it is coming from the university of toronto and found the number of people visiting downtown is at 96% of the 2019 levels. in comparison oakland had a 74% recovery and san francisco was at 67% . a lot of people bring up the downtown vacancies along with homelessness and cry when talking about san francisco. but others say the doom loop narrative is not the real story. wilson walker looks at that debate. >> the bottom of it has a slightly lower temperature to set the crust and set the rise. >> the door is open for another day at out of sight pizza just celebrating its first birthday . >> it is crazy that it's only a year it feels like five. >> the co-owner says it has not been easy opening a business in the heart of san francisco's tenderloin. challenges in this neighborhood have made headlines around the world. headlines that often flat-out describe san francisco as a failed city. >> it feels good to be down here. i don't feel scared or like it is dangerous. i don't like the doom loop from the news. the people that actually live and work and fight for the city don't have that feeling.

the ontario government. and there's one in front of the us councillot, and these these are huge demonstrations, the universities, university of toronto, riyerson university, are having demonstrations, so so across the board, across you know the the the youth are coming out strongly, people of all religions are standing up strongly, independent jewish voices in canada, is is leading you know many of the demonstrations, so so this shows you that they are now on the defensive, and that's why they're becoming actually more vicious in their attacks and trying to always project this as hatred of jews, it's it's it's actually okay, thank you for that supporters of the palestinians hate uppercide, they hate genocide, they hate stealing land, but support justice, equality, thank you for that, democracy, thank you, sorry to jump in, thanks for being with us, one last question, give us your views along the lines of what muhammar and the question i asked them regarding the uh pro-palestinian views amongst lamikers and of course the population at large? well, as i mentioned earlier, one of the reason is because the war today is very visual for...

the university of toronto conducted the study.get the data by how many people walking around in a specific area. people are coming back to san jose downtown both because they want to eat out and they think it's safer. >> we have a social impact team who goes up to people who are having health crises. we have a zero policy for open air drug markets. >> san jose has recovered 96% of downtown activity since 2019 compared to 67% for downtown san francisco. >>> golden gate gate park, that giant ferris wheel is moving to a new location. crews are already dismantling it. soon we'll see it at fisherman's wharf. it's expected to start rotating in on november 10th. the idea is for it to be a major attraction during the apec summit. >>> up next, have you seen it? . the wax figure of the rock getting some backlash for getting it wrong. what the rock is saying about his not so look-alike. >>> lester holt getting ready for "nightly news." one of the top stories, u.s. military presence growing in the middle east. nbc's courtney kube is aboard a

so the past week we spoke to, so the others, a professor of med smart university of toronto. 3 of his daughters were killed in dallas or in 2000. and 9 of the allies is i'll be the soonest. i talk to my sisters, my brothers, my assembly. yeah. at least to know more than the 20 or from my son any webcam of my fuzzy cousin and his tore sons with joe. yes, the day you my, you know, and have those are we have killed as even just directly from basement as far maybe from how that was. i mean the, there were 20 by the stands where killed. so if you find this thing, yes. and because of the, it's sad waiting in line for just didn't, you wouldn't be most, they are moving age, raise the years, and that's what is happening there. and the was paying for the thing is the indifference and do i as in this mode of i'll tell during the see what is happening because that's the way we want to have. all of this was a shame is, is when you're paying for you, we lost the task of this in the community. and is it just for the international community to, to implement the international does the news as of the h

university of toronto did the study.racking what people are doing on the phone but how many people were walking around specific areas and the numbers show people are coming back to san jose in droves. >> you see people, businesspeople, students, they're not afraid to walk anymore. >> it's having a safe and clean downtown. we've expanded police foot prools. we have a social impact team that goes up to people having mental health crises. we have a zero-tolerance policy for open-air drug markets. >> the study says san jose has regained about 96% of its downtown activity that it had back in 2019 compared to roughly 67% for downtown san francisco. >>> jeff ranieri, should be a beautiful week in san jose? >> great weather today. great weather tomorrow. the top weather headline we're following the next couple of days will be two different systems that are going to bring the chance of showers. i've got looks at that plus also a little bit of wind now making it into the seven-day forecast as we move it into that microclimate fore

. >> reporter: cell phone activity tracked by the university of toronto shows san jose has gotten back 96% of the visitor base it had before the pandemic. compare that to 67% for downtown san francisco. city leaders here admit it took some work, including stepped-up security after several acts of vandalism. >> it's having a safe and clean downtown. we've expanded police foot patrols. we have a social impact team that goes up to people who are having mental health chris he's. we have a zero tolerance policy for open air drug markets. >> for hom kitchen, which also operates in san francisco, this is the hot spot. >> downtown san jose is comparing to san francisco is beverly hills. >> beverly hills here? >> absolutely. >> of all the downtowns surveyed nationwide, san jose did have the third highest return rate anywhere. terry. >> all right, scott. thanks very much. >>> people who rely on ferry service from parts of the east bay are looking for new ways to get around, at least for now. starting today, the main street alameda ferry terminal is closed for repairs and earthquake retrofitting.

is dana blash, a professor of medicine and public health at the university of toronto. thank you so much. process backing both these riley and palestinian science have been taking place in other parts of the world is andy richardson, reports you know, voters can contain the emotions of the school in germany. pro palestinian protest is much through the city of testing to tell me that you called and we'll get in here. i hope that the world opens its eyes and hearts for the problems in the middle leaves. this machine is not a problem that is just arisen as a problem for the last 70 years watching on a smaller group down to to show its support for israel. well in the central gym and city of frank foot, jewish associations came together to cool the solidarity with his royal in india, the eastern city of coal cuts. it was the location a rally. supposing palestine and cooling stuff piece in the region symbol of scenes in pakistan's capital is lam about this meeting, part of a nation wide series of palestine solidarity rallies organized by the political policy. do you mind to us

their opponents. and as an advisor of prime minister benjamin netanyahu mentioned to us at university of toronto in 2012 this strategy has worked most. arab regimes, they have gone for peace with israel, they have surrounded, but what is happening now in gaza is that palestinians today they're acting like the jews when they were surrounded by hitler in the varshav getto, the palestinians are ready to die to the end, their their their their motto and their slogan is death or victory, and this is the reason why israeli. regime is so desperate, this is the reason why netanyahu is doing what he promised that he will turn gaza into a rumble, so he is destroying gaza, he is killing everyone, he is massacring the the the civilian population, and if possible netanyahu is going to kill even his own israels in order to save himself, nevertheless, this will not break the... yes, netanyahu is going to massacre thousands of palestinians, he tried to if possible to deport this palestinians to egypt, but accept that, and now he is killing as many people as possible, but the the the the big question is that wha

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, let's go live to l home car, coca de an expert on is really palestinian affairs from the university of toronto. a welcome. let me ask you this. do you expect the international community to listen to arouse appeal, to stop acting israel? because so many people in countries have been speaking out. do you think that this could be heard and maybe prevent further crimes? yeah, well if we mean by the international community, if you're referring to super powers up to now we haven't seen any active shooter was what's happening in the region and we won't expect much else to happen. but i think when we talk about the international community, we mean other countries as well. and i think what's being developing in our world and in muslim countries, it's but something more positive, i guess. and you said, you know, the diplomacy between iran and other countries in between the countries. um, we had a, an unprecedented phone call between the launch presidents, the recei on the been timeline and saudi arabia regarding the issue. so i think yes about the, the way that the r b does are going to react. the musli

now he's professor emeritus at the university of toronto, and he happened to mention he has more academicer. some of his research led to chatbots like google's bard, which we met last spring. >> confounding. absolutely confounding. we asked bard to write a story from six words. "for sale. baby shoes. never worn." holy cow. the shoes were a gift for my wife, but we never had a baby. bard created a deeply human tale of a man whose wife could not conceive and a stranger who accepted the shoes to heal the pain after her miscarriage. >> i am rarely speechless. i don't know what to make of this. chatbots are said to be language models that just predict the next most likely word based on probability. >> you'll hear people saying things like they're just doing auto complete. they're just trying to complete the next words, and they're just using statistics. well, it's true they're just trying to predict the next word, but if you think about it, to predict the next word, you have to understand the sentences. so the idea they're just predicting the next word so they're not intelligent is crazy. you

and, you know, i'm a graduate of the university of toronto and one of the other graduates of that universityn of the trenches and the mud and the barbed wire everywhere, that amidst the amidst that barbaric scene , the red poppy grew as scene, the red poppy grew as a as a symbol, as a symbol of hope.in as a symbol, as a symbol of hope. in flanders fields, the poppies grow between the crosses , row and row. this is about remembering their sacrifice, and it's about support for those fallen and also our armed forces without supporting necessarily the government that send them to war without necessarily supporting the wars that they're forced to fight. it's about support ing the men and women who bravely laid down their lives or are willing to lay down their lives for a measly sacrifice . and it's also sacrifice. and it's also important to remember, of course , that the money made from raising from selling all these poppies goes to the british legion charities, which helps to support thousands , if support tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of veterans and current soldiers who livin

ireland, iran, iraq, i mentioned yemen, multiple american universities, toronto, vancouver, the list goes on, there have been dozens upon dozens ofinians as bombs rain down on the women and children of gaza, joining us now from romala is press tv's mona candial for an update, hello mona, hope you're safe and well, last time i spoke to you, 36 people have been killed in the occupied west bank over the last five or six days, few actually exactly where you're at in romala, what can you tell us? that's right, since saturday 36 palestinians had been killed by the israeli forces and the israeli s. in the occupied west bank, there are clear orders for the israeli military as well as the israeli settlers, it's okay to keep using their weapons to kill people in cold blood. this is what happened yesterday, palestinians were taking part in funeral processions of four palestinians had been killed in fusra, south napolis one day before, during the participation of the people in the funeral procession, israeli settlers, armed settlers were stationing at the roads leading to qusra and to nablas, opened their fire uh at the morners and killed tw

university in cairo. the participants in this demonstration condemned israel's aggression in gaza . various cities were also the scene of demonstrations against the actions of the zionist regime in the gaza strip. demonstrators in toronto, holding palestinian flags , condemned the actions of the zionist regime in the gaza strip and the killing of palestinians. four new stations on lines 6 and 7 of tehran metro will be put into operation today. at the same time, the executive operation of the construction of tehran metro line 10 will begin. exploitation of four stations and 9 kilometers of the new tehran metro line with a huge cost of 6 thousand billion tomans. by the end of 2012, we will actually open another 10 kilometers of lines inside the city. 6 km in line 6 and 4 km in two sections in line 7. with the opening of shahr zeba shahran and shahid arman aliyovardi stations, 6 kilometers will be added to the length of line 6 and the meydon kitab station will add more than two and a half kilometers to the length of line 7 of the capital metro. we will open 6 km with three important stations on line 6 of tehran metro. the stations that can actually be located in the five-city area of ​​tehran, there at all the subway has

university in cairo. the participants in this demonstration condemned israel's aggression in gaza. various cities were also the scene of demonstrations against the actions of the zionist regime in the gaza strip. demonstrators in toronto holding palestinian flags. they condemned the killing of palestinians in the gaza strip. hundreds of palestinians and their supporters took to the streets downtown chicago came to show their support for palestine. according to the report of the american abc channel, palestinians living in chicago, together with the supporters of palestine , demonstrated against the israeli regime's barbaric attacks on gaza. a large crowd of protestors expressed their emotions and sorrows in a peaceful demonstration over the escalating violence abroad and expressed hope that this cruelty would end. we have come here once again to send a very clear message that we are always with our people in palestine and we support them one hundred percent. this group first vs the israeli consulate on madison street in chicago gathered then went all out to convey their message to israel and the american people. the people of gaza face special cruelty and racial cleansing by the israelis. we came here to say that we w