us. san francisco is allowing people with a body mass index of 30 or higher to get a covid vaccine, which is far less stringent than the state guidelines. so how do you know if you qualify? reporter kate larsen spoke with an expert. >> reporter: wednesday is the first day of tier 1c opening up vaccinations to people with conditions, including obesity. >> two-thirds of the u.s. population have a bmi greater than 25 and are either overweight or have obesity. >> reporter: this is the medical director of stanford's weight loss clinic, and says the state was right to move it from a bmi of 40 down to 30. >> most studies around covid focused on patients with a bmi greater than 35 or 40, and that's where they saw a marked increase in terms of hospitalizations and mortality, but there was already a difference when the bmi was greater than 30. >> i actually qualify, by bmi is over 30. >> reporter: this bay area resident wants to encourage people with a high bmi to get vaccinated. >> i say go for it. it's nothing to be ashamed of. >> reporter: so what does a bmi of 30 or 40 look like? i went to the

us. san francisco is allowing people with a body mass index of 30 or higher to get a covid vaccine, whichfar less stringent than the state guidelines. so how do you know if you qualify? reporter kate larsen spoke with an expert. >> reporter: wednesday is the first day of tier 1c opening up vaccinations to people with conditions, including obesity. >> two-thirds of the u.s. population have a bmi greater than 25 and are either overweight or have obesity. >> reporter: this is the medical director of stanford's weight loss clinic, and says the state was right to move it from a bmi of 40 down to 30. >> most studies around covid focused on patients with a bmi greater than 35 or 40, and that's where they saw a marked increase in terms of hospitalizations and mortality, but there was already a difference when the bmi was greater than 30. >> i actually qualify, by bmi is over 30. >> reporter: this bay area resident wants to encourage people with a high bmi to get vaccinated. >> i say go for it. it's nothing to be ashamed of. >> reporter: so what does a bmi of 30 or 40 look like? i went to the cdc'

us. san francisco with solid 60s over the next seven days.urday looks like a really excellent day. 68. and across the inland valleys, seeing that cloud cover come in and come out as we roll through the next two days. then we start to climb back up. we'll go from 63 on thursday, 71 friday. you probably like where this trend is going. 77 on saturday. and 78 on sunday. and also some low to mid 70s early next week. terry and janelle, i know we all, you know, we realize how dry winter has been. i would love to see more rainfall on here. look, this weekend, i think it's going to be phenomenal. i'm predicting one of the busiest bay area weekends we have seen since those restrictions have been loosened. 77, 78 outside, calm conditions, sunshine. can you imagine it, everybody outside just enjoying a little normalcy or close to normal? >> it is safer to be outside. so that is good. >> i predict crowds at the beaches. >> thanks, jeff. >>> the warriors getting ready to play another game without steph curry. but getting some reinforcements. we'll tell you

in many big city districts including san francisco, vaccination for teachers is part of the deal to return to in-person learning. joining us to talk about the challenges facing san francisco is supervisor hillary ronan, who has been pushing for the process to go faster. supervisor ronan, thanks for joining us. >> thank you so much. it's a pleasure to be here. >> all right. so a lot to get to. the governor and the cdc and most doctors we interviewed have said while teacher vaccinations should be a priority they should not be a prerec which is toit resume in person learning based on science. but that's the deal agreed upon by the board and teachers union unless the city moves to the orange tier. that's what we're working with? >> that is still what we're working with, yes. >> so give that i'm sure you want to expedite teacher vaccinations. but i understand there was a delay this week in getting thousands of unique qr codes for teachers for them to use to make a vaccine appointment. what happened? >> yes. so what happened is the state decided that in order to prioritize teachers they would give them individualized codes to ea

>>masks and physical distancing are required as is the sanitizing of equipment after use, san francisco and napa counties who are also allowing gyms to reopen indoors today and now the san francisco is in the red tier indoor dining is back on the table for those hungry for something other than a home cooked meal but for marine kelly got reaction from those who went inside for lunch today. >>i'm inside water bar along san francisco's embarcadero where they tell me because it was such a nice day today most people want to eat outdoors on their patio but they had a few people requesting a table inside and they're happy to be able to once again offer that possibility. i was out and about in san francisco during the lunch rush and found several people happy to be able to come inside again for a bite to eat. the restaurants, i found allowing indoor dining at 25% capacity also had outdoor spaces but even though there were tables available outside i found several people glad to be back inside. it's a lot warmer inside you know, so it's it's a better atmosphere being outside food gets colder a lo

. >> to hold that position campers in a she was at today's announcement joins us now live from san francisco with more. hi well. >> hi, grant high. vicki. yeah. the. >> position for ut general here in california was left vacant by javier bus air after he was confirmed as president. joe biden's health secretary bonta says if he is. >> confirmed to be the first to filipino american to hold the attorney general position he will not only work to have a collaborative relationship with law enforcement, but he says he will also continue to fight for anyone who faces injustice. >> in today's california. everyone is not just a lout.

however, the architects don't believe the decks are of that much use in san francisco, particularly when they are facing the direction they are, particularly because the weather can be so poor. it's much easier to create wind breaks or wind walls on the roof, which don't work on balconies. >> commissioner tanner: yeah. okay. generally, those are my questions, and i'm supportive of commissioner diamond's suggestion, as well. >> president koppel: i'm in support of the commissioner's request, as well. commissioner moore? >> vice president moore: i wanted to ask mr. gladstone one more time, what is the resistance about the windows? >> my clients, you know, are no longer -- well, my clients, you know, feel that it's a matter of cost, and they feel that with the proper coating on the vinyl windows, they can create something that will be aesthetically pleasing and ask for a waiver -- >> vice president moore: it's not aesthetics, it is performance. it's performance. we all know that vinyl windows will basically age and sag and will be more expensive in the long run than a wood or aluminum-coated

us. >> the san francisco symphony one the grammy for best classical compendium, another winner, spent much of her life in oakland. she won a grammy for best traditional r&b performance. >>> this is a scene in west oakland come over the city zone fantastically greater through an outdoor red carpet party at his new record company. he is celebrating his third grammy award for best contemporary blues album. >>> another live look outside, mary is back with a final check of the windy weather coming up next. >>> singer an actress edina men's l, plus, decluttering experts. you can watch today to:00 right here on >>> two priced paintings with more than $20,000 each, stolen while on display in the mission district. the artists get em at 5:00. one last check of the weather with mary. >>> one more windy live look with her mark hopkins hotel cam. looking at san francisco, it is a cool afternoon. were talking temperatures in the upper 40s to low 50s, and you can see the current when speeds, 25 mile-per-hour winds in san jose, 24 and hayward, spotty showers on high def doppler and as we look to tomorrow,

san francisco to denounce what they call the scapegoating of asian kids. this after most of the the the san francisco unified, and there was a big rally today but joining us are three san francisco public school alumni, julie sue, lowell alum na. eugene mcgrain, lowell alum na and real estate developer and so great for all three have you to take time to share with us today. julie,ly start with you. how has the the the scapegoating asian students. >> it wasn't just the tweets but at every school board they have shut down parents and a group that is supposed to list on it their constituencies they have shut down certain parents. as you know, the asian school district is over a that becomes really problematic. now we've seen the effects of this. >> i know those of a rally today felt that the tweets were the latest. i aassume hearings were over admission policies. >> it would be the renaming of schools. it would be taking away the washington high school murals and that requires public input. that is the role of a body not just to rule in a vacuum. so parents really feel shutout, especially when their children have to study at a distance now and they don't even

us. >> reporter: san francisco recently saw its lowest covid case rate since the pandemic began. currently, the city's seven day average of daily cases is 29. compared to more than 370 during the winter surge. >> we have stuck to staying outside which is nice. we were just talking about it is exciting that there are more outdoor options we didn't have before. so i think a lot of good meutf >> reporter: cases are on the rise in half the states. and people are dying. >> the seven day average of deaths continues to hover at 1,000 deaths per day. i remain deeply concerned about that trajectory. >> reporter: most states will make vaccines available to all residents 16 and older by may 1. california will do so two weeks earlier. scientists are studying 12,000 vaccinated college students to try and answer if the vaccine keeps people from spreading the virus. >> we are hoping we will be able to answer the very important question about whether vaccinated people get infected asymptommatically and if they do, do they transmit the infection to others. >> reporter: as of tonight, more than 40

us. san francisco. police say this footage shows the 33 year-old woman grabbing on to the suspect's car in an effort to get her purse back. the suspects dragged the victim a short distance before she fell onto the street. police say when the suspects also punched the victim in the face multiple times and another man kicked the 53 year-old several times when she fell to the ground. police say both women were treated for non life threatening injuries and officers are still looking for the 3 suspects. now take a look at this. the san francisco bakery was hit not once but twice. in an early morning crime spree on sunday. this happened at the pineapple king bakery in the sunset district. surveillance video shows several burglars climbing in and out of a window. but they broke into just to getting side. business owner didn't want to show her face. but she says it's important for her to share what's happening to small businesses. this is very unsafe. >> you know, even walking down the street, people can get pu

dan kerman joins us live from san francisco tonight with more. dan. >> but we're here in the financial district in many businesses down here remain closed. and that's basically because these offices that's around me are empty, not enough people coming down here so the businesses can survive. they don't have that foot traffic will now that the city is moving to orange office space is able to open up a 25% capacity. they hope that's a start. and moreaand more people will start coming down town for work. >> i'm wearing orange today for a reason, not because it's opening day for the giants, although that's coming up fairly soon, but because we're in the orange tier. a beaming mayor london breed announced tuesday that san francisco would be moving to the less restrictive orange reopening tier. >> allowing increased capacity in restaurants. the reopening of bars and the opening of offices at 25% capacity. we have a lot of dedicated companies here in san francisco that really truly committed to reopening their offices to making flexible work. schedules

abc 7 news reporter joins us live from san francisco's castro district. this by far was the largest crowd that we recent weeks. >> you're right. it was. so much solid arty all weekend. today, a new al lie joining others to say stop the hate. >>> more than a thousand people taking over market street. a march to stop hate and violence against asian americans. >> we're people, too. >>> that violence on the rise in the bay area. many crimes against asian american seniors caught on camera. just days ago, eight people gunned down in atlanta. six of the victims were asian women. so, to just stand up and say enough is enough. >> before the march, is a rally. the lgbt becoming a new in the cause. >> i refuse asian hate. >> and so many of our leaders from the lgbt community to say we are standing with our asian- american families, our seniors. it means so much. >> the fear of just walking down the street, a new reality for many families. >> my mom was actually shopping. instead of ornaments or dresses, she is shopping for baseball bat s or to protect herself. this

used very seldom. it's a rare occurrence. still, san francisco police officer robert rebecca says there's no hard evidence showing the two incidents are related blowtorch burglaries by national be more common than not. i spoke to a glass repair expert who says blowtorches have been used in san francisco break ins. released the past five years. henry lee ktvu, fox two news, former san jose state employee is suing the university for wrongful termination and retaliation. steve o'brien was the deputy athletic director last year when he says he was punished for resisting orders to discipline the whistle blower in a sexual abuse case. his attorney says o'brien was standing up for those trying to protect mistreated student athletes and says it cost him his job loss. was filed in santa clara county superior court yesterday and includes the school's trustees and athletic director. there were more negotiations today on capitol hill between lawmakers and the white house on the $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief bill. president biden has signed off on narrowin

san francisco bit more mild at 57 compared to yesterday. a lot of us like livermore nap and san francisco are actually starting off this morning a little bit warmer than where we were for your tuesday morning into the afternoon day time highs right around the same as they were yesterday 60's to low 70's. lots of sunshine. and yes, as mentioned, the strong winds that you're going to be had now been to yet again today. reyna john, thank you for that. so like i mentioned, like john just told you. >> it's nasty out there. and so we have some high wind advisories across multiple bridges like the bay bridge, for start with this bridge here. definitely want to take your time 11 minutes or so to make it into the city right now. so traffic is indeed hampered by the strong winds. but you want to slow down because of that. also, we have one not only for the bay bridge before the bridge. >> the venetian martinez bridge, the altamonte pass and we're gonna look also for any up bridge as well for high wind advisories today. >> let's go with the san mateo retain acros

another nice warmup in store for us tuesday. san francisco, maybe a few degrees cooler than today, reaching up into the low to mid 60s. we're going to see a bit more cloud cover. the wind is still not going to be a major factor and temperatures are going to be 3 to 6 degrees above average which puts us up to 70 degrees. i think right at 70 for a high temperature. santa rosa even after a chilly start, concord making it up to around 70 degrees as well. san jose making it up to right around 70 degrees. the warmest spots make it a little farther into the low 70s. the coolest spots along the coast staying in the low 50s with mid 60s around the bay itself. next rain chance farther down the line. we're going to be dry for most of the work week. as we don't hit the end of the work week, we'll see a chance of rain which is going to wash pollen out of the atmosphere. lighter winds will drop us back one category on tuesday. back into the medium-high category. wednesday and thursday and friday, alder, juniper, and ash are the top three pollens making us

that's what they're going to use in san francisco, middle and high school students could return for inerson class starting next month under the plan campuses would reopen april 26th for special day classes and the districts focal populations. now, this would include newcomer students, foster youth students who live in public housing homeless students and students with limited online engagement until now. the district's plan had only provided dates for elementary students to begin returning to the classroom and that date was april 12th. >> on the peninsula indoor businesses are allowed to loosen restrictions under the orange tier. one of the requirements is that they have upgraded air filtration and ventilation systems. kron four's gayle ong takes a look at what they're doing. >> we're here at belmont, hail bowl where the owner invested in air purifiers and plexiglass to keep customers safe based on the packed. the parking lot. people are ready to go out unity >> it's been a week since belmont reopen after being closed for 4 months. we were so happy and so ready for this. i've been so r

san francisco has reached a milestone tomorrow will mark one year since san francisco first recorded a covid cases today kron four's dan kerman sat down with the city's public health director, he joins us live in san francisco with more on that dan sure feels like much more than one year. absolutely it certainly does it's been a long tough years specially for some groups more than others but sor all of us a tough time doctor colfax as you know has become a familiar person. >>a big promoter of wearing masks and social distancing he talked about that again today because this is not over and we look back at the last year. >>coronavirus has come to san francisco we are announcing the first 2 cases of coronavirus in our city one year ago friday, san francisco reported covid-19 had arrived in the city. now one year later san francisco has seen more than 34,000 cases a year ago was unfathomable that we would have. >>over half a million deaths due to covid-19 in this and you know i knowledge that also we've had unfortunately over 400. 20 deaths of among san franciscans we are ordering that everyone in san francisco who can. >>remain at home. until april 7th 11 days after announcing its first c

cornell joins us live in san francisco, where a church held one rally against a api hate, and cornell, it seems like this has reached a fever pitch, protesters are set up. >> reporter: you are right. more people saying enough is enough. a big show of solidarity in san francisco and across the bay area, in support of the a api community. >> this is a time to stand and speak. >> the pastor spoke to the crowd at san francisco's civic center, a call to action to stop hate and violence against the aapi community. >> in christ's name we want to be about peace, reconciliation, we want to stand for the dignity of aapi people. >> reporter: this brought the faith-based community together, organized by the asian american christian collaborative, members who are disgusted by ongoing scenes of violence, many churches are reaching out to seniors. >> we are trying to be there and show up for them so that they feel not scared to step out of their homes. >> reporter: the pastor lending his support as an ally. >> we were just several months ago, down here marching and making a statement to gather with

program today in collaboration with chinatown groups. >> the way it works is that some of us who grew up in san francisco, we might remember when the guardian angels used to control the history neighborhood, we had issues around crime and communities and they were the watchers of the neighborhood, they would want people to the store, they would be the eyes and ears on the streets, similar to what we need today. we need guardian angels, we need people who are out and about paying very close attention. but also developing relationships with merchants and people who are out there shopping and running errands and picking up medication. the street violence intervention program was started many years ago to help address the issues around gun violence in our communities and to prevent retaliation. these are people who are from these communities, they have relationships and what we did is teamed them up with community youth center, a part of chinatown's effort to work with young people. groups come together with self help for the elderly, making sure there are eyes on the streets, and guardian angels but also th

us. >> in san francisco today. governor gavin newsome along with asian leaders discuss the rise in violent attacks against asians. the governor saying is that crimes like these impact. all of us. and we must meet this moment. kron four's. dan kerman was at that meeting today with the governor. he joins us now live in san francisco with details. good afternoon, dan. >> good afternoon. just in, the governor met with asian american leaders talking about what can be done to put a stop to this about 1700 incidents, at least that's the number that was recorded just in the state of california alone against asian americans. both the governor and members of the asian american community discuss this one. what it is like for people right now living with this fear. >> we have schools reopening where parents are fearful that their children will be bullied an encounter racism. we have private businesses that are fearful that if they are asian and have primarily asian employees. will they be targeted. and the fact that we have so

welcome to the mar22, 2021 meeting of the land use committee of the san francisco board of supervisors. i am joined by dean preston and aaron peskin. i am myrna melgar. do you have any announcements? >> yes, due to the

my name is jerry dratler with the san francisco land use coalition. good afternoon. my name is jerry dratler with the san francisco land use coalition. commissioners, i sent each of you a brief summary of the facts and pictures of the front and rear facades that show the original house has been demolished. the house is gone. there is no need for democalculations. why has the planning department not issued a notice of enforcement for an obvious illegal demolition? has there been a planning code enforcement change at the planning department? i believe the enforce of the demolition needs to be approved before the project goes forward. i don't know why the planning department is allowing the owners to construct a house 1,000 square feet larger than the house being demolished. if the planning department rewards the sponsor with a larger house, the planning commission will be sending a clear message that illegal demolitions are no longer illegal. also, you know, i'm really tired of hearing of the glowing family and extended family justifications for illegal demolitions. tha

san francisco mayor london breed got her covid-19 shot on the one year anniversary of the announcement. >> the stay at home order. and while it's been a turbulent year. kron four's, kelly shows us why san francisco has reason to be optimistic. >> the mayor sat down at a vaccination clinic in the western addition to finally get her shot of the johnson and johnson vaccine as the leader of the city's covid emergency response. she's been eligible for some time but says she was waiting because of the lack of supply. so other more vulnerable, san franciscans could go first. this shot in the arm comes one year to the day she had to announce the shelter-in-place order that shut down the city. what we are asking for everyone to do is to remain at home. >> for all but the most essential outings, the drastic action is credited for saving lives, but it also brought economic devastation and mental anguish for many now. one year later, she becomes one of the roughly 31% of city residents over 16 to receive a vaccine. and with the promise of more supply coming our way. the mayor expressed cautious optimism about the future. have to wear my mask. yeah. >> limit the number of people i interact

our car first dan kerman is live for us in san francisco tonight with more on this stand. >>we know more than 300,000 doses of that johnson johnson vaccine due to come to the bay area as well as the rest of california 300,000 this week. more than 300 next week more than 300,000 the week after that throughout the state and that's the good news, but federal health officials say this pandemic has not gone away yet and just because more vaccine is coming. does not mean people need to let their guard down. the first truckloads of the newly approved johnson and johnson covid-19 vaccine shipped sunday. >>with more than 300,000 doses your mark this week for california and all federal officials say 3.9 million doses of will be shipped across the nation this week with more to come we'll have 20 million available by the end of march. >>and a 100 million by the end of june this year so things are really going to scale up over the next couple of months doctor, rick nettles is vice president of medical affairs with the janssen pharmaceutical companies of johnson and johnson and janssen

hard-hit neighborhoods like east, san jose and the mission and they view districts in san francisco kron four's taylor joins us live now in san francisco with more on. >>how this happens taylor. >>well it has to do with the metric used by the state in that metric is based off of income education levels and health care. however, local leaders community leaders say that it does not factor in gentrification in disparities with in these neighborhoods. so that's why local leaders had a call with the governor's office today from that call they say that there should be changes to this plan come sometime tomorrow. >>well the state's new equity plan designed to distribute covid-19 vaccines to underserved communities sounds great on the surface. bay area lawmakers quickly found flaws when they noticed many hard-hit regions are left out. the plan announced last week would reserve 40% of the state's vaccine supply vulnerable residents across 446 zip codes only 10 of those zip codes are in the bay area and double communities like east san jose were left out how do you. >>deal with. >>you know for populations in the large p

>>time in san francisco police are seeing an increase in burglaries where people use blow torches to usinesses recently, san francisco optics in the marina district was a target and in the surveillance video from sunday you see the glass crack after the burglar takes a blow torch to the window. but unlike other businesses the thief never made it inside the store and now business owners are ways to step up security to meet these uh tactics. >>was surprised and shocked and you know just obviously i'm getting creative windows solve is. like a and time. >>like polly carver, you know in full proof and doctors is the material and top of there's the laminate that's also on and women and when you use a blowtorch that's not the frequency of glass which means that side of trigger is absolutely astonishing that people are going to these lengths. >>to break in. >>security experts believe the thieves are turning to blow torches because certain alarms aren't as easily triggered. when heat hits the glass. 9.41 we'll be back with more on that. >>welcome back 9.44 on this thursday morning skies really

san francisco. they say san francisco used the appointment system once before for about 70 years. that was before changing to elections in 197 1. this group is called campaign for better san francisco schools. they say many other cities like new york and chicago use the appointment system and san francisco needs to do that, too. they will release more details about their plan today at a 10:00 news conference. that's scheduled for this morning. we'll cover that for you, but they are hoping to get this issue on the 2022 ballot. get everyone's opinion on whether the school board should be appointed by city hall, not elected by the residents. live in san francisco, amy holyfield. >>> a year of distance learning has turned into a year of learning loss for so many students. we'll focus on this all week as we work to build a better bay area. >> starting at 8:00, the kids are in school, so -- >> some parents have had to balance work with their kid's education and they're going to extremes to avoid learning loss. anna is a mother of three who brings two of her girls to work. she told our re

san francisco. this is our breaking news into san francisco for those joining us, 101 up the peninsula, the speeds starto improve as you approach the transition to north 280. sounds like a crew is doing the last of the investigation and the clear-up after a crash, debris and in lanes, cones right now, that may block off north 280 for a couple of minutes and then hopefully they'll reopen some lanes. north 280 and bay shore boulevard of your alternates around that portion of 101. the rest of the bay as we zoom out, the bottom of your screen, finally starting to see that burst of traffic north 101 in san jose, just north of 280 and 680. the red stands out over there and no red here as you are approaching the bay bridge and the east bay, the maze, the east shore freeway, all pretty much at speed, the traditional friday lighter traffic approaching no backup at the toll plaza. back to you. >> thanks, mike. >>> happening now, sonoma county is launching a mobile vaccination campaign to get some of the most vulnerable vaccinated. "the press democrat" reporting the clinic is stopping by homeless shelters first an

joining us now is that instructor, rick ramose, clea rico, brother rico . >> thank you for having me >> a quick intro for the audience, you are filipino american, nato of san francisco, you teach filipino martial arts, tell us about where you teach and what you are offering . >> i teach out of south san francisco, there's a gym over there on grand avenue. it's called physique magna feet . if you want to combine or just get fed it's the place to go . >> there been a lot of attacks and you are motivated to have people be able to protect themselves, what are you offering? >> here is what we are offering. what were trying to do because what i've seen in the news of late and all the trouble people of been having a we decided why not give out free classes to anybody who might be able to use it, and, here is the thing. i don't want people to get the wrong impression. i'm not going to teach you how to beat up everybody but what we are teaching is how to be more aware of your surroundings, how to not be a victim and, while we are going to do some physical stuff, it's all about release and run techniques, rather than sitting there trying to beat someone up , that makes us jus

cornell bernard joins us live from san francisco with more on today's event and it was just electric. >> reporter: yes it really was. all weekend we have seen a lot of solidarity for the asian- american immunity. the day a new ally joining others to say, stop the hate. more than 1000 people taking over market street for this march to stop hate and violence against asian- americans. the violence has been on the rise in the bay area and many crimes against asian-american seniors have been caught on camera. in just eight days ago, eight people gunned down. six were local women. >> this is a call to action to stand up and say no more, enough is enough. >> reporter: before the march, there was a rally. this is a new ally in the cause. >> i refuse to accept asian hate . it is baseless and ridiculous and un-american. >> many people say they are standing with asian-american families and seniors. it means a lot. >> reporter: the fear of walking down the street is a new reality for many families. >> my mother is now shopping for baseball bat to protect herself and it's is not the life i wanted

san francisco and oakland. in a story you will only see on nbc bay area, robert honda joins us from san jose's japan town neighborhood where a citizen foot patrol is ready to start training. >> reporter: san jose japan town is a quiet, tight-knit community where crime is a rare occurrence. the leaders here say they certainly know, by now, that an attack can happen anywhere and they need to be ready. seniors in san jose's j town know about racism. many were interned during world war ii. now, the community is preparing to deal with the recent, asian attacks. following san francisco and oakland citizen patrols walking its china towns, longtime san jose police officer is recruiting volunteers who will roam japan town in red vests to deter potential attackers. will begin training anyone interested on zoom, saturday morning. >> the really important part is -- is the scrutiny, the eyes on the community. we are going to be looking for behaviors that, basically, indicate that the person's a predator. >> reporter: one group especially grateful for the patrols is the japan town senior center. >> give you the proper tools and sk

revised and updated, we have seen use of force steadily declined over the last five years significantly. 50% decline in terms of appointing of a firearm in san francisco that is use of force when you intentionally.environment an individual. we have seen over 60% reduction use of force pointing a firearm and african-american residents of our city. that's huge. >> do you see that actually building trust? you see that is reducing crime? >> as far as reform? >> both. we have to build trust. part of building trust people have to see us as legitimate they have to see what we do as legitimate. if we do that, we can reduce crime. people cooperate more. i have had 31 years in this business now, when people trust their police officers that they come in contact with i don't care what your role of the department is, they are going to have to cooperate you. when they see your work as legitimate, trustworthy, credible they are more app to work with you. when that happens, community policing can be fully implemented because that partnership is what reduces crime, solves crime. much as police. we cannot do this work along. so reform means everything to building trust

that could soon change the first conference at san francisco's moscone center has been scheduled for the end of september. kron four's. dan kerman is live for us in san francisco details. dan, this is great news. >> definitely great news for the pocketbook of the city. they estimate that they have lost about 8 billion dollars. that's in convention, business and leisure travel. listen to that number again, 8 billion dollars. but on september 30th, there is a new convention coming to town. this is one that it previously scheduled and get to this is it's a convention of doctors and surgeons that is he having this convention about 1200 of them scheduled to come here to the moscow. center, those folks that s of travel say this is just the news that they were looking for. >> it's very significant because again, this will be 18 months after we shut down shelter in place. so although we've had some small amount of leisure visitors have come here on vacation primarily in the weekends. we really need to get the meetings and conventions back in place to make sure that the restaurants can be open to the small retail all the small businesses that live off

san francisco travel says the in person festivities are us symbol that the city is beginning to welcome back visitors. events like pride are going to be really important because they're gonna tell people that san francisco's coming back and that these important things that are important to all of us are starting to happen again. san francisco travel has launched its public awareness campaign. our gate is open to encourage visitors to come to san francisco. the city saw an 80% decrease in visitor spending last year and says it may be 2025 or san francisco sees pre pandemic levels of visitors return with tourism as the city's number one industry that means less money coming into the city. tourists pay so much of our city taxes about $800 million in our local taxes or paper paid for by visitors that their tax dollars that we don't have to pay for travel experts say a safe reopening is critical to keep momentum building for visitors to return to the city pride. organizers say those safety precautions or why we're seeing the events come back one step at a time. organizers say they want to en

yes, that's what makes us san francisco, and to have asian pacific islanders targeted in this just ignorant vicious way, you're right. it's totally unacceptable, and i'm proud of those who are volunteering to help. i see all the time, on my next door, people now volunteering to escort or drive, walk, whatever, those folks that may be in fear of being alone. it's a real tragedy, and it's a commendation of those who volunteer to help and, you know, that should include all of us, however we can help, so thank you for that statement. any further comments on that, commissioner nakajo's -- okay. oh, wait, commissioner rodriguez, are you raising your hand? no? okay. >> clerk: and there's nobody on the public comment line. >> president feinstein: thank you, madam secretary. you keep me in line. i appreciate that. thank you. i think we're on commission activities, is that right? >> commission report. are we going to the next? item seven? >> president feinstein: assure. >> clerk: agenda for next and future fire commission meetings. >> president feinstein: oh, i'm going to interrupt you. madam secreta

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>>we're back 7.40 is the time san francisco police are seeing an uptick in burglaries using blow torcheso break into businesses most recently, san francisco optics in the marina district was a target of this type of break in and in the surveillance video you'll from sunday glass cracked after the burglars took a blowtorch to the window to try and get in however, unlike in other cases, the thieves never did make it inside this particular store and now business owners are looking at ways to step up security against this latest tactic. >>was surprised and shocked and you know just obviously i'm getting creative windows solve is. an time. >>like polly carver, you know in full proof doctors is immaterial and top of there's the laminate that's also on doctor says the women and when you use a blowtorch that's not the frequency of glass which means that the alarms not to be triggered. it's absolutely astonishing that people are going to these lengths to break in. >>yeah security experts as you heard think these are turning to these blow torches because certain alarms aren't as easily triggered.

change on jfk drive was supposed to be temporary, but it's ktvu is james tourist tells us some people in san francisco what the change to stay. will you help us keep car project since the start of the pandemic, these barriers kept cars away from this stretch of jfk drive in san francisco. i like it like this. it's nice and unintentional blessing from the many shutdowns brought by the covid-19 pandemic every day, it's full of biker. joggers and anyone meeting of social distance exercise way would love to have it stayed closed. i mean, still being able to enjoy the park without being afraid. neither one of us are vaccinated yet so still being able to maintain our distance while getting outside's important, with the state of california, gaining re opening momentum, this road was intended to reopen to car traffic after the city lifted it. stay at home order. so some san francisco residents like matt brasilena put this event together, hoping to keep j f k car free. have a 2.5 year old. i would never be able to ride with her on our bikes on this street before with this narrow little biplane, and now i come

have enough supply kron four's dan kerman has been following the story for us he joins us now live in san francisco with more good afternoon. dan. >>good afternoon justine center hill saying that the state had told them not to hold back those second doses to get as many people vaccinated with the first doses and as a result. they don't have enough second doses and they are in the process of contacting 40,000 people this week who have second dose appointments they're gradually going through them not all but some canceling those appointments until they get more doses, they're hoping that somehow they will end up getting more doses but if they don't by the end of the week then there's another 50,000 of second dose vaccines that are scheduled for the rest of the month, those 2 will have to be rescheduled what this is mean in terms of not getting your dosage 21 days or 28 days after well medical professionals we talked with say it's not that big a deal. >>yes, you got like a tremendous amount of protection from just one you know it's as high as 2 weeks off to the first u.s. i think. you know all of that

san francisco botanical garden, which is open to visitors. we caught up with eve brenner allsup, the san francisco resident who tells us she has a quote pandemicities for sure. yeah i think i'm gonna hold off the california academy of sciences in san francisco, reopens to the general public mark 17 reservations will be required to capacity will be limited to 20% some exhibits will remain closed, including the planetarium. tickets by the way will go on sale next wednesday. i'm on very senior ktvu, fox two news. the bay area could soon see three more counties go into the red tears soon. san francisco napa, santa clara marin and san mateo counties, officials in solano county predict that by next week they could move to the red tear. if the number of virus cases continues to go down at the current pace, and alameda county and contra costa county may soon qualify for the red tear. if they can hold steady or have those numbers go down in the next few weeks, the sky star observation will is going to remain in golden gate park for four more years. when the ferris wheel first went up a year ago, it was only supposed to stay in the park until the end of

us are still in the mid- to upper 60s, so very comfortable. tonight is going to be milder than this morning. my accuweather seven-day forecast. look at the 70s along the coast. 80s possible in san francisco next two days. then all of us slip out of the 80s friday, and slip out of the 70s by sunday and monday. reggie. >> i'll take it, mike. >>> justin bieber is back on top hitting a major milestone. >> all right, this is his new song, peaches. it's on his album justice. the album debuted at number 1 on the billboard 200 album chart, and the single debuted at number 1 on the 100 single chart. this is the first time a male has debuted at number 1 on both charges, and third time overall. the only other time this happened is with bts and taylor swift. >>> another children's book pulled from shelves. why experts say it could have a huge impact on the publishing industry. >>> first, the risk of advanced non-small cell lung cancer can change everything. but your first treatment could be a chemo-free combination of two immunotherapies that works differently. it could mean a chance to live longer. opdivo plus yervoy is for adults newly diagnosed with non-small cell lung cancer that has spread and

san ramon valley. most of us in the 30s tonight. only places like san francisco and oakland in the 40s. k look at what's happening sunday into monday, you can see a chance of showers rolling through as another 1 on the storm impact scale will bring us some much needed rain. before that, we have a warming trend for friday and saturday. we're setting our clocks ahead an hour before we go to bed saturday night. be careful out there. the rain is going to continue throughout the morning commute. >> thank you. >>> now we're checking in with ginger live with what's coming up on "gma" at 7:00. good morning, ginger. >> good morning, kumasi, hi, reggie, nice to be with everybody this morning. coming up here on "gma," we're going to start with the race to vaccinate. texas is reopening this morning, dropping its mask mandate and the head of the cdc dr. rochelle walensky has some things to say about that. she'll join us for an exclusive. queen elizabeth broke her silence after that explosive interview, what she's now saying about the racial allegations in the meghan and harry interview. plus, our roy

san francisco. kron four's taylor joins us live from san francisco with more on this taylor just on the surface. this is eyebrow raising. >>grant you really have to take a closer look at you're probably wondering how this happens and it has to do with the state's metric which is based off of things like household income education levels and health care. well, you know local leaders say that that does not take into affect your take in effect that there's gentrification in large disparities in these neighborhoods as well and that's why they had a call with the governor. the governor's office today and they say that that we can expect changes to this plan as soon as sometime tomorrow. >>the area lawmakers calling on the governor's office on monday to make changes to the state's new equity plan. then to distribute covid-19 vaccines to underserved communities. the plan announced last week but his oeuvre 40% of the state's vaccine supply to vulnerable residents across 446 zip codes, however, some of the hardest hit commlnities in the bay area were left out including east san jose which is a predominan

i want to cut red tape across san francisco. i want us to be vibrant, i was us to be great.e nothing could have ever anticipated. as a result, we had to make changes. we had to distance ourselves from one another, when our natural instinct, when we see someone that we know, we want to give them a hug, and our city's favorite restaurants shutdown. as we began to see our numbers increase, we started doing things outdoor because it was safer for each and every one of us. one of the other great adjustments we made was our shared spaces program. one of the things that senator scott wiener did when he was supervisor was created the parklet program. we stole his idea of parklets, and we turned it into shared spaces. and all of a sudden, people are looking around san francisco, and seeing we have parklets everywhere. we have safe spaced where people can come and congregate. the reason we were able to get these programs up and runs was because we declared a state of emergency. so a lot of the things we would have had to have done in the past, we basically got all of that and pivoted

useful. i also think it would be a good thing to have diverse representation from all of san francisco's communities on this body. so that might be a thing for us to think about if we're going to take another minute. and i although i have not met him, i think ed perion also does seem to have sort of project development experience that could be useful. that's a thought. in general, i think this is a great group of folks, and i'm looking forward to getting this body working. >> chairman: thank you, vice chair mandelman. and earlier i spoke to my constructionism and the way i looked at all of these seats over the weekend. and i do -- because we actually -- since i became chair of the rules committee, i don't think we've really had a conversation about what the charter sets forth as it relates to residency waivers. and i think this is a good time to do it. i think the few that we have granted since this committee was constituted a couple of months ago have been undisputed, which is to say that there was one applicant for one seat where a residency waiver was required. but i want to call attention to rea

and joins us now live from san franciscoight with more. dan. >> both community members and the governor himself made it clear that this attack on asians is not something new. it's been going on for decades. it is just kind of bubbled up to the surface in recent months and in the last year, they say now more than ever. we cannot just let the stand. but the fight against it must be strengthened. the acts of violence and bigotry. >> impact all of us because we're all part of one community friday. the governor met with leaders of the asian american and pacific islander community in san francisco to discuss how the state can help curb the escalating number of attacks on members of that community. how we ensure that we're preventing these incidents in the future with appropriate community-based policing and other forms of detroit, our neighborhoods. how do we ensure real investigations and accountability of these incidents and these hate crimes as a her. how do we ensure that we're putting victims and survivors first attacks in th

we have showing us downtown san francisco on this friday night. people are out and about. that's for sure. it would has been largely a dead city like all of the cities in america for much of the past year starting to come back to life. and what a weekend to kind of i don't know, officially kick off the weather season. our chief meteorologist lawrence karnow is here with us now. boy lies. it just feels like we're we're really turning a corner on a lot of fronts. yet today. probably the busiest drive-in i've had in about a year now, lot of cars out there on the roads. people get outside to enjoy probably getting out there to travel a little bit certainly the offering us some beautiful conditions all around here and much of the state up. they're beautiful shot, clear skies continuing tonight. >> and out there over san francisco. just a beautiful gorgeous sight. no fog to speak of there. but we may see a little fog developing along the coastline overnight tonight and into early tomorrow morning. certainly these temperatures jumped quite a bit today. remember, yesterday we're d