Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf joins the Morning Show with Nikki Medoro to talk about last week's city visit with Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg who has millions of dollars for cities to make improvements for people getting from here to there, so Mayor Schaaf reports on projects that will getting a federal leg up.

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When people talk about social media addiction, they're usually referring to Facebook, TikTok and Instagram, but tech writer Mark Bergen tells the Morning Show with Nikki Medoro tells us how YouTube became one of the world's most prolific social media platforms as he outlines in his book, "Like, Comment and Subscribe: Inside YouTube's Chaotic Rise to World Domination".

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South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham wants to propose a federal law banning abortions after 15 weeks with a few exceptions, but the Morning Show with Nikki Medoro asks why because it seems like neither political party was asking for a national ban.  Also, is it possible to pro-woman but not necessarily pro-choice? Can you separate different female issues and remain authentic?

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Last night's shaker was a good reminder to be prepared for the next Big One, and it was also a good test run for the state's new earthquake alert system.  The Morning Show with Nikki Medoro speaks with the Chief of the Seismic Hazards Branch at the California Governor's Office of Emergency Service, Jose Lara, about how it works and you can get the alerts.

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The Morning Show with Nikki Medoro welcomes ABC Washington Correspondent Katherine Faulders to report on the forty new subpoenas the Department of Justice has issued in their January 6th investigation. Also, ABC's Jay O'Brien addresses the irony of President Biden celebrating the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act as to stock market tanked yesterday amid higher than expected inflation numbers.

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Santa Rosa-centered earthquake during dinner last night had varied effect on the North Bay and the Morning Show with Nikki Medoro discusses how many received a quake alert on their phones from the state warning system. Also, ABC News Correspondent Jim Ryan talks about a new study finding we can blame the weather for social media hate speech.

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A Florida prosecutor said responses from various allies of former President Trump to reports that the Department of Justice (DOJ) had issued dozens of subpoenas in its Jan. 6 probe show Attorney General Merrick Garland’s prosecutorial strategy has given Trump allies “a false sense of security.”

“The fact that [Stephen] Bannon and other MAGA leaders seem shocked that this happened shows to me that Merrick Garland has lulled many in Trump World into a false sense of security,” Dave Aronberg, the state attorney for Palm Beach County, Fla., said on CNN’s “The Situation Room” on Monday. 

“This is the kind of slow build that Attorney General Garland has been known for in his prosecutorial career. It’s like that boiling frog that doesn’t recognize the temperature has been turned up until it’s too late,” he added.

The Florida prosecutor’s comments come amid reports that the Justice Department issued around 40 subpoenas in the past week as part of its investigation into efforts by Trump and his supporters to overturn the 2020 presidential election results.

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At least 97 current members of Congress bought or sold stock, bonds or other financial assets that intersected with their congressional work or reported similar transactions by their spouse or a dependent child, an analysis by The New York Times has found. 

U.S. lawmakers are not banned from investing in any company, including those that could be affected by their decisions. But the trading patterns uncovered by the Times analysis underscore longstanding concerns about the potential for conflicts of interest or use of inside information by members of Congress, government ethics experts say. 

Times reporters analyzed transactions between 2019 and 2021 using a database of members’ financial filings called Capitol Trades created by 2iQ Research. They matched the trades against relevant committee assignments and the dates of hearings and congressional investigations. 

When contacted, many of the lawmakers said the trades they reported had been carried out independently by a spouse or a broker with no input from them. Some have since sold all their stocks or moved them into blind trusts. Two said the trades were accidental.

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom is escalating his feud with Republican-led states that have restricted access to abortion after the Supreme Court's ruling earlier this summer rolling back the federal right to those services that was enshrined in the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling.

As part of his effort to make California a safe harbor for women seeking abortions, Newsom, a Democrat, launched a new state website on Tuesday aimed at connecting women who live out of state with reproductive health care, including a tool that would help them find a provider and how to seek financial assistance for those services.

In a video introducing the site, the California governor touched on the privacy concerns many of those red state women now face -- noting the website abortion.ca.gov will not track them or their personal information -- as conservative lawmakers in some states weigh laws to prevent their state's residents from seeking care across state lines.

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As part of the SFNext project to help San Francisco residents solve some of the city’s problems, we polled more than 1,650 people to measure attitudes on what’s working, what isn’t, performance of city government, the future of the city and more.

John Whitehurst, a political consultant, said he has “never seen voters more upset and angry in San Francisco than they have been over the last two years and continue to be, and that anger gets expressed in many ways. Two ways, recently, include the district attorney recall and the Board of Education recall.”

Roughly one-third of the respondents said they were likely to leave within the next three years. A large majority, 65%, said that life in the city is worse than when they first moved here. Less than one-quarter of respondents said they expected life in San Francisco to improve in two years. More than one-third said it would worsen.

San Franciscans were largely in agreement about the city’s biggest problems: Homelessness took first place, followed by public safety and housing affordability. When asked if, three years from now, those problems would be significantly less severe, nearly 70% of people said either “slightly likely” or “not likely at all.”

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