now in a spat with the democratic national committee she's accusing the d.n.c. of bias after she failed to qualify for the next round of televised debates gabbled began to garner attention after her performance in the 1st 2 events she was the most searched for candidate on google following the 2nd debate in late july but this time around the democratic national committee says she didn't hit the threshold required something called into question saying the process lacks transparency. the whole process really lacks transparency. people deserve having that transparency because ultimately it's the people who will decide who our democratic nominee will be and alternately who our next president commander in chief will be and when you see that lack of transparency it creates you know a lack of faith and trust in the process it's primetime television if you want to be anybody in the democratic party you better make sure you get on the stage at the presidential debates so what do you need to do to make it 2 things 1st to get over 130000 unique donations to get at least 2

polls however the democratic national committee says that doesn't count they have their certified list sure it's important of that information it's being provided but let's take a quick look at some of the polls that were rejected politico the economist reuters if these widely respected outlets and news agencies aren't credible in america then who is polling in the united states there is a club. a network of close associates and friends and they frown upon those polls that are either new or are now members of the club or the association so i would certainly speculate that has something to do with that it is a partisan organization the democratic national committee so any poll say that may have a tradition of leaning republican or not considered to be in the mainstream of democratic artists and ship you know would be would be ruled out even the polls deemed credible. the democratic party have a margin of error of between 2 and 6 percent and when the criteria for being in the debates is only 2 percent a margin of error like that is a pretty big deal so tulsa gabbert could have between 0

>>> right now at 5:00, looking ahead, how the democratic national committee plans to shape the future of the party and the topic. front and center late today. >> and he may look like a delivery man but novato police say don't be fooled how officers nabbed this impersonate sfleer and a dangerous moment upon live television. a lightning strike hits the parg tower. between the 159th green and the 16th tee. shattered the bark all the way to the bottom there. witnesses say they heard a big explosion. and then an after shock that was so strong they could feel the win coming off of it. other people said they saw a flash from the corner of their eyes. and everyone was huddled under the trey. the six people hurt thankfully do not have life threatening injuries. right now we know all the players have been pulled off the golf course. round three was suspended for the day. it will pick back up tomorrow morning. >> let's get more on this whole situation down there, rob mayeda joining us with the explanation rob. >> a weather delay a the thunderstorms moved into atlanta. typically this happens this

i will vo across the stage at the democratic national committee. dnc chair said democrats are determined to get more voters registered and issued a rallying call to take back the white house and senate in 2020. >> everyone in this room is a serial activist. we are all in this together. our democracy is on fire. it's a five-alarm blaze. this is not the first time. >> reporter: two of the presidential candidates spoke. >> this is a moral moment in america and it's a referendum not on one guy in one office, it's a referendum on us on who we are and who we must be to each other. >> reporter: senator corey booker, stanford graduate, among the 13 candidates in town hoping to get donations and endorsements. senator elizabeth warren also spoke. >> we have that chance to show what it means for democrats to lead this country. >> when i lead the democratic party we will not be a party that nibbles around the edges. our democratic party will be the party of big structural change. >> reporter: warren, resonated with many on the progressive side of the party has

a clinton appointed judge during a democratic national committee lawsuit alleging collusion between the trump campaign and russia. president saying, the witchhunt ends here. the president absolutely right about federal reserve chair, jerome powell. powell clearly does not know what he is doing or at least saying. when interest rate cut was announced today to pm the market remains steady. it sold off 36 minutes later when powell insisted that this was not a trend but an adjustment. here is his rather ignorant statement about interest rates at his press conference. >> to ensure against downside risk, to provide support to the economy, the factors are, where factors are pushing down on economic growth and to support inflation. i do think it will serve all of those goals but if you were thinking of it as essentially in the nature of a midcycle adjustment to policy. lou: a midcycle adjustment. investors did not want to hear that nonsense. his remarks came at 2:37 pm for the next 16 minutes, the dow sold off. 279 points. the nasdaq fell 155 points. s&p 500 fell 46. edward lawrence has more in

way through san francisco for the democratic national committee's conference. >> liz has more. >> reporter: good evening. dwinlding. it's so bustling at the hilton. 13 presidential candidates spoke here today. some of them stayed late into the night trying to woo those who haven't decided. it will be next summer when the party nominates its. al candidate. >> can i show everybody -- ahairs, cory booker, some of the 2020 hopeful seen maneuvering making their pitch to democratic national committee mechanics. >> what do you need to do in california do you need to do. >> work, work, work. >> we can afford to make colleges and universities twice free. >> a town call on college aford 3w4ri89, borny sanders held a conference. have any of you still shopping? you? what are you looking for? >> i guess to be inspired. i'd like to see senator harris speak. the one good thing that's come out of this, everyone's super excited. senator harris was able to rally the crowd. >> the biggest surprise was andrew yang. we have so many flepted and capable folks it's hard to pick between them. >> another theme, cli

the message, i will vote was sprawled across the stage at the democratic national committee gala banquet at the fairmont hotel. >> 439 days until the weekend folks. >> dnc chair tom perez said ed more voters registered and issued a rallying call to take back the white house and the senate in 2020.>> everybody in this room is a surreal activists. we are all in this together, our democracy is on fire. it's a five alarm blaze, but this is not the first time. >> two of the presidential candidates spoke. >> this is a moral moment in america, and it's a referendum, not on one guy in one office, it's a referendum on us, on who we are and who we must be for each other. >> senator cory booker, stanford graduate is among the 13 candidates who are in town, hoping to get donations and endorsements. senator elizabeth warren also spoke. >> we have that chance to show what it means for democrats to lead this country. when i leave the democratic party we will not be a party that nibbles around the edges. our democratic party will be the party of big, structural change. >> warren, who has resonated with

at the the announcement democratic national committee meeting in san francisco. >> hello dnc. thank you so much for having meet today and all you do. i have only been in this race since april. i was one of the last candidates to get in. more proud of what our team has accomplished. we have been challenging donald trump where he is weakest. as commander-in-chief. showing this country that democrats are the party of making america strong overseas and safe here at home. to takebeen running back patriotism from the republican party. we all know in this room, true patriotism is not hugging the flag. like donald trump likes to do. it is fighting for what the flag represents. [applause] we have put forward the most ambitious call to national service in a generation. young all 33 million americans to consider serving here at home to tackle the biggest challenges of today, like climate change. helped me faceas a few of my own fears. for the first time in my life i talk publicly about dealing with post-traumatic stress from my combat tours in iraq. about how i sought help for post-traum

>>now at 6 the democratic national committee's summer meeting is in fu swing in san francisco. thank you for joining us tonight. and i'm justine waldman in for ken wayne tonight more than a dozen presidential hopefuls are speaking on day 2 of this event among them is a woman. >>i was very familiar with people here in the bay area kron four's dan kerman is live outside of the hilton where this event is still under way tonight dam. >>that woman you're speaking of a senator kamala harris also joined by a couple of the other front runners, bernie sanders as well as elizabeth warren all speaking today. >>we are facing the most important election of our lifetime. it is an election that the feats the most dangerous president in american history. >>at the second day of the democratic national committee summer meeting in san francisco, presidential hopeful bernie sanders was not the only one to take the president to task. >>when you see an america. a government that works great for those with money great for those with connections and doesn't work for much of anyone else. that

at the democratic national committee summer meeting in san francisco. here his remarks. >> hello, dan c. >> hello. hello, dnc, and thank you for having me here. i was one of the last candidates to get in. but i cannot be more proud of what our team is accomplished over the last few months. we have been challenging but on donald trump where he is weakest , as commander-in-chief. and showing this country that democrats are the party of making america strong overseas and safe here at home. to takebeen running back patriotism from the republican party, because we all know in this room troop patriotism isn't hugging the flag. [laughter] like donald trump likes to do. it is fighting for what the flag represents. [applause] put forward the most ambitious call to national service in a generation. all 33 million young americans to consider serving here at home to tackle the biggest challenges of today, like climate change. even helped meas face a few of my own fears. for the first time in my life, i talked publicly about dealing with post-traumatic stress from m

. >> the issue of climate change became a huge lightning rod at the democratic national committee meeting in san francisco today. things turned chaotic, even physical when activists demanded a presidential primary debate be held with the spotlight solely on the environment. liz kreutz has more. inside the hilton in downtown san francisco, a chaotic start to the democratic national committee's summer meeting. > we are afraid for our lives. we are afraid of an uninhabitable planet. please, please, please, do something now. >> reporter: dozens of climate change activists pass into a meeting with top dnc members to demand the party deemed a an debate focused solely on climate, a request the committee voted down. muriel mcdonald and jackie are part of the sunrise movement, young people working to address climate change. their khans brought the meeting to a halt. >> seems like the base wants this, the candidates want this, but the dnc leadership saying noen an we're trying to figure out why. >> reporter: it's true nearly every single democratic presidential candidate said would support a climat

>>at the second day of the democratic national committee summer meeting in san francisco, presidential hopeful bernie sanders was not the only one to take the president to task. >>when you see an america, a government that works great for those with money great for those with connections and doesn't work for much of anyone else. that is corruption, pure and simple we need to call it out and we need to fight. >>and our a you know he busters a lot of reminds me of a puffy fish. he just always bluster and night then gets it few calls from wayne up here and all of a sudden nathen what we need to have in terms of smart gun safety laws in this country there was talk of 2 americas i see an america today. >>it's working great working fabulously for a thinner and thinner slice at the top just not working much for anyone else. and america's it's working great for giant drug companies just not for people trying to get a prescription filled. >>and a discussion of what democrats have to do to win we will only be successful. >>if we are capable of rallying and on president did grassroots uprising th

this is the democratic national committee. it's a chance for party members to come and meet and discuss some of thparty's platforms and policies going forward. 13 of the democratic presidential candidates will be speaking tomorrow at the event. they include those leading in the polls, including kamala harris, elizabeth warren and bernie sanders. joe biden won't attend. he will be in new hampshire instead. the evening before this three day meeting started, the house speaker received a lifetime achievement award. she is at a fundraising dinner last night. that event drew protests. some of those protesters interrupted her speech. they are upset that the house speaker has not started impeachment proceedings against the president. >> we are calling on that the proceedings. >> i always say. >> reporter: now in response the house speaker said we have our differences and we respect our differences and i say to our di is our strength but our diversity -- our unity is our power. that's what she said in response to the protesters yesterd

a clinton-appointed judge, slowing out a democratic national committee lawsuit alleging collusion between trump administration and russia. president saying, the witch-hunt ends here. president absolutely right about federal reserve chair powell. powell does not know what he is doing or at least saying. when interest rate cut was announced today at 2 p.m., the market remained steed -- steady, sold off 36 minutes later when powell insisted it was not a trend but just an adjustment. here is his rather ignor ignoret statement about interest rates. >> to ensure against down side risk to provide support to the economy. if those factors are pushing down on economic growth, then to support inflation. we think it will serve those goals. but we're thinking of it, essential well -- nature of mid cycle judgment. lou: a mid cycle el anxiety jus. dow sold off and nasdaq down 155, s&p fell 45, edward lawrence with more on the story from the white house. reporter: the federal reserve cut rates a quarter of a point. but not everyone in the room who was voting was happy about it. there were two decenters,

. >>> here in the bay area, today is day two of the democratic national committee summer meeting. 13 presidential candidates will be appearing at the meeting. >> bernie sanders is scheduled to speak to people attending the summit today. other candidates will be addressing the crowd including california senator kamala harris. there is a meet the candidates e haven't at the hilton union scare from 10:00 until 3:00. the summit in san francisco is a chance for national party leaders ranking file members and activists to discuss what ideas and policies they want their forty to support. a chance for presidential candidates to earn endorsements and bring in donations. two of them spoke at a fundraising gala at the fairmont hotel last night. corey booker and elizabeth warren spoke about their vision for the country if they were to become the party's nominee. >> this is a moral moment in america and it's a referendum to the one outbound guy 11 on one guy. >> we have a chance to show what it means for democrats to lead this country. we will not be a party that nibbles around the edges. our dem

it is day 2 of the democratic national committee firefighters meeting in san francisco. a dozen presidential candidates are in the city, trying to whip up support ahead of the primary. >>> welcome back to mornings on 2, it friday, august 23rd. i'm cristina rendon in for pam cook this morning. >> good to see you, too. i'm dave clark. you will notice it's cooler outside. it's nice. steve is off today but rosemary orozco is here to talk about this. >>> for folks that leave their windows open for the nice cool air overnight. moving through this morning, hopefully you will feel it. temperatures have fallen off a bit from yesterday morning at this time. as we get into the afternoon, we are expected to keep that trend with temperatures coming down by several degrees. a look at sfo, partly cloudy skies, san francisco, 60 degrees. 55 to start your morning santa rosa, low 60s, oakland, livermore and 65 san jose. dave said it was cooler and there is the proof down by 11 degrees over santa rosa, navado, 9 in napa. down by five over areas of half- moon bay. that moist air moved out.

shannon: the democratic national committee facing complaints from 2020 presidential hopefuls. one candidate says he feels he is competing in the hunger games trying to qualify for the primary debates with one candidate appears to be gaining momentum and packing the crowds. >> even though elizabeth warren's campaign says 15,000 people showed up to see here in seattle the senator made her standard offer. >> we will take selfys. >> that selfy line was 4 hours long and reflects movement in the monmouth poll of democrats that shows former vice president joe biden, the former front runner in at least one poll, his 19th person supported 13% less than he had in the last monmouth survey in june it puts in behind both warren and bernie sanders who earned his first national union endorsement today, the united electrical radio and machine workers of america. in 2016 sanders tried hard to contrast himself with hillary clinton, something warren is to do in 2020. >> know what is getting behind me on this debate stage and doing a hand something. that's not happening, not going to heaven. >> r

today the democratic national committees get under way. >> there are some notable absences. some activist would like to see a debate. >>> summer-like climate change has been slow to evolve, because it's hard to see. now it's a question of what, how far, to what extent. >>> joe biden will not attend the meeting. his absence is intentional. >> when you are the top gun, so to speak, you have a different set of eyes and you are looking at it differently. >> and biden along with all the candidates not attending will instead send prerecorded video messages. >>> faa and ntsb investigators are descending on orville airport this morning. if you have not seen the video yet, there were 10 people onboard. this is just after the pilot tried to aboard takeoff. as you can imagine, it left people nearby stunned. >> i came out and saw a lot of black smoke, and there was a lot of concern. >> the plane had been heading to portland, and so far we don't know why the pilot had to abort takeoff. >>> meanwhile a small plane that crashed off half moon bay has to defend himself. >> and people are won

the democratic national committee was having its big meeting. he didn't want to be with the other candidates, so he basically goes up there and stumbles -- lou: and the reason that he wasn't at the dnc by all inference was so that he wouldn't make a blunder that would capture national headlines, and instead he went to -- was it new hampshire or vermont -- to make his blunder. [laughter] i mean, and then to say he's not nuts. >> and even in new hampshire, he's in the wrong place. he's at the northern tip of new hampshire with a very small population. this far in advance you've basically to got to -- but saying all that, this poll's about momentum, and he has lost his momentum as we've said over is and over again. but the most telling number in this poll is he's now voters under 50 he's getting 6% of. this is an election about the future. it's not an election about the old votes. lou: you're not telling me this is a -- i can accept a lot of things, but the democrats have how many candidates that are east 70 and over -- either 70 and over or approa

democratic national committee meeting. noticeably absent, the front-runner, joe biden, as well as mayor pete buttigieg, who are both in new hampshire. congressman seth moulton will speak at the event to drop out of the race. he will announce he will run again for his massachusetts congressional seat. i'm joined now my cnn politics reporter. so you and harrianten, you know a lot about politics. >> hopefully. >> you just released your latest power ratings. where do the cants stand? >> we haven't seen that much change. you have a top tier that is biden, warren, harris, sanders. and you could rank order them in all different ways. i think biden almost certainly should be number one. but i think that's your top tier. our second tier, pete buttigieg is on the verge of -- he's at the top of the second tier, but polling and everything else we see suggests broadly speaking those four are the ones with the most money and organization. now, buttigieg raised the most money in the second quarter and is going to have either the first or

the des moines register first reported that the democratic national committee will reject iowa's plan to hold virtual caucuses, because the potential for hacking. and in february, party officials in the state propose the idea of virtual voting. after years of complaint, the process makes it impossible for people who can't show up on caucus night. and the february des moines register poll suggested the virtual caucuses could expand participation by nearly a third. >> but now the future of iowa's first in the nation status could be in question, if iowa can't come up with a plan for people to vote that is different from a primary. the iowa caucuses are just five months away and the campaigns and the party re facing a rapidly shrinking window to adjust their strategy. >>> questions are being raised about a moving but apparently false war story joe biden has been sharing on the campaign trail. here is the former vice president describing his interaction with a war hero in afghanistan during a campaign stop last friday in new hampshire. >> this guy climbed down a ravine, carried this guy up

san francisco, today, hosting the democratic national committee. and 13 different candidates will be visiting the area through the weekend. including senators kamala harris, elizabeth warren and bernie sanders. joe biden, the democratic front runner, will instead be in new hampshire. all were invited to speak. meetings will be based at the hilton hotel in san francisco's union square. and many of the caucuses will be open to the public. >>> san francisco house political powerhouse, nancy pelosi, house speaker, was honored with a lifetime achievement award just before the official beginning of the big event. the house speaker wants to unite the democratic party around issues that include tougher gun control measures, healthcare, and immigration. also, she's pushing for democrats to regain control of the white house and the u.s. senate in the 2020 election. but protestors say she should turn her attention right now to impeaching president trump. >>> we're calling on speaker pelosi to take on that wall of currently and leadership and begin to initiate

. >>> turning now to decision 2020, today was the last day of the democratic national committee summer meeting in san francisco and it brought a vote that many were waiting for. there will not be a presidential nominee debate solely on the climate crisis. activists and some members of the dnc have been pushing for a climate only debate. but today delegates voted against the idea. some people walked out of the ballroom at of leadership. >> i want the democrats to win and i want them to help solvede >> we want to make sure climate is in all of the pa are more than a dozen issues that the american people care about and there are 12 debates. >> some say this underscores the need for party unity moving toward 2020. >>> a huge crowd marched to protest the g7 summit in france. about 15,000 protesters marched across the fresh/spanish border. they're demanding more action against climate change. president trump insisted that a session on the global economy be added. while summit host, french president emanuel macron, wanted to focus on other issues. tomorrow morning che with china. >>> investig