in saigon, and also. but this was one line nixon power. he believed that these withdrawals were absolutely to counteract the piecemeal and convince the country he ending the war were one step ahead of the share was the nixon phrase. and by this he meant congress, moderate groups. the antiwar movement had concentrated on political action, building candidacy of george mcgovern for president in 72 and seeking to elect more anti-war people to the house and the senate. the more radical antiwar groups viewed this as wasted energy. members of congress kept making speeches introducing resolutions that never pass. and then election day. george mcgovern was defeated by a landslide. however, when you look at the record this point of view seems myopic in his concession, mcgovern had uttered words more apt than he realized, quote, there can be no question at all that we have pushed this country in the direction of and if we have shortened the vietnam war, even by days, every minute, every hour, bone crushing effort in this campaign was worth it. indeed

one example of the crimes affecting the neighborhood of little saigon. he works at the store and says that it has happened multiple times. they lose hundreds of dollars every week. it will only stop with help from police. >> the employees, i cannot stop those people. >> around the city, in little saigon, it is dangerous. >> the owner of the supermarket said that the crime is driving her customers away. 50% of the tenants have moved out. >> the shooting and when you call for a small thing, they do not come. >> they are working on measures to address the rise in crime. >> community members say that it is helping. they do not believe it is enough. >> most residents are suffering. we are the pillars of this community. they cannot afford to keep their businesses open. they will have to move out. that is the reality. >> they are investing to fortify storefronts. according to the council president. in a statement, she explains, it cannot come fast enough. she will work with the police department and others to address crime in the city. a meeting tomorrow with c

it is located in oakland's little saigon. the burglars attached a chain to the front metal gate and used a jeep to pull open the gate because the store has multiple gates and plywood to reinforce the entrance. the thieves could not get inside. they took off, but the damage was done, causing the owner thousands of dollars to repair the storefront. >> when i come to look at my store, you know, i saw it and i cried because i hurt. >> reporter: the owner said this is the 10th time since the pandemic that they have gone inside about six times. she showed photos of a previous burglary where they drove the car into the store. they left with cigarettes and cash. >> so you thought about closing the store? >> yeah, if somebody comes to my store maybe they can. >> reporter: she has fortified her store using plywood and metal gates, yet they keep coming back. >> we need to investigate these incidents, collect fingerprints, dna, whatever. >> reporter: jim nguyen is with the little saigon business district. he says that police departments

this time businesses in little saigon say they need more help. tonight business owners are meeting with the city and oakland police to address that problem. they say if nothing is done, those businesses will be forced to close. yesterday we told you businesses in little saigon said they were targeted by thieves almost on a daily basis. that includes this 7-eleven on international boulevard. nearby grocery stores say constant break-ins, thefts, and prostitution are driving away customers. these latest concerns come as the oakland chapter of the naacp is calling for a state of emergency because of the spike in violent crime. they've written two open letters in recent weeks, pressuring the state and the mayor. joining us now is oakland mayor sheng thao. mayor thao, nice to have you back on the program. this has been a tumultuous two weeks in your city. the oakland chapter of the naacp has called for a state of emergency in oakland because of the crime. would you agree with their assessment? >> you know, safety in our community is something that i ta

he said, you know, the faces that i saw in danang and saigon were the same that i saw quadruplingyoung americans callo do things that the rest of their fellows citizens could never imagine and things that they did without complete. and i remember my mother yelling the kitchen, god bless bob. hope. in in those times as america forgot that her frguaranteed. pundits, professors and protesters, but by the souls and efforts of those 41 million americans who carried liberty on their shoulders. not only for this, but for the rest of the world. nixon never forgot. he never forgot those americans who sacrificed all who gave all in south vietnam, cambodia, laos. he signed legislation honoring veterans than any president in our history. he openly you the american warrior for what you did there honorably undertaken and honorably and and when he signed the largest numbers veterans the largest number of veterans bills one day any american. he said by you our veterans the gratitude and the that you deserve. we are not only dointhing for ah returning american is a human resource. a mature, highly and

he looked at donahue and he said, the faces that i saw in saigon or the same faces i saw in okinawa, young americans called upon to do things that the rest of their fellow citizens could never imagine and things that they did without complaint. i remember my mother yelling from the kitchen, god bless you, bob hope. >> [applause] >> in those times, america forgot that her freedom was not guaranteed by pundits, professors, and protesters. it was guaranteed by the souls and efforts of those 41 million americans who carried liberty on their shoulders, not only for this nation but for the rest of the world. nixon never forgot it. he never forgot those americans who sacrificed all and gave all in southeast vietnam. cambodia. and laos -- he signed more legislation honoring veterans than any president in history. he openly praised american warriors for what they did there, honorably undertaking and honorably ending. he signed the largest numbers of veterans and bills in one day of any american president. he said that by giving you, our veterans, the gratitude and the opportunity that you des

so we but anyway, we ended up back in hanoi, back in rather than saigon. and it was about time for us to come home. and we got a phone call from. the folks up in in hanoi who said that to the communist party has been finished. the liberation they have selected as new leader of our the change and gorbachev my guy it was the guy that president bush told about his name is doumani. and they they to moy once before you go back to the us he wants you to come and meet with him next morning we got on a plane airforce. we flew up to hanoi and we went to meet him and we met in a beautiful beautiful home in hanoi and we met in a large living room and was six of us, a couple of aides, two more came in and he had a couple of aides, an interpreter with with him. and we shook hands and sat down. and what i would do when we'd meet with foreign leaders like that, i would introduce one by one the leaders, the of my codel, who they what they were they come from. i we gotten word that the my had been a house painter at one time. well, one of my guys in my delegation. from mar

. >> people around the city, they come to little saigon -- >> feeling forgotten.businesses in one community says the crime has no signs of letting up. >>> also, one east bay school finally saying good-bye to what some call a controversial mascot, but it's going to be a minute. details on the late-night vote signaling the end that an era. this is "today in the bay." >>> good thursday morning to you. thank you for starting your die with us. i am laura garcia. >> i am marcus washington. we will get a look at the commute with mike in a bit, but first let's get to kari hall. >>> it's going to be a few degrees lower compared to yesterday. instead of upper 90s, how about low 90s today? we continue with the elevated fire danger as well due to isolated storms that may fire up once again in the bay area. we will watch at the impacts it will have further to the south. and we are reaching 77 in oakland. hayward, 81 degrees. 71 in san francisco. san josÉ will be in the mid-80s. we will talk about the weekend coming up. >>> mike, how is it looking in the south bay? >> we are lo

through his secretary of defense don rumsfeld had ordered the evacuation of all of the orphanages in saigont beleaguered city. sergeant johnson volunteered to help rescue those children, but sadly, the c-5 that he was a crew member of with 174 young helpless vietnamese children crashed at the end of the runway at the air base. a little over 40 years later, i was able to take denise to touch her father's name on the vietnam memorial. a memorial that was there because of what you all did and what you sacrificed. i also remember at that time after my father recovered from his wounds and was a senior officer in the all-american division, 82nd airborne at fort bragg he was not allowed to wear his uniform off post because of the times. now, that was, no offense to you california bears, that was not berkeley, california. that was not cambridge, massachusetts. that was southeastern north carolina, the heart of richard nixon country. but richard nixon had ended the combat strive in vietnam, an achievement that bodes his records in bob dole's words, makes him one of the greatest architects of peace a

the crime that has impacted the little saigon neighborhood. even and prostitution is driving the customers away. police officers do not show when they call about a minor crime. that is making the situation worse. >> i do not know what happened. >> that would be the best situation. the employees. i can't stop those people. >> they opened a substation in the community a year ago. it is really not enough. residents and business owners plan to hold a community meeting with the police tomorrow to try and come up with some ways to address the crime. >>> it is back to school for an estimated 50,000 students in san francisco. there are more kids than there are teachers to handle this school year. there is a critical teacher shortage. on campus today with me now, obviously, we have seen this coming down the line. officials have been talking about this for years, then there was the pandemic. no parent wants to start the year with their kid having a substitute teacher and no continuity. >> i had a conversation with the parents over at abraham lincoln hig

it's located in the shopping plaza in oakland's little saigon.hain to the front gate. they used a jeep to pull open the gate. the store has multiple gates andlywood to reinforce the entrance. the thieves could not get inside. they took off. but the damage was done. causing the owner thousands of dollars to repair the store front. >> when i came to look, i saw it. i heard. >> reporter: no face because the owner fears for her safety. she says this is the tenth time since the pandemic. they've gone inside about six times. she shares photos of a previous burglary, where they drove a car into the store. they left with cigarettes and cash. >> and maybe this would happen. >> so you thought about closing the store? >> yeah, maybe. and maybe they came to my store a lot of the times. >> reporter: she is fortified using her store, yet they keep coming back. >> we really need to investigate and collect fingerprints and whatever. >> reporter: jim nguyen is with the little saigon improvement business district. because they are considered low priority, the poli

name now 16 country symbols on your credit cards to where in saigon?eally need it urgently from the availability of money from your card, so that they are not removed. what the hell are you doing here? decided to call, or something, or what, and this is when you do not understand. telephone fraud is a criminal hit of recent years , the vast majority of calls fall on pre-trial detention centers and colonies. that is why inmates at any cost trying to get a cell phone. after all, the means of communication are the main tool of swindlers behind barbed wire, they deceive young and old people , they basically steal money from bank accounts, schemes of the reds. scheme number one scammer offers to transfer money to another account to protect them, the attacker reports that there was a data leak, in order to protect the savings, you need to transfer them to another card. after receiving the money, the fraudster disappears scheme number two, the fraudster reports that an illegal debiting of money has occurred , the criminal pretends to be a bank employee and re

. >> the rampant crime in little saigon. >>> continuing coverage after a san jose cop was shot.covering today. >>> the first day back for students in san francisco. many will not meet their new teachers, not yet. we will hear from some parents as the district struggles with an ongoing teacher shortage. >>> the news at 6:00 starts right now. >> we will start with the developing mews in the south bay. arresting a man that they say shot one of the officers this morning. a story we brought you as breaking news. tonight we have live coverage from the neighborhood where it happened. >> joining us now live from there. scott, you just got an update about the shooting and the officer that was shot. what was her condition? >> jessica, a very so

both have been in oakland little saigon neighborhood and they say that these crimes are happening every now. he said he came from the u.s. from vietnam. these days, you can find him carrying a taser because he says him and other business owners fear that they will become the next victims. >> i thought when i left vietnam, i wouldn't feel that anymore, but now i feel it here. >> reporter: police department everyone there was a target of thieves and violent crime. they told nbc bay area saying crime has been their top priority. the governor for support. >> reporter: bruce says he hasn't seen much improvement, he says they need more enforcement and prosecution. if not, bruce said he will do what so many small businesses have done. >> i am getting to the point, i am ready to leave. we should have the opportunity to live in freedom, right now, we are running scared. >>> we are back in 60 seconds. why did he walk off the job? the sudden resignation. while r are being raised about the response to that devastating fire. >>> more problems with the driverless taxis, will the city stop the expansi

of our asian neighborhoods in san francisco the old in the country here in our city and the little saigon and the currently vicinity and chinese in the richmond and sunset and portal we are here. and we know over the years have gone through challenging times whether that is the side and chinese he rra under the 1800s or rethis after the 1906 kathy we always come back one of the last things i do in the legislative was to work with folks here to bring one million dollars back to the community. and the reason at that time we wanted to do if we had our communities were struggling after the pandemic. and after the impacts of and italian hate but a year and a half later this was more importantly because we are evolving did good news things are moving toward receipt to the retail businesses are going our night life is coming back we have more to do and thank you, mayor, and thank the office of economic development for working with the community on programs and grants to revise and bring back the small businesses and residents and visitors together building community and building the town thank y

how did the end come in saigon for this saigon glue, where are they?erefore, this is what is on this board, but what is faster, of course, just wanted to be faster, it seems to me that we are all on one wave so to speak, well just a question now never here sometimes so to say. they ask questions simply, but in a domestic situation. and when will it end? yes, it's not a question when and how and how, and so, of course, it is necessary soon. well, you know, uh. i also really want that sooner, if this is done correctly and moreover, i really don’t want an escalation and i see, uh, like the general us repeatedly, he warned very serious and unambiguously negative consequences if the escalation reached tactical nuclear weapons . well, here's what worries me. uh, what worries me is that people like maxboot. and unfortunately, people in western governments, they are more and more, if you want in the world, illusions, it seems to them that if russia has not done something, then this is because russia either does not have the opportunity, or russia will not dare

. >> they will be with oakland pd to discuss the increase of crime in the saigon neighborhood. that's have been going on on an almost daily basis on a 7- eleven. nearby grocery stores have constant break-ins, it is driving customers away. other complaints? that police don't often show up to these crimes. they opened a substation in the committee a year ago, but while the community says it helps a little bit, it is not enough. still we have an update after a four-year-old girl was hit and killed by a suv near oracle park. 71-year-old driver of the suv has been arrested. a lot of people are calling for changes at this busy intersection. here is nbc's thom jensen. >> reporter: a memorial of flowers for the four-year-old woman who was killed in the tragic accident continues to grow tonight. a lot of people who leave the flowers live in the neighborhood. >> it felt very close to home. >> reporter: santiago, who sometimes crosses the intersection says it is too busy for a double turn lane appeared >> there are cars getting on the highway, the station, walgreens, safeway, it is quite

where in saigon?eally needs you urgently from having money, then the cards, so that they are not removed. what the hell are you doing here? decided to call, right? or what, and this is the thing when you, and i did not understand you again. telephone fraud is a criminal hit in recent years, the elvin share of calls falls on the season and the colony. that is why inmates seek to get a mobile phone at any cost. after all, the means of communication are the main tool of swindlers behind barbed wire, and they deceive young and old people , basically stealing money from the bank accounts of the red scheme. scheme number one scammer offers to transfer money to another account to protect them, the attacker reports that a data leak has occurred; in order to protect the savings, you need to transfer them to another card. after receiving the money, the scammer disappears scheme number two, the scammer reports that an illegal debiting of money has occurred , the criminal introduces himself as a bank employee and

. >>> little saigon leaders and business owners will meet with police in the wake of a recent crime surgeity leaders say theft like the one you see here at a 7-eleven on international boulevard is happening far too frequently. grocery stores are being targeted with frequent break-s in. prostitution is, they never responded to calls which they believe makes that situation worse. ? i don't know what happened to us. i don't know. i need more help. >> it will be the best situation because the employee, i can't stop those people. >> critics say police don't respond to some minor crimes. opd opened a neighborhood substation last year and while they say that's helping to improve the situation, they also say it is still not enough. >>> fewer than one in five californians can save enough to buy a home. coming up here on nbc bay area at midday our scott mcgrew explains the perfect storm driving up prices even more. >> senator dianne feinstein involved in a legal battle and all involving her husband's estate and what she accuses them of saying and the new lawsuit. all this month, nbc bay area is tel

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. >>> happening today in oakland, little saigon leaders and business owners will be with oakland policehe wake of a recent crime surge. community leaders say thefts like the one you see here at 7-eleven, they are happening all too frequently. others say prostitution is driving some of the customers away. critics are saying police often never respond to the crimes. the things are tied to the smaller crimes they believe are what making situations worst. >> i need more help. >> without police, the cops, that will be a bad situation. the employee -- i can't stop those people. >> the opd did open a neighborhood substation last year and while many people say that's helping improve the situation, they also say it's still not enough. >>> we all know trying to make it in the bay can be difficult, but san josÉ is among one of the best cities in the u.s. to raise a family. it was ranked second when it comes to the most desirable place for families. it was the only california city to make the top 25. some of the matrix include crime and cost of living. >>> this is a live look for you right here. th

book is at the end of the vietnam war with north vietnamese were margie torres -- marching towards saigon, president by that was a young senator trying to make his mark on the vietnam war. trying to keep south vietnamese refugees out. trying to stop the united states from trying to rescue our south vietnamese allies from the country as the north vietnamese marched south. one quote from him was something to the effect of we do not have a moral obligation to one or 100,000 south of it -- south vietnamese and i think that mentality, the disregard for our allies we fight with on the ground, i think it carried over to the way this war ended. i am not arguing here there is a good way to leave afghanistan but there are certainly less bad ways to do it and pretty much every decision that president biden made in 2020 what made it worse than it had to be. one of those was art lack of a plan about how to get americans and afghan allies out if we are going to withdraw. guest: of all people am very sympathetic to the idea that afghanistan is in a lot of ways ungovernable and there is the poem about wh

. >>> neighbors say crime is on the rise in oakland's little saigon and one business owner says he has videos to prove it. new videov. the suspect sped off in a green sedan. we talked to a man who runs an auto body shop for more than 35 years. he says it's gotten worse than ever and says these days he carries a taser to protect himself. >> i've seen crime that i thou i wouldn't see anymore. but now we're getting the same thing here. >> he says he was one of 30 or so shop owners and community members that went to a closed-door meeting with council members and the oakland police captain yesterday. all of them urged for more police enforcement and protection. >>> for the first time in three years, americans could head into this winter season with a measure of optimism, despite the uptick in covid cases. experts say even though covid related hospitalizations have been up in recent weeks, the u.s. is still nowhere near the level of severe covid cases like at the beginning of the pandenior policy adviser at stanford, says there are now younger people with chronic conditions, that's why it's

and after the fall of saigon in 1975 some 130,000 refugees were admitted from vietnam cambodia and laos. and congress passed the indo-china migration and refugee assistance act to provide resettlement assistance to those 130,000 refugees. now the decision to admit refugees was always contested. throughout the 1950s the 1960s and the 1970s public opinion polls showed that americans were generally sympathetic to those who were fleeing communism. but they didn't necessarily want them to come here. they didn't want them to come to the united states. they wanted them to go someplace else. back in 1956 for example, the eisenhower administration had to enlist the assistance of public relations firms from madison avenue to help them sell the idea of hungarian refugees to a reluctant american population. and these public relations firms worked with specific journalists who published story after story and news magazines like time newsweek and life portraying the hungarians as hard-working freedom-loving people the photograph that i showed earlier of vice president richard nixon meeting with the h

one of the biggest foreign policy blusters in america and since the fall of saigon.alamity at the kabul airport like we have never seen before ultimately ending in an isis terror attack that killed 13 u.s. service members at abby gate. how has the administration characterized the mission in take a look back. >> extraordinary success of this mission was due to the incredible skill, bravely and selfless courage of the united states military diplomats and intelligence professionals. >> it was a logistic call success but a strategic failure. >> was it perfect? of course not. >> so for all this talk of chaos, i just didn't see it. not from my perch. >> brian: these guys all should be ashamed of themselves for general milley to sit there and say you i knew it was going to be president but i'm not the president to put the stars on the ground and storm out of that room is ridiculous. admiral kirby spend career in the military and say from his perch didn't see chaos. absolutely insulting. could you imagine if you had a family member die there, injured there or hundreds of afg

. >>> neighbors say crime is on the rise in oakland's little saigon neighborhood.er. it shows a man being stalked and then robbed as he gets inside his suv. the suspect sped off in a green sedan. we talked to a man who has run an auto body shop in the area for 35 years. he says it's worse than ever. he carries a taser to protect himself. >> i have seen crime that i thought when i left vietnam i wouldn't see anymore. >> 30 shop owners and community members went to a meeting with council members and the oakland police captain yesterday. all of them called for more police enforcement and prosecution. >>> a bit of a milder day to close out our week. kari hall lets us know how much cooler it will be. >> it's going to be nice to get a slight cooldown today for the inland valleys instead of mid to upper 90s. we are headed for the upper 80s. morgan hill, 88 degrees. dublin, a high of 85. upper 70s for napa. as we go into the day tomorrow, making plans outside, it will be a touch warmer in spots like fairfield, into the low 90s. in san jose, a high of 85 degrees. reaching 8

that's exactly what happened in oakland's little saigon.his man was getting back into his car in the blink of an eye someone else walks up from behind and smashes the passenger's side window, grabs the bag and runs away. the driver tried to back up and open his door, but the thief was already gone. oh. that's terrifying. >>> a san francisco street performer is back doing what he loves. after thieves stole the very things he used to make a living. ♪ ♪ if you have been to fisherman's wharf in the last 15 years you have heard les edwins singing and playing the drums but he's been absent for two weeks after someone stole the van and all of his musical equipment. but thanks to the online fundraiser he is now back on his feet. >> i'm still upset about what happened. so -- i'm trying to wrap my head around that and get that out of my head you know, trying to focus more on just -- let's move forward. so everybody come on down. let's -- let's make this happen. let's party and let's get it back and get back to where we were. >> that's right. our comm

participating in the organization and conduct of the elections as an organized political force and the saigon government has pledged to accept the result of the election. we have not put forth our proposals on a take it or leave it basis. we have indicated that we're willing to discuss the proposals have been put forth by the other side. we have declared that anything is negotiable except. the right of the people of south to determine their own future. at the paris peace conference, ambassador lodge is demonstrated our flexibility and good faith in 40 public meetings. hanoi has refused even to discuss our proposals. they demand our unconditional acceptance of their terms, which are that we withdraw all american forces immediately and unconditionally and, that we overthrow the government of south vietnam as we lead. we have not limited our peace initiatives to public forums and public statements. i recognize the january order that a long and bitter war like this usually cannot be settled in a public forum. that is why, in addition to the public statements and negotiations, i have explored ever