boom in the late 80s i started doing new construction and then when i moved to san francisco, i went to san francisco stateecame fascinated with the architecture and got my contractor's licence and started painting victorians and kind of gravitated towards them. my first project that i did was a 92 room here in the mission. it was the first sro. i'm proud of that and it was challenging because it was occupied and i got interior and exterior and i thought it would take about six weeks to do it and it took me a whole year. >> nita makes the city more beautiful and one of the things that makes her such a great contractor, she has a magical touch around looking at a project and bringing it to its fullest fruition. sometimes her ideas to me might seem a little whacky. i might be like that is a little crazy. but if you just let her do her thing, she is going to do something incredible, something amazing and that will have a lot of pop in it. and she's really talented at that. >> ultimately it depends on what the customer wants. sometimes they just want to be understated or blend in and other times they let me de

>> it never happens when ken bastida goes back to san francisco state he is like moises.he campus parks for the hall of famer. >> yes. like you, yes,. >> you can touch his picture in the communication's hall there and just pay your amage. >> a driver screaming for help. we hear from the bay area man who literally jumped to >>> a man was in the right place at the right time to pull off a daring rescue. >> at a stop sign in walnut grove when a driver sped passed and into sacramento river. the wheel had suffered a medical emergency. he launched into the water like mission impossible. the water is freezing, the current is hard. so, i just decided to jump in. he was able to crawl on to the hood a little bit to get out of the car. >> that is when chris pulled him to safety. he says he almost was not there to help but an unplanned stop slowed him down just enough to be at that intersection. >> wow. >> sometimes you are when you humble yourself under the mighty hand of god, in due time he will exalt you. hi, i'm joel osteen. i'm excited about being with you every week. i hope you

the family of san francisco state graduate donna kellogg said, not one day goes by without a reminder of our losses that you caused by your negligence. and the family of 30-year-old sarah holder said in part, this lenient slap on the wrist sentence is vastly inappropriate for the crimes he committed. his attorney read the statement from his client saying in part, i am sorry, i am very afraid to say more, my shame cannot and as any defense but it is what i am responsible for, it is my fault. >> my client will not go to jail. our client will be subjected to house arrest, so to speak, for a little over a year. from our perspective, it was a fair and just result. >> early the judge had to stop the court proceedings to see if he was on drugs that would alter his behavior. here is how courtroom artist described him. >> he turned his chair so he could see the monitor which was right above him, and his, his reaction went from indiand, and looking down and he almost looked like he was sobbing at a couple of times. >> reporter: even though he received a 12 year sentence he may never go back to

joining us tonight is a professor russell jiang from san francisco state university. welcome professor it may seem obvious. but did these crimes really begin with the pandemic. are they just gaining our attention. now, you know, a lot of asian americans have lived high crime neighborhoods we live and dense urban areas. so. >> this violence against asian americans has been going on for long i live in east oakland now. and i know that. pretty much every member of the committee has been. a victim of violence like this. still investigating. i'm sorry. go ahead. but the racism that we've been has really in started by the pandemic and cited by president trump's rhetoric. and so we have 2 trends. you see a lot of the crimes that being infected with this year. and that's coupled with the racism of experience or began to experience more last so there are 2 distinct trends related. >> a lot of people obviously this week are talking about the tragedy in georgia. investigators are still looking into that. but so far have been reluctant to label that a hate crime, which a lot of p

the family of san francisco state graduate, donna kellogg, says not one day goes by without a reminder of our losses that you caused by your negligence. and lack of responsibility that you have shown for other people's well-being. i will always know this pain. >> from our perspective, it was a fair and just result. because part of the deal to plead guilty to 36 counts of involuntary manslaughter, he got a 12 year sentence but because of his times served, he will most likely be not seeing the inside of a jail again and he is expected to serve the rest of his sentence on an ankle monitor at home. i spoke with the court reporter and she says it was very anti- somatic when the plea s excepted. family members were not allowed to be in court and there just wasn't that a motion in the courtroom today. reporting in oakland, andrea nakano, kpix5. >>> a live look at the richmond san rafael bridge, contra costa county could soon be moving into the red tier. they are seeing fewer than 10 cases per 100,000 people a day and health officials say the goal is to get down to seven cases per day before m

first is the gator pass available for san francisco state university students. this pass provides access on muni local routes as well as discounted transfer on the city bart station. students pay as part of their tuition. second option we looked at car free living program where residents receive $100 credit for transportation usage. they are able to spend the credit on clipper cards or uber or cars such as get around. we looked amount the ac transit easy pass program where alameda count enrolled employers at discounted rate. then we looked at the two retail pass available for anyone that is ac transit transbay pass and muni m&a fast pass. muni past pass pass the local bart station. we learned that transit pass should encourage transit and be affordable. based on this finding and to achieve overall timma goal we developed five goals for this study. first is provide maximum transit usage. to make sure that travelers that are living and working on treasure island have a product they can use as they -- for their daily trip on transit. make transit affordable for res

the family of san francisco state graduate donna kellogg says not one day goes by without a reminder of our losses that you caused by your negligence, and lack of responsibility that you have shown for other people's well- being. i will always know this pain. just minutes after the plea deal. >> her honor endorsed, and accepted and ruled predicated on our plea agreement. so we are happy, we are satisfied. >> reporter: because of the plea deal, he has time served already on his credit so it seems like he will just serve about a year and a half left of his sentence on an ankle monitor at home and i just woke with the courtroom artist two was inside and asks her what it was like when the plea deal was accepted inches that it really was just inside climatic, no family members in the courtroom, very few people in there, and it just did not feel like this case really came to close. >>> let's take a live look abilene the bay in alameda. not many boats leaving the safety of the harbor. high def doppler tracking some rain moving in and we may even see some isolated thunderstorms later on to g

according to russell junk, ah, professor and chair of asian american studies at san francisco state university. this is exacerbates that fear, i think almost every asian american or 1 degrees of separation from facing direct racism this past year, professor john helped launch a website stop a p i hate, which issued a report this week since last march, they have collected nearly 3800 reports of hate incidents directed against asians and asian americans. women are harassed. are the men twice as much as men about elderly and youth are often attacked. as for the suspect, he was arrested on a highway about 150 miles south of atlanta, and police took him into custody on murder charges. jana katsuyama ktvu, fox two news. jury selection continued today in the trial of derrick show, then he's the former minneapolis police officer charged in the death of george floyd. all seven jurors questioned today were sent home with no new jurors, seated also today show bins defense attorney asked the judge to allow floyd's 2019 arrests and history of drug use to be used in the trial, he argues the 2019 case and la

documenting this rise in attacks on asian-americans in this country, the group stop aapi hate out of san francisco state university. russell jones, history professor there, running that group. their stats have been cited in a number of reports on this. this is the report they put out. the report covering only 3,795 incidents received this their reporting center from march of last year to february 28th of this year. the number of hate incidents reported to the center, only a fraction of the number of hate incidents that occur including 68% of the icidents included verbal harassments and asian-american women reported hate incidents 2.3 times more than men, that from the group stop aapi hate. another study released this month by the center of hate and extremism revealed that hate crimes targeting asians rose nearly 150% in the year 2020, going from 49 to 122 on the ones that they documented. they note a country of 330 million people, the asian-american community, close to 20 million people in this country. jim, grand forks, north dakota. you're next. >> caller: hey, john. well, heading off to work in 15 mi

a san francisco state professor said when she asked for students to write about in an experience, several wrote about receiving racial slurs or discrimination and one describe when two white customers approached him at a san jose home depot where he works. >> they came up and were speaking imitation chinese to me. i took offense, not because i'm chinese, i'm filipino-american and i had to keep that to remain professional and not create a scene. it made me feel hurt inside. >> i was talking to my coworker the other day and she was called a bunch of slurs by a customer because he didn't want to wear a mask. he was blaming her and asian people for covid. >> that students said the incident took place at a milpitas starbucks. to stop this, the hate coalition has received 3000 self-reported incidents across the country since the pandemic began. >>> more than four years after the deadly ghost ship warehouse fire and oakland, master tenant, derick almena will learn how long he will spend in prison, facing 12 years behind bars. he pled guilty in january to 36 counts of involuntary manslaughter and

a professor at san francisco state said that when she asked her students to write about an experience, several wrote about receiving racial slurs or discrimination in one student described in two white customers approached him at a san jose home depot where he worked. >> they came up to me and spoke imitation chinese to me. i took offense. i'm not chinese, i'm filipino american, but to assume that and just keep that going at a workplace where i had to remain professional and not cause a scene, it made me feel hurt inside. >> i was talking to a coworker that was called a bunch of slurs by a customer because he didn't want to wear a mask. he was blaming her and blaming asian people for covid. >> the student said that incident took place in emsa does starbucks. rted incidents of hate at across the country since the pandemic began. >>> more than four years after the deadly ghost ship warehouse fire in oakland, master tenant, derick almena, will learn how long he will spend in prison, facing up to 12 years behind bars. he pled guilty in january to 36 counts of involuntary manslaughter and

golden gate park is set to stay up for four more years of san francisco board of supervisors denied a resolution today that would have let the wheel state on lee until next february. but supporters of the attraction say allowing the wheel to remain will help reinvigorate san francisco's post pandemic economy and help offset losses. the ferris wheel spent much of 2020 closed but recently reopened a visitor's state lawmakers will be considering new safety measures that could bring back automated traffic cameras to some of the bay area's most dangerous streets. assembly member david chu, along with mayor is sam accardo, london breed and libby shaft. announced the legislation today. they say the cameras will help catch speeders and reduce the number of pedestrian deaths. the cameras would be placed on dangerous streets in cities all across the state. the fact that we don't have automatic speed enforcement is a problem. and it is one that is stopping us from saving lives. this technology is mobile. it will on lee, he put onto the streets that needed and where the communities wanted technology is. mayor schaaf put it so well has been utilized

russell jung is the co-founder of stop aapi hate and a professor of asian-american studies at san francisco state university. thank you so much for joining us. i want to start with the report by your organization found nearly 3800 incidents of bias over the course of the year during the pandemic through a self-reporting portal. most of those instances i understand were name calling and almost 70% of those instances were against women. i understand your wife is among them. tell us what happened and what it says to you about the motives behind many of these incidents. >> right, so thank you for having me, kim. of the 3800 cases, women are harassed 2.3 times more than men and people think or attack those who they think are more vulnerable. so my wife was running on a trail, and someone deliberately blocked her path, and then coughed in her face. and this is just an incident that is similar to hundreds of cases that we found, actually found so often in the reports that we created a special category for being coughed on and spat upon. it is really debasing, abhorrent behavior and people are asking has

boom in the late 80s i started doing new construction and then when i moved to san francisco, i went to san francisco stateecame fascinated with the architecture and got my contractor's licence and started painting victorians and kind of gravitated towards them. my first project that i did was a 92 room here in the mission. it was the first sro. i'm proud of that and it was challenging because it was occupied and i got interior and exterior and i thought it would take about six weeks to do it and it took me a whole year. >> nita makes the city more beautiful and one of the things that makes her such a great contractor, she has a magical touch around looking at a project and bringing it to its fullest fruition. sometimes her ideas to me might seem a little whacky. i might be like that is a little crazy. but if you just let her do her thing, she is going to do something incredible, something amazing and that will have a lot of pop in it. and she's really talented at that. >> ultimately it depends on what the customer wants. sometimes they just want to be understated or blend in and other times they let me de

this is a way to bail out the blue states, cities like san francisco, states like new york, their pension funds, most of this was unrelated to covid-19 and this was a trojan horse to get their liberal, partisan agenda past and they knew they could do it through brute force and unfortunately they were successful. >> bret: democrats say that tax cuts by donald trump in 2017 didn't have a democratic vote, it was a republican conservative list. is this just tit-for-tat? >> it was true that the tax cuts and jobs act was passed with 51 republican votes, i regret the democrats refused to work with us to try to accomplish objectives like cutting the business tax to make our country more competitive around the world and bring more jobs here at home. we use to the budget reconciliation process but this was something very different, they showed absolutely no interest especially when ten republicans showed up at the white house with a $600 billion proposal that we could negotiate on a bipartisan basis. it's pretty clear, they didn't want any republican support, they wanted to jam it through on a part

good afternoon mike and gossip book to professor at san francisco state university who says a presidential visit like what we see in atlanta is an attempted intentional act of healing. she hopes the president will acknowledge asian women are targets of hate, and she hopes that he please for a change. mr president, president joe biden left the white house this morning as part of a trip to atlanta, georgia, with few comments to reporters. he heads to the peach state under a time of vulnerability. days after a gunman shot and killed eight people, including six asian women. the president will meet with asian american community members and deliver a speech from emory university. message way mean dario to say san francisco asian american studies professor hopes calls for support of asian women everywhere when you fail to reach out when you failed to show empathy. when you fail to make a commitment to heal past wounds and to prevent further damage. and you actually compound the injury. asians in the united states have been targets of attacks for months. that's according to stop a p i hate a calif

many california state university campuses like san francisco state university being currently used to help dispense covid-19 doses. however mandating students to get vaccinated. it is quite another issue. our own office of general counsel >> provide some guidance that we are not going to be able to require a covid vaccine. my calling camp california state university spokesperson says because the 3 vaccines are under federal emergency use authorization. >> they cannot mandate the vaccine for its nearly half a million student population all the campus plans or work in progress and they're going to try to share those with the respective camps communities soon as possible. but throughout the pandemic we've worked under. to guiding principles. the first is to be able to maintain the health and well-being of our faculty staff and students. >> and then the second one is to be able to make sure that students are progressing to a degree at u c berkeley residential halls were shut down in february for nearly 2000 students went 400. >> tested positive forcing a week's long lockdown. a spokespers

%we have san francisco state university professor russell jiang some of the ways to be an ally. >> so being an ally for us haitian americans at this moment with each agreed with us tomorrow. there's incredible at the moment for the families of the victims because again, we're racially traumatized from this moment is not just the shootings, but again, this to the year-long spate of racism. i'm you could intervene. if you see racism or attacks. and thirdly, i think wherever your your your place of business or your organization or faith based group have them develop statements denouncing the separation because matter. you president trump's words. i'm glad to hate. we need normalize again, respect and human dignity. so we need those statements from asian-american community and show support. >> professor also suggested if you want to show your support. you can eat and shop chinatown, businesses and patronize asian restaurants. that was the commutes today across the bay bridge shun another round of much needed wet weather. hit the bay area today causing a messy commute for some drivers. the

many california state university campuses like san francisco state university being currently used to help dispense covid-19 doses. however mandating students to get vaccinated. it is quite another issue. our own office of general counsel >> provide some guidance that we are not going to be able to require a covid vaccine. my calling camp california state university spokesperson says because the 3 vaccines are under federal emergency use authorization. >> they cannot mandate the vaccine for its nearly half a million student population all the campus plans or work in progress and they're going to try to share those with the respective camps communities soon as possible. but throughout the pandemic we've worked under. to guiding principles. the first is to be able to maintain the health and well-being of our faculty staff and students. and then the second one is to be able to make sure that students are progressing to a degree at u c berkeley residential halls were shut down in february for nearly 2000 students went 400 tested positive forcing a week's long lockdown. a spokesperson says

an organization called stop asian-american and pacific islander hate that's affiliated with san francisco state university says of the hundreds of attacks against asians across the country since the pandemic began, well over half are here in the san francisco bay area including oakland, and an alarming number of the victims, shep, are elderly. >> scott cohn, thank you. >>> the rise in violence against asian-americans are not contained just to the west coast. communities across the country are on edge. nbc news vicky nguyen, you talked to jeremy lin about this. he says even he's experienced it on the court >> reporter: yes, as we know, racism knows no bounds over the past year it reared its ugly head in some surprising and awful ways in the asian-american community. jeremy lin shares with us some of his deeply personal experiences with bullying and discrimination as he grew up, and here he is talking about recently being called coronavirus during a basketball game for the golden state warriors' g league. >> it happened in a game, but, you know, i think one thing, at this point i'm not that shock

the stop a p i hate project at san francisco state university has collected information on 2808 casesdiscrimination nationwide during 2020 large number of those cases were here in california, including over 700 instances of anti asian hate here in the bay area for more of a joke. now by manju kulkarni, co founder of the stop a p. i hate project and executive director of the asian pacific policy and planning council. manju. very good to have you on today. appreciate your time you ask people across the country to self report these hate crimes and instances of bias and discrimination. talk about what stands out to you about the data in terms of what the most common types of crimes or harassment are that people are reporting and who is most often the victims. thanks so much for having me on today s o what we've seen from across the country 50 states and the district of columbia, um, over the course of over nine months. is that sadly we have 2800 incidents that have taken place. most of them are hate incidents and not hate crimes. and so that's really important for us to remember, however

congressman ro khanna of california, russell jeung, chair of the asian-american studies department at san francisco state university, and stanley mark, senior staff attorney for the asian-american legal defense and education fund. welcome to you all, guys, really appreciate it. tracy, i want to start with you, i was reading your piece in the "washington post," it was an incredible piece, and at times it was -- i have to be honest, an uncomfortable piece to read. considering some of the things that you were talking about, some of the things that you raised and you talk about the fetishization of asian women and the deep roots that it has in american culture. how has that heightened fears now amongst asian women in the atmosphere that we are in, especially following the most recent shooting? >> it was an uncomfortable piece to report and write. while discussing whether racism was a factor in this crime, in this shooting spree, one of the confessed gunman attributes racism to his actions ornts is almost irrelevant. the fact is he set out to end the lives of people he viewed as temptations and targeted three

san francisco, we have been disproportionately affected by the virus, and this is a step to let everyone know that we are concerned about all of our communities here in san francisco. the mayor also stated that we have other sites here in the district, the southeast health clinic, the southeast facilities commission at 1800 oakdale. we also have the bayview child center conducting vaccination sites. we're making sure that everybody has the opportunity to be vaccinated, and that's going to continue. i do want to say thank you to michael janice with the s.f. market for opening this space up to the community. it's very important from the time that we heard we were going to have vaccines that we made sure we had sites in district ten, but also that we had a high volume site in the district. so i want to thank the mayor, i want to thank the department of public health, i want to thank the department of emergency management, i want to thank sutter, i want to thank everybody for coming together, prioritizing our communities, and making sure that we get everybody vaccinated and get back to a sense of normalcy. thank you for being here today, and thank you so much for the partnership and for eve

san francisco must pressure the state to improve vaccine priorities, but san francisco can also do itso ensure vaccine equity and justice. more outreach and making sure that community can go to any community sight rather than go to a health provider. and prioritized occupations you should be going to those who are actually at risk. and when these workers are vaccinated, they should bring along the people they take care of to get vaccinated also. only the county does that. the demand for vaccine equity is a matter of fighting racism and societal racism has rendered so many people who are -- people of color and are disabled. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. okay, operations, let's hear from the next caller, please. welcome. >> good afternoon. my name is jordan. i am a disabled individual. we need vaccine priority for disabled people. they have similar risk factors. guess what? she was able to get her first shot without having the documentation. [indiscernible] i don't recall a time where governor newsom was ever good for this city. [indiscernible] [indiscernible] this is just a

privilege to work with this person and when she was with the metro college success program at san francisco state. i know her to be brilliant and kind with a deep heart for the students and the work. her commitment to equity is unparallel. she's a teacher from the community. we really think that her position needs to be reinstated. she is really focused on equity. she has a heart for the health and wellness work that she's been doing. she's someone that i really feel like has made a real impact in her community and will continue to do so. i urge the board to rescind the non-reelect for this particular faculty member. >> clerk: thank you. >> hi. i'm a up and coming sfusd parent incoming kindergartener. i'm here to talk about -- [indiscernible] -- it's about sfusd enrollment form at the pre-k assessment unit special ed. i want to say that the form asks where the child -- it says gender and there's two boxes, one male and one female. i'm getting worked up. i think it's pretty sad that we don't allow people to be who they are. we only having two binary boxes on the form. it says on the form that the

. >>> a live look at san francisco this morning. state officials and asian american leaders calling for action to stop the rise in anti asian hate crimes. emily turner joining us live from the sfpd with the efforts to stop the spread. >> it's all about increasing patrols, not only here in san francisco but across the bay area. question want to warn you that what you are about to see may be really disturbing because some of these are very violent attacks. some of them have almost left people blind. it's a scary and really sad trend that we are seeing going around. danny was beaten in an unprovoked attack on market street near 2nd and san francisco around 2:00 p.m. on monday. is he a travel agent who was returning to work from his lunch break. no words were exchanged nothing was taken but he said he lost consciousness and now can't see out of one eye. >> i loose -- i loose consciousness and when i wake up it's all bloodied up. i didn't even see the person. i didn't loose anything. all my belongings is with me. they didn't rob me. i think it

. >>> well, san francisco based state lawmakers headline a news conference this morning in the heart of chinatown to condemn recent anti-asian violence. communities came together to denounce the rise in violence. hundreds gathered yesterday. this is near san francisco's harvey milk plaza and marched to city hall. another event happened in san jose and in walnut creek yesterday. a similar show of support from a suburban perspective. >> well, here's an opportunity where we don't have to feel alone, and we live in walnut creek, and it's wonderful that we know that our community cares. >> about 60 people turned out to walnut creek's civic park. rallies across the state also took place on saturday. >>> happening today, a san mateo county supervisor plans to introduce legislation aimed at making the entire county zero tolerance zone for hate. it comes after a violent attack on an asian woman in daly city just days ago. the legislation condemns hate crimes against the asian-american and pacific islander community. the supervisor says the declaration would send a message that the county's di

i am an alumni of san francisco state university and mills college and a proud mother of two young daughters who were actually born in the city and a former resident of san francisco for 18 years. i have been a regular attendee of the citizens' advisory committee for the last five years. thank you so much for your consideration today. >> chairman: thank you for appearing before us and for your application. with that, why don't we move on to june lin-arlow. >> okay. hi everyone. good morning. my name is june lin-arlow and i am an american woman living in district 5 of san francisco. i am a child and family therapist and early childhood mental health consultant working in the bayview. children in san francisco have struggled over the past year through collective trauma but also displacement and racism. as a therapist, i work closely with children and families. very young children have absorbed the anxiety of their care givers and have experienced an unprecedented level of isolation during the pandemic. as a mental health consultant, i work in three preschools in san francisco and a domestic vi

in san francisco population of less than 1 million people but we are also vaccinating people that are not san franciscans. >> reporter: while blue shield has manage the program and parts of the state, san francisco is still in conversations with the provider. santa clara county opted out because it believes it can do a better job at reaching the most vulnerable populations than an outsider like blue shield. >> the more we can cut out the bureaucracy, the more we can get accessibility to vaccines. that will be our choice. >> reporter: meanwhile, san francisco was on track to be in the orange tear by march 24 which would mean expanding capacity and businesses. ultimately we will continue to be probably more conservative than the state will allow in order to make sure that i never have to give up here and close down the city again. >> reporter: it was a year ago today that san francisco and five other counties announced that they would shelter in place to try to reduce the threat of the virus. leeann melendez, abc 7 news. >>> solano county made a big move to significantly expand the number of people eligible to get vaccinated. starting tomorrow, anybody 50 or older can get a shot. th

chang said he now fears san francisco and is looking to move out of state >> san francisco is deteriorating. it's all gone and it's a dangerous place to walk. it's not safe anymore. >> police have arrested 32-year- old jorge davis milton in connection to the case and a stabbing in san francisco's mission district. >>> part of building a better bay area is fighting for racial and social justice. >>> the woman who caught sneaking on to planes in the be a area and across the nation is at it again. she was taken into custody at chicago's o'hare airport. she has been arrested numerous times. >>> this morning the situation at the southern border is getting worse. the homeland security chief said they are bracing for more migrant as children overrun facilities designed for adults. now president biden is responding in an interview with abc news. what is the president saying. >> reporter: the president is telling migrants not to come, putting it just like that as they grapple with the humanitarian crisis at the border. the white house refusing to allow journalists inside to see the conditions but tw

should san francisco be moved to the orange tier by the state of california live in san francisco. dan kerman kron 4 news all right. and the big story we're following for you tonight. police in san francisco have arrested a man who they say attacked to elderly asian people yesterday. it happened in the area of 7th and market streets about 10:00am police say 39 year-old stephen jenkins approached an 83 year-old man and assaulted him. he then tried to flee the scene and attacked a 75 year-old woman. the woman fought back and she hit jenkins with a stick. a security guard was able to detain him until police arrived. the man and the woman were taken to the hospital, but they are expected to be okay. police say that they're working to determine if race was a factor in this attack. meanwhile, a sacramento congresswoman testified this morning during the house judiciary committee hearing on violence against the asian american and pacific islander community. doris says that racism systemic issue at the root of it and that it's part of her duty to stop the xenophobia ideologies. it escalated

boom in the late 80s i started doing new construction and then when i moved to san francisco, i went to san francisco statefascinated with the architecture and got my contractor's licence and started painting victorians and kind of gravitated towards them. my first project that i did was a 92 room here in the mission. it was the first sro. i'm proud of that and it was challenging because it was occupied and i got interior and exterior and i thought it would take about six weeks to do it and it took me a whole year. >> nita makes the city more beautiful and one of the things that makes her such a great contractor, she has a magical touch around looking at a project and bringing it to its fullest fruition. sometimes her ideas to me might seem a little whacky. i might be like that is a little crazy. but if you just let her do her thing, she is going to do something incredible, something amazing and that will have a lot of pop in it. and she's really talented at that. >> ultimately it depends on what the customer wants. sometimes they just want to be understated or blend in and other times they let me decide a

many california state university campuses like san francisco state university being currently used to help dispense covid-19 doses. however mandating students to get vaccinated. it is quite another issue. our own office of general counsel >> provide some guidance that we are not going to be able to require a covid vaccine. my calling camp california state university spokesperson says because the 3 vaccines are under federal emergency use authorization. >> they cannot mandate the vaccine for its nearly half a million student population all the campus plans or work in progress and they're going to try to share those with the respective camps communities soon as possible. but throughout the pandemic we've worked under. to guiding principles. the first is to be able to maintain the health and well-being of our faculty staff and students. >> and then the second one is to be able to make sure that students are progressing to a degree at u c berkeley residential halls were shut down in february for nearly 2000 students went 400. >> tested positive forcing a week's long lockdown. a spokespers

the city. >> now less than half of those people who tested positive state of the city's isolation and quarantine sites in san francisco. tailored. the psac ii kron 4 news. well, here's a look at where the state stands a vaccine distribution. according to john hopkins university over 11 million doses have been administered in california. more than 3.7 million californians are fully vaccinated meeting close to 10% of the state's population is fully vaccinated. while a new group of people became eligible statewide even more people qualify for vaccines under the city of san francisco's new guidelines kron four's, maureen kelly went to a clinic and the city's bayview district that has already begun administering the shots. barr kind showed up today. the southeast health center in the city's bayview district to get his first moderna shot. >> he has cancer, which makes him eligible under tier. one c he said he had some trepidation about getting vaccinated had overcome or. >> i my fear of actually taking the shot a little bit. yeah, i did. >> i do. now. >> i san francisco's public health department has expanded on the state's

amy hollyfield is live in san francisco's chinatown . >> good morning, skid state senator scott weiner and assembly members will be here in san francisco this morning told the press conference to condemn hate against the asian community. there were rallies of support for the asian community over the weekend, from san francisco to san jose. in the city, more than 1000 people took over market street calling for an end to violence and hate . >> this is a call to arms, call to action good to just stand up and say no more. enough is enough . >> my mom was actually shopping , instead of ornaments or dressing, she shopping for baseball bats to protect yourself. this is not the life i wanted for my people . >> police say they've seen a rise in attacks on asians, many of them of been caught on camera. in san francisco, breed is going to bring back community-based safety patrols, similar to the guardian angels because she wants them to protect seniors, walk with them and to uplift them. five in san francisco, amy hollyfield, abc 7 news . >>> selfie residents and community leaders called for an e

governor newsome met with members of the asian american community in san francisco this afternoon to discuss what the state do to help combat an ever-increasing surge of attacks against that community. kron four's dan kerman has been following this story for us and joins us now live from san francisco tonight with more. dan. >> both community members and the governor himself made it clear that this attack on asians is not something new. it's been going on for decades. it is just kind of bubbled up to the surface in recent months and in the last year, they say now more than ever. we cannot just let the stand. but the fight against it must be strengthened. the acts of violence and bigotry. >> impact all of us because we're all part of one community friday. the governor met with leaders of the asian american and pacific islander community in san francisco to discuss how the state can help curb the escalating number of attacks on members of that community. how we ensure that we're preventing these incidents in the future with appropriate community-based policing and other forms of detroit, our neighborhoods. h

yeah, just celebrate all the little holidays we have. >> the mayor has said that san francisco may not adapt all of the state's orange tier regulations. the city may keep things more restricted. they will be discussing that today and then they plan to release the details to the public later this afternoon. live in san francisco. abc7 news. >> thank you. >>> santa clara is confirming a second case of the coronavirus strain first found in south africa. officials say it's believed to be a case of community transmission and it's not travel related. >>> this as vaccination efforts ramp up across the state and here in the bay area. the governor said the state has given more than 13 million vacant seems. that includes nearly a million in just the last 48 hours. that is a new record. >>> san francisco's mayor said that the city has passed its goal of 10,000 vaccinations per day. >>> we are monitoring the vaccine roll out in california with our vaccine tracker. you can find it on the home page at abc7 news.com. >>> developing news a deadly shooting spree in georgia has sent fear through the asian community. robert long

san francisco, santa clara and napa counties all expected to meet the state's requirements to move out of the most restrictive purple tier. they will be joining soon marin and san mateo counties in the less restrictive red tier. amy hollyfield has more with the preparations under way. amy? >> reporter: hi, good morning, kumasi. we're hearing enthusiasm about this next phase. it is pretty cold out here. some people saying they're ready to move indoors and eat inside. the red tier does allow restaurants to open up indoor dining to a limited capacity. they can't have everybody inside yet. they can allow in 25% of their capacity. gyms can open up to 10% of their capacity. business owners we have talked to say they are more than ready for this next step. >> should have done this already. but there should also be some sort of oversight as to people moving into this red tier. and that will mean they can also open up their movie theaters, zoos, places of worship, and museums. they can partially open indoors in this tier. high schools and middle schools are allowed to open in the red tier. san

you can see those two counties now joining san francisco, san mateo and santa clara counties in the state's orange tier. taking a like look right now in alameda where they will soon allow nonessential businesses to reopen offices and restaurant indoor dining capacity will grow to 50%. the timing is important for the oakland a's. opening day is on thursday. in the orange tier fans may be allowed to return to the coliseum at 33% capacity. it looks like napa may have just missed the cut today to move to orange. big disappointment for wineries hoping to reopen for indoor tastings. the economy there really depending on tourists from out of state and around the world. we will have our eye on napa county. meantime here is what is allowed in the orange tier for the counties that did make the cut. bars can open outside without needing to serve food. indoor dining, retail, museums can open to 50% capacity. nonessential offices can reopen up to 25% capacity. gyms, bowling alleys and pool halls can also open up to 25% capacity. sonoma, solano and contra costa are likely to stay in their red tier for at

san francisco, we have been disproportionately affected by the virus, and this is a step to let everyone know that we are concerned about all of our communities here in san francisco. the mayor also stated that we have other sites here in the district, the southeast health clinic, the southeast facilities commission at 1800 oakdale. we also have the bayview child center conducting vaccination sites. we're making sure that everybody has the opportunity to be vaccinated, and that's going to continue. i do want to say thank you to michael janice with the s.f. market for opening this space up to the community. it's very important from the time that we heard we were going to have vaccines that we made sure we had sites in district ten, but also that we had a high volume site in the district. so i want to thank the mayor, i want to thank the department of public health, i want to thank the department of emergency management, i want to thank sutter, i want to thank everybody for coming together, prioritizing our communities, and making sure that we get everybody vaccinated and get back to a sense of normalcy. thank you for being here today, and thank you so much for the partnership and for eve

san francisco state university has an institutional master plan and have started construction to add hundreds of units of housing. they are going to redevelop some of their classrooms and buildings, add a hotel and generally just expand their footprint. in addition to that the mall also is proposing adding thousands of units of housing and redesigning the street. we can expect a lot more folks biking and walking in this area going to take advantage of the wonderful things at the lake when we have seen over the last few years several collisions and accidents involving pedestrians and bicycles. i think this is timely. i am grateful to president yee to make sure that we had all of this. i want to thank director chang for staying with me to go into all of the different proposals on the table and what we can do to advance it. with that i see the urgency in the area. we have funds that are available. i would like to start the process for a quick build of these projects with the funds we have available already. i think that having timely improvements is essential to guarantee pedestrians an

hyakawa came a senator, san francisco, san francisco state where he was. there is a few. popular. you know two years ago i think the dean at the university of chicago wrote a letter to all the incoming freshman, we'll not coddle you. we don't believe in not challenging your beliefs and not doing things you might find offensive, get used to it. it is called free speech. but these, they're distinctive because they're so rare. stuart: yeah. you got it. quickly bill, a third woman has come forward and accused governor andrew cuomo in new york state of sexual harrassment. does he step down or be forced out before the end of his term in 2022? >> i think, i think it is likely that he has to step down especially if more women start coming out. i'm not a person who believes that someone should have to resign just by accusations, right? i think that is a really bad system. i would extend that courtesy to governor cuomo who i doesn't agree with on anything, i think he has been very nasty in some of his interactions. he deserves we need to get to the truth of it. now there is an inve

but then, here comes the state of california who had much more conservative health and safety ordinance than even what we have locally because typically, d.p.h., our san francisco department of public health was a lot more conservative than the state. they came in and said okay, no more than 12 to 14 youth in a pod, maximum of two adults. so those staffings, and c.b.o.s having to meet the capacity was a constraint. it's a challenge, it's been rough, but it's been so fulfilling to see the smiles on the faces of our youth, seeing that the staff say we had to make this work no matter what. we were still able to launch successfully in september with, like, opening 42 hubs to start but now, like, we're at 80, and it's hopefully still increasing. i'm bringing on a couple more in a few weeks. >> that's great. now you just mentioned c.b.o.s, community-based organizations, and i understand that the city is partnering with nonprofits and c.b.o.s. do they provide space? how does it work? >> in partnership with rec and parks and the libraries, and that's where we get a lot of c.b.o.s brick and mortar spaces. we provide the staffing. we have rec and park who are standing up

also vaccinating people that are not san franciscans. >> reporter: while blue shield has managed california's covid- 19 vaccine program in parts of the state, san francisco is still in conversations with the saara coun opted out ofacngmo l outsider like blue shield. >> the more we can cut out the bureaucracy, the more we can get low barrier accessibility to vaccines and we can get more vaccine faster that will be our choice. >> reporter: san francisco is on track to be in the last restrictive orange tear by march 24 which would mean expanding capacity at local businesses. >> ultimately we will continue to be more conservative than the state will allow in order to make sure that i never have to get the city again. >> reporter: it was a year ago today that san francisco and five other counties announced they would shelter in place to try to reduce the spread of the virus. >>> another rapid testing event is planned for this friday in san rafael's canal neighborhood. ucsf is behind the effort which can turn around 800 test each day. the canal neighborhood is one of marin county's most vulnerable neighborhoods for covid. >>> moderna's pediatric clinical trial