into chinatown community. with that history in mind our goal was to create a modern day version of lion's den and create night life for the community and for people in san francisco to be able to come to chinatown and make it a destination spot to have a good time as well and chinatown has been overlooked as far as night life. a lot of people come to the city and they go to the mission, north beach, soma, and you no one thinks about going to chinatown and we want it to be a pioneer in over 40 years to try and create some night life in chinatown. as far as community outreach, as maggie, director maggie said, we reached out to close to 200 neighboring businesses, tenants, owners, that were located within 500 feet of lion's den and that covered the grant avenue went worth, jackson and washington and so without any -- with no discrepancy and opposition as of today. we have on file, several letters of support from several local organizations such as the chitown mer much apartment association, be chinatown. ccdc, an

they will be in neighborhood specifically patrolling neighborhoods like chinatown. the tl, tinderloin. leyland avenue. they will be the guardians of the community where we know we have a large population of seniors that come out to walk everyday. they come out to do their exercise in the park. they pick up groceries and shop and medication. we will take care of our communities. we will take care of our seniors, all of us. the other part of the program because we know covid-19 has not and the only thing that put seniors in a situation toself isolate. --self isolate. we want them to feel comfortable doing what they have always done anyself help for the elderly delivering over 1 million meals during the pandemic they will have people they will make available to our senior community starting here in chinatown where we will partner seniors with someone who can help walk them and take them to run their errands so they feel safe it takes a village, it really does. what i'm hoping we get out of this is not only the fact that we have seen after the crimes have been committed

how will chinatown recover? will it manage to emerge stronger? or more likely scarred and scared and weaker than it was pre-pandemic? to know for sure, you have to be a fortuneteller or at least a fortune cookie factory owner. >> we locked up almost a year and a half now. right? and we have a life to live. >> reporter: his family has been making fortune cookies for nearly 60 years. dispensing bite-size encouragement like we must overcome difficulties rather than being overcome by them. it is time, he says, that chinatown take its own advice to heart. >> we saw the future last year and we were all depressed because we don't know what to do but right now we see that and what is coming and we have a chance at a better chance. truck by tradition every costume has a mere embedded in the four head and according to legend the monster was ultimately defeated when it thoughts on reflection and was scared off. it is also possible that the inverse is true. that chinatown can search its reflection and instead find resilience and reserves of strength that it

so chinatown is one example of that. and just as you look at some of the data as of a few weeks ago in march, the chinatown vaccination rates for 65 and older were 67% compared to an overall city rate of 80% and for 75 years and older, chinatown rates were 42% compared to city rates of 72%. so when we looked at this data, it became clear we've got some deficits here and so we've began to implement our community action community strategy by doing targeted media events within the chinese media, working with c.b.o.s within the chinatown area to enlist their ideas, but also their support and also some of their staff to help really figure out how we can vaccinate greater proportion particularly the older residents in chinatown. we've partnered with many chinatown providers. chinese hospital had been one of our first. we partnered with our own chinatown public health center, northeast medical service and some of the physician groups within chinatown and those that practice at chinese hospital. i want to thank you, dr. chow, fo

today, the team was in chinatown for the first time.officials say more than 100 seniors registered for today's covid-19 vaccination clinic. >> patients have their own reasons, even if they want to get the vaccine, they can't. they may have fears, mobility issues, and so, because of that, this event as supervisor has said, if you can't come to us, we will bring it to you. >> the mobile vaccination unit will be back next friday to deliver more shots. health officials are hoping to vaccinate 1000 people living in chinatown's senior living facilities. >>> now that millions of people are being vaccinated against covid-19, many are wondering what you should do with your vaccination card, something think laminating it is a good idea. as dani romero found out, that may not be the best solution. >> it's pretty thick, thicker than a business card. >> reporter: ft. caroline mutombo is talking about is hurt card after she was vaccinated. >> probably going to put in my wallet. >> reporter: some publicity about preserving vaccination cards by laminat

enjoying the nice weather and supporting local businesses for chinatown walkway weekends. this was part of the streets program returning to the city this month. in chinatown, grant avenue was closed to cars between california and washington every saturday and sunday from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. . >>> all right. the return of the cable car to san francisco. well, obviously not exactly. a parklet built like a cable car, this one at sutter street near sansom where the cars run on california street. no cable car has been running since march of last year because of the coronavirus. >>> it is a spring tradition we cherish every year, the northern california cherry blossom has gone virtual again this year because of the pandemic. >> that's right. the festival now in its 54th year. officially kicked off a couple of hours ago. this year's theme is the japanese term meaning strength through bonds of community and friendship. the festival will commemorate ten years since the massive earthquake and tsunami devastated the nation. our very own mike inowe emceed the fess visits. nbc bay

in chinatown, a year ago, in february, the small businesses in our country's oldest and most historic chinatown reported a 50% drop in business because of the expectation that, somehow, covid was floating around chinatown, and that has impacted not just that neighborhood but every commercial corridor in our city. i think the stats are close to 60% drops in revenues in small businesses in our city. so when i was contacted by sharky and ben bleiman and others about this idea, it's brilliant, but i know it's going to take a commitment, and i will tell you, as i was running out of the house to join this, i asked my wife, i said hey, babe, i'm going to take this challenge. can you join me, and it literally delayed me five minutes because she said, dave, we often buy at big box stores. how are we going to do this challenge? i promised i am going to be buying all the groceries, but we have to do that because our small businesses are the heart of our economy, are the heart of our character and the heart of our city. i want to say, i just want to thank all the small business leaders. years ago

by name a wonderful placed physically and socially to be all of the neighborhoods north beach and chinatown the i try to be out in the community as much as and i think, being a the cafe eating at the neighborhood lunch place people come up and talk to you, you never have time alone but really it is fun hi, i'm one the owners and is ceo of cafe trespassing in north beach many people refer to cafe trees as a the living room of north beach most of the clients are local and living up the hill come and meet with each other just the way the united states been since 1956 opposed by the grandfather a big people person people had people coming since the day we opened. >> it is of is first place on the west that that exposito 6 years ago but anyone was doing that starbuck's exists and it created a really welcoming pot. it is truly a legacy business but more importantly it really at the take care of their community my father from it was formally italy a fisherman and that town very rich in culture and music was a big part of it guitars and sank and combart in the evening that tradition they brought th

but did you know that antioch had its own chinatown more than a century ago? you probably don't.e's why. that chinatown was burned down back in late 1800s by an angry mob and today the mayor said that's history everyone should know. >> this is where chinatown was when it was burned down. >> reporter: these are the tos of the first chinese immigrants in antioch and back then they needed a business license to work there. >> people of chinese heritage walking from walking the city streets after sunset. >> reporter: they had secret underground tunnels to allow them to walk safely at night to and from work. >> underneath this building there are tunnels. where we marginalized our chinese brothers and sisters. >> reporter: today antioch's dark history is coming to light thanks to the mayor following the strings against members of the aapi community. >> it's disturbing. >> reporter: the mayor plans to launch proposals to make amends with a official from the city. the mayor also wants people to know about antioch's historic chinatown district by marking where it used to be. >> it happened

in chinatown, a year ago, in february, the small businesses in our country's oldest and most historiceported a 50% drop in business because of the expectation that, somehow, covid was floating around chinatown, and that has impacted not just that neighborhood but every commercial corridor in our city. i think the stats are close to 60% drops in revenues in small businesses in our city. so when i was contacted by sharky and ben bleiman and others about this idea, it's brilliant, but i know it's going to take a commitment, and i will tell you, as i was running out of the house to join this, i asked my wife, i said hey, babe, i'm going to take this challenge. can you join me, and it literally delayed me five minutes because she said, dave, we often buy at big box stores. how are we going to do this challenge? i promised i am going to be buying all the groceries, but we have to do that because our small businesses are the heart of our economy, are the heart of our character and the heart of our city. i want to say, i just want to thank all the small business leaders. years ago, my very fi

residents in chinatown. we'll get them vaccinated very soon. we work closely with aamg doctors who are all bi-lingual. where the seniors are picking up their daily meals and right there, the community doctors also give the injections and the vaccinations to our seniors. you can see the big smiles on our seniors' faces despite they were worried they would have some side effect, but because they have their own doctors during the i inoculation and they are excited they are really familiar and comfortable, so that lowered the sense of discomfort and fear. so i think that's a good model, director colfax to bring the vaccines to really where the patients and the clients are and then they get a sense that, you know, the whole city and the whole community is taken care of, their needs. we are thankful for the departments and mayor breed particularly for your team. thank you, really so much. we appreciate the efforts that you're opening up the vaccine to people from 50 years and older, but we're still concerned that there's 10% to 20% of seniors that ar

so chinatown is one example of that. and just as you look at some of the data as of a few weeks ago in march, the chinatown vaccination rates for 65 and older were 67% compared to an overall city rate of 80% and for 75 years and older, chinatown rates were 42% compared to city rates of 72%. so when we looked at this data, it became clear we've got some deficits here and so we've began to implement our community action community strategy by doing targeted media events within the chinese media, working with c.b.o.s within the chinatown area to enlist their ideas, but also their support and also some of their staff to help really figure out how we can vaccinate greater proportion particularly the older residents in chinatown. we've partnered with many chinatown providers. chinese hospital had been one of our first. we partnered with our own chinatown public health center, northeast medical service and some of the physician groups within chinatown and those that practice at chinese hospital. i want to thank you, dr. chow, fo

support chinatown and the local area, particularly sundays.and just to support the business sector, you know, with the recent situation at hand. but in order to go out there, sometimes it's difficult to fully take a car, especially as traffic is coming back to pre-covid levels and there will be more. so i hope to have alternative modes of transportation to go to that location and the support of the temporary transit only lanes and one california. and, again, (indiscernible) pardon for the audio quality. but thank you for your time. i support the temporary transit only lanes for one california. and, yeah, have a good day. >> chair borden: thank you. next speaker, please. >> you have 8 questions remaining. >> chair borden: next speaker. >> caller: hi, sfmta board, i'm martin mune says, and i'm calling for support of the one california transit lanes. as liz noted, the new trailer that has made the one california very famous, so we should treat this line as a celebrity and give it its own transit line. and all joking aside it's a shame that this l

it took us awhile, but we were able to get that post started again in los angeles, chinatown. and we would actually get the same numbers awarded back to them. so by getting involved in the american legion, deeply involved in the legion, it definitely strike to some sort of interest from various corners. seattle. people just come out of nowhere. and before that, i didn't even know where to find. them so yeah, it helps. >> that's incredible. we should also note that it wasn't just -- we mostly talk about chinese men serving during world war ii, but samantha, there were chinese women that served in the military. is that correct? >> yeah. we were able to identify 61 chinese american women who served in world war ii. and we actually have a graphic that we can share with you that provides statistics of their service. if it comes up, that would be great. and if it doesn't, there it is. so it's a little bit hard to read. but out of nope, that's not at. that's not it. that's it. yes, women veterans. so you can see from this graphic that they served from almost everywhere in the united

we have families sharing the toilet in chinatown. i would like to request that you would have more funding in measure "c" so that we would be able to provide more qualities of the affordable housing to us.[speaking foreign language] >> speaking through interpreter: that's the reason i appear in the meeting today. i really hope the city will highly consider to have more funds allocated in measure "c," so that we will be able to move out from the cubic in chinatown, asap, to be able to participate in the affordable housing program, and that there will be 30% of the funds that we can apply. finished. >> chairwoman: harvey, can you say in cantonese and chinese that we're taking only public comment on adult housing. and we'll take public comment on family housing shortly. [interpreter speaking] >> do i need to translate in mandarin? >> chairwoman: no. just cantonese and spanish is good. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> hello, caller. can you translate in spanish, please. patty, can you translate in spanish we'll be taking public commen

residents in chinatown. we'll get them vaccinated very soon. we work closely with aamg doctors who are all bi-lingual. where the seniors are picking up their daily meals and right there, the community doctors also give the injections and the vaccinations to our seniors. you can see the big smiles on our seniors' faces despite they were worried they would have some side effect, but because they have their own doctors during the i inoculation and they are excited they are really familiar and comfortable, so that lowered the sense of discomfort and fear. so i think that's a good model, director colfax to bring the vaccines to really where the patients and the clients are and then they get a sense that, you know, the whole city and the whole community is taken care of, their needs. we are thankful for the departments and mayor breed particularly for your team. thank you, really so much. we appreciate the efforts that you're opening up the vaccine to people from 50 years and older, but we're still concerned that there's 10% to 20% of seniors that ar

still that serves 2000 district in the chinatown in the past it was the tradition and my family wass that's why we learned this stuff and moved from here to have dragon candy i want people to know that is art we will explain a walk and they can't walk in and out it is different techniques from stir frying to smoking to steaming and they do show of. >> beer a royalty for the age berry up to now not people know that especially the toughest they think this is - i really appreciate they love this art. >> from the cantonese to the hypomania and we have hot pots we have all of the cuisines of china in our chinatown you don't have to go far. >> small business is important to our neighborhood because if we really make a lot of people lives better more people get a job here not just a big firm. >> you don't have to go anywhere else we have pocketed of great neighborhoods haul have all have their own uniqueness. >> san francisco has to all c follansbee. we went through agenda item number one and will be going through item number two which is roll call. and roll call. [roll call] vice presiden

san francisco also hosted a pop-up clinic in chinatown. it's part of an effort to vaccinate chinatown seniors. 105 people were preregistered today. a second clinic is set for next friday. >>> another helpful resource called planyourvaccine.com. we will give you more information about where to go. >>> another milestone today. if you are fully vaccinated, it is safe to fly within the united states. no quarantine recommended. but before you book that flight, there are some precautions and some limits to all this. here's scott budman who has the story from sjc. >> reporter: the chapelle family is finally on the move, ready to see the grandkids and ready to travel again. >> so we're going to go see my mom, all of my sisters. we're meeting up at ocean side. >> reporter: the cdc says if you are fully vaccinated, travel has become low-risk. the agency specifically citing grandparents visiting grandchildren. >> oh, i feel much safer, oh, yes. definitely. and everything is sanitized. it is really nice. traveling is good again. >> reporter: but while

. >> all new outrage boiling over as the head of oakland's chinatown chamber of commerce revealed he was assaulted downtown, at rest made in the case and the anti hate rally planned this weekend. >>> making progress in the pandemic, the two bay area counties days away from reaching the yellow tier and what that means you'll be able to do where you live as "today in the bay" starts right now. we made it to friday, we're still smiling, too, that's a good thing. thanks for joining us. i'm kris sanchez in for laura garcia. >> and i'm marcus washington. the friday commute coming up in a bit with mike inouye. first we have the folks for the weekend, meteorologist kari hall tracking the temperatures for us. good morning, kari. >> good morning and we're starting out with what day that will be pretty nice for a friday, for any day really. let's look at what's going on in walnut creek. we're starting out with some low 50s and we are going to see those temperatures really warming up today going into the 50s, but not as warm as yesterday. we go from the low 50s to start to the 60s and eventually

we have families sharing the toilet in chinatown. i would like to request that you would have more funding in measure "c" so that we would be able to provide more qualities of the affordable housing to us.[speaking foreign language] >> speaking through interpreter: that's the reason i appear in the meeting today. i really hope the city will highly consider to have more funds allocated in measure "c," so that we will be able to move out from the cubic in chinatown, asap, to be able to participate in the affordable housing program, and that there will be 30% of the funds that we can apply. finished. >> chairwoman: harvey, can you say in cantonese and chinese that we're taking only public comment on adult housing. and we'll take public comment on family housing shortly. [interpreter speaking] >> do i need to translate in mandarin? >> chairwoman: no. just cantonese and spanish is good. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> hello, caller. can you translate in spanish, please. patty, can you translate in spanish we'll be taking public commen

in chinatown team we have ambassadors.central market and tenderloin area, same kind of capacity in terms of having cantonese and spanish. those are the areas we're working in the language capacity. i'm happy to provide more detail. when we say it's 25 ambassadors, some of those are positions that are funded directly by our office and some are actually job participants that are places in our office during their jobs. i don't think our budget can hold or present -- represent 25 ambassadors. we do our best to partner with other city departments. >> it's about $1 million. but it doesn't really cover all 25 ambassadors is what you're saying? you're sharing the workers with job now program? >> exactly. >> what are the operation hours of the ambassador program? >> the general window is -- across all teams is 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. the teams vary a little bit base the on either community partner needs or request we've been getting in the community. each team is slightly different. our district ten and mid-market tenderloin teams a

that was once part of the city's chinatown before that community was driven out by a mob. 1876 chinatown, which we're literally standing on was burned down and it later became wall, the plaza people of chinese heritage were banned from walking antioch city streets after sunset. here's a photo of a tunnel that chinese immigrants dog in order to get to and from work at night, the proposals include designating this chinatown historic district as well as making an official apology from the city for the terrorizing of chinese immigrants in the past. one of today's to understand that there's a historical pattern here. this isn't the first time that chinese americans are asian americans in our in our country have been terrorized and so we have to connected to its is appropriate historical context for us. it derives when chinese immigrants come >> and we're literally right out of town and so we have a lot of work to reconcile that passed. andy lee, the president, the contra costa community college district believes the city apologizing for past wrongs that would not only be but healing. i think

of course, we're going to start with the main library and then we're going to head over to chinatown, mission, and a number of the community libraries and i don't know if you know this, but i grew up in san francisco, and, at that time, there wasn't all this computer internet stuff that we had today. we had to actually go to the library because we would get a look report assignment and the western edition library was my library of choice. i went to ben franklin middle school. and we had to go through a card catalog to find the book, it was in alphabetical order and that's how we did things. now it's all computerized, it's easy. and, in fact, i still have a library card and now i download my audio books and other things for free. so all those books i forgot to bring back, they just disappear after they expire on my phone. a lot different than it used to be. no excuse for those of us who want to take advantage of reading, of using the computers and other things in the library, we're finally opening and i just, i can't be more grateful to this department and what they have done. all of i

these volunteer street patrols in oakland's chinatown and gofundme campaigns for hiring private securityeflection of the asian community's frustration with local law enforcement's ability to stem the attacks. >> one of the challenges for the asian community is, when we migrate to places, we're often seen as perpetual foreigners, even if we might have been there for generations. >> reporter: as a south asian, aarti kohli, executive director of advancing justice, asian law caucus, dealt with a similar surge in hate crimes against muslims after 9/11. >> what we learned is that whenever that there is conflict with a foreign country and people think that americans residing here come from that country, there is deep racism and animosity aimed at those communities. >> reporter: her offices on the edge of san francisco's chinatown have also been targeted by extremist groups. >> last year, the patriot front, which is a white supremacy group, actually tagged our office sign. the bay area is considered a very liberal, progressive place, but you don't have to go far to find a white supremacy group.

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i'm a member of the chinese consolidated benevolent here in the chinatown of san francisco. mr. james byrne has a long history as an immigrant attorney that has protected some of our most vulnerable populations in our san francisco communities. when immigrants come to our city and when they need help, we should help them as they have helped us now and in the past. james byrne is an excellent choice for the police commission. he is also an attorney and i definitely support him for the position of police commissioner for the great city of san francisco. thank you for giving me time to speak. thank you again. >> chairman: thank you, mr. wong. next speaker please. >> hi supervisors. i'm here to call in support for james byrne as well. his background resinated they came from a country that was stooped. many of the reasons for this country is the develop of distrust because of james byrne's experience, i do believe he could be an advocate and a bridge to the individuals and the immigrant community as they navigate the criminal justice system for the first time and having talked with s

called the rise together season as part of the chinatown walkway weekend.between california and washington from 11:00 to 5:00. people came to stroll in the streets, take in the sights and sample food at local eateries. the car free space also provides the perfect opportunity to visit the oldest chinatown in the u.s. >>> the paintbrushes were out today in oakland's chinatown as artists put together murals with a message. these beautiful works at madison park were targeting the recent wave of anti-asian crimes. some focused on unity while others expressed support and encouraged people to take action to fight back against hate. all of the artists who took part were either asian or black. >>> the warriors hosted an event called thrive city marketplace spotlighting 30 women-owned small businesses in san francisco today. customers checked out art boutiques, shopped for clothing and beauty products and sampled food and drinks outside chase center. all of it was an opportunity for shoppers to visit their favorite vendors and get to know some of the female entrepren

, that rate is considerably lower with just 65% of chinatown seniors, having received at least that first dose. costco is opening up appointments for the single dose. johnson and johnson covid vaccine it. dozens of bay area stores. appointments are available to anyone who meets the state's eligibility requirements, including people who are 50 and older or 8 to 16 to 49 with high risk health conditions, as well as people who are homeless or frontline workers. stores offering appointments include sanders, a conquered fremont, danda, livermore, gilroy and others. we have the fullest bay area costco locations, offering the single dose johnson and johnson covid vaccine at ktvu .com under web links. comes after johnson and johnson announced it is expanding clinical trials to include adolescence for the first time, further boosting hopes that children will soon be able to get vaccinated. reporter steve harrigan brings us more from atlanta. about 100 million americans have now gotten at least one shot of the covid vaccine, and younger people could soon be eligible. on friday, johnson and johnson

but in chinatown, that rate is considerably lower. with just 65% of chinatown seniors having received at least one dose. california is approaching 19 million covid-19 dose is being administered in this state. the state's population is around 40 million. according to the latest data, there are now over 333 shots a day being given out here in our state officials report more than 31% of californians have received at least one dose and 15.5% are fully vaccinated. cal fire is already getting ready for the fire season up next to look at the new fleet of planes put in rotation this year. around the bay area this afternoon and notable cool down go underway with the temperature is continuing to fall into your easter weekend. better details on what you can expect for the weekend cal. so to preparations l fire's aviation fleet foxes melanie townsend shows us the new and updated aircraft they'll be using this wildfire season. in his 11.5 years with cal fire in nearly 40 years with the u. s. forest service, cal fire's senior chief of aviation, den

in chinatown team we have ambassadors.central market and tenderloin area, same kind of capacity in terms of having cantonese and spanish. those are the areas we're working in the language capacity. i'm happy to provide more detail. when we say it's 25 ambassadors, some of those are positions that are funded directly by our office and some are actually job participants that are places in our office during their jobs. i don't think our budget can hold or present -- represent 25 ambassadors. we do our best to partner with other city departments. >> it's about $1 million. but it doesn't really cover all 25 ambassadors is what you're saying? you're sharing the workers with job now program? >> exactly. >> what are the operation hours of the ambassador program? >> the general window is -- across all teams is 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. the teams vary a little bit base the on either community partner needs or request we've been getting in the community. each team is slightly different. our district ten and mid-market tenderloin teams a

in chinatown team we have ambassadors.central market and tenderloin area, same kind of capacity in terms of having cantonese and spanish. those are the areas we're working in the language capacity. i'm happy to provide more detail. when we say it's 25 ambassadors, some of those are positions that are funded directly by our office and some are actually job participants that are places in our office during their jobs. i don't think our budget can hold or present -- represent 25 ambassadors. we do our best to partner with other city departments. >> it's about $1 million. but it doesn't really cover all 25 ambassadors is what you're saying? you're sharing the workers with job now program? >> exactly. >> what are the operation hours of the ambassador program? >> the general window is -- across all teams is 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. the teams vary a little bit base the on either community partner needs or request we've been getting in the community. each team is slightly different. our district ten and mid-market tenderloin teams a

in fact, the bill provides $11 million to the chinatown clinic where today's event was held. money that will be used for vaccinations and other emergency issues. >> this funding is especially important for our work to care for and protect the vulnerable asian seniors who have been targeted in recent months by hate. >> reporter: an increase in targeted attacks on asian-americans and pacific islanders fueled by racist propaganda about the or egyptian of the virus. today speaker pelosi encouraged members of the aapi communities to document all attacks and document all attacks to police immediately to help legislators understand that more must be done to stop the hate. she also talked about another emerging crisis, the rush of undocumented families and unaccompanied children streaming across the southern border, an issue she says will require wholesale changes to immigration policy. >> i call it the three rs. restructuring the whole system, respecting the refugee status that we have an obligation to do and the resettlement in a way that is safe for the children. >> reporter: in s

when some tried to return, the mob burned chinatown to the ground. it the mayor committed to read designating the area as the chinatown historic district that will include circle markers, public art, and more. >> today i am delighted to sign this proclamation in front of all of you terry to uplift the fact that our city will not stand by hoping that things get better. >> when you do something wrong and don't apologize, you may just repeat it, because, so what. when people apologized it means they realize it will not do it again. >>> coming up next, a major pushback in response to president biden's big troop withdrawal announcement. >> apparently we will help our adversaries ringing at the anniversary by gift wrapping the country. >>> prosecutors are painting a clearer picture tonight about the disappearance of cal poly student kristin smart. the new details that were just released. >>> thousands of southbay kids head back to school tomorrow. the troubling scenes that they can see on the way. >> there are individuals walking around with weapons, drug

residents in chinatown. we'll get them vaccinated very soon. we work closely with aamg doctors who are all bi-lingual. where the seniors are picking up their daily meals and right there, the community doctors also give the injections and the vaccinations to our seniors. you can see the big smiles on our seniors' faces despite they were worried they would have some side effect, but because they have their own doctors during the i inoculation and they are excited they are really familiar and comfortable, so that lowered the sense of discomfort and fear. so i think that's a good model, director colfax to bring the vaccines to really where the patients and the clients are and then they get a sense that you know the whole city and the whole community is taken care of, their needs. we are thankful for the departments and mayor breed particularly for your team. thank you, really so much. we appreciate the efforts that you're opening up the vaccine to people from 50 years and older but we're still concerned that there's 10% to 20% of seniors that are s

. >> the march was from medicine park to chinatown, the members of the group included black and latinoslidarity with the asian community. >> we are empowering people to come out, and different leaders can patrol their own hood, different chinatown, you know? everywhere. i have a lot of elders that need a lot of protection. >> one of the goals today was to encourage people to go to chinatown businesses and help those that have suffered during the pandemic. >>> san jose's believed police department is increasing patrols in some communities. police chief, anthony mother, was on the street on saturday, giving out stickers to customers at the grand century mall, police say the patrols are meant to deter crime and show that the department is sensitive to the increase in violent and racist crimes against asians. >>> three weeks ago, a filipino woman was assaulted by a man at the deer don station. that suspect was charged with a hate crime. >>> owners of a chinese restaurant in the east bay are trying to raise awareness, after their building was blowtorch. take a look. surveillance video here,

in chinatown team we have ambassadors. central market and tenderloin area, same kind of capacity in terms of having cantonese and spanish. those are the areas we're working in the language capacity. i'm happy to provide more detail. when we say it's 25 ambassadors, some of those are positions that are funded directly by our office and some are actually job participants that are places in our office during their jobs. i don't think our budget can hold or present -- represent 25 ambassadors. we do our best to partner with other city departments. >> it's about $1 million. but it doesn't really cover all 25 ambassadors is what you're saying? you're sharing the workers with job now program? >> exactly. >> what are the operation hours of the ambassador program? >> the general window is -- across all teams is 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. the teams vary a little bit base the on either community partner needs or request we've been getting in the community. each team is slightly different. our district ten and mid-market tenderloin teams

actually, i voted in chinatown. lim poon lee post office, that's the first post office named for, he actually worked for phil burton. >> really? >> and then phil named a post office for him. so, you see, the roots run deep. and that's one of the messages i had that day. when the press asks about what are we doing, let us salute president biden. right from the start, within 24 hours of his presidency, he had an executive order calling on h the justice department, even before we had an attorney general, calling upon the justice department to take up this issue in a very specific way. and, again, more recently, his executive actions have been very important. so let us salute him.nt but let us do, also, what the leader said. the president asked us to pass this legislation. it will be marked up in committee within the next week in our house.it and we'll pass it immediately and send it over to the senate. but they have their own version of the bill, too, so at some point we'll have a meeting of the legislation and to pass

and commissioner chan speak for chinatown. i heard speaking for the mission corridor and like to support the speech and the neighborhood commercial guidelines. the rooftop bar, etc., etc., and i do believe the diversity of our city and the identity and the different ages of our neighborhoods require a little bit more room to find themselves in the legislation and have the ability to preserve that territory which is uniquely theirs buzz they understand it best. i like to support those who ask it and i think it was commissioner tanner and got support by commissioner chan to continue this item and revisit at a slightly earlier part of the day and take everything we have heard and spend it in more time pursuing it. those are my comments.

. >>> not, now to a group asian activists group >> the group marched from medicine park to chinatown,members of the group include black and latino residents, standing in solidarity with the asian community. >> different leaders come patrol their own hood. they have a lot of elders that need a lot of protection. >> one of the goals today was t encourage people to patronize chinatown businesses who have suffered during the pandemic. >>> personal data longing to half 1 billion facebook users appeared online today. the data includes phone numbers and names, along with locations, birthdates, and in some cases, even email addresses. all of it was available for free on a hacking forum. facebook played down concerts, saying it was old data, and the vulnerability had been patched into honey 19. security researchers say it could still be useful to cyber criminals who want to impersonate people and commit fraud. >>> looking ahead, a toddler from the east bay is in the fight of his life. >> he is my person. >> the huge undertaking by his grandmother to help him, and his family. >>> plus, baseball

what i've been a chinatown with china men. then he was knocked to the ground. it just put a dressing earlier. his knee and hands were hurt, but chance stood up. he had two choices. chase a guy or what? also i take a picture. he took this picture showing the man calmly walking away. he then called the police using his photo officers arrested the suspect. chan positively ided him. i've learned the suspect is 25 year old james lee ramsey on the oakd mayor libby schaaf said she considers chan a dear friend in the statement, shafted in part, an attack against carl feels like an attack on all of oakland. i'm grateful carl was not injured further and that our police department was able to make a quick arrest. the bruised and battered chan says he's not backing down. i have the senate song and i want to making sure that i will be again. continue my fights against this kind of a crazy attacks. yeah, that suspect cruelly. james lee ramsey has been arrested on suspicion of felony battery. has not yet been charged by the d a reporting live henry lee ktvu, fox two news. all

for chinatown walkway weekends part of the sunday streets program returning to the city this month. grant avenue is closed to cars between california and washington street every saturday and sunday from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. yes, the weather was beautiful, but is it going to be that way the rest of the weekend? >>> well, it's going to warm up a bit, but the sunshine is here to stay. we have been starting out with a little bit of that cloud cover. once that makes its exit, sunshine moving forward. let's look at your san francisco temperature trend. right now 61 degrees. notice it's breezy around the coastline and the temperature trend is going to dip down into those 50s this afternoon. so cool around the coastline though. take a look at the wind speeds. so we are definitely going to keep sort of that seaboard around for the next couple of hours. looks like my gravg is going a little wacky there. i will skip over that one. injury san jose forecast, 67 degrees. so we go from about 67 to the 50s. it will get warmer heading into tomorrow. however, i do want to show you this 24-hour tem

when some tried to return, they burned chinatown to the ground. today on that very spot the mayor committed to redesignated the area as the chinatown historic district with historical markers, public art and a permanent exhibit at the antioch museum. perhaps the most important thing of all, an official apology from the city. >> when you do something wrong, you don't apologize, you may repeat it because so what. if people apologize, it means they realize it and they won't do it again so this is very important to our community. >> it doesn't make up for what happened but at least it is no longer being ignored. >> in 19 6099.9% of antioch residents were white but in 2010 white people became a minority for the first time with 10% of the population identifying as asian-americans. >>> san jose is opening its first park honoring filipino americans near north capitol avenue in east san jose called delano park and the name pays homage to the delano grape strike in which workers protested poor working conditions. it is a term best translated as older brothe