're looking at other options, and this part of it is their dissatisfaction of feeling like establishment democrats have not been vocal enough about the conditions in gaza. so we're seeing that impact. and i think some of the early primary states were really interesting in the sense that, you know, you had states, like michigan or minnesota, where there's a significant arab community, significant muslim community, and, you know, there was there were large portions of uncommitted voters in those primaries. he had no, no real competition for the democratic nomination, but, you know, there was still a significant amount

of voters who just, you know, wouldn't commit to any candidate in the democratic primary. and i think that that has to make democrats really worried when they're looking at polling that shows, former president donald trump is actually, you know, slightly ahead in quite a few of the battle tightest battleground states like, michigan, wisconsin, arizona, georgia, a lot of recent polling shows trump is potentially in the lead in those states. and if things are tight, they have to certainly be worried. if there's a sizable portion of young voters willing to stay home or vote for someone who's a third party candidate. yeah. >> all right, dustin, before we let you go, and just because we also want to see air force one just a little bit longer, hopefully see the takeoff real quickly. traditionally how have foreign policy crises impacted incumbent presidents, as you know, re electability. >> yeah, i mean, you know, it really depends on the crisis. often, you know, when there there is a foreign war or some

sort of conflict. the us is involved in overseas. often it does boost a president's depending you know, if we have our military engaged, this is not does not seem to be one of those cases because us troops are not directly engaged in this conflict. you know, we're providing, arms and support to israel, but there's been no, you know, no direct us engagement, so i think this is a different conflict, and it might be more similar to, i don't know, maybe the iran hostage crisis, you know, in the 70s in the sense that, there's a lot of frustration within, within the united states about the gridlock. people feel that there seems to be in the middle east. and i think it's a tough it's a tough sell, a tough sell for biden because he's in a position where he's putting a lot of pressure on israel's government to approach the situation differently and not engage directly, or not expand its, its military involvement in the southern part of gaza with rafah

, but but biden, biden doesn't have much leverage to force israel to do that. and so it's a tough conflict for an incumbent. i think, for sure. >> dustin gardiner with politico, we thank you very much. and air force one will be taking off shortly. we appreciate your coverage. and we are following president biden's visit to the bay area all day on the air and online. we'll have the highlights for you on abc seven news at four, five and six, and you can get the latest on abc7 news.com as well. all right. one of nature's most exciting shows in the bay area may actually get a chance to see it. why the northern lights could make it down this far south. why and how you

to take off after a one day quick visit. started last night here to the bay area just to campaign visit really to raise campaign dollars. he had a bunch of fundraisers, including two on the peninsula this afternoon at silicon valley. you know, leaders homes. so he is now on his way to seattle, where he will also have a campaign reception there tonight. these are all closed to the public events, but there is air force one ready to take off, and we'll have complete coverage with our reporters coming up on abc seven news at four, five and six. all right. it is a spectacular view, usually reserved for the top of the world, as in the north pole, the arctic circle. but tonight we could have our chance to see the northern lights down here in the bay area. a powerful solar storm is hitting earth, and it could allow us to see the lights tonight. but you got to know what to look for because it may

not match what you see on instagram. joining us live now is astronomer andrew fraknoi with the fromm institute at the university of san francisco. hi, andrew. >> nice to be with you again. >> oh, so nice to be with you. i'm so sorry about the timing of air force one. that shortened our conversation, and i could have done a whole show on this with you. all right, all right. so real quickly, what are the northern lights? right. and why do they normally happen over the arctic circle? and why is it that this time tonight, maybe we'll get to see them down here? >> so just so we get the idea out of the way, it may not be tonight. it probably won't reach us until about 2 a.m. uh- on earth, so it's probably much better tomorrow night than tonight. we don't want your viewers going out for no reason tonight, but let me give you the big the quick background on the sun is a complicated, highly active and magnetic star, and on its surface, in its surface regions, there's a lot of

magnetic energy which every once in a while can break out, flare out, and release particles and energy into space. and this generally happens on an 11 year cycle where it goes up and down and we're in the up part in the maximum part now. and there has been a great deal of activity on the sun. it has released both energy and charged particles, which are making their way toward planet earth. and when these come to earth, they overwhelm the protective magnetic bottle that we have around our planet. and that means that sometimes these magnetic particles can hit the earth's atmosphere and create these curtains of light. normally the only place that the particles from the sun penetrate is near the north and south poles. but if it's a really big storm from the sun, then it can come much further south. and so, although there's no promise that we'll be able to see them as far

south as california, there's that possibility. >> okay. so let's look at the maps. right. because we want to know where and look at the lower 48. and there are a couple of different ones. one put out by an alaska institute. the other one is noaa. and they show slightly different things. so let's just go ahead and throw one up and you tell us what what this is telling us. so when we pull this up and look at this d determine, oh, is the bay area including the visibility area, aordi to this map, it seems to say yes, because you tell me. but i think the green line on the bottois t lowest part that you can possibly, possibly see it othe horizon. right. >> but i just want to tell you that predicting space weather is even harder than predicting earth weather. so generally speaking, it's not gooto te these too seriously. we won't know how far south they come until th arrive. okay, b here's there are two hints i want to give our viewers. fir of all, in order to see the very faint curtains of light, you

need to be in a dark locatio. so if you'ren the middle of the city, there's no chance. but if you happen to be in a dark location this weekend, at night, check it out. and the other possibility is to use your cell phone camera. some of these curtains of light, which, by the way, will look redder where we are not as green as in your pictures, our cell phone cameras are sensitive to more kinds of red light than our eyes can see. so if you point your cell phone camera toward the north and take a picture of the sky on saturday night or sunday morning when it's dark, your camera may record some of these curtains of light, even if your eyes can't see it. so that's just something. so you know what that point you just made? >> i want to illustrate it too, with our producers picture. she was just up in alaska a couple months ago, and yeah, she couldn't see anything with her naked eye. but the tour guide said, no, no, no, stand there anyway, just take a photo. you'll see what i mean. and so the top is the photo that they

actually took. but andrew, you can see the bottom is manipulated by me. okay. but based on what she told me, what she saw with her naked eye, and it looked more like what we have on the btom where it pretty much just looked white and gray. that's crazy andrew. >> it is. and it shows that that your cell phone can sometimes see things that your eyes can't. and these faint reddish curtains of light are going to be very subtle. so please don't go and tell your friends and neighbors that kgo-tv said, there's going to be this super spectacular laser show in the sky. it's a faint reddish glow, but it's remarkable to have it come this far south, this happened in 1859. we had an enormous storm that actually knocked out the world wide web of 1859. that was actually the telegraph system and so much energy and so many electrical particles came down from the sun to the ground that the telegraph wires were often damaged. so because the tech

disruptions. >> right, could that happen this time? >> we're we're in a world really dependent on satellites and space, like the gps system and on a power grid that's quite sensitive. so that's why the noaa, national oceanic and atmospheric administration monitors the sun and gives us warnings like the kind that alerted you to this storm. >> okay. so, andrew, bottom line , you're saying tonight is possible, but tomorrow night is actually better. >> tomorrow. tonight is unlikely . tomorrow night is better, but only if you're in a dark location away from city lights. >> okay, andrew fraknoi with the from institute. thank you so much. >> my pleasure

the annual gathering celebrating women and their careers is going

to be at san francisco's moscone center, and it kicks off on may 23rd. joining us live now is bwcc ceo, nicole solari. hi, nicole. great to see you. >> great to see you, kristen. thanks so much for having me. >> yes. and you'll be seeing everybody in person this year, right. first time for a while. yes >> oh my goodness kristen. it's our first time in person since 2019. i cannot believe it. but what better a time to reconvene in person than in celebration of pbworks 35th anniversary? >> i mean, you're pretty well established here and many people know what you're about, but for those who are newcomers, perhaps tell them what is a pwc conference like? what do you get when you go? >> there are so many things, kristen. it's really hard to articulate the full extent of what you get coming out of the investment in yourself in this day, but it's a gathering of incredible, talented, women and

allies across industries and at all levels who come together to learn, connect and be inspired. and we do this through the container of our annual conference where we bring together thought leaders and trailblazers and glass ceiling breakers, all in the name of, development and advancement of women. >> and this year's theme is boo. right? why did you choose that? and what do you hope to convey through that theme? >> well, we always, endeavor to choose a theme that really speaks to the moment. and, in partnership with our board and team, we really felt that coming out of the pandemic. kristen, it was really important to highlight the importance of authenticity, authentic leadership, and really embrace that and step into it. and so we threw our program, invite all of our attendees and speakers to really celebrate and highlight their authenticity, their leadership, their unique c secret sauce that really, helps to contribute to their success.

>> you know, what you're seeing in some of these videos? just incredible speakers who have made their appearances at pwc conferences in the past. hillary clinton, actress taraji p henson that we saw there, jane fonda, lily tomlin, i mean, you name it. who are some of the highlights the speakers this year? >> well, we really are thrilled to welcome, martha stewart to our keynote stage. and when you think about women who are unstoppable and authentically embrace who they are, martha stewart is, really a terrific example of that? kristen. someone who has, created so much over the course of her career who has embraced, technology and evolved and come up with new and exciting businesses and collaborations and, you know, held to held herself to a very high standard of excellence in all of the work she does, and,

you know, she's smart and funny and articulate, and we really are so excited to hear from martha, in addition, kara swisher is just an incomparable professional. journalist. among other things, she's a really successful podcast. and, we are so excited to welcome her to the stage to talk about her incredible career, her accomplishments, her opinions. i think she's those who who know and love kara, celebrate her candor in addition to her great intellect. so thrilled for that, the incredible story of chip conley. chip is, going to be joining our stage, and he has, incredible, san francisco bay area roots and as a business owner and, senior advisor. and he's gone on to create the modern elder academy, where he really is doing purpose driven work on reframing midlife. and, just those are just a few of the names. kristin

i could go on, but we have just an incredible lineup. >> all right, we're out of time. but, nicole, i just want to correct that. you guys just moved to redwood city, right at the fox theater for the conference. people can find out. >> going home to the roots of pb, pwc.

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