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Joshua Kosman December 18, 2020Updated: December 19, 2020, 12:41 am San Francisco Symphony pianist Robin Sutherland at home in San Francisco in 2013. Photo: Liz Hafalia, The Chronicle 2013 Robin Sutherland, the longtime San Francisco Symphony pianist renowned for his formidable keyboard skills, vivid personality and trademark ponytail, died on Friday, Dec. 18, at his San Francisco home. He was 69. Sutherland died of a brain tumor, his husband, Carlos Ortega, confirmed. Over the course of an extraordinary 45-year career with the Symphony, Sutherland established his reputation as a...

Hill they are warning people to stay away from the fairgrounds, the grounds where the gilroy garlic festival annually occur. >> reporter: yep, i can hear you, natalie. >> all right. can you go ahead and talk more about what you're seeing there at the scene there? >> reporter: so this is the reunification area, and what i'm seeing is just people sort of sharing stories with one another, hugging their loved ones. there are a bunch of people now getting on to a bus. i'm not exactly sure where they're going at the moment, but i just encountered another person who witnessed what was going on. you h...

I'm going to pass the phone to him, natalie. here you go. >> thanks, dan. jack, thanks so much for talking to us. >> hi, natalie. >> thanks so much. you saw the shooter. can you describe him? >> i can. it was i believe a white male, 30, 40 years old. i'm not real good at that. he was wearing a green top of some type. he had a gray hankdkerchief, yo know, a kerchief around his throat and a ball cap. i heard what sounded like an assault rifle. i turned and saw him and he was getting to shoot more into a large group of people. i turned to my band mates and said time to go. we cleared the stage wi...