. >>> right now let's bring in nbc bay area political analyst larry gerston to talk about some of these issues. larry, thanks for being here today. what do you think about -- >> happy to be here, terry. >> what do you think about of the first 100 days? what are some of the things the president's done and what are some problems he's got coming up. >> the president spent most of his early days on covid-19, promised a million shots, 100 million shots by 100 days and doubled it, 200 million shots by 100 days, he's accomplished both of those goals. he's also cleaned up the supply chain i critical. don't forget the $1.9 trillion. he squeaked that through because remember, a 50/50 division in the senate, not much more leeway in the house. on the other hand, there's some things that are clearly in his way, the mess at the border continues to be bothersome. it was for the president, it is for this president, trump now biden, something critical. he's got this big american jobs plan and infrastructure plan $2.3 trillion now that's very, very difficult to get through because of the way congress is

it has a tougher road in the senate. >> joining us is larry gerston. this seems like a long road to go with this bipartisanship idea of the president. we've heard this before. so tell us what you took away from today's meeting and how realistic it is that it's going to be bipartisan. >> jessica, this is going to be a much longer haul than the covid question, the $2 trillion, $1.9 trillion. what the president has to do is jump through not one but two hoops. with covid using reconciliation, he aligned all the democrats. this time he not only has to get out all the democrats ranging from the progressives to moderates like joe manchin, he's got to get enough republicans. it's going to be hard to go with a reconciliation group because a couple democrats aren't happy about that. you have to go through not one but two hoops. call it what you will. there was a lot of pr to it. here i am, i'm trying my best. i want you the world to know it. i want you americans to know it and you republicans and democrats to know it. but today is only the beginning of what's go

to answer that, let's bring in nbc bay area political analyst larry gerston. larry, good morning to you. >> good morning, bigad. >> so how big is this resistance? >> look, it's big. it's not as big as it was, let's say four or five months ago, but the fascinating thing is, you know, there are different groups looking at it one way or another, evangelists, people of color and whatnot, but the biggest difference seems to be a partisan difference, it falls along political party lines. there's a recent poll that we put together from the kaiser family foundation asking people what their intentions are with respect to this virus and look, 79% of the democrats said they had or will take it, go all the way down to republicans and you find that number much lower at 46%. what a difference. if you look at the no side, i'm definitely not going to take it, only 2% say no, but more than a third of republicans say no. that's a massive difference when you're talking about something as basic and what many people think as necessary generally for the entire population. >> so cle

kristen dahlgren, nbc news. >>> we normally have larry gerston on our show but we're having technicalifficulties. we cannot wait to get everyone back in person hopefully in some months soon. at 7:47, still ahead on "today in the bay," vianey has a look at your microclimate forecast and showers on the way, next. >>> more public school students in san francisco finally returning to the classroom. what the district is doing to try to keep everyone safe. >> plus hockey lovers have been waiting for this, what shark fans can expect when they run to the s.a.p. center. >>> good morning. buenos dias. off to a cloudy start. little plant, scandepsis trebu moonlight. it is our plant for the day. we are under a microclimate weather alert. you might be thinking it seems calm right now. it is through it hasn't rained in a while. i want to make sure nobody gets caught off guard when we see the rain move in later today. san francisco's live camera, you can see how cloudy it is and it is going to get windy later this afternoon, as that cold front passes through, the winds will pick up behind it, and ta

nbc bay area political analyst larry gerston joins us now. hi, larry.ood morning to you. >> good morning, kira. >> is it possible to explain this recent surge in gun violence? >> yes, you know, key remark the interesting thing is it's not recent. it's been with us all along. we've forgotten about it, hard to believe but at least it hasn't received enough attention because of covid, of course, and combine that with the election, these other issues kind of swept off the front page, but if you look deeper at four or more, as we talk about, we've had 147 mass shootings in year, and if you go back even further, looking at 2018, '19 and '20, look at this growth from 336 in 2018 to 614 last year, and we're looking like we're headed toward those numbers again this year. it is massive, massive, massive. >> that is a staggering number, 614. how does california rank in terms of gun violence? >> good news here. the cdc we've heard of that of course, says california ranks seventh in terms of gun safety, that's a nice number, the give fords group says we're fourth an

let's bring in our political analyst larry gerston. larry, where do we stand? in the court of pun opinion, it seems mr. biden is persisting here. what's the case? >> all of this is fabulous as far as his reputation goes, but we've always talked about supply chain, raj. there was a real serious supply chain issue early on when there was no vaccine, and now the question is, since we've opened it up to everyone in the country 16 and over, will the supply be able to keep up? if it does, that's fabulous, but if it doesn't, this could be the kind of boomerang which is the last thing president biden would want right now when it's trying to do other things that are just as important. >> larry, here are the numbers. polls show 30% to 40% of americans right now still do not plan to get vaccinated. that could be a problem regardless of who is in the oval office. >> yeah, there are a couple of big areas here. we know the anti-vaxers, if you want to call them that, come to about 30 million or 40 million people. probably as many as 25% to 30%. about half the trump voters fro

let's bring in larry gerston. do you see it, larry, on both sides of the coin strictly now the vaccine rollout and how is the president doing? >> he's beating every deadline he had and some said underpromised and overdelivered. he's done it. overpromised and underdelivered, in california we have three things to worry about or think about when it comes to this vaccine and all the deadlines set up. meet or exceed the greater number of eligible people and, secondly, will the vaccine rate stay ahead of more infections and, thirdly, will the vaccine be distributed equitably to minorities? santa clara county to express concern this year. i might add, raj, when it comes to delivering vaccines california ranks 31st. 31st in terms of the vaccines we have here and the number we've delivered to arms. we have a lot to gain here and grow on. will these, use be met with more vaccines? >> next thursday, april 15th, with eligibility opens up to everyone in california 16 and over. a couple more things with president biden. the pand

for some perspective on that, nbc bay area political analyst larry gerston joins us.ow about this compared with his predecessor, donald trump? >> yeah. it's higher. it's higher than president trump. of course, president trump had the lowest republican approval rating in memory from the day he started until the day he left. but biden is about 10% higher, give or take. when you look at the fair and you look at the bottom, 34 for biden. 45 for trump. so that says it all. and it tells us that the public really sense as different kind of person in the white house, at least for now. >> mr. biden is behind where barack obama was and behind where george w. bush was. what are the little things that have happened along the way that have given him a bump or two? >> he is behind them. absolutely correct. he has shown certainly more popularity than president trump. what stands out? a couple of things. in terms of successes, the way he pushed through covid-19. that bill with nothing to spare. the margins in the house and the senate. $1.9 trillion in aid. the other thing we note abo

let's get feedback from our political analyst larry gerston. with the issue, the supreme court, announced today. during the campaign there was a lot of talk how the court has changed and how it is now skewing more republican and whether there was this question of whether the democrats, if they took office, would expand it to try to kind of mitigate that. >> you're right, jessica. i mean we have a six-to-three court, six conservatives, three liberals on most issues, and that's affected all kinds of things, particularly offensive, you might say, to the progressives. things like abortion rights, immigration rights, voting rights, gun control, all of these things that are such rich fodder, if you will, for progressives, and the supreme court has come down really hard on all of those things and progressives feel they may come down even more. so they say, let's go ahead and expand the court. by the way, it is legal. we have had as many as ten supreme court justices and as few as six. the president and congress together can expand the court if they wa