jeff rosen is with us today.t message is both clear and powerful, but to what extent will you really go after hate-based attacks? there are some in the asian american community who might feel that in the past, their cases have not been taken as seriously. >> the reason that we put the psa out was to do a few things. one was to remind our community of what our values are, what our shared humanity is. second, it was a message to perpetrators or would be perpetrators that would think to commit some kind of act of violence against someone who is asian american. and three, it was really to empower the victims of these crimes to come forward and to report them. and i want was a way of trying to encourage them in saying if you report these crimes to police, we will prosecute them. and i unfortunately, there is already a case where we're prosecuting in our county someone that threatened a vietnamese couple at a grocery store and said if i had an ak-47, i'd kill all of you mfers, and then put his fingerer into the shape o

those changes this morning santa clara county is making amid the outbreak is district attorney jeff rosena. rosen, thank you for joining us again on "today in the bay." >> happy to spend the morning with you. >> last hour we talked to you about the psa your office is doing. now i want to talk about the new law that is went into effect immediately yesterday dealing statewide. this is the bail elimination for low level cases, also the hearings being held remotely. do you think this was a smart move? >> yes, i do. we're trying on the one hand to protect public safety which we're doing by continuing to prosecute crimes, but we're now doing it in a way that enhances public health by slowing the spread of this virus. so we've greatly reduced the number of hearings we have in court, and on top of that we're doing most of those hearings remotely. so instead of having thousands of people going in and out of the courtrooms each day in san jose, we're now down to dozens of people because many of those hearings are being done remotely. >> and how has this affected the work load for you all in the d.a

district attorney jeff rosen says there have been 2000 complaints but most business owners have voluntarily following the new orders. >> it is very often hard to measure the result of a good deed. your good deed, your sacrifice, your civic duty will be measured in lives. >> the number of covid-19 cases in this county has ballooned from 138 to 890 in just the past few weeks. officials say they are now seeing a slowing in growth and that tightening the restrictions could accelerate the decline. >> we need to do more to give our healthcare facilities and providers every advantage we can so they can care for us when we need them and the sooner we stay in our homes, the better we adhere to what dr. cody is asking us, really not asking us but demanding us to do, the more lives we are going to save and the sooner, i think, we're going to be back to our old lives again. >>> will start seeing patients monday. that will free up hospital beds for a projected influx of patients. additionally, 500 ventilator units are headed to this county. right now, there are 152 covd- 19 patients who are in various i

. >> reporter: district attorney jeff rosen said the vast majority of all nonessential businesses and construction sites are already complying with the order, but a handful of businesses are still not. we found a tree trimming crew still active in one neighborhood, and several gardening crews still appeared to be heading out for jobs when maybe they should have been sheltering at home. rose were said no one has been cited yet, but several businesses have been warned. >> if a business doesn't voluntarily comply after it's been asked by the district attorney's office and local law enforcement, then we will file charges in order to close that business down. >> until now, most construction sites that were build something type of housing were allowed to stay open, but not anymore, this order going into effect throughout the bay area is following probably hundreds in not thousands of construction workers off the job, at least for now, until the order is lifted. reporting live in san jose, kpix 5. >>> well, in other news, an east by a park is closed tonight after a coyote bit a five-year-old

jeff rosen says there have been 2,000 complaints so far. but most business owners are voluntarily following the new orders. >> it's very often hard to measure the result of a good deed. your good deed. your sacrifice. your civic duty will be measured in lives. >> reporter: the number of covid-19 cases in this county has ballooned from 138 to 890 in just the past few weeks. officials say they're now seeing a slowing in growth. and that tightening the restrictions could accelerate a decline. >> we need to do even more to give our healthcare facilities and employereds every advantage we can. so they can care for us when we need them. and the sooner we stay in our homes, the better we adhere to what dr. code seasking us, really not asking us but demanding us to do, the more lives we're gonna save. and the sooner i think we're gonna be back to our old hives again. >> reporter: the federal medical station at the santa clara city convention center will start seeing patients monday. officials say that'll free up hospital beds frayer projected influ

. >> jeff rosen says previously each filing would have to be done manually taking months. now using software, the cases are over like that in courts can focus on other, more serious crimes at a time when judicial access is limited. jesse gary, ktvu fox2 news . >>> a cool down today and very noticeable as we head into tomorrow. it warms a little bit but stays on the mild side. the forecast is coming up. >>> let's go to heather holmes with some of the stories we are working on for the 7:00 news on ktvu plus. >>> embattled aircraft manufacturer boeing announces thousands of layouts. we will tell you about the workers who will be hit the hardest. >>> also, the ceo of tesla raising eyebrows with the tweet about reopening the us economy. we will tell you why there is some backlash. those stories and more coming up live tonight over on ktvu plus. >>> after the break, a surprise parade but it was not a special occasion. we will tell you why more than 100 parishioners lined up outside of church and taking a live look on wednesday evening, we take down the final days of april. ktvu

here to talk about the challenges is district attorney jeff rosen. d.a.en, thank you for being with us this morning. >> it's my pleasure. >> i know your office put out a psa on hate crimes. a moment to take a look at a short part of that. >> and if you hurt or threaten someone because of those things you'll have a lot more to worry about than covid-19. the color of their skin or where you think someone is from then you have attacked us all. >> i actually wrote down that last part because i wanted to talk to you about it. i thought it was powerful to use the attorneys in the office to talk about that. once you attack one of us, you attack us all. talk to us about increase report of hate crimes since the pandemic. have you seen an increase in those report of crimes? >> we have seen hate incidences and hate crimes. we filed a hate crime who said to a vietnamese couple in a grocery store if i had an ak-47 i would kill you and made his hand into the shape of a gun. we filed charges for hate crime and he's in custody. >> people are scared in this situation and

jeff rosen. he says the county has seen an increase in hate crimes since the pandemic. >> we're trying to educate people. we're all in this together. and the message of that psa was to remind everyone of what our values are and what our shared humanity is and to say, look,th just attacked an asian person, you've attacked all of us in the bay area. >> as part of the covid-19 response, california state courts have temporarily eliminated bail for people who have committed low level offences to try to ease that influx in inmates in local jails. >>> happening now, the doors are open at a new drive-through grocery store in san jose. so choice lunch is a school lunch delivery service that normally delivers food to schools. since campuses are closed, the company launched the choice lunch pantry, a drive-through grocery store. the food comes state from distributors and workers get that food ready before you pick it up so you can avoid contact with anyone. you must order two days in advance. another locati

jeff rosen, you wrote an article, it says hamilton would not have stood for trump's new constitutional theory, and the important thing about alexander hamilton other than the fact there's this great musical about him is that he believed in very strong executive powers. he was a partisan to george washington and the concept of a president having a lot of powers, and he wouldn't even interpret the president's powers as being as broad as donald trump and his advisers do. >> that's exactly right. hamilton was suspected by some of his fellow founders as being a closet markist, and in the very speech at the constitutional convention where he argued for life terms for the president and the senate, he emphasized that the president was not a king. that he would be checked by the congress and the courts and he embraced this theory of mixed government, which he got from classical philosophers that said that each of the branches had to check each other to prevent the president from becoming like a king. and then he goes on to say in federalist 69 that in some ways the president has even less power

district attorney jeff rosen says too many people have committed low level offenses and some remain hampered by those old criminal records he went on to say the justice system must always evolve towards fairness and equality proposition 64 which passed in california in 2016. effectively legalize the use of marijuana in the state. >>in san francisco. the police department released new details to that today about crime overall crime is down 23%, however, there are some troubling trends of the department is tracking kron four's noelle bellow is in our newsroom tonight with an update on what's happening in san francisco know out. >>that's right pam on one end we do have some good news, san francisco police chief bill scott says crime is down 23% here in san francisco, but they're noticing a lot of personal property crimes during this shelter in place order chief scott says for elderly women have been robbed in the last 2 weeks some of the victims were attacked at gunpoint others were pushed to the ground. the thieves were targeting the victim's purse as and commercial burglaries are also on the

jeff rosen is the president and ceo of the national constitution center, charlie savage, washington correspondent for "the new york times," both are experts in executive power and battle going on in those things. tonight a lineup of stars including lady gaga, paul mccartney, lizzo. it's all to support the world health organization and the global fight to stop the president of covid-19. ♪ it's been too hard living but i'm afraid to die ♪ ♪ i don't know what's up there giant sky ♪ ♪ it's been a long time coming but i know change going come ♪ ♪ oh, yes, it will >> all right. this is an 8 p.m. eastern right here on msnbc. unless you really don't like the world health organization, watch one world together. you can catch it on nbc, all of our platforms and on our online streaming network nbc news now. coming up, u.s. intelligence agency investigating whether the coronavirus actually originated in a research lab in wuhan, china. in only 8 weeks with mavyret... ...i was cured. i faced reminders of my hep c every day. i worried about my hep c. but in only 8 weeks with mavyret... ...i was cured. mavyret i

for more of what this portends for the general election in november, i'm joined by jeff row ros -- jeffrey rosenthere are some fundamental issues we need to be thinking about. how do you evaluate what happened in wisconsin? >> well, it has a feeling of bush v. gore reductix. as in bush v. gore, the majority said the court's decision on the narrow question should not be viewed as expressing an opinion in the larger election. that point cannot be stressed enough. as justice ginsburg said in her extremely powerful dissenting opinion, the question here is whether tens of thousands of wisconsin voters can vote safely in the midst of a pandemic. under the district court's order they'd be able to do so and now they can't. if you're trying to figure out what this means for november, i guess you can say the supreme court is not going to be happy when lower courts step in at the last minute to change the election rules, even if they seem necessary in order for people to receive ballots. they haven't said more than that but they've made clear they, the supreme court, are willing to intervene and put their