at yoshi's there's no musical names of artists on the marquee anymore.lly sad the stage is silent. it's been that way since march, after the pandemic shut down. yoshi is struggling. >> we need some help and we were trying to get through this. >> reporter: it's gotten so challenging that yoshi's has started a go fund me campaign hoping to raise $100,000 just to basically keep the lights on. >> it's really sad, it breaks my heart and the founders have put everything they have at this business as well. and the 100 employees who love this place. >> reporter: yoshi's is one of the most well known music venues. >> even having stevie wonder holding his birth day. >> since the pandemic the uptown nightclub in oakland is closed permanently so as the star line social club and slim's in san francisco. oakland's fox theater is just barely hanging on. >> we're going to easily go a year without having a single penny of ticket revenue which is unheard of. >> reporter: tony young heads the east bay venue coalition where clubs have joined forces to raise funds that can s

. >>> the pandemic has hurt so many businesses and tonight well known yoshi's in oakland has started go fund me campaign in hopes of saving its business. the state of the venue in our area. >> reporter: at yoshi's in oakland there are no names of musical artists on the marquee anymore. inside the theater is empty and equally as sad the stage is silent. its been like this since the earliest days of the covid-19 shut down in march. yoshi's is struggling to keep going. >> we need some help and we're trying to get through this. >> reporter: it's gotten so challenging that yoshi's has started a go fund me campaign hoping to raise $200,000 just to basically keep the lights on. >> it's really sad and breaks my heart. the founders have put everything they have in this business as well. myself and 100 employees who love this place. >> reporter: yoshi's is one of the most known music venues in the bay area. >> even had stevie wonder here having his birthday party. >> reporter: one musician who has played yoshi's a number of times is. since the pandemic the uptown nightclub in oakland has close

yoshi's is struggling to keep going. >> we need some help.gh this. >> reporter: it's gotten so hard that yoshi's has started a campaign to basically keep the lights on. >> it's really sad, it breaks my heart and the founders have put everything they have at this business as well myself and 100 employees that love this place. >> reporter: yoshi's is one of the most well known music venues in the bay area that attracts t musicians through a variety of artists. >> them having to go to go fund me is really just telling of where the support of our venues and our art scene is lacking and what we need. >> reporter: since the pandemic the uptown nightclub in oakland is closed permanently. so has slims in san francisco. oakland's fox theater is just barely hanging on. >> we're going to easily go a year without having a single penny of ticket revenue which is unheard of. >> reporter: tony leon also heads the east bay venue coalition where about 20 theaters and clubs have joined forces to fight for any funds that can sustain them. >> a lot of our member

i'm yoshi in tokyo. thanks for watching and we'll have more for you at the top of the hour.i, i am shaula vogue, welcome to a special edition of "biz stream," we feature businesses coming out ojapan. our commentator is joseph kraft, always good to see you joe >> good to see you, too. >> let's take a look at today's feature report. >> reporter: a major japanese electronic maker released a cutting edge ultra-violet disinfecting lamp. it is the first to kill pathogenwhile being safe for humans. elsewhere a traditional paper and wood craft company has learned ancient treatment for protecting art work can be adapted to protect people during the age of the pandemic. >> translator: it is totally safe and can be used on any surface materials. >> reporter: today's today we'll show you a new technology and traditional treatments are making public spaces cleaner and safer. >> a new technology that's making public space cleaner and safer, that's what we need right now. not only are we battling a pandemic, flu season is upon us. how have you been dealing with covid-19 here? >> standard,

now yoshi's in oakland might be forced to do the same. without any revenue, the managers have been forced to cut staff and can't even keep up with the bills. they started a go fund me page asking anyone who can help to donate. their goal is $200,000. >>> now at 6, the first californians getting vaccinated for covid-19. how bay area hospitals are ramping up to protect frontline workers. >> i'm confident for myself and my colleagues that this vaccine will be a big step forward. >> plus, getting swabbed on your front steps? who is being targeted in a door to door testing program. >> and suing to stay open. bay area restaurant owners' last-ditch effort to fight for their survival. >> i made $25 last monday. how am i supposed to pay an employee? >> good evening. i'm elizabeth cook. >>> a historic day in the battle against the coronavirus. >> the first people in california now getting the long- awaited vaccine. >> and right now, more than 33,000 doses of the pfizer vaccine are being administered or stored at four hospitals in the california inc

there's nothing like a juicy beef steak with grilled vegetables chef yoshi jobs and his son pamper their guests right where they live so he prepares the food outside in the customer's yard in freezing december temperatures. to have imagined it would be so popular that's nice but it's always a real challenge every customer is different they have individual wishes and you can see how cold and windy because. they used to take care of their guests here a small restaurant located at berlin city limits outside there are enough seating for 80 and inside 50 more just 10 months ago yobs employed more than. 20 staff at his steak house but the restaurant didn't even survive the 1st wave of the coronavirus. we had to declare bankruptcy and close the restaurants for food we had very high overhead the monthly rental alone was 15000 euros then of course we have to pay your electric bills we ran a very high quality steakhouse. fares were cancelled vacationers stayed away not even the local berlin customers were there to get them through lockdown and then yaps had an idea corona compliant cooking life at

lbj wanted somebody to cover everything, and he hired this guy named yoshi yokomoto and, you know, johnsonh a character and okomoto was such a great photographer. his pictures are just amazing. more than anyone, his work was the kind of work that i wanted to do. i wanted the level of access that he had to johnson. that's sort of what i was striving for with obama. >> photographs can tell a story. just as a book can tell a story. and it's a very special thing because it breaks down the idea that these people are, somehow, different from us. yes, they have different responsibilities. yes, they have greater anxieties. but they're leading a life that has a daily ritual to it. >> i knew how the job should be done, having worked for the reagan administration, too. the white house photo editor called me up one day, out of the blue, and said we want you to apply for this job. it was totally unexpected. you know, i'm in my 20s and i've never met a president before. and i was just nervous. it was kind of like just sort of overwhelming to me. i actually turned it down, at first. a, i was not really t