aaron peskin imposed a two-week deadline. >> secret sauce here is that they need to get into the film business or finding operator and the community has offered to operating the when they're not using it for entertainment as a film really what is at stake is also the opening of that theater for more 100 in, you know, half of the year. so one of the new proposals for that theater. >> in the new business plan is to actually be closed half the year. and that is what the community is curious about. you know, can we keep this state and this building open more often to show films and keep it that historic character. >> another planet entertainment did not respond for comment, but has this pledge up on their website saying a p e recognizes that sentiment remains at the heart of the castro theater and is dedicated to keeping film and encircle component of the theater's programming. if he pledges that 33% of programming at the theater will be devoted to film screenings and film festivals. so now we will have to wait and see what happens after that two-week deadline is up. all right. let's swit

aaron peskin is inviting the mayor to the united nations plaza to talk about the city's response to drug activities happening on sidewalks, kron four's amanda hari talked to him about that potential meeting. >> san francisco board of supervisors, president aaron peskin says he's putting the mayor on notice. he wants to host the board's next mayor's q and a session outside of city hall at the united nations plaza where he says there's a humanitarian crisis, the focus public attention of the media attention. >> on the loss of many lives due to drug overdoses on open air drug doing. we've seen too many businesses shuttered closed because customers, employees and residents are not feeling safe. this proposal comes just days after a whole foods on 8th and market. >> announced a temporary closure just one year after opening because of safety concerns. i guess i'm, you know, obviously concerned with. >> the closure of that grocery but this is much larger than the closure of a business in the loss this is about a systemic response from the city and county of san francisco. i asked peskin if he w

we welcome to the nine board president aaron peskin. thanks for being with us.g, garcia. good morning. you're on your fifth term on the board started in 2001 off and on. of course you've lived in the district for 30, plus years. what do you make of what's happening in your district now? the northeast corner of san francisco, the home of fisherman's warf and union square and chinatown is actually rebounding. but there's a humanitarian crisis that is rolling out in san francisco. people are dying from fentanyl. more than two people a day is reported yesterday in the san francisco chronicle in other areas of san francisco, and it is a humanitarian crisis and we really need to stand up a task force of law enforcement and public health officials and treat this in the same way that we treated the covid crisis that we did very well in and that is our imperative right now, and you're looking for that regional task force federal state, local law enforcement agencies. how would that look and work? and as importantly, how would it affect people who live work and visit ther

today we are joined by aaron peskin and katy tang from the office of small business who can speak. president peskin, welcome. >> thank you. member of rowel this is is a relatively small chink to section 2a.240 of the add stritive code relates to power and duties of the small business commission. it is a rather pedestrian amendment that changes the over low prittive recipe that i think but i may be wrong. supervisor chris daly originally drafted decades ago upon the creation of small business which provision prescribed the small business commission would go through an application selection press for a public event honoring mall business owners this broadens that requiring that during small accident month. the department coordinate activities to encourage the yes or no public to support small businesses in the city and county of can san francisco. i have done this change in coordination with katy tang the director of the mall business office. and we are here to answer questions that you may have. >> thank you. colleagues, are there any? questions? >> okay. i thank you is pretty strai

. >> reporter: and aaron peskin who also lost power says they have a number of questions to answer. >> they have a number of questions to answer and including response time. >> reporter: and the fire department says they have to answer questions around the outage. and meantime, the emergency active center is to provide help for the crews. and there is no impact on the customers, but the people at the port said that the outage had minimal impact on the operation, and they are prepare for backup generators, but for the resident, it is a waiting game. >> hopefully it will be back up. >> reporter: we did see later on in the afternoon, some large generators arriving near some of the buildings in the area. reporting live in san francisco, christy smith, nbc bay area news. >>> and now, a man is ordered freed from jail, because a man failed to show up to testify. he was hospitalized with a fractured skull after being attacked outside of his mom's marina home earlier this month, and now they have been sparring whether he was the victim of an unprovoked beating or he was the aggressor. there we

aaron peskin told the company they have 2 weeks to come up with a plan to strike a compromise with thety, which is concerned about how to honor that theater experience. the castro theater was built in 1922, it's considered one of the best preserved movie palaces in the entire country. it's pretty amazing. looking. it was designated as a register landmark. back in 1977, another plan to entertain their partnered up with its owners to revamp the site to bring in more business and they're behind other live music venues in town like the independent is just at the independent. have the fox theater nonprofits like the lgbtq cultural district and san francisco heritage. they are concerned about plans to gut the inside and take out the seat. they are stressing the importance of maintaining this iconic site as a space where people can continue to go for film screens with the red leather. i mean, not the velvet seats right? the stakeholders, they haven't sat down with these groups to talk about their plans and supervisor peskin has imposed now a 2 week deadline to figure this out. >> secret sauce

and this expert that we talked to said that in the long term, that supervisor aaron peskin wants 71 of these tall et, newest buildings checked by november, and that's going to be a very tall order indeed. it requires quite a lot of detailed work to -- basically they send these rigs over the side of the building with people in it, and they have to look at every window and every connection. it's quite an elaborate effort. so the expert says he doubts that everyone can get all 71 windows checked in such a short time frame. >> so the timeline to get all these inspections completed, did i hear you say november? all those buildings, the 71 buildings? >> that's the hope. supervisor peskin says that he wants this done before another potential disastrous windstorm would hit in the winter. so he has quite a strict timeline that this get done. you know, he's talked to representatives of the building owners, who have said that they'd like -- they're as interested as he is to make sure that people are safe. but right now, it looks like it's off to a little bit of a less than impressive start when i

and today supervisor aaron peskin imposed a two-week deadline to do so. >> secret sauce here is that they need to get into the film business or finding operator and the community has offered to operate the when they're not using it for entertainment as a film really what is at stake is also the opening of that theater for more 100 in, you know, half of the year. so one of the new proposals for that theater. >> in the new business plan is to actually be closed half the year. and that is what the community is curious about. you know, can we keep this state and this building open more often to show films and keep it that historic character. >> i didn't hurt and did not respond for comment. but has this pledge up on their website saying a p e recognizes its cinema remains at the heart of the castro theater and is dedicated to keeping film an integral component of the theater's programming. the a p e pledges that 33% of programming at the theater will be devoted to film screenings and festivals. so what is to come remains to be seen? what do you think? >> we're not in the business of what

supervisor aaron peskin imposed a two-week deadline. >> secret sauce here is that they need to get into film business or finding operator and the community has offered to operate the when they're not using it for entertainment as a film that really what is at stake is also the opening of that theater for more 100 in, you know, half of the year. so one of the new proposals for that theater. >> in the new business plan is to actually be closed past year. and that is what the community is curious about. you know, can we keep this state and this building open more often to show films and keep it that historic character. >> another planet entertainment did not respond to kron 4 with comment, but has thio pledge posted to their website saying a p e recognizes that sentiment remains at the heart of the castro theater and is dedicated to keeping film an integral component of the theater's programming. a p e pledges that 33% of programming at the theater will be devoted to film screenings and film festivals. so what happens remains to be seen in the newsroom. ella sogomonian kron. >> continuing

second most broken windows when the windows failed in the wind storm, but we are learning that aaron peskin wonders why we are just learning now. >> they have not given us an apology and i would rather know it late than not at all. >> reporter: back when it happened on march 14, the san francisco building inspection department says that this citation, windows were blown out between the 1'5"th and 88th floors at 580 california road, but officials were caught up at 550th where a window was plunging from the 85th floor to the floor. so they were told to do a inspection, but they did no inspection on the 580 building. and they say that the building inspection department believes that glass that hit 580 came from the neighbor across the street. that is the same theory from across the street sales force east which had 20 windows break in a second wind storm a week later. salesforce is accusing mission street building to break windows. >> and people should not accuse others until they know for certain. >> reporter: so an engineering firm and facade specialists are hired to investigate and make rec

this was heard become in january when this committee was chaired by my prez seszor now president aaron peskin. this ordinance satisfies the requirement under bill 481. i want to thank sheriff and all of his staff for the work on this equipment policy. especially ronnie sing joining us today. ms. singh welcome. >> good morning chair dorsey and supervisors walton and safai. i want to provide context and history on our collaboration am in is this regard it propose a fair and transparent military equipment use policy. this dates back to the work we start in the october of the last year when the ordinance was submitted to the board for approval. we had several meetings with then chair peskin and other members of the rules committee as well as opened up comment to any of the board in preparation for the january hearing. chair peskin at this time asks us to work with the public. to really provide what i believe is the gold standard in collaboration in regards to an issue like this, that quite frankly, can be controversial. when public safety and collaboration meet, this is the product. so we worked

aaron peskin told the company they have 2 weeks now to come up with a plan to strike a compromise withned about honoring the theater experience. the castro theater was built in 1922. isn't it beautiful? it's considered one of the most preserved. well, ricin preserved movie palaces in the entire country. it was designated a register landmark in 1977, another planet entertainment partnered with its owners to revamp the site to bring in more business. they're also behind other live music venues in town. the independent, the fox theater, but nonprofits like the lgbtq cultural district in san francisco heritage. they're worried about plans to basically got the inside take all the seats out. and they're stressing the importance of maintaining this iconic site as his base where people go to continue to watch film screenings and how to do that without those seas of red velvet, the cup holders. so we shareholders have not sat down yet with these groups to discuss what they're going to do. all we know is that supervisor peskin has imposed this two-week deadline. >> secret sauce here is that they

aaron peskin told the company they now have 2 weeks to come up with a plan to strike a compromise with community members who are concerned about the remodeling process. the castro theater was built in 1922. and considered one of the best preserved movie palaces in the country. it was designated a registered landmark in 1977. well, the company, another planet entertainment partnered up with castro theaters owners to revamp the site with the hopes of bringing in more business and the company is behind other live music venues in town like the independent and the fox theater. >> secret sauce here is that they need to get into the film business or finding operator and the community has offered to operating the when they're not using it for entertainment as a film really what is at stake is also the opening of that theater for more 100 in, you know, half of the year. so one of the new proposals for that theater. >> in the new business plan is to actually be closed half the year. and that is what the community is curious about. you know, can we keep this state and this building open more ofte

aaron peskin says that he will.s told the company they have 2 weeks to come up with a plan to strike a compromise about how they want to remodel to honor the theater experience. the castro theater was built 1922, it's considered one of the best preserved movie palaces in the entire country. it was designated a registered landmark in 1977, the company, another planet entertainment partnered up with its owners to revamp the site to bring in more business. and this is the companies behind live music venues, also other ones in town, the independent and the fox theater. nonprofits like the lgbtq cultural district and san francisco heritage are worried, though, about the plans that may be they would just got the inside and get rid of those historic. see to know red velvet with the couple ders. so they're stressing the importance of maintaining this iconic site and the space where people to continue to watch on films. the stakeholders haven't sat down with these groups yet to discuss things. so supervisor peskin has impose

so supervisor aaron peskin imposed a two-week deadline. >> secret sauce here is that they need to get into the film business or finding operator and the community has offered to operating the when they're not using it for entertainment as a film really what is at stake is also the opening of that theater for more 100 in, you know, half of the year. so one of the new proposals for that theater. >> in the new business plan is to actually be closed past year. and that is what the community is curious about. you know, can we keep this state and this building open more often to show films and keep it that historic character. >> another planet entertainment did not respond to requests for comment, but has this pledge on its website saying a p e recognizes that cinema remains at the heart of the castro theater and is dedicated to keeping fillman an integral component of the theater's programming. ap pledges that 33% of programming at the theater will be devoted to film screenings and film festivals. well, some call that the issue facing california state lawmakers debate how to address the ho

now supervisor aaron peskin has introduced legislation which dovetails with an emergency declaration from the mayor requiring buildings, 15 stories or higher completed after 1998, had their facades inspected before november. first, this is all about making sure that francisco's downtown, does not need any more problems, is at least say from falling glass. 71 buildings fall into this category and they're expected to receive notices from the department of building inspection in the weeks ahead in the meantime, inspection reports from those 6 buildings that had failures are doing at the end of the weekend. peskin says what they learn from those reports could lead to changes in the building code. >> in san francisco, dan kerman kron, 4 news. >> next year at 6, a new w h o report on infertility has just released the findings that the agency is calling and important public health concern. >> for your health tonight, the world health organization is calling for better access to affordable high quality fertility care all across the globe. a new report by the agency found an estimated one in

. >> reporter: president aaron peskin led the call for emergency inspections of the city's high rises. he introduced legislation to make the proclamation official. >> one would assume the newer building systems would not be subject to failure in high wind events. that is not the case. we are learning along the way and making adjustments. >> reporter: all six buildings that reported failures were given 14 days to inspect all their windows. the rest will have to complete an inspection by november. >>> seniors in a berkeley hills neighborhood are rattled after a man was violently attacked and robbed while out on a walk. jodi hernandez has more. >> reporter: berkeley police say the armed suspects in the latest attack were just 12 to 15 years old. tonight they are urging folks to be on alert. >> it's disconcerting. you would normally think this is a safe area. >> reporter: that's how people who live in this normally quiet and safe neighborhood are feeling after two of their neighbors were held up at gunpoint in just the last week. police say two kids armed with a gun violently attacked a m

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city supervisor aaron peskin says that there are already talks with new tenants to take over that location. >>> paul is here to talk a little bit about whether. can't wait to do that. >> the breeze kind of died down a little bit. we get to keep this around for a couple of days. >> it has been nice to enjoy it then see how everything is green! >> i know! let's just push the grass fire threat off and enjoy the nice weather well it is here. here is what you know as we get closer to the weekend. just starting off with patchy fog early tomorrow morning. it will be sunny and mild tomorrow with passing clouds on saturday coolness starts to kick in on sunday. it will not be noticeable yet, but cooler weather is in store for the first half of next week, and includes rain showers by monday night into tuesday. by slight chance, i mean 30%. it is not a really good chance of any measurable rain. but after that while our rain chances decrease to the point where we do not have additional raindrops in th forecast, the rain chances aren't technically zero. the long-range data has been muddled. so that is s

and supervisor aaron peskin's response, if it's any guide, no. the experts we talk to say the glass would indeed have to be magical because it just simply weighs too much to blow clear across the street. >> jaxon, is the millennium tower, it's had plenty of problems, but is it becoming a punching bag in san francisco? what are the owners or managers of millennium saying? >> reporter: well, the millennium tower had its share of problems, and windows have been a problem in the past. they've had one failed window in the past. millennium tower in this case says that the glass that was blown out or in, as they would call it, much of that glass actually wound up inside the unit, unit 49a. and the rest went down on the area that's already covered with scaffold because of the fix that's going on to the leaning and tilting building. so the millennium tower's own report says that its kind of windows are shared by many buildings in the city. and although it did fail, it's not the only one that could cause a risk if left open in high winds. >> what's next? w

. >> san francisco board of supervisors, president aaron peskin says he's putting the mayor on notice. he wants to host the board's next mayor's q and a session outside of city hall at the united nations plaza where he says there's a humanitarian crisis, focus public attention of the media attention. >> on the loss of many lives due to drug overdoses on open air drug doing. we've seen too many businesses shuttered closed because customers, employees and residents are not feeling safe. this proposal comes just days after a whole foods on 8th and market. >> announced a temporary closure just one year after opening because of safety concerns. i guess i'm, you know, obviously concerned with. >> the closure of that grocery but this is much larger than the closure of a business in the loss this is about a systemic response from the city and county of san francisco. i asked peskin if he was concerned about security and safety at the meeting. ironic that people are even asking that question. all of our public should be safe. and by bringing the board of supervisors and the mayors of this loca

president aaron peskin says it took way too long for pg e crews to arrive over 40 minutes before pg e actually have their units on scene by then the fire and spread to 3 and they came to the determination that it was too late put it out the minute burn itself out because power to over 9,000 customers. the majority got power back thursday, but there are still customers who could be without power. >> until saturday, leaving several intersections without crosswalk. countdown. >> this makes it very dangerous for people who are visually impaired traffic. i had support me like i'm really grateful for his health, but i usually do that on my own. it is very important, especially for someone who is visually impaired. that's independence for me. the power is also out assume u.s. house. she tells us the food in her fridge is now spoiled. so she had to go get groceries in the fridge has food in it. it's defrosting. i can do nothing about straight road win in sun barbershop is without power as well. but the hair cuts have not >> supervise or peskin says this long of an outage is unacceptable. pg s

san francisco board of supervisors president aaron peskin says this outage in pg e's response are an acceptable. >> pg e responded that they would have their own units in each special units put out the select fires are on scene within 15 minutes >> but they did not show up until 9.32. so over 40 minutes before pg e actually have their units on scene. >> supervisor peskin says by the time pg needed a ride that fire had spread to 3 more underground vault. and the decision was made to just let it burn itself out. next at 5 or live in kansas city where it's night 2 of the nfl draft niners have 3 picks to make tonight with the latest there. intelligence. the revolution is upon how the unavoidable emerging technology has now made its way all the way to capitol hill and police want people's trying to find a guy. we brought fireworks to a local school and now a kid is badly hurt. keep it here. kron 4 news at 5 is next. >> tonight at 5.31, person is dead following a shooting at a san francisco walgreens sit reportedly involved the store security guard and a 24 year-old woman. our kron four's

supervisor aaron peskin led the call. >> one would assume the newer systems would not be subject to failure in high wind events. obviously that is not the case. we are learning along the way and making adjustments. >> all six buildings that reported failures in terms of their windows in recent storms were given 14 days to inspect all of their windows. that includes the b of a building and the millennium tower. >>> up next, four soccer legends, local legends, bringing a new professional women's soccer team to the bay area, and they're joining us next. >>> also, making 4 million chocolate easter eggs. we're going to take you behind the scenes of the headquarters the scenes of the headquarters at see's candy. we are grocery outlet and we are your bargain bliss market. what's bargain bliss? you know that feeling you get when you find the name brands you know and love, but for way, way less? that's bargain bliss. it's grocery outlet's 20% off wine sale going on now till april 11 we have hundreds of wines sure to pair with any gathering. so act now because these deals won't last long. stop in and

for a city wide approach to deal with the fentanyl crisis and human trafficking board president aaron peskin said that he is asking for a joint federal, state, regional and local task force. peskin said that federal agencies and you see police, for example, can help in the tenderloin, city rec and park rangers could be on duty at civic center plaza. and he says the chp can step up its presence in the city, along with the proposed task force. peskin said he is asking mayor london breed to report on how she is coordinating the city's resources in the east bay. newark police are investigating tonight after officers shot two suspected car jackers. one of them died. the shooting happened around 3 20 this afternoon on cedar boulevard near mowry avenue. we get live coverage tonight from ktvu lamonica peters, who joins us now from that scene, with the very latest on the investigation, lamonica. norfolk police didn't tell us whether or not the suspects were male or females, but they did tell us that they were both adults, they say when police arrived, hear gunshots were fired and one of the suspects

. >> reporter: aaron peskin wants to remove the city's exemption and force them to get window inspectionsnovember. >> the miracle is nobody was seriously injured or killed oon though the downtown is less crowded than it wasas befefore pandemicic, therere's still ple of fololks right ououtsides do. >> repororter: butut t thomas s willll bee a hugee undedertakin neneeding quaualified crerews w suspendedd florms given plenty f time to check the windows as well as the integrity of the aluminum frames that secure them. >> they're giving you eight, nine months to do all this by november. you're never going to get quality people on the building in that amount of time. it's going to take a longer amount of time. >> i wanted these reports yesterday. i want to know what's in them. >> reporter: but the effort is not off to a good start peskin acknowledges, with building inspectors already extending the 14-day deadline. building officials told us they're satisfied with the progress to date and that all the broken windows have been secured. >>> it is no secret, the internet can be full of lies, includ

i spoke with the board of supervisors president aaron peskin. he said, i don't know why they did it but it's clear they knew what they were doing. they knew what cables to cut and they made a statement. we have not heard anything about what that statement is, but it is the latest. in the heart of san francisco, somebody goes down the manhole and slices the cable and there goes the board of supervisors meeting. it is why some people say the city is caught up in what they are referring to as the loop of doom. larry: let's get back to the whole foods situation, the second grocery store to announce closure in a week. when you have businesses deciding we want out, that tells you what's going on. >> it does. they couple things are going on, not the least of which is the entire changing of that neighborhood. you have to recall that store when it opened was supposed to be serving the techies. this was supposed to be a shining example of the midmarket revitalization with thousands of apartment buildings, twitter and other tech companies were centering th

welcome to the march 20th neating i'm supervisor melgar joined by dean preston and president aaron peskin. the clerk is erika major and i would like to acknowledge jason at sfgovtv for staffing this meeting. madam clerk do you have announcements? the board approximate committees are convenning hybrid meetings. while providing remote access via 12 felony. equal access is essential and take public comments as follows:on each item on the agenda. in person first and then move to remote call in, for those watching on tv or sfgov.org the call in number is streaming cross the screen the number suspect 415-655-0001, access code: 2482 057 2196 ##. you enter star 3 you will heart discussions but mou in the listening mode owen turn down all listening device. we'll take public comment from those in person first then our call in line. you misubmit written comments to myself the land use and transportation clerk. erika. major @sfgov.org and if you submit it will be forwarded to the prierdzs approximate made part of the official time you may send comments to u.s. postal service to our office the city ha

joined by vice chair supervisor preston and board of sprierdzs president aaron peskin. >> clerk today is erika major. and i will would like to acknowledge janet and james at sfgovtv for staff thanksgiving meeting. >> the board of supervisors and the committees are convening hybrid meeting with public comment and providing remote

tonight, san francisco board of supervisors president aaron peskin says this outage and pg and e's response are unacceptable. >> pg e responded that they would have their own units in each special units put out the select on scene within 15 minutes >> but they did not show up until 9.32. so over 40 minutes before pg e actually have their units on scene. >> supervisor peskin says by the time pg and e arrived, the fire spread to 3 more underground vaults. and the decision was made to let the thing burn out. the fire kron 4 sarah stinson is talking with folks who are still without power. tonight she'll show us how the outage is affecting them. that's coming up tonight on kron. 4 news at 9. >> well, as the weather warms up, let this be a reminder, do not leave any person or pet in a hot car. a dog owner in sandra fell received a citation today for leaving 2 dogs in an suv with the doors locked and the windows rolled up. the police department says a concerned community member wave down an officer to get help. that officer called them are in humane society. and just as they were about to bust out

president aaron peskin says it took way too long for pg e crews to arrive over 40 minutes before pg ectually have their units on scene by then the fire and spread to 3 and they came to the determination that it was too late to put it out the minute burn itself out. it caused extensive power to over 9,000 customers. the majority got power back thursday, but there are still customers who could be without power. >> until saturday, leaving several intersections without crosswalk. countdown. >> this makes it very dangerous for people who are visually impaired traffic. i had was court me like i'm really grateful for his health. but i usually do that on my own. it is very important, especially for someone who is visually impaired. that's independence for me. the power is also out assume u.s. house. she tells us the food in her fridge is now spoiled. so she had to go get groceries in the fridge has food in it. it's defrosting. i can do nothing about straight road win in sun barbershop is without power as well. but the hair cuts have not >> supervisor peskin says this long of an outage is unac

supervisor aaron peskin is introducing legislation, though, that could change that. >> bottom line isything in our power to make cure it's not going to be raining glass and san francisco's downtown. >> not sure. i-71 buildings fall into this category and are expected to receive notices from the department of building inspection in the next few weeks. the months of stormy winter weather is leaving several roads in contra costa county in the state of disrepair. dips erosion are taking a toll on san pablo dam road in el sobrante. the road is down to one lane la junta road. the pavement splintering and is causing some splints in the side of the roadway. wildcat canyon road also remains closed due to erosion and slide repairs. but today crews put a layer of asphalt over a 30 foot-wide dip. but that's just a temporary solution to holdings over. this dry period. they're hoping they can get this all situated before the next storm. next storm. but next storm comes for is joining us live now with that. and hopefully it's a little baby store. >> yeah, a baby storm. little spring storm may be som

supervisor aaron peskin said.itical fiber cable at hide and gary was vandalized, knocking out cable to a number of comcast customer. is in the city. the city attorney advised the meeting be adjourned because of public notice laws among the issues to be discussed by the board reparations for black san franciscans and increased police staffing seven. now environmental groups are filing a lawsuit against the epa over water pollution from oil refineries and other industries . the coalition of 13 groups, including san francisco beekeeper wants to face the agency to follow the clean water act and update its water pollution standards. the groups say that runoff from chemical plans, plastics manufacturers, fertilizer makers and others are fueling algae blooms that are harmful to humans and fish, san francisco bay keeper says with five active refineries, local waterways are vulnerable bay is officially recognized as impaired by the epa for selenium pollution. but unfortunately, the local selenium water quality standard tha

have we had discussion about when board president and president aaron peskin request about laundry mat services. could you give us details. move ahead to. share my slide if government goff can show the slide the work plan was proposeed have 3 major planks of cleanpowersf, public bank and municipal financing and a new plank on municipal housing related the mid town side and the economy work they will come back once launches and under way. include immediate left months's work plan the request from board of supervisors president peskin for a side on the need for community laundry services looking at the sharp reduction of them in the city and looking at the impacts on congregate living. impacts on public health and the benefit and in dugsz with commissioners passport for this and working with president peskin's office on designing the scope of work for this study and that's as far as we are so -- yea. welcome input from you on this on direction or scope and level of interesting on anticipating and product thanksgiving. i wanted support i see this proposal for to deliver updates to the boa

president aaron peskin says it took way too long for pg e crews to arrive over 40 minutes before pg e actually have their units on scene by then the fire and spread to 3 and they came to the determination that it was too late to put it out the minute burn itself out because power to over 9,000 customers. the majority got power back thursday, but there are still customers who could be without power. >> until saturday, leaving several intersections without crosswalk. countdown. >> this makes it very dangerous for people who are visually impaired traffic. i had was court me like i'm really grateful for his health. but i usually do that on my own. it is very important, especially for someone who is visually impaired. that's independence for me. the power is also out assume u.s. house. she tells us the food in her fridge is now spoiled. so she had to go get groceries in the fridge has food in it. it's defrosting. i can do nothing about straight road win in sun barbershop is without power as well. but the hair cuts have not >> supervisor peskin says this long of an outage is unacceptable. p

and that's why supervisor aaron peskin is introducing legislation to change that. >> bottom line is, we've come do everything in our power to make sure it's not going to be raining glass and san francisco's downtown. >> as 71 buildings fall into that category where they don't need regular inspection, but they've all are all expected to receive now notices from the department of building inspection in the next few weeks. >> time now is 8.34 and the big story that we're following this morning is what happens next with former president trump. he spoke last night at his home in mar-a-lago, florida after being arraigned in manhattan. yeah, that's where he pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records and his message to his supporters was simple. there's no case here that brittany muller with the story. >> it was a historic day, but also a long day, donald trump seemed very tired. he didn't have his typical energy, but his message was still on point. >> in a sea of red, white and blue. hundreds of supporters gathered inside mar-a-lago. the only crime that i've committed it

aaron peskin says the company that has bought it is going to remodel.ve 2 weeks now to come up with a compromise plan. happening today, bicycle advocates are holding a rally at san francisco city hall demanding protected lanes in the wake of cyclists. even boy's death. he died after he was struck by a car on that road earlier this month. the group is calling for protected bike lanes. now along our boulevard. in a statement supervisor, connie chan said that she's urging the municipal transportation agency to, quote, explore the possibility of protected bike lanes on r between geary and the entrance to the presidio. >> turning to some national news now, the clock, as we know, is ticking when it comes to the debt ceiling because the deadline is quickly approaching. house speaker kevin mccarthy laid out his plan while also blaming the president for the slow progress. our dc correspondent basil john has the latest. house speaker kevin mccarthy outlined the plan he says will be introduced on the house floor. >> in just a few weeks, our national debt. it's too

. >> san francisco board of supervisors president aaron peskin says he's putting the mayor on notice. he wants to host the board's next mayor's q and a session outside of city hall at the united nations plaza where he says there's a humanitarian crisis, focus public attention of the media attention. >> on the loss of many lives due to drug overdoses on open air drug doing. we've seen too many businesses shuttered closed because customers, employees and residents are not feeling safe. this proposal comes just days after a whole foods on 8th and market. >> announced a temporary closure just one year after opening because of safety concerns. i guess i'm, you know, obviously concerned with. >> the closure of that grocery but this is much larger than the closure of a business in the loss this is about a systemic response from the city and county of san francisco. i asked peskin if he was concerned about security and safety at the meeting. ironic that people are even asking that question. all of our public should be safe and by bringing the board of supervisors and the mayors of this locati

aaron peskin the president of the board of supervisors wants to host the board's next mayor q a sessionthe united nations plaza, which is where he says there's a humanitarian crisis. this after the whole foods market that you see there on market street was closed down because they were so concerned about safety. peskin says that they have resources to make the city safer. approving 25 million dollars in police overtime. and he says now is the time the board needs to hold the mayor accountable. >> we need to do more than just declare that something is a crisis we need to act like it's a crisis. the focus public attention of the media attention on the loss of many lives due to drug overdoses on open air drug doing by bringing the board of supervisors and the mayors of this location it is going to help make it safe. >> peskin expects the meeting to happen. he sings on may 23rd. it could be sooner though. he says and he's open to moving future meetings to other areas in the city like 60, the mission, which has similar problems. in the east bay may and i mayor lamar thorpe is now speaking up

aaron peskin says the company has 2 weeks now to come up with a compromise. >> time now is 09:49am. finding affordable quality childcare is a challenge. if you're a parent, you know that. yeah. the national child care association also says it's becoming a crisis because the industry's workforce is also shrinking. austin westfall takes a look. >> the child care workers i spoke with say the main issue is pay one of the workers say they have a 17 year-old. he's working at a coffee shop that was making about the same amount of money as a child care worker with a master's degree. >> and that's typical you the choice of working here and taking care of children or going to a local fast food restaurant in the same amount of hay out of over 1000 occupations tracked by the u.s. bureau of labor statistics. childcare worker salaries ranked 15th lowest as of 2021. that's the most recent data available. >> it's making things tough for places like the charlotte child development center. it's just very difficult to keep care affordable when you're looking at raising. entry level, pay as high as you

aaron peskin says the department responded within three minutes, but it took pg&e, most experience with electrical fires, 45 minutes to get there. >> it is a mess. pg&e has a lot of explain to do as to how they allowed this fire to burn this long. reporter: those with pg&e tell us their crews are working around-the-clock to get the power back on. they also say the cause of this fire is still under investigation. in san francisco, j.r. stone, abc 7 news. kumasi: it is certainly going to be an exciting night in san francisco. the warriors, back home taking on the kings. they just need one win to advance. abc 7 news reporter amanda del castillo live at chasewere hg ts not as stressful as we would say , as the last two, but hopefully as exciting inside chase. amanda: tonight, but the big question everyone was asking after game five on social media is, how did the golden state warriors keep doing this? you will remember we were here last year, talking about -- not last year, last week ahead of game three, saying, oh my goodness, we are 0-2, what is going to happen? are they going to pull thr

supervisors met briefly today before adjourning until tomorrow morning, supervisor aaron peskin said. critical fiber cable at hide and gary had been vandalized, knocking out cable to a number of comcast customers in the city. the city attorney advised the meeting be adjourned because of public notice laws. another bay area agency is now rolling back water restrictions. this comes as the recent storms have helped to replenish water supplies reviews . tom baker explains what this means for you. valley water in the south bay, the east bay municipal utilities district and the san francisco public utilities commission serves some nine million bay area homes and businesses directly and through dozens of smaller water agencies . most area water agencies have already lowered their water restrictions substantially and now two of the biggest ones are going to do even more valley water reduced its restrictions on tuesday and our declaration of a water shortage emergency condition. and along with that we end our call for a 15. mandatory water use reduction countywide. san francisco public utiliti

supervisors president aaron peskin is calling on mayor london breed to attend a meeting on public safetyplaza . specifically the area has become an epicenter of a host of problems, including crime, homelessness and the fentanyl crisis. our job is to hold the chief executive officer of the city and county of san francisco mayor breed accountable and to bout her plans on site ando other parts of the city, we're going to start taking question time to other parts of the city. board president peskin said he's spoken with mayor breed personally in his aiming towards having question time with the mayor in un plaza on may 23rd. after the break, house republicans passed a ban on transgender athletes in women's sports. the move, sparking strong reaction from democratic leaders. plus oakland is not interesting. and being used as leverage in the negotiations with las vegas. oakland mayor xiang tao, firing back as the eighties plan to move to las vegas why she's placing blame on the team. jason will be back with more on steph curry and the warriors big bounce back against the kings later in sports, a

president aaron peskin is calling on mayor london breed to attend a meeting on public safety in one plaza specifically that area has become an epicenter of a host of problems, including crime, homelessness and the fentanyl crisis. our job is to hold the chief executive officer of the city and county of san francisco mayor breed accountable and to hear about her plans on site and if that problem moves around to other parts of the city, we're going to start taking question time to other parts of the city. president peskin says he has spoken with mayor breed personally and is aiming towards having question time with the mayor in one plaza on may 23rd at six. democrat and republican lawmakers in the state assembly have agreed to hold the special hearing on bills that would address the fentanyl crisis. the hearing will take place next week. this agreement came just hours after republican state lawmakers were prepared to force floor votes on these bills this morning. the chair of the assembly public safety committee , was stalling on the bills and wanted to wait until june to hold a hearing. la

a city wide approach to dealing with the fentanyl crisis and human trafficking board president aaron peskin says he is asking for a joint federal, state, regional and local task force, peskin says federal agencies and you see police can help in the city's tenderloin, neighborhood, city rec and park rangers could be on duty at civic center plaza, and the chp can step up their presence across the city. along with the proposed task force. peskin is asking mayor london breed to report on how she is coordinating the city's resources. a judge has ruled that the parents of a 15 month old girl who died last year due to possible exposure to fentanyl must stand trial for their daughter's death. that ruling followed a court hearing in sonoma county yesterday. evan frost tech and madison bernard are accused of bringing the drug into the family santa rosa apartment last may. prosecutors argue the couples should be held responsible for the death of their toddler. daughter, charlotte. stanford medicine celebrating the successful completion of an incredible rare surgery, dr gordon lee and his team complete

at last check, san francisco's board of supervisors president aaron peskin says this outage in pz pg's response to it are unacceptable. >> pg e responded that they would have their own units in each special units put out the select on scene within 15 minutes >> but they did not show up until 9.32. so over 40 minutes before pg e actually have their units on scene. >> supervisor peskin says, but by the time pg and e got there, the fire had spread to 3 more underground vaults. and the decision was made to let it burn itself out. >> well, big changes on the horizon for bark, including train schedule changes. so the agency, as we know, has been struggling to revive its ridership level since the pandemic. and that basically been hurting bart's. bottom line with proffers theresa stasi with more on what's to come. >> it is all about rising to riders needs and keeping bart's books in line less waiting and expanded service. that is the goal is some of the changes coming to bart in the fall. >> we need to keep keep a close watch. >> on all of this call the re imagined service plan concept. the

san francisco board of supervisors president aaron peskin says this outage and pga news response have been unacceptable. >> pg e responded that they would have their own units in each special units put out the select fires are on scene within 15 minutes >> but they did not show up until 9.32. so over 40 minutes before pg e actually have their units on scene. >> supervisor peskin ads by the time pg and e arrived. the fire had spread to 3 more underground vaults. and the decision was ultimately made to let the fire burn itself out. still ahead, the sierra saw historic snowfall earlier this year. we check in with tahoe experts on the potential impact on our state waterways. as temperatures start to warm up. plus, notice a difference in your child's energy after they drink something red. more on the food chemicals. some experts are raising concerns experts are raising concerns about. ♪ estado dorado ♪ ♪ always in that state of mind ♪ ♪ living on a high vibration ♪ ♪ so hot gonna make it melt ♪ ♪ and i'm lovin' what i'm tastin' ♪ ♪ que bonito lugar lleno de tanto sabor ♪ ♪ so much flavor ♪