donna persona. the open house video with donna is absolutely amazing. donna is an activist for transgender rights. she served on the boards of trans-march and day of remembrance and on the main streets after the compton's coms cafeteria. she raised the first transgender flag at city hall with mayor breed. the play recreates the transgender history and including sf weeklys best of 2018, donna persona. [cheers and applause.] >> this is such a great group of grand marshalls for 2019. i am excited to watch you celebrate this month and be honored. with that happy pride again. [applause.] >> thank you so much. you are doing such amazing work. it is my honor to bring up our last speaker. the executive director of sf pride has done amazing work with pride. we are sad that he will be leaving pride this year. he has done so much amazing work. please join me in welcoming george and thanking him for his incredible service. [applause.] >> thank you, clair, mayor breed, supervisor mandelman. i have many of our team joining us. as mayor breed mentioned, there is a lot

. >> reporter: people like donna persona for her work on behalf of transgender people is this year's sf pride's lifetime achievement grand marshal. >> i want to rekindle that fighting spirit from 50 years ago. >> reporter: that spirit she says is especially important today. >> now more than ever we need it. we need it again. i'm thinking of this current administration is one remove ev that we've gained. coming at us. fight back thing >> reporter: in san francisco, cristina rendon, ktvu fox 2 news. >> you can hear more from the sf pride lifetime achievement grand national donna persona in the latest episode of our bay area people podcasts. just search for bay area people in your podcast player. >> her story just one of several that ran in our half hour special a history of pride. if you missed it, it will air again sunday night at 6:30. that will be followed by ktvu fox 2 news at 6:00. >>> coming up here on the 4:00 police departments all across the bay area are working to improve relations with the communities they serve and coming up we'll tell you about the new program in sunnyvale

it features donna persona talking about the hardships she's faced and the progress she's seen in sanover the decades. search for bay area people in your podcast player. >> nice mild weather in store for pride festivities this weekend. in the meanwhile, we are with a big cool-down underway. temperatures dropped off again today. tomorrow looking very similar before we do begin a rebound on friday. take a look at some of these numbers from this afternoon. 60s around the bay. which, okay, we get that in late june. but our inland commune, low 70s in santa rosa for our south bay. 73 san jose. for the inner east bay. 72 this afternoon in livermore. that is atypical. temperatures are way below average in many areas today. more cloud cover than we have seen despite the cool-down that actually started back on monday. today is going to be one of the coolest days. as we get into thursday, slight changes expected. some of us may be just a tad warmer, a tad cooler. and then we begin to see a warmup getting into friday that will last through the weekend. not going to be as hot as that last weekend

podcast episode, it is out today, we spoke with this year's lifetime achievement grand marshal, donna persona, talks about life as a trans-woman, the hardships she has faced in the progress she has seen in san francisco come you can listen to the interview with donna personna on today's podcast. >>> a bart station agent in san francisco is being honored for making lives better every day, and has received an award from the city of san francisco. >> every day, when i come to work, i am engaged with 4000 people. i speak to them, i say hello, i invite them in, i give them good graces going out. >> that agent, was honored at a dinner last night, he said his secret is to show compassion for everyone he meets.>> the thing about being an agent, a frontline employee at bart, it is emblematic of life, every day you wake up you make a decision about what you are going to do and how you are going to be. because the only thing ultimately you have control over is yourself. if you keep that in mind, if you decide to be a positive person, if you make that positive decision, positive things happen. >> he is a

." >>> the latest podcast is out today, it features donna persona emma talking about the hardships shend the progress she has seen in san francisco over the years. look for bay area people in your podcast player. >>> her story is just one of several running in and on core in an encore presentation of our half hour special, pride which airs sunday at 6 pm. >>> new at 6:30 pm, bart plans to stop selling paper tickets to 4 stations this summer. the agency wants to boost prepaid cards. writers will not be able to buy paper tickets at the berkeley station starting july 8. the 19th street oakland station will do away with paper's the tickets on july 22. the embarcadero station will stop on august 19 and the powell street on september 3. art says it is working toward a clipper card only payment system by next year. >>> the ghost ship warehouse trial is in recess until after the july 4 weekend. today, several more witnesses testify for the defense. crime reporter, emily tells us the attorneys representing the two defendants say this was a good day for them. >> reporter: -- >> today was one of

donna persona talks about life as a trans woman, the hardships she is facing and the progress she has seen over the decades. just look for bay area people in your podcast player. >>> we want to remind you about our half-hour special, a history of pride which rears this sunday at 6:30 following ktvu fox 2 news at 6:00. >>> it is the annual list of california's dirtiest beaches and 3 beaches made the top 10. sciences -- scientists say the problem is due to the heavy rain he season. rob joins us with a look at what is happening. >> reporter: julie, we are at linda morris state beach. it is a popular place in pacifica but also ranked one of the dirtiest beaches in california. linda morris state beach is a place where you can see people walking dogs and playing with children but the popular beach received a grade of f when it comes to water quality in an annual survey by an organization called healed the bay. it ranks as having the worst water quality in the bay area and the worst of all -- third worst of all california beaches . >> sometimes it might happen because there is a connection b