for example 65% of the unhoused e.r. patients at st. frances an have medical.ther 20% are self paid. so the hospital often isn't reimbursed. it's impacting both hospitals financial with potential to limit staffing and bed availability. >> do you think this could lead to a staffing crisis? >> i absolutely believe that in terms of recruiting and retention. >> dr. luke don day the chief medical officer says the disproportionately unhoused paetschs in the e.r. isn't straining staffing. but the overall influx has required more space. >> we've opened up additional units within our the hospital care for more patient who is require hospitalization. we are seeing a higher influx across the board. >> we found all three san francisco hospitals with the highest percent of unhoused e.r. patients fell below the median percentage of e.r. turnaround times. for the eye team, stephanie sierra. dan: a request for voters after an error was found in the oakland school board race, a setting in the ballot county was left unchecked causing an error. the correct results could put mike

for example 65% of the unhoused e.r. patients at st. frances an have medical.id. so the hospital often isn't reimbursed. it's impacting both hospitals financial with potential to limit staffing and bed availability. >> do you think this could lead to a staffing crisis? >> i absolutely believe that in terms of recruiting and retention. >> dr. luke don day the chief medical officer says the disproportionately unhoused paetschs in the e.r. isn't straining staffing. but the overall influx has required more space. >> we've opened up additional units within our the hospital care for more patient who is require hospitalization. we are seeing a higher influx across the board. >> we found all three san francisco hospitals with the highest percent of unhoused e.r. patients fell below the median percentage of e.r. turnaround times. for the eye team, stephanie sierra. dan: a request for voters after an error was found in the oakland school board race, a setting in the ballot county was left unchecked causing an error. the correct results could put mike hutchison as the win

reporter: care for unhoused patients typically eat more of the cost. and since 2012. 20% are self-pay on the hospital often is not reimbursed. the doctor says it impacts both hospitals financially with the potential to limit staffing and availability of beds. >> in ter retention it leads to a crisis. reporter: the chief medical officer says the high percentage of unhoused patients in the er does not strain staffing but does strain space. >> having additional units in the hospital to take care of more patients. higher volume across the board of all patients. reporter: hospitals are expected to move patients to vr as quickly as possible and all three with the highest percentage of unhoused patients fell below the median average for er turnaround times across the state. ama: 1, center a residents who own a gun will have to have insurance by law. it's the first city in the lesion -- in the nation for this rule. provides security for gun victims and indicates gun owners will maintain safe done behavior. >> it's not about taking away guns or invading homes o

yes, dent of unhoused.nty some medical directors are concerned about the long-term impacts unhoused patients make up less than 5% of emergency department admissions across, california, but in some sanford cisco hospitals, that figure is up to 32 percent. i think it's pretty impressive and i had no idea. i really thought that the rest of the state say in the urban areas with similar to us, so it's a bit shocking to me dr. joanne's son is the medical director for both saint francis memorial hospital and saint mary's medical center in san francisco. both hospitals are among the top three emergency departments in the state with the highest percentage of unhoused patients along with sf general. it's mainly due to our location. we're very close to the tenderloin dr. son says providers are seeing the same unhoused patients repeatedly often under the influence requiring additional nursing resources and even security there's been many workplace violence instances in our emergency department and i hear this across th

this is an area where one of the unhoused weather victims died. >> these are blankets. i'll give you more. >> reporter: getting blankets and supplies was a welcome relief to those living in the alviso encampment, where it was sad but not shocking to hear one local homeless person died of possible exposure on tuesday. >> it's been cold out. >> how bad? >> freezing down here. >> reporter: the unhoused supply group said it wants agency to open up more warming shelters especially during storms and cold snaps. organizers were upset to hear the city of san jose today wants those living along waterway embankments. >> you sweep them out of areas like columbus park and you sweep them into creeks. then you say get out of the creek because it's going to flood. >> reporter: the san jose housing department told us it's very difficult to find facilities for overnight warming centers. it only has two right now with a total capacity of 50. but the city points out it opened up 397 beds year-round and sent us these pictures of the 1,000 long-term shelter facilities being built to open as

counties are urging homeless people, the unhoused, to seek shelter with another freeze forecast. this could be a life-or-death decision. here is nbc bay area's ian cull. >> reporter: with frost and even ice blanketing parts of the bay area, officials are insisting the unhoused find shelter. temps are forecast to dip into the 20s and low 30s overnight this week. the san francisco department of homelessness and supportive housing saying temporary emergency shelter beds will remain available until monday. there are warming shelters at libraries and some community centers. not many appear to have taken them up on the offer. the response group was working throughout the weekend rain after hearing pleas for help. >> we had people say they used all their clothes as sandbags, people said they were hypothermic. shaunn cartwright will be handing out heat packs ahead of another freeze warning. >> for our unhoused friends it's been hell. not just wet but really cold. >> reporter: her volunteer group holds a memorial for the homeless who have died on the streets in the south bay over the past

yet, despite the outrage, the number of unhoused people is climbing.ight now, more than 500,000 people in america are without housing. and communities are struggling to provide a solution. in los angeles county, there are nearly 70,000 people without housing. an estimated 40% self-reported that they suffer with severe mental illness or substance abuse. or both. one new initiative, championed by governor gavin newsom, will focus on the needs of the unhoused mentally ill population. both supporters and critics question whether increased funding will provide enough mental health beds and workers. our correspondent dina , demetrius, went to l.a.'s skid row to talk with people living on the street and those trying to help them. alexis: it will break you down, -- >> it will break you down, it will break you down, and you just don't have no hope for yourself. >> people who are down here, they're hurting from something. and that's why they lower themselves to live like this. dina: alexis has been homeless for 10 years. she's had one stillbirth and given up ano

people who are unhoused are often the first responders for each other. so it's important that we know what to look for in terms of the signs of frostbite and hypothermia. >> what are the main dangers facing people when the weather drops like this? you mentioned hypothermia. what other risks do they face? >> yes. the night ministry operates street medicine programs and shelters for people living in chal chicago that are unhoused. we're concerned about frostbite, dehydration, accidents, and hypothermia. people who are unhoused are already at risk for more chronic health conditions as well such as asthma so the cold weather can exacerbate these illnesses. will hypothermia can set in at temperatures as high as 50 degrees. and so prolonged exposure to this extreme cold and cold temperatures after your belongings get wet is more dangerous. the combination of the precipitation, extreme cold, the ice, and the wind makes this situation even more potentially deadly. and then i also want to mention that we're also very concerned about the epidemic of loneliness thi

emergency order. >> to stop the city of san francisco from dismantling tent encampments forcing unhoused people to move along from public property. today an advocate group held a rally to announce a lawsuit has been filed and they allege that city leaders have been clearing out encampments and they do not connect homeless people to services and housing. and that is in response now to neighborhood complaints. >> there's no real compassion or he or anything to help people step up and away from a union house and services go. and we just we need so, jean, about and what they're doing now. >> attorneys for the city of san francisco say >> the policies balance the rights of the unhoused with the need to keep san francisco's public spaces clean and safe in court documents, attorneys said homeless people are asked to leave in a camp that only after receiving and declining an offer of shelter. >> the case against rapper tory lanes, the man accused of shooting megan. the stallion is now in the hands of a los angeles jury. closing arguments concluded this afternoon lanes is facing charges of shooti

so counties, cities, they're telling the unhoused to find some shelter. i'm wondering what are cities and counties doing? >> they're trying to get the word out there are warming shelters only during the day and a few at night because of this morning frost and some ice many are feeling so harshly overnight. in the south bay, the county libraries and many community centers open to people throughout the day that needed to warm up. not many appear to have taken them up on the offer. homelessness and supportive housing says that temple rather emergency shelter beds will remain available until monday because it's expected to be so cold at night all week. >> i know you spoke with a number of people including a group of volunteers. >> yes. >> what are they doing? >> the unhoused response group in san jose is trying to do what they can. its co-founder picked up another load of warm blankets and heat packs. they were out handing these to the homeless before the rain and during the rain, too. and will be handing out more ahead of another freeze warning. >> people sa

. >>> remembering hundreds of unhoused who lost their lives in the south bay, the unique way advocates gather in their honor. >>> good wednesday, everyone. thank you so much for joining us. the news at 5:30 starts now. i'm janelle wang. >> and i'm raj mathai, damage after yesterday's 6.4 earthquake, and many after shocks followed. we had a 3.0 after shock about 20 minutes ago. the 6.4 quake struck off the coast of fortuna in humboldt county. at last check, officials report 17 injuries from the quake and two deaths. the two people had medical emergencies during or after the quake. the clean up is ongoing, especially in rio dell. almost 100 homes have been red tagged or yellow tagged meaning those homes are now compromised. >> even the houses that may have been on foundations and had perimeter concrete and posts appear in the middle have moved. so that just tells you the strength that this one had. >> water is slowly getting restored. the city there in fortuna and rio dell hopes 65% of customers should have their water back within the hour, but they say the water is too dangerous to drin

and on a daily basis roughly five people die who are unhoused.n emergency. the last time the state of emergency was actually declared for homelessness was under mayor bradley in the 19 80s. so, this was the first time this has happened in a while. what it allows me to do, if you know madden a hurricane, you suspend a lot of bureaucracy. a lot of it takes so long to build and making it so expensive to build. so we need to fast-track building. we also need to get people off the streets immediately. on tuesday, i'm going to launch another program called inside safe which basically is taking the lessons learned from the pandemic. there are a lot of motel and hotel owners that were resistant before the pandemic to master leasing out of their entire properties. they saw that was actually a pretty good deal for them. so, we are going to look to master lease properties, motels, and hotels and then we will have out reaches workers and people who are formerly unhoused talk to the people who are in the tens. i'll, you know that there are a lot of reasons wh

do they have any plans for the unhoused? >> well, they do have some, more long-term than short-term. it's always difficult to kind of do something really quickly when it comes to the homeless. i was talking to city officials today in the housing department, and they were pointing out that they do have two overnight warming centers, which we've done stories on. but if you total up the capacity, that's about 50 people. and given how many homeless there are, that doesn't cover a lot of people. so they did point out that their plans are more long-term. they've got about 297 year-round shelters that they built, beds that they provided, as well as they have plans to open up about 1,000 new beds with nice facilities, not just like a cot but a bed and a room and things like that. and they plan to open those up around late january or february. so definitely they do have plans. overnight warming shelters, though, are very difficult to build quickly because you need to find the right facilities. you need to find the right ways to get p

people are unhoused for a variety of different reasons.e are profoundly mentally ill, some are profoundly addicted. you have to address the reasons why they ended up unhoused. so we'll have a program called inside safe, to address the people in the tents -- it won't address everybody, but hopefully a significant number, but we'll put them in motels and hotels immediately. it's interesting. it's lessons learned from the pandemic. some community organizations have been trying to get the city to master lease out entire hotels and motels for years. >> are you going to allow lapd and sanitation officers to do they sweeps? >> no, these are not sweeps at all. this is getting people to move on their own. then after the person leaves, sanitation will absolutely have to be there. this is not coercing people, ticketing people. this is moving people from tents to hotels or motels. >> we know some of this is -- we know that you run across a bit of mental health challenges here with the homeless population. mayor adams in new york city is talking about

and the cold weather raising concerns for the unhoused. the latest effort some cities are taking to offer the homeless shelter. >> all right. in contra costa county district attorney there says she will not file a murder charge in the killing of a chevron store clerk. the da has expense expressed sympathy over this case, but said that the circumstances surrounding that gunfight with the suspect prevents her from filing of murder charges. now let's get the latest from the da's office on this case. they are speaking live in just a few moments here. now. >> i didn't know where he lived. and mister jackson, i believe, is 19 and was a resident of antioch. >> and convert ordinary shot fired by mister. that. in fact, you know, home troops. >> i saw a a resident on saint francis try to said that their home was hit by gunfire. >> so this is just going talk about just confirming this is not mister williams was not the registered owner. become it and shot 9 times. i just have to make that assumption because he did not possess it legally. >> went a po

they work with outreach workers who were formally unhoused.ve a lot of good organizations in los angeles, but the fundamental problem is they don't have the resources or the capacity to address the problem at the scale in which is needed. so that's part of what we have to do here. >> mayor bass, al sharpton. again, congratulations and -- >> hi, rev. >> you know our people are ecstatic that you are there. i know you've -- 20, 25 years, at heart you are a civil rights activist. so the attention with how you deal with homelessness and deal with protecting their civil rights but at the same time removing them becomes something that you have to thread the needle. eric adams, lori lightfoot is dealing wit, you dealing with it in l.a. how do you deal with the balance of removing them but not having police doing overreach, and not leave people out there to suffer and in many cases have mental health issues where they don't even know they're suffering, how do you strike that balance? >> right. once again, i'll raise the fact that the population of unho

. >> advocates for the unhoused are making up tombstones to mark the homeless victims who have died in santa clara county this year. there were 250 tombstones set up last year. they expect the numbers to be higher this time and the numbers grew this week as freezing overnight temperatures claimed two more victims. one man who the examiner has not identified but said was 65 years old, died outside the 7-eleven store early tuesday morning. a woman who asked not to be shown remembers seeing the man outside the store occasionally. >> it's extremely sad. it's not good when someone is living their life outside of 7-eleven. >> reporter: many advocates agree. they say local government agencies need to reach out more to cold snaps. >> yeah, they need to build housing. there needs to be immediate deployment like fema does during a hurricane. last night speaks to that. this poor gentleman died right here. unnecessarily, in my opinion. >> reporter: outreach groups try to do what they can, handing out supplies for the unhoused to get through another bone-chilling night. >> pretty cold. i check on m

john can be deadly for people who don't have a roof over their heads. >> at least for unhoused people died from exposure over the past 2 weeks. kron four's justin campbell was in san jose where services are being made available to help people deal with this wet and wild weather. >> we encourage you to a safe shelter now, stay dry and come out of the cold. he is the emergency risk. communications officer was santa clara county is sounding the alarm saying unhoused people should not try to write out the chilly temperatures and rain. it's too dangerous. that on shelter community member had died. the santa clara medical examiner is investigating that person's death as cold related. this after at least 3 on housed mean died in the freezing cold 2 weeks ago. the county is opening its libraries for people to use during the day county libraries are operating you know, their normal library and we encourage all of our community members to go there. if they need a place to for respite from cold and wet weather. >> and that was justin campbell reporting for us this morning. santa clara county, al

. >> our biggest concern is those who are unhoused, many of them are choosing to stay unhoused, but whenit is this cold, it's the frostbite, the inability to sleep. >> it was really cold last night. >> the center's safe team hit the road, spreading the word about the shelter and providing outreach for those living on the streets, like donna. >> hey, donna. >> thank you. >> of course. it just feels good. somebody's going to be sleeping out and have frost on their body when they wake up. instead, they can be in the warming center. hopefully, we are saving lives. >> docs were bundled up -- dogs were bundled up in festive sweaters. always bring your dogs and cats inside at night, experts say. >> a lot of us think pets are impervious to the cold, but they feel it and can get cold, even hypothermic. >> check out this stray kitten, which climbed into the engine compartment of a car recently to keep warm. it took a while for an employee to get him out, but finally, success. the cat was named dave. he will be up for adoption soon. dave is lucky. marin humane says, if you live in an area with a lo

this is why you see homeless advocates helping the unhoused in the city's stay warm. kron four's dan thorn tells us how they do it. >> cold and rainy nights are making life even more difficult for people who live outside the misery is a big concern for those advocating for the homeless. it's terrible. and especially when it's >> cold and rainy and windy, it makes it really kerr jennifer friedman box with the san francisco coalition on homelessness says hypothermia is a very real threat for people living on the streets. >> the other problem is the availability of beds shelters. freeman box says for every 5 unhoused persons, there's one shelter bed and on cold nights they are in high demand. these will fill up. >> for the rest of the folks be stuck outside the city's department of homelessness and supportive housing has expanded shelter locations for inclement weather. >> these 3 locations are offering in takes through sunday while the interfaith winter shelter program began last week and runs through march of next year. the city says the program which rose from one con

ahead of bass' swearing in, people were forced to vacate an encampment for the unhoused across from loseles city hall. due to heavy rains, the ceremony was ultimately relocated to another, indoor site. and pioneering black feminist dorothy pitman hughes has died at the age of 84. she co-founded "ms. magazine" with gloria steinem in the 1970's. the duo also toured the country to speak about the women's movement. hughes was a passionate advocate for racial justice, as well as for children and families, starting a cooperative daycare and co-founding the new york city agency for child development. and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. the nobel peace prize's were given out saturday on international human rights day in oslo, norway. the awards went to the ukrainian organization center for civil liberties, the russian group memorial, and ales bialiatski, imprison human rights activist in belarus. the nobel peace prize ceremony came nearly 10 months after russia invaded ukraine on the same day as the nobel cere

tell us what's being done to protect the unhoused. >> reporter: warming centers are fairly common duringes in the south bay, including here at the roosevelt community center are now overnight warming centers because during the cold snap, that's when they're needed the most. >> advocates for the unhoused are making up tombstones to mark the homeless victims who have died in santa clara county this year. there were 250 tombstones set up last year. they expect the numbers to be higher this time and the numbers grew this week as freezing overnight temperatures claimed two more victims. one man who the examiner has not identified but said was 65 years old, died outside the 7-eleven store early tuesday morning. a woman who asked not to be shown remembers seeing the man outside the store occasionally. >> it's extremely sad. it's not good when someone is living their

meaning california accounts for about one-third of the nation's overall unhoused population.ce 2007, the state has seen homeless us jumped by more than 23%. it's disheartening. it's a part. the rain. >> and it's unfortunate that senator rosalee sale to a bowl guard use policies out of sacramento have not helped over the years, but she hopes to bipartisan bill she is sponsoring will make a difference. 1, 6, to increase more shelter beds and healthcare staffing for those who need behavioral health assistance and the other would provide funding to courts for programs to help inmates after their release. >> make sure that people the prison system have a skill sets the resources to be able to get a job once the and be able to make ends meet. >> it all comes after the governor signed a bill last fall to create care courts in california, in essence, allowing court ordered care for the unhoused and specifically those struggling with mental health and substance use disorders, a program. san diego mayor todd gloria supports what it will do is provide a new option for those who are seve

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unhoused residents in oakland's housing encampments have criminal records and we can see it has been a barrier for them to access housing. and we know that a person who has a criminal record is 10 times more likely to face homelessness. reporter: the new ordinance follows similar laws passed in oakland and berkeley in 2020 and now includes uncorporated areas of alameda county. while a coalition of groups in the bay area work to pass the measure at least one attorney that specializes in landlord-tenant disputes and owns a property management company disagrees with the decision. >> i'm not in favor of the law. i absolutely respect it. and i understand the public policy behind it. however, what i'm most concerned about is ensuring a safe community of apartment or housing providers. reporter: california system of mass incarceration disproportionately impacts people of color and black people are more likely to be unhoused in the bay area despite a dwindling population. taqua hopes this ordinance changes that for good. >> so we have to take this ordinance and get this ordinance passed thro

and a whole as well as santa clara county are offering overnight warming centers for anyone who is unhoused. we do have a short list here on your screen where they're located. that more details about where they are in the hours of operation. all on our website. kron 4 dot com. now we go to oakland where police are investigating the death of a 2 year-old boy. his body was found last friday in a rural part of napa county. oakland's police chief has given us an update on this investigation. kron four's gayle ong joins us live here in the studio. >> with more gayle. >> catherine, just staying open. police made an arrest in connection to the child's death. police say the suspect in custody is someone close to the family and the child. >> this is a tragic case of the 2 old child this should not have happened. oakland police chief leronne armstrong providing an update thursday about the homicide of a 2 year-old boy. >> killed in oakland. his body was found in rule. napa county chief armstrong says opd received a tip from san pablo police just before 02:30am, in the morning on december. 23rd. >> ou

supplies to the 20 or so unhoused people. this was along gold street in alviso. the santa clara county coroner's office says five people have died on south bay streets in the past week alone, including one in alviso. today the city sent out workers to warn anyone living in encampments near local waterways that they need to get to higher ground before the next storm arrives. but homeless advocates say that only solves half the problem. >> they do have to move, but when they move, it creates another problem because then their structures are unsound because they move. so your tents break and things like that, and now you get sick, and you get hypothermic and you die. >> san jose city housing officials say they can't add more overnight warming centers because setting up each one requires advance notice and very specific facilities. but they also point out the city added 397 year-round beds recently and plan to create 1,000 shelter beds by late next month. >>> now to the future of people's park in berkeley. it remains murky. the c

but more importantly it's what can we do to get the unhoused residents into shelter especially now during the christmas holiday. the san francisco department ensured about 540 officers. this is unprecedented. >> reporter: and the executive director of the center, non-profit leader said he was viciously beaten by two homeless men back in june. and conditions in the community van improved. william said the neighborhood today is wildly different from the one she grew up visiting as a little girl. >> this used to be called uptown instead of going downtown for shopping. i've just seen this as a major 3 60-degree turn. >> reporter: she remembers when businesses were booming and when that specific safeway just opened. it was wonderful addition to the community and now she says it's being overlooked and marginalized when it comes to city services. >> so i have to ask given that she used to be a police officer. when she sees things like this happen, does she try to intervene in any way? >> reporter: her only constellation is because she's a retired police officer, she can't carry a weapon, but mos

she says she knows other unhoused people whose tents collapsed. she's very worried about how they'll do during this much larger storm. we're in the end of miles canyon in fremont. my advice, if you don't need to be on the roads this morning, don't go outside. live in fremont, bob redell, "today in the bay." >> good advice, bob. hopefully you can find some shelter until the next time we see you. thanks so much. >>> new video just into our news room showing flooding in west sonoma county. take a look. this is highway 1 near valley ford road west of petaluma. there are signs warning drivers that the road is closed in both directions. officials warn if you see standing water, turn around and don't drive into it. the north bay is under a wind advisory until 8:00 this morning. so 50 more minutes to go. that coupled with the soaked ground from all of this week's rain is raising concerns that the north bay could see more falling debris and power outages as another round hits today. the san anselmo cream has been rising. this video shows the water rising q

meaning california accounts for about one-third of the nation's overall unhoused since 2007, the state has seen homeless us jumped by more than 23%. it's disheartening. it's a part. the rain. >> and it's unfortunate that senator rosalee sale to a bogey argues policies out of sacramento have not helped over the years, but she hopes to bipartisan bill she is sponsoring will make a difference. 1, 6, to increase more shelter beds and healthcare staffing for those who need behavioral health assistance and the other would provide funding to courts for programs to help inmates after they really. >> make sure that people the prison system have a skill sets the resources to be able to get a job once the and be able to make ends meet. >> it all comes after the governor signed a bill last fall to create care courts in california, in essence, allowing court ordered care for the unhoused and specifically those struggling with mental health and substance use disorders, a program. san diego mayor todd gloria supports. what it will do is provide a new option for those who are severely mentally ill to

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homeless advocates are helping a lot of the unhoused in the city right now. stay warm as best they can crawl four's dan thorn takes a closer look at what they're doing. >> cold and rainy nights are making life even more difficult for people who live outside. the misery is a big concern for those advocating for the homeless. it's terrible. and especially when it's >> cold and rainy and windy, it makes it really for jennifer freeman box with the san francisco coalition on homelessness says hypothermia is a very real threat for people living on the streets. >> the other problem is the availability of beds shelters. freeman box says for every 5 unhoused persons, there's one shelter bed and on cold nights they are in high demand. these will fill up. >> for the rest of the folks be stuck outside the city's department of homelessness and supportive housing has expanded shelter locations for inclement weather. >> these 3 locations are offering in takes through sunday while the interfaith winter shelter program began last week and runs through march of next year. the

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is the emergency risk communications officer was santa clara county is sounding the alarm saying unhoused people should not try to write out the chilly temperatures and rain. it's too dangerous one that on sheltered community member had died. the santa clara medical examiner is investigating that person's death as cold related. this after at least 3 on housed mean died in the freezing cold 2 weeks ago. the county is opening its libraries for people to use during the day county libraries are operating you know, their normal library and we encourage all of our community members to go there. if they need a place to for respite from cold and wet weather. >> we're here at the roosevelt community center right behind me. this is an overnight warming center. if you need to come here and there is also one more overnight in di the day throughout santa clara county, 7 places are open. so head over to kron 4 dot com. if you need a place to stay warm and stay out of the cold and rain for now, we're live here in san jose. justin campbell kron, 4 news. all right. thanks very much, justin. >> there's dev

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and you have to address the reasons why they wound up unhoused while you housed them.e'll put them in motels and hotels immediately but this is not coercing people and ticketing people or encars rating people and moving them -- incarcerating people and those from tents and motels and ho hotels. >> nicole: unfortunately it's a two prong approach, you have to get the people off the streets but then also have to focus on those most vulnerable to becoming homeless and graduating foster care and addicted and mental health and unfortunately what came out with biden's plan for homelessness, i like it and it sounds like the cancer moon shot where he puts these huge goals and essentially the plan is, well, we're going to talk about it and spend hundreds of millions of dollars to figure out why it's happening and then we're going to encourage the states and local municipalities to do a better job. where's the fundamental plan to get people off the street and make sure people don't go -- become homeless. >> harris: that's how he got in the white house so he knows it works. talk a

we worry about the unhoused. we worry about outdoor animals. we are under a freeze warning for most in most parts of the bay area for 9:00 a.m. omorrow. temperatures will took them mostly to the low 30s, which is right around freezing. some of the coldest spots, the north bay bells, into the upper 20s. a frost advisory where temperatures drop down to the mid-30s. some of the chilly locations could get down to 33 or 34 degrees.3 san francisco is not included because temperatures are only gointo drop down to the upper 30s. we are not talking about recolow temperatures. san francisco and oakland will be the closest to record lows. still 4 to 6 s abe that. thankfully, we are not challenging record territory in santosa. tomorrow morning, the teens. we are going tarm up somewhat uring the afternoon tomorrow. cool air is going to be with us for the next several days. we will take a look at that and the next rain chances coming up in a few minutes. >>> now, to a scientific rate thgh that could be a game omes to clean energy. for the first time ever, sc

> the tenderloin is home to families, immigrants, seniors, merchants, workers and the housed and unhoused who all deserve a thriving neighborhood to call home. the tenderloin initiative was launched to improve safety, reduce crime, connect people to services and increase investments in the neighborhood. as city and community-based partners, we work daily to make these changes a reality. we invite you to the tenderloin history, inclusivity make this neighborhood special. >> we're all citizens of san francisco and we deserve food, water, shelter, all of those things that any system would. >> what i find the most fulfilling about being in the tenderloin is that it's really basically a big family here and i love working and living here. >> [speaking foreign language] >> my hopes and dreams for the tenderloin are what any other community organizer would want for their community, safe, clean streets for everyone and good operating conditions for small businesses. >> everything in the tenderloin is very good. the food is very good. if you go to any restaurant in san francisco, you will feel like

more importantly, what we do to get the unhoused residents into shelters, especially when it is so cold outside. the san francisco police department a short about 540 officers. this is unprecedented. >> reporter: in the audience, the executive director of the hutch center. they said he was viciously beaten by two homeless men back in june and conditions in the community have not improved. williams said the neighborhood today is wildly different from the one she grew up visiting as a little girl. >> this used to be called uptown. we would go to uptown instead of downtown for shopping. i have seen this do a major 360 degree turn. >>> let's go to the south bay. it is a true labor of love. volunteers have put their hands to work to make thousands of tamales to get back and say thank you to the bay area farmworkers that harvest the food on our tables. this morning, we have more on the extra special holiday celebration. >>> ♪ [ music ] ♪ >> my background is picking strawberries in salinas valley. i can relate to the hard labor. >> reporter: betty martinez says the parkinson's and a tremor in

as many as 20,000 people maybe unhoused at some point during 2022 . a comprehensive poll found that more than 70% list homelessness as one of the city's top problems . wilson walker spoke with someone who was uniquely qualified to talk about solutions. a man who was once homeless himself. >> reporter: are you all right ? do you need some coffee or anything? are you good? >> it meant so much for me for people to make eye contact with me and willing to extend their hand of kindness to me. that gradually led me to a place where i could get up from literally from the floor of hospitality house and start my long journey back to the light. >> reporter: once homeless in here for help, joe wilson is the executive director of hospitality house . an organization that opened its doors about the same time the city's homeless problem started. >> the smallest but boldest shelters started in the winter of 1982. >> reporter: the hospitality house crowded at midday. >> reporter: that was 1982. >> reporter: the problems right now for the homeless are serious they predi

with nowhere else to go. >> i was unhoused for over a year and a half.something about it. >> reporter: these houses were among 700 homes that the state transportation agency purchased to make way for a freeway extension that was never built. in october of 2020, caltrans worked with the city's housing authority to issue two-year leases to some of the group, including marta, but now those leases are expired. >> you're finally, i have a house and breathe and establish yourself and then the minute you move in, like, you need to get out. >> reporter: california state senator who represents the area says there was a plan in place to get these houses to low-income people and organized groups disrupted it. >> it has interrupted the process that we were going towards in order to have affordable housing and to be able to sell back to the community. >> reporter: the average monthly rent in l.a. county is $2,300. to pay that, renters would need to earn more than $45 an hour, three times the city's minimum wage. it's not just in l.a. organized groups took over homes

the underlying lawsuit was filed in september by some unhoused people and the coalition on homelessness. the suit alleges that the city has violated the rights of those experiencing homelessness and the city's own policies by penalizing people who have nowhere to go and taking their possessions. the city was routinely to strike folks, his personal belongings, things like medicine, prosthetics. >> family photos, john doe, senior attorney at the aclu and co-counsel in the case says this won't stop the city from keeping the streets clean. doesn't prevent the city removing actual trash in terms of keeping streets clean and then try that there's access to sidewalks. the coalition on homelessness says the goal of the suit is to force the city to move its encampment, sweeping resources to creating more affordable housing and other options to end homelessness. but supervisor rafael mandelman was disappointed by the order. it's a awful decision. >> i couldn't believe it. i i think it's terrible. i think the city needs to appeal. he says he's also advocating for expanding shelter capacity but lim

so we see ourselves as providing an opportunity for the unhoused to get up. so i really believe that when they come here and they've said it, this right here is absolutely needed. you can't ask for nothing better. >> the tenderloin is the stuff that ain't on the list of remedies, liked the spiritual connection to recovery and why would i? why would i recover? what have i got to live for? things like that. and sharing the stories. like i was homeless and just the team. and some people need that extra connection on why they can change their life or how they could. >> we have a lot of guests that will come in and say i would like -- you know, i need help with shelter, food, and primary care doctor. and so here, that's three rooms down the hall. so if you book them, they get all of their needs taken care of in one go. this is an opportunity for us here in the tenderloin to come together, try out these ideas to see if we can put -- get -- connect people to services in a jury room good morning. welcome to the awning meeting. the november meeting -- of the lafco com

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