called paint the castro red, 15% of today's business proceeds here goes to fight aids.o do something. >> i have lost friends, quite a few friends. i'm starting to tear up. >> reporter: at the national aids memorial grove. >> ernest summers. >> reporter: a solemn reading of more names. >> steven scott gafney. >> reporter: today hope is strengthening that there will soon come a time when there'll be no more names to that list of those who died of aids. >> it's one of the gratest accomplishments in modern medicine. >> reporter: pioneered by these people, aids ward workers who gathered for a 20 anniversary portrait. as news today that hiv infected people can live as long adds uninfected if they take those medicines. the workers were hailed today by former president clinton. >> more people are living and living well bauds of the things you've done. >> kind of a sad and pointiant but extremely important time. >> the harsh reality is in the bay area a gay man of color stands an 80% chance of contracting hiv. >> we are still losing far too many from hiv and aids. >> reporter: a

. >> called paint the castro red. 15% of today's business proceeds here goes to fight aids. motto, "do something". >> i have lost friends, quite a few friends. i am starting to tear up. >> at the national aids memorial grove. >> ernest summers. a solemn read are of more names. >> steven scott gasney. >> today, hope is strengthening there may come a time when there are no more names to the list of those who died of aids. >> it is one of the greatest accomplishments in medicine. aids workers who gathered for a 20th anniversary portrait. as news today hiv infected people live as long as uninfected if they take the immediates. workers were hailed by former president clinton. >> more people are living and living well because of the things that you have done. >> sad but extremely hopeful time. >>ics 600 people -- 600 people gathered in for support. >> we are still losing too many from hiv and aids. >> reporter: activists say a quarter million americans who are hiv positive do not know it. nationwide testing must become like it is in san francisco, routine. health and science edito

also in san francisco, the annual paint the castro red. it's set for 6:30 tonight. free hiv testing will be offered from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. ch a sfral judge is denying a request to temporarily stop maintenance at the gulf course in pacifica. lawn mowing endangers the red legged frog and the san francisco gardener snake. the judge says the group did not prove work at the course would cause irreparable harm to those animals. the 2013 america's yacht club race in san francisco is less than two years away. they still need to certify the reports. several community group have already spoken out against the planned projects for america's cup kras. they will appeal to the board of supervisors for the report is certified. >>> an update to a bomb scare. we now know who was behind the scare. san jose's largest post office was evacuated after someone called police saying he saw a man wearing a gas mask and body armor run up to a post office mailbox, stuff in a package and run away. the bomb squad had to destroy the package. the man turned himself into police yesterday. he didn't

the annual paint the castro red fund raising event. free hiv testing will be offered from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. >>> new york city is recommending anyone living with hiv being offered aids and drug. they are releasing that recommendation today. it's similar to the one in san francisco that was issued back in 2010. the standard practice is to put off the regime until a patient's immune system weakens. new york city has more than 110,000 people living right now with aids. san francisco has more than 18,000. >>> everybody is talking about the high winds we've seen wearing through the bay area. wherever you're waking up with us, nobody is spared from the gusty winds. give yourself ample time to reach your destination safely. you can see the bay bridge is looking steady. that flow of traffic there. so a lot of people are hitting the roads. it's the opened water bridge where is we lack the friction that we have over land. that's where one gust could really sneak up on you. you need to take it easy over the bay bridge, the golden gate bridge, and

. >> the red cross says it's helping seven residents who are left homeless, putting them up in a hotel. >>> extra castro fire officials have released new details in the arrest of the man they call a serial arsonist. they have linked this plan, 53- year-old thomas hartman of pittsburg to 48 dumpster fire over the past two years. officials say hartman fits the profile of serial arsonists who are often unemployed and tend to set fires at night. hartman is in custody on $50,000 bail. >> we have an update to a story we brought you last night from vallejo where a young man has died from stab wound. the victim, 22-year-old caesar villalobos was found in his pickup truck. responding officers say he was stabbed several times. this is vallejo's 18th homicide of the year. >>> today officials identify a motorcyclist kid on the bay bridge as 33-year-old aaron peters of oakland. he was riding on the upper deck and rear-ended a toyota on the s-curve at a high rate of speed. two people in the toyota were not hurt. >>> the highway patrol and bay area law enforcement agencies are on the lookout for drunken drivers this h

red bow. world aids day was established by the world health organization back in 1988. san francisco one of the observances will be a candlelight vigil at the harvey milk plastic in the castro district later tonight. >>> when you text from your smart phone, your information could be recorded even before it gets to the person you intended to send it to. an app developer claims a secret application inside millions of cell phones captures key strokes that you make. the text information is then sent to computers at carrier iq who say the data only monitors performance. one person says that the recording could be considered a federal wiretap and that could lead to a lawsuit. >> that's scary. we text a lot. >> even during the show sometimes. >> 6:22 now. >>> trading, why lara king wants a piece of the l.a. dodgers. >> here's one blooper. the grand entrance didn't go so well. we'll tell you what happened coming up. ♪ secondhand smoke affects everyone's health. it's not just irritating. it can cause heart disease and even death. speak up about secondhand smoke. your health and the health of your family depend on it. getting in the baseball business. king says he's part of a group o

in 2006, 24-year-old gillian castro became gravely ill after eating spinach. her organs were rapidly deteriorating. her red blood cells and platelets were dropping and she was about to die. millions of illnesses and thousands of deaths each year in this country can be traced to contaminated food. the centers for disease control and prevention estimates that food borne microorganisms cause 48 million illnesses, 3,000 deaths. many of these could be avoided with proper regulations from food and drug. that's why i ask that food safety be eliminated from this bill because it will be expensive to treat these people. let alone the fact they will die. the c.d.c. estimates salmonella alone affects 50 million people a year. just this year the food and drug administration issued a recall of grape tomatoes because of potential salmonella. and also the liss tearia tainted cantaloupe in october. cars to accelerate unexpectedly and resulted in a recall of nearly two million vehicles. matel recalled two million toys in 2007 because it was covered in lead paint. public health and safety precautions have been on the books f