. >> reporter: kevin khan owns the fortune cookie factory, a chinatown institution always crowded with the tourists. >> who want to come to chinatown when they hear all the rumor on the news, bad stuff happen to them. >> reporter: this realtor heads it the chinatown neighborhood association and he and others want a police box and lee street. he's offered space rent free-throw in his building. >> those guys want to make trouble, there's a police station there. the capital says he prefers officers to walk the beat instead foo for my officers to be mobile and throughout chinatown is probably better. >> reporter: the mayor says the bottom line is. >> cameras going up adding more beat officers and just so you know, you know that's something i've been fighting for. >> reporter: the crime prevention groups f safe says it will have cameras up and running in eight weeks along stockton street, the same area where the attacks occurred. vic lee, abc7 news. >> in the east bay, one person suffered minor injuries after a big rig slid down a hill in pless is on theton near 680. officials have not said

. >> fear flches kevin khan own the fortune cookie factory, a chinatown institution always crowded with tourists. he wonder what's this will do to local business. >> who want to come to chinatown when they hear all this bad stuff happen to them? >> reporter: this realtor heads the chinatown neighborhood association. he and others want a police box on stockton street and he's offered space rent free in his building. >> those guys wants to make troub, there's a police station there. >> reporter: the captain says he prefers his officers to walk their beat instead. >> for the officers to be mobile abthroughout chinatown is probably better. >> reporter: the mayor says. >> the cameras are going up, add are more beat officers and that's something i've been fighting for reporter. the crime prevention group will have cameras up and running in eight weeks. they'll run along stockton street where the attacks occurred. vic lee, abc7 news. >> thank you. >>> activists hit the streets of chinatown today to educate the asian community about the 2020 census. speakers highlighted the importance of the ce

house minority leader kevin mccarthy did tell reporters that the chants "have no place in our country." he went onto support trump's assertion about not taking part when the khans erupted. >> the president did not join in. president moved on. he moved on about a speech, about a country and the things that are building and right. that's what the president did. has it become so far that you want to dislike the president so much you're going to accuse him of trying to do something he did not do? >> behind the scenes, however, many republicans are not happy about what has unfolded. nbc news reporting some of trump's allies in congress suggested to vice president pence today that the chants were not helpful and that such behavior should be discouraged. "new york times" reporting that house republican leaders "pleaded with pence on thursday morning to separate the party from the mess and embraced by the crowd." there's this from politico, "during a breakfast with republican leaders multiple members said they were disturbed by the chants to representative omar and to relay their message to trump which he agreed to do. >> i'm disgusted in america for allowing this to h