oh, these documents are now kept in the university of san francisco archives. they contain all the details of a massive manipulation of science. the tactics deployed, the researchers recruited and the sums of money involved. among these documents, one internal memo from 969 sums up on his own. what the tobacco industry had decided to produce doubt is our product. since it is the best means of competing with the body of fact, that it exists in the mind of the general public, it is also the means of establishing a controversy. the key strategy is the creation of doubt about science. doubt is a perfect weapon. it's effective but also pernicious because tao is legitimately part of science. in fact it to the central driver of science. we investigate things because we have questions about them because we're curious or because we doubt the existing explanation is adequate. so we need out in science, the more good it will coll directions once to help us hills book battles. yo yo duty of this. yo. yo less guilty terribly or no. and their punk holds me collect 80 . hold o

oh, the box he sent finally arrived in california at the university of san francisco. on that day, professor glance was in for a surprise on may 12th 1994, a box of documents landed in my office for an anonymous source. these were internal documents from at the very highest levels of the tobacco industry. their senior scientists, their senior lawyers, their senior management, their senior public relations, people talking very, very frankly about what they knew about the dangers of smoking in this was an an hope for treasure, for the professor. it was like a new world stumbling into a new world. taxis the leaked documents, increased in numbers. the truth broke. the tobacco industry bosses were cornered gentlemen. the reason disclosure of documents have shaken my confidence that your companies care about that through these documents suggest possible manipulation of scientific research by industry attorneys. if these things are true, then you should know that this kind of behavior is unacceptable and will not be allowed faced with approve at the tobacco bosses were forced

here he's a professor of medicine at the university of san francisco in of california in san francisco. good to see your doctor general. we're seeing rapidly rising on the crown infections here in europe is the rest of the world on a similar path. the rest of the world, terry is definitely on a similar passive, not worse. we have to fastenal seat belts for water will be a, a tremendous ride if you think about 3 things that will affect transmission and population previous immunity. we know that omicron is 5 times more likely to be to cause re infection than other variance vaccines. i have not had high uptake in many countries, owner round the world as low as 6 per cent, which may not protect and don't even think about boosters. and the 3rd at risk mitigation, lot of pandemic fatigue, lot of mass, not where it. so i think we're in for right here in europe, at least, and in the us as well. most governments are pushing people to get their 3rd vaccination, but will a booster be enough to get on top of this here? it wouldn't be enough for terry. you'd still need the extra risk mitigation fac

coronavirus and we're here today to talk about and announce that here in the city and county of san francisco under the university of california san francisco and our partnership with the department of public health using the latest of technology, we have discovered our first case not only here in san francisco but the entire country and i wanted to at this time introduce dr. grant colfax to talk about the specifics and what that means in terms of what we need to do as a city. dr. colfax. >> thank you, mayor breed. good morning everybody and thank you, mayor breed, for your ongoing leadership during this pandemic. and i want to thank our partners at u.c.s.f. and especially dr. charles chiu and his team and i'd also like to thank our testing partner dr. scott topper. both are here today. and, of course my partner dr. mary ellen carol. all of us have been working in the last 24 hours with our state and federal partners at cdc and the state department of health to determine whether this indeed is the first case of omicron that has been detected and that has indeed been the result of our work overnight. i want to ack

george rutherford, university of california san francisco professor of epidemiology.felt she ruling out a shut down. testing is an issue. vaccine take up an issue. do you think we are headed for some kind of restrictions? george: i think it is quite possible. here in california, an indoor mask mandate has been put into place for one month, between mid-december to mid-january, to try to get through the peak of the crisis. i don't know that we are going to get shelter-in-place orders again or close businesses. some of the businesses are having a hard time getting people to work for them because of the spread of the virus, so that might have some impact as well, kind of a secondary impact. but i don't see us going to widespread shelter-in-place orders. guy: how comparable is what is happening where i am in the u.k. and what is happening in the united states? george: i think we draw that analogy at our peril because the british chose to vaccinate largely with astrazeneca vaccine initially, and now are trying this mad dash for pfizer boosters, and i think that is basically

mag creme brulee richmond is a criminal justice professor at the university of san francisco. we asked her about the comments. >> the public concern is what they are attending to, not so much the actual crime statistics and what is really going on. in general, crime is not up. >> reporter: wilson walker, kpix 5. >> the governor's proposal will allocate millions in grants to local law enforcement and district attorneys over the next 3 years. it would also provide $20 million to impacted small businesses. >>> take a live look towards san francisco's tenderloin tonight, where things are so bad, the mayor just declared a state of emergency. >> the most important job that i have is mayor is that when people walk down the streets of san francisco, they should feel safe. >> the declaration will allow city officials to waive certain laws to quickly address the rising number of deadly fentanyl overdoses and crimes. the board of supervisors must ratify it in the next week. >>> tonight, san francisco's former public works director has agreed to plead guilty to a string of bribery and cor

. >> reporter: kimberly richmond is a criminal justice professor at the university of san francisco. we asked her about the comments. >> the public concern is what they are attending to my not so much the crime statistics of what is going on. >> reporter: concerns about crime aren't necessarily generalized. in san francisco this week, mayor london breed lashed out specifically at drug dealing in the city's notoriously high number of car break-ins. >> and less tolerant of all of the ball that has destroyed our city. >> reporter: and then there is oakland, were several violent crime statistics are rising after years of progress. 132 homicides is the highest number seen since 2006. >> additional police staffing is needed in the wake of this violence spree. >> reporter: with crime looks like in oakland is not what crime looks like in walnut creek or san francisco, but all of these communities having that conversation on their own terms, no matter what your crime looks like, this is a conversation that is going on just about everywhere right now. wilson walker, kpix 5. >>> another crackdow

coronavirus and we're here today to talk about and announce that here in the city and county of san francisco under the university of california san francisco and our partnership with the department of public health using the latest of technology, we have discovered our first case not only here in san francisco but the entire country and i wanted

earlier we spoke of the professor peter chin, hong from the university of california, san francisco explained how you us on the chron cases have skyrocketed within a week. will there 2 main reasons explaining this rapid rise in percentage of the variance a script are accounted for by or across the united states. the 1st is that is oftentimes a delay. and when food sequencing is done from what's going on in the population. and the 2nd of course is the unbelievable transmission of omicron not having been seen before with delta or any other variant. and if you have enough people infected at some point, that transmission is going to be exponential. so the graph starts re gradually enough people get infected on all of a sudden that graph shoots up like a rocket. i think unfortunately, we'll see a lot more hospitalizations, even though probably fewer proportionally speaking people will go to the us when he's talking about a wide swath of the population being infected. even if you say 2 percent of the of that population goes to the hospital. that's still a lot of people that me strain hospitals. the

. >> as you know san francisco add a very robust response to the pandemic and is blessed with facilities like the university of san francisco. once this travel started to feel symptoms, the travel reached out to the san francisco department of health and said i have been in south africa, i know the omicron variant is there, and that person's sample wound up here and within about five hours was identified as the omicron variant. we spoke to dr. charles chu who has been studying diseases for decades. his team identified the variant and we asked what happens from here when dangers can we find out about omicron now that we had a chance to bring it to their lab. >> now that we have access to the sample we're able to culture the virus. this answers critical questions about omicron. what is the transmissibilty, and does it impact the potential effectiveness of vaccines. >> as you mentioned a moment ago there is now a second identified case in minnesota. the good news, if there is any, is that as they pop up in our sequence in these various labs, it gives them an opportunity to look at them, find out what could happen

coincidentally enough, that very praise was written by tonight's interviewer, professor at the university of san francisco, senior fellow at the institute of european studies at uc-berkeley and author of ten books including "nazi games." so let's get right to it. rebecca, david, thank you so much for being here k and the screen -- and the screen is all yours. >> i will say a little bit about rebecca. i wrote them down all be darned if i'm not going to say them. after which i will pose some questions to rebecca about the book. she will respond and we will go back and forth on those questions and once we are done than that we can have q&a and if that's okay with you. better be because that's what we are doing. rebecca is really a triple threat which i find very impressive. she's in active journalist and novelist and a good one and she's an historian so is a triple threat she has written books and one that was already mentioned a terrific novel about the seedy section of l.a. in the mid-1980s and burnout a graphic novel about eco-terrorism. talk about a wide range, she's got it in the study we are talking ab

he's a professor at the university of san francisco or senior fellow at then institute of european studies in berkeley, and author of ten books, and the rights and let's get right to it, rebecca and david thank you so much for being here. >> thank you very much. >> let's start out as a little bit about rebecca, somethings were were already said and wrote them down and knows a little bit about the book, after which i will then post some questions to rebecca aboutqu the book she wil respond and we will go back and forth on those questions for a bit and then after that, then we can have q&a. and as you just said, rebecca has done a lot of things, she's really triple threat which of my very impressive, she's a journalist and novelist and a darn good one and she says historian is a triple threat, she is three really interesting books to her credit and wanted already mentioned, terrific model the sense that a terroriss senate seat section of la in the early 1980s and recommend filing another graphic novel and talk about a wide range, she's nodded and then finally, the study that we willar be tal

coronavirus and we're here today to talk about and announce that here in the city and county of san francisco under the university of california san francisco and our partnership with the department of public health using the latest of technology, we have discovered our first case not only here in san francisco but the entire country and i wanted to at this time introduce dr. grant colfax to talk about the specifics and what that means in terms of what we need to do as a city. dr. colfax. >> thank you, mayor breed. good morning everybody and thank you, mayor breed, for your ongoing leadership during this pandemic. and i want to thank our partners at u.c.s.f. and especially dr. charles chiu and his team and i'd also like to thank our testing partner dr. scott topper. both are here today. and, of course my partner dr. mary ellen carol. all of us have been working in the last 24 hours with our state and federal partners at cdc and the state department of health to determine whether this indeed is the first case of omicron that has been detected and that has indeed been the result of our work overnight. i want to ack

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. >> reporter: kimberly richmond is a criminal justice professor at the university of san francisco and asked her about the governor's comments. >> the public concern is what they're attending to. not so much the actual crime statistics and what is going on, you know. in general, crime is not up. >> in walnut creek, wilson walker, kpix 5. >>> the governor's proposal will allocate millions in grants to local law enforcement and district attorneys the next three years and would provide $20 million to impacted small businesses. >>> and a live look towards san francisco's tenderloin. conditions are so dire, the mayor declared a state of emergency. >> the most important job that i have as mayor is that when people walk down the streets of san francisco, they should feel safe. >> the declaration allows city officials to wave certain laws to quickly addrthe rising number of fentanyl overdoses and crimes. the board of supervisors will have to ratify it next week. >>> san francisco's former public works director agreed to plead guilty to a string of bribery and corruption charges during the time

he graduated from the university of san francisco with a degree in nursing, and after working as a nursepolicy job on the staff of senator bob dole who wanted someone with experience and actually providing health care. sheila worked her way off the staff chain of command, where bob dole was chairman, and eventually, chief of staff to the republican senate leader, bob dole. sheila burke, was so good at her job, she was so powerful and so important to the workings of the senate, that she became known as the 100th first senator. sheila, did this all consuming while raising three children. every senate staff member wasn't all of sheila, including the staff members who disagreed with her. in 1995 when bob dole began his last campaign. the campaign for president. that he would lose to bill clinton in 1996. sheila, was in her 18th year on senator dole's staff and the new brand of conservative republicans in washington, who didn't believe that compromise with democrats was ever necessary decided that the problem with bob dole was sheila burke. oppressively's from a right-wing group at the time s

coronavirus and we're here today to talk about and announce that here in the city and county of san francisco under the university of california san francisco and our partnership with the department of public health using the latest of technology, we have discovered our first case not only here in san francisco but the entire country and i wanted to at this time introduce dr. grant colfax to talk about the specifics and what that means in terms of what we need to do as a city. dr. colfax. >> thank you, mayor breed. good morning everybody and thank you, mayor breed, for your ongoing leadership during this pandemic. and i want to thank our partners at u.c.s.f. and especially dr. charles chiu and his team and i'd also like to thank our testing partner dr. scott topper. both are here today. and, of course my partner dr. mary ellen carol. all of us have been working in the last 24 hours with our state and federal partners at cdc and the state department of health to determine whether this indeed is the first case of omicron that has been detected and that has indeed been the result of our work overnight. i want to ack

coronavirus and we're here today to talk about and announce that here in the city and county of san francisco under the universityia san francisco and our partnership with the department of public health using the latest of technology, we have discovered our first case not only here in san francisco but the entire country and i wanted to at this time introduce dr. grant colfax to talk about the specifics and what that means in terms of what we need to do as a city. dr. ax

travis chu is with the university of san francisco. he sequenced the first omicron gene here in the united states. what did you learn in dealing with this? >> well, what we learned is, i don't think it was unexpected that omicron is in the united states. it had already been reported in multiple countries. we know that in countries like south africa, it had been spreading into many more cases. i agree with everyone else that it was really only a matter of time before we would eventually detect it. i am a little surprised that we did detect it in san francisco. i do think part of the reason is that in san francisco and in california, we have a consortium called covid net. this is a statewide consortium of a number of different laboratories and public health organizations, and the goal -- and companies as well, diagnostic companies, that test for the virus. the goal of this is to provide an infrastructure where we could very rapidly identify potential cases. and the goal of covid that was to identify these variants, or potentially new var

gee gnomic sequencing was conducted at the university of california at san francisco and the sequence was confirmed at the c.d.c. has been consistent with the omicron variant. i know there are a lot of questions. here's what we know right now. the individual was a traveler who returned from south africa on november 22 and tested positive on november 29. the individual is self-quarantining and all close contacts have been contacted and all close contacts thus far have tested negative. the individual was fully vaccinated and experienced mild symptoms which are improving at this point. so this is the first confirmed case of the covid-19 caused by the omicron variant detected in the united states. as all of you know, because we have been discussing this, we knew it was just a matter of time before the first case of omicron would be detected in the united states and as you know, we know, i've been saying it, my colleagues on the medical team and others have been saying it. we know what we need to do to protect people, get vaccinated if you're not already vaccinated. get boosted if you've b

first case reported by the california and san francisco department of public health was identified quickly through genomic sequencing conducted at the university of california san francisco, a laboratory that is funded by cdc using resources from the american rescue plan and from the first three us cases were confirmed at the cdc within hours after their detection by the state. the rapid turnaround in sequence analysis is an example of the importance of our investment this year to expand genomic sequencing across the country and to build a system that is prepared to swiftly respond to to new and emerging covid variants. once these cases were identified cdc staff began working with state and local public health authorities to contact tracing and investigation but across the country, public health departments are looking at sequence data and travel histories and epidemiologic indicators as diagnostic data to identify possible cases of omicron. cdc will continue robust collaborations with state and local public health authorities to identify cases as they emerge, to support contact tracing of those newly diagnosed cases of omicron, to encourage p

lara bazelon is a law professor at the university of san francisco and says with the three conservative justices appointed by president donald trump. this is a battle that conservatives have been preparing for more than a generation. this was a day that conservatives have been waiting decades for, probably since the dismantling of the bork confirmation hearings. abortion has been the nearest and dearest because of. true conservatives in this country and today i think they saw their dream about to be realized. professor bazelon says the court can take several past forward from overturning roe versus wade outright to finding a narrower path they could try to carve out a narrower path where they hold that this particular law out of mississippi, which bans abortions after 15 weeks. is constitutional, but then sort of dropped the line at 15 weeks or some other demarcation point. the rally underway here in san francisco and another one in the city, as well as others around the bay area are part of the organization and group of organized protests. the bay area, including in palo alto, and in b

guest who told bob dole about the birth of my daughter, sheila burke graduated from the university of san franciscon california the twists and turns of life landed her in a health policy job on the staff of senator bob dole, who wanted someone with experience in actually providing health care. sheila burke worked her way up the staff chain of command to deputy staff director of the senate finance committee when bob dole was chairman and eventually chief of staff to the republican senate leader bob dole. she was so good at her job, so powerful, and so important to the workings of the senate that she became known as the 101st senator. sheila burke did this all consuming work while raising three children. every senate staff member was in awe of sheila burke including the staff members who disagreed with her. in 1995 when bob dole began his last campaign, the campaign for president that he would lose to bill clinton in 1996, sheila burke was in her 18th year on senator dole's staff. and the new brand of conservative republican in washington who didn't believe compromise with democrats was ever necessar

kirsten bibbins-domingo is a physician and epidemiologist at the university of california, san franciscojoins me now. dr. bibbins-domingo, welcome back to the "newshour". thanks for making the time. i want to get to what is at the top of everyone's minds. they want to know what to make of them especially of new year's eve gatherings. what would you say to that? >> we are heading into a realy challenging january, and this is just the beginning of the rise in cases the good news is if we look at how other countries have dealt with an omicron surge, it looks like it lasts four to six weeks. but how high this crest rises, how broad the wave is and how much damage lasts in the next few months is entirely in our hands and means we have to make good choices starting student. >> reporter: what does that mean for people who are vaccinated who have a test in hand, hour that determine how people go ahead with celebration tonight? >> i think even vaccinated and boasted, i would be avoiding crowds tonight. if you look at the positivity rates in our major cities, if you look at the positivity rates in

of the new variant. in san francisco here in the city and county of san francisco under the university of california, san francisco and our partnership with the department of public health using the latest technology we have. discovered our first case . not only here in san francisco , but the entire country. this is cause for concern. it is also certainly not a cause for us to panic. we are prepared here in the city for this. as you heard , dr colfax does say that the city is prepared to deal with this variant. but there are still he says, lot of questions surrounding it. as of right now , there are no plans to change restrictions in the city of san francisco, but people are encouraged to continue to wear mask. and to get vaccinated and the booster shot. we'll have more on this breaking news story for you coming up at 12 30. some other news now city council want to creek voted in a special meeting to approve money for additional officers and resources for the downtown area. this comes after a mess robbery where nearly 100 mass. these rushed into the nordstrom and took about $125,000 in merchandise. ktvu

he's a professor of medicine at the university of california in san francisco. professor, welcome back to d. w. nice to say all micron is turning out to be far more infectious or what is the knock on effect in terms of the sheer scale? can we expect that everyone across the world but perhaps is going to come in contact and not just come in contact, but actually contract this virus in the coming weeks and months? well, that's what some people are thinking, rebecca, that it's so transmissible up to 4 times as much as filter that it would be hard to escape. but nevertheless, i think we could try to mitigate damage. i'm. we're most worried about unvaccinated folks. and folks with co morbid conditions, it's still going to result in a lot of hospitalizations, even though it's probably less ah, you know, severe to the general person as delta was. you mentioned vaccinate vaccine, there been studies just released in the last few days show that back seems to be much less efficient than previous variance with one relatively large study in the u . k. suggesting even with a booster, you're only rea

lara bazelon is a law professor at the university of san francisco and says with the three conservative justices appointed by president donald trump. this is a battle that conservatives have been preparing for more than a generation. this was a day that conservatives have been waiting decades for, probably since the dismantling of the bork confirmation hearings. abortion has been the nearest and dearest held cause of true conservatives in this country and today i think they saw their dream about to be realized. professor bazelon says the court can take several past forward from overturning roe versus wade out right to finding a narrower path they could try to carve out a narrower path where they hold that this particular law out of mississippi, which bans abortions after 15 weeks. is constitutional, but then sort of dropped the line at 15 weeks or some other demarcation point. the rallies here in san francisco are part of a group of rallies taking place around the bay area, including in palo alto and in berkeley. in san francisco christian catholic ktvu fox two news on the justices hear

got she read or even heard of a scientists over at the university college of san francisco, talking about we're heading towards an endemic out of a pandemic. it, do you think that theory stands up to think, we all sort of heading into that direction, whether pun this, pandemic that we've been talking about for 92 years, may be coming to an end. all this will last wave is something that we need to keep a very close eye on to assess whether we are heading in the right direction. and so, hell is that the start. let me say it will be a brave soul who predict sweetest pandemic goes. it's been so unpredictable to died . the starting point is to say that history is enough on our side. if one lewis a 100 years ago, at the spanish influenza pandemic, the 4th wave of that pandemic was termed an ex wife, was a highly contagious, but a severe way. and resulted in extensive immunity. following many infections around the world globally. and so that both way in the influenza pandemic, which is looking a little bit locked this way of kind of at 19 may well bode well for, for what happens going forward. i