today we're wrapping things up with supervisor ahsha safai.e spent a day with him as he juggled work and family duties. a lot of us know what that's like. our lauren toms talks to him about his personal experiences that pushed him to seek the highest office in the city. >> reporter: it takes a few steps for candidate mayor ahsha safai to go from city official back to dad. >> they literally mean running for office, in this constant, constant hustle and that's why i always say if you're not losing weight on the campaign, you're not working hard enough. >> reporter: zipping across town to pick up his son from camp. >> romi, daddy is literally at the light. i will be there in one minute, okay? i'm just another dad at the game there to support my son or daughter or dropping them off at school or going to parent/teacher conferences or helping with homework. >> reporter: for ahsha his connection to his family is as intertwined as his journey to public office. an immigrant from iran, he moved to the u.s. during the iranian revolution. >> we had to lea

ahsha safai. >> thank you. i want you all to walk away this evening and ask yourself one central question. who has a vision, experience and track record to fight for all san franciscans? not just the rich, but working and middle-class families? of all the candidates on this stage i have the most diverse set of experiences that i bring to this job. i worked for two mayors, mayor brown and mayor newsom. i was a deputy department head. i worked in public works i ran my own small business i worked for labor unions, organized labor for almost a decade. i have been on the board for the last eight years. this is not an entry-levejob you have to be ready for this job day one. as your mayor i promise you accountability and bold leadership i'm proud to be endorsed by more labor unions than any other candidate on this stage. because i have fought for working and middle-class families since day one for the past 24 years. i will fight for a safe, affordable and thriving city for all san franciscans. please join me. >> thank

daniel lurie will go first, ahsha safai followed by aaron peskin, and then mark farrell.issing. that, of course, mayor london breed who decided to step out of this debate. that could have an impact on tct

. >> iran and san francisco are separated by more than 7,000 miles, but now supervisor ahsha safai isrd from the other candidates this week. now it's his turn to lay out his platform. he's joining us live in a few minutes, but first a look at your news headlines. >>> another bay area mayor is throwing his support behind prop 36, the november ballot measure that would stiffen penalties for some theft and drug crimes. the antioch mayor saying he's responding to concerns about retail theft and street conditions. >> while i don't

ahsha safai. mark farrell. thank you very much.are not finished tonight, so we send it back to juliet. >> it was's assent . it was tight. it was friendly. and it was informative. i want to thank you all for watching our first san francisco mayoral debate here. thank you for watching the special coverage. we want to thank all of our candidates and partners. stay with cbs news bay area at this election season. we will be breaking down all of the big issues leading up to the election day. we will bring you live, local, and national results on election night. do not forget to get your ballot in by november 5. than you here's why you should switch fo to duckduckgo on all your devie duckduckgo comes with a built-n engine, like google, but it's r and doesn't spy on your searchs and duckduckgo lets you browsel but it blocks cookies and creepy ads that follow youa and other companies. and there's no catch. it's fre. we make money from ads, but they don't follow you aroud join the millions of people taking back their privacy by downloading d

i'm supervisor ahsha safaÍ, the acting chair of the rules committee.i'm joined by president of the board of supervisors aaron peskin. i'd like to entertain a motion first before we begin to excuse supervisor sherman walton from today's meeting. yes. on a motion to excuse supervisor walton. on that motion, member peskin, a peskin, i, vice chair safaÍ i safaÍ i the motion passes with supervisor walton being excused.

. >> my name is ahsha safai, this election is about our city future. can working middle class families make it san francisco. public safety corruption and failure to address homelessness. f to get the city back on track we need a mayor to represent all san franciscans. including working families, those often forgotten by city hall. i'm a proud immigrant who fled violence at 6 years old, raised by a single mom and put myself through school. i spent close to a decade as a labor organizer and helped raise san francisco minimum wage. i run my own small business, and as supervisor i built affordable housing and helped deliver free city college. to make the city work for all san franciscans we need a mayor who solves problems and knows how to get things done. i am a mit trained city planner, i worked with mayors to deliver on some of our bigest challenges with willie brown, i helped prevept youth violence and protected immigrant families from eviction. with gavin newsom connected formally incarcerated to job. with ed lee relyable affordable child care in the

i'm supervisor ahsha safaÍ, the acting chair of the rules committee.ined by president of the board of supervisors aaron peskin. i'd like to entertain a motion first before we begin to excuse supervisor sherman walton from today's meeting. yes. on a motion to excuse supervisor walton. on that motion

ahsha safai said, quote, violence like this has no place in our city. end quote. and mark farrell pointed the finger at city leadership, writing, enough is enough. if we want public safety in san francisco, then we need change in city hall. abc seven news insider phil matier joins us live to discuss some of the political implications. phil when you looked anywhere yesterday, whether it was local tv, national tv or on social media, this story was everywhere. what kind of impact will this have any impact on this mayoral race? >> well, it's already had an impact on the mayoral race. it's underscored one of the primary issues in the race. one third of the voters polled put public safety as the top issue in san francisco. and this does little to enhance the mayor's ability to make the city safe. now, even though crime has gone down, a third in the city and violent crime is lower here than in many major metropolitan areas. nonetheless, it has been a cornerstone of controversy for the mayor. and it's not just violent crime like this. remember, in 2021, we had the looting

. >> my name is ahsha safai, this election is about our city future. can working middle class families make it san francisco. public safety corruption and failure to address homelessness. f to get the city back on track we need a mayor to represent all san franciscans. including working families, those often forgotten by city hall. i'm a proud immigrant who fled violence at 6 years old, raised by a single mom and put myself through school. i spent close to a decade as a labor organizer and helped raise san francisco minimum wage. i run my own small business, and as supervisor i built affordable housing and helped deliver free city college. to make the city work for all san franciscans we need a mayor who solves problems and knows how to get things done. i am a mit trained city planner, i worked with mayors to deliver on some of our bigest challenges with willie brown, i helped prevept youth violence and protected immigrant families from eviction. with gavin newsom connected formally incarcerated to job. with ed lee relyable affordable child care in the

sobre cómo apoyar el crecimiento económico de los hispanos. 1 de los postulantes, el supervisor ahsha safaí trabajadores en diferentes industrias a formar sindicatos. mientras tanto, la alcaldesa london breed, quien busca la reelección, habló sobre algunos programas que implementó en los últimos años para ofrecer una trayectoria profesional a más personas y el supervisor, aaron peskin dijo que ayudó a crear la oficina de estándares laborales, la cual se encarga de lidiar con casos de robo salarial. agregó que ha destinado fondos a ese departamento para asegurar el pago equitativo en la ciudad. otro de los candidatos, el filántropo daniel lowry, habló sobre la importancia de ofrecer una educación gratuita en los colegios comunitarios y también abogó a favor de la propuesta c, la cual impondría un impuesto adicional a las compañías que tengan ingreso de 50 millones de dólares o más anualmente. esos fondos se usarían para financiar, financiar servicios y viviendas para los indigentes. y el ex alcalde de la ciudad, mark, fue 1 de los candidatos que no pudo asistir al evento de hoy, pero en otro

. >> supervisor aaron peskin and supervisor ahsha safai it hosted by k q e d and the san francisco chronicle. this was the first debate in recent weeks for the incumbent mayor and she became a popular target for her challengers. it's nice to see. mayor breed. finally at a debate after she's been ducking them for the past 2 weeks. you know what? >> bothers me the most listening to the mayor. is that to consistently tell people crime is down. >> is gaslighting. i understand my job as mayor and what it means to keep people safe. this is a major city in major cities have challenges. and just like what happened in the ricky pearsall shooting, the police were on that scene less than a minute to make the arrests. crime was a major topic of discussion as well as housing revitalizing downtown and police staffing levels. mayor breed owes the city of san francisco in apology i became interim mayor. >> we grew our police department to record staffing levels. we had over 2300 officers on our police force at that time since i left office in the last 6 years, officers. i have provided the police officers w

the first included mayor london breed, daniel lurie, supervisor ahsha safai and board of supervisors president aaron peskin answering questions on a range of topics including housing, community safety, nonprofits and workforce concerns, wages, benefits and job protections for latinx workers in these fields. and how will you support the economic growth of these communities? i think unionizing is the path. i worked as the political director for the janitors union for almost a decade. every single time we have the opportunity to work with whatever industry it is, whether it's in home health care, whether it's people that are providing care for our children, whether it's construction, every opportunity we have, we need to work to help those those industries unionize. we also have to protect industries like free city college, free city college is a i am really proud of the work that we've done over the years, particularly with our former workforce director, joshua arce, where we develop sustainable programs like city drive, city emt and other opportunities that help provide people a real

daniel lurie will go first, ahsha safai followed by aaron peskin, and then mark farrell. one podium is missing. that, of course, mayor london breed who decided to step out of this debate. that could have an impact on the election, especially when we are talking about rank choice voting. to talk more about that, let's bring in lauren toms. >> reporter: that absence will be felt. because of our ranked choice voting system, this is still very much an open field, which is why tonight is going to be so crucial in some of these candidates making their pitch to voters on the issues that will matter. >> reporter: as four of the leading candidates to unseat incumbent mayor london breed, make their final preparations ahead of the debate on wednesday. one key strategy is on top of mind, says the political expert, james taylor. how to break through in ranked choice voting. >> that is the real key and who will win the ranked choice voting game, apart from the elections, apart from who will take the positions on housing, policing, and violence. all of those issues will be debated, but

aprobación que, según informó peskin, tiene el apoyo suficiente de hecho, además de peskin gilroy ronen ahsha safaíe octubre y según activistas con los que conversamos, nos aseguran que los latinos. acaso 1 de los grupos que más se beneficiarían ahora, incluso si brett firma el proyecto, pues no se hará efectivo de manera inmediata, ya que no hay ley estatal que fue aprobada en 1995 y prohíbe leyes locales relacionadas a la renta. pero esto está en la. en la boleta electoral para noviembre, los votantes van a poder decidir si mantienen o eliminan esta ley. andrés brender telemundo. andrés muchas gracias. pasamos a san josé, ahí tomarán los primeros pasos hacia la creación de un nuevo distrito económico en el este. de esa ciudad. se llama el tulare road eastridge business improvement district, el cual incluirá más de 500 negocios en la calle tulare, entre la calle east capitol expressway y la carretera 101. también serán incluidos los comercios ubicados en la calle quimby y los que están en el centro comercial eastridge mall. parte de este proyecto incluye el pago promedio por cada negocio de 25 $ a

en agosto, el supervisor ahsha safaí visitó a robert. le aseguró. hablaría con la policía.n francisco, pero no nos han contestado. es como que 1 se levanta a trabaja, a ganar dinero. lo que 1 pueda y en la noche a ver qué es lo que pasa desde san francisco yomara lópez, telemundo. vean, vamos a pasar a esta otra información porque en sacramento un grupo de mujeres se manifestó el jueves a favor de la vivienda asequible. te queremos mendota. se trata de miembros de la alianza de california de empoderamiento comunitario, una organización que asegura que muchas familias están siendo afectadas por la falta de vivienda de bajos ingresos y exigieron al gobernador gavin newsom que cumpla con su promesa de construir uno millón de este tipo de hogares para el año 2030. se están moviendo los que están viviendo en la calle, de una calle a otro lado, pero no les está dando dónde ir y las familias están pagando más y más cada mes de acuerdo a organizadores de esta manifestación. actualmente, menos del 1% de los fondos generales de california han sido invertidos en viviendas asequibles y

en agosto, el supervisor ahsha safaí visitó a robert. le aseguró hablaría con la policía. se levanta a trabaja, a ganar dinero. lo que 1 pueda y en la noche a ver qué es lo que pasa desde san francisco. soy yomara lópez telemundo 48 y recuerde que en telemundo 48 somos primeros contigo. si usted tiene una historia que contar, solamente tienes que escanear ese código que ve en pantalla. ahí estamos disponibles al alcance de un mensaje en whatsapp pasamos a otra historia. una avioneta tuvo que hacer un aterrizaje de emergencia al quedarse sin combustible. vemos esas imágenes a las 11 15. le contaremos por qué los pilotos terminaron arrestados luego de descubrir lo que llevaban dentro. ahora vecinos de varias zonas de oakland denunciaron que viven en condiciones infrahumanas, a pesar de que por ley tienen derecho a una vivienda digna. por eso hoy varios de ellos protestaron y como nos dice andrés brender, le hicieron un llamado al gobernador gavin newsom we are joining. tener una vivienda digna es lo que estos manifestantes piden. viven en distintas partes de oakland y asegur

interim mayor mark farrell, nonprofit leader daniel lurie supervisor aaron peskin and supervisor ahsha safai it hosted by k q e d and the san francisco chronicle. this was the first debate in recent weeks for the incumbent mayor. >>and she became a popular target for her challengers. it's nice to see. mayor breed. finally at a debate after she's been ducking them for the past 2 weeks. you know what? >>bothers me the most listening to the mayor is that to consistently tell people crime is down. >>is gaslighting. i understand my job as mayor and what it means to keep people safe. this is a major city in major cities have challenges. and just like what happened in the ricky pearsall shooting, the police or on that scene less than a minute to make the arrests. crime was a major topic of discussion as well as housing revitalizing downtown and police staffing levels. mayor breed owes the city of san francisco apology, but i became interim mayor. >>we grew our police department to record staffing levels. we had over 2300 officers on our police force at that time since i left office in the last 6 ye

interim mayor mark farrell, nonprofit leader daniel lurie supervisor aaron peskin and supervisor ahsha safai it hosted by k q e d and the san francisco chronicle. this was the first debate in recent weeks for the incumbent mayor. >> and she became a popular target for her challengers. it's nice to see. mayor breed. finally at a debate after she's been ducking them for the past 2 weeks. you know what? >> bothers me the most listening to the mayor. is that consistently tell people crime is down. >> this gaslighting, i understand my job as mayor and what it means to keep people safe. this is a major city in major cities have challenges. and just like what happened in the ricky pearsall shooting, the police were on that scene less than a minute to make the arrests. crime was a major topic of discussion as well as housing revitalizing downtown and police staffing levels. mayor breed owes the city of san francisco in apology. when i became interim mayor. >> we grew our police department to record staffing levels. we had over 2300 officers on our police force at that time since i left office in the

aaron peskin 88.5% and supervisor ahsha safai it at 1.6%. however, this could all change is almost 27% of voters say they're still undecided when it comes to voters. overall, second choice, daniel lurie is in the lead with 21% followed by feral at 14.7% and breathe at 12.8% breed is leading. however, as 3rd choice for voters with an 11%. take a listen to what our political expert david mckeown had to say about these numbers. when you look at that from for paul. >> what you see is london breed is facing severe challenge and some of those challenges are related to issues around crime liveability in the city. she has a set well positioned challengers and there's also this crazy ranked choice voting system that we often talk about and who is positions second sometimes and 3rd becomes almost important as who's ahead. keep in mind if no candidate reaches 50% ranked choice, voting will come into play. >> with voters second and potentially even 3rd choice being selected until a candidate hits 50%. this new polling is an 8% drop for mayor london bree

aaron peskin 88.5% and supervisor ahsha safai it at 1.6%.ever, this could all change is almost 27% of voters say they're still undecided when it comes to voters. overall, second choice, daniel lurie is in the lead with 21% followed by feral at 14.7% and breathe at 12.8% breed is leading. however, as 3rd choice for voters with an 11%. take a listen to what our political expert david mckeown had to say about these numbers. when you look at that from for paul. >> what you see is london breed is facing severe challenge and some of those challenges are related to issues around crime liveability in the city. she has a set well positioned challengers and there's also this crazy ranked choice voting system that we often talk about and who is positions second sometimes and 3rd becomes almost important as who's ahead. keep in mind if no candidate reaches 50% ranked choice, voting will come into play. >> with voters second and potentially even 3rd choice being selected until a candidate hits 50%. this new polling is an 8% drop for mayor london breed as

. >> district 11 supervisor and mayoral candidate ahsha safai came to the bart station following that shooting and says while the police were able to prevent any bystanders from being injured or killed, he says it's yet another black eye for the city. >> we keep hearing crime is down, but yet within a two week period we have violent, brazen crime happening in one of the most important shopping areas in the city. in union square. >> the mayor's office also releasing a statement saying the officers were actively patrolling the area and came upon the man with the gun. the mayor's office saying it's important for people to know that officers are active in the area and enforcing the city's laws. now, as you come back to our live shot, you can see that this is still a developing scene. you can see that while parts of the powell street station are open, officers just taped off this area here. this is the area where we had heard that the shooting actually occurred. this is the again to orient you. this is the entrance into the mall area. as you come up out of the powell street station, there

aaron peskin and supervisor ahsha safai it hosted by k q e d and the san francisco chronicle.s was the first debate in recent weeks for the incumbent mayor and she became a popular target for her challengers. it's nice to see. mayor breed. finally at a debate after she's been ducking them for the past 2 weeks. you know what? >> bothers me the most listening to the mayor. is that to consistently tell people crime is down. >> is gaslighting. i understand my job as mayor and what it means to keep people safe. this is a major city in major cities have challenges. and just like what happened in the ricky pearsall shooting, the police were on that scene less than a minute to make the arrests. crime was a major topic of discussion as well as housing revitalizing downtown and police staffing levels. mayor breed owes the ci-y of san francisco in apology i became interim mayor. >> we grew our police department to record staffing levels. we had over 2300 officers on our police force at that time since i left office in the last 6 years, we're down close to 600 officers. i have provided th