national recipients of the james beard america's classic awards, given to independent restaurant that serve high quality food, have timeless appeal and reflect the character of their communities. mandalay is well known for its coconut curry soup , mango prawns and crispy burmese pancakes. lee's deli plans to close its last two locations in san francisco's financial district. for 40 years, the deli has been feeding people in the financial district . there were ten locations at the beginning of 2020. now, the last two, lee's deli on battery and second streets, will be closing, the owner, lee kwan, told the san francisco business times. a number of factors, including an increase in the minimum wage, led to the decision to close. >> another storm system moving through the bay area up to the sierra. >> i got sleeping bags, hand warmers. lanterns, anything that i can survive on for at least 24 to 36 hours. why caltrans and ski resorts are advising people

to stay home, then the future of oakland's police department taking center stage. >> the four finalists for the city's next police chief are introducing themselves at a special meeting tonight. why the oakland mayor is boycotting the event. >> plus, a remarkable. comeback after pandemic setbacks. muni ridership in san francisco is on the rise. we'll take a look at the factors driving the change. >> live from jack london square. this is morning time two. >> the night. >> today is thursday, february 29th. we're looking at san francisco. you see that in the background? that is sutro. tower. you probably recognize it if you're a lifelong local like i am, you might even know why it's there. coming up later in the show, we're going to talk about some bay area things that you may not know about. and that's an interview we have coming up with someone who does a podcast and talks about all things bay area. let's talk about this now. sunnyvale based humanoid robot startup figure ai

has secured $675 million in venture capital funding from a group that includes jeff bezos nvidia, openai and others. figure ai says it will use the money to speed up development of its humanoid robot, which is intended for commercial use as part of the deal figure, ai says it will partner with openai to develop the next generation models for humanoid figure. ai says these robots are supposed to perform dangerous and undesirable jobs. let me be the first to say that i'm glad i've seen the robots on police situations where they they send the little robot in to see what's going on, and that way you're not risking someone's life. so that's those are the jobs that i'd like to see done by machines and not people. absolutely. >> yeah, i would completely agree with that, because humans life don't matter. it just it's better if you have these robots. so that's the one thing i could see. this i know a lot of it's been talked about, uh, you know, these humanoid robots caring for people, which i don't know about yet, uh, you know, going to a

home where people, you know, older people, like, i would like a friendly face, a friendly. >> bring me my sandwich or whatever, you know, like to care for me. >> robots, a tool, not a person. like we look at each other here. now imagine gasia you're anchoring next to a robot, right? i know sometimes people call me that, but that's not the case, right? >> it's like you really have to. this really does help us understand when a human, when the warmth and even the little mistakes that we always make. right. that's what makes us human. exactly. if you just, you know, if you're perfect all the time, nobody you can't relate, right? >> someone who's perfect all the time, though, steve paulson. right. steve paulson but he's no robot. >> that was a real thing. andre i like that. you know? >> andre, i'm only competing with you guys. split the bill with you last saturday. i don't know your money, do i? i mean, no, no, that's why he's a good guy. all right, well, sunny and warm today. fog at the coast. back to you guys. uh, here we go. it started not only here, but also in the mountains. um light rain, quarter inch or so already. russian river points north. i do. i will mention

this. it won't be today, but i think friday or saturday, mendocino county, lake county is going to get snow as well this is a cold, cold air mass that is on the way. we'll deal with this tomorrow. santa cruz mountains also getting in on some light rain as well. and by the way, if you send me info or what you know ex tweet, i really appreciate it. it helps because you know, anytime you can say, hey, we're getting some rain here, it makes a big difference here. i can't cover everything. yeah today though. oh my gosh, what a nice day. san rafael, san jose, santa cruz uh, also livermore, oakland, vallejo, atherton and santa rosa all between 68 and 70 nice degrees. santa rosa, downtown san francisco, concord, san jose from yesterday, 67 to 50 or a soft 60, as i like to say to sal today and san jose. and by saturday these may be about 5152. it's a cold system, but the cold air doesn't get here until friday. saturday it's not really. today we will have much lower snow levels by saturday, maybe down to 1500ft, which would put much of bay area hills lake county, mendocino county in the mix. there rain arrives today. i think after

everything's by the time we get to sunday, i think the russian river will have five plus inches of rain for some here you can see the projections. i mean already santa rosa is showing two by early early saturday morning. some good amounts for everyone else here. this is a good system. it's a cold front, but this is really all about snow and a lot of snow here. blizzard warning already started and goes all the way to sunday morning again. just a travel. likely impossible. maybe not so much today, but tomorrow. and believe me, there will be snow down to 1800 and 2000ft. that's a lot of clearing for the plows. 5 to 12ft above the 5000 foot level. maybe even more than that. above 7000ft. i had to jog the old memory. when's the last time you saw 96in being forecast at homewood? between now and sunday at 5:00. never i can't remember that. i mean, so i mean, just again, this will be probably of epic proportions here, 5 to 12ft above 5000, maybe even 13ft or so, above 7000ft. but a long duration snow event, whiteout conditions, 75

mile per hour. winds 2 to 5 inch per hour. snowfall rates. don't try and go up there. maybe today i'll give you a mulligan today. but tomorrow don't do it. don't do it. uh, we're getting some light rain. the rain will start to pick up. rain returns, along with a colder pattern. again though, colder air is late friday. saturday it's not today, but this is all about the mountains there with lowering snow levels and just some big time totals over water trajectory. extremely cold air. the setup is a classic for the sierra on just a ton of snow here. not only today, tomorrow, saturday, sunday, but also maybe next tuesday and thursday. there will be more. i think we'll get some better rain than what's being advertised here. i think especially marin county north. but again, we will be measuring this in feet, multiple feet after everything is said and done. so for today, cloudy, cool rains on the way. some of it started, but it's light heavier rain comes in later, but tomorrow's really the main day. 50 on the temps and a cold rain sets up shop and says i'm not going anywhere until probably after the weekend. you guys all right, steve, thanks. >> all right. let's get back to

the sierra stuff now, people in the bay area are being told not to drive up to the sierra this weekend because of the incoming storm, but some avid skiers and snowboarders, they are heading up today to try and beat the worst of it. in fact, sports basement in berkeley was filled last night with shoppers making some last minute purchases before heading to tahoe. while they know the risks on the road, they couldn't pass up a chance to hit the slopes for possibly record snowfall, so we'll see how much of it stays open. >> um, worst comes to worst, we'll just ski the lower mountain. >> i got sleeping bags, hand warmers, lanterns, flashlights, a bunch of nonperishable food, a bunch of water, anything that i can survive on for. at least 24 to 36 hours, ski resorts are preparing for slippery roads, reduced visibility and closures on mountain passes. >> but some resorts, such as palisades tahoe, plans to stay open until at least memorial day because of the expected snowfall . >> ppe is preparing for the storm and expects the wind, rain

and snow to cause power outages. pg and e crews are in place in areas where they've had trouble getting to in the past because of debris and snow. pg also has helicopters and snow cats at the ready. customers in remote areas are being warned that extended power outages are possible. a reminder here that you can download the ktv weather app to stay on top of this storm. you'll see interactive radar check, an hourly forecast. you can also use the app to send us your photos of rain and snow in your neighborhood, and we may show them here on the air and online. >> new numbers show muni ridership in san francisco is increasing. that is a promising sign. after it dropped significantly following the pandemic. ktvu is bailey o'carroll is in san francisco. with those numbers. bailey >> good morning, sal mineo. ridership is up 25% over last year. now that brings them to just about that 70% mark up to where they were at the pre-pandemic level. so we are live here on union and van ness. it's really one of the intersections where two of the main muni bus lines run. the 45

and the 49, and it was. raining out here for a while. it's kind of been off and on a little bit. that heavy sprinkle all morning long. and i will tell you, we've been you can see this bus stop right behind us. there's been a steady flow of people getting on and off that 49 bus, despite the rainy conditions. i was wondering if some of them may opt for ubering because of the weather, but no, people are happy to take muni nowadays as the transit agency says, weekday commuters were really the backbone of their ridership before for the work from home wave hit san francisco, so they did have to pivot and, well, how did they come back? the agency says they focused on three things cleanliness, safety and reliability. they added staff and camera at cameras, at stops and in busses and light rails to deter crime. they're also ensuring that stations, stops and vehicles like busses and light rails are clean, cleaner than they used to be. and on top of this, delays are down more

than 75. so we've been asking riders out here all morning how they feel about muni. a majority of them tell us, though, that they still have safety concerns. >> there's a lot of people with mental health problems, so they'll get in the bus and then they sometimes they will even threaten you if you look at them. so it could be it could be dangerous. >> so amanda, who you just heard from and other people say their level of safety, that they feel kind of depends on the bus line that they are taking. everyone said that they have noticed busses getting more and more crowded. they also say that the busses are on time. a majority of the time. so muni riders taking notice of the changes that the transit agency has put in place. one more number that i will tell you about is it is nearing 10. uh satisfaction rate has risen 10, i should say so. good news for muni riders. but one thing is, some of those riders telling us still this

morning that depending on the line they're taking in the time of day, they are taking that line, there are still some safety concerns here. reporting in san francisco. i'm bailey o'carroll, ktvu, fox two news. >> bailey, thank you. now to new video from oakland of some of the latest car break ins there. this one was near fourth and madison, not far from jack london square. the break ins and at least five cars happened in the middle of the night when victim calls the situation frustrating and said something more needs to be done about car break ins. police say there were more than 13,000 in oakland last year, a 45% increase year over year. >> the four finalists for oakland police chief will introduce themselves during a special police commission meeting tonight at city hall, but the person in charge of choosing the next chief is skipping the event. shengtao sent a letter to the commission which said that she's been talking to law enforcement leaders nationwide, who shown interest in the opening. but they dropped out when they were told they would have to attend a public forum with other candidates. now, tao's letter reads in part, quote, a former a forum identifying candidates places those individuals at unnecessary risk with their current employers. it may. also

force oakland to enter into a premature bidding war with an individual's current employer, if they feel strongly about retaining them, end quote. now, the police commission submitted these four names to the mayor, all of whom have red flags. we're talking about, assistant cincinnati police chief lisa davis. reports indicate she has repeatedly been passed over for cincinnati chief former lubbock, texas. police chief floyd mitchell. he left after his department was accused of not answering 911 calls. luis molina is an assistant deputy mayor for public safety in new york city. he is accused of failing to improve city jail conditions, and former san leandro police chief abdul pridgen, who is accused of violating department policy and who tao rejected when he was on the commission's first candidates list. >> i don't know if anybody inside wants the permanent job because they see the politics, all the things that go on there. this job is almost impossible to do. >> it's going to take a unicorn to do it. that somebody has got to be incredibly special, unique

, charismatic, great with the community. >> see tonight's police commission meeting is open to the public. people can also participate through zoom. it starts, by the way, at 630 tonight. well tens of thousands of pounds of fentanyl seized in california, coming up on mornings on 2 to 9. >> we'll talk live with an expert about the staggering numbers and how it's reshaping the landscape of drug use, distribution and perception. and later, a tragic accident on the slopes leaves a promising high school athlete paralyzed. why? the north bay teen's family says his positive attitude is inspiring everyone around him

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and get all this national guard seized more than 62,000 pounds of fentanyl last year, well more than double the amount from the year before. >> while fentanyl used to be thought of as something only serious drug users turn to. there have been a lot of changes in how it's viewed, used and sold in just the past year, so let's learn more by welcoming bron's courtney, executive director of the hiv education and prevention project of alameda county. thanks for being with us, bronze. >> thank you guys. see you. nice to meet you. >> it's nice to talk to you, especially on such an important topic. how do you think we should be thinking about fentanyl today? >> the reality is, is that the government cannot control the unregulated drug supply. so we have to look at the things that are going to support people who

are battling with substance use disorder, such as medication assistance, treatment programs and things that are going to prevent people from dying due to opioid overdose. and since we know that the synthetic opioid of fentanyl is in a lot of the drug supply and easily available , we want to encourage other programs to have, like drug checking, which alameda county just funded. an east bay drug checking program. we want to expand harm reduction programs just throughout the east bay, which looks at the spectrum of people substance use from chaotic stage of use to abstinence and everything in between, and work with people around there and, um, the relationship with drugs and what their goal is. so just be able to use drugs safer in a safer way until they're ready to change their relationship with that. other things we want to work on is the overdose prevention. and we're doing that through a couple of different ways to a narcan stand, boxes where we have boxes of narcan readily available for people to just go up and take. it's, uh, like zero threshold. they don't have to ask anybody for it. they can just go to like, highland

hospital, pull up to the emergency department, get narcan, or they can actually go into the emergency room department and access the only what we call big red harm reduction vending machine, where they can get access to fentanyl test strips. they can get hygiene kits, socks, condoms, all different kinds of things because we know that harm reduction, uh, is a lot of things other than, um, supply specific for drug use and, uh, safer drug use. >> how are you doing when it comes to changing the thinking? i remember back when narcan sort of entered the mass conversation , some people said, well, you're just enabling people to keep using drugs. you know, they should get off those drugs. we shouldn't be helping them, keep taking them. do you still hear that? sometimes i do, but because harm reduction is becoming more normalized as a public health strategy, that has been proven to keep people healthy, alive and able to thrive, it's about just meeting people where they're at. >> like, just think about any kind of drug. if somebody will tell you, stop cigarets, is that going to happen overnight? stop sugar. is that going to happen overnight? stop drinking. it's probably not going to happen overnight. so it's really working with people on their individual goals on how they

want to be healthier, whether they decide to stop using drugs or not. yes, we know harm reduction strategies is controversial for some people who grew up in the abstinence based world of just don't do that thing, but it's hard not to do that thing right. there's not a lot of other support services that help people stop doing that thing that is considered risky, right? there's not like a lot of mental health services hanging around that people can just go to. so it's about increasing harm reduction services, increasing access to mental health services to get kind of to the point and the reason why people are using drugs, abusing them and causing harm within their drug use. >> it's a big change from the just say no 80 childhood that i had. you know, something else that's so different. i'm so lucky i have a one son in middle school, one son in high school, and so i sort of look to them for what's happening at that very, very early level. and i asked them a few months ago, have you guys heard of fentanyl? and they both said, well, we've heard about it. i said, have you been taught anything at school? and they said, no, if you had a magic wand in a blank check, how would you educate? you know,

today's middle schoolers and high schools about what's happening? >> well, now, because we live in the world of social media, our youth are growing up a lot faster than when i was growing up in the 80s, and we didn't have cell phones and instagram and all that good stuff. so i think once, um, folks are able to comprehend and, um, drug drugs and sex and those conversations is really up to the parent to have that conversation with them and we're doing at hep hack and other harm reduction agencies as we're conversating with oakland unified school district and a lot of the school districts and even if the entire oakland unified school district has like parameters around that, we'll go to individual schools because it's like, hey, if mcclymonds high school is like, hey, we want to have that conversation. we'll have that conversation. we'll do rallies. if oakland tech wants to have it, we'll do that with them as well. but it's about hitting people wherever they're at, especially when it has to do with youth. so youth uprising, east oakland, youth development, all these other places. it's like getting in their face, asking them, hey, is this important to you? if so, let's have the conversation so that we can give you the tools

to have open dialog around substance use and harm reduction as a public health strategy to keep people healthy and alive? absolutely. >> so with just the seconds we have left, if you had one message specifically for parents, what would you want us to know? >> um, talk to your children openly about harm reduction and safer practices just around drugs and sex. and i know that could be kind of sticky, but we're in a new world, right? our our main goal is disease prevention and overdose prevention. and we have to do that by having the open dialog with the people that we love and giving folks options, whether it's abstinence or harm reduction. but remember, harm reduction is a spectrum. so abstinence is in that spectrum i got it. >> it's been so great talking with you bronze. thank you so much for joining us today. >> thank you very much. have a good one. i will you too. >> bronze courtney, thank you so much. coming up here on the nine, dozens of wildfires have burned more than a million acres in texas. the deadly effects of these fires and what firefighters are looking toward, that should be welcome news. then san jose police make an arrest in a triple shooting almost six years ago. what

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woooooo! >> san jose police now have man in custody in connection to a triple shooting that happened back in 1920, 18. 26 year old miguel vergara. perez was arrested at his home up in rohnert park. he's accused of shooting three men during an argument in 2018 at a san jose taqueria on almaden expressway. all three victims survived the shooting was captured on surveillance video. >> the video shows just how gruesome this act was committing

this violent crime in a public area where multiple bystanders are located, including small children. and so you really see that in the surveillance video. >> vergara perez is now booked at the santa clara county main jail, charged with attempted homicide. new details about a high speed chase in contra costa county that ended in a crash. >> it all started yesterday afternoon when police in lafayette responded to a report of a robbery at a fast food restaurant on mount diablo boulevard. not long after, officers found the suspected vehicle on highway 24 and say it sped off on camino pablo toward el. sobrante, the contra costa county district attorney's office says the car chase into another car crashed into another car that was driving in the opposite direction. then there was a seven year old child in the suspects car, and it is not clear if anyone was hurt. >> a new report about police pursuits by san francisco police says those. chases are more

likely to end in a crash than any other major city in california. the san francisco standard analyzed data from the california highway patrol and found 41% of the 115 chases by sfpd between 2018 and 21 ended in a crash, compared to 22% statewide. this comes as san francisco voters will decide property an e that would change the police pursuit policy to allow officers to chase suspects in felonies and violent misdemeanors. >> all right. so that deadly wildfire burning through north texas is now the largest in state history. at least one person is dead. officials say the massive flames have destroyed homes and burned through more than a million acres of land. the fast spread has been fueled by strong winds, dry grass and unusual, usually warm temperatures. firefighters are hoping a change in wind and cooler temperatures will help them contain the flames. >> is our current conditions? um, the spread is going to be minimal, especially with not much winds pushing them so i is

going to be helpful. i think everyone's still really in shock. >> i mean, literally the entire everything around the town is completely ash. >> meantime, the white house says president biden is monitoring that situation closely. >> travelers are another flight to spain after their original plane suffered a crack in the windshield. flightaware tracked the american airlines jet, heading from new york's kennedy airport to madrid , spain, last night when it was diverted to boston's logan airport. american airlines called the incident a maintenance issue, and the plane will now undergo inspections. passengers were put up at local hotels overnight and then placed on new flights. >> coming up here on the nine. this is not the day to head to tahoe. of course, we always hear the chp telling drivers to take it slow or maybe prepare for a delay. today they're issuing an unusually strong warning. why? they say even if you think you can do it, you are wrong. then, after great success. last season, there's exciting news to bring you about the oakland roots. you'll see the

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talking about for a week. we have you covered throughout mornings on two and of course on the fox local app on your smart tv, because we're going to help you get through this. speaking of helping you get through, what about early childhood, right? a new survey backs up the saying it takes a village to raise a child. the survey found the average working parent relies on six different people to help care for care for their child, according to one poll. this often includes grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, siblings along with friends and neighbors. the network often extends beyond the parent's inner circle to include the child's teachers, workers at after school programs, and daycare centers. my goodness, you need to have a vast array of people to help you. it's like that last minute. i can't make it to school. can you pick up junior or, you know, shoot, i don't have the galoshes we need for the field trip. can my kid borrow yours? >> yeah. i mean, that's that's the way a lot of people choose the school for the community. yeah right. because just as you said. oh, something will come up, but i have garcia, another trusted parent, someone i trust with my child. yeah, well, you know, when my when my nieces and nephews were young, my sisters would often call me if they were

stuck at work to go pick pick up. >> can you run over there at the daycare center? you would do it? yeah >> and you were a young single man at this point. yeah >> you know, and my nieces and nephews, they're they're cute. they're great. i mean, they're grown now. so it's crazy to see them walking and talking. >> but he's still a young single man. well i know, but it's different. >> it's different when you're 24 versus like you have a whole full life of your own, you know. >> oh yeah. challenges and exactly. my sisters were like, busy working or single moms. you know. so like, i was the guy around that possibly could do it. >> so and now you have that bond with them because they look at you. >> oh yeah. my nieces nephews. yeah. we're like this. they're great. they're great kids. >> good, good. all right. >> for the most part. good. well let's not get into that. right. let's switch to weather. >> right. we've been talking about weather for a week now. and today is it as much as 10 to 12ft of new snow is expected in the sierra starting today. and for the next several days. >> yeah. ski resorts, emergency responders and locals are bracing for what's expected to be the biggest snowstorm of the year so far in the sierra ktvu.

>> sally rasmus joins us live to explain the warnings coming from emergency officials and what drivers can do to avoid this. >> well, the number one thing i think the chp will tell drivers to do is to avoid the area of lake tahoe, the sierra, if at all possible, don't try to drive because the conditions are already changing. a blizzard warning already in effect for the area of lake tahoe south to yosemite. several feet of snow expected anywhere from eight to even 12ft in some space. some places over the next several days. now behind us is a live look at a caltrans webcam. this is highway 80 at kingvale in the eastbound direction, you can see some big trucks there pulled over with their blinkers on. the chp is enacting chain controls, especially for these large vehicles that are taking some of the supplies up to the sierra. earlier this morning, around seven, you could still see part of the pavement. and there at kingvale you can here's a picture of the village at palisades. this was earlier this morning. before that snow started to fall. but one thing people have noticed is how strong the winds are. you can note the camera there shaking a bit a wind is coming and strong

with this storm now. palisades mountain operations team reported this morning on social media. they were already seeing wind gusts of up to 100 miles an hour at some of their peaks, again as much as 10 to 12ft of snow expected during the next 72 hours. people who wanted to try and beat the storm left the bay area to head to the sierra. last night. avid skiers and riders geared up and took some of their chances. the chp and tahoe locals, however, are expecting roadways in the region to be shut down for long stretches. they are urging people to stay home and avoid getting stuck or getting into a crash. >> if you don't have to travel, don't, and i'm really going to be blunt when it comes to it. um, your safety is number one, and if we cannot control the weather, which we cannot not, uh, it's one of those things where if you can control not being on the road and not being part of the problem, then definitely stay home. >> we're preparing for power outages with winds like this and that amount of snow. it's kind of a given that they're going to be challenges. i've actually got a few texts already from spectrum, from liberty saying

prepare for power outages, rouz. and on that note, people in the lake tahoe area, people who live there, people stocked up at grocery and hardware stores preparing to have to possibly hunker down for several days, having enough supplies, water, uh, food and other provisions. >> now, some of the people at tahoe resorts have already said that even if skiers and riders are able to get to one of their ski resorts, they will likely have to be cleaning up and clearing away all the snow before the resorts can even open. so it may not even be an option to ski, not even today. the wind conditions, the way they are right now will likely close many of the lifts at those resorts. garcia salon andre, we'll send it back to you. allie. >> rasmus. thank you. we of course, have you covered throughout mornings on two and beyond. you can also stay up to date on the weather. anytime we do download the ktv weather app, you'll see interactive radar, an hourly forecast. you can also use the app to send us your photos and videos of snow, so we can share them here on the air and online. >> a high school student athlete

from napa is in the hospital recovering from life changing spinal cord injuries after a weekend snowboarding crash. 15 year old blake mendenhall's, spinal cord was severed, but his family says his positive attitude is actually helping everybody, even if something is going wrong or you're getting hurt. >> what i realized from how much pain and suffering i've been through is to just never give up, never back down. and the way he handles it completely changes the way i start to think about it. >> and he lifts me up. >> 15 year old blake is in a hospital in reno after crashing into a tree while snowboarding sunday afternoon at a tahoe ski resort. family members say blake severed his spinal cord and cannot walk at napa vintage high school. blake is a talented athlete, excelling in many sports. >> he was just awesome as a coach, whether it be football, golf or soccer you wish you had. like 20 blake's. you know, with

that kind of attitude on your team. >> you guys back in napa and blake will be getting care at craig hospital in colorado, which specializes in spinal cord injuries and may take months before he's able to go back home to napa. >> happening today, the arraignment for a suspected gunman in the deadly mass shooting in half moon bay. >> chun li xiao was indicted by a san mateo county grand jury on seven counts of murder, one count of attempted murder, in january of last year. xiao has been described as a disgruntled worker is accused of going to two of the farms he worked at shooting and killing seven fellow farm workers and seriously injuring another. a preliminary hearing is expected to conclude today involving a san jose man accused in the death of his infant daughter. david castro faces a charge of felony child endangerment and other enhancements. he could be sentenced to ten years in prison if convicted, prosecutors say three month old phoenix died from fentanyl exposure last may. castro's attorney says she was accidentally smothered while sleeping on the couch with her father. a judge will determine

whether there's enough evidence to bring this case to trial. >> san mateo county will invest $5 million in its mobile mental health program. the program will include non-art mobile crisis response teams, people dealing with a mental or behavioral health crisis will soon be able to request help from specialists who can connect them to appropriate services. social workers work miracles. >> you know, therapists work miracles. psychologists work miracles. uh, they are skilled in de-escalating situations. and that is you know, one of the big hopes of this program, they will have five mobile, uh, crisis response vans that will be located throughout the county at the ready for in-person response. and that will be a game changer after calls are screened, staff will arrive in unmarked vehicles. >> mental health officials say police won't go out on those calls unless it's necessary for safety reasons. >> new at nine, the warriors will not have forward andrew

wiggins tonight when they take on the new york knicks at madison square garden. he's out indefinitely. the team says the 29 year old is dealing with a personal matter, and that the warriors are honoring his wishes to keep the situation private. the team expects him to return, but doesn't know when wiggins stepped away from the team last year, when his father faced a serious medical condition. wiggins. >> all right, let's turn things over now to soccer. a groundbreaking partnership is expanding right here in oakland, ktvu, reaffirming our commitment to bring soccer to fans across our region. we are very excited to make this announcement. so joining us now is mike geddes, who is the oakland roots and soul c's chief purpose officer. well, thank you so much for joining us, mike. we appreciate your time here all right. so mike, we have a nice announcement for soccer fans in this growing popularity sport here in the bay area. tell us what that is. >> yeah we super excited that the partnership with ktvu is expanding. we're going to have every game home and away shown on the network, which is expanding from last season. so more people across the bay area will be able to see what a

fantastic product we've got, what great entertainment we've got with the oakland roots, and hopefully get some more people out to our games. >> tell us what this means to have this expanded partnership, to really kind of showcase the both these soccer clubs now. >> yeah, it's super important. we've always supported the we've always appreciated the support of ktvu in telling our story. you know, we are a very young club. you know, in terms of comparison to some of the more established sports teams in the bay area. but we're growing really fast and i think that's part of the incredible growth of soccer. and of course, we now have a women's team, the oakland soul, as well as oakland roots. our men's team, and we've got an amazing product. we're playing right now out at cal state east bay in hayward. it's a great family atmosphere, fantastic entertainment. we want more people to have the chance to see our games, get involved in the excitement and hopefully come out and watch some incredible soccer. >> it's a good sport, you know. ktvu is also going to air the oakland soul's home game on june 8th as well, versus, uh, a academica sc, c as well. so we're going to be we're going to be airing a little bit both i mean mostly the, the oakland rouz, but we're also going to

have the soul on as well. yeah. >> and that's super exciting because our women's team is currently pre-professional. we're looking as you probably know in your audience, knows that we're trying to bring a first ever soccer specific stadium to oakland. once we've got that, it means the women's team could go professional. but right now, we're super excited that on june 8th, they're going to play a double header with our men's team. so that's just going to be an incredible festival of soccer down at hayward. and we're super proud to have ktvu there, covering it and bringing that to more female and male soccer fans right across the bay. >> mike, i got to tell you yesterday i attended the bay area host committee gathering, uh, the bay area host committee, of course, is bringing the fifa world cup here in 2026. the popularity of soccer continues to grow, so at an immense scale and this to me, it's finally happening. i'll tell you why. some people know i was born in another country where in that country soccer is known as football, and that was life. but here it was never as popular when i first moved here, and now finally, after being here for over 35 years, it's finally starting to pick up. uh, tell me about the excitement you feel to see more people gathering and watching this particular sport

and realizing how good of a sport it is to watch. yeah. i mean, i'm like you. >> i come from a country originally where where football is life and it's not just about the men's world cup coming in 2026. we've got copa america, the gold cup, the club world cup. we have european teams coming here every single preseason. there is so much excitement around soccer and i think what's really incredible for us is starting our women's team, the oakland soul, and seeing young girls in oakland and across the east bay, having those local role models to look up to is an incredible thing. and just for people to be able to see local athletes playing for a team that represents them in their community, it's just going to make the game grow even more so when can we expect to start seeing the first games of this new deal that we've struck between both of our parties start to air? yeah. so the season kicks off on march the 9th, saturday, march, the ninth. i think we're going to do something really special with ktvu at that game, which is going to be incredible. and yeah, the season runs all the way through to october. the regular season and the women's runs in june and july of this year. so basically from march 9th. so that's just a week on saturday we're going to kick off

and it's going to be incredible. soccer and ktvu all year long. >> james torres is a big soccer player who i know, you know. and he's putting together something great, you know, getting ready for this whole thing. i just cannot stress enough how good to see it. and one of the great things i think about soccer personally, is, you know, we talk about teams in football, but the individual players, the athleticism in each of these individual players to play for such a long time, to me is always been super impressive. as opposed to regular nfl. what's your take on that? >> yeah, i mean, likewise i'm a i'm a soccer fan. so i've always been kind of part of that sport. but i think what's really great now is we have incredible athletes who are starting to be recognized in the community and not just that we have some pretty big global stars like we have brian tamaki's. he's the captain of the el salvador national team, an absolute hero in that country. he was just playing leo messi, the greatest player in soccer history. and to see someone like that, the impact that has on the salvadoran community here, we have other international players, plus a lot of local homegrown talent. so we think it's an amazing product that we're so thrilled that ktvu is going to promote and hopefully more people come to the games.

>> i just feel really, really good about this. just a great soccer team for oakland, you know? and i think that was one of the secrets to our partnerships here. you all are based in oakland here. our station is in oakland. and it just formed this perfect partnership for people to learn about soccer. so if you're looking for something to do, you'll be able to get out there and get to these soccer games. and if you can't do that, you can watch it right here. but go watch the games too. i mean, that's that's really exciting as well. my goodness. uh, thank you so much. we appreciate your time. thank you. all right. all right. as a proud media partner of the oakland roots, ktvu is gearing up for the start of the season. we're airing a season preview this saturday, march 2nd, right here on ktvu at 9 p.m. we'll also air the season opener against the indy 11 next saturday, march 9th on ktvu plus and we will have an hour long post game show following that opening match. all things soccer right here on ktvu and ktvu plus. all right, coming up on mornings on two and nine, a major shift in food packaging safety chemicals once prevalent in everyday items such as pizza boxes and microwave popcorn have vanished from store shelves. while the fda says the move was a necessity. also had it's, a popular podcast known for its

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microwave popcorn bags are no longer being used in food packaging. the fda says the chemicals are toxic and may be linked to serious health problems. manufacturers have gradually begun to phase them out after extensive research found the chemicals can leach into the food. despite all the marketing, some nutritionists say sports drinks with electrolytes aren't necessarily healthy. a registered dietitian with the cleveland clinic says information on the label reveals many sports drinks with electrolytes also have a lot of sugar. the equivalent of nine teaspoons in a regular bottle of gatorade, as well as food dyes. dietitian says that while electrolytes such as sodium, potassium, and magnesium are important for our body's, most people can get enough by eating a healthy diet rich in whole foods. >> san francisco city leaders say they're working to eliminate red tape to make it easier for prospective buyers to scoop up the macy's union square property. the flagship store is among 150 macy's locations scheduled to close within the next few years, as the retailer

refocuses on smaller spaces and luxury brands. the city may convert the 400,000 square foot site into multiple uses, including housing office space and a nonprofit site. >> one thing i would think about is subdividing the space and inviting some of those activities and users that have fled the city in in, you know, the last decades, like nonprofit organizations, ngos, artists, arts organizations, and trying to track them into that space. >> macy's says the store could remain open for another year or two until the property is sold. >> bay curious is a podcast that takes deep dives into bay area history, culture and cool things. you may have wondered or didn't know about this place we call home now, a companion book is out with many topics covered on the podcast. it's full of facts and hidden gems. joining me now is the host of ktvu bay curious or kqed bay curious. olivia allen price ktvu. not yet, not yet. all right, so i love the podcast. i was tempted

to listen to it because your teases are very good. i'm thinking, i don't know about that. and this book strikes me as a book that if you're not a bay area local, but you want to kind of know, it's like a cheat sheet. >> yeah, yeah, we kind of designed the book to kind of reach a lot of different people. we definitely thought it could be sort of a guidebook for people who are maybe visiting or new to the area, but also we hope it can be something that people who have lived here for a really long time can pick up and sort of deepen their connection to this place we call home and, and learn some things about this, you know, environment that we've lived in for so long but might not know all about. >> you've curated the info instead of me having to go to google and look everything up. i didn't even know some of these things were there, so that's good. the one that caught my eye and i made a little bookmark here. the icons bay area, uh, the iconic bay area spots that locals just don't visit, and on this list is alcatraz for me. i'm 50 plus. i've never been to alcatraz. >> yeah, i think it's pretty common. you know, we did a poll

to see, you know, where have locals not visited and alcatraz came out as probably the top answer. and it makes a lot of sense. right. it's a long day. you have to get on a boat. it's a little expensive. it can be, you know, take some time to get there. totally worth it in my opinion. cool on tv here. been to alcatraz. it's a favorite attraction of mine. but yeah, a lot of locals don't make it out there. >> it's kind of like in new york a lot of people who live there don't go to the empire state building. what do you think keeps locals from going out there? just because maybe they say it'll always be there, is that the thing? >> yeah, maybe it'll always be there. you're maybe waiting for guests to come visit who you want to take out there. you know, it costs a little money to get out there. you have to make a reservation ahead of time. so there are some barriers. it's not quite as easy as walking across the golden gate bridge, which is another another one of those things. >> yeah. on your list. there's so many things. okay i, um, the next thing i bookmarked here, if we go in order, i don't know if we're going in order, but i'm just going to go to sutro tower here because i read a lot about

this. you wrote a couple of pages or the pages here, say the sutro tower was opposed by a lot of people. oh yeah. >> it was very controversial when it was built for a lot of reasons. there were a lot of concerns about kind of what might happen to the neighborhood around if this tower were to fall. um, we're an earthquake country, so people were very nervous about that. one thing i love about this story, though, is the original design of sutro tower wasn't the design we have today. of course, with the three legs, the little waist in the middle and the three kind of arms reaching up was supposed to look more like the space needle in seattle, right? >> can you imagine? >> yeah, it was supposed to be gold. there was a big disc at the top that was going to be a restaurant that you could go and have a nice meal, have a cocktail. i love sutro tower. i call it the locals landmark because i think more so than the golden gate bridge. it kind of feels like a local, you know, local ownership is claimed on it. but i do sort of wish that there was a restaurant at the top. yeah, that would be. >> well, that would be, that would be cool. all right. there's i want to go through all

of these before we run out of time here. uh, this one is san francisco sourdough. i didn't realize how sourdough starter that was. that's made here is shipped out to all over the world. what's the secret sauce in that? >> well, this is also a little controversial. so, um, of course, if you ask anyone outside of san francisco what's a quintessential san francisco food, they'll probably tell you sourdough and for a really long time, we believed that there was something in the sourdough that made our sourdough unique. scientists actually found a strand of bacteria that they named lactobacilli versus san francisco census say that san franciscans like san francisco because they thought it was unique to our sourdough. unfortunately, we've now discovered this in 90% of sourdough produced around the world, so it's maybe not super unique, but scientists are not ready to close the door on the idea that there might be something special here that makes our sourdough extra tangy, extra delicious. we're still learning a lot about how sourdough, how the yeast kind of comes together, where it comes from in the room that in the environment that the sourdough is baked in. so they're not

ready to say there's nothing special here. >> well, that's good, because a book goes through all of that. the last thing is the transbay tube. i find this fascinating because when they built the tube that i learned this in the book, they they allowed people to walk in it before it was in operation , a once in a lifetime chance that would never happen today, because there's rails and electric stuff there. they just wouldn't do it right. that's really cool that i found that out. and how they built it. talk about how what you found out. >> yeah. so a lot of the well, i should say when the transbay tube was first built, it was the longest and deepest sort of passenger tunnel in the world. so it was very notably sort of this, you know, architectural wonder that we were putting together. it took decades to actually even have the technology to build this tube. a lot of it was built at pier 70in san francisco, where the old san francisco steel, um, warehouse would have been, or production site would have been. they built it in segments, floated those segments out, sunk them, divers kind of welded things together

underwater, and it took about two years to put the tube together. and it's deepest point, i think it's 135ft deep. so think about that. when you're crossing under the bay, the tube there, you're pretty deep underwater. and it's a 3.4 mile long segment. >> olivier, i love this book. >> i'm so glad it's a really cool little insider book that i think even locals should have. >> it's called bay curious and olivier alan price, thank you for joining us. thank you. coming up on mornings on two the nine a wolf that's more than a century old has been removed. we'll take a look at the benefits it could have on the bay area. and people living in richmond. stay with us

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time and another $1 million was spent on services for the homeless who slept at people's park. this amount does not include the bills from other police departments who helped retake control of the park. >> an east bay wharf that's 120 years old has been removed from off the coast of richmond in an attempt to restore ecosystem of that area. everybody understood that long terme there were going to be significant impacts to the bay from a water quality standpoint, habitat standpoint. >> chevron richmond removed the wharf that was just north of point mallard beach in richmond. >> the wharf was built in 1904 and decommissioned in the mid 1980s. hundreds of piles of wood and 90 steel piles were taken out as part of the removal process. they hope this will help eelgrass in the area grow again, and also bring back wildlife as well. >> i'll tell you, man, this is an area not a lot of people know about the richmond point. i mean, if you want to kind of quiet day near the water to have a picnic, it's not crowded in

this area. i don't think i was familiar with it until you mentioned it earlier. >> yes. now i want to go check it out. so it's going to be one more person crowding that. >> well that's okay, you're right. >> you should go. >> yeah, yeah. okay, i'll give it a shot. take the doggy out there. see how he likes it. oh, yeah. quick reminder that you can stream ktvu news on your smart tv. you can watch live newscasts like this one. and stories on demand on your amazon fire tv. roku apple tv, or android tv. to scan the qr code on your screen right now. or you can search for the fox local app and then select kctv, icu and a quick look at tahoe. >> you can look at it, but don't go there. today is not the day to drive up the mountain. keep this in mind a major storm is moving in several feet of ♪ we're gonna have a real good time ♪ ♪ feel good time ♪ ♪ spreading love and joy and laughter all over the place ♪ ♪ we're gonna have a real good ♪ we're gonna have a good time ♪ ♪ it will be so legendary