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tonight, the governor announced every adult in california as well have access to a vaccine by the end of april. what needs to change to accomplish that. covid-19 one year later tonight, hearing the stories of nurses as they reflect on what it has been like working on the frontlines of the pandemic. six feet of distance vs three feet of distance. the cdc's new guidance on school reopening and what the california health community thinks. a change in the season will bring a change in the pattern. abc 7 news at 11:00 starts right now. building a better bay area for a secure and safe future. this is abc 7 news. and, developing news, san francisco school board vice president is accused of posting racist tweets and called on to

resign. stemming from a string of tweets from 2016 in one she says asian americans used white supremacist thinking. a statement was saying allison's tweets left her shocked and personally hurt regarding her remarts of asian american students, parents and teachers. they are calling for collins, who is black, to publicly apologize at a board meeting and to resign from the board. >> a group of parent who's are trying to recall collins and two other board members found the tweeted and posted them on- line. that recall effort was organized after the board's move to change the names of 44 schools and its vote to end merit-based admissions to high school. allison collins did not respond to our calls for comment on this. governor newsom is condemning the recent attacks against asian americans. >> during a visit he called it out by its name.

>> hate bigotry. >> reporter: he expressed his dismay. >> it breaks your heart. does not just break it upsets us. living in fear. >> reporter: asking the department of justice to track hate cases across the state. >> it is important not to just address hate crimes but we have to track and address at a root level hate incidents to stamp it out. >> reporter: they are concerned that the shooting in georgia could lead to copycat crimes in the bay area. >> we are very concerned. what happened in the atlanta area is a reminder that, you know, all of us are vulnerable at this time. >> reporter: part of building

a better bay area is fighting for racial and social justice. we don't have all of the answers, obviously. but we have a lot of resources to help you to find youryouryour go to abc7news.com/action. welcomed news for millions of californians waiting to get vaccinated. governor newsom says the shots could be available to all of the adults by the end of april. we have part of our vaccine team to speak to bay area experts. >> reporter: the wait is almost over. in a matter of weeks this could be you. >> we are anticipating in 5 1/2 weeks where we can eliminate all of the tiering, so to speak. >> reporter: announcing the tier system will disappear as vaccine supply increases. >> we received 1.7 million last week for the entire week. >> reporter: according to the cdc, 24% of californians have received at least one dose of the vaccine.

dean winslow says it gets us closer to herd immunity. >> it does. based on this virus we need to have 75% to 80% of the population immune. >> reporter: is it possible? >> is california equipped to provide vaccination for the entire population by the end of april? >> i hope that between the state and blue shield and the counties we have developed the infrastructure and the plans to make that happen. it remains to be seen right now. >> reporter: this doctor is part of the state's vaccine advisory committee. he is as in order to accomplish this goal california needs to simplify accessibility. >> if it is mobile clinics, it is bringing the vaccine to the people who need it. we are going to have to have a brood approach to this. >> aggressive goal. if accomplished california will be ahead of president biden's goal for all-american adults to be eligible for a vaccine

may 1st. for san francisco, abc canceling thousands of appointments, the county is concerned it might not improve. their allocation was cut when more vaccines were sent to southern california at the orders of the governor. >> the expectations were that everyone that qualified would get a dose and there is not enough vaccine to go around. >> it appears kaiser members are among those affected the most. they will send out instructions how to reschedule their appointments. new at 11:00, the governor signed a bill to extend california's emergency paid sick leave through september. it will give millions of workers up to two weeks of paid sick leave for covid-19-related reasons. the big exemps businesses with 25 or fewer employees. new developments, summit

hospital in oakland is fined $155,000 after the death of a nurse from covid-19 last year. abc 7 news reporter matt boone spoke to nurses on the frontlines about their experience over the past year not just fighting the virus but pushing for their own protection. >> reporter: at the summit hospital in oakland, nurse michael hill remembers not thinking much about masks and protective gear as the pandemic began. >> i don't think anyone saw that we would not have enough ppe available. >> reporter: that would be a defining issue. >> that was a huge failure for the nurses and patients. >> reporter: one of his colleagues died after contracting covid-19. >> in her case, at that time, you were not allowed to wear a mask in the hallway, only in the patient's room. but the patient kept running out of the room and nurses kept getting exposed. >> reporter: according to the nurses association they just issued citations to the hospital after an investigation of her death

revealed workplace safety violations. even more distressing than the loss of their own was dealing daily with patient deaths. >> a lot of the nurses have that ptsd because they saw so many patients die. >> reporter: another nurse works in the er, a public hospital, she says over the winter surge they had a lot of patients. >> we were in stress, patients coming for care that were sitting in the emergency room for an extremely long time because we were backed up. >> reporter: as a mother of a young daughter it transformed her home life. >> i turned my garage into a decontamination center. i would come home, spray everywhere, i would change from one scrub to another, wipe down anything before i walked into my house to touch my family. >> reporter: few silver linings from a nursing perspective. hill says there is one. >> if ever there is a pandemic like this again we will be

prepared. >> reporter: in oakland, abc 7 news. tonight, the cdc is making a major change that could get more kids back into the classrooms sooner. they issued new guidance on social distancing. abc 7 news reporter spoke with doctors who are leading charge here in california. >> our apology. we are having problems with that. we will try to get back to her reporting in just a minute. for now, though, coronavirus exposed racial inequities across the country and here in the bay area. so, what have we learned and what comes next? and twitter is testing out a new undo feature. there is one big catch. winter is almost over. i will let you

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let's get back to kate's report. it is the cdc making a major change that could get more kids back in the classrooms. new guidance on social distancing. here is kate larson. >> 800 doctors and health care providers signed and sent this letter to top health official recommending a change in school distancing guideline >> we asked them to change from a 4-6 foot mandate to a 3 feet recommendation. >> reporter: ucsf helped draft the letter. it prevents many schools from reopening because of space

limitations. >> these rules are harming children. >> reporter: this letter and the cdc's new recommendation to reduce distancing from 6 feet to three feet inside classrooms with universal masking is based on a study out of massachusetts following k-12 students and teachers. there was no difference in covid-19 transmission with schools that used six feet from three feet. >> the collateral damage from these policies is much, much worse than covid-19 itself for our population of children. we know we can keep teachers safe. the majority of them are being vaccinated. >> many teacher unions are pushing back. the oakland education association told abc 7 they will demand six feet of distance. >> they may say it is okay to be closer but understanding we have multigenerational families at home we want to take as many precautions as possible. >> they are wrapping themselves in the flag of equity. that is so bad.

this is the least equitable thing to do to kids. >> reporter: the disease specialist also signed the letter. >> the minority parents, the black and brown families they want their kids to go back to school. >> reporter: newsom indicated the state would update school distancing guidance, soon. back to you. it has been over a year since the first case of covid- 19 hit this country. since then, half a million people have died from covid-19 as you know. health inequities surfaced and racial reckoning has happened. >> abc 7 news reporter spoke to community leader who's back at how covid-19 happened. >> reporter: these are some of the images that show the last year. half a million people lost their lives to covid-19. latinos and african-americans were disproportionately impacted by this virus. >> were you shocked to learn the numbers in the beginning of

the pandemic? >> never did i imagine that first study we did in april of 2020 we find that 95.5% of all of the people that tested positive were from the latino community. >> reporter: asians were targeted simply for being asians. >> the anti-asian racism stuff is not new. you know, it depends, wherever times get bad it comes out again. >> reporter: we stayed home protecting ourselves from this virus, community leaders and activists point to racism as the virus that the pandemic enhanced and also the killing of george floyd was the tipping point for many. >> i would be lying if i said that the pandemic had nothing to do with how many people were really outraged. at the time, like, for 2-1/2 months everyone is just inside. >> reporter: to understand where we go from here dr. jennifer chen, an ethics

professor believes lasting change will need to come from within these communities. >> we have to work together otherwise our communities are going to continue to be overlooked. >> reporter: we are seeing this transformation now in the midst of the pandemic, brown, reverend fong and more turned their pain and love for their communities into fuel. >> i think that it is a very unique moment in our history. we have an opportunity to truly bring equity to those community that have been left behind. >> reporter: covid-19 highlighted highligh inequity that they were facing. the reverend came out of retirement after 30 years of service. >> we are in your community. what do you see? >> i see a lot of history. this is our living room. all of the seniors used to hang out here with no fear. and now they can't. >> reporter: reverend fong continues to set

meetings with ethnic groups to find common ground. but says there is a lack of education that is playing a role in these attacks. >> on the one side, on a higher level total solidarity with the black community who gets it. latino community, muslim leaders they understand what the asians are going through. but how do we get the youth, you know, to understand it as well? on the youth level that is where a lot of the violence is taking place. >> reporter: they mobilized 15,000 people to protest the death of george floyd and police brutality. today he stands with the asian community. >> you know, my heart goes out to the asian community thatthatt just being so unfairly discriminated. >> black lives matter. >> the work is never

we can always improve. >> you know, martin luther king and the black panters and malcolm x. they, -- panthers and malcolm x did what they needed to do in their life span so that we could improve on. >> reporter: dr. tran believes educating minorities on the the the the could help. >> we are widening the circle. >> us meaning the african- american community, asian community and latinos and everyone else as one? >> yes. we are dismantling this false bionary this us vs them and we can not succeed. we can not survive and thrive until we come up with solutions that elevates all of our humanities. >> community leaders all also emphasized what you and i can

do every day. becoming an ally to those facing systemic racism. they say that individual work will make the difference. in san francisco, back to you. >> we continue to cover all of these stories as we look at the path forward. you always have to take a look back as well. >> no, absolutely. it is important perspective as we begin to move forward. all right, let's talk about moving forward to the weekend and beyond. a nice looking forecast? >> reporter: it will be a great looking forecast as a matter of fact. you will want to take your plans outside this weekend. i will tell you what, the season is changing early tomorrow at 2:37 in the morning. that is place. sun directly over over over ove

up there. a winter advisory until midnight. expecting a couple more inches of snow and the travel impacts will continue. from the cam fine here. chilly, morning fog, mist, the season changes at 2:37 tomorrow and we have a warmer pattern coming up especially next week. right now on live doplar 7 we have patches of fog right around half-moon bay. visibility down to five miles an hour. mist out there. be careful, especially if you have early plans tomorrow. you might need that extra time to get where you need to go. 7:00 a.m., foggy areas, and then the fog peels away. sun and clouds. in terms of your temperatures right now. they are in the 40s and the 50s as we get into tomorrow morning. it is going to be chilly. patchy frost. foggy areas, middle 30s to the

upper 40s. the afternoon highs, sunny skies, a few extra clouds around to our north as the system passes. it will range from the middle 50s to the 60s for your saturday. here is a look at the projection over the next seven- days. the systems, as high pressure builds in begin to just wash out. all they will do is throw us a few extra clouds at times and lower the temperatures a couple of degrees or hold them right about the same. thursday, we might see some changes next week which is in the form of cooler weather and windy conditions. excuse me. since spring is coming tomorrow morning you might be feeling it as well. warmer for sunday. and then next week, bringing you 70s in the forecast with the warmth. sending it back to >> oh, yes, thank

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good evening, the warriors have been waiting for andrew to take over and dominate. the tall sent there. tonight it was needed. wiggins goes for 40 in memphis.

curry out with a bruised tail bone. coaching people up. looking steph like. the pull up, 3, splash. poole he is a new player since coming back from the g-league. with authority. he goes for 25 points. again, no steph. he has got to score. knocks down the three. when he is aggressive he can score at will. i am doing chin ups. season high, 40, and loony getting offensive, 11 points, no look flip and yes. minus steph still win. jones must have x-ray vision, 33 saves in this game. 2nd period, no score, until ryan denato stays patient and wrists it home. first goal in 21 games, 1-0.

sharks on the power play in the 3rd. clifford steals it away from logan. a shorty. ties the game. they end up going to a shootout. in round three, vladmir finds the opening against jones, the blues win it 2-1. ncaa tournament began with a shocker in round 1. 2 seed ohio state gone taken down by 15 seed lorell roberts. they miss it on the three and goes into overtime. two minutes to go. max, with a pull up jumper. roberts leading by six. buckeyes, one last chance, they have to have a three, got to have a three. got to have a three! they don't get a three. roberts with the upset. 75-72. oregon state looking for the first win since 1982 taking on five seed tennessee. zach, feeling it.

the three ball and check it out. from curry range here. the classic upset. 70-56. abc 7

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