dr. garcia, and we've crossed paths in so many different avenues., i did not know she lived in my district at the time. this was over a decade ago. you have those voter lists. i said wait a minute. estella garcia, anyone she lived in my district. the more you go and find out when you knock on people's doors, you get to share their personal stories and see where they are and where they've laid their roots. it's an honor to have you here today. it's such an honor to have you as part of this celebration, and thank you for everything that you embody and how you've dedicated your life. please come forward. [ applause ] >> thank you, supervisor. i particularly wanted to acknowledge supervisor safai today because i think it's just a wonderful thing when we have someone in our district who cares so much about all of the families that live in the excelsior and acknowledge all the needs that exist. i want to be part of that solution. that's all i want to do. there is no other ascen a -- ag. it's about doing the right thing. i want to begin with this morning i

dr. garcia. it's been so much a pleasure and an honor myself and i think for all of us to be called to action to use our clinical skills and our -- and other skills to support the medical personnel. we're really looking forward to the trip. i really do want to appreciate and thank you for recognizing fiza delgado and tony liss who have been our primary logistics team. i anticipate about 50 people from throughout the department of health who have offered us their support to get us ready for this trip. so we leave friday night. we'll be traveling to hautillo and going out to the community every day starting monday, and we look forward to umm canning back and reporting on the work that we do there, as well as really trying to cement some relationships so that the health care providers there in the community health center that we'll be working with really know that they have a friend and support in san francisco and the department of public health. so thank you so much for this opportunity. we'll be

dr. garcia releases sanchez from suicide watch.ck into a regular jail uniform and return to protective custody. sanchez says that on the day he was released he had every intention of returning to the jail but when he got home things changed. >> as soon as i walked out the work release doors and as soon as i touched that sidewalk, and as i kind of walked away from the jail, i felt like i just never wanted to look back. freedom never felt as good. just to feel that breeze on my skin, just to feel that wind, like i felt like i was in here for years and i was only in here going on two months. i was crying. i told my mom, i can't go back. she was like, what are you going to do? i don't want you to run. i don't want you to go back. i was like it's not that easy. it's not easy to go back. i never imagined jail was this hard. i just want to do my time and go home to my family and just do good. like it's not worth getting in trouble anymore. i'm not a gangster. i'm not a gangster. before i came here i thought i was. but i'm not. i'm just me

dr. garcia to do a survey of existing space in the hospitals because it would be helpful to have independent analysis of what you're saying that you don't have space. >> no comments from the crowd please. we will have public comment in a minute, but it's very impolite to interrupt a speaker and sorry dr. browner. >> i am pleased to talk about what's happened. the north tower of davy's campus is where the north tower was retrofitted and where we have acute patients and south tower is where we had a larger s.n.f. and we currently operate one on the upper floor and the other two are being converted to behavioral health, both in and outpatient and that is another important need that we have in the city. >> i hope that you would be open to working with the department to have public health to have a look at what space is variable. if chinese hospital and st. ma st. mary's are open to coming up with a strategy, i would hoping that sutter would be open to a creative strategy. >> we actually initiated the conversations with sutter and we have had discussions with seaton and the hospital council discu

dr. zevin. >> thank you, doctor, and thank you commissioners and director garcia. just a comment on the slide because i get asked a lot of the time, how many homeless people are there, and why are there so many homeless people? and often there is a great deal of anger and often a great deal of anger at people experiencing homelessness. so this is what practicing health care for the homeless medicine in the san francisco department of public health since 1991 has taught me: this much homeless people, this much housing. this much homeless people, this was housing. that's why we have this issue. and when we look at what the health consequences of that are, it really is quite a serious problem. so thinking about how users of multiple systems, we have people who are being seen in our medical system, people seen in our mental health system, people seen in our system for treatment of substance abuse disorders. those systems may not be well coordinated, and even when they are well coordinated, a lot of the -- when the -- that coordination falls apart, it falls apart among

dr. whiskers won't pounce. nobody will. ♪ a live look at capitol hill. >>> very good tuesday morning to you. it's 7:26. i'm laura garcia.hill this morning, that is where just a few hours from now, facebook founder and ceo mark zuckerberg will appear before the senate judiciary and finance committee. zuckerberg is expected to be grilled by lawmakers on the cambridge analytica scandal and sharing of data of up to 87 million facebook users. it happened ahead of the 2016 election. facebook only yesterday started notifying affected users. the hearing is supposed to get under way around noon our time. nbc bay area will cut into coverage to bring it to you live when it begins, especially if it happens during the midday newscast at 11:00 a.m. >> we'll get a quick round of rain and much cooler temperatures around the bay area today, only reaching the low 60s for the coast and upper 60s for the inland area. let's talk about when the rain will be moving through. for north bay it's mostly before noon and into san francisco by 1:00 to 2:00 into the east bay by about 3:00 to 4:00. san jose just in time for the evening commute but it