. >>> good afternoon, i'm elizabeth cook. search and rescue efforts are underway in hawaii for those missing during the catastrophic wild fires scorching parts of maui. the death toll now up to 55. and hawaii state officials expect that number will likely rise. the flames first broke out on tuesday. fanned by strong winds as a hurricane passed hundreds of miles south of the island. the largest fire is now 80% contained. now one of those fires tore through lahaina. 80% of that town was completely destroyed. you can see how destructive that fire was. buildings and rows of cars destroyed. the burn zone stretches for about eight miles. today, some residents were allowed back into their neighborhoods and got to witness the devastation firsthand. >> this is our first time coming back. and actually knowing that our house burned down. we haven't known anything for the last couple of days. because there is no information coming through. >> authorities say the rebuilding process will be long and complicated because basic infrastructure

good afternoon, i'm elizabeth cook. it is a first alert weather day, bad air across much of the bay area and all the heat is not helping. video from our chopper shows the hazy conditions we have been dealing with all day, that is thanks in part to wildfires to our north and the threat of fires here is also up. this has been the story all day long. this video taken from the salesforce tower camera looking east early this morning. first alert meteorologist darren peck is joining me, not a great day to be outside. >> and i will show you one other way of visualizing it, look at the map that shows all the air-quality sensors across the bay. there's a lot more orange showing up, a lot more locations have gone into the unhealthy for sensitive groups, that is the view looking down on golden gate bridge. if we plot it with all of the purple air-quality sensors, we haven't seen that much orange on this map yet this season and it is bay area wide. the general forecast is moderate but there's a lot of places out there today that ar

. >> i'm elizabeth cook. this all stems from the federal investigation that revealed racist and homophobic text messages sent among officers. more than 40 officers are currently on leave. >> and one person urging the feds to step in as a prominent attorney representing family members who are suing the department. he spoke to our john ramos with what he wants to see happen. >> reporter: the racist texts uncovered by accidents by the fbi in a federal drug case sounds like something from the jim crow south. with officers happily bragging about injuring black residents and openly referring to them as the n word in group text lines. >> and it's the attitudes. and they are called the water buffalo or something, or the chief and the others that are called black gorillas, which is kind of routine. as one officer said we said that routinely and no one cares. >> reporter: but john buress cares. they're representing a number of people in legal action against the city, and now has taken it a step further. he sent a lette

(upbeat music) >>> with devin fehely , elizabeth cook , and sara donchey. groundbreaking original storytelling from the kpix newsroom. the prime time edition. coming friday to the new pix+. 44 cable 12. >>> good morning and welcome back to 'mosaic'. i am rabbi eric weiss and we are having a conversation about music and the jewish community . welcome back cantor bernstein. some things that you do another cantors do in the jewish community is pay attention to the music that comes out of different jewish communities. can you talk about the ways in which you utilize melodies, like we were leaving the last segment . >> i have two lives . one is a cantor and another i started the same time is a yiddish singer. i fell in love in college with yiddish songs and the yiddish language. i started delving into it . and finding yiddish songs where i could and singing them and performing them. and eventually when i went to jerusalem for cantor oriole school, a friend of mine invited me to do workshops at his place called [ speaking in a non-english language ] the combinati

. >>> good afternoon, i am elizabeth cook. former presiden donald trump is fighting a fourth criminal case as he runs for the oval office again. this accuses him of trying to overturn the results of the 202 election in georgia. cristian benavides looks at what is next >> reporter: liz, we expect tha there will be cameras in the court room here and unlike with federal charges if he is convicted on state charges he would not be able to attempt to pardon himself if he is re-elected. former president donald trump is facing new charges in the state of georgia >> the indictment includes 41 felony accounts and is 97 pages long. >> reporter: others charged include john eastman, rudy giuliani and mark meadows. trum is facing felony counts of violating the ricoh act, which seeks to take down major financial crimes. >> she likes it because she is able to charge one act on top o others. >> reporter: trump says he will present a report alleging election fraud in georgia in 2020 that will clear his name. trump slammed willis during a campai

good afternoon, i'm elizabeth cook. >> the flames were so intense, several nearby buildings were also impacted. the flames started just after 6:00 a.m. on octavia and oak streets, and within the hour, dozens of trucks raced to the scene . since this building was under construction, there was no fire protection in place. firefighters say a quick response was crucial . investigators have not said how this fire started and the scaffolding is a hazard so officials say just to avoid the area, it is just a skeleton now . justin andrews has the latest from the scene. >> reporter: it has been several hours since the initial call came in and here we are, the fire crews are still on the scene, basically monitoring this. look at the debris that is on the road, this is all because of that fire that broke out in the early morning hours this morning, it left a mess. you can see that from the debris on the streets. i want you to watch these flames from around 6:00 this morning, you are looking at the fire during the height of this, the flames were going right through this building. this is the inter

i'm elizabeth cook. >> i'm ryan yamamoto. the neighborhood where crews had to go through hundreds of boxes of chemicals now starting to get back to normal. justin andrews is there with the latest. >> reporter: we know they were only four homes impacted by those evacuation orders that were in place more than 24 hours ago. that is a difference than what we saw a while ago when a six block radius in this neighborhood was told to basically get out of their homes because of all of the materials they found here. we do know hazmat crews have arrived back on scene and we are told those families, those five homes, should be allowed to get back in their homes at some point today. the timeline of that is unclear. this has been a very methodical move and a lengthy cleanup process for contra costa fire. they found more than 600 different chemicals and removed more than 800 bottles of hazardous materials from the property here . the process had to be done very carefully because crews not only had to remove those chemicals but they had to t

i'm elizabeth cook. 55 people are confirmed dead and dozens injured from that catastrophic wildfire that was scorching maui. the wildfires that began earlier in the week closer to being contained. this, after winds by hurricane dora on tuesday fanned the flames . according to the maui county mayor, one of those fires destroy the historic town of lahaina with residents there saying it, quote, looked like it was raining fire. president biden freeing up federal assistance by approving a disaster declaration for hawaii. >> anyone who has lost a loved one, whose home has been damaged or destroyed will get help immediately. i have directed that we send support to these very firefighters and first responders and emergency personnel who are working round-the-clock, risking their lives. >> reporter: the fema administrator is expected to arrive in hawaii today. search and rescue teams with cadaver dogs are being brought in from california and washington state. firefighters from oakland specializing in the type of work are also among the crews heading to the disaster zone. >>> san francisco mayor l

good evening, i am elizabeth cook. >> and i am ryan yamamoto. if you don't drive them, you are seeing more and more around you on the road. last year more electric and hybrid vehicles were registered in the u.s. >> here in california the number is also rising, almost quadrupling since 2016. when these vehicles catch fire they burn hotter and longer thanks to the lithium-ion batteries that power them. >> as our national correspondent reports, some firefighters need more training just to keep you safe. >> reporter: the tactics that we are using for internal combustion engine vehicles don't apply to batteries on these electric vehicles. we are used to applying water and the vevehicle going ouout relativev quickly and that just isn't the case with these electric vehicles. for this first part, guys, we will cover battery access techniquques. >>>> reporter:r: veteran n firerefighter chchris soto and teteam are simimulating evev ba fires s trainining for the next frontier in firefighting. >> you are training while you learn how these fires behave. how

good afternoon, i'm elizabeth cook. civil rights attorneys are calling on the u.s. department of justice to investigate the antioch police department as they face fallout from the racist texting scandal. the antioch police department already under investigation by the fbi. >> yeah , it has been quite a year and they are asking for the department of justice to open an investigation of their own, they sent a letter to the doj and the u.s. attorney for the northern district of california . in the letter, the attorneys say the department is engaged in policing practices, discriminatory toward people of color and the practices are also homophobic and anti-semitic. nearly half of the officers are accused of being involved in a chain of homophobic text messages targeting numbers of the community. the law firm has filed two federal civil lawsuits and represents 13 plaintiffs alleging civil rights violations. burris said he wants the doj to hold the police department accountable. >> deep-seated racism in the department that manifests itself in some kind of conduct, whether i

elizabeth cook shows us how. >> reporter: early morning, a small boat takes off from moss landing and our story begins. >> it is a beautiful story of nature getting back in balance. >> reporter: community scientists and u.s. navy veteran on board marine scientists, armed with binoculars and notepads. nearby, more community scientists , all volunteers perched on the banks. they are set up at more than a dozen locations and ready to go. >> we have an area that has been assigned to us and it includes the marsh, to this point, and then the flu. >> this area, we call the wildlife viewing area. >> reporter: they are set to view one of the most charismatic creatures on the planet, the sea otter. >> prior to 1995, there weren't that many sea otters in the slough. >> that changed in the 80s when the monterey bay aquarium released rescued otters into the flu, it is home to the greatest concentration of southern sea otters in the world. thanks to the otters, another species, one that writes fights climate change is thriving. >> when the otters came in, the eelgrass have grown significantly. >> h

good afternoon, i'm elizabeth cook. california is watching as hurricane hillary fast approaches and it could reach southern california tomorrow. a tropical storm has not hit california since 1939. this is huge news. let's get to first alert meteorologist, jessica birch with where the storm is now. >> absolutely, as you said, this is huge, i will say this, that was just a tropical storm, right now this track is expected to hit california as a category one. let's take a look at what is to come. starting off with hurricane hillary, just south of baja california this afternoon, we are in a category four, that is 157-mile-per-hour wind to be a category five, so to put that into perspective, this is a very strong storm tracking its way to the north. here is the track right now, we will continue to see this develop, right now it is moving its way to the north, just around southern california, look at the colors on the map, as it moves to the north, it will start to lose energy. the warm sea service temperatures are needed to s

elizabeth cook shows us how in tonight's project earth report. >> reporter: early morning a small boat takes off from moss landing and our story begins. >> it is a beautiful story of nature getting back in balance.. >> reporter: at the stern, community scientist and navy vet. on board, marine scientists armed with binoculars. nearby, community scientists all volunteers, and they are ready to go. >> we have an area assigned to us and it includes the marsh to this point. and then the slew. >> one of the largest in california. >> this area we call the wildlife viewing area. >> they are set to view the southern sea otter. >> the fur trade of the 1800s nearly wiped them out >> prior to 1995 there were not many otters. >> reporter: that all changed in the 80s when the aquarium released rescued otters into the slew. now it is home to the greatest concentration of southern sea otters in the world. thanks to the otters. another species, one that fights climate change is once again thriving. it is called eel grass. >> when the otters came in the eel grass had grown significantly. >> reporter: he

i'm elizabeth cook. we begin with that third criminal indictment against former president trump. a federal grand jury formally accused him of conspiring to overturn the 2020 election results but he denies any wrongdoing. natalie brand is in washington with a look at what is next. >> reporter: special counsel jack smith unveiled a historic indictment against the former president, charging him with conspiracy to defraud the united states, conspiracy to obstruct a proceeding, obstruction of and attempt to obstruct a proceeding in conspiracy against rights. >> the attack on our nations capital on january 6, 2021 was an unprecedented assault on the seat of american democracy. drug prosecutors allege trump spread lies, even though he knew his claims were false and accused him and six co-conspirators of organizing take a look others in seven states he lost. trump has denied any wrongdoing. his legal team appears to be shifting blame onto lawyers who were advising him at the time. >> everything that president trump did was with the advice of lawyers and counsel. >> reporter: the indictme

i'm elizabeth cook. the wildfires on maui are the deadliest in the u.s. in years. at least 36 people have been killed and that number could rise as emergency crews get to areas they couldn't reach before. president joe biden has declared a state of disaster and governor gavin new some deployed 11 members of the urban search and rescue team to the island. entire communities which have stood for generations are gonement hundreds have no home. reporting billy v has the latest from hawaii. >> reporter: the fire that roared through maui's historic town has left devastation everywhere. >> what we saw looked like an area that was bombed and burned in a war zone. >>> helicopter to your operator ritchie olson flew over the smoldering town. >> hundreds of homes leveled to the ground. the historic section of the town is destroyed. even the boats in the harbor were burned to the water. they are gone. >> this is truly an all hands on deck situation. >> reporter: as the massive search and rescue effort is underway, officials fear the death toll will rise. >> the primary focus is

>>> good evening to you, i'm elizabeth cook. the demand to halt the expansion of robotaxis is getting louder, following two overnight crashes, one of them colliding with a fire engine responding to an emergency. we have the surveillance video of one of the crashes and it shows us what happened. >> reporter: both overnight crashes involved crews, they were at fault for one of the collisions. we will get to that collision shortly. i want to first show you the other crash, this happened in the mission district, mission and 26th street friday morning. san francisco police say this robotaxi entered the intersection on a green light when a dodge charger plowed into the car. they said the driverless car detected the charger before the impact and braked. >> it was just like boom, we thought, is somebody injured? we rushed over here. >> reporter: the crash was so loud, they heard it from their apartment one block away. >> the dodge was completely totaled, it was just wiped. there was fluid leaking everywhere, the airbags were all deploye

>>i'm elizabeth cook. the fire has been burning for two hours now. this is east of the city in the area of clayton road and v adela vista. our chopper was over the scene as cal fire dropped retardant, and you can see how close the flames got to this home. >> the fire bloomed from 30 to 60 acres in an hour. it has been threatening homes. at last check, fire crews had no containment. minutes ago we spoke to a woman who said she called to report the fire when it was a lot smaller. >> i'm glad that i did, because even in that short time it really got out of hand. >> the way it was spreading, it made me nervous about the houses that are out there. i had seen it jump the canyon before, so it was scary. >> fire crews have been siphoning water from cunningham like to control the blaze. >>> temperatures are going to warm up and of course the main factor today was just a very, very dry vegetation in that part of the bay area and really all parts of the bay area . this is the live look right now across the santa clara valley towards the clayton fire, and you ca

. >>> good afternoon, i'm elizabeth cook. it has been 84 years since a tropical storm made landfall in california but it looks like hillary could hit the state this weekend, bringing the threat of flash flooding and heavy downpours in some areas down south. first alert chief meteorologist paul heggen is tracking the hurricane and how it could impact us. >> right now it is a major category three storm with 130-mile-per-hour sustained wind, still well to the south of the tip of the baja peninsula, but it is beginning to make that turn to the north, that is going to take it along the coast of the baja peninsula. we have the water temperatures in the background, the orange and red indicates the warm water that is stealing this system, that will continue tracking to the north right along the coast. sunday morning, it will have weakened to a category one hurricane with 75-mile-per-hour sustained wind, it is going to be cooler temperatures on the surface of the ocean, but the system is moving fast enough that it's not going to compl

good afternoon, i am elizabeth cook. the fbi is investigating a threat at an elementary school in oakland that police say had racial undertones. police evacuated should bow elementary just before 7:30 this morning, and alameda county sheriff's brought in canine bomb teams to scour the campus , after police say the school 's principal received a threatening email. >> i will say that the email had racial undertones in it, and we are currently investigating that right now. >> police say other places beside the elementary school also received threats. they did not elaborate much, but they did clarify those other scenes involved residences, not schools, and they do not involve the homes of students or parents. we are continuing to monitor this story and will have the latest tonight at 5:00. >>> also in oakland, property % just in the usual spots we hear about. robberies are up 28% year-over-year, and burglaries are up 44% . now, in addition to carjackings and business break-ins, we are hearing about crime on the water. john r

. >>> good afternoon, i'm elizabeth cook. we start with new developments in former president trump's federal case related to january 6th. , in his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. the judge has set a trial date and it will come during one of the biggest days of the upcoming primary calendar. >> reporter: former president trump's attorneys did not get the trial date they pushed for in the federal election interference case. instead the judge has scheduled it for march 4th of next year. >> the judge was not buying what the defense was selling here. >> i think that what the judge acknowledged is that there is a public interest in a speedy resolution. >> reporter: jury selection is scheduled to begin the day before super tuesday, when 15 states hold gop primary contests. it also comes three weeks before his new york trial relating to alleged hush money payments to adult film actress, stormy daniels. trump told to consider conservative radio show on monday, that his conservatives are still with him. >> usually if a thing lik

. >>> good afternoon, i'm elizabeth cook, the family of sean monterrosa is calling for justice after the city of vallejo reinstated the police officer who killed him. anne makovec is here and the family is pleading for the state attorney general to take action. >> reporter: they are not backing down, the detective that killed sean monterrosa three years ago has been fired, and his use of force was found to be justified, the attorney told us he is making his way back onto the police force and back onto the payroll. body camera footage shows jarrett tonn shooting a rifle through the windshield of the police truck hitting the 22-year-old , it happened in june of 2020, during a night of protest after the murder of george floyd. sean monterrosa was unarmed, the family's attorney said they reject jarrett tonn's reinstatement and they will be taking a page from oakland black panther history. >> i personally, as an attorney have decided to put funds aside, to hire personal security force, we will identify the location that jarrett tonn has been assigned , we are going to bring that back. >>

i am elizabeth cook. >> i am ryan yamamoto. in the 1970s, a small group of berkeley researchers discovered that if we did not allow could fire into a forest we would put them at risk for the mega fires we see today. >> darren, what did you find? >> because of that good fire and because of the inspiration of researchers at berkeley in the 1970s, this little forest in yosemite is now one of the only examples we have of what a healthy forest in the sierra is supposed to look like. i was invited along with researchers to see it, and here's what i saw. >> you have to really love the work you are doing if just getting to the office means carrying 40 pounds on your back. >> i want to know what the forest has to tell me. there are just so many secrets out here. somebody has to tell their story. >> i have been working here for almost 20 years and i still don't really have it all figured out and. >> reporter: the story that brandon and alexis are trying to figure out and share with the rest of us is what happens when naturally-occurring

i'm elizabeth cook. >>> let's get right to that fire in hayward. anne makovec is following it all for us. >> another reminder fire season is here, that brushfire was burning off harder road near west view way in hayward just west of the cal state east bay campus and near dozens of homes on the south side of the city. our chopper got to the scene quickly and we have some pictures. this is what it looked like moment after that fire broke out. this is around 1:30 this afternoon. you can see the flames on the hillside there. the thick smoke is rising in the air and this is fire crews working to get a handle on those flames, quick response there luckily and they just surrounded the burn zone, spraying water along it to stop the fire before it spreads any further. you can see here what looks like an encampment. we still do not know the cause of the fire, but our chopper did see this. that's right near where the fire had started. you can see some debris scattered on the hillside and that fire just torching through it. we have not heard of any injuries so

. >> i am elizabeth cook. jack smith announced the four charges against the former president. >> the attack on our nation's capital on january 6th, 2021 was an unprecedented assault on the seat of american democracy. it is described in the indictment, fueled by lies. lies by the defendant targeted at obstructing a bedrock function of the u.s. government. >> the charges allege that trumps actions led to the insurrection. skyler henry is in washington with details on the indictment and reaction from the former president. skyler? >> reporter: hey, ryan and liz, good to be with you. legal experts say that this third indictment includes some of the most serious charges yet, alleging criminal misconduct while he was still in office. a federal grand jury has issued an indictment of former president donald trump related to his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. special counsel jack smith has charged trump with four counts of conspiracy to defraud the united states, conspiracy to obstruct an official p

i am elizabeth cook. >> i am ryan yamamoto.rchers discovered that if we did not allow could fire into a forest we would put them at risk for the mega fires we see today. >> darren, what did you find? >> because of that good fire and because of the inspiration of researchers at berkeley in the 1970s, this little forest in yosemite is n

. >> i am elizabeth cook. for the second time in two years, a district attorney who ran on criminal justice reform is facing a recall. a group filed paperwork to recall alameda county district attorney pamela price. >> it comes as she faces criticism for how the office is prosecuting a number of cases. that includes the shooting death of jasper wu who was riding in the car with his parents when he was shot in the head, and also blake mohs, a loss prevention officer at home depot in pleasanton who was shot and killed during an attempted shoplifting. in both cases, critics have been outspoken about the lack of charges in those cases. >> our katie nielsen was at the building where paperwork was filed an hour ago. katie? >> reporter: a group called safe, or safe alameda for everyone started the recall process for pamela price. they acknowledge that the road to the recall will be a long one if the recall makes the ballot at all. >> we are not doing it just for victims families. we are doing it for everyone in alame

elizabeth cook has the night off. we begin with car break-ins which are an issue across the bay area, but especially here in san francisco. numbers show a slight drop in the number of break-ins, but that is little comfort for residents and tourists who are being targeted by thieves. now the city is promising a more proactive approach to try to stop them. wilson walker has the details. >> every single day cars are getting broken into. we walk by and see the families coming back to their car after it has been broken into and just glass everywhere, kids in tears, lost their teddy bear, lost their passports, can't get home to nicaragua or wherever they came from, and it is heartbreaking. >> reporter: annie is lucky enough to live in one of the finest parts of the city, but the palace of fine arts is littered with san francisco diamonds, so it was here that police chose to renew a strategy for an old problem. chief scott described more officers redeployed to break in hotspots, and yes, something that a lot of people have b

elizabeth cook has the evening off. we begin this hour with a bit of rebel road work on san francisco streets. we are talking about the intersection of fourth and king where a girl in a stroller was recently killed in a crosswalk. our jose martinez tells us the city had nothing to do with the lane closure at that exact spot. >> reporter: i am here at the intersection of fourth and king were a group of activists is decided to install these barriers closing one of the right turn lanes. residents tell me that the city needs to act immediately to prevent more tragedies like the one from last week. barbara ramirez lives near this intersection where the four-year-old girl was struck and killed last week. >> it is devastating. i am crossing there probably twice a day and i see so many close calls every day. >> reporter: tuesday night a group of activists put up barriers blocking one of the turn lanes. >> at this point it is the only thing that you can really do to make the city aware that this is incredibly dangerous. >> repor

i am elizabeth cook. >> i am ryan yamamoto. a spare the air alert has been issued for tomorrow with more smoke into the area. >> take a look at this. flames engulfing dry grass along highway 4 in contra costa county. this fire breaking out near cummings skyway this afternoon. lanes were closed as fire crews worked a hillside, creating a fire break. this one was brought under control. chief meteorologist paul heggen is here with a look at the first alert weather day. >> so that air quality will be a concern across the bay area and the fire danger will be a concern for the north bay mountains. here is a look at the current air quality map. you see a lot of green and yellow dots indicating good to moderate volleyball look towards the top. more and more orange showing up, indicating the unhealthy for sensitive groups range that is drifting from the north. it is more likely that we will see service-level smoke increasing to where we get into that unhealthy for sensitive groups category. it is a spare the air alert day with the heat

i am elizabeth cook. >> i am ryan yamamoto. a half hour ago hawaii's governor confirmed that 53 people are dead. this is already the second-deadliest wildfire in the last 100 years in the u.s. only behind the camp fire that killed 86 people in the northern california town of paradise in 2018. emergency officials now fear that the death toll could rise higher by the time it is over. >> president biden has declared a federal disaster which means more resources are on the way to . our reporter billy be is in maui with more on the effort to save lives. >> reporter: the fire that roared through lahaina town like a blowtorch has left devastation everywhere. >> we sought an area that looked like it had been bombed in a war zone. >> reporter: helicopter tour operator richie olson flew over the smoldering towns. >> hundreds of homes leveled to the ground. the historic section of the town is destroyed. even the boats in the harbor were burned to the water. they are gone. >> this is truly an all hands on deck situation. >> reporter: offic

. >>> good evening to you i'm elizabeth cook right now we are continuing our coverage of maui, new images coming in especially on the town of lahaina on the west coast. images too familiar to those living in the bay area that lived through our own devastating wildfires where once stood homes and businesses now just row after row of ash and rubble. firecrews make their way through the debris looking for survivors and finding more casualties. >> we can confirm first lives lost. we can expect the number to go up significantly as the search and rescue teams get into the houses burned. >> support has been pouring in since the first images of the fires came out. this united boeing 787 left sfo with supplies from the red cross. and there were similar scenes at the airport in moneta where we caught up with some of the volunteers doing what they can to help the victims. >> about a dozen people with the red cross based here in the bay area have left for hawaii and now more are on the way. both tom tanner and michelle aver is headed to honolulu first on two week deployment. they know they will get t

. >> i'm elizabeth cook. >>> last month 8-year-old asa was with his mom on 580 near grand avenue caught between shooters in two cars who were firing back and forth at one another. we now know asa is paralyzed below the neck. on a fundraising website, his family wrote their son needs a respirator survive and needs around-the-clock care. one positive note here, asa can read and he can communicate. >> liz, just this morning another freeway shooting in the east bay. the chp says someone opened fire in a case of road rage on i-80 in richmond just east of central avenue. the car was hit by a bullet, but no one was hurt. the chp admits freeway shootings are becoming more common and that's causing a lot of fear. >> da lin talks to drivers and a woman who recently survived being shot on the freeway. >> reporter: local authorities admit freeways have turned into battlegrounds for gangs and incidents of road rage. the chp said they responded to more than 400 freeway shootings in the bay area since 2020. freeways, they're how people get around go, to work and go for grocery runs, but the repeated s

i'm elizabeth cook. >>> the city has a plan to bring people to the plaza, but as john ramos reports, farmers say it's at their expense. >> reporter: the elegant brick-lined beauty of united nations plaza has changed in recent years. now most days it has become a gathering place for the homeless and drug addicted, but one day a week the atmosphere changes thanks to the sunday farmers market. >> i mean this market was founded on that principle that this was a food desert and from day one we had a line of people in this neighborhood waiting to purchase fresh produce. >> reporter: the presence of so many people discourages the troubled element from congregating and officials have taken notice. they asked if the market could operate seven days a week, but when that wasn't possible, the city quietly developed a plan to move the farmers out. instead the plaza will soon contain a public recreation area, including skateboarding, pickleball and tech ball courts and ping pong and chess tables. >> my understanding and what we've been told is that it is a experimental pilot project to try to impr

i'm elizabeth cook. >>> the city has a plan to bring people to the plaza, but as john ramos reports,r: the elegant brick-lined beauty of

. >> if it would have been done when he >>> good evening, i'm elizabeth cook. >> and i'm ryan yamamoton family as it will account for about 17% of new covid cases in united states. >> joining us now live is dr. peter chen hong. thank you so much for joining us. we haven't spoken to you in a while and that's probably a good thing. >> it is always a good thing, liz. >> but nice to have you on over the last few times. what do we know about this new variant? >> so we know it is rising up very quickly and kind of unexpected. but the difference between this variant is that it is more similar than the other things that are floating around. what it means is that the gamable that they made a few months ago to make the new vaccines was a good one. all of these variants including ours, that they are so similar to what is circulating that it should be a good match. >> i know a lot of folks are thinking when is the last time i had my booster. is it a good idea as schools start and people start coming back from vacations, a good idea to get that booster? >> and i think that there are two possibiliti

. >>> good evening to you i'm elizabeth cook right now we are continuing our coverage of maui, new images coming in especially on the town of lahaina on the west coast. images too familiar to those living in the bay area that lived through our own devastating wildfires where once stood homes and businesses now just row after row of ash and rubble. firecrews make their way through the debris looking for survivors and finding more casualties. >> we can confirm first lives lost. we can expect the number to go up siif

i'm elizabeth cook. >> i'm ryan yamamoto. mandatory evacuation orders are in e after that hazardous materials incident in san pablo. people were out of their >> everyone and a six block radius was evacuated including part of giant highway, minor avenue, 11 street and palmer avenue. we are expecting an update from contra costa county fire any minute now and we will bring you that when it begins. >>> our justin andrews has more on what crews are dealing with out there. >> crews kept moving methodically with this one because they are dealing with a lot of chemicals and some of those chemicals are still unknown. that is why we have crews right here trying to uncover exactly what those materials were that they found inside the backyard shed . the goal is to make sure people are back in their homes by the end of the day today but that depends on the progress these hazmat crews and teams can make because they are talking about hundreds of boxes and several of those chemicals. in the last several hours, authorities told us the homeow

elizabeth cook introduces us to a young woman who went from working in her families doughnut shop toyou see law san francisco. >> reporter: have a cup of tea at home with emily and you may notice a familiar theme in her apartment. >> there is a joke among my close friends in middle school and high school until now, even at law school. we know we are good friends with emily when we are sick of doughnuts. >> reporter: emily is about to begin her second year at you see law san francisco. she is achieving a dream she wants what was out of reach, like so many students who are the first in their family to achieve higher education. but to understand how she got here, you have to go back to where it all began. behind the counter of her parents doughnut shop in santa clara. >> growing up in a doughnut shop, i honestly did not know any other way of growing up. i had other extended families in doughnut shops. it was kind of my normal, in a sense. i would be at the doughnut shop and i would play on the cash register to learn math. i would fuled boxes. i had day-to-day chores. when i was 10 or so

elizabeth cook went to ucf medical center to find more. >> reporter: amy is a doctor herself.t always easy being a patient. she is never without her yarn and lucky charms. a source of comfort during life's hardest moments. >> i have my octopus that i got from mexico carved out of a coconut seed and buffalo is strength that helps me. these are the things that i have. then i crocheted my scarf to be my armor. >> reporter: she is getting the second round of chemo. a frightening diagnosis discovered by accident. >> i was going in for a procedure to look at my esophagus. my doctor said you are over 45. get your first colonoscopy. i woke up from anesthesia and the doctor said your esophagus is fine but i think you have rectal cancer i was thinking worst-case scenario. what if this is everywhere in my body. am i going to die. >> reporter: fortunately the cancer has not spread to other parts of her body. but amy needs to undergo intense treatment. she has been here before. >> the first was sarcoma in my upper thigh. i spent a year with intensive chemo and radiation and surgery in the

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elizabeth cook vents like this is bringing a big boost to businesses who have been through a lot in thet few years. the street fest spotlights the traditions of oakland's chinatown with performances, art, and food. >>> and big changes for san francisco's downtown after 34 years at the westfield mall. nordstrom has closed up shop. folks who did go by today found empty shelves and deserted departments, but there are a number of small businesses ready to step into the breach. max darrow's got that story. >> reporter: sunday marked the end of a 35-year run for nordstrom downtown san francisco. the latest major business to close in the city. changing the closing to a dynamic downtown. transferring control of the mall back to the lender. according to the mall's former owner, since 2019, they've seen a 43% drop in foot traffic and occupancy has dropped 55%. but as that chapter closes, a new one is about to begin for 17 small businesses downtown. selected out of the nearly 900 to be a part of the first round of the vacant to vibrant pop-up program. lorena cortez and david velasquez own the mell

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elizabeth and i cooked this up a few months ago, maybe six months ago, to kind of an event of bioneers. and rebecca solnit is going to be the keynote speaker at the conference in berkley, april 6th to 8th. lots of speakers, in fact, a couple of speaksers, people who wrote in this book, jay begley is also speaking. it's a wonderful conference with visionary speakers, speaking about claimant change, progressive politics, the environment, everything that we care about, it's going to be there. it's going to be three days and they're taking over berkeley. i hope you'll join us by the way a special discount code from the commonwealth club, commonwealth 20, get a discount code and go all three days or just one day. i think that rebecca is going to be there on the saturday. i first came across rebecca solnit on facebook of all places and people were writing about her and comments in the press and wow, this woman is everything i care about. and i read and recommended her book, orwell's roses for my book club. i think one of the people in my book club is here and we so enjoyed it and so enjoyed

elizabeth and i cooked this up a few months ago maybe six months noago. it'ss a wonderful conference of the speakers speaking about climate change, progressive politics on theyt environment, everything that we care about it's going to be there. it's going to be three days and the major taking over berkeley. by the way we have a special discount code from the commonwealth club. you can get a discount code and ie think rebecca is going to be there on saturday. i first came across on facebook of all places and people were posting about her and i started reading her column and was so impressed i kind of thought this woman is everything that i care about. i read and recommended her book orwell's roses from my book club and i think one of the people is here. w we so enjoyed it and her work and we areg thrilled that she's going to be speaking tonight and answering questions about hope for the claimant and it's not too late which i'm glad to hear and we are all glad to hear good news about the claimant. i'm going to ask rebecca if, or no,e elizabeth, if you would

elizabeth and i cook this up a few months ago, maybe six months ago. i don't know if you know that, rebecca is going to be the keynote speaker at the finance conference. it is happening in berkeley for the first time. as we said, it's april 6 to 8. a lot of speakers, in fact a couple speakers are people who wrote in the book. i know jake bagley is one of them. and also speaking, it's a wonderful conference with visionary speakers speaking about climate change, progressive politics, environment. everything that we care about is going to be there. it's going to be three days and we are taking over berkeley. it's going to be great. i hope y'all will join. us and by the way, we have a special discount code from the commonwealth club. commonwealth 20. you can get a discount code and go for all three days i, think rebecca is gonna be there on the saturday. i first came across quebec on facebook of all places. they were posting about her, i started reading her comments. i was so impressed. i kind of one wow, this woman is everything that i care about. i recom

liz: elizabeth: they're surpassing fires started by smoking and cooking in new york city.s ago in new york that started with an e-bike, and it burned down the whole building. so these can be very, very dangerous. elizabeth: yeah, they're randomly blowing up. so, you know, they want to ban swimming pool if diving boards, gas stoves, plastic straws, vaping, but it's okay for people to die or be critically injured from electric battery fires? final word. >> yeah. i mean, that's what's so hypocritical about this. and, look, i have an e-bike, i love it, but people should be aware of the risk of having these, and i do find it ironic that we shut down nuclear power for 30 years with nobody dying, and we've had way more people dying from electric batteries, but they love those. elizabeth: steve moore, stick with us, you're going to be back in a moment. >>> this story, far-left congresswomen alexandria ocasio-cortez and rashida tlaib, heavy got massive student loan debt. they're not really talking about that. they're demanding president biden push through a student debt bailout. th

cook. she loved children. she was. and she was very funny. so i didn't do elizabeth cady stanton, which i think a lot of people would say, well, that's the more obvious pick, because she the supposedly the brains behind the operation, which i think is just a disservice to susan being anthony because susan b anthony was the one who got out there and actually did stuff. i mean, she was she was the feet and the arms in the hands of women's suffrage. and for decades and decades later, people. okay. all right. so beyonce versus dolly parton. i know beyonce is a better choice. well, that's why. well, i know that my editor was like, are you sure you're just not pandering to those young people out there? i'm like, no, that is such a rude dismissal. and beyoncÉ, who i really know i'm not that's not the music i would listen to. i'm more likely to beethoven than beyoncÉ. but, you know, she so frank, such a moral leader, i think, you know, it's such a person who's willing to put forward a new moral ethic ethos in her in her bailiwick. i mean, she's not a political organizer, but