not so the privately-held union square hospitality group.e ppp loans they got less than fifteen million dollar to pay salaries, utility bills, sky-high new york city rents for who knows how long. danny meyer calls the money "a life line." >> and so you say to yourself, "if i want to be a great employer when this is over, the best thing you can do for people is actually to be in business when it's over and to be solvent" and that was the really bitter pill to swallow. >> reporter: so meyer said he wanted to be a great "unemployer" and created the hugs fund. >> i gave up 100% of my compensation, gave it to the fund. we sold gift cards for a week. we've conducted a number of auctions. and at the end of the day, we were able to raise over $1.5 million and granted out just about all of that so far to people on our now former team as a way of saying, look: we didn't stop caring about you. >> reporter: meanwhile he tries to figure out what hospitality will look like for the union square hospitality group in an inhospitable covid world. >> ive alway

join ming right now is union square hospitality ceo danny meyer.orning. thanks so much for joining us. you are the ceo of a restaurant group with 20 cafes, bars, restaurants, how is this pause affecting your business? >> well, it's just more of the same really. we've been working really, really hard to do something to get back to hiring so many of the people that unfortunately we had to lay off. and i've just got to say, as cruel as it was to go through all those layoffs, the sad thing is, is that if we had to hire people back and then lay them off again, that would be crueler. we're waiting it out. new york is very different than the rest of the country, especially with full service restaurants. because a lot of people come to work via public transportation. we don't drive cars to go to restaurants. and it's just taking a lot longer for us to get back. so we're trying as many entrepreneurial things as we possibly can right now. maria: and i know that union square hospitality group putting new health and safety protocols in place. tell us about tha

first, sir francis drake hotel at union square named after the explore but the black lives matter movement has the company rethinking its tribute and this comes a >>> thank you for watching tonight. the cbs evening news is next. >> we will be back here at 7:00. we will see you then. ♪ ♪ captioning sponsored by cbs >> o'donnell: tonight, from atlanta, the final farewell to civil rights icon john lewis becomes a battle cry to revitalize a movement and urge people to vote. three former presidents come to america's freedom church to say good-bye to a warrior. >> john lewis will be a founding father of that fuller, fairer, better america. ( applause ) >> o'donnell: and former president obama had a blunt message aimed at president trump. >> there are those in power who are doing their darnedest to discourage people from voting. ♪ ♪ >> o'donnell: tonight, we hear from lewis himself, the final message he saved just for this day. another deadly day in america id

. >>> at san francisco union square, a popular restaurant there has closed for good. the restaurant opened 48 years ago in the basement of the cornell hotel. the family owned restaurant known for unique ambiance and affordable food. it shut down during march during the shelter in place order. now the owner says they are closed for good because of the economic shut down. >>> don't forget, the ktvu news app has county by county updates on the bay area's reopening plan. there's a running list of what's open and where. >>> tomb is 4:09 getting creative with learning in the age of social distancing, up next the student driven initiative for providing free online lessons for anyone who wants it. >>> basic is back in the bay area. a look ahead to tonight's bay bridge game between the san francisco giants and oakland a's. dear california... we know these are challenging times. rest assured, you are not alone. we've all had to adapt. and with summer here, your energy bills might go up with rising temperatures. together, we can save energy and money. try closing your shades dur

port of the black lives matter movement including the sir francis drake hotel in san francisco's union squarekemp ton hotels that manges the drake is evaluating a name change and potential rebranding of the property. sir francis drake was an english sea captain involved in the slave trade in the 1500s. marin county removed a statute of him and renaming a high school. >>> investors are looking into arson after trash cans at a predominantly black church were set on fire. they believe the arsonist may have attacked it because of the large black lives matter sign posted. melissa colorado has the latest from berkeley. >> reporter: you can see how tall the flames got. several feet up in the air here at the back of the christian center, a pro coedominantly bla church here. the flames didn't get past the wall thanks to a watchful neighbor that saw a man purposely set the trash bins on fire. >> a lot of purposefully put paper, it was going right up. >> reporter: eugene gonzalez was getting ready to go to bed early wednesday morning when he spotted plumes of smoke from the parking lot of the way christ

the luxury hotel on powell street, near union square opened, back in 1928. >>> time 4:27. in seattle, the first round game of the season. the letter a's record is 3-3, a week into the new season, their time with the astros first place in the american league west. pitcher, john ohio will start tonight for the aggies, against thay at 6:00, and friends in san francisco, playing the texas rangers. last night, the giants were down 6-1 against the padres, then rallied to the lead to tie the game, but then the padres scored six runs in the 10th inning. they went on to beat the giants 12-7. >>> well, another bay area jail is dealing with with the coronavirus outbreak. coming up, the closure-- the closer look into the state's handling of the virus of the incarcerated population. and the reason why the owners of a san francisco popular restaurant are suing the insurer after the pandemic forces them to close. even though our daily lives are different, one fact remains unchanged. blood is needed every day by patients facing a range of serious illnesses. if you're healthy, please sched

it is for completion of engineering and design work on the three subway stations at union square, muscone and chinatown. we showed the increased contract budget on page 23 of our report. on page 24, we give a summary of the entire subway budget of $1.6 billion in the funding sources and we recommend approval. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. any comments or questions to my colleagues? seeing none, open up number 7 for public comment, please. >> clerk: operation is checking to see if there are any callers in the queue. operation, please let us know if there are callers ready. if you have not done so, please press star 3 to be added to the queue. for those on hold, wait until the system says you've been unmuted. are there any callers who wish to comment on item number 7. >> there are no callers in the queue. >> supervisor fewer: public comment is now closed on item number 7. this is a really expensive project and $6 million on to it, but we're almost there. so we're -- we've got our foot it in and we need stations. you can't just have the subway, but i see some of my colleagues in

my name is john and my family owns and managing the union square hotel. we're not a big hotel company. although we are california's oldest family-opened and manages hotel. in april of this year, i had the suspend all hotel operations and # because outhis was the first e 112 yesterday and i am strongly against and i need towards the top and and to accept these new rules and and to help get the and women who are at and and the employees i work with will stand on the unemployment line. thank you for your time. >> thank you, mayor. think should call the number (408)418-9388. the meeting i.d. is 146-995-7258 and press pound and pound again. if you have not already, press star 3 to lineup to speak. for those who are on hold ready to speak, you will be unmuted when we get to you in line. >> next speaker, please. >> caller: good afternoon. my name is olga and i am the president of sciu local 87 and i represent the janitors in san francisco. i'd like to thank you supervisor peskin for caring our legislation and supervisor safai for being a response o this is cruci

it was in union square in those days. now it's on 68th and park. that was the elite regiment of wealthy people. you had to attach yourself to a regiment and not until the union league club organized an african-american regiment in 64. by the way, they had to be island on governors because people were so petrified of the idea of african-americans arming themselves and what was essentially a white dominated town. so african-americans are eligible to serve in the union forces officially bearing arms. when congress legislates expanding on the emancipation proclamation to open the services to african-americans. not true that new york state contributed more soldiers and suffered more casualties than any other state during the civil war north or south? >> yes. 10% of the casualties or so came from new york state. new york for a time escaped destruction that the south was visited upon because of initiating the war. but the new york draft riots certainly reminded people that the war could come backyards in northern cities. and new york's draft riots i always

. >>> -- restaurant in union square has permanently closed. the shut down during shelter in place. last week, the owner announced he is closing for good. it operated for 48 years. the restaurant was known for the unique ambience and affordable food. the restaurant has been the achievement of our life. >>> san francisco is pausing for reopening plans after experiencing a surge in coronavirus cases and hospitalizations. tomorrow, extra restrictions go nto place. >> from the beginning, governor newsome said reopening should be viewed as a dimmer switch. the status moving that switch down. >> reporter: after a rice and hospitalizations starting monday, guidelines require all indoor malls and nonessential offices in san francisco to close. a new health order will also be issued to expand access to testing. especially for asymptomatic front-line workers and people that had close contact with cases. the mayor said restrictions will not be lifted two people.blamed on family and friends getting together in groups, according to the joint information center. >> that is called stupid. really s

look at union square.ook at all of the rioting and the looting and damage to property of everything. look -- oh, look at the public defenders. you want to release all of the criminals. look at the last public defender? what did he do? he died (indiscernible) and look at the current district attorney. he was the public defender and refuses to prosecute criminals. look at all of the crimes of the asian seniors. you know, the lady at the tunnel getting dragged into out of the car and her purse ripped off her. and the old man (indiscernible) and got robbed and beat by the people up at hunter's point. i think that we need -- >> clerk: thank you, speaker time has elapsed. can we have the next speaker, please. >> chair, that completes the queue. >> president yee, do you have any closing comments before i ask my other colleagues? >> supervisor yee: no, i want to again thank the public for expressing their viewpoint, and actually i want to say thank you for everybody's respect. and as much as they are varied, there

look at union square.ook at all of the rioting and the looting and damage to property of everything. look -- oh, look at the public defenders. you want to release all of the criminals. look at the last public defender? what did he do? he died (indiscernible) and look at the current district attorney. he was the public defender and refuses to prosecute criminals. look at all of the crimes of the asian seniors. you know, the lady at the tunnel getting dragged into out of the car and her purse ripped off her. and the old man (indiscernible) and got robbed and beat by the people up at hunter's point. i think that we need -- >> clerk: thank you, speaker time has elapsed. can we have the next speaker, please. >> chair, that completes the queue. >> president yee, do you have any closing comments before i ask my other colleagues? >> supervisor yee: no, i want to again thank the public for expressing their viewpoint, and actually i want to say thank you for everybody's respect. and as much as they are varied, there

my name is john and my family owns and managing the union square hotel. we're not a big hotel company. although we are california's oldest family-opened and manages hotel. in april of this year, i had the suspend all hotel operations and # because outhis was the first e 112 yesterday and i am strongly against and i need towards the top and and to accept these new rules and and to help get the and women who are at and and the employees i work with will stand on the unemployment line. thank you for your time. >> thank you, mayor. think should call the number (408)418-9388. the meeting i.d. is 146-995-7258 and press pound and pound again. if you have not already, press star 3 to lineup to speak. for those who are on hold ready to speak, you will be unmuted when we get to you in line. >> next speaker, please. >> caller: good afternoon. my name is olga and i am the president of sciu local 87 and i represent the janitors in san francisco. i'd like to thank you supervisor peskin for caring our legislation and supervisor safai for being a response o this is cruci

i forced him to do it and we street performed in union square when he was about 5 years old. about $120. >> reporter: at first james looked at magic like a chore. >> chores are boring, oh. then i realized oh, you get to go to parties. you get to eat food. you crash parties for the -- i'm in. >> reporter: dad, the master magician and james the budding apprentice knew they'd feed off reactions from the audience plus interactive illusions. they had to prove to clients their act worked in a virtual space. they failed in the beginning but quickly developed a repertoire that worked which tran demonstrated with the time tested pick a card trick. i chose the 7 of clubs. >> i don't think we saw a 7 of clubs, but i did put a card in my pocket. >> reporter: he got even better when i picked a number between 1 >> inside my notes is a list of beverages. can you read out loud what is on number 89, please? >> reporter: virgil's root beer. >> i would love to share a virgil's root beer with you, david. >> reporter: you're quickly drawn into the act as they open two sealed envelopes that docume

it's set totem prayerly close but after 48 years in union square, cornell hotel de-france is closing for good. it was built in 1910 and preserved by the national register of historic places. >>> the city is taking new measures in san francisco to crack down on dangerous position. they're trying to slow the traffic down. deloris hill bomb is usually a once ayear event and people on skate boards and bikes gather to take advantage of the steep hills and perform stunts. there's been three gatherings in the last couple of weeks and people are getting seriously hurt. >> he was bleeding in the street from the back of hides head. he got taken away in a ambulance. >> in a separate incident at deloris park, another guy was riding his bike friday when authorities say he collided with a skate border and was critically injured. >> we're certainly not anti- skating. we did need to stop what was happening. >> some skaters told us off camera they'll either find a way to continue to hold bomb if not at deloris park than somewhere else in the city. >>> this morning, emergency crews are desperately sea

we street-performed in union square when he was about 5 years old.es looked at magic as a chore. >> it's boring. and then i realized, oh, you get to go to parties, you get to eat food, you crash parties. i'm in. >> reporter: dad, the master magician, and james, the budding apprentice, knew they feed off of reactions from the office plus interactive illusions. they had to prove to clients that their act works in the digital space. they quickly developed a repertoire that works which chan demonstrated with the time-tested pick a card trick. i chose the seven of clubs. >> i don't think we even saw a seven of clubs. but i did put a card in my pocket. >> reporter: it got even better when i picked a number between 1 and 100. 89. >> inside my notes application is a list of benchverages. can you read out loud what is on 89, >> reporter: visual i wirgil's . >> i would love to share a virgil's root beater with you. >> reporter: he had sealed envelopes that documented every choice i made. how did they did it? that is absolutely amazing. it is after all magic re

the luxury hotel near union square open back in 1928. >>> all right, pam, sal is joining us. he is keeping an eye on what is happening on the road. i want to make sure that everyone is behaving for you right now. take your time. sal is putting his mic on and all i could stuff. you and i get to chitchat. >> sal? did you sneak off? >> i had a little problem with this contraption here. >> that's okay. >> i had to reset, but i am here now, right? okay. good. >> the i.t. department is on it, so -- >> i am the i.t. department here at this castle. good morning everybody, we don't have a big backup yet the bay bridge toll plaza. they traffic is going to be light. just looking at this right now, i would say that in 10 minutes it is not going to magically appear but you would never know. sometimes on fridays we get a little bit of a break and hopefully we will get a break today. also we look at interstate 88, that traffic looks nice. we have not seen anything on the other bridges, like the san mateo bridge. there is a little bit less fog this morning, here on the san mateo bridge. it l

discussing the possibility, no potential names have been discussed at this point, the luxury hotel near union square opened up in 1928. >>> let's talk baseball, the a's are in seattle. the first road game of the season. the record is three and three, when we can to the new season tied with the astros for first place and the american league west. >>> the giants play the texas rangers tonight, at 6:00, last night the giants were down 6-1 against the padres before rallying late to tie the game. at the 10th inning, the padres scored and beat the giants 12-7. >>> all right, normally we ask steve about the weather at the ballpark, poor people who are heading out to the game or it we can't do that. if you can, try to support the businesses around there with some outside dining if it is nice, steve. >>> it is not very warm. you know, it is always nicer down towards the park, no doubt about it. it has been a quilt pattern this entire week in san francisco, much of the coast in oakland as well. oakland cannot get over 71. it has been very consistent. san jose and santa rosa have been upper 70s most of the wee

popular french restaurant at union square has closed for good. the john dark restaurant opened 48 years ago in the basement of the cornel hotel de france. the family owned restaurant was known for the am byians and affordable food. it shut down during the health shelter in place order and they say they are closed permanently because of the continuing economic shut down. >>> don't forget, the ktvu news app features county by county updates on the bay area's reopening plan. there is a running list of what is opened and where. >>> oh, boy. we all have our favorite restaurant that are suffering and you know, we can do take out, but the restaurants, i know you and i loved the cliff house over the years. they count on the am byians, people coming for the vow and it's not the same for take out there steve, you like to patronize the restaurants and it's hard to see. >> across the board, pam. everyone has to sit outside with a mask that's pretty tough. you know. >> yeah. >> it's hard. at least it's cooler though. >>> we have that going for us. it's not ho

stretching from union square was an original 48 stores until 93 years it was sole survivor now run by third generation want to thank all of you for your support for our community of authors, booklovers, without that we would not be here today. tonight we are excited to have with this celebrate the release of her new book, strange rights new religions for a world tar is a contributing editor of the american interest, the colonists at the new service on the former staff reporter at fox.com bird she has written on religion with national geographic, the "washington post", the "new york times", and holds a doctorate in theology from oxford which is also the author of the novel social creature. joining tar to discuss her new book is ross. he is a columnist for the "new york times" op ed page. as the author of to change a church bad religion and privilege and co-author of a brand-new party before joining the "new york times" is a senior editor for the atlantic, he is the critic for national review and he cohosts the "new york times" podcast. he lives in new haven with his wife and three chil

the parade of striking streetcar workers from uptown yorkville like 86 and lexington down to union square, 14th street. as they left yorkville, relatives and friends cheered for two hours. great lines lined at madison. it reached the cloak of making district and a windows of the factories were black with workers. men ceased work on buildings to cheer as the carmen passed. teamsters parked their cars and a policeman grand and manifested their pleasure. this was the era of constant parades in new york city. there were election parades, eight hour day parade, musical entertainment from around the world like france. there was a protest parade of over 100,000 people in 1911. after one of the great disasters of this era, the 100 anniversary, the triangle fire. down in greenwich village where over 146 young women, jewish and italian were killed when a fire broke out in the triangle shirtwaist factory which is on the top of the floors of an eight story building. this is a picture i like. it does not seem very dramatic. people looking up at the fire but these are the dead bodies of women who had l

stretching from union square, from an original 48 stores until after over 93 years the sole survivor. now ran by third generation. we want to thank all of you for your support, authors, book lovers and friends, without you, we would not be here today. we are excited to have a woman celebrating the release of her new book. tara is a contributing editor, the columnist and former staff religion reporter at fox.com. she has written on religion through national geographic, the washington post, the new york times and more. she holds a doctorate in theology from oxford. also a novel social creature. joining tara to discuss her new book is ross. ross is a columnist for the new york times op-ed page. the author to change a church and a privilege. co-author of brand new party. he was a senior editor for the atlantic. the film critic for national review and cohosts the new york times weekly op-ed podcast. he lives in new haven with his wife and three children. without further ado, please help me in welcoming tara and ross. >> thank you so much. thank you for joining us here. an exciting virtual

. >>> and the popular french restaurant in san francisco's union square is closed for good. the restaurant opened 48 years ago. the family-owned restaurant was known for unique imi beyan and affordable food. shut down. back in march, the owner has now aflounced it is closed permanantly due to the ongoing economic crisis. >>> a company based is launching a new program in the effort to ramp up testing for the corona virus. it will provide business across the bay area with onsite testing. if goal is to detect infection early and identify newly exposed employees and reduce the chance of spreading the disease. the company is one of the nation's top providers of workplace safety products. and a new corona virus testing site that opened up on wednesday. testing will be free. the facility will have the capacity to test 500 people a day. results are president anded to be returned within 15 minutes. >>> an op line fund-raiser is helping fairyland. the park has raised more than $95,000. fairyland is open hoping to raise $300,000 so they will be able to reopen once it is allowed. the pa

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we street performed in union square when he was about 5 years old. >> at first james looked at magic act wo in vtirtubeginng, repertoire which worked. i chose a 7 of clubs. >> i don't think we saw a 7 of clubs, but i put a card in my pocket. >> he got even better when i picked a number between 1 and 100. >> 89. >> inside a list of beverages. can you read out loud what is on number 89, please? >> virgil's rootbeer. >> i would love to share a virgil's rootbeer with you, david. >> you quickly get drawn into the act as they have two sealedd envelopes. david will pick the 7 of clubs. >> that is amazing. >> it is, after all, magic reimagined. >> i have seen him before. he's fantastic. dan and james say they are not making as much as they do in personal shows, but they are playing to audiences around ♪ if your dry eye symptoms keep coming back, inflammation in your eye might be to blame. looks like a great day for achy, burning eyes! over-the-counter eye drops typically work by lubricating your eyes and may provide temporary relief. ha! these drops probably won't touch me. xiidra works diff

i grew up in downtown manhattan, i live now union square, with the police station nearby, and a hub for around all the time keeping us safe. it really moves me. i don't understand it. i think people just lashing out is obviously not the answer to anything here, either for getting justice for george floyd or dealing with reforms that we need to make to the police department, which everyone agrees, whether you are saying it's a few bad apples that we need real systemic changes, i think we are all on the same page. those 8 minutes and 46 seconds really changed our lives in that respect. it's devastating. bill de blasio, i think, is the crux of the problem, and we've seen that for years. there are plenty of liberals that think that. i just want to say quickly -- and i don't want the segment turned into the last two over this -- but what david webb just said, again, was listing off every left term you could come a leftist, socialist, marxist, blm, whatever, and then alleging that democratic leadership was in some way supportive of violence against police officers is incredibly irresponsible.

they will have a protest may rally at 6:00 at union square, bill. >> we will see you then, thanks forate and expected 3:15. it got pushed back a little bit. there was a task force meaning that got under way to 30 at the white house. so there could be a possibility as to why we are waiting now. but when it begins we will take you life. in the meantime former president barack obama -- barack obama and biden back together and teamed up for socially distance campaign video, plus biden defending his economic plan to cost billions of dollars. reaction on that coming up shortly after this. this year, the alzheimer's association walk to end alzheimer's is everywhere. all of us are raising funds for one goal: a world without alzheimer's and all other dementia. because this disease isn't waiting, neither are you. go to alz dot org slash walk. did you know liberty mutual customizes your car insurance ta-da! so you only pay for what you need? given my unique lifestyle, that'd be perfect! let me grab a pen and some paper. know what? i'm gonna switch now. just need my desk... my chair... and my pho

the luxury hotel is located on palo street near union square and opened in 1928. >>> let me be clear. we are in a major surge of covid-19. the virus is moving fast and more people are getting seriously ill. >> bold words today from the health director in san francisco as the city reports hospitalizations have hit a new high at 109. it's so bad that city plans to open an overflow site in the presidio to care for non- coronavirus patients and hospitals get overwhelmed. the health officer today pleaded with residents to help get the spread of the virus under control. >> reporter: in a matter of weeks san francisco's infection and hospitalization rates have skyrocketed enough to put the city on the state watchlist. >> we can speculate on how soon , if we will get off the watchlist. i will just emphasize, again, we are in a major surge here. >> reporter: 57 people in the city have died from coronavirus so far. there been more than 6000 confirmed cases and hospitalization rates increased by 50% every week this month. public health director dr. grant colfax saying, now is the time to wear fa

. >> stephen: now, it was down in union square. how many people do you think were there?ike thousands and thousands. >> jon: well, i heard it was up to 5,000 people, maybe more. and we shut down sixth avenue s froml the people, and marched as we the e state building, there was just this incredible moment, where the rain started to come down, and a lot of the-- and negawa was with us, and she was doing the drum solo, and the rain was coming down, and it was hitting her drum. and we went into "i want to dance with somebody." that was the song. and everybody was singing along for about three blocks. >> stephen: thousands of people? >> jon: thousands of people singing together. it was unbelievable. and-- and-- there was so much love. i don't even know how to articulate how much love i felt just being there. >> stephen: well, the footage was beautiful, and i'm proud to work with you. >> jon: oh, man, likewise. it's-- it's really important what you're doing, and your voice is so important. and i'm-- i'm thrilled to work with you as well. >> stephen: keep it up, man. joining me

there was an incident in the tenderloin last year, looting in union square.ameras been used in those cases? >> yeah. i mean, the one in the tenderloin was tragic. it was actually a woman who was filming an assault. the perpetrator saw her doing that and she died. she was killed. the tragedy was there was a camera owned by the tenderloin community benefit district that was capturing that exact crime, so that person was caught. you also had that case of the person kicking the homeless person who was caught. and with the looting, you know, it's very clear, the cameras have picked up, it's really not the protesters that were looting. these were these professional crews that were taking advantage of that. and if you can prove that on a camera, that really helps, i think, the cause of the protesters, what we're all about and tones down some of the political rhetoric that was attacking the protesters. >> so, is this a scalable idea? is it your goal to go, okay, san francisco, l.a., chicago, or is this just a bay area thing? >> well, i think san francisco should be l

it's going to start at union square at 1:00 p.m., and we're going to march and we are going to celebratefreedom. and i think it's going to be very, very impactful. so, please, join us. >> stephen: i am so happy to hear that, jon. >> jon: mmm. >> stephen: i think-- i think you have the spirit of love and inclusiveness, and joy that is going to be so meaningful to people this weekend. and i hope a lot of people show up. be careful, please >> stephen: oh, yeah, yeah. got to be careful out there. >> stephen: peaceful march, peaceful march. >> jon: it's peaceful. we are peaceful, but we mean business. so, we're the business of peace. >> stephen: well, jon, do you got anything to play for us as we go out to the weekend here? maybe a little something you might be playing tomorrow? >> jon: oh, my goodness. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ain't gonna let nobody turn me 'round ♪ ♪ turn me 'round turn me 'round ♪ ♪ ain't going to let nobody turn me 'round ♪ ♪ going to keep on marching keep on marching ♪ marching on to freedom land ♪ ♪ ♪ >> stephen: it's not going to get better than that. thank you, jon. >> jon: yes, ind

we use them in union square, all over the city really. they're a very small unit. they feel those type of rules. golden gate park, that type of thing, that's where facilities in golden gate park. but the horse is a mounted unit. they can do some things that foot patrol or even bicycle officers, the impact that the horses have on the community is very positive. at least the way we use them. we use them strategically. >> supervisor walton: if that is the case, is that equitable resources? and we have parks in all our communities and other people might want to enjoy the benefits of that across the city. the last thing. as you know, we have one of the worst tragedies we could imagine when we lost a 6-year-old over this past holiday weekend. and also there was another murder the next day in my district. and we talk about justice and making sure that we locate the suspects in this case. what percentage of resources are your team dedicating their time to make sure we get justice for this 6-year-old and his family in our community? >> as a percentage, i don't have a percen

we use them in union square, all over the city really. they're a very small unit. they feel those type of rules. golden gate park, that type of thing, that's where facilities in golden gate park. but the horse is a mounted unit. they can do some things that foot patrol or even bicycle officers, the impact that the horses have on the community is very positive. at least the way we use them. we use them strategically. >> supervisor walton: if that is the case, is that equitable resources? and we have parks in all our communities and other people might want to enjoy the benefits of that across the city. the last thing. as you know, we have one of the worst tragedies we could imagine when we lost a 6-year-old over this past holiday weekend. and also there was another murder the next day in my district. and we talk about justice and making sure that we locate the suspects in this case. what percentage of resources are your team dedicating their time to make sure we get justice for this 6-year-old and his family in our community? >> as a percentage, i don't have a percen

stretching from union square, from an original 48 stores until after over 93 years the sole survivor.third generation. we want to thank all of you for your support, authors, book lovers and frien,

look at union square.ook at all of the rioting and the looting and damage to property of everything. look -- oh, look at the public defenders. you want to release all of the criminals. look at the last public defender? what did he do? he died (indiscernible) and look at the current district attorney. he was the public defender and refuses to prosecute criminals. look at all of the crimes of the asian seniors. you know, the lady at the tunnel getting dragged into out of the car and her purse ripped off her. and the old man (indiscernible) and got robbed and beat by the people up at hunter's point. i think that we need -- >> clerk: thank you, speaker time has elapsed. can we have the next speaker, please. >> chair, that completes the queue. >> president yee, do you have any closing comments before i ask my other colleagues? >> supervisor yee: no, i want to again thank the public for expressing their viewpoint, and actually i want to say thank you for everybody's respect. and as much as they are varied, there

look at union square.ook at all of the rioting and the looting and damage to property of everything. look -- oh, look at the public defenders. you want to release all of the criminals. look at the last public defender? what did he do? he died (indiscernible) and look at the current district attorney. he was the public defender and refuses to prosecute criminals. look at all of the crimes of the asian seniors. you know, the lady at the tunnel getting dragged into out of the car and her purse ripped off her. and the old man (indiscernible) and got robbed and beat by the people up at hunter's point. i think that we need -- >> clerk: thank you, speaker time has elapsed. can we have the next speaker, please. >> chair, that completes the queue. >> president yee, do you have any closing comments before i ask my other colleagues? >> supervisor yee: no, i want to again thank the public for expressing their viewpoint, and actually i want to say thank you for everybody's respect. and as much as they are varied, there

. >> my name is angi and i run the san francisco merit union square and i started as a room attendant and a public space cleaning working as a former housekeeper myself, i know we put our employees first when it comes to safety. we have strict cleaning and protection protocols that have been established based on our brand, standards, industry, state and cdc guidelines. my employees will be safe to come back to work and they do not need your intervenance. this ordinance goes too far and puts them at risk and why it's so important does it not apply to government building and only targets specific industries. if passes you are delaying the return of my 175 plus employees with their safe workplace and i owe piece thioppose this ordina. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker, please. >> caller: we oppose this ordinance. pebble brooke owns 12 hotels and have invested 215 million into them. we paid $60 million in numerous taxes for san francisco's benefit. we've been big supporters of san francisco and we support our employees in the community in many ways. today 10 of our hotels are closed a

a popular french restaurant at union square is closed for good.on dark restaurant open 48 years ago. it was known for its ambience and affordable food. they shut down back in march and the owner has now announced it is closed permanently. a reminder here, the news app has county by county updates on the bay area's reopening plan. there is a running list of what is open and where. >>> new this morning, actress amber heard told the london -- that johnny depp threatened to kill her. she took the stand to the other libel trial against a british tabloid. she said that he beat and threatened her during their marriage. they sued the publisher of the sun. to portland where there was more trouble on the streets. protesters clash with police in riot gear outside the federal courthouse in the downtown area. the latest demonstration came just hours after the mayor of portland renewed his call for federal troops to leave the city. that is due to growing controversy involving federal agents dressed in camouflage to appear to be using unmarked vehicles to arrest

. -- the actions of mostly peaceful protesters in the union square area in direct violation of the antisurveillance ordinance that this board of supervisors passed by an overwhelming majority. i am deeply concerned about that. the police department did not bring that forward as a policy to the san francisco board of supervisors. this is precisely what this legislation was aimed at, and today, i'm issuing a letter of inquiry of the san francisco police department in this matter, and the rest i will submit. >> clerk: thank you, supervisor peskin. supervisor preston? >> supervisor preston: thank you, madam clerk, and i just wanted to speak further to the resolution that supervisor walton mentioned earlier that we were submitting together today. i wanted to thank supervisor walton and his entire office for their work on this in collaboration with our office. i also wanted to -- supervisor walton mentioned john templeton, who urged this resolution and who was part of founding the national black business month, and just wanted to recognize his leadership and thank him for working with both of our offices

north beach telegraph hill and part of union square. >> all of san francisco districts are remarkablehted to represent really whereas with an the most intact district got chinatown, north beach fisherman's wharf russian hill and knob hill and the northwest waterfront some of the most wealthier and inning e impoverished people in san francisco obgyn siding it is ethically exists a bunch of tight-knit neighborhoods people know he each other by name a wonderful placed physically and socially to be all of the neighborhoods north beach and chinatown the i try to be out in the community as much as and i think, being a the cafe eating at the neighborhood lunch place people come up and talk to you, you never have time alone but really it is fun hi, i'm one the owners and is ceo of cafe trespassing in north beach many people refer to cafe trees as a the living room of north beach most of the clients are local and living up the hill come and meet with each other just the way the united states been since 1956 opposed by the grandfather a big people person people had people coming since the day w

there's the fall of the berlin wall, the fall of the soviet union, tiananmen square, the gulf war, all kinds of things that would attract a president's attention. and president bush even writes in his diary at this time, you know, i really do like foreign affairs more than domestic. and with the economy beginning to slip a little bit, the public perceived this. bill clinton said we're going to focus on the economy, "it's the economy, stupid." and ross perot said we're going to focus on the budget. both of these essentially opened up a vulnerable flank for the president's re-election bid, and ultimately i think it did him in. >> we've talked about this in every program, so before we leave the bush white house years, how did they use the white house as an -- to entertain to achieve their goals? >> well, i think they used it very effectively. they were really considered to be a tremendous host and hostess, very friendly. the white house was very accessible during their time there. they were already into a period where decisions had to be made about which state dinners to hold. but apparen

local surlatable stores that will close in september include marin county, union street in san francisco city and santa claire squarere businesses affected but the promising news we have been reporting regarding gilead's antiviral treatment helpeded things out with the opening bell. remdesivir is helping the mood on wall street with promising results that it reduces mortality rates. the foster city company stock is up about 3% on that news. that is taking the broader market up as well as we see a spike in cases go up. promising news on treatment, definitely helps. taking a live look at the big board. dow jones has been up about 200 points, most of the morning. the s & p 500 also up almost a half of a percent. a little gain for the naz tack to 10, 549. >>> the u.s. and franz are trying to scale back a trade dispute. an investigation found that the french digital tax discriminated against american tech companies such as apple, facebook and google. the trump administration is expected to announce as soon as today such as sanctions to reserve the right to impose tariffs on french goods such as champagne and cheese. for

rejected closer ties with the european union in favor of placing ukraine effectively under russia's waning. resulting protests brought hundreds of thousands into my down squarein the center of kiev as well as other cities across the country. the russian media called all the protesters neo nazis and pro-government militia supported by snipers were ordered to put down these protests with brute force. 121 demonstrators were killed hundreds more wounded. the carnage quickly turned the tide against janak over the church and he was forced to flee eventually turning up in moscow. on february 26th 2014 crimean tatars clashed with their russian neighbors outside the parliament in the regional capital some for are convinced the crusher was planned to grow crimea. and that it had to take its just you didn't like it it was up to him but the most of which are not built up but you know the school system at the time. just like you got the worst of it just like you used. to. sit. in the early hours of the following morning c.c.t.v. footage captured armed men without insignia on their uniforms the parliament building. the next they took over the airports and blocked ukrainia

square miles from maine. i just opened it up. i just got rid of tariffs in china and we're working on european union which charge our fisherman tariffs. i said you're not going to do that. so we freed it up for maine. but if you take a look we went up there recently, there were crowds, thousands of people lined up going over to a factory where we were opening up for, making swabs, a big beautiful new factory making swans. i think the enthusiasm now is greater and maybe far greater than it was in 2016. i think a lot of people don't want to talk about it. i think they're not going to say, hey, i'm for trump, i'm for trump. they don't want to go through the process. i fully understand that because the process is not fair. the media doesn't treat us fairly. they never have, perhaps they never will. maybe they will when we turn this around a second time. it will happen very quickly, we turn it around for a second time. maybe they will. i think we're doing very well in the polls. i think you have a silent majority, the likes of which this country has never seen before. this is a very important election. we've done a great job. we had a tur