in the center of what would become the haight-ashbury. >> the psychedelic shop on haight street started hungry for some kind of meaningful spiritual life, that's why all these people are down here. that's why there's so much interest in the haight-ashbury. it offers hope. >> we lived right down the street from the psychedelic shop. people were growing their hair long, they were wearing beads, playing music on the street. it was just an incredible environment at that point, in the beginning. that's when it was just like one big, giant family. >> before you knew it, it was a congregating place for artists, and the dividing line seemed to be the psychedelic experience. you couldn't understand the posters, you couldn't understand the fashions, you couldn't understand anything if you hadn't gotten high. >> the diggers group scrounges food and money to feed free those who arrive in panhandle park with a bowl and an appetite. diggers are people who share, says their manifesto, and their aim is a society where everything is shared, everything free. >> the diggers were one of the first groups th

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. >> reporter: a rollerskating rink in the lower haight, they started showing up at 5:30 in the morning. they caught wind of the opening and laced up for the first time indoors in more than a year. >> it's amazing. >> reporter: how does it feel? >> so good, so smooth. >> reporter: the owner got to the pandemic by adapting and rolling with it. >> we started online skate store, had been selling roller skates like crazy. i don't let the grass grow under my feet, got to get rolling, got to keep spreading religion of the week i can. >> reporter: if you will be outside enjoying yourself during the yellow tier, it is a good idea to keep the mask on hand because the mask rules change from situation to situation. kpix5. >>> the mass vaccination site, the mascone center, will close on may 28th. officials say demand for appointments has dropped dramatically. more than 300,000 doses have been administered at this right in just the last three months. across the city, 72% of adults have gotten at least one dose. >>> mann base view google everlasting its return to work plan, the tech giant says it exp

my partner used to live right off of haight street. she would have never started biking during this if she didn't have a safe place to get started with biking. that was the slow streets. and car-free j.f.k. we think slow streets are an addition to our city. there's very little car traffic. for biking it's great for school kids, it's great for -- [indiscernible] and so many other things. and i think it's a minor imposition on driver, because cars are allowed to drive there, just through-traffic that's not allowed. it ends up being residents driving to and from their home. that doesn't create a lot of traffic. i live on a slow street now. i've never had a problem driving to my house. the moving truck didn't have any trouble getting here. i wouldn't imagine a fire truck would have a problem either. i support slow streets. especially the ones here on golden gate where i live and haight where is a biking lane. i would encourage m.t.a. and the fire department to work together, especially for streets like page, where there is a little bit mor

. ♪ ♪ >>> an 83-year-old asian woman attacked during an attempted robbery in san francisco's haight valleyay, this time bystanders came to her rescue and they chased down the suspected attacker. nbc bay area's christie smith spoke with some of the people who stepped in. >> reporter: jeffrey was dropping his kids off at school when people started yelling about an attack. >> a homeless individual was attacking the elderly asian woman. there was a few loads -- the bag she was carrying was being strewn. i saw a couple of people kind of helping her. >> reporter: he says nearby construction workers and others were trying to get a man away from the 83-year-old he was attempting to rob. he and another man followed the man you see here about a block and a half. >> we formed a circle around him, made sure he did not try to run for it or anything. but there was also other people, there was also another individual, called the police for us. >> reporter: he says they tried to ask him questions, and he started rambling and that he heard him make racist statements. >> and he was trying to explain to us w

ayanna pressley haight a budget to the reflection of our values under the last administration tipped and increased funding accountable agencies like ice and bp exacted a long lasting hurt and harm in our communities. 50% of americans support building more border wall. but, of course, that's not in the president's plan. so, what if g.o.p. doesn't like it? well, democrats trying to use budget reconciliation to go it alone. will, carley, steve? steve: they could. all right. thank you very much, griff. cover of the "new york post" take a look here hog wild. so he is riding a pig obviously to suggest pork. it's a lovely graphic, however. if you notice the pig has a little bib and on it says $6 trillion. and will, you are absolutely right. last time we spent this proportion of our g.d.p. was when we were fighting the nazis. but, instead. biden's massive budget proposal instead is going to pay for electric cars and a whole unionized force of healthcare workers and elder care workers and free universal pre-k among other things. will: you know that analogy, steve. the bib, what we should know

this including geary, market, haight, silver avenue, el sessyour, mission where we have to leave a lot of readers behind because the buses are completely full. >> you are attributing that and i want to be clear. you are attributing more to labor shortages than anything else? we had a hearing on your budget last week and at least in the short term in these immediate two years we received more fund the federal government than we lost in revenues. it doesn't seem to me that it is a loss of revenue issue in the short term. why are we not prepared to be in the situation with economic recovery to not leave so many people at the curb. it is not caused by free municipal new. free -- muni. it is not connected to our covid revenue losses. >> the fact that we are pointing and making that part of the free muni conversation. it is an independent and urgent problem that we are failing to solve right now. why are we in this situation and what are you doing to address it? >> good yes. there are several interrelated problems. couple of primary problems are directly related to covid. social distancing o

along haight street and larkyn street. thank you for your time. >> chair borden: thank you. next speaker, please. >> operator: you have three questions remaining. >> chair borden: next speaker. >> caller: hello commissioners directors, whichever way you'd like to be called. a quick comment. i wanted to say thank you from the bottom of my heart for recognizing the needs of small businesses. i grew up with one. if the pandemic had occurred, in childhood, i would have been homeless, because my father had a small business. thank you so very much for that. that's it. thank you. >> chair borden: thank you. next speaker, please. >> operator: you have two questions remaining. >> caller: thank you. directors, i would like to point out that whatever we want to achieve with vision zero or reviving our local businesses, i do currently see a big gap in wide areas of the city with respect to enforcement of the rules that has been put in place. it's convenient to break the speed limit, because there is no enforcement coming. today it seems on many streets it's convenient for violate the we

along haight street and larkyn street. thank you for your time. >> chair borden: thank you. next speaker, please. >> operator: you have three questions remaining. >> chair borden: next speaker. >> caller: hello commissioners directors, whichever way you'd like to be called. a quick comment. i wanted to say thank you from the bottom of my heart for recognizing the needs of small businesses. i grew up with one. if the pandemic had occurred, in childhood, i would have been homeless, because my father had a small business. thank you so very much for that. that's it. thank you. >> chair borden: thank you. next speaker, please. >> operator: you have two questions remaining. >> caller: thank you. directors, i would like to point out that whatever we want to achieve with vision zero or reviving our local businesses, i do currently see a big gap in wide areas of the city with respect to enforcement of the rules that has been put in place. it's convenient to break the speed limit, because there is no enforcement coming. today it seems on many streets it's convenient for violate the we

this including geary, market, haight, silver avenue, el sessyour, mission where we have to leave a lot of readers behind because the buses are completely full. >> you are attributing that and i want to be clear. you are attributing more to labor shortages than anything else? we had a hearing on your budget last week and at least in the short term in these immediate two years we received more fund the federal government than we lost in revenues. it doesn't seem to me that it is a loss of revenue issue in the short term. why are we not prepared to be in the situation with economic recovery to not leave so many people at the curb. it is not caused by free municipal new. free -- muni. it is not connected to our covid revenue losses. >> the fact that we are pointing and making that part of the free muni conversation. it is an independent and urgent problem that we are failing to solve right now. why are we in this situation and what are you doing to address it? >> good yes. there are several interrelated problems. couple of primary problems are directly related to covid. social distancing o

this including geary, market, haight, silver avenue, el sessyour, mission where we have to leave a lot of readers behind because the buses are completely full. >> you are attributing that and i want to be clear. you are attributing more to labor shortages than anything else? we had a hearing on your budget last week and at least in the short term in these immediate two years we received more fund the federal government than we lost in revenues. it doesn't seem to me that it is a loss of revenue issue in the short term. why are we not prepared to be in the situation with economic recovery to not leave so many people at the curb. it is not caused by free municipal new. free -- muni. it is not connected to our covid revenue losses. >> the fact that we are pointing and making that part of the free muni conversation. it is an independent and urgent problem that we are failing to solve right now. why are we in this situation and what are you doing to address it? >> good yes. there are several interrelated problems. couple of primary problems are directly related to covid. social distancing o