may is mental health awareness month and a bay area teen has built an ai powered platform to help kids and parents find the

resources to help the transamerica pyramid is one of the most iconic edifices in the bay area, and a huge renovation of it is underway. our media partner, the san francisco standard, took an exclusive peek behind the scenes and all eyes on the donald trump hush money trial today, with the adult film star at the center of the case on the witness stand. you're watching, getting answers. i'm kristen sze. thanks for joining us. we'll start here. may is mental health month, and it's a time to call attention to the need to expand access to mental health services, especially for teens. mental health america is 2023 report shows nearly 70% of california youth who suffered a major episode of depression did not receive treatment. a bay area teen who has suffered devastating mental health related losses has now partnered with a leading mental health nonprofit to change that. using i. joining us live now is charlotte rosario, a student at the nueva school in san mateo

and a former national alliance for mental illness youth council member and ann fisher in the middle. there executive director of national alliance for mental illness, san francisco. charlotte and anne, thank you both for coming on the show. >> thank you for having us. >> yeah. thanks so much. >> and i want to start with you. it is stunning, i think, for a lot of people to hear that most kids don't seek out or get the help. we quoted that figure of 70. why? what are the barriers? >> i think there are a number of different factors at play, but i think stigma remains a big barrier. uh- and just education in general education about what the early warning signs are and also how to get help. you know, it's pretty complex and trying to access resources. once you introduce like insurance and having to tell your parents there are a lot of barriers for teens to reach out. >> all right. and charlotte, that is why you built a new ai powered tool to try to break down some of those barriers.

it's called search mental health. tell us about it. what is this and how did the idea come to you? >> thank you. kristin. search mental health is the first ai powered navigation tool for mental health services. essentially with search mental health, youth can simply type their situation in their own words, like kind of like a diary entry and immediately get matched with local and appropriate services rather than having to call a call a helpline or navigate the unfiltered web or fill out long, complicated surveys, it basically makes the process of finding services a lot simpler and a lot less scary, especially for young people, but also for families, for parents, anyone who needs that support. >> and we're looking at the demo right there. it looks like there's a box where you can enter your particular situation in uh. you know, whether you're a certain age or what your issue

is. and then is that right that you'll get different results based on your particular needs? >> exactly, yes. so using ai, basically the platform matches you with the appropriate services. so if you're looking for a peer support group or if you're looking for support, that offers transportation assistance, various different attribute routes will be kind of assigned to your situation and you'll get pointed in that right direction. >> charlotte, why is this so important to you as an issue? i know you've done a lot in the mental health space, especially for teens, right? including being part of the national alliance for mental health and making a documentary to break that taboo and talk about the crisis. why personally is this so important for me? >> i, suffered from, suicide loss when i was in middle school , my dad actually passed away by suicide side, when i was only 12

years old. and so for the last four years, my journey has been one of healing by trying to help others, in the mental health field and specifically finding nami has really helped me in my recovery journey and my healing journey, i joined nami a few years back as a youth council member and have since been trying to do everything i can to help other people who might be in situations that my dad was previously in, and helped them make sure they can access, support and, and, you know, running nami in san francisco. >> i'm sure you've seen a lot. what are some of the warning signs that a teen or anyone, even adult, might be struggling? >> i think it's a change from their baseline. so any sort of change in a person's behavior that you know, extends beyond sort of the normal shifts in our

moods, you know, we all exist on a continuum and have down days, and up days. but if someone's behavior shifts dramatically for an extended period of time, sort of over six weeks, if you notice them, you know, really, you know, sleeping more, eating less , just basic changes in their behavior, maybe withdrawal, going from social encounters, teens who suddenly stop going to school, these are all warning signs. and so it's important that we're educated about what to look for and also where to go when we see those signs. and that's why this tool is so wonderful. yeah. >> and charlotte again, you know , your tool i just want to ask you, since it leverages ai right. is the information provided accurate. because i know sometimes people say, oh, chatgpt lied to me, you know, this was made up or is no longer accurate. how can we be sure that the resources returned are good? >> great question, kristen. and

yes, definitely a big question that a lot of people are asking right now in terms of search, mental health, all of the resources and data, all of the facilities that are built into the platform actually come from nami as well as samhsa. so samhsa is a government run organization that keeps a list of all the facilities across the us. and so harnessing all of the amazing resources that nami has curated over the years, which they have placed in pdf resource guides that are available on the internet, as well as that open source government data. i've been able to compile that into a database and have that be the backbone of the platform. so in that regard, all of the data is, has been checked by nami and is checked by, samhsa. >> well, this is great. and now that it's out there, how will you leverage your organization

to get the tool into more hands locally? and then i guess, nationally as well locally, it's up on our website. >> we've been advertising it on, through our newsletter and social media channels. we have a high school education program where we go in to educate ninth grade students about mental health, the warning signs and how to get help. and this is definitely, will be plugging charlotte's tool, and then hopefully we'll, you know, go to the nami california conference in october and, you know, share this tool with other nami affiliates and try to scale it throughout the state and possibly nationally. >> that is great, anne fisher, executive director of the national alliance for mental illness, and charlotte rosario, who is the, i guess, builder of the search mental health app. thank you so much. >> thank you for having us so much, kristin stormy daniels testified today in trump's hush money trial. >> while there's been a delay in

his classified documents trial. up next, a legal breakdown from a professor with

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with the former president in 2006, and that trump's lawyer, michael cohen, paid her $130,000 to buy her silence ahead of the 2016 presidential election. she is the key witness in trump's criminal trial. now in its third week, and she was on the stand today for a riveting several hours. joining us live now to talk about the latest in this trial and trump's legal woes is professor of law at uc law san francisco rory little, professor little, thanks for your time. >> hi. happy to be here.

>> before we get into the stormy daniels part, i just want to cover the breaking news that happened in the past hour. the florida judge just indefinitely postponed the trump classified documents trial due to issues with the evidence. that's, of course, the case on classified documents found at mar a lago. that's what trump's legal team wanted to delay until after the election. is that what is happening now? when we say indefinitely, explain what's happening in the impact? >> well, there's no doubt that the trump team and frankly, many defendants want delay uh- rather than to go to trial, especially when they think the evidence might be bad against them. uh- this was not really a surprise. the judge in florida and the federal case is, somewhat hostile to the government. and there's an immunity case pending in front of the us supreme court that could change things, depending on how they rule about the presidential immunity. although the classified information problem really has to do with what he did after he left being president in 2020 or

2021. >> right. but so now this case is definitely not going to trial before the election. i mean, and it does seem like, you know, this is a relevant consideration for many voters. >> i think you're not going to see any trial before the election except the one that's happening right now in new york, which is a state trial, not a federal trial, but i think it's, been a little bit naive of people to think that there would be a trial before the before the election happened. criminal trials tend to move slowly. particularly prominent celebrity based kind of trials, white collar crimes. we might call them, and trump's got good lawyers who, who know how to use all the levers to delay, so, yeah, i think people are going to have to make their decision based on what they know, now, the truth is, we already know a lot, we don't need this new york state case to tell us that he paid this hush money to someone

to cover up a sexual affair. we know that he did that. the government now has to prove it in a court of law to jurors who say they don't know much about it. so they have to go through every detail, but the truth is, i don't think anybody out there really has any doubt about what happened in that particular case. and that's true in a lot of the cases. the classified documents case is the same, the january 6th trial is the same. the question is whether trump will be held responsible for things that we believe are pretty already well known and proven. >> right. well, all right, so the prosecution does have to prove that. and the star witness, of course, is stormy daniels, who was on the witness stand for the first time today. it's going to continue for probably a day or two more. but in terms of how she was today, first she talked about the affair in a lot of detail, maybe more details than people wanted to hear, but perhaps that's necessary to establish credibility, but talk to us about how you think she came across based on what you've heard was she credible? and, you

know, were there things that the defense was able to point out that might, you know, hurt her credibility with the jurors? >> well, again, you know, she is not really the star witness in this case, which is about false business records, they have to prove that when he ordered someone in his organization to put down legal expenses for these charges, that, in fact, that was not true. and that, in fact, he was trying to promote his own election or interfere with the election of someone else. that's the state crime that's underlies the business documents case, and so she's a necessary factor because he's unwilling to stipulate to anything in this case, michael cohen is still going to take the stand. he's probably the star witness, and the business documents that come in in a really boring way. they're the star pieces of evidence in that new york case. >> i think you're right. a star, you know, as far as how

important it is to proving the case, i think i was using star to mean star power. >> like she's a celebrity. yeah. >> the celebrities, the reporters, the cameras, all that, but i do want to ask you, like daniels herself, has sued trump for defamation in 2018, but she lost and was ordered to pay trump's legal fees. i think to the tune of $300,000, which she refuses to. but explain why she lost and whether that implies anything about the truth regarding either the affair or the hush money part. >> well, i'm not sure exactly why she lost, but i think the specific statement that she sued trump on was one where he denied having sex with her. she said that was defamatory, he calling her a liar, and the judge actually said trump's denial is protected by the first amendment, which it probably is. so i think she lost based on a legal basis, not on not because anyone decided what she said was untrue, it had to do with the

law of defamation in the first amendment, very different than the case that you're seeing in new york right now, which has to do really, with just simple false entries on business records, but the government has to sort of painstakingly go through everything that leads up to those false entries. >> look, what is the big legal threat she poses to him in that you know, could she get him to kind of step out of line in terms of speaking out again? and if that does happen right, then what happens to him? >> well, i don't know that she poses any legal threat to him at all, she says something happened. he says that it hasn't happened, you know, the jury doesn't have to actually find that it's true. to find that he falsified his record, so long as he falsified them in order to hush up a rumor that he thought would interfere with his election. that was. that was the. that's the crime and paying hush money is not a crime. it's entering them in false documents , which are then used for

various tax purposes and business purposes in every state in the union. you can't falsify business documents, these cases are tried all the time, around the country for false business documents, this is just another one of those kind of cases. >> okay, so how would a conviction play out? like, what could it mean in terms of a punishment? what do these types of crimes, if convicted, end up in prison time. >> well, if he is convicted of the false business records, that's a misdemeanor, which means he can be sentenced to jail. but only less than a year, if he is convicted of the felony count, which requires the jury to find that he did it in order to interfere with or promote an election of some kind, then the felony exposure takes him up to at least five years. will a judge actually put a former president in jail? i'm not sure, it would be enough to simply tag him as a felon under new york state law, and would either conviction disqualify him for

continuing with the presidency or, you know, either running or if he want from taking office? >> nope. the american people can choose who they want to be president. he's qualified for the ballot in all these elections. he looks like he'll be the nominee for a major party in this country, and americans are going to have to vote, and i don't think the history shows that these sorts of verdicts haven't really hurt his support with the core group that supports him, the real question is, where will that middle ground of undecided voters or people who really don't like either candidate? where will they go in light of the facts that we do know, come november. >> so we as americans are free to choose a felon for president. but is that typical of countries , i don't know about other countries, you can keep felons off the ballot in some cases, but unlikely that that would come to play in this particular case, you know, i hate to say

it, but it's a sign of our healthy democracy that we allow americans to make their choices, we may not like this choice, and we may not like this person. and so the answer is, don't vote for him. >> well, a democracy also counts on educated public to make good choices. so there's that. well, i'll go with you on that one. >> and i just hope it happens. >> professor rory little with uc law, san francisco, thank you so much for the conversation. >> thank you. >> my pleasure. >> one of the most iconic high rises in san francisco is getting a makeover. our media partner, the san francisco standard, shares with us an exclusive look at the creation dad: headphones, buddy. mom: headphones.

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and the objection of others. that's the year construction was completed on the transamerica pyramid. and now the 853 foot

modernist skyscraper is going through a renovation and rebirth. our media partner, the san francisco standard, has a look in a new article. exclusive. the transamerica pyramid's renovation is underway . we got a peek from the top joining us live, the standards reporter astra kane, who got that exclusive peek uh- astra, great for you to join us. >> thank you. it was a pleasure. >> all right. so for those who don't know, let's say you have an out of town guest and there happen to be in san francisco, and they happen to be watching us right now. explain the significance of the transamerica pyramid. >> sure. it's our second tallest building. like you said, it was built in the early 1970s, and it has a very distinct shape. it's the only triangular skyscraper in the whole country that i can think of. and it's been an icon of san francisco for 50 years. >> right. and for a long time it dominated the skyline. you could see it from everywhere. it was the tallest building, of course. then came bank of america and now salesforce tower. lots of other buildings. but it is so

iconic, right. the shape, the spire, the height, but why was it not universally beloved initially? >> you know, what a funny question, right? people really protested this building. they thought it was blocking light. in fact, that's why it's shaped like a pyramid to kind of taper to the top so it wouldn't loom over the streets below. but there was a people hated what they called manhattanization, and they were just fighting to prevent a building of this height from going up at the edge of downtown. >> oh mon dieu. not in new york city. okay, so tell us about this new renovation underway now that we have loved it for many years, there are things that need to be updated. so tell us about your tour and what they're doing over there. >> yeah. so 50 years is a long time in skyscraper years, right. like it had started to look its age and as newer buildings came along with nice amenities, the transamerica pyramid began to look and feel a little bit dated. so real estate developer michael shvo purchased it in 2020 for $650 million, and he's

committed to putting in an extra 400 million to kind of make it once again, like the statement building for downtown san francisco. and two colleagues and i got to go all the way to the very top, which i will say is one of the three scariest things that i have ever done in my life, the climb goes from, you got the elevators go to the 48th floor, right? that's where they stop. yep. and so you climb up one floor to a space that is currently a construction site. and hopefully by the end of the year will be a brand new skybar, which sounds pretty sexy. and then from there you have to climb ten ladders and 2 or 10 sets of stairs and two ladders to get all the way up to the beacon that's housed at the very top of the building. and it was very, so inspiring. >> and, astrid, you're like spider-man. they're like using all your spidey powers to get to the top. you got to the beacon. okay. and here is the harrowing

climb up the ladders, wow. okay, so. and they're doing something to the beacon, too, right? yeah >> yes. so the beacon itself, which, you know, sharp eyed viewers may have noticed, is turned on kind of erratically, sort of here and there is about to become this brand new light that's going to be all brightened up and much spiffier, much more technologically advanced and even better is that the spire, which is the top quarter of the building, you know, where there's no more office space. it's all just one big room. that's where we climbed up, is going to be illuminated from within and shvo and the pyramid retained the services of a firm called l'observatoire international and they are going to make this look like a combination of the empire state building and the beacon atop the eiffel tower. so it is about to be extremely cool. >> and then some things happening with the surrounding plaza, too, right? that's right. >> yeah. there's that redwood grove at the base of the

pyramid. that's been closed to the public for at least a year, maybe two. and there, you know, the redwoods are going to remain, but they're installing all new benches and taking out a lot of the hardscape and just making it like, a much more welcoming space that draws people to the pyramid from the surrounding blocks. that's nice, because that's kind of like the mini muir woods. >> like when i can't get out there to marin, i'm like, let's just go to the transamerica little redwood plaza. there so great. happy to hear that you've i've eaten so many lunches there. >> it really is a special space. like, i can't wait for that to be open. >> can i just ask you, you know, coming at a time like this when the downtown is struggling, right? they are trying to get people back and give reasons. how do you think this fits into that whole picture? >> yeah. so shvo told us both in september. we had a long sit down with him and to me just recently that he is probably among the most optimistic people about the recovery underway in downtown san francisco. and the intervening six months have only made him more optimistic. so he is looking to create like a kind of office as resort vibe, kind

of by bringing the amenities that are most closely associated with nice, a suburban silicon valley campus, to the transamerica. >> i do like the office as resort. let's make that happen here at abc sevenks t so much, astrid. and

tonight, breaking news. face-to-face in court. stormy daniels takes the stand across from former president trump. what she reveals. also, the new tornado threat right now across several states. the deadly outbreak already, including an ef-4. and the home explosion, a