We will have a later, if any, metering lights, because its friday today. Laura, back to you. Its juneteenth, today are the celebrations taking place marking the end of slavery. After George Floyds death became a new movement and discussion about race in this country. Today in the bays Cierra Johnson and how the bay area is celebrating. Good morning. Reporter good morning. It was 155 years ago today that a group of slaves in texas received the news they were, in fact, free and had been for two years. It was on that day juneteenth was born and today its being celebrated with a renewed passion and several bay area organizations are marking the day with some celebrations and we have some information on that for you. At 1 00 today there will be a march and a rally at San Francisco city hall. The event runs until 3 00. Participants are asked to practice social distancing. The group uplifting black leaders of sonoma organized the festival that will start at noon today at pioneer park in santa
Her to breathe. Tonight the challenges some are facing because of these new orders. Also havent had your hair done in a while . The push to reopen salons and barbershops. Thanks for joining us on this friday night. Lets start with that shortage of fresh produce. Safeway employees in the Distribution Center are getting sick with the coronavirus and thats impacting the food supply. Nbc bay areas jean elle has the details for us. Reporter some empty shelves inside Bay Area Safeway Stores have shoppers voicing concern on social media. In San Francisco, some waited in powhaso lets do the rightver chanthing, today. Ow. Line to go shopping for an hour to find limited supplies of some lets stay at home. Lets wash up. Produce, pasta, and butter. There was a lot of vegetables lets always keep our distance please, six feet apart at least. Were gone. Reporter we found yuka at a lets look after ourselves, as well as others. Nearby market picking up what she couldnt find at safeway. It will all be w
Showers in the n b. You can see what we are going to have in the afternoon hours, increasing sunshine, and temperatures in the as we start this fourth week of sheltering in place, we check in again on the progress, and we check in with the highest county official in the county hit hardest. Lets go to julian glover. We are talking about the director of health here in santa clara county, and she was one of the first Health Officials to sound the alarm about the coronavirus in our community, and now she says we should prepare for social distancing to be longer than any of us would like us to be. Our efforts to slow the spread, shes restoring things to normal as we knew it before the coronavirus may take a while and we have to reevaluate what that normal looks like. Life right now is very, very different than it was at the end of the 2019, and part of our new normal and new life is living with a lot of uncertainty. She would not comment if the new normal on the social distancing efforts wo
Started teaching english there. Worked my way up the ladder. Then i thought, well, okay. Near the end of my career. I have one more mountain to climb, thats San Francisco. So im here in San Francisco, here in the bay area, and just really pleased to be at city college. How is that climb going . Youve been here two years. Give us an assessment what was youve been able to see and maybe fix if it needs to be fixed at city college. No, well first of all its just been the time of my life. Personally, the people of city college are great. We have a great board, great faculty, great staff. That college has been there since 1935. Its graduated 35,000 alumni. Its had a great reputation. So in the last couple of years, weve set our goals on three major things. Number one, students. We need to be student centered to make sure our students, most of whom are were aajority minority campus college. Need to graduate and move forward with their lives. Want to grow the college wide receiver we think we
Im audrey asistio. Welcome to nbc bay area news. Our scott budman will join us from the hayes valley neighborhood. Other wig stories this afternoon including a big problem for the city of san jose. It could have city workers leaving their jobs impacting city services. Kids will be back in the classroom before we know it. Some schools are having trouble getting enough teachers there as well. Why the south bay is struggling with the shortage. First lets begin with developing news this morning straight out of the nations capital. You may have seen this on nightly. Former President Trump has been officially indicted, accused of attempting to overturn the 2020 election. Special counsel jack smith convened a grand jury where members met today and after some deliberation theyve charged trump with four counts. They largely involve conspiracy and obstruction. The attack on our nations capitol on january 6th, 2021, was an unprecedented assault on the seat of american democracy. As described in t