the city says it has the tools to deliver the vaccine. they just need more of it. right now they are vaccine night teacher, muni drivers, restaurant workers, and as more people start getting shots in the arms, the city believes there is no turning back. >> we're here. we're in the red. >> reporter: a term which means retail and indoor malls can reopen in san francisco at 50% capacity. indoor dining, movie theater, museums, zoos and aquariums at 25% capacity, and gyms at 10. it also allows entertainment venue likes the ferris wheel in golden gate park to restart operations. the f market line streetcar will also begin taking passengers in may. >> now you know we're not san francisco without cable cars. just so you know, the cable cars are coming back, and they're coming back some time this year, date to be determined. >> reporter: this time the curfew for outdoor dining has been lifted, and up to three households can now eat together

outside. for indoor dining, the cutoff time is 10:00 p.m., while only one family of four can eat at a table. businesses are also reminding everyone that we're still in the midst of a global pandemic. when ordering at a table, put your mask on. >> pause what kruer doing, shut up and put your mask on. >> reporter: the fact that people are being vaccinated is giving the city a sense of relief and the much needed opportunity for businesses. >> it means that there is hope that we can maybe move forward. i can tell you a lot of the stress is at a mental level. are we going to get out of this? can we make it through it? >> we now have the capacity to administer well over 10,000 vaccines a day. we just need that supply to improve. >> reporter: still, according to the cdc, vaccines are not ness reopen schools. as she toured pier 39 today, mayor london breed also expressed her disappointment that sf unified and the labor

unions have not reached an agreement to reopen for in-person learning. >> we have to do better. you know, the grown-ups need to get their act together and make sure that we do what's in the best interests of the did kids of this city. >> reporter: and this morning, the mayor told us as she went by a private school, she said the kids, all of them were wearing masks. there has not been an outbreak among the private schools, and she said she sort of felt bad. she felt sad that the public school kids were still at home. >> lyanne, for sports fans out there, the warriors have come up with a plan they say to safely reopen the chase center at 50% capacity, and testing every fan in attendance. what does the mayor think about that? >> yeah, i spoke to her about that, the mayor, and she said the city has plan to reopen. that she said should be up to the san francisco health department, but she also said she's willing to work w warriors. she wants to go to one of those games. but if you ask me, i think it's

not crazy to think that more baseball fans will be attending games sooner than later. so for the giants, kristen, opening day is remember, april 9th. so keep your eye on that ball. >> all right. lyanne, thank you so much. all right. so here is what it means in general when a county goes into the red tier. you can eat indoors at restaurants as long as there are 100 or fewer people there, or just 25% capacity, whichever happens to be less. you can go to the movies at a maximum 25% capacity. same for indoor museums, indoor gyms, fitness studios, they can reopen in the red tier at 10% capacity. retail stores, including malls can now bump up their capacity to 50%, and the big one here, schools that haven't reopened for in-personinlr cala once they've been out of the purple tier for five days. santa clara county will also advance to the red tier tomorrow. and the county is implementing

another big change. it will align its restriction was the statewide restrictions. >> we've traditionally kept local rules in place, some more strict, some less strict than the state's rules. but we are now adjusting our approach to enable to us focus 100% on our energy on what we know is our clear path out of this epidemic, and that is vaccination. >> dr. sarah cody says the county has issued more than 400,000 vaccine doses to date. she expects 85% of county residents will be vaccinated by mid summer. dr. cody says it has been almost one year since she issued santa clara's first covid-related public health order, the march 9th ban on large group gatherings. governor newsom traveled to palo alto today to do something he hasn't done in month, and that is read to kids inside a classroom. visiting baron park elementary school today, where kids returned to class last october.

the governor used this visit to help push his $6.6 billion school reopening deal that state legislators will vote on this thursday. newsom outlined what that money will be used for. >> provide support for districts that need more sanitation, that need more ventilation, that need more peer to peer support, more staff support, that need more ppe. >> if passed, the financial incentives would be available to districts and counties with fewer than 25 new daily confirmed covid cases per 100,000 residents. according to "the l.a. times," that is a threshold almost all california counties currently meet. the johnson & johnson vaccine has gone out, and the first shots are being delivered today. california is expecting to receive 383,000 doses this week. the state reported about 2500 newly diagnosed cases today, which is one of the lowest daily counts since the middle of october. case counts are usually a reflection of the positivity

rate and the seven-day is at 2.3%. one medical of san francisco is facing a congressional investigation after being accused last week of letting people skip the line to get vaccinated. the company has been given a deadline of march 15th to turn over documents. san francisco, san mateo, and alameda counties stopped flying one medical with doses and san francisco is demanding they be returned. this week blue shield took over california's vaccination. luz pena spoke exclusively with blue shield ceo about their plan moving forward to vaccine allocation. luz? >> they hope to increase the state's capacity for delivery of covid-19 vaccines from one million doses per week to four million doses. blue shield's ceo says they are on track to accomplish this goal and gave us insight as to how they're planning to spotty this process. it's day two of blue shield

taking over california's vaccine distribution network. to understand where they're headed, we sat down with blue shield's ceo, paul markovich. >> walk us through. when we talk about blue shield taking over california's vaccine, explain the role. >> we're trying to form the management system so we know where the vaccine is at all times. from the time it's allocated by the federal government to the state of california to the time it's injected into somebody's arm. >> reporter: as it stands now, california is using a mathematical formula to decide who gets vaccinated first. so we asked. >> when we're talking about this algorithm, are you saying that maybe in some cases the state will not be using this algorithm and instead they're going listen to what blue shield is recommending? >> i think there is always going to be circumstances where you can't just do this based on a mathematical formula. that approach is used to try and simplify the ability to take

priorities and drive them through. but there is always going to be other factors i think the state is going to want to take into consideration. >> reporter: i've spoken to several medical professionals who tell me that implementing a new system now could set vaccine distribution back. will there be delays? >> no. it has to be an and not an or. we have to make sure we maintain momentum in vaccinating people, that we don't disrupt the current progress that we have, and transition on to a new performance management system. and that's really the key part of our role. >> paul markovich says their goal is to vaccinate 25 million people by the summer. how is blue shield deciding which counties and health care providers receive a certain amount of doses? >> the priorities of the state and which populations are in the highest priority. for example, of over 65 is a part of your eligible population and certain employment sectors are, what percentage of the population in a given county is made up of the eligible

population? >> reporter: but it turns out that if california decides they don't agree with blue shield's recommendations, they can simply change their vaccine distribution plan. >> the state continues to make decisions on how this gets allocated. but blue shield is making recommendations. >> reporter: blue shield's ceo says they're prioritizing their vaccine allocation plan based on what is a death rate for covid-19 in comparison to the percentage of the population of every region. their goal is to take over california's system by the end of march. they're also starting with the central valley first. luz pena, abc7 news. >> luz, thank you. the cdc is set to release new guidance for those who have been vaccinated against covid-19. the cdc expected to recommend that people still limit their interactions to small gatherings and still wear their masks in public. we'll know more on the details later this week. now to dr. alok patel, who is a member of our very own abc7 news vaccine team. doc, thanks for joining us.

what is your take on where we are with vaccinations now that johnson & johnson, their vaccine is being distributed? you have novavax, which is next in line to be approved. >> well, larry, i think all the chips are in the right place. we've had great success so far with three clinical trials. you mentioned novavax as well. it seems there is a national priority on distribution, getting vaccine sites set up and equitable distribution. we just have to see the plan actually takes effect and we get the shots into arms. and all of us would like to see the number of americans getting vaccinated just ramped up so we can get to herd immunity faster. >> all right. we mentioned at the top of the newscast the president saying today we should have enough vaccines in supply for all adults in the u.s. to get their shots by the end of may. that's two months earlier than anticipated. does that seem realistic to you? >> well, it seems realistic to have the supply. now, like i mentioned earlier, supply is one thing. but what i would like to see, what a lot of people would like the see is a plan in effect to

actually ramp up the amount of people who are getting the vaccine every day. right now looking at my calendar, it's march 2. we have about 7.7% of americans have both shots. if we're actually going to get to herd immunity, get the effect by may, we need to see our numbers go up to about four million, maybe three million shots a day every single day. and also addressing the populations at risk is going to be another hurdle. i think we can get there. supply is only one part of the puzzle. >> all right. there is an ongoing question about whether we go one dose or two doses, whether it would be more effective with the pfizer and moderna vaccines to say, look, just get your first shot. we'll worry about the second shot later. we just want as many people to have one shot as we can at this point to ramp up, to get to herd immunity faster. where do you come down on one shot, two shots? what do you think? >> i think it's a tough one. and it really depends on which shot we're talking about, but it also depends on if we have the

second shot available for those people. we talked about this a month ago. the last thing we want to do is get people that want shots and all of the sudden hit some issue with the supply chain and tell people you can't get your second shot for more than eight weeks and get out of that effective window. so right now the data does support two shots, but there is ongoing trials to look to see can we change that schedule a little bit. possibly do people need a second shot for johnson & johnson? and larry, above all, do variants have their own agenda? it may be that people need a booster shot in the future. people should do all they can do get their first shot and just hang tight. >> in texas, governor abbott is lifting mandatory mask wearing. he is saying we're open, everything, full capacity, bars, restaurants, go people. are you concerned with that? >> yes. and i'm going to try to remain composure as i answer you here. but this almost strikes me as people saying hey, don't wear a life jacket, but make sure you jump into the white whitewater. variants are rising. texas is towards the bottom in terms of the united states in

terms of vaccination rates per 100,000 residents of the state. and also we me that texas is not a small state. there are so many different geographical areas and areas there as well. and a lot of my physician friends in texas are rolling their eyes right now and are worried about what they may see in the er. i think it's a tough move. a lot of people are acting too optimistically about the number of plateaus right now, and it's too early. we don't know what the variants could do. i think it's dangerous. >> dr. patel, as always, thank you so much for your time. >> thank you. sierra snow, it's march. but do we have enough snow to get us out of the drought? today's snow survey results, next. and back on top, the long planned park that is going to be more than just a great view. varsity blues. a former san francisco supervisor gets an honor he earned decades later. i'm spencer christian. a dry mild weather may be giving way to something a bit wetter. way to something a bit wetter. i'll have the ♪

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abc7 reporter marci gonzalez has that story. >> yeah, we need as many ambulances as you can have right now. >> reporter: rescuers rushing to the citizen of this crash in holtville, california. >> right now they're doing triage. >> reporter: the california highway patrol says this big rig collided with this ford explorer which was packed with 25 people inside. >> obviously that vehicle is not meant for that many people. >> reporter: at least 13 people who were in that suv were killed. the other 12 taken to hospitals. >> the ones that came into us had injuries ranging from fractures to life-threatening head injuries, chest injuries. >> we are aware that children were involved. >> reporter: the crash happened early this morning on a rural stretch of road 15 miles from the mexico border. >> there are still crews on scene and investigating exactly what happened. >> reporter: marci gonzalez, abc7 news, los angeles. the state's monthly snow survey in the sierra showing mixed results.

the tests done by the department of water resources at phillips station near south lake tahoe reported a snowpack of 86% of normal for this date. that figure represents 83% of the april 1 average. that's the date when the snowpack is typically at its peak. however, the statewide numbers really are not looking good. the automated snow survey network shows the snowpack at just 61% of normal for this date. let's bring in spencer christian. spencer, we desperately need more rain. it's that simple, whatever we have in march and april. >> you're right about that, larry. it's very unlikely we will get enough rain in the snow or sierra to bring us up close to the average levels. but there is more on the way. a little more rain copping our way and a little more snow over the weekend going to the sierra. right now we're looking at a cooler hour than at this time yesterday. temperatures generally about two to seven degrees cooler in most locations than at this time yesterday, except in the far northern part of our viewing

area. under increasingly cloudy skies over san francisco where it's only 55. temperatures are in the low to mid-60s in oakland, mountain view, san jose and morgan hill and half moon bay is at 54. the view at the golden gate, yesterday this time lots of blue sky. this time today, lots of clouds. we have 65 degrees at this moment at santa rosa. mid-60s also at novato, at livermore, concord. 71 at fairfield. 67 at napa. let's check out our forecast features. clouds will increase a bit overnight. high clouds and mid level clouds. dry and mild days will remain with us through friday. but a wet and unsettled pattern begins friday night. and we'll have periods of rain for a few days after that. here is our forecast animation for tonight. just showing the passage of high clouds and mid level clouds as well. skies will not be exactly bright tonight. overnight lows will be generally in the low to mid-40s in most region, even up in the north bay, although a couple of inland north bay locations will drop

into the upper 30s. highs tomorrow mid 50s on the coast. low to mid-60s around the by shoreline. so not quite so mild as earlier in the week. inland areas will be in the upper 60s for the most part. one or two locations may top out at 70 tomorrow. we'll bring in the storm impact for the storm coming in late friday night into saturday. light rain will return. look for some slippery road waist and gusty conditions at times. here is the long-term forecast animation. notice late friday, our first wave of rain begins to push into the north bay. basically friday night and early saturday we're looking at this first rain event. then a little breck on sunday, and another bout, another episode of rain will move in for monday and tuesday. and notice in the sierra, there will be some snow. we may get another 8, 10, 12 inches of snow out of these combined systems in the sierra that will help add to the snowpa snowpack, but it won't get as anywhere near average for this time of year. here is the accuweather seven-day forecast. minor cooling on thursday. then on friday, temperatures bounce back up a couple degrees.

friday night we may get a few areas of pockets of light rain. steadier, more widespread rain i should say on saturday. cooler on saturday as well. the weekend is going to begin the cooling trend that continues into early next week. and rain will continue into early next week as well. larry and kristen? >> all right. we do still need it. thank you, spencer. >> yeah. getting out of your comfort zone. the women flying high with drones. and amazon returns a brand-new

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developing news out of washington. the white house is withdrawing the nomination of neera tanden to lead the office of management and budget. president biden put out a statement saying tanden made that request. her past criticism of lawmakers on both sides of the aisle came up during the confirmation process. republicans pointing to her -- they call it mean tweets. it became clear she would be hard-pressed to get that 50 senate votes needed once a democrat bolted. all right. time now for consumer news. 7 on your side's michael finney here with a look at today's headlines. hi, michael. >> hey, larry. this is an important one. the first one here. this is for drivers. there are two separate tire recalls affecting more than a half million tires. the first one is from continental tire for tires under the continental, general, brands.

a manufacturer says some tires were overcured, and that might cause the side wall to weaken and blow out while on the road. the second is from cooper tire and rubber, affecting 430,000 tires. it's the same problem there. tires might separate and blow out. in most cases, a dealer or manufacturer will contact you if your tires fall under these recalls. another carmaker is pledging to go all electric in the very near future. volvo says by 2030, all of its newly produced cars will be fully electric. less than a decade. buying a volvo will also be online dealerships, will stay open to help with those online orders and car maintenance. last month, general motors committed to going all electric by 2035. one in five of us have our headphones at a volume that is too loud for world health organization standards. now that's according to a

year-long study by apple and the michigan school of public health. apple is now urging users to lower the volume for the sake of our ears. the tech giant recommends using its noise app to monitor the volume put out by your ear buds. it alerts you to move to a quieter location to take calls if the environment around you is too noisy. larry, i don't know about you, but you'll be walking down the street, and you'll hear somebody's ear buds, and you'll think how loud is that? how loud is that really. everyone be careful. >> what? michael, i can't hear. i can hear you now. thank you. thank you, michael. >> wait, are you guys done? oh, you are done. okay. amazon made a change to its recently debuted app icon after some customers thought it resembled adolf hitler's mustache. take a look at the image on the left. the blue thing at the top was

supposed to represent shipping tape, but some thought it looked like hitler's mustache. others might say charlie chaplin. even so, amazon thought it with australia bad look so, they came up with the image on the right. >> all right. long-time coming. san francisco supervisor gets his varsity letter more than 60 years late. what happened?

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building a better bay area for a safe and secure future, this is abc7 news. >> a notable gender gap persists in a number of fields, notably technology. a redwood city drone maker took its women employees to the san mateo coast today to let them fly a drone. it's an example of the changing

workplace, one of the pillars of building a better bay area. abc7 news reporter david louie shows us how skydio hopes to inspire more women to become licensed drone pilots. >> reporter: they're work in human resources, marketing and other departments. their mission today, to get out of their comfort zone and fly a drone. >> we want to provide a safe and judgment-free zone where they're allowed to experiment, where they're allowed to learn how to use this technology and feel empowered about it. >> reporter: they all work at skydio, a fast-growing bay area drone maker. the company brought them out to the beach to try their hand in an area that is largely male dominated. out of 160,000 pilots, less than 11,000 have been issued to women. this flight day is the beginning of a process to add 25 more women. they will follow up with virtual training classes to qualify for an faa certified drone license. >> we've paired up the women

across the company. so we have some of our more experienced pilots matched up with some of our newer employees or women who haven't had as much time in the air. >> reporter: it's also a get acquainted opportunity because many hav n dueo working from home during the pandemic. the group event gave them the courage to try something they might not do along. >> once they get it launched and up in the air, it's just free-for-all, super stoked, smiles on their face. >> reporter: if these women can do it, their excitement and success might inspire other women to fly commercial or recreational drones. there is no way they were going to fail. >> i think failure is a part of growth. it's not about how many times you fail. it's about how much you continue to stand up and you continue to push forward. and that's a huge reason why we're doing this as a group. >> reporter: in half moon bay, david louie, abc7 news. >> that looks like a fun day at work. a cool company as well. now to an unusual twist of fate for a san francisco activist and long-time

politician. after six decades, he is finally receiving the varsity letter he should have gotten when he was 16 years old. tom ammiano joining us live right now. tom, welcome. let's go back just a couple of years, let's say. you're a high school kid in new jersey. you're running track for immaculate conception high school. you win the mile race to qualify for the varsity letter, and they would not give it to you until now, 63 years later? is that pretty much it? >> it's quite a tale, isn't it? i do write about this in my book, if anyone's interested. you can look it up. i didn't expect this, of course, but when it happened, i think a lot of kids who feel as outsiders could identify with it, especially queer kids. this was in the '50s. people have had fun with this, calling me a jock and all this. but there is a bigger narrative

here, which is institutionalized homophobia and the hate crimes that still continue. so i'm personally gratified, and i really want to thank this fellow i didn't know. his name was steve sexton. he is a kanter, and he heard me talk about this issue in a radio interview, talking about my book, and he took it on himself, it was very selfless to contact the school and recount this story. and they responded with this very gracious gesture. so let's just say that's a good foundation to move forward on. and i do appreciate it. >> so what did they tell you when you were 16 years old when you were expecting to get the varsity letter? what was their plans? >> well, they pulled a fasty. they arbitrarily decide that the

points needed, they disqualified a meet where i scored a lot of points. so then they hid behind that. but i had my sources, of course, plus i had been harassed by the people who made this decision. including sadly a pe teacher. and they were handsy with me, by the way, all 104 pounds. it was pretty obvious where this came from and why it happened. >> so fast forward to i assume they called you up and said you're getting the letter. that had to be a surprise, and what was the emotion like at that point. we're talking six decades later here. >> talk about snail mail. yeah, no, at first you know, you feel very complimented and all tha. and then you look at the serious side, as i was addressing, and i

think mr. sexton, who notified the school and the school itself were responding in the way that they did, i found that very kind. and as i said before, it is part of a bigger narrative, you know, change comes not linearly, sometimes it goes forward. sometimes it goes backwards. sometimes it takes 63 years. >> you mention your book. tell us about it. what's in it? and for people that are interested, i'm sure they can go to amazon or a local bookstore. but the title and focus, please. >> the title is "kiss my gay ass." it's a romance. no, it's more of a memoir of my career in politics and stand-up comedy so i think people who are political junkies would really enjoy it. and i do tell some personal stories like this one and then

some gossipy stories about -- well, i don't want to embarrass him. so i'll just give you his initials, gavin newsom. you can get it actually at kissmyass.com. >> a good place. >> are we fitting it in the hour? >> you're killing me! real quick, what is your mile time right now? right now. >> oh my god, i can barely make it -- it's telepathic. that's it. >> that's good enough. that's good enough. you did 'em when you were 16. you're fine. tom, take care. >> all right. >> all right. >> oh, i got that telepathic message. i think he said four-minute mile. wow, what a story that was great, larry. hey, do you hate commuting to work? >> yes. >> this might sound weird, okay. why some people are faking their commut

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all right. time for the four@4 with dan and spencer joining us. we have three nor bay area counties that have moved into the red tier today. progress. more business also be ening na aanlacounti.n texas, they're just skipping tiers all together. there is governor greg abbott. he is going the allow all businesses to reopen at full capacity, including bars and restaurants. he also said no more of these

masks. he ended the state's mask mandate. new rules take effect next wednesday. only california and new york have more reported covid deaths than the state of texas. forgive me for being the cynical guy here, but i'm thinking i'm the governor of a state where power just went out for days. we were embarrassed. we didn't do the infrastructure improvements that we were supposed to do, and got money for decades our grid is a mess. hmm. bars and restaurants open, everybody! have a good time. take off your mask and go get 'em. i don't know. dan, is it me? maybe i'm just missing something here. >> no, i think you may have nailed it right on the head in some ways. there is some pr advantage to doing this and lifting everyone's spirits. but they say everything is bigger in texas. it's evidently riskier too. i'm a little nervous about that decision because we are not yet out of the woods.

>> well, spencer, i know how much you want to fly back to the east coast to visit your grandkids. what happens if we have an outbreak in texas and then people get on planes and then we are right back where we started from. >> i know. i just think it's a terribly ill-advised decision by governor abbott, as do virtually all medical experts. ama, if you look at texas leadership the last 20, 25 years, they've been very sort of contrarian, showing how tough and independent we are down here in texas, to their own detriment sometimes. so there you good. >> i saw a suggestion on twitter, someone saying can we just ban flights from states that don't have any restriction from coming into california? >> i wish. >> all right. some people working from home are getting creative when it comes to their efforts to try to restore some type of normal it is. get this. some people are doing something

called a fake commute to help them unwind after work. for most of us here in bay area, unwinding isn't something we associate with communicating. look at this. for some, it gives them a chance to relax before they got home. enter the fake commute, a run, a walk, a bike ride, even a drive after their workday is over, all in an effort to get that home and work separation that they used to enjoy prepandemic. i don't know. spenc spencer, you've been working from home most of the time during this. you need that fake commute time to unwind? >> no, i don't. i've been doing some runs and some walks, but i never thought of a fake commute. it just tickles me. >> it's a funny idea. and larry, you spend a lot of time working from home too. and i know the challenge is for people who work from home, especially as this has dragged on is separating. when does my workday stop and my home life begin, because of all sorts of bleeds together.

i think it's a clever idea. call it whatever you want, just getting out of the house for a few minutes is probably good for your mental health, and good for your physical health too. >> right now my commute is from upstairs to downstairs, and i'm pretty comfortable with that. you know? and as much as i would love to go sit in bumper-to-bumper traffic on the bay bridge, yeah, i'm going to go do that. >> you're missing out on that. >> oh, yeah, dan and i love that. >> oh, it's awesome. yeah. >> six titles from dr. suess are getting pulled off of shelves for portraying people in ways that are hurtful and wrong. dr. suess enterprise also stop selling the books including these that you're seeing right here. dr. suess books have faced scrutiny over what many call racial imagery and undertones in those books. here is a list of the books that they will not sell any longer. and to think that i saw it up on mulberry street, if i ran the zoo, mcelligot's pool, on beyond

zebra, scrambled eggs super. i'm thankful "green eggs and ham" and the cat in the hat are not on there, because i still read those. but spencer, it just shows. some of the pictures back then obviously we had a different set of standards. tad you look at some of them and go whoa, i cannot believe that this was normal. >> that's true. no, you're right. with the passage of time, we look back and say can't believe that was sort of acceptable then. but it's borderline now. and i salute the dr. suess trust for being concerned about racial and ethnic insensitivity. however, having said that, i read most of those dr. suess books to my kids, and they read them too when they were growing up, and i don't recall ever seeing an image that was inappropriate. but maybe i didn't read all the books. maybe i missed a few. >> if i chime in on what spencer

said, i like when disney has just released the muppet shows, and rather than pull several that have controversial content certainly by today's standards, they are issuing content warnings before they air those episodes. you know, that is something that might work in a case like these dr. suess books because you raise additional awareness and it fosters some conversation with you and your kids or the community about those images. rather than not see them at all, use it as a learning opportunity. >> even though it's these four books for now that they're not publishing anymore, questions about his history, things this highway had written and drawn for cartoons, advertisement, magazines, newspaper, there are a lot of images that certainly would will find disturbing now. blacks as gorillas or monkey, asians with slanted eyes or as snakes or with pig snouts. jewish people with exaggerated noses. he had truly drawn all those things. so i think all that is being revisited as these books are

recalled. hershey's is coming out with something new. it's a peanut butter cup without chocolate. the new pb lovers cup is nothing but peanut butter covered in a candy shell layered with peanut butter. you can try it for yourself when it debuts in april. that too much offed goo thing of just pb but no chocolate? >> there is a magic with the chocolate and the peanut butter. i have to say. reese's peanut butter cups are fantastic. i'll give it a shot, but sometimes don't mess with a good thing. i'm sure it's probably pretty good. >> i could just see he t sitting in the boardroom at hershey's going anybody got an idea? no ideas. how about we put peanut butter with more peanut butter! who says no? okay. let's make it. let's make it, guys. i mean, totally that could have happened. >> yep. i would like to mix into it peanut butter ice cream. >> here we good.

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we have a drone's eye view tonight of what will soon become one of the most scenic parks in the bay area. abc7 news dan ashley who was just here for the four@4 has a sneak peek force. love this, dan. >> it's really something else, kristen. installations have begun arriving at the tunnel top's

outpost at san francisco's presidio. and both of the park's layout and its views are nothing short of stunning. flying over the presidio tunnel tops project, you can start to see the dream taking shape. san francisco's newest park space cascading down from the tunnels, forming the new presidio parkway towards the golden gate bridge. the idea was to make use of the natural bluff. >> it opens up opportunities for viewing areas, for scenic overlooks with heightening the drama of the site. >> reporter: and at the bottom sits what may look like the biggest set of lincoln logs. one by one they're being pieced into an adventure playground and immersive learning center. design team manager says the enclosure is modelled from an orioles nest that can be found in the presidio's forest. >> it has two layers of nests

and at the top a window out to the bay and you're perched up there like a bird. >> reporter: and if you're lucky, you might have some company. some of the benches and installations will be crafted of the massive logs that form the unique place structure were trucked in all the way from canada. some assembly required. >> yes. when it arrives, it's big piles of logs. >> reporter: in a historic first, katelyn o'brien found herself part of an all female management team for the project comprised of the presidio trust, and james corner field operations. >> it's been amazing. i never thought when i entered construction, i would have an all female team. >> reporter: but gazing across the bay front site, it all seems part of a broad vision, a project somehow as unique and sweeping as the landscape itself. >> that transition from the dn more natural area along the waterfront was always something

that we aspired to knit together. >> reporter: an experience the entire bay area will enjoy soon. if all goes well, the tunnel top site is projected to open to the public this fall. and larry, as you can see, it's really something to be excited about. >> i was going to say, it looks really cool. very impressive. thank you, dan. >> you bet. all right. looking for a little company at home? maybe adopt an exotic trio of pets from the peninsula humane society. abc7 news went by the facility in burlingame. saw three chinchillas that are looking for a new home. they're sisters. here is the key. they have to be adopted together. chinchillas are very social animals, yet gentle at the same time. they have special diets.op fee stakmentfit.ve cute. up next, the groundbreaking program you can catch right here on abc7 tonight is called "soul of a nation" and it tells the story of

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black life in the u.s. front and center, soul of a nation. >> we think america is finally ready for this. the most revolutionary launch ever by any major network. >> reporter: abc nightline anchor bon pitts is one of the show's krrkcontributors. >> byron, i want to dive in here. what comes to mind when you think "soul of a nation." >> for so long in our great nation there's been a notion american history was one thing and black history is something else. now what we explore in this hour weekly special, "soul of a nation" is that the black experience is the american experience. >> all the pain, all the joy. >> the rundowns to me feel like the saturday barbershop conversation. the conversations that go on in black barbershops and black beauty salons every single weekend. >> discussions about church, politics, sports. a look at some of tiktok's most influential black content creators and the legacy of slavery, a family able to trace

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