wilson walker joined a collection of moderate democrat who is supported e and f and other measures, let's go ahead and hear from wilson. >> reporter: the obvious caveat that there are a lot of votes left to be counted in san francisco, but if you were here at moderate campaign headquarter, there was a lot of optimism on election night. >> and i just want to say proposition e and f right now are leading. proposition c is leading. and supervisor darcy, proposition b is losing. >> reporter: mayor london breed watched the early results come across the phone with a collection of san francisco's moderate democrat groups, grow sf, together sf, and san francisco democrats for change, and from the ballot measures to the dccc slate, there was a lot of reason for cheering here. >> i think it's the entire democrats for change slate. . >> all right, let's hear it for algebra. yeah. >> reporter: the major issues, however, were the public safety measures with f, drug screening and e altered police procedures. both ahead in the early results. >> we are in the midst of a voter revolt on public safety and

we'll see how that unfolds i guess in the couple months ahead. >> thank you, wilson walker. november's protest was one of a series of bay area demonstrations calling for ceasefire in gaza, including yesterday's protest that shut down the international terminal at sfo. last month hundreds of protesters marched through the streets of san francisco and onto highway 101 and a few days prior to that protesters briefly shut down the golden gate bridge calling for a ceasefire in gaza. >>> turning to weather, a live look outside on this first alert weather day, those whipping winds causing some issues around the bay area along with the bad hair day for a lot of people. here's highway 35 in san mateo county where a tree came down on some power lines between highway 9 and alpine road. here's the pg&e outage map. the green dots show scattered outages across the region. my hair actually moved. i have a lot of gel in my hair. >> you know the winds were strong if that happened. okay, paul, ryan clearly does not like my hair today. >> it looks great. >> when does it stop? >> it's just extr

our wilson walker reports. >> yeah, when you know, when you've been portrayed by sean penn and had navy ships named after you and subway station, it's, you know, the mythology gets a bit much for me at times. and i think it -- actually, i think it strengthens his legacy for people to know that he was an ordinary guy who rather poorly ran a sort of pathetic little store on this block, you know. >> reporter: there are countless names stitched into the history of the gay rights movement, but few of them are larger than that of cleave jones, a legend in his own right, and forever linked to the life and times of his close friend harvey milk. >> he was, in many respect, an ort nary man. he was not a genius. he was not a saint. he had all sorts of challenges and failures and humiliations in his life, but he was a kind man. and i knew him quite well. and what i remember the most is just how funny he was, how much he cared about people, how much he cared about the neighborhood. >> reporter: and now a navy ship bearing milk's name sits in san francisco bay. for jones, it is an odd lens on how muc

as wilson walker shows us, what was once a pit stop during the gold rush is now one of the fastest-growing places in california. >> i am originally born and raised in fremont . i have resided in mountain house for the last 10 years with my family. >> not only a mountain house resident, salah salah is a realtor who has put a lot of people in their very own mountain house homes and this is a community of homes that has famously seen a very wild ride. >> 2008, recession, mountain house was the most underwater community in the nation. >> flash forward to the pandemic one homes here were jumping 20% in value in just six months. >> it is still affordable compared to the bay area but, since covid, prices have gone up. >> now, another building boom, the famously up and down town is about to become a city. >> from here over, the three of us will remain which is myself, bernice and andy. >> board member disko , about to become councilmember disko says councilmember is about control. >> we will have a sales revenue. we will have a local planning department who can issue rezoning and building permits,

caltrans tells wilson walker that is by design. >> this is the most seismically advanced bridge designed. the eastern span of the bay bridge. >> reporter: caltrans talking about the first line of defense on the new bay bridge. that is the fender system that you see here. while this one is unique to the tower foundation of the eastern span, there is something like this on every bridge in the bay area. >> so, some of those systems will completely different foundations. they never actually touch the bridge. others have the fenders designed in the foundation so they crumble and absorb the energy. the idea is that the vessel never hits the bridge structure. >> reporter: as people travel around the bay area, they will see different engineering but it's doing the same thing. >> that is 100% correct. it's almost a bridge zoo in the bay area. so many different types. depending on where you are at, the fender system has been designed for that particular bridge. >> yesterday's operations were hampered by reduced visibility. >> the problem we had was the allusion is when oil taskers hit them. the sh

wilson walker shows us what was once a pit stop during the gold rush is now one of the fastest-growing places in the state. >> i'm originally born and raised in fremont. i resided in mountain house for the past 10 years with my family. >> not only a mountain house resident, salah salah is a realtor who has put a lot of people in their very own mountain house homes. this is a community of homes that has famously seen a very wild ride . >> 2008, the recession. mountain house was the most underwater community in the nation. >> flash forward to the pandemic where homes were jumping 20% in value in just six months. >> it is still affordable compared to the bay area but, since covid, prices have gone up. >> now, another building boom famously up and down town. >> from here over, the three of us will remain, which is myself. >> board member matt disko, about to become councilmember disko says corporation is about control. >> we will have more from the sales revenue. we will have a local planning department who can issue rezoning and building permits, which is currently a county process. all o

our wilson walker was in court with the group's supporters where they showed up. >>>. >> the bay bridge walked out of the courtroom to the cheering crowd. packing the hallway to support them. the outcome and the words of one organizers, a complete vindication and victory. >> essentially the judge dismissed our case as of may 15th. with a diversion offer of five hours community service and i am a little under 4,500 in restitution. i think that the da retalltory charges were an attempt to put a chill on mobilization. >> reporter: for some kind of precedent here, we have seen incidents like this before. 2016, protesters with black lives matter took over the bridge. the highway patrol arrested 25 people, district attorney reduced the charges to simple traffic citations saying it was in the interest of free speech. then, a judge threw out the charges out. while blocking the bridge is illegal there is plenty of room for discretion. >> yes. the government does have a certain amount of discretion in terms of if it is going to arrest people, if they are going to say go home and allow people to l

last night wilson walker joined a collection of moderate democrats who supported the measures for their reactions on the results . take a listen. >> reporter: a lot of votes to be counted in san francisco. if you were here at moderate campaign headquarters there was a lot of optimism on election night. >> i just want to say proposition e and f are leading. proposition c is leading. as supervisor endorsing, proposition b is losing. >> reporter: mayor london breed watch the early results, caught the phone with a collection of san francisco's moderate democrat groups , grow sf, together sf, in san francisco democrats for change. from the ballot measures to the d.c. cc late there was a lot of reason for cheering. >> i think it is the entire democrats for change so late. -- slate . let's hear it for it. >> reporter: the major issues with the public safety measures with f, drug screening and e altered police procedures, both ahead in the early results. >> we are in the midst of a voter rainfall on public safety and voters are still speaking . thank you mayor london breed for your leadership.

wilson walker explains that it is putting a focus on the significant asian community. >> looking back over the last seven mayoral campaigns, the city is traditionally hardened mayors. we expect them to solve problems within two years that have taken decades to solve. >>'s former chair of the city's democratic mayor, mayor young has watched politics in the city. she helped organize the recall of the district attorney. she has been a longtime supporter of mayor london breed and that has not changed. >> at the election were held today, i would say the city is on the upswing and we should not be changing course. >> san francisco desperately needs new leadership, new and accountable leadership. the time is now. >> kit lam is the man behind the recall of the san francisco school board and he is now throwing his support behind daniel lurie. >> you will play a critical role in helping us deliver a victory in november. >> for lurie, it is a new ally, well known among the asian community. for the mayor, more pressure to convey a sense that progress is being made. >> the number of tenants on our

wilson walker has more on the hard fought victory to protect an important part of bay area history. >> i have five generations of family. it is 23%. >> reporter: this moment is about 20 years in the making, but speaks to the family history, stretching back generations. >> the answer to my prayer, yeah. >> reporter: they mark the return of the land to the people, a 2.2 acre parking lot that is the last undeveloped block along a covered burial site. >> this is it underneath here. the people. and now this is where they were buried. >> reporter: perhaps the most meaningful land acknowledgment that i'll ever get to do. >> the site has been in question since designated a landmark back in 2000, once the developer ultimately accepted $27 million and returned the land to berkeley, which is passing it onto a land trust. >> may this be an example of what's possible for all cities, counties, states, and other places around this country. >> the native people always gave back to mother earth with what she gave us. we always gave her thanks. >> reporter: the plans for what comes next that is the rem

wilson walker is live now at the coliseum where the potential final chapter has come with some rule changes for fans. hey, wilson. >> reporter: we'll get to the rule changes in a moment. look, breaking up is hard even when the circumstances can be described as amicable. fans with mixed feelings, yes, even some confusion as the series get going here in oakland. >> dad, how long we been coming here? >>'80s? i've come here before you were even born. >> reporter: for the hangman family the a's have been a generational affair. they came to kick off the season with some tailgating, only when they got here, the new hours took them by surprise. >> yeah. we were confused with the two hours. we thought we were able to get in four early. so we got here a little early. we just had to wait. >> oh, god, yeah. so we had a feeling they were going to do something like this, right? i mean we anticipate their moves before they make them. >> reporter: brian johansson is one of the founders of last dive bar which has been fighting the a's departure for a couple years and now that means a full scale boycott. >>

our wilson walker is live at sfo not far from where that wheel came down. wilson, what's the latest? >> reporter: yeah, liz, good evening. the wheel came down just behind me here. first point of impact was in the employee parking lot. the folks who work at sfo and then it kind of ricocheted on from there. i'm standing on what is essentially the extension point of runway 28r where the plane was leaving. it goes right over these parking lots. for the cars that were there or the drivers who own them, what an incredible stroke of bad luck or in one driver's case good luck. have a listen. >> you say the wheel fell off from where? >> reporter: off a plane that lands here. >> what the [ bleep ]. excuse me. i mean i was so lucky because just two cars away. i'm almost the one. >> reporter: that is william, a very lucky sfo worker parked two cars away from the vehicle that was crushed by the tire. now let's talk about the path of the wheel. if you look closer at the car that was hit, you can sort of see the smudge of rubber there. if you back up a little bit, you can

wilson walker has more on what the election says about the current political pulse of the city. >>> i think there is a good chance that we'll see a couple of chances. hopefully prop 8 could hold on. and probably have a little bit of a mixing in the middle of the pack. >> reporter: even with some changes, a big night for the director of grow sf and one of the architects of a string of victories for san francisco's moderate democrats. >> i actually don't feel like it was us that influenced the election. it was the voters and us responding to the voters. >> reporter: the set of victories, however, hardly the beginning of something for the city's moderates, this is now a pattern going on two years. >> you know, november 2020, we basically lost everything. and then we got the school board recall. we got the recall. we've got matt dorsey and brook jenkins. and now we've got democratic party and we've got prop e and f. >> whether you're the school board, the d.a., they're throwing you out. so the question is whether the mayor and supervisors will be next. >> reporter: what can they tell us a

an expert told our wilson walker, the fact that we prepare for earthquakes could really help us if something similar happened here. >> this is the most seismically advanced bridge ever designed. the eastern san jose bridge, it is not just a fender system. spent the first line of defense on the new bay bridge and that is the fender system that you see here. this one is unique to the tower foundation of the eastern span, there is something like this on every bridge in the bay area. >> some of those systems have completely different foundations. they never actually touched the bridge. other bridges have the fenders designed into the foundation so it is designed to crumble and absorb the energy. the idea is that will never actually hit the bridge structure. >> imagine people travel around the bay area, they will see some different engineering but it is all doing the same thing. >> that is 100% correct. we've got so many different types of bridges. depending on where you are at, the fender system has been designed for that particular bridge. >> yesterday's operations were hampered by reduced visi

our wilson walker talked with the owner of a burgeoning bay area bagel empire about why she's puttinger dough behind the idea that downtown will rise again. >> the dough is coming up. it's been formed into a log. this is going to knead it out smaller, and divide it into chunks. you see it just gets wrapped up and the ends get stuck together. it comes out like a bagel. >> reporter: emily winston is watching the early moments in the creation of a bagel, and this phase is decidedly high-tech. >> then the robot arm will pick it up and put it in the rack. that prevents a ton of repetitive stress injury and workers comp issues. >> reporter: but even the newest technology does not replace the most essential elements of this old art form just we're doing the old school new york bagel process here. and i have not added any automation to this. this is exactly as it's been done for the last 100 years. >> reporter: and it's that knack for blending tradition and modernity that pushed boichik to the forefront. >> my background is mechanical engineering, so i love this. >> reporter: take a quick tou

wilson walker has been looking at this. he looks at the impact of the disruption on a weekend where we really want to just get out there. >> the city comes out in droves for this festival and we are always delighted to have people come from far and wide. >> reporter: a lot of festivals have come and gone over the years, but dublin is about to host its 40th st. patrick's day celebration. >> this will be the tea cottage. >> reporter: sherry jackman says it's all systems go despite the big inconvenience looming just beyond the fairgrounds and they have been telling everybody about it. >> we've personally publicized this so that people are aware that this closure is happening. so we don't want any surprises. >> reporter: the closure will be southbound 680 from the 580 interchange all the way down to highway 84 for pavement resurfacing. that means the southern flow of traffic will be shut off all the way across pleasanton down to sunol. >> that's when everybody starts taking the backroads to the 84 calaveras. so we'll get a lot

wilson walker has the latest on the investigation. >>> we hear gun rounds here. it is not unusual. but to hear them repetitive like that meant it was different. >> reporter: it was a little after midnight when the gunfire rolled on to tim's stretch of stony point road and he knew immediately it was something serious. >> it was more semiautomatic, bang, bang, bang, like rounds, multiple rounds and return fire in the same rhythm. you knew it was a gunfight. >> our investigators are still working to put together that time line to determine how many shots exactly were fired by both the deputies and the suspect. and, where those shots occurred it. >> sheriff deputies were responding to reports of a man with a rifle. almost as soon as they saw the suspect's car they reported gunfire. it is not clear exactly who all was shooting at that point frvment there, a pursuit that stretched about 2-1/2 miles before a crash into this fence. this is where dimock heard the shooting he described and this is where the suspect in the pursuit was pronounced dead. >> we are still investigating the exact c

wilson walker reports. [ cheers and applause ] >> reporter: the bay bridge 78 walked out to the cheeringwd that packed the hallway to support. the outcome, in the words of one organizer, a complete vindication and victory. >> essentially the judge dismissed our case as of may 15th with a diversion offer of five hours community service and a little under 4,500 in restitution. i think that the da's retaliatory charges were an attempt to put a chill on mobilization. >> reporter: as for some kind of precedent here, we have seen incidents like this before. in 2016, protesters with black lives matter took over the bridge, and the highway patrol arrested 25 people. the district attorney reduced the charges to simple traffic citations saying it was in the interest of free speech. then a judge just threw the charges out wholesale, so while blocking the bridge is illegal, there is plenty of room for discretion. >> yes, the government does have a certain amount of prosecutorial discretion in terms of whether it's going to arrest people, whether it will just say go home and allow people to leave. th

caltrans tells our wilson walker , that is by design. >> this is the most does mostly advanced bridgegned. the eastern span of the bay bridge. it is not just a better system -- >> reporter: he is talking about the first line of defense on the new bay bridge and that is the offender system that you see here and while this one is unique to the tower foundation of the eastern span there is something like this on every bridge in the bay area. >> some of the systems have completely different foundations. they never really actually touch the bridge and other bridges have defenders designed into the foundation so they will crumble and absorb the energy. the ideas that the vessel never actually hits the bridge structure. >> reporter: as people travel around the bay area they will see some different engineering. but it is doing the same thing. >> 100% correct. it is almost a bridge zoo in the bay area. with different types of bridges. depending on where you are the offender system has been designed for that particular bridge. >> yesterday's operations were hampered by reduced visibility. >> th

as wilson walker explains, that's putting a focus on the city's significant asian vote. >> looking back over the last seven mayoral campaigns, this city is traditional mayors we expect them to solve problems in two years that has taken decades to solve. >> reporter: former democratic mayor young has watched a lot of politics in the city, helped organize the recall of the district attorney, has been a long time supporter of mayor london breed and that has not changed. >> if the election were held today, i would definitely say the city's on the upswing and we should not change course. >> san francisco desperately needs new leadership, new and accountable leadership, and the time is now. >> reporter: kit lam is behind the recall of the san francisco cool board and he is now throwing his support behind daniel lurie. >> kit, you'll play a critical role in helping us deliver a victory in november. so thank you, kit. >> reporter: for lurie, it is a new ally well known among the city's asian community and for the mayor it's still more pressure to convey a sense that progress is being made. >> t

. >> wilson walker with a look at how this could shake up the race. wilson? >> reporter: well, liz, we were standing here exactly at the beginning of the week, monday, in much more favorable weather talking about the mayor's race and the big question we said was whether or not someone gets in on the progressive side of the spectrum in san francisco. it looks like that is about to happen. if it does, it would involve someone who has been around san francisco politics for a very long time. >> i'm going to knock on some neighborhood organizations' doors, hear what people are saying and make a decision in the weeks and months ahead. >> reporter: supervisor aaron peskin says the decision is still being made. we caught up with him in chinatown, but he's about to start feeling things out beyond his district. >> but i want to go put my toe in the water in the excelsior and in the mission and in the sunset and the richmond and i'm going to do that in the weeks ahead and see whether there's an appetite out there. >> because there's sort of a crowded field with some sim

our wilson walker is live on treasure island for us this evening with perspective for us on how bridges would fare in a similar disaster here. good evening. >> reporter: hey, juliette, i think a lot of us when we heard about what happened in baltimore thought back to the foggy morning in 2007 and the cosco busan. caltrans, of course, fielding some questions about this today. you know, we can ask a lot of questions about what happened with the boat, but the physics of this is pretty much straight math. caltrans says they have looked at that math and given the situation like that, they think things check out here. >> this is the most seismically advanced bridge ever designed. right, the eastern span of the bay bridge, it's not just the fender system. >> reporter: caltrans bart talking about the first line of defense on the new bay bridge, and that is the fender system that you see here. and while this one is unique to the tower foundation of the eastern span, there is something like this on every bridge in the bay area. >> so some of those systems have completely different foundations so

on this international women's day our wilson walker caught up with emily winston, matriarch of the new bagel world. >> the dough is coming up. it's been formed into kind of this rectangular log. this will knead it out smaller and divide it into chunks. see that just gets wrapped up and the ends get stuck together and it comes out like a bagel. >> reporter: emily winston is watching the early moments in the creation of a bagel and this phase is decidedly hi-tech. >> and then we've got our robot arm that picks it up and puts it in the rack. that prevents a ton of repetitive stress injury and workers' comp issues. >> reporter: even the newest technology does not replace the most essential elements of this old art form. >> we're doing the old school new york bagel process here and i have not added any automation to this. this is exactly as it's been done the last 100 years. >> reporter: and it is that knack for blending tradition and modernity that has pushed berkeley's boy chick to the center of the bagel universe. >> especially adding that arm, we're probably running the most technically

coming up at 6:00, our wilson walker will take a closer look at those precautions in place. >>> gas appliances will soon make a cam bok into berkeley homes and restaurants after the controversial ordinance was struck down. the city has had a ban on natural gas piping since 2019, but now the berkeley city council is taking steps to repeal the ordinance after the courts ruled against it, saying the ban was out of step with federal energy law. and now we're taking a live look at city hall in san francisco where their natural gas ban is still in effect without any plans to reverse course. according to san francisco city officials, supervisor rafael says he believes that the city can continue enforcing the energy policy and stay consistent with the court's ruling. the city of antioch could move forward in with an effort to provide protections for renters. the city council will consider an ordinance to limit no fault evixs. tonight's meeting starts at 7:00. >>> let's give you a live look at the oakland area, where the community and advocates are showing their support to the alameda county district a

wilson walker with a story that shows the vote count on public and police issues, has a lot to say about the political polls of san francisco. >> i think there is a good chance we see a couple changes. hopefully property can hold on and i think the dccc candidates, probably have a little bit of mixing in the middle of the pack. >> reporter: even with changes it was a big night for steve buss director of grow sf, and one of the architects of a string of victories for san francisco's moderate democrats . >> i actually don't feel like it was us that if it was the election, it was the voters and it was us responding to the voters. >> reporter: the set of victories was highly the beginning of something for the city's moderates, this is now a pattern, going on two years. >> november, 2020, we basically lost everything and we had the school board recall and got the chesa boudin recall. we got matt dorsey and brooke jenkins. and now we've got the democratic party and we've got prop d and f. >> whether you are the school board, da, democratic party members, they are throwing you out. the question

wilson walker has more on the hard fought fight to protect an important part of bay area and california me is 23%. >> reporter: for ruth orta the moment was about 20 years in the making. but it speaks to her family history, stretching back generations. >> answer to my prayer. [ laughter ] yeah. >> reporter: the ceremony marks the return of this land to the alone people. a 2.2-acre parking lot that is the last undeveloped block above a long covered sacred burial site. >> shell mound we're standing on it. this is it. underneath here, this was -- people and now it's the ancestors, this is where they were buried. >> perhaps this is the most meaningful land acknowledgment i will ever get to do. >> reporter: the site has been in question since it was designated a landmark back in 2000. once designated for housing, the developer ultimately accepted $27 million and returned the land to berkeley. which is passing it on to a land trust. >> may this be an example of what's possible for all cities, counties, states, and other places around this country. the native people always gave back to mother

wilson walker is giving us a closer look at developments there. >> reporter: something we hear a lot when we have a year like this one and last year, two good years in a row. so where are we going to put all that water? right here. this is something that's been in the works for a very long time. a lot of people want to know why this hasn't happened faster. as we all know, california can be pretty deliberate about projects this size. in this case maybe that is a good thing, right? there are places across california where we put dams and reservoirs where we're currently trying to undo some of the impact there. this is worth thinking through and the man in charge of making it happen says yes, they're very close to getting started. >> nothing has been built like this in california for more than 30 years. >> reporter: it has been nearly 70 years since california took a look at the sykes valley and saw the potential for a reservoir that could have as large as shasta. >> the peak we see to the north is not the northernmost location for the reservoir. >> reporter: jerry brown says the long s

wilson walker has the very latest on the investigation which stretches over two miles. >> we hear gunsround here. it's not unusual, but to hear them repetitive like that meant that it was different. >> reporter: it was a little after midnight when the gunfire rolled onto tim dimmock's stretch of stony point road and he knew immediately it was something serious. >> it was more a semiautomatic bang, bang, bang, bang, multiple rounds and then return fire in the same rhythm. so you knew it was a gunfight. >> our investigators are still working to put together that timeline to determine how many shots exactly were fired by both the deputies and the suspect and where those shots occurred at. >> reporter: sheriff's deputies were responding to reports of a man with a rifle and almost as soon as they saw the suspect's car, they reported gunfire, though it's not clear who all was shooting at that point. from there a pursuit that stretched about 2 1/2 miles before a crash into this fence. this is where dimmock heard the shooting he described and this is where the suspect in the pursuit was pronou

the bridge stood its ground, and caltrans tells our wilson walker that's by design. >> this is the most seismically advanced bridge ever designed. right, the eastern span of the bay bridge, it's not just the fender system. >> reporter: caltrans bart talking about the first line of defense on the new bay bridge. and that is the fender system you see here. while this one is unique to the tower foundation of the eastern span, there is something like this on every bridge in the bay area. >> so some of those systems have completely different foundations so they never actually touch the bridge. other bridges have the fenders designed into their foundations so they're designed to actually crumple and absorb the energy. the idea is that the vessel never actually hits the bridge structure. >> so imagine as people travel around the bay area they're going to see some different engineering, but it's all doing the same thing. >> that's 100% correct, but an it's almost a bridge zoo in the bay area, got so many different types of bridges. depending on where you're at, the fender system has been design

wilson walker introduced us to last year. >> so this, problem where over here they're saying the width> for viveca, the planters were measure of last resort. we drivesed you to her when the encampment was complicating her work at the pacific vision center helping patients from across california. >> we have a lost patients coming in foresight saving care so it's important to navigate the sidewalks so we did what everybody else had done and it has a dramatically allowed us to have sidewalks that people can navigate into but anderson and many of her neighbors have been informed by public works that most of these planters are in various forms of violation. >> a through way zone 72 inches into those on van ness do allow for as saysability depressants points out the side walk isn't that wide to begin with. the notice reference what is in or not in the planters themselves. >> so i'm thinking i'm a lawyer, and i find this confusing. >> other neighbors have expressed their confusion and frustration one responding to the notice of violation with this picture, showing the planters inaccessible th

wilson walker looks at the disruption when a lot of people will be eager to go out. >> you know, the city comes out in droves for this festival. we are delighted to have people come from far and wide. >> reporter: festivals have come and gone over the years but dublin is about to host the 408th st. patrick's day celebration. >> this will be the tea cottage. >> reporter: jackman says it's all systems go despite the big inconvenience looming beyond the fairgrounds and they are telling everybody about it. >> we have publicized this so people are aware it is happening. >> reporter: the closure is southbound 680 from the 580 interchange to highway 84 for pavement resurfacing. that means the southern flow of traffic will be shut off all the way across pleasanton down towson knoll. >> that's when everybody takes the back roads to 84. >> reporter: anthony alvarado to get slammed this weekend. that is good news for so knoll corner market. >> the weekend is our busiest times. i can see a lot of people traveling to get where they are going and traffic is killing them. they want to relax, take a

our wilson walker has a closer look at the developments there. >> nothing has been built like this in california for more than 30 years. >> reporter: it's been nearly 70 years since they took a look and saw the potential for the reservoir. it is still truly massive. >> it is moving ahead and the payoff will be as large as the new lake itself. it will not dam the river, which is good for the fish, but instead the water will be pumped up out of the valley. >> and it is basically bringing it off the river during the periods and storing it here in the valley and releasing it back out to be used or flow back into the river during dry periods. >> reporter: the natural bowl of limestone creating the valley does most of the work only two relatively small dams are required. >> this gives you a nice angle on the scale of the dam. it is a large dam, but it's not huge. >> reporter: and of all the 180 miles required to move back out, only 15 miles of it has to be new. when everything is built and the water is turned on. >> it's the eighth largest in the state of california. >> reporter: what happe

wilson walker talked with the owner of a bay area bagel empire about why she is putting her dough behind idea that downtown will rise again. >> this is going to divide it into chunks. you can see it just gets wrapped up in the ends get stuck together and it comes out like a bagel. >> emily winston is watching the early moments in the creation of a bagel and this phase is decidedly high-tech. >> and we have the robot arm that picks it up and puts it on the rack. and that prevents a ton of repetitive stress, injury, and workers comp issues. >> reporter: even the newest technology does not replace the most essential elements of this old art form. >> we are doing the old school new york bagel process and i have not added any automation to the, this is exactly as it has been done for the last 100 years. >> reporter: it is that neck that has pushed boichik bagels to the center of the bagel universe. >> we are probably running the most technically advanced bagel operations right now. my background is mechanical engineering, so i love this, this is where i get to shine. >> reporter: it is easy t

wilson walker talked with the owner of a bay area bagel empire about why she is putting her dough on the idea that downtown will rise once again. >> you can see it just gets wrapped up and the ends get stuck together and it comes out like a bagel. >> reporter: emily winston is watching the early moments in the creation of a bagel and this is decidedly high-tech. >> and we've got a robot arm that picks it up and puts it on the rack. and that prevents a ton of repetitive stress, injury, and workers comp issues. >> reporter: even the newest technology does not replace the most essential elements of this old art form. >> we are doing the old school new york bagel process here and i have not added any automation, this is exactly as it has been done for the last 100 years. >> reporter: it is that knack of blending tradition and modernity, pushing them into the center of the bagel universe. >> we are probably running the most technically advanced bagel operations right now. my background is mechanical engineering so i love this. this is where i get to shine. >> reporter: it is easy to see h

wilson walker has more on how the areas recent up and down history has shaped their community. >> i amed in fremont. and resided here for the last 10 years with my family. >> reporter: not only a mountain house resident, he is a realtor who was put a lot of people in their very own mountain house homes and this is a community of homes that has famously seen a very wild ride. >> 2008, the recession, mountain house was the most underwater community in the nation. >> reporter: flash forward to the pandemic when homes were jumping 20% in value in just six months. >> still affordable compared to the bay area but has, since covid, prices have gone up. >> reporter: amid another building boom, the famous up in downtown is about to become a city. >> from here over, the three of us will remain which is myself, bernie's and the mayor . >> reporter: a board member, about to become a councilmember said incorporation is largely about control. >> we will have more from the sales revenue versus the 1% we get and we will have a local planning department who can issue rezoning and building permits, whic

wilson walker reports. >> when you have been portrayed by sean penn and had navy ships named after you and subway stations, the mythology gets a bit much for me, at times. and i think , actually i think it strengthens is a quiz see for people to know he was an ordinary guy. who would rather, poorly ran , sort of pathetic little store on this block. >> reporter: there are countless names stitched into the history of the rights movement but few of them are larger than that of cleve jones, a legend in his own right and forever linked to the life and times of his close friend, harvey milk . >> he was in many respects an ordinary man. not a genius and not a saint . it all sorts of challenges and failures and humiliations in his life but he was a kind man and i knew him quite well. and what i remember the most is just how funny he was. how much he cared about people. how much he cared about the neighborhood. >> reporter: now a navy ship hearing his name, sits in san francisco bay . for jones, it is an odd lines on how much has changed in 45 years. >> there is all sorts of irony around this.

. >> wilson walker has more on the area's recent up-and-down history and how it shaped the community.originally from -- born and raise in fremont, and i've resided in mountain house for the past ten years with my family. >> reporter: not only a resident, he's a realtor who has put a lot of people in their very own mountain house homes, and this is a community of homes that has famously seen a very wild ride. >> 2008, the recession, i think mountain house was the most underwater community in the nation. >> reporter: flash forward to the pandemic when homes here were jumping 20% in value in just six months. >> and it's still affordable compared to the bay area but has since covid prices have gone up. >> reporter: and now amid another building boom, the famously up-and-down town is about to become a city. >> so from here over the three of us will remain, which is myself, bernice tingle, and mayor andy su. >> reporter: board member matt disco about to become councilmember disco says incorporation is about control. >> we'll have more from the sales revenue versus the 1% we currently get. w

wilson walker has more the latest flashpoint in the city's drug crisis. >> i live in this yellow buildinght here. a smaller place. it is a single room. i have a place. >> reporter: for andrew it has been about 10 years of homelessness punctuated with occasional housing arrangements. and he has one now that an sro gives him an escape from the elements and eligibility for $712 a month in cash, through the county adult assistance program, people who are unhouse living on the streets, they are eligible for $109. >> i don't take it for granted. i appreciate every aspect of it. what it is. >> reporter: on this day he stepped outside the housing to join friends who gathered partly for safety in numbers. because of the lethality of the drugs they are using . andrew says he is currently making a push for treatment and proposition f could force him to make some decisions in that regard. it would require anyone receiving benefits to be screened for substance use disorder. if that appears to be the case they would be required to participate in a treatment program or lose those cash payments. >> i thi

as wilson walker reports, the 78 protesters facing a possible trial scored a major legal victory instead. [ cheering and applause ] >> reporter: the bay bridge 78 walked out of the courtroom to the cheering crowd that had packed the hallway to support them. the outcome in the words of one organizer, a complete vindication and victory. >> essentially the judge dismissed our case as of may 15th. with a diversion offer of five hours community service and a little under $4,500 in restitution. i think that the da's retaliatory charges were an attempt to put a chill on mobilization. >> reporter: for some kind of precedent here we have seen incidents like this before. in 2016 protesters with black lives matter took over the bridge and the highway patrol arrested 25 people. district attorney george gas cone reduced the charges to simple traffic citations, saying it was in the interest of free speech. then a judge just threw those charges out wholesale. so while blocking the bridge is illegal, there's plenty of room for discretion. >> yes, the government does have certain amount of prosecutorial

both times of course the bridge stood its ground and caltrans sells our wilson walker that's by design. >> reporter: that is the most seismically advanced bridge ever designed. >> the eastern span of the bay bridge. >> reporter: caltrans bart talking about the first line of defense on the new bay bridge and that's the fender system that you see here and while this one is unique to the tower foundation of the eastern span, there's something like this on every bridge in the bay area. >> so some of those systems have completely different foundations. so they never actually touched the bridge. other bridges have the fenders designed into their foundations so they're designed to actually crumple and absorb the energy. >> reporter: i imagine as people travel around the bay area, they're going to see some different engineering. but it's all doing the same thing. >> that's 100% correct because it's almost bridge zoo in the bay area. gets so and different types of bridges. depending on where you are at the fender system has been designed for that particular bridge. >> yesterday's operations we'

last night, our wilson walker joined a collection of moderate democrats who supported e., f. and other measures for their reactions on the results. take a listen. >> obviously caveat that there are a lot of votes left to be counted in san francisco. but if you were here at moderate campaign headquarters, there was a lot of. mitch on election night. >> i just want to say proposition e. and f. right now are leading. [ cheering and applause ] proposition c. is leading. [ cheering and applause ] and supervisor dorsey, proposition b. is losing. [ cheering and applause ] >> reporter: mayor london greed watched the early results come across the phone with a collection of san francisco's moderate democrat groups grow sf, together sf and san francisco democrats for change. there was lot of reason for cheering here. >> i think it's the entire democrats for change slate. [ cheering and applause ] >> all right. let's hear it for algebra. yes. >> reporter: the major issues however, were the public safety measures with f.. drug screening and e. altered police procedures both ahead in the e

wilson walker has more on the hard fought victory to protect an important part of the bay area and california generations of family. so the -- indigenous native in me is 23%. >> reporter: for ruth orta, this moment was about 20 years in the making. but it speaks to her family history, stretching back generations. >> answer to my prayer. [ laughter ] yeah. >> reporter: the ceremony marks the return of this land to the ohlone people. a 2.2-acre parking lot that is the last undeveloped block above a long-covered sacred burial site. >> shell mound, we're standing on it. this is it. underneath here, this was -- people and now it's the ancestors, this is where they were buried. >> perhaps this is the most meaningful land acknowledgment that i will ever get to do. >> reporter: the site has been in question since it was designated a landmark back in 2000. once designated for housing, the developer ultimately accepted $27 million and returned the land to berkeley, which is passing it on to a land trust. >> may this be an example of what's possible for all cities, counties, states, and other places aro

as wilson walker reports, the 78 protesters facing a possible trial stored a major legal victory instead. [ cheering and applause ] >> reporter: the bay bridge 78 walked out of the courtroom to the cheering crowd that had packed the hallway to support them. the outcome, in the words of one organizer, a complete vindication and victory. >> essentially the judge dismissed our case as of may 15th. with a diversion offer of five hours community service and a little under $4,500 in restitution. i think that the da's retaliatory charges were an attempt to put a chill on mobilization. >> reporter: as for some kind of precedent here, we've seen incidents like this before. in 2016, protesters with black lives matter took over the bridge and the highway patrol arrested 25 people. district attorney george gascon reduced the charges to simple traffic citations, saying it was in the interest of free speech. then a judge just threw those charges out wholesale. so while blocking the bridge is illegal, there's plenty of room for discretion. >> yes, the government does have a certain amount of prosecutor

last night our wilson walker joined a collection of moderate democrats who supported e., f. and other measures for their reactions on the results. take a listen. >> reporter: obviously caveat there are a lot of o vote left to be counted in san francisco but fitch up here moderate campaign headquarters. there were a lot of ott mitch on election night. >> i want to see proposition e. and f. right now are leading. [ cheering and applause ] proposition c. is leading. law legal cause and supervisor dorsey, proposition b. is losing. >> reporter: mayor london breed watched the early results come across the phone with the collection of san francisco's moderate democrats groups. grow sf, together sf, and san francisco democrats for change. and from the ballot measures to the d triple c slate. there was a lot of reason for cheering here. >> i think it's the entire democrats for change slate. [ cheering and applause ] >> all right. let's hear it for algebra. yeah. [ cheering and applause ] >> reporter: the major issues, however, were the public safety measures with f.. drug screening a

our wilson walker shows you that some outrage is really happening a lot this morning because of a move around tailgating at the coliseum. >> okay. >> dad, how long we been coming here? >> eight. >> yeah. >> ive been coming here before you were even born. >> yeah. it's been a while. >> reporter: for the hangman family, the a's have been a generational affair. they came to kick off the season with some tailgating. only when they got here, the newhours took them by surprise. >> we thought we were able to get in four early, you know. we got here a little early and we just had to wait. >> oh god. yeah. so we had a feeling they were going to do something like this right? i mean we anticipate their moves before they make them. >> reporter: bryan somewhere ouch the founders of last dive bar which has been fighting the a's departure for a couple of years and now that means a full-scale boycott. >> yeah, our intent is not to go to any games whatsoever. you know, john fisher doesn't deserve our money. the a's' organization, the front office, do not deserve the love. >> reporter: but they will sho

. >>> so drilling down on the wins our wilson walker with a story that really shows the vote count on police and public safety has a lot to say about the political pulse of san francisco. >> i think there's a good that happens we see a couple of changes and hopefully prop a. can hold on and i think the d triple c candidates 8017 and 19 probably have a little bit of mixing in the middle of the pack. >> reporter: even with some changes it was a big night for steven buss director of grow sf. and one of the architects of a string of victories for san francisco's moderate democrats. >> i actually don't feel like it was us that influenced the election. it was the voters and it was us responding to the voters. >> reporter: the set of victories, however, hardly the beginning of something for the city's moderates. this is now a pattern going on two years. >> you know, november 2020, we basically lost everything. and then we got the school board recall. we got the boudin recall and we've got -- matt dorsey and brooke jenkins. and now we've got democratic party. and we've got prop e. and f.. >>