that's why there's so much interest in the haight-ashbury.le 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 that were into social consciousness about what was needed to take care of this huge group of people that were coming into the haight-ashbury. >> their free shop looks more like a playground at first sight. here they make sheets and cloth

. >>> you have two days left to say goodbye to the historic the had haight-ashbury music center. the store will bid farewell tomorrow. it has been holding a liquidation store for months. competition from online retailers is just too much. the store provided high quality instruments to musicians, including some famous ones like carlos santana and jerry garcia. any remaining inventory will > ast bay, a second redwood city hearing is planned this thursday on a proposal to name a richmond elementary school after the former first lady michelle obama. wilson elementary school is currently in the process of being rebuilt. it is named after former president had woodrow wilson. there is a process for renaming a school that this is part of it. the meeting on thursday is scheduled for 6:00 p.m. at grace ru lutheran church. >>> we are watching developing news out of hawaii. least two police officers are dead. >>> and you can help out a city and make some quick cash at the same time. bay area city where there is a demand for poll workers for the upcoming primary. >>> and the lunar new year is

haight-ashbury music center has closed its doors after 40 years. store was a mecca for local musicians and served the likes of jerry garcia and other icons of the san francisco music scene. its long-time owner remembers the day a teenaged musician unknowingly helped him sell a guitar to carlos santana. >> and one day he came here, and there was a kid who did not know carlos santana was in the store, was looking at the red stratocaster, and he was playing one of his solos. and carlos walked back toward the end of the store, and then the guy stopped and he didn't buy the guitar, he left. but carlos came what guitar was that kid playing? he ended up bying the guitar as a gift for someone. >> he says difficulties with the lease played a part in the decision. some of the inventory will now be moved to a sister store in redwood city. but what a great legacy. four decades. >> a little bit of history there. >> seriously. it's monday and the roadways are looking good. skies not too bad, a little gray. >> a little gray. roadways might be a little damp tomorr

question in regards to the mobile health care unit that's been deployed in the tenderloin by the haight-ashbury free clinic. have we seen that has affected in a positive way our call volumes or our response times? we know that that's an affected model? >> i'll refer to dr. ng for that one. >> hello again. so the units that you're referring to, commissioner remember owe nie veronese is the healthright 360. they're not currently receiving volume from the 911 system, so we're not -- for instance, 911 ambulance are not delivering patients to this clinic, so it doesn't have that sort of an impact. on the other hand, their mission, as i understand it, is to provide better access for primary care, so that's another access for patients in that area who don't have access to another clinic that they can go to. if that would prevent a person from requiring 911 services, that would be a benefit to us. but to answer your question, we don't strictly monitor the influence of that particular unit. specifically anecdotally, i don't think we're seeing an impact on that. it's not for patients that are seeking eme

late 20s, i worked in a street ministry where i spent one summer interacting with people in the haight-ashbury in that work, what were some of the challenges that you heard from some of the people you were talking to that were homeless? >> i discovered from my experience that some are, that there is a whole gamut of homeless. certainly people with addictions. but there are people who lost a job. there is a saying, for a lot of people in the bay area, new york they might be one paycheck away from being homeless. there are people who are hard-working but circumstances, caused them not to be able to pay the rent or mortgage. so there are some good people that are also homeless because of the economy. lisa: but the problem, you know, it does seem to be worse in california. so is it because of politicians like governor newsome? or why do you think california seems to be having a more difficult time with homelessness than some other states? >> i think actually california and new york are two of the states which have the most homeless. not just the government policies. it's areas where there are a lo