firefighters and police officers and those on the front line. we will prioritize them for testing. we know so many of them are very concerned they are doing the work in the community. they are trying their best to save lives. they live in fear if they have the virus and they are concerned with going home to spread that virus to the family. getting the ease of knowing if they have the virus is critical to protecting public health and safety. we will prioritize public health and safety officials for testing. the doctor will talk about that more as well. i want to just also mention to the public that although we want to be tested. i know everyone wants to be

tested to know and think that could put an end to what we are experiencing, and i want to be clear that in light of having sufficient testing for all san franciscans, social distances is the key. i keep mentioning it, but i can't mention it enough because regardless of how many tests or who we are able to test, that at the end of the day is going to make the most impact. please continue to practice social distancing. i want to talk about, since this is friday and the weekend is approaching. we know what happened last weekend. what happened last weekend, you did see people out, of course, enjoying the fresh air, walking dogs, walking with families, and kids and practicing social distancing. sadly, we saw a number of areas in the city just jam-packed.

we also saw people who were playing things like volleyball and basketball and other sports together that are not thinks that we are able to do at this time as a result of the order. just to make it clear, we are going to have to make some changes. the last thing i want to do, as i said on monday, is to basically close parks. we need to shift our behavior and make adjustments so that people are not doing the kinds of things that are going to lead to the spread. as we go into this weekend, i just want to appreciate the fact that we have been able to close places like acataz, four point and lands end look at. the federal government announced

parking closures including baker and ocean beach. if you are going to try to go to baker beach or ocean beach, the parking will not be available. we will monitor the neighborhood to make sure there isn't an influx of vehicles that are impacting the parking in those particular neighborhoods. we don't want people to get in their cars and drive to ocean beach. we want people to stay at home. when they need air, walk outside, go to a park within the proximity of your neighborhood. don't get in your cars and drive to ocean beach or other places. we are going to be closing parking lots in chrissy field and the lots in the marina and ocean beach and specifically near the beach chalet.

we hope by closing the area to cars, people will get the message why we are pushing folks to really try to stay, get your fresh air, walk your dogs, but don't get in cars to drive to specific locations to play volleyball with friends, have picnics, wine parties, zoom is a great tool for parties and connections with friends and family. i discovered that as a great tool for socializing. the last thing we want to do, as i said, is to start to close the last bit of fresh air that we are able to get during this very difficult time. parks, we know, are essential. other places have chosen to just close parks and other places down. we don't want to get to that place. if we see more people placing in

basketball courts or playing volleyball and baseball and the sports more team related, we will have no other choice. it is still okay to go out and walk and okay to ride your bike and run. i just want to give a message to the runners. i had an experience walking yesterday in a narrow area. the runners decided to run close next to me. it would have taken three seconds for the runner to wait until i crossed the bridge area to get by so we could maintain six feet. i am asking people to be considerate of one another. i am not asking you to get in the street and risk getting hit by a car. wait a minute or two to allow people to pass within a safe distance. we all can play a role in making sure that social distances is practiced by everyone. the fact is we are in this for

the long haul. there is no need for us to be in a hurry. i want to also talk a little bit about what is happening with our homeless population. because we know that there are so many people that are very concerned what this could mean not just for the people sadly sleeping outdoors. what does this mean in people in settings like single room occupancy hotels and other places? we have been working on a number of things. i want to talk a little bit what we have done and what we will continue to do. hopefully, this will give people an update on where we actually need to get to as well. starting next week, moscone west

will open up and supplies are delivered this weekend. we are going to use that as a place to thin out shelters so we can start to have places so that people who are living in congregate settings like shelters can be spread out. moscone west will play an important role. i want to talk about hotel rooms. we put out an r.f.p. for hotel rooms to be used for people who are in congregate living settings, homeless as well as first responders and healthcare workers and those who may not want to go home because of concerns around impacting families. we have been able to -- because there is even with the

declaration of emergency, there is still insurance to be worked out, staffing needs and security needs and support and resources. so far we have been able to this week secure at least 300 hotel rooms for self-isolating or quarantine for folks in the sro or those who are homeless. we estimate by next week we will secure at least another 3,000. bringing on some much needed hotel rooms, and we will keep working towards making sure that those people who are in congregate settings and other places have a space to themselves so that we can reduce the transmission of the virus. that is the update that we have so far. i want to take this opportunity to especially thank the people

who are here at moscone south, those working every day in the emergency operations center and doing the hard work, coordinating, the hospitals and ppe and testing. the stuff we are doing, the small things. like making sure the shelters are getting food, we are getting food to seniors and other people, that we are reaching out to those businesses who still have remained open or have some real challenges financially and need help. so many people here at the emergency operations center have stepped up to do their part in providing information and resources to the public, and we really also want to express appreciation because we have gotten a lot of great ideas from members of the public through social media. people have made a lot of great

recommendations. we take those to heart because we are all in this together, and no one is in charge or responsible for all of the great ideas. it is going to take a team effort, it will take all of us looking out for one another. i want to really express appreciation to so many people in the city because i notice that on places like next door and some of these chat rooms where neighbors are communicating with one another, i notice that so many neighbors are looking out for neighbors who are seniors and people who can't necessarily get out to get groceries or medications. there have been so many great numbers running errands for so many people who can't get out. it is just, you know, a challenging time for all of us. it is bringing out the best in us. i want to express my appreciation for so many people not only doing their part to

stay at home and only go out for essential needs but also what you have done to help touch the lives of other people who can't take care of themselves in the same way. that is where we are. that is our update. a lot more work to do, but as i keep saying over and over, we are in the midst of this. it may feel like this is very challenges for all of us and how much longer can we take it? the fact is we are going to have to take it a little bit longer because it does mean that we save lives. we appreciate your patience and cooperation. we will do everything we can to provide updates as we receive them with the most accurate information so that the public knows what to expect because, as i said before, the last thing we want to do if someone is facing

a medical emergency, the last thing we want to do is turn them away because we don't have enough beds. let's keep that in mind as we go into the weekend, and let's try to remember that and do our very best to get through this. i am cheering for all of you. i am cheering for our city and our country. thank you all so much for your cooperation. at this time i would like to introduce grant colfax, the department of public health director, to provide an update on the latest numbers, testing and other information i just touched on briefly.

>> thank you, mayor. good morning. i am doctor grant colfax, director of health. today i am bringing several important updates. i will talk about the situation at laguna hospital protecting healthcare workers and new expansions of testing. first, let me remind everyone. we need san franciscans to stay home to save lives. i understand some of us are essential workers and cannot stay home right now. however, if i could stay at home right now, i would be staying

home for our first responders and healthcare workers on the front lines. as we continue to respond to this rapidly evolving outbreak, we are always thinking about what is ahead and what is about to come next. in february, we had zero cases of coronavirus. we realized we were in an emergency situation and immediately strengthened the planning and preparedness capabilities. the day after the first confirmed cases in early march. we made aggressive social distancing recommendations. we have continued to tighten that up as we move forward with the entire bay area in shelter-in-place for all residents. that was just last week. we issued 13 health orders in the last three weeks. each one was designed to protect the most vulnerable populations

and healthcare workers and take pressures off hospitals so they can handle an expected surge of new patients. each one was designed to keep the community safe and slowdown the spread of the coronavirus. each one was grounded in data, science and facts. as we continue to plan, predict and respond, sometimes we are ahead, sometimes we are on time and sometimes we may be a beat behind, but so far we have been preparing for just what is happening now. we will continue to use data, science and facts to be as proactive as possible to protect our community and reduce the harm that the coronavirus causes. i want to turn to the hospitals, particularly laguna honda

hospital. yesterday there was quite a bit of news in our own public healthcare system. coronavirus has arrived at laguna honda. unfortunately, this was not a surprise. the pattern of the disease clearly shows that long-term care facilities and residents are particularly vulnerable to the disease and the spread. from the start, we have taken many steps to protect the patients and staff and we will continue to do so. earlier this week th the entire campus was quarantined to protect residents and staff and reduce harm. i must say, and i am sad to say this, we do expect an outbreak. our plan for the outbreak including testing affected staff and residents, which is already underway.

we have begun bringing in additional resources including staff and expertise on long-term care infection control and infection disease from our own system but also reaching out to key partners, including u.c.s.f. and sutter health to strengthen our response. this will continue over the next few days and weeks. with things moving so quickly, i want to make sure you get the facts straight from the source. as of yesterday there are six staff members and one patient at the hospital that tested positive for coronavirus. contact investigations are underway including testing and those units have been quarantined. yesterday brought news of a confirmed case of a staff member

at zuckerberg san francisco genhospital. this person provides patient care in the emergency department and is now self-isolating at home. we are conducting a thorough contact investigation. it is concerning to hear about these cases. it will continue to be concerning as the cases in san francisco grow. we now have almost 300 confirmed cases in san francisco. each person is someone with family, friends and community who care very much about them. the health department cares very much about them. with regard to testing. as the mayor and i have said over and over again. expect to see an increase in positive cases, and with regard to the increase in sections, do not be surprised because we have been increasing testing capacity

throughout the city. simply put, the more testing we can do, the more cases we will find. we have also taken steps to make sure we are getting the data we need to be successful as possible in our fight against the virus. on march 24th, bay area health officers issued a joint health order requiring all labs to report all test results to the state and local health authority. this will help us be more precise and know across san francisco, across our community how many tests are being done and what is the positivity rate. we need to know where we are to better understand where we may be going. this increase in data will be used to refine our models and

strategies to mitigate virus spread, we are working with experts to enhance our modeling capabilities. we truly have some of the world experts on viology and disease epidemiology nationally and internationally working with us every day. as availability of commercial and academic labs have grown we are boosting our own testing capabilities. from when we started testing on march 2 until today we have increased testing capacity by three times through automation of certain processes. we are now running 150 tests each day, up from 50 when we began testing. i am pleased to say that by next week we are hopeful that we will surge that testing to as many as 450 tests each day in our public

health lab alone. our plan is to keep improving testing capacity further in the next few weeks. we are also continuing to work with private partners to expand more testing for the public. we have great partners as kaiser, u.c.s.f. that have been offering drive through testing. next week, thanks to mayor breed, we are excited to add three new drive through centers through our partnerships. however, let me be clear that even today if you are a public health laboratory or commercial lab anywhere in the nation, there are still severe shortages of components needed in the covid-19 testing process. supplieses are in a bottleneck to increased testing.

i am sad to say that from swabs to ppe, the lack of testing supplies across the nation simply means we must prioritize our testing for those who need it most. at the public health laboratory we have been prioritizing the limiting testing resources for those most at risk for spreading the disease, severe medical conditions and front line healthcare and first responders. today we have issued instruction to all labs that they must prioritize their tests in the same way. tests should not be available for those -- tests should not be more available for those with resources. they must be for those on the front line saving lives and those at high risk groups that

need care. please help us prioritize those tests for those who need it most. their lives depend on it, and to the prevention and reduction of the spread of coronavirus in our community depends on it. i now want to talk a little bit about additional steps we are taking aggressively to protect healthcare workers. our front line workers and staff are certainly and members of our community. as the coronavirus circulates in the bay area we expect there will be more positive cases in san francisco, including, unfortunately, among city workers, dph staff and healthcare workers at public and private facilities. our top priority is the health of our patients, community and those who fight for them and support them. we are doing the very best we

can to be as prepared as we can to fight the disease. healthcare workers and first responders are on the front lines every day. yesterday we took additional steps to respond to the impact of the virus on the dph work force. because of their jobs on the front lines, many healthcare workers cannot abide by the stay at home order. they are essential, and in some cases their workplaces do not allow for social distancing. in fact, quite the opposite. several jobs in our healthcare system involve close contact with other staff members and vulnerable populations. for example, emergency room. psychiatric emergency services and urgent care center at zuckerberg hospital andlugana honda hospital and other settings where staff have

prolonged contact with each other and high risk patients. they come to work every day at risk for transmitting the virus to each other and exposing the high risk population they serve. we have issued new guidance above and beyond cdc recommendations to provide isolation masks for people working in these settings in our healthcare system. we will provide isolation masks to workers and patients in many at risk settings. this is another way to protect both groups. we are doing our best to balance keeping the workers safe in the high risk areas and being constrained by a limited supply of masks. we will continue to advocate on many fronts for more masks and other personal protective equipment or ppe. i feel it is essential to move forward with these additional

protections today. i can't stress enough that every healthcare provider in the city from hospital c.e.o.s to doctors and nurses wants there to be enough ppe for the patients and the healthcare staff. ppe is in short supply everywhere. we are working hard to make sure supplies are here when we need them. that includes state and federal advocacy working with large donors to secure the ppe we all need. our top priority is the health of our patience and the -- patients and the people who care for them and ppe is important to do it right. finally, i want to remind all san franciscans of the importance of following the stay home order to protect yourself, your loved ones and our entire

community. if you aren't be performing an essential task to keep the city running right now, then you only have one job. stay home and keep yourself safe. thank you, and i would like to introduce commander scott -- chief scott, excuse me, who is a great partner in this work, a great partner with his team on the front lines helping us keep our city safe. chief scott, thank you for your leadership, partnership, and please we look forward to your remarks.

>> good afternoon. first of all, i want to thank our mayor london breed for her leadership during this public health crisis. i speak on behalf of the men and women of the san francisco police department we are extremely grateful to mayor london breed and doctor grant colfax that they made us a priority. our city's police officers, sheriff deputies, firefighters and first responders provide the first line of public safety in san francisco, and we need to keep them safe and keep them healthy. i want to thank mayor breed and doctor colfax for making first responders a priority in testing for covid-19. we are constantly on the front

lines. we are expected to always be there. by providing the testing, we can help slow the spread of covid-19 among our first responders so they can continue to provide public safety and protect the health of the public at-large. i would also like to thank the city's hotels who stepped forward to offer rooms to first responders who may have to quarantine because of the covid-19 virus. with the support from the leaderses and the city at-large strengthens moral and health and resolve. we know that we will need to have resolve during this crisis. we don't know how long we will be in this position. the mayor mentioned some of the areas where we have seen gatherings over the past week. i want to lay out what you will

be expected to see this weekend from us, from law enforcement. this weekend we will have people out that there probably be a lot of people outside, as there were last weekend. please be smart and go by the social distancing. i cannot emphasize that enough. use common sense, be smart and expect to see us out there. it doesn't make sense for people to be out and not pay attention to the social distancing requirement six feet as laid out by our health officials. we have seen in other cities that are having a harder time than we are. we have seen gatherings in this industry putting others at risk. we need everyone to think who you are putting at risk when you do not adhere to public health warnings. think of your grandfather,

grandmother, sick child. think of the people you are putting at risk by not adhering to this public health order. we will be out this weekend. places where we had issues with gatherings the embarcadero and the marina green, panhandle, stern grove, exercise facilities in the park will likely be closed in many of your parks. we have seen by and large excellent compliance from the people in san francisco. we want that to continue. as we have laid out in previous press conferences we have enforcement protocols for those interested you can find them on the san francisco police department website. our approach is progressive. we started with education and we will still educate the public.

when this public health was put out on march 16th. we had a lot of people who didn't get the message. as we have educated that number has gotten smaller and smaller with the people who have not complied. we do think that education has worked. however, education can only go so far. there will come a time where we will have to enforce. our officers have been very patient. they understand what is at stake here. they understand we are looking at the end game of compliance. this is not a count of how manyy tickets we write or how many people re-arrest. we don't want to create problems by enforcing the law. the sheriff is charged with reducing the jail population. we don't want to make the problem worse.

please, i can't emphasize enough. please listen to the public health officials. social distancing, stay six feet apart. we want people to go out to get air. officers will engage. they will communicate for those warned repeatedly, there will come a time where we have to enforce. that is a fact of life. we hope we can avoid that, and by and large people have been compliant. please listen to the public health orders. i cannot emphasize that enough. we want everyone to use common sense, stay six feet apart. if you are going to exercise have respect for others around you. if you are going to go to the grocery store or wherever you need to go to keep essential items in your household, practice those same protocols. if you have to wait to get in

the market or grocery store, stay six feet away. we have been putting out photos on our website of people who have done just that. we want to show that by and large san francisco's population, our residents we get it. we understand what is at stake. we want to catch you doing something right, not wrong. this weekend you will see us out there. from the bottom of my heart to our mayor, doctor colfax and the city leaders, on behalf of the first responders, we appreciate what you have done as far as prioritizing testing for first responders. we also understand that community leadership the a big part of getting compliance from the people in our city. with that said, i would like to

introduce one of our community leaders, marcia contrairra, director of mission housing. thank you. >> hello. i am deputy executive director for mission housing and community leader answer have been o -- servant. my message will be in spanish. [speaking spanish]

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>> i am executive director at community youth center. i am going to say the message in cantonese. speakin [speaking]

>> thank you. >> we will open it up to questions people may have. >> first question for mayor breed from ktsf. how can the federal stimulus bill help the city and people in san francisco? >> mayor breed: well, we are hopeful that it will start helping the people of san francisco sooner rather than later. we have been told that we can expect some of the individual

checks that will go to those qualified, hopefully, in the next couple weeks. we expect the same to happen with the funding support to go to the state and distributed down to various counties, including san francisco. we are working closely with our speaker nancy pelosi to speed up that process. there are people suffering financially right now. >> second question. mayor breed, can you describe how the city is approaching using public or private spaces to confront covid-19? >> mayor breed: part of what we are doing is reaching out and looking at existing inventory. we are able to open moscone west next year has everything to do with having access to this particular facility. we will take the opportunity in

every instance to use our public resources at our disposal and any other private resources that could be available including the one that we are doing by developing a relationship with the hotel council and issuing r.f.p. for hotel rooms. quarantining people in rv or hotels or other spaces we need to prepare for any situation including conversations around where other hospital beds might go and how we might be able to address this challenge as it rises. >> follow-up question. as the city braces for a sungar of new cases, do you think you will be aggressive about allocating public or private

spaces. >> mayor breed: what? >> aggressive about public and private spaces? >> allocating? >> read it again. as the city braces for the surge of new cases, do you think the city will be aggressive allocating public or private spaces for the cause? >> mayor breed: what we are doing now is preparing to use those spaces. there is a lot that goes into any space that we have. we have to make sure that they are not only staffed but that the people who are providing the support have the protections that they need as well, that we have the appropriate security, appropriate systems in place, but getting access to spaces, i don't think is the difficult part. we are going to have to make sure we have the resources necessary to accommodate whatever the need is for thetic

space. we will do everything we can to get hold of as many spaces as we possibly can. >> next question from abc 7. earlier this week you talked about addressing the crisis to help homeless populations what is being done? >> abigail hill is here from hsa to answer more in detail. i think i have made it clear in my earlier comments in terms of getting access to hotel rooms. i want to add to my earlier comments. first of all, as i said, we put out request for proposal to get access to hotel rooms and working with hotel council, the contracting process allowed us to have 300 now and we expect to have another 3,000 by next week. there is a process that has to be worked out including issues of insurance as well as who is

going to staff, the security to make sure people obey the order, especially if quarantined, what kind of wraparound supportive services the people housed in these locations need. we want to be clear. one of the biggest challenges we will face is not necessarily finding locations. sadly, for people who are homeless, but people who suffer from substance abuse disorder and people with mental illness the difficulty we have as the city in keeping them in quarantine or keeping them on an order to shelter-in-place is going to be difficult. we have to make sure we have the resources necessary to do that. we also have to make sure that we protect the people that we are asking to put lives on the line to basically staff these places and provide supportive services. it is more than just we have all

of these hotel rooms. it requires a lot of work for many of the folks that we are going to work with who are currently homeless, probably less so for people who are, for example, housed in the sros, but it requires a lot of coordination. it requires the need to increase capacity to manage it. the last thing we will do is rent the hotel, put people in the homes and chaos breaks out and we have no plan to address it or control the situation. what i mean by chaos, people transmit the coronavirus or people who basically need supportive services or who are difficult to talk to or to work with who need other things, we will potentially have real struggles. be honest, people who substance

from substance abuse disorder, this is a challenge. we need systems in place to deal with that. i think abigail is here. she may have things to add to that as well. >> hello, i am with the department of homelessness and supportive housing. echoing others. thank you, mayor breed and doctor colfax for your courageous leadership to our city partners and our nonprofit service providers. i want to focus on the steps we are taking to help prevent the spread of covid-19 in our shelter population. we have taken steps in constant communication with shelter providers.

we extended the stay of people at navigation centers and shelters to fix the population and allow people inside to continue to shelter-in-place. we have made the extremely difficult decision with the guidance of the department of public health to pause shelter intakes. this allows us to pause people coming inside and potentially bringing the virus with them. it allows us to create space for social and physical distancing within our shelters. we increased shelter hours. they are coming online for 24/7 with increased meal service, staffing and cleaning and a lot of hard and creative work. we are recommending or the department of public health recommended the shelters follow cdc guidance around physical

distancing. i appreciate the opportunity to clarify here. those who care about the homeless population know people in shelters do not have enough space. they are close together. we have taken the steps outlined and we are corking cre-- working with direct service providers to create more space whenever possible. for example, if we close a drop in center and that allows us to move beds an part. we are working on a site by site basis. to get to the six feet, we are working through the human services agency, which is responsible for mass care and shelter, to bring on sites such as moscone west and others to allow further social distancing. thank you. >> next questions for public health. doctor grant colfax.

>> first question. from the "washington post." do you think the bay area's early action to shelter-in-place reduced the load on the hospital system? do you expect the strain has been delayed or permanently flat tenned? >> well, look. here are the facts. i hope that is the case. we simply do not know yet. it is too early to tell. based on the science and data and what is successful in flattening the curve in other countries we are hopeful. we must prepare for a less flattened curve.

if we look across the country to new york right now, it is plausible we could be in that situation in the near future. we are watching the data. i think what is important is that this was a regional approach, shelter-in-place approach, for it to work, people need to follow the orders. with the help of people in this room, across the city, individual community members, chief scott and his team, we are hopeful that this aggressive early action will have an effect in flattening the curve and save lives. >> next question or follow-up. what early steps did the bay area take to ensure there are enough resources for hospitals and to increase capacity? >> in almost every major urban center, hospitals at baseline before this happened are full and often loafer flowing --

overflowing. we took steps to ensure greater capacity to manage the initial suffer of coronavirus infections. we took steps early on. first, we escalatessed hiring staff so we would have more staff to manage an official surge. we asked people to only use emergency rooms as a last resorts if they were very, very sick and could not get the help they needed from their primary care provider. this created important space in emergency rooms for handling the people who are sickest. we issued a public health order to prohibit all but essential medical procedures, including effective surgeries. this freed up operating rooms and staff to better prepare for the surge. we are coordinating across the healthcare system in an

unprecedented way for complete visibilities in terms of the number of i c .u. beds and ventilatestor beds in the city. we are taking steps t to ensure people discharged from the hospital who could not be discharged because they didn't have a place to go now have a place to go per the vast expansion of hotel rooms available. people who have health that allows them to leave the hospital we have the option to place them in a place that is safe and secure and best for their health. these multiple steps increased our hospital capacity to manage an initial surge, and it is plausible that even with these steps our local capacity will be exceeded and we will need state and federal assistance to manage the influx of patients just as we see in new york right now. >> next question.

ktsf. would cases in san francisco escalating when do you anticipate the peak will come? how bad will it be? will the situation in new york happen in san francisco? >> we said fro from the beginnig this situation changes hour by hour, day-by-day. if i could predict the future, i would give you those answers. i cannot. all i can say is that every day we depend on data, science and facts to guide our preparation efforts. the shelter-in-place over time we hope has the effect to have the effect to optimize the effect. people need to follow the shelter-in-place order. we look at all of the data that we have available on every day to best estimate if and when that surge will occur. we are as prepared as we can be at the local level right now.

we are constantly reiter rating our efforts based on data, science and facts so our preparedness continues to the future. thank you. >> question from the san francisco concle. how many staff residents have been tested how will you keep them updated. have any residents been transferred to another medical facility due to covid-19? >> i shared in my remarks that six staff members at laguna honda tested positive for covid-19. we had one resident that tested positive. that resident is in good condition. we are expanding testing right now in the wards where there were covid-19 positive staff and

the patients. i don't have exact numbers right now because we are escalating that testing capacity as we do it today. >> how will you keep staff, residents and the public updated? >> from the very beginning i focused on the data, science and facts and being as transparent as we can be with where we stand in our specific care systems. we will communicate the information to the staff as soon as we have it about the status of lagoonna honda. our focus at the health department is to ensure that staff and residents' safety is maintained and their health is paramount. >> final follow-up. have any residents a at laguna

honda been transferred? >> one resident was transferred to an outside medical facility who has been returned to the hospital. i can't comment on the further details with regard to that question. >> thank you. the next questions are for san francisco police department chief william scott. question from kpix. plenty of crowds on corners in

the tenderloin, some with nowhere to go and others dealing drugs. are there plans to address this crowding? >> yes, and that is why it is important to work with city partners. it is a difficult issue. crowds on the tenderloin. i have been out there with officers and seen it firsthand. some comply and some don't. we have to keep going back and trying. the drug dealers, there is space in the jails. i want to emphasize for those committing serious crimes, those out selling drugs and causing gatherings to be worse because people are gathering to buy drugs, that is a public health problem. we have room in the jails for those type of individuals. officers have been out. we are trying to educate people to give them an opportunity to

comply, but as i said earlier, there is a time what enforcement is appropriate. we want to save our jail space for people that are committing those serious crimes like three homicide suspects we arrested this week. we have room in the jails for those individuals. we still have to do that job as well. we know it is a difficult task, but we are working with every partner in the city to make the situation better. >> question from ktbu. wondering if there are planned road closures to prevent congregating? >> we the san francisco police department have not closed roads. all options are on the table in terms what we need to do to protect the health of the public in the city. at this point we have not closed any roads.

>> mayor breed is going to address this topic. >> mayor breed: i just want to be clear that -- hold on. i want to be clear, as i said earlier, that we are making adjustments based on what we have seen over the past weekend and the past couple of days. we have made recommendations to close a number of parking lots and certain locations, especially where there is out door workouts equipment and play browns -- playgrounds. we closed those. we made those based on discussions from the department of public health. what is going to happen we will make decisions, especially this weekend if we notice that

behavior continues to be a challenge in particular areas. we will make those determinations. it could happen at a moment's notice. there probably won't be a press conference. there will probably just be a closure and conversation with people in the area to leave immediately. we are going to make adjustments and we will be out, as the chief said, paying close attention to those areas and making recommendations. as it relatings to owes and other streets, we don't have any plans at this time. every decision we will make to close anything would have everything to do with recommendations from our public health department in order to focus on protecting public health. >> one final question for doctor