supervisor rafael mandelman was frustrated to hear about a delay at the state level, but he puts theority of blame on the federal government. well, the biggest thing is the defense need to do more. the need to be more urgent. the need to acquire more vaccines, money to get them out much faster. the u.s. is considering declaring monkeypox a health emergency after the world health organization declared a global health emergency over the weekend. the virus may not be life threatening but something to be avoided as more patients come forward and share the seriousness of their symptoms, painful and potentially disfiguring them you. >> away from only were these guys to do for weeks and weeks much longer going to go quarantine. >> if the u.s. does declare health emergency with monkeypox, there could be more funding for treatment. experts are also calling on the white house to appoint a monkeypox coordinator, one person making decisions instead of several organizations deciding next steps reporting live in studio. i'm rob nesbitt. kron. 4 news. >> thank you, robin. for the latest info on the

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and wait times for people seeking a shot at san francisco's bourke hospital city supervisor rafael mandelman, who represents the castro district says he appreciates recent progress. but issues with the vaccine availability could have been prevented. the crisis is now. >> we need the doses. now. we need at least 35,000 doses in san francisco to get out. only gotten just over 2000. we're going, we think going to be another 4,000 this week, right? but this is to slow this. the pace needs to pick up. >> according to the cdc, california has 266 cases of monkeypox. 86 of those have been reported in san francisco county. that makes up more than 32% of the state's cases. >> following a series of drownings at lake berryessa napa county sheriff's office is reminding visitors that the lake is not a swimming pool. there are significant drop offs in the water and that's what's causing major issues for people spending time at the lake. officials say even when you are close to the shoreline, the water can quickly dropped from 5 to 20 feet and they believe people are overestimating their swimming capabiliti

rafael mandelman dorsey and our state senator scott wiener.ecause we as a city and county of san francisco officially, are declaring a state of emergency for a public health crisis. in san francisco involving monkeypox and more. we want to make it known that san francisco has one of the highest case rates already of monkeypox of any other major city in the country. and just to put that into perspective, we saw over the past couple of weeks, the numbers. begin to rapidly increase. at one point, there was 60, then there was a tea. then there was one, 40. and when there was one 40 on july 20th, i sent a letter to the secretary of the department of health and human services, xavier becerra, expressing. significant concern and urgency for the need for vaccines in san francisco and that we are at a very scary place. we don't want to be ignored by the federal government in our needs. so many leaders of the lgbt community have also weeks ago. ask for additional help and support and assistance. and this was july 20th. and now here we are. >> july 28 an

rafael mandelman has been pushing agencies like the cdc to act faster and getting vaccines out to thoseho need them. so far, he says the response has been lackluster. >> does it reflect an unacceptable level of indifference and maybe incompetence? i think so. ama: state senator scott wiener is demanding action, issuing a statement saying "we are veering toward a public health mass of uncontrolled monkeypox spread in our community and many other communities." the white house has promised to have 2 million doses by the end of next year. some 800,000 of them may arrive as soon as the end of this month. there are currently almost 1500 confirmed monkeypox cases nationwide. we are tracking all the latest information about monkeypox cases, testing and vaccines in the bay area. find those stories on our website, abc7news.com. new details tonight about a deadly crash on a bay area road known for street racing. ivana trump has died at the age of 73. the tribute from her ex-husband, the former president. a look at how bastille day was celebrated in san francisco today. a look at what's coming up o

san francisco board supervisor rafael mandelman says a hearing he called for. >> about the status of psychiatric care in the county left him with more questions than answers. the point of the meeting he says was to identify the problems that the only psych ward in the city is facing. when providing mental health services, a union rep for nurses at san francisco general hospital said they are short-staffed overworked, abused by patients and do not have enough security or beds representatives from the department of public health hospital council fire and police departments all share their challenges and admits well, fairly new initiatives like street crisis response teams and they knew sobering center have helped. the system is falling short. while the need has grown in the last decade. >> i think we're still a little bit at square one. and i think we need to figure out. in a in a more focused way than we have how to particularly address that challenge that i think emerged p s, you know, in the last 5 to 10 years and impacts are streets every single day. and it's a challenge for us her

requested enough supply to vaccinate at least 35,000 people who are most at risk supervisor rafael mandelmanroduced a resolution tuesday calling on the cdc and department of health and human services to purchase and distribute more shots. this should be a preventable public health crisis criticizing the federal health plan to distribute 800,000 vaccines by the end of summer and 2 million by the end of next year. numbers that don't fly for those waiting to do their part in stopping the spread. it's impossible to get a vaccine here. >> what's it like in arkansas? what's like mississippi like that? it just, you know, baffles me. >> since june, the san francisco department of public health says it's received around 2800 monkeypox vaccines as your should be. more than 95% of those to community clinics and sites in the city reporting live in the newsroom. i'm rob nesbitt. kron. 4 news. >> thank you, rob. and we are seeing more cases in the bay area. in fact, san francisco is now approaching nearly half the numbers in the whole state of monkeypox. more than 100 cases confirmed in california. san fr

rafael mandelman has been pushing agencies like the cdc to act faster and getting vaccines out to those need them. so far, he says the response has been lackluster. >> does it reflect an unacceptable level of indifference and maybe incompetence? i think so. ama: state senator scott wiener is demanding action, issuing a statement saying "we are veering toward a public health mass of uncontrolled monkeypox spread in our community and many other communities." the white house has promised to have 2 million doses by the end of next year. some 800,000 of them may arrive as soon as the end of this month. there are currently almost 1500 confirmed monkeypox cases nationwide. we are tracking all the latest information about monkeypox cases, testing and vaccines in the bay area. find those stories on our website, abc7news.com. new details tonight about a deadly crash on a bay area road known for street racing. ivana trump has died at the age of 73. the tribute from her ex-husband, the former president. a look at how bastille day was celebrated in san francisco today. a look at what's coming up on

san francisco supervisor rafael mandelman asking for more federal help. he wants an additional 35,000 doses for the city. health officials say that is at least a good starting point. currently there are 60 reported cases of monkeypox in san francisco, but health officials say there are many that have not been reported. they say if you are notified of any potential exposure to monkeypox, they say you should get vaccinated immediately. in san francisco, pete suratos, nbc bay area news. >> thank you. >>> here we go again. there's a good chance that you know someone right now who has covid. a new, highly contagious strain of covid fueling not only our current covid surge, but also frustrations as we continue to learn how to live with this virus. we are talking now about ba.5. california positivity rate is now more than 16%. 16.1% right now. this is one of the highest rates we've seen since the pandemic began. it is still a little lower than the peak we saw during the winter surge which was about 22%. experts say almost one in five californians right now have

rafael mandelman says the city is frustrated by what he says is a lack of response from washington butound the country. >> they have set as a goal, completely unacceptable but moving in the right direction, 3.5 million doses by the middle of next year. that is not enough. you have public health needs now. dan: mayor london breed sent a letter to the federal government requesting 35,000 doses of monkeypox vaccine. the city received just over 7000 to this point. the vaccine clinic at the general hospital ran out of shots in just four hours. san francisco is the epicenter of monkeypox infections in california with 141 confirmed cases so far. monkeypox will also be the topic of discussion tomorrow in santa clara county. the county health department will hold a town hall on zoom from :00 to 5:00 p.m. and then in person at the billy defrank lgbtq community center in san jose from 6:00 until 8:00. the goal is to answer questions, raise awareness, and inform people about what they can do to reduce the spr. in the meantime, we have everything you need to know including vaccines and treatment. g

is critically low and urging the biden administration to take more action quickly supervisor rafael. mandelman says the city is quote literally begging the feds for vaccines and he joins us live to discuss that call for help if you will. thank you for joining us supervisor. sure. glad to be here. thanks for talking about this. let's assess the current situation how great is the demand for a monkeypox vaccine right now versus the supply. our department public health has asked for 35,000 doses and we've gotten a couple thousand we have people lining up for drop-in clinics and waiting for hours and hours and hours and getting turned away and that's happened. i think a couple times this week so um, you know, we are very short on what we need to be giving out we need to be getting vaccines into arms and we're just we're not able to do that with the supply that we have. all right. we got less than one tenth of what we asked for is what you're saying. so you talked about this line. so let's go ahead and show some of that because we captured video of some of it and this is one outside berkeley steemwo

. >> pretty fast about to in the so have an inquiry what's going on supervisor rafael mandelman was frustrated to hear about a delay at the state level, but he puts the majority of blame on the federal government. well, the biggest thing is the defense need to do more. the need to be more urgent, need to acquire more vaccines, money to get them out much faster. the u.s. is considering declaring monkeypox a health emergency. >> after the world health organization declared a global health emergency over the weekend. the virus may not be life threatening but something to be avoided as more patients come forward and share the seriousness of their symptoms. painful and potentially disfiguring you. >> away from only were these guys to do weeks and weeks, much longer going to go quarantine. >> the california department of public health says distribution of the more than 10,000 monkeypox vaccine doses will start by the end of the week. reporting live in studio. i'm rob nesbitt kron 4 news. thank you, rob. now let's look at the bay area's latest case numbers for monkeypox. san francisco county continue

. >> san francisco district, 8 supervisor rafael mandelman called for a hearing on thursday to gauge the county's response to people in need of psychiatric help. representatives from the department of public health, the hospital council, fire and police departments who all provide the services at various capacities should explain the work they are doing and the challenges at hand. lieutenant mario molina said sfpd got about 47,000 related calls in 2021. but officers kept seeing the same people back on the streets after being taken to the hospital and the person gets really means. >> and then we have to deal with the same individuals over at heather ballinger with the union representing medical workers at the city's only psych ward, san francisco general hospital says they are having trouble keeping up and linking patients to services. well, human resources for dph insist they only have 2 job openings unfilled for our ends. bolinger says that doesn't reflect reality. she read a list of recent ongoing complaints from seiu 10. 21 members who say they are short-staffed overworked don't h

wait times for people seeking a shot at san francisco's zuckerberg hospital city supervisor rafael mandelman, who represents the cash null district others, says the vaccine shortage could have been prevented. the crisis is now we need the doses. now we need at least 35,000 doses in san francisco to get out. only gotten. >> just over 2000, we're going, we think going to get another 4,000 this week, right? but this is to slow this. the pace needs to pick up. >> well, according to the cdc, california's 266 cases of monkeypox, 86 of those have been reported in san francisco county that makes up more than 32% of the state's cases. also happening today, at least one lgbtq group plans to publicly demand a stronger response to the monkeypox outbreak. the alice be told class democratic clubs planning a protest outside of the san francisco office of health and human services. they, too, are asking the biden administration to do more about the lack of vaccines. the protest is scheduled to happen at noon. for more information on monkeypox residents can also attend a town hall that happening this week, t

rafael mandelman says the city is frustrated by what he says is a lack of response from washington buteing made in disturbing vaccines around the country. >> they have set as a goal, completely unacceptable but moving in the right direction, 3.5 million doses by the middle of next year. that is not enough. you have public health needs now. dan: mayor london breed sent a letter to the federal government requesting 35,000 doses of monkeypox vaccine. the city received just over 7000 to this point. the vaccine clinic at the general hospital ran out of shots in just four hours. san francisco is the epicenter of monkeypox infections in california with 141 confirmed cases so far. monkeypox will also be the topic of discussion tomorrow in santa clara county. the county health department will hold a town hall on zoom from :00 to 5:00 p.m. and then in person at the billy defrank lgbtq community center in san jose from 6:00 until 8:00. the goal is to answer questions, raise awareness, and inform people about what they can do to reduce the sox. in the meantime, we have everything you need to know

requested enough supply to vaccinate at least 35,000 people who are most at risk supervisor rafael mandelman introduced a resolution tuesday calling on the cdc and department of health and human services to purchase and distribute more shots. here we are with cases rising vaccines. sparse and urgent action by our federal public health institutions absence the san francisco aids foundation has received 290 doses of the vaccine, but that's not nearly enough. according to ceo tyler trim near our monkeypox hotline, received one to 2 phone calls per minute criticizing the federal health plan to distribute 800,000 vaccines by the end of summer and 2 million by the end of next year. numbers that don't fly for those waiting to do their part in stopping the spread. it's impossible to get a vaccine here. >> what's it like in arkansas? what's like mississippi like that? it just, you know, battles me. >> since june, the san francisco department of public health says it's received around 2800 monkeypox vaccines happening right now, the san francisco aids foundation is holding a virtual town hall until 07

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there was a representative of supervisor rafael mandelman, and it was great to pay respect to officer cox. >> vice president elias: thank you. acting director rosenstein? >> thank you, vice president elias. just to address your question, commissioner yanez. know your rights is your campaign where we provide information to the youth in general about their constitutional rights, about their rights when encountering police, but a big component of that is explaining what d.p.a. does and how they can be reached. there are pamphlets handed out during those workshops. in addition, we are working with the school district unified school district to schedule these workshops during summer school right now, and we always go to private schools in the area. lastly, we are providing our presentation and material to the department of health so that when they go into the community, they can provide that information to the young people in san francisco, so i hope that answers any of your concerns, but we welcome any information you have you wanted to go to specific sites or address specific community c

we go we are very pleased and i want to give a big warm welcome to our district a supervisor rafael mandelmanoing to say a few words.this location, we're a little ways away from the hall and it's a busy week at city hall with budget and a whole bunch of other things going on. i just want you all to know she's here because she always shows up for us. she is a great park champion and we really appreciate him. so happy. >> thank you. there's a lot of stuff going on. happy pride, everybody. i'm thesupervisor for district 8 . i got some great parks in my district and i'm so grateful for all the work that you all do to make those parks amazing. i'm grateful for phil ginsberg. phil gets a lot of grief. okay. all right. but i would say if you think about what works in san francisco and what doesn't work in san francisco and i'm a representative of local government . i help here aboutall the stuff that doesn't doesn't work but i don't hear a lot of complaints about our parks . i actually hear a lot of love for our parks and the controller's office does a study of people public reception of delivery of

supervisor rafael mandelman describes a resident's recent experience.how had would probably waited for at least 12 hours for that vaccination because he had general 3 times prior waiting for hours each day. we should have had vaccines out to the states in large quantities. >> at the beginning of june, don't members from the federal government were in attendance at this hearing to answer questions about the inadequate response representing the local effort, the medical director of the san francisco city clinic doctor stephanie cole with california heavily impacted. >> with 266 cases. and as you can see, san francisco with in california is one of if not the most heavily impacted jurisdictions with 141 cases. as of that july 19th while waiting for more vaccines to arrive from the federal government. the san francisco department of public health set up an incident management team. >> establishing and maintaining readiness for delivering medical countermeasures. maintaining an equity reits and evidence-based approach throughout surveillance and monitoring. a

wait times for people seeking a shot at san francisco's zuckerberg hospital city supervisor rafael mandelmanresents the castro district among others, says the vaccine shortage could have been prevented. >> the crisis is now we need the doses. now we need at least 35,000. dennis is in san francisco to get out. only gotten just over 2000. we're going we think going to be another 4,000 this week, right? but this is to slow this. the pace needs to pick up. >> according to the cdc, california has 266 cases of monkeypox. 86 of those have been reported in san francisco county that makes up more than 32% of the state's cases. well, east one lgbtq group is planning to publicly demand a stronger response. the monkeypox outbreak in san francisco. >> the alice b toklas democratic club is planning a protest outside of the san francisco office of health and human services tomorrow. and they, too, are asking the biden administration to do more. but the lack of vaccines, that protest is scheduled to happen at noon. >> well, there is officially a new spot in town where you can soak up the san francisco views

san francisco supervisor rafael mandelman is criticizing the federal government's response.he aids crisis. speaking to the supervisors committee, he said the federal government was slow to stockpile and distribute monkeypox vaccines. >> they seem to have done the bare minimum, being dragged along each step of the way and what turned out to be a woefully inadequate response where we have significant community spread. reggie: for those of you have already been able to get a first vaccine, your second dose might be delayed. san francisco is now prioritizing first doses until the nationwide shortages of the vaccine improves. we do have everything you need to know about monkeypox on our website. had to abc 7 news.com. kumasi: president biden is isolating at the white house after being diagnosed with covid-19. he is also taking the antiviral medication. jobina is at the live desk. jobina: the head of covid response of the white house says he will check in with the president later this morning but he did speak with him last night and says the president was feeling fine after workin

usually they're pretty fast >> to in the so have an inquiry about what's going on supervisor rafael mandelman was frustrated to hear about a delay at the state level, but he puts the majority of blame on the federal government. well, the biggest thing is the defense need to do more. the need to be more urgent. the need to acquire more vaccines, money to get them out much faster. the u.s. is considering declaring monkeypox a health emergency after the world health organization declared a global healththvemergency over the weekend. the virus may not be life threatening but something to be avoided as more patients come forward and share the seriousness of their symptoms, painful and potentially disfiguring them you. >> away from only were the e guys to do for weeks and weeks, much longer going to go quarantine. >> and there was rob nesbitt reporting tonight. monkeypox, of course, cannot be found in all 9 bay area counties. napa county reported its first probable case today. alameda county has the second highest number of cases after san francisco. they've got 50 santa clara county reporting. 39

supervisor rafael mandelman describes a resident's recent experience. on how had would probably waited for at least 12 hours for that vaccination because he had been at general 3 times prior waiting for hours each day. we should have had vaccines out to the states in large quantities. >> at the beginning of june, do members from the federal government were in attendance at this hearing to answer questions about the inadequate response representing the local effort, the medical director of the san francisco city clinic doctor stephanie cole with california heavily impacted. >> with 266 cases. and as you can see, san francisco with in california is one of if not the most heavily impacted jurisdictions with 141 cases. as of that july 19th while waiting for more vaccines to arrive from the federal government. the san francisco department of public health set up an incident management team. >> establishing and maintaining readiness for delivering medical countermeasures. maintaining an equity reits and evidence-based approach throughout surveillance and moni

. >> rafael mandelman says there will be a monkeypox briefing today and that lgbtq+ influencers. the white house is teaming up with glad for this. the briefing will focus on how monkeypox spreads, who is most at risk, who can get the vaccine and why the lgbtq plus committed is getting hard-hit. >> the fda has authorized a fourth covid bactine -- covid vaccine. the two dose novavax maxing was 90% effective at preventing mild, moderate or severe covid vaccine. the cdc has to sign off on it before it will be available. they believe the vaccine could be significant because it is a more traditional protein-based vaccine instead of using mrna, which some americans are resistant to. it can be stored in regular refrigerators instead of supercold freezers and novavax says the vaccine shows broad immune responses against variants. >> the chp is looking for a driver of a double-decker bus that caught fire in south san francisco. video shows the bus on fire on highway 101 near grant avenue. officers say no passengers were onboard, thank goodness. investigators are trying to find the driver o

requested enough supply to vaccinate at least 35,000 people who are most at risk supervisor rafael mandelman introduced a resolution tuesday calling on the cdc and department of health and human services to purchase and distribute more shots. here we are with cases rising vaccines. sparse and urgent action by our federal public health institutions absence the san francisco aids foundation has received 290 doses of the vaccine, but that's not nearly enough. according to ceo tyler trim near our monkeypox hotline, received one to 2 phone calls per minute criticizing the federal health plan to distribute 800,000 vaccines by the end of summer and 2 million by the end of next year. numbers that don't fly for those waiting to do their part in stopping the spread. it's impossible to get a vaccine here. >> what's it like in arkansas? what's like mississippi like that? it just, you know, made since june, the san francisco department of public health says it's received around 2800 doses of the monkeypox vaccine distributed more than 95% of those 2 community clinics and sites in the city. >> reporting i

supervisor rafael mandelman has been pushing agencies like the cdc to act faster and getting vaccinesho need them. so far, he says the response has been lackluster. >> does it reflect an unacceptable level of indifference and maybe incompetence? i think so. reggie: state senator scott wiener is demanding action, issuing a statement saying "we are veering toward a public health mess of uncontrolled monkeypox spread in our community and many other communities." the white house has promised to have 2 million doses by the end of next year. some 800,000 of them may arrive by the end of this month. there are nearly 1500 confirmed monkeypox cases nationwide. we are tracking all the latest information about monkeypox and testing and vaccines in the bay area. find those stories on our website, abc7news.com. >> now to the pandemic and new concerns about the very transmissible subvariant. covid deathss are up 10% in just the past week. 3/4 of americans are living in areas that are medium or high risk of transmission. dr. fauci: the thing about ba-5 that is disconcerting is that it is able to esc

. >> san francisco district, 8 supervisor rafael mandelman called for a hearing on thursday to gauge the county's response to people in need of psychiatric help. representatives from the department of public health, the hospital council that fire and police departments who all provide the services of various capacities should explain the work they are doing and the challenges at hand. lieutenant mario molina said sfpd got about 47,000 related calls in 2021. but officers kept seeing the same people back on the streets after being taken to the hospital and the person gets really means. >> and then we have to deal with the same individuals over at heather ballinger with the union representing medical workers at the city's only psych ward, san francisco general hospital says they are having trouble keeping up and linking patients to services. well, human resources for dph insist they only have 2 job openings unfilled for our ends. bolinger says that doesn't reflect reality. she read a list of recent ongoing complaints from seiu 10. 21 members who say they are short-staffed overworked don

city supervisor rafael mandelman who represents the castro district, says the vaccine shortage could have been prevented. the crisis is now. >> we need the doses. now. we need at least 35,000 doses in san francisco to get out. only gotten just over 2000. we're going we think going to be another 4,000 this week, right? but this is to slow this. the pace needs to pick up. >> data from the cdc shows california has 266 cases of monkeypox in 86 cases are in san francisco county. that makes it more than 32% of the entire case load in the state. >> well, the growing frustration among the lgbtq community will be front and center in san francisco today. yeah, this is why at noon there's going to be a protest to call attention to the monkeypox vaccine shortage. kron 4. sarah stinson is live in the newsroom with more. sara? >> that's right. today an lgbtq group will protest outside of a federal health department office right here in san francisco demanding the biden administration stepped up the distribution of the monkeypox vaccine leaders with the alice b locus, lgbtq democratic club say enou

wait times for people seeking a shot at san francisco's zuckerberg hospital city supervisor rafael mandelman who represents the castor district among others, says the vaccine shortage could have been prevented. the crisis is now. >> we need the doses. now. we need at least 35,000 doses in san francisco to get out. only gotten just over 2000. we're going, we think going to get another 4,000 this week, right? but this is to slow this. the pace needs to pick up. >> according to the cdc, california has 266 cases of monkeypox. 86 of those have been reported in san francisco county that makes up more than 32% of the state's cases. >> at least one lgbtq group is planning to publicly demand a stronger response to the monkeypox outbreak. the alice b toklas democratic club is planning a protest outside of the cities. office of health and human services tomorrow. they, too, are asking the biden administration to do more about the lack of vaccines. that protest is scheduled to happen at noon. >> new at 9 it sounds like something out of a movie. jewel thieves make off with an estimated 150 million dollar

well, san francisco board supervisor rafael mandelman says a hearing that he called on the status of the psychiatric care in the county left with more questions than actual answers. the point of the meeting was to identify the problems that the only psych ward in the city is facing providing mental health services. well, you have a union representative for the nurses at san francisco general hospital who set they're short-staffed overworked of used by patients and they don't have enough security. orbitz and i'm in it's while feely new initiatives like street crisis response teams at a noose over in center of help. the system is still falling short while the knee is grown in the last decade. >> i think we're still a little bit at square one. and i think we need to figure out. in a in a more focused way than we have how to particularly address that challenge that i think emerged at p s, you know, in the last 5 to 10 years and impacts are streets every single day. and it's a challenge for us here. tn pd and regular old san franciscans. just trying to walk down the street. >> alderman wa

. >>> happening today in san francisco, supervisor rafael mandelman and community leaders are planning an event outside of city hall. they plan to call on the city c and the department of health and human services to lead what they call a more aggressive monkeypox vaccination campaign for at-risk populations. in the meantime, over 4,000 californians are hospitalized with coronavirus. this morning, that's the highest number since february, when we were coming out of the omicron surge, but for perspective, it's still far below the peaks we saw the past two januarys. meanwhile, the state's test positivity average is nearing 17%, the all-time high was 22.5% back in january, and this morning, a new variant driving a surge in india now turning up right here in the bay area. .7 be more contagious but ucsf infectious disease specialist dr. peter chin-hong hopes the vaccine still protects against serious illness. >> the silver lining probably is going to perform the same way in terms of if you're vaccinated and boosted, your inside imhmun cells your memory b and t cells will kick the enemy out

reggie: rafael mandelman says there will be a monkeypox briefing today aimed at lgbtq plus influencers. the white house is teaming up with glaad. they hope the influencers will share information with their social media followers. the briefing will cover who can get the vaccine and why the lgbtq plus community seems to be hit hard. and him and says he hopes to take part. we are taking a closer look at supply issues involving the monkeypox vaccine in the bay area. you can find those stories on our website. jobina: the fda has authorized a fourth covid-19 vaccine for people 18 and older. trials found the novavax vaccine was 90% effective at preventing mild, moderate, or severe covid-19. the biden administration has secured three point 2 million doses, but the cdc has to sign off on it before it will be available. they meet next week. this could be significant, because it is a more significant -- a more traditional protein-based vaccine, instead of using mrna technology. it can be stored in regular refrigerators. and novavax says the vaccine shows broad immune response against variance --

the first order of business at the hearing getting more vaccines to san francisco supervisor rafael mandelman recounted the story of one man who waited more than 12 hours over several days to get the vaccine from san francisco general hospital. no members of the federal government were present at the meeting to answer questions. relating to the u.s. response. san francisco department of public health has set up an incident management team to handle cases as they await another shipment of vaccines. oakland police are looking for a man who they say tried to kidnap a 2 year-old child at a bus station. >> surveillance video captured this man in a red shirt wearing a blue hat at the ac transit bus platform located at high street and international boulevard. police say that the incident happened on tuesday just after 12, 30 in the afternoon. police say the man threatened the toddler's family members say he was going to take the kid away. and after several attempts he assaulted the toddlers, mother until a good samaritan came over to help. the man then left the area. he is described as in his 40's a

young i would like to welcome rafael mandelman who joined us. i have a request to cure item 3 out of order. could you read item 3? >> yes. an ordinance amending the business and tax regulation codes to permit the tact collector make public certain information regarding the vacancy tax and the failure on file vacancy tax returns for tax years 22 and 23. >> okay. colleagues we heard this item on june 27 we dub indicated the file and our hearing some amendments that are suggested by the treasure tax collector's office. the rest of the file will be at the board of supervisors tomorrow. and i would like to welcome mrs. amanda frooed from the tax collector's office. as to the remaining amendment which would wave the pen for failure to timely file vacancy tax returns for this and next year as we ease in this new tax regimen. mrs. freed the floor is yours >> thank you, good morning supervisors. thank you for having me today. the piece is specific to the filing the filing penalties and just to give a bit of context. the way our business taxes work is tha

san francisco district, 8 supervisor rafael mandelman called for a hearing on thursday to gauge the county's response to people in need of psychiatric help. >> representatives from the department of public health, the hospital council, fire and police departments who all provide the services at various capacities should explain the work they are doing and the challenges at hand. lieutenant mario molina said sfpd got about 47,000 related calls in 2021. but officers kept seeing the same people back on the streets after being taken to the hospital and the person gets really means. >> and then we have to deal with the same individuals over him over at heather ballinger with the union representing medical workers at the city's only psych ward, san francisco general hospital says they are having trouble keeping up and linking patients to services. well, human resources for dph insist they only have 2 job openings unfilled for our ends. bolinger says that doesn't reflect reality. she read a list of recent ongoing complaints from seiu 10. 21 members who say they are short-staffed overworked don't ha

week for people are trying to get the shot at san francisco zuckerberg hospital city supervisor rafael mandelman who represents the castro district, says the vaccine shortage could have been prevented the crisis is now. >> we need the doses. now. we need at least 35,000 doses in san francisco to get out. only gotten just over 2000. we're going, we think going to be another 4,000 this week, right? but this is to slow this. the pace needs to pick up. >> the pace does need to pick up because you can see the cases are. this is leah, the latest from the cdc. and you can see california has 266 monkeypox cases. 86 of them are in san francisco county. and that makes it more than 32% of the entire state total. and you could hear the frustration in his voice talking about the slow rollout of these vaccines and that frustration. >> among the lgbtq community is going to be front and center today in san francisco. there is a protest planned. yeah, they're going to be protesting. let's take a closer look at that. >> sarah, good morning, guys. that's right. now g b t q a group they will be protesting this morn

people who are looking to get a shot at san francisco's zuckerberg hospital city supervisor rafael mandelman, who represents the castro district, says the vaccine shortage could have been prevented. the crisis is now we need the doses. now we need at least 35,000 doses in san francisco to get out. only gotten. >> just over 2000, we're going we think going to get another 4,000 this week, right? but this is to slow this. the pace needs to pick up. >> data from the cdc shows california has 266 cases of monkeypox. 86 were reported in san francisco county, which makes it more than 32% of the total in the state. those much. >> a lot of folks in the lgbtq community are frustrated with the federal government's slow rollout of these vaccines for monkeypox. and today they're going to make their voices at noon. there's going to be a protest in san francisco ca call attention to the problem and the lack of vaccine kron 4 sarah stinson is live with more in the newsroom. sara. >> hey, good morning. that's right. an lgbtq group is planning to protest outside of a federal health department office in san fra

. >> san francisco board of supervisor rafael mandelman says that to a he is a hearing that is calledn the county. but it left him with your questions than answers. the point of the meeting was to identify problems within the psych ward in the city because they're having a problem dealing with mental health that people need a union representative from nurses at san francisco general says that they're short-staffed, overworked, abused by patients and don't have enough security or beds. mandelman admits this is a crisis and the response teams are having a difficult time keeping up in the system is falling short of handling those in need. >> i think we're still a little bit at square one. and i think we need to figure out. in a in a more focused way than we have how to particularly address that challenge that i think emerged at p s, you know, in the last 5 to 10 years and impacts are streets every single day. and it's a challenge for us here. tn pd and regular, regular old san franciscans. just trying to walk down the street. >> and wants to see coordinated data collection and communicat

supervisor rafael mandelman describes a resident's recent experience. in fact on how had would probably waited for at least 12 hours for that vaccination because he had general 3 times prior waiting for hours each day. we should have had vaccines out to the states in large quantities. >> at the beginning of june, do members from the federal government were in attendance at this hearing to answer questions about the inadequate response representing the local effort, the medical director of the san francisco city clinic doctor stephanie cole with california heavily impacted. >> with 266 cases. and as you can see, san francisco with in california is one of if not the most heavily impacted jurisdictions with 141 cases. as of that july 19th while waiting for more vaccines to arrive from the federal government. the san francisco department of public health set up an incident management team. >> establishing and maintaining readiness for delivering medical countermeasures. maintaining an equity reits and evidence-based approach throughout surveillance and moni

lines for people who want to get a shot at san francisco's zuckerberg hospital city supervisor rafael mandelman who represents the castro district, says that the vaccine shortage could have been prevented. the crisis is now. >> we need the doses. now. we need at least 35,000 doses in san francisco to get out. only gotten just over 2000. we're going, we think going to be another 4,000 this week, right? but this is to slow this. the pace needs to pick up. >> data from the cdc shows california has 266 cases of monkeypox and as you can see, 86 are in san francisco county and that makes up 32% of the state's total cases right here in san francisco. >> well, many in the lgbtq community, again, frustrated with the federal government's response to monkeypox. so today they're going to be protesting at noon calling for more vaccines and more attention. conversar stinson is live in the newsroom with the latest. sara? >> that's right. an lgbt group is planning to protest outside of a federal health department office in san francisco today demanding the biden administration step up the distribution of the m