"today in the bay's" sergio quintana explores. j&j will soon rejoin the pandemic eradication tool kit in california, after the western state scientific review work group backed action by the feds. >> many of us >> reporter: epidemiologist yvonne maldonado is part of the group. >> we felt the benefits of the vaccines outweighed the risks. >> reporter: the 12-day pause has caused some people to get their jots. if he was offered johnson & johnson? >> no, i wouldn't have gotten the johnson & johnson. too risky especially if there's other alternatives. >> reporter: but others didn't have any worries. >> if they offered me the j&j i would have taken it. >> reporter: would you have taken the johnson & johnson if it was offered? >> sure. >> reporter: to find the risks of the johnson & johnson vaccine, this doctor crunched numbers. >> any given year or chance of getting struck by lightning is 1 in 500,000, so this is half as rare as any one of us getting struck by lightning on any given year. >> reporter: still there is some risk and durin

as sergio quintana shows us, counties are struggling to keep up with demand. >> reporter: at stanford covid-19 clinic at emeryville, like rush hour. jeff and sheri got their first dose. >> feel relieved. emotional thing to decide to get one, glad i did. >> happy to have first, can't wait for the second. >> kathryn drove here from san jose for her shot. >> relieved, didn't think i would get it this early. >> reporter: once santa clara county opened eligibility on monday, kathryn hopped online and booked appointment here at emeryville, couldn't find one closer to home. santa clara health officials say just got 300,000 doses from federal government but appointments were snapped up immediately. freeze on johnson & johnson vaccines and relatively small shipments from the state has caused shortfall for this week and next. >> bay area is doing well. >> point man says the department of public health will be using some of the limited supply to reach underserved communities so will be tough to book shots through the county. >> trying to move vaccine quickly as possible but supply is limited. en

here is "today in the bay's" sergio quintana with more. >> reporter: finding appointments for shots is still a bit of a challenge for some parts of the bay area, but there are plenty to be found if you're willing to do some hunting and driving. public officials like san francisco supervisor matt haney have been taking to social media this week to understand direct people to sites like the stanford vaccine clinic in emeryville. >> if you login to the myturn.ca.gov website you'll see the oakland coliseum site has lots of appointments open for monday, tuesday, wednesday and thursday. >> it seems like we are on track to get most californians vaccinated by probably the middl is also doing good when it comes to inf infections have remained pretty flat for the last two weeks. still, public health experts would like to see them decline, but there is some concern with infections in other parts of the country. >> we're also seeing that the growing trend of young, healthy, unvaccinated people, because they're not vaccinated yet, people are among some of the sickest especially in michigan. >> repo

"today in the bay's" sergio quintana reports. >> reporter: she's returning to oakland at the vp, kamala harris coming home to build support for the administration's proposed infrastructure program, it would overhaul america's roads, bridges and plumbing, while creating millions of jobs. it's already getting support from her hometown audience. >> this bill if passed would be a $2 trillion bill and i think it encompasses not just infrastructure as far as roads and water, it also includes schools so i think that that is basically kind of like recharging america. >> reporter: oakland's greg jaboin is hoping to see the biden-harris jobs pass and the success on vaccination doesn't roll back. the fema and cal oes run a mass vaccination site at the oakland coliseum is scheduled to close sunday after completing an eight-week mission. he says closing that site four days before he and millions of others in california will be eligible april 15th is troubling. >> i think there will be tremendous value in having it open longer. for myself, a lot of hospitals and clinics are overwhelmed right now. per

as sergio quintana tells us, lots of merchants are not rushing to pack their places with people just yet. >> reporter: on valencia street in mission, plenty out to enjoy friday night, modified rules allow eight people at tables outdoors and indoor restaurants can stay open later. patricia is seeing new faces. >> people who have been vaccinated who haven't been out, they're completely new to the game, they haven't been out but feel safer now. >> reporter: says she's not going to be loosen her rules much yet. customers are finally comfortable right now. under the expanded orange tier venues can loosen restrictions further but everyone we've checked in with says they're taking a cautious approach to this. ♪♪ >> reporter: in dogpatch neighborhood event may look like outdoor music venue, only allowed 50 guests but been a restaurant space allowed larger audience and don't expand to expand beyond four people per table. >> it's easier to control the crowding or groups of people or mask wearing with smaller groups like four people. >> reporter: there is a sense of optimism among people out en

sergio quintana, "today in the bay." >>> nearly 1.5 million customers in the east bay could see soon real life impacts from the ongoing drought. tomorrow the board of directors for the east bay mud will decide whether customers will have to conserve water for the rest of the year. staff found that the current water supply is just not enough to meet demand. the directors are set to hear the water supply report before making their decision which will affect 1.4 million customers in alameda and contra costa counties. >>> speaking of the drought, talking about the rain we had this weekend, hit and miss like you were saying. another thing i was thinking about coming in this morning, i saw a full moon. i know we're not talking about the moon but i thought it was beautiful. just wanted to mention it. >> the sky is clearing. yes, let's talk about some of those rainfall totals that we had from mt. tam, where we have the highest amount of rain, about a half inch of rain there in the berkeley hills, 0.4 of an inch. some of us got a downpour like san ramon, a quarter inch. not much in san franci

here's sergio quintana. >> reporter: this track took only ten days to write, produce, and shoot. titled "anti," it's being something the well-known asian rapper has been thinking about, and rhetoric that was coming from the trump administration at the time. >> almost immediately we saw blatant anti-asian sentiment. >> reporter: a surge in violent attacks on asian and pacific islanders caught on video ultimately traded an urgency to produce this track, which is helping raise money to fight aapi hate. the collaborator says it's essentially a rallying call for his community. >> i think this song, what it really means to me is just being able to give our people a voice. you know, we've always been known as a model minority. >> reporter: the surge in violence is not just anecdotal. >> in 2020, there were 14 hate crimes that we prosecuted. that's the highest number of hate crimes we have prosecuted in the last ten years. and this year, in 2021, even though we're only three months into it, we already have ten. >> reporter: paul gen is the president of the national asian prosecutors asso

as "today in the bay's" sergio quintana shows us, counties they are struggling to keep up with the demand. >> reporter: at the stanford covid-19 vaccine clinic in emeryville, it was like rush hour just before sunset. this is one of the spots that people across the bay area have found that has appointments available. jeff and sherri hutchson just got their first dose. >> i feel relieved. it's an emotional thing to decide to get one and glad i did. >> happy to have the first and can't wait to get the second over with. >> reporter: katherine drove from san jose to get her shot. >> i'm very relieved. i didn't think i would get it this early. >> reporter: once santa clara county opened eligibility for people 16 and older monday, katherine hopped online and booked her appointment here in emerd one closer to home. santa clara county department of public health officials say even though they just got 300,000 doses from the federal government, appointments were almost immediately snapped up and san mateo county, the freeze on giving johnson & johnson vaccines and relatively small shipments from th

sergio quintana, "today in the bay." >> for the black community both of these shootings are reopening wounds they say never seem to heal. we talked about the events unfolding in minnesota last night during our episode of "race in america: the conversation." that was the 12th episode. we also discussed the anger and fear still palatable in the asian-american community in the bay area. if you missed that episode, we posted the entire thing on our website, just visit nbcbayarea.com/raceinamerica. >>> happening today, san francisco police plan to take another step to boost protections for the asian-american community. they're rolling out a new hotline specifically for people of chinese descent, it will allow potential victims to more easily report crimes and include options for people who only speak cantonese or mandarin. leaders plan to talk about it today at noon. >>> coronavirus and the return to the classroom. still ahead on "today in the bay," the intense debate playing out at two bay area school districts over in-person learning and the new looming threat of a lawsuit. >>> plus, get

sergio quintana, "nbc bay area news." >>> happening today, city leaders will hold a covid vaccine clinic in one of the hardest-hit neighborhoods of san jose. the pop-up clinic will be in the east san jose neighborhood of foxdale from 9:00 this morning until 3:00 this afternoon. it will be held in the back parking lot of the foxdale apartments near story road and capitol expressway. reservations are required. >>> in the race to vaccinate, more than 127 million americans have received at least one dose. doctors say a combination of people getting the vaccination and remaining socially distant will be integral in beating the virus. >>> alameda county hosted a vaccination clinics athe mastek senior center in alameda. many older recipients told us it was a leaf not to have to search for a vaccine and instead have it come to them. the county health department will return in a month to administer second doses to people vaccinated. >>> tonight nbc is hosting a star-studded vaccination special, russell wilson, jennifer lopez, matthew mcconhow, ciara are among the celebrities who will join preside

nbc bay area's sergio quintana. >> reporter: the renaming panel proposed 44 schools should be renamed because of lempgs to his, to figures tied to oppression and racism. those names included washington and even abraham linkon high school. a group of that high school even filed suit. >> you can't just ignore people's attachment. >> reporter: the league attorney said one issue is the community wasn't involved in the process. >> this approach basically sort of suggesting that they have a corner on morality, and dictating to everyone else, you know, from the top down, as to what should go on with their school. that is not an acceptable approach. >> reporter: on tuesday, san francisco unified school commissioners will vote on documenting the resolution to formally start the renaming process. it takes issue with the lawsuits filed against them calling it a trans parent attempt to thwart a lawful and duly noticed action. and says they are only voting on to it avoid wasteful expenditures. >> i think from my perspective as a parent -- >> reporter: parents watching this say the whole issue cont